Connecting plumbing equipment with your own hands
Installation of plumbing ideally needs to trust professionals. However, this work can be performed by itself.Pig-iron bath mounting scheme.
You only need to have some skill work with a plumbing tool. If you can use wrench and divorce keys, use a pass or a special winding tape, the plumbing connection will not be much difficult.
Currently, water pipelines mounted from metal-polymer pipes are most popular. Such pipes are used to spread the water supply, as well as for mounting heating. The main condition so that the water pressure in the water supply system does not exceed 1 MPa. The ambient temperature at such works should not be below + 5 ° C. The advantage of metal-polymer pipes is the lack of welding work when they are connected. In this, they are very convenient for connecting plumbing with their own hands. After all, not everyone knows how to use gas welding equipment.
To fulfill such work it will take quite some tools:
- Special scissors for cutting pipes (or hacksaw for metal);
- Wheel keys.
After you have decided on those places where the bath and sink are located, it is necessary to measure the length of the pipes needed to perform the installation between them and the water supply system.
Scissors or hacksaw carrying out pipes of the pipes we need.
At the ends of the pipes from the outside, we remove the chamfer and wear clamping nuts with rings on them.
The fitting cone is tightly inserted into the pipe, then we apply a sealing ring from above and tighten the clamp nut. All connections are mounted in the same way.
Fastening pipes to the wall or to the floor are carried out using brackets. The brackets are specifically designed for fastening pipes, and you can buy them in the corresponding stores. The diameter of the brackets must correspond to the size of the pipes.
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Install the sink
Mixer assembly scheme for bathroom.
Well done installation of the shell will protect you in the future from problems arising from its operation.
Currently, shells have a lot of constructive differences. Therefore, when it is elected, it is necessary to pay attention to the form, dimensions, compliance with its style of a bathroom or kitchen, where it will be installed.
For mounting the sink, the following tools and devices are needed:
- electric drill;
- wrench;
- Adjustable wrench;
- sealant;
- dowels;
- screwdriver.
After you have chosen the installation location, you should place the places where the brackets on the wall will be attached. In places that you noted, drill drill the holes of the diameter we need. Krepim to the wall of the brackets and mounted the sink on them. We connect stock and siphon to sewage. Scribes with a wall with a wall with a silicone sealant. Mount the mixer supplied with the sink or purchased separately.
Installation of the mixer
The following tools and components are needed to perform work:- mixer;
- Adjustable wrench;
- Pacle or Fium.
Drawing tulip sink.
Stop drinking water to the place of work.
In the hole in the sink, we mount the mixer, pre-laying between it and the sink rubber gasket, and the key is clinging the nut on the mixer.
We mount the lining of hot and cold water from pipe feed to the mixer (using flexible hoses).
We carry out the flow of water and check the sink and mixer for leaks. In the presence of such eliminate it with the help of fum, pacle or silicone sealant. If you want to connect the mixer to be installed on the wall, then it is necessary to bring pipes with hot and cold water and on them, using special eccentrics supplied with the mixer. In order for the mixer exactly on the wall, it is necessary to use the construction level.
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Bath installation
Along with the installation of the sink in the bathroom sometimes there is a need to replace both the bath. Only if the bath is cast-iron, then you will have to use someone else to deliver it to the installation site.
For mounting the bath, the following tools and components are needed:
- bath itself;
- cement and sand;
- Silicone sealant.
So, mounting:
- Install the siphon with overflow and release.
- We screw the legs to the bath and install it so that the bath nozzle entered the sewage pipe.
- We install the bath close to the wall and the adjustment of the legs create a small bias toward the plum.
- We close in the place where the siphon is connected to the sewage tube with cement-sandy solution.
- The gaps between the bathroom and the wall are sealed or if they are too large, cement so that the layer in the cross section was triangular. After that, the cement layer can be painted.
The work is over.
There is nothing complicated in such works, and any man having skills to work with the tool can do it without much difficulty.