Today I’m going to talk about PVC pipe joint and fittings and generally plastic PVC pipe information and install.
PVC means (polyvinyl chloride). This PVC plumbing pipe is a standard type in the home plumbing industry. Gluing these pipes together can be a lot of fun.
Cutting and fitting PVC pipe is super easy and doing it yourself Can bring down the cost plumbing significantly.
First of all cutting PVC pipe can be done easily using a fine tooth saw that you would use even on your woodworking projects. So there is no special saw for this. You can get a whole variety of PVC pipe diameter piping with a slew of preformed connectors and angles making it quite interesting to be able to figure out how it all altogether. This is almost like working with a puzzle you have to figure out where your twists will end up at, hopefully at the other end.
Most common fittings such as the one underneath your sink will fit with special PVC connectors with compression fittings. Here you won’t even need any glue to assemble the fittings. This of course is handy when you want to replace or remove something there. A lot of under the sink PVC fittings are compression fittings and joints for easy assembly.
When you are fitting PVC pipe in permanent areas with permanent PVC pipe joints there is a sequence of gluing you have to do. You first paint on the purple primer on to this section where you will be gluing the PVC pipe to another one. The one end has a female and the other end should be a male end. The overlapping sections should both have this purple primer on them.
Now you can put the PVC cement over the purple primer. You get a little stick with a soft End on it, looks like a cotton ball, you dip this into the can of PVC cement and paint around the PVC pipe diameter three times making sure it’s well covered and totally on. So you go around and around three times. Don’t let the pipe dry, make sure the pipe is still wet when fitting it to the other pipe. Squeeze the two PVC pipes together and give it a slight twist ensuring a good joint then push and hold for a few seconds until the glue sets.
Sometimes you are going to have to be fitting PVC pipe to copper pipe, you will have to use something called a mission clamp. You will have to slide this rubber sleeve over the pipe, you should lubricate rubber sleeve with something like dishwasher detergent to enable it to slide easily without ruining the sleeve. Sometimes chemicals will ruin rubberized type components losing their elasticity properties and sealing properties. I piggyback the sleeve over both the plastic PVC pipe and a copper pipe. Then I tighten up the metal sleeve overtopped the rubber sleeve.
