Connecting PEX to Copper - Easy! LIVE Stream - 02-17-2022 Ask the Builder and Plumber

Howdy, how you doing

Just check them here there right at the end. I'm Tim Carter

You are watching Ask the Builder. I am streaming live from Central New Hampshire

And it's like a spring day outside. Well, it's spring for New Hampshire

55 degrees today. Crazy. I was out earlier in just this flannel shirt

and it felt like it was 80 degrees. And that's what happens when you go from zero to 55

It's such a stark change in temperature that, I don't know, it just feels really warm out there

And I had to go to town earlier. Saw quite a few people in shorts

I mean, I love it when I see New Hampshire people in shorts. And I'm sure if I would have stayed around the grocery store long enough

that I would have seen somebody come in in shorts and a T-shirt. You know, I'm serious

Pretty hearty people here in New Hampshire. We're going to be talking in just a few minutes about this

about how to connect Peck Pipe I going to do a live demonstration right uh it going to be awesome because a lot of people they might think there a big mystery in connecting pecks and

especially connecting pecks to copper so i'm going to be doing that hello jimmy glad you're here glad you're

here there are there are both good people and there but there's some bad people out there too

hopefully we don't have any bad people on the stream. That's never a good thing

So I'm going to be talking about the pecs in just a few minutes. And what you need to realize, Jimmy already knows this

you control the rest of the conversation. In other words, wherever you want me to talk about, I'll talk about

But I don't have ESP. So that means you have to type a question into the chat stream

And then, you know, I'll answer your question. So it's a free service

Typically, if you were doing it outside of this live stream, you would pay $50 to get an answer

That's what I charge. So I do a lot of them each week

Do a lot of them. Lydia today just set one up She from Columbus So anyway let get started here

Yeah, that's what it is. I'll hold it up. See if you can read that, buddy

Yeah, there it is, man. Hoopone or Aqupex, baby. It's the only way to go

All right. You may want to, first of all, let me give you a little

context. I've been a master plumber since 1981. I cut my teeth doing copper. That was really kind of all

we did back in the Midwest. And also, I mean, I go back far enough that Pecks hadn't even been

invented yet. Or if it was, it was just being used over in Europe. And it eventually made its way

over here to the United States. So I know a lot about copper. And it's just, and it's just

covers a great material, but you need to understand that in certain situations, certain municipalities

certain states, they have what's called aggressive water. And it means that you need to understand

the chemistry even though you may look at water and you may think well all water the same It not not it not by a long shot And there can be chemicals in the water that can actually attack copper

and can be a really bad problem out in the southwest. Peck solves all those problems, all right

So Peck solves that. The other problem with copper is, when you typically run copper tubing

any time you want to make a change, of direction, you have to have a fitting, you know, like a 90, this is a PX one, but you have to have a fitting

And then you have to solder it. And you have to clean the tubing

You have to clean the fitting. You have to apply some flux, put it together. You might have to put some other things together

Then you have to turn the torch on. Takes maybe about, depending on the type of torch you use, I use acetylene

I could solder a joint in maybe 20 seconds because the acetylene burns

very hot. With pecs, you're going to see it's a lot faster. And you don't have all those other

steps. Here's the thing you need to know, though. When you're going to connect pecs to copper

you do it by means, and I thought I had one before I did the title of the video. I could not find it