Installing Outdoor Faucet Pex

Once the preliminary step is complete here s how to install an outside faucet with pex.

Installing outdoor faucet pex.

Here s the basic process on how to connect pex to a faucet. Our plumbing expert les knows a plumber who did a job in northern wisconsin in the middle of winter. In addition to its impressive durability pex is also less expensive than its counterparts. Then slide the pex ring over the pipe and place your fitting into the end of the pipe securing the ring with the pex tool.

Installing pex is super easy as i ll show you shortly. Drill a hole at the point on the basement wall where you want the outdoor faucet to be located. But pex tube is the best choice for underground plumbing. Pex tubing which is flexible and more resistant to damage from freezing is the best choice for the supply line to the faucet.

The building had no heat and all the pipes and fittings were freezing cold. Most pex manufacturers recommend you work with pipe at temperatures above freezing. Feed a length of pex piping from the basement out the hole in the wall to the outdoors. Select the pex pipe you want to use and cut it to length.

Ideally copper pipe is used for exposed plumbing and outdoor faucet pipes. Using the pex pipe cutter cut the two pieces of pex pipe to the length that you need for them to reach the faucet. Just one word of caution. Pex is available in a variety of lengths from short 10 foot pieces for small repairs to rolls over 500 feet long which are used to install a home s entire water supply system.

The inside connection to get the best flow rate at the garden tap into an interior 3 4 in. In this video this old house plumbing and heating expert richard trethewey shows how to plumb a new hose faucet using flexible plastic water pipe. If the cut is slanted or at an angle the crimp ring will not fit properly possibly causing a leak at the connection. When the furnace was fired up and the water turned on they sprang dozens of leaks.

Turn off the water then drill a 1 inch diameter hole through the house wall and into the basement. From under the sink you can use a shut off valve like an angle stop then a flex line to the faucet or toilet. Make sure that the cuts are straight.