How to Sweat Copper Pipes : Fixing Mistakes When Sweating Copper Pipes

Watch as a seasoned DIYer provides a technique for repairing copper sweating (joining and soldering) errors in this free online video about home repair.

Expert: Don Golden Film Makers Louis Nathan/NEI
Bio: Don Golden has been in the business of buying and remodeling homes in the Los Angeles area for over fifteen years.
Filmmaker: Louis Nathan

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• remodeling
• plumbing
• copper
• home-repair
• sweat
• copper-pipes

[aramis0192]

this is the worst advice video i have ever seen.never ever reuse a fitting. studies show that a reused fitting has half the life span and just over half the max working pressure of an original fitting.best practice is to cut copper before you begin offer it into position befoe you solder too make sure it fits .using this method it's dam near impossible to make a mistake. but if you do then your just gonna have to cut the mistake out and invest in the necessary fittings and pipe to replace it.

[j76]

I purposely tried to skip the ehow and expert village videos simply because they're pieces of crap. I was forced to watch 20 second ad for this 1:51 video and it turned out to be expert village. Useless... utterly useless. I hate expert village...

[marklmansfield]

Chill out, Its not like he is working on the space shuttle a nuke sub or steam pipe fittings.

[TheBAK777]

Well ,not that I have experience or training on how to sweat copper but considering the reviews on you reusing fittings (assuming the reviewers know what's what) I'm going to need to see your sources for your claim. Otherwise I'm going to take their view on your competence and fulfill my social obligation by referring to this on youtube everytime I see you do anything else. Sorry man, you gotta know your stuff if you want to be respected!

[quadroman68]

i wouldn't let this guy loose with pushfit , !!!!!!! whats his day job , mcdonalds ????

[cboxgo]

@aramis0192 Do you have a link to these studies? I would be curious to see if plumbers and DIYers have been doing this wrong for decades when there's concrete data, conducted by an independent source, to explain why this is a bad idea. Personally, I think the joints are pretty cheap and probably worth just replacing but I would like to see if there is real data to indicate why it would damage a joint. After all, it's the same material as the pipes... Do the pipes need to be replaced too?

[cboxgo]

@LaRezNar then how do you install copper tubing in a house?

[pigpenworld]

Solder not Sodder !

[savannahsteve12997]

this should only be used in a total worse case scenerio like no hardware store around and you need to fix a leak quickly but should replace it the right way later. If you would have just said this in your video you probably wouldnt have been judged so harshly.

[starstarstar42]

"ExpertVillage" should rename their channel to "WorstAdviceEverVillage". Honestly, look at any of their videos and you'll see countless comments. It's like they grab random people off the street and call them "experts". Their drywalling videos are a joke, their electrical connections videos are almost criminal.