How to do-it-yourself instructional on basic pipe replacement using half inch (1/2") copper pipe and SharkBite pipe couplings. Today on Repairs101 we're going to take care of something that I've been putting off for a long time. You might remember from an earlier video of mine this leaky elbow here. And we're going to change this leaking elbow here that I discovered way back in one of the very first videos I made. I never seem to run out of things to fix around here. So I've already turned off the water and I've let the system drain by opening a faucet at the lowest point and letting all the water run out through that and then to speed that up, of course, I went up to the highest point and opened a valve up there to let the air chase all the water out. The challenge here, as I see it, is that this elbow is of course attached to this pipe that is going straight up and that is inaccessible. And this end of this pipe coming this way is tied into this tee which makes it also inaccessible. You'll see that when I unscrew this end of this pipe, this end of this pipe get driven deeper into this valve. And therein lies your problem in reassembly. The real problem of course is figuring out exactly how to put this back together again. Taking it apart is easy, I'm just going to cut it with my reciprocating saw right here. If I can I'm going to rebuild this valve right here and if I can't I have a replacement for it. I got some of these great "SharkBite" quick connectors. I got ...
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