How to Fix Frozen Pipes! - Can JerryRig-ing go too far?
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- Опубликовано: 11 янв 2021
- Today we repair some very inconveniently placed water lines inside my house. The previous owners, during their remodel, must have put these water lines through the air intake vent. Which basically means our water pipes were left outside, uninsulated in freezing weather. This is not a good thing. So its time to JerryRig their JerryRig with our own JerryRig. Sounds safe.
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Finally he remembered the password of his second channel
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I KNOW RIGHT??? lol
"If we jerryrig their jerryrig with a slightly better jerryring then we should come out on top"
I saw your comment exactly when he said that
I'm stealing it, hopefully I'll run into a situation created by some Jerryrigger somewhere. It'll be my lightbulb moment..lol
What if the dude who did the remodel was named Jerry...
The Jerryrig cancels out and it returns to normal.
Team Fortress 2 Engineer lines that were removed from the game
Too late now, but I might have thought about putting some 1-2" styrofoam insulation inside that air intake along the floor to maybe help your kitchen floor not have a cold spot.
It looks like that duct matches the joist bay dimensions exactly... because why not? What knucklehead did that I wonder?
Edit: actually on closer review it looks like the "duct" is just the joist bay with sheet metal on the bottom...
@@zannanger8147 Welcome to 80s construction, would you like cardboard sheathing?
So there's a vent right under your floor, with little to no insulation to your floor with HOT AND COLD water lines running across it... America never fails to amaze me.
Was thinking the same. /Swede
@@ajbp95 and then they go and Artex the ceiling like it's 1986 😂 (it still is 1986 is large parts of America)
according to code, that ain't supposed to be that way but Americans are more about rebellion than some other countries as their inception proves haha
@@TheDanielShepherd I'm assuming you're from the UK? Are most new ceilings just flat? What material is used?
@@TheArtificiallyIntelligent Yes - they're just skimmed perfectly flat with plaster and then painted.
Zack works, talk and record at the same time, while in a step, what a man
dont hold back on uploading these kinds of videos, they're fun!
0:33 My thought as a German: Of course pipes freeze - behind cardboard walls...
How you are doing fellow German
@@MrBlackFiction Doing fine, How about you?
Another fellow german here
I‘m still of the impression that solid brick construction is better 😂
Ja hatte genau denselben Gedanken
For someone living in a colder climate, cutting corners on a remodel like this is absolutely ridiculous. About a foot's length of pipe in my parents house runs uninsulated but behind a thick leca block wall, and that freezes at very low temperatures (~0 F), and that was considered a big mistake here.
Good thing it's PEX, that made your job a lot easier. Kind of crazy that they'd drill right through an air intake like that though. Normally high efficiency heaters use PVC pipes for air intakes and exhaust.
I've also never seen a finished basement insulated from the rest of the house. Unless it's one heated from a separate heating system like a radiant floor heater.
The only guy that doesn't need any mechanic to repair anything for him, he does everything, if your kids becomes like you, and your grand kids, it's gonna be a perfect family to can survive everywhere 👍🏾
I would have just given the pipes a sweater and called it fixed
This is the true jerryrig way.
New video after almost 5 months 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
First video on this channel of 2021 awesome! Well done!
Great job Zack and Riley. Hope to hear an update with good news in the spring.
really like these "other kind" of videos you are doing, like this and the garden
The way american houses are constructed is hilarious.😂
Norwegian houses isn't simular at all
@@AArZAAA No, they are not
@@HorizonFarming oh how?
@@charliemccloskey8358 Basically everything. Houses in Norway are tougher, they never blow away, the dont rott in at least 40 years and they are better insulater, to handle the extreme cold. And the plumbing will never leak. It is a system called "Rør-i-Rør", if there's ever a leak, the water will just run out to a drain, and not inside thd wall.
@@HorizonFarming I’m in Canada (-30 in the winter) and mine seems more like his 😂
As a general contractor watching this is hilarious
You did an ok job. I don’t know the codes in your area but be careful when it comes time to resell your house. Since you showed us how you did your “magic trick” repair plumbing job.
Careful running pipes that close to ceiling. They could be easily punctured by drywall screws. They make nail plates when pipes and wires are close to walls.
Pet is fairly burst resistant
Who is going to put ANYTHING in there ceiling... like I've never seen any screws in a ceiling
@@ipant1056 this things are like thing they regulate so they dont happen. Even when the chances are .00001% of you puting a scre trought that specific part
I think he would take note of where the pipes are before they screw the gyprock in
You didn't need to use that fancy drill, just some No More Nails adhesive as the patch is not structural.
Jerry also didn't mix and thin the mud, never use ready mix mud direct from the bucket except to pre-fill panel gaps.
Dont forget to clean the cieling fan blades on the top side.
I actually like these better than the phone ones. Inspiring to those wanting to fix stuff themselves but have no idea of the process.
His eyes when the water started falling:
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Love it 😂
You should isolate the duct so the kitchen floor temp is the same everywhere
I can relate, I'm rebuilding my future house right now, no heating installed, living 3 hour away and watching the weather forecast hoping it won't get below zero inside the house.
Great video! I'm going to be working with PEX for the first time as well this week for a basement laundry room remodel.
More videos like this please. Like...a couple thousand percent more videos like this.
Why didn't you install a proper furnace air intake? This way your cold spot in the floor would be fixed too??
that wouldn't be much of a JerryRig at that point
Zack is the type of guy who throws away the instruction manual
Wow this is a great video Idea!! Super important imformation!!
Yo there's this guy that runs this channel called jerryrigeverything and he looks and sounds just like you.
WHAT?!
@@JerryRigEverything wait, yall should do a colab together, that would be AMAZING 🤣
@@JerryRigEverything might be your long loss brother he look just exactly like you! 🤣
Must be a clone
Hey, I thought that 😂😂😉
Jerryrig their Jerryrig really got me 😁
Awesome, great video. I didn't had to do this repair but it was very informative videos thanks alot Jerry you awesome.
Well done man
You're an awesome guy jerry you do good Diy Stuff and you explain stuff In details keep it up Hope U reach 1M
dang, they joy of owning a house. So much fun to find all the little surprises lol.
well done... excellent learning for all of us... thanks for the share
The face, when the water spilled out of the blue pipe, was hilarious.
oh i hate knocking down dry walls. It always left the place dusty for months. Even we cleaned up after the job, every few days, we could still see a very thin layer on furniture, especially dark color furniture.
You should do more DIY videos for this channel. So nice...
Those clamps work really good. They are what I used in my house when I built it. What I did was ran all of my pipes in the attic and there’s no brakes in the pipe only a beginning and a end. No leaks.
U hve another channal on YT...
Glad 2 meet u again
Nothing more exciting than finding a solution to a problem.
The main thing is wife approval, because happy wife happy life, you did a great job of fixing the situation, I have my older brother and his family living in Salt Lake City, beautiful place 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🦘🦘🦘But sending the love from Melbourne Australia, stay safe guys
Awsome video!
just casually break the ceiling, no big deal
we have a seasonal cottage that was once all copper line. when it wasn't drained properly in the fall, we always had burst copper lines in the spring when we opened it up for the season.
Replaced everything with pex and never had an issue. It will freeze, but expands enough to not burst.
Wow I can't believe they just drilled holes through all that venting -- gas line included. Incredible.
That isn't a proper, to code vent. I can't believe they tried to pretend a typical joist space could be used as a combustion air intake.
Jerry "DIY" Rig the tool man! 😁
Such beautiful house! In Turkey we usually live in apartments which hosts dozens of people under same roof. And there is a very very big noise pollution problem which we can't solve.
Have you considered converting to a higher efficiency furnace and just sealing off the envelope of the home? Not only is it easier for the furnace in terms of rust but it spares you the wet filters if it rains and you have it on.
Just when. You think the Damage wasn't enough. He destroys more celings for more jerryriging!! I approve
As a contractor, this pained me. I really hate textured ceilings. And also more than improper plumbing. Jk. Thats worse. But no. Take down the entire ceiling and make it smooth. Please
It would honestly be better if he just put in drop ceilings in the basement, I would save quite a bit of time when trying to fixing plumbing leaks and any other issues that may pop up over the years. Also as someone familiar with plumbing this is just a homeowner fix, normally you would run a copper pipe to the sink but that takes time to put together and requires the experience of sodering aswell. Everything he did is a temporary fix.
@@XAssassin_22 true story. When I bought my house it had the 70's 12"x12" fiberboard tiles with 1/4" plywood as a backing. I took it all down pretty much when I moved in, one because I hated it. Two because I had to do a complete rewire. Installed a drop ceiling because of this sort of thing. Easier to replace a tile or two, than patch a drywall ceiling.
You could just skim coat it instead of taking the whole celling down.
I like the knock down texture on ceiling and walls.
The worst is that there is no actual duct. There should be a proper insulated duct for the intake. If that was done, he wouldn't have to do such a sketchy reroute.
that 90 degrees tool is very helpful, i have that same in work.. :D just from milwaukee.
I've never seen that type of vent for a furnace. Is this the combustion air the furnace is pulling in?
2:36 my brain can’t handle it
jerryrig
Lol. The man with multiple talents
Might want to recheck the pipes for leaks in the summer, since metal expands from heat.
Hot tip, when turning your water on, do it even slower than you are. It prevents a sudden rush of pressure, which is bad for the fixtures, and usually whatever faucet is closest to the valve takes a real pounding and can ruin it.
I need to patch a hole in our ceiling so, thanks for the tutorial! :)
4:25 the look on your face is priceless!
For future reference you can use a nap paint roller to get that same texture in your mud. Just dip the roller into the mud (preferably a large 5 gallon bucket) and spread it on. Works a lot faster. Then you could knock it down as needed to match your ceiling.
Here's a handy tip for mixing mud in the future, add a little dish soap! Will give amazing results!
Great video. The only suggestion I have is that you did a cut-erooski when you should have done a cut-eroni @ 4:08.
I really respect the proactivity.
You can get a 90deg tool that can be use for tight access areas, it has 10mm chuck so you can drill, drive, sand etc
That design you have fails at speed and has limit torque so be careful , thanks for the video from Wales 🏴 in the Uk
It deep froze in Texas earlier this year. It wasn't the PEX that failed but the actual couplings that don't expand when frozen.
Quarantine must have been hard on him, he's contracted hair follicles
All we need is a jerryrigeverything in our house
Hats off dude
Yo Zack! Those insulation have microplastics in them,
Please wear mask while rigging. Them
Thanks 😁
Pretty sure it's fibreglass which is worse for the lungs than microplastics
Next video..
Durability test on this pipe can it survive 🤔
Great job.... 👍
this stuff is so fun
Well, that solution doesn't really meet plumbing codes. Heaven forbid someone ever tries to put a screw or hanger into that ceiling.
Well I was just trying to put up a hanging plant and it seems that it's a self-watering system..... Jerry
Not saying it meets code, but if you're trying to hang something from your ceiling, you probably shouldn't just stab your drywall blindly? I'd be searching for a joist so I don't have to worry about the hook pulling out of the drywall!
If you have frozen pipes again, they sell pipe insulation wrap that you can plug into an outlet and it turns on when it detects a temp below freezing and it keeps the pipe just warm enough to the water inside doesn't freeze.
Aaayyyyooo Wtf a second channel 🤯
Primer before the texture! it helps it dry uniformly so you don't see the joint lines. Also you should have wrapped the cold line in contact with that metal duct. It might not be affected at 32, but it still might at 10.
Amazing what people do without thinking it through. The house we live in now had two shoulder height shower heads (I’m 5’10”). 🧐
7:31 Those oscillating saws are awesome to have around.
Inspiring me to work on my house more THANKS A LOT, (sarcasm) after I already painted sheetrocked, fixed the yard and ....... Jerry rig the Jerry rig until your name is not Jerry it’s Zach lol!
Looks like a good repair, might need to clean your intake out?
So relatable, swiftly walking back into the room after turning the water back on. lmao...... I've done this countless times...
Is this house made out of cardboard? 😁 it’s amazing to see that if you usually only deal with building made out of stone and brick 😁
Cool house
I'm not sure if this is the same in US-houses, but where I live this wrap between the wood and the free space, where you put the pink stuff in, should be airtight. so the condensation stays outside the wood and will not rotten long term.
I have that angle bit but mines is from Milwaukee. Life saver
I want more videos on this channel
Quick suggestion , for a added freeze protection, at the area inside of the ductwork now above the lines. How about lining that area with a foam kitchen floor mat . Pre-cut and Pre-sprayed with 3m adhesive. Put it above your pipes like a sticker inside of your vent. Application is probably going to go down like putting a pizza in a oven with a or.
Boom I just G.R your fix....
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Nice video
In Finland we use defrost cables on waterlines witch tend to freeze. And of course we use insulation inside our walls
If it was a solid run of steel pipe for the gas line through there, I wouldn’t be concerned. But that last view into the duct showed a few CSST fittings inside the duct…that’s a HUGE no-no. Absolutely NO gas connections should be made inside ductwork of any kind.
For anyone wondering, the process of this particular drywall finsh is called skip troweling. It's better and cleaner than textured ceiling finish
25 yr construction drywall knowledge
You can use pliers to squeeze the ring slightly to hold it in place before using the crimpers.
Wish we had crimping in the UK. Closest we have is JG pushfit. Good but not as simple as these. But then I wonder how reversible crimping is.
I was hoping to see "shopping with zach" but the magic editing stole it lol
I think a more 2021 Jerryrig should be revised to add tips and tricks and hints
Welcome to JerryRig Your House" with you host Zac. Next week how to make a bead door.
I thought this was the other channel!
Its called artechs for the ceilling textures its used on walls and cellings
Bravo!