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Smart Shower Plumbing

let me start by explaining why I wanted a smart shower so we're making this shower bigger if you remember originally it was about this size now we got rid of this dead space back here so that pushes what would be a traditional valve over here but the other thing we did is made it bigger this way because we plan on putting the shower door over here that way somebody can be at the sink well somebody can get in and out of the shower that was our biggest problem is the bathroom was only big enough for one person challenge would be this if the glass of this part of the shower let's just say it came to here that would be pretty far to reach in to hit a traditional valve over there so then we thought about well if we don't put it there maybe we can put it on this wall or maybe even over here and then that way you could reach it from where you getting in the shower the challenge with that is if it's way over here that means the hot and cold water have to come all the way around this wall to the valve get mixed to whatever temperature you want and then make its way all the way back to the showerhead over here you really want the showerhead away from the door you know we didn't want it on this end we wanted it down there so we didn't like any of those solutions so that's why I wanted this smart shower and the thing about the smart shower is it breaks up the components it introduces an electronic control that can be put anywhere within 30 feet of the actual valve itself so this is the control panel and it has two user settings on it so I can say I like 103 degrees for my shower my wife can say she likes 105 I can say I like it just out of the main showerhead my wife can say well I like it out of a mix of the showerhead as well as the body sprays we can customize our shower and save our favorites okay whatever we want now this particular one has two buttons on it for two functions there's there's two outputs that come from the valve so you can get them in either two or four depending upon how many devices you have you can have a regular showerhead you can have a hand sprayer you can have body sprays you can have a rain head - if you get the one with four outputs I only got the one with two that's fine for me because I'm just gonna have a shower head and body sprays but this is the guts of it now this we're gonna put over here so that we can reach it right easily from getting in the door and you can also reach it obviously when you're in the shower but the guts of the system is this control valve this is hidden in the wall the incoming water comes in the bottom taut and cold and out the top you have output output ports a and B a is always your primary which would be the showerhead and B is going to be our body sprays works great for us now it's very important that this control valve be accessible not only for in case something going wrong with it you need to replace it by the way it does come with a five-year warranty for the original homeowner there are these filters in here that need to be pulled out every now and then and cleaned there's a little filter in here so you have to be able to get to those so that's the real challenge of this type of a shower is well where do you put that kind of thing so I was thinking we have there's a stud Bay here they could go in there but that would mean on the other side of this wall there would have to be an access panel now I chose a little bit of a creative solution some people can if you have a big enough vanity by the way you can put this inside the vanity but I don't have that situation here it's too small the vanity and I also have a lot of pipes on this wall over here so what I decided to do was mount it here but it's gonna face the opposite direction now on the opposite side of this wall is my other bathroom they tend to put two bathrooms next to each other because it simplifies all the plumbing on the other side of this hole that I've already cut in the wall it's a big mirror in my other bathroom so this is going to get mounted inside this hole right here and I can get to it by taking the mirror off the wall I look at it as there's always going to be a mirror on that wall so whether it be me or the next homeowner so I didn't think this was a bad solution plus it's pretty much right under the light so it's perfectly going to be hidden by a mirror even if they change the mirror eventually so I think that's a good solution plus I've got my incoming water right here which will just go straight up to the connections and I'll have the output ports come right over here to the the heads so it's a really great solution on this side is where the control panel will be and the wire that goes and connects the two is 30 feet long so it's plenty long enough so you've got the valve that goes in the wall you got the control panel those are the two most expensive components the next one is actually a third and final component that is optional and I think it's worth it though it is a battery backup in case the power goes out while you're in the shower by default the thing will shut down so you don't want that to happen if you're in the middle of sopin or washing your hair or whatever so a battery backup will allow you to finish your shower or even take a shower during a blackout so I think that's important this I'm going to actually mount under the sink in my other bathroom as well as the power supply I'm going to put an outlet under the vanity of the other bathroom as well and that way I'll be able to get to those if the power supply dies I can easily get to it if I need to change the batteries I can easily get to them too so now we're going to go through the installation this was my first time working with PEX pipe it I gotta say it was really easy I cut it with just a snip and take the burrs off the end and put the valves right on they slide in perfectly and it's just a great solution especially for this valve you can see these shut offs work great here and then the elbows on the other side it's great because it's easy to adapt pecs to copper no soldering at all so the way this works is I had the hot and cold coming in from the rest of the the sinks and everything that's the old copper there I had to cut that off and I use these sharkbite connectors these things are just push on you don't need to do any kind of soldering or glue or anything like that they are really easy to use and this is PEX pipe which is plastic which is really easy to use as well because as you can see it just it's very flexible no problem at all and that goes up the supply goes up to the bottom of the control unit and then at the top we have the two outlets a and B and a goes up to that will be the showerhead and B goes to the three body sprays that I have here and they are spaced everything is spaced 18 inches apart so I happen to get my plumbing inspections done this week to the rough plumbing that is and I passed everything was good but as with when you pay for permits you get the advice of the inspectors not just I mean they're there to protect your house and your occupants of course and as well as make sure that you're compliant with code but they also give you free advice and that's what I got so when he looked at this he said I'm not gonna fail you for it but he said it's not going to achieve bounce pressure across the three heads now why not well he gave me a bit of a drawing and he said the way to do a pressure balancing loop is actually like this and he said the water comes in and hits a tee and then goes in both directions down the loop and from there it feeds into your shower heads evenly from both sides that is a perfectly balanced pressure loop okay the challenge there is this would require five tees one two three four five but that's fine but these fittings here these are also what what are known as drop tees or drop ear tees okay that fitting is a screwin fitting kind of like this where the shower head or these are the the body sprays which screw into but it has pipes coming in from both sides so the trouble is those fittings don't exist in sharkbite so I would have to change the whole thing over to copper if I wanted to truly go with this design and like I said I really don't want to do that so what am I gonna do so I did a little bit more research and I found that the key is that the water coming in has to hit a tee and go in multiple directions and so I came up with an alternative design that reconfigures these components that I have here this one has water coming in from the side it hits a tee splits hits another tee splits in all these directions and evenly feeds these three shower heads so that's the alternative design that will work with the components that I have here and this is one of the beautiful things about sharkbite fittings is that with a little orange adapter ring you can take them off so let me show you how easy this is all you have to do is pop it on and give it a squeeze and off it comes that's it sometimes it's a little hard they're not trivial but they do come apart and they can be changed and that's the point so I'm gonna reconfigure this and make it work the other thing I'm gonna do is you know he kind of gave me some feedback that these shower sprays the body sprays are a little bit far apart I had them 18 inches apart so did a little bit more research and found 12 inches is more common so I'm gonna keep the middle one and I'm gonna lower this one and I'm gonna raise that one so that there's three of them in a row and they're gonna be a foot apart so that's what I'm gonna do right now okay that was the design and that's what I came up with so the water comes in through the top hits this tee goes in both directions hits these tees goes in all directions evenly to fill all three shower heads with the same pressure that's at least the intent but before I cover up the walls I'm actually going to test it after that the floor is in and I have a shower pan I need to put water in the shower pan anyway so that's a perfect time to test it so that'll be the next thing that I do visit my website handy dad TV for more great ideas and information be sure to subscribe to be the first to know when new videos are posted you

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Smart Water Valve

how often do you think about water in your house do you know how many gallons of water you guys use in a typical month thousands thousands I couldn't tell you exactly how much I use but I am very conscious of my water use on average how many gallons would you say oh gosh I didn't really pay attention to be honest you don't like at all what do you think is the number one appliance that consumes water in your house maybe like the see the sink yeah okay that's the solid guess I would guess the washer wash machine shower shower yeah you got it that's another one that's another one honestly most the time you shouldn't have to think about your water it just works when you open up the faucet you get water but sometimes you do need to think about it house floods from things like burst pipes can cost thousands of dollars to repair and if you live in a place like California where water is scarce people want to conserve as much of it as they can hey gay hey Ross how's it going nice to meet you nice to meet you so I heard you and your father are working on a smart automatic water shut-off valve tell me about it so over the last few years we've brought our collective experiences together my dad who's been in the plumbing space for 30 years served as an expert witness dealing with plumbing failures in people's homes me as an attorney dealing on the claims side of the same problem brought our experiences together to hopefully avoid catastrophic water damage in homes we proactively maintained the plumbing system automatically shut off the water if there's a problem help keep those home safe I'd love to see more come on in alright so Ross we've had quite an evolution in leak detection over the last number of years so we started with having point sensors strategically placed around the home in what we determine is problematic area right some of the early iterations were sensors that could be placed around high-risk areas in the house like on the floor near a washing machine or the water heater if the sensors detected water they would sound an audible alarm alerting you to the plumbing failure the next iteration of water detection included an automatic water shut-off valve the point sensors would connect to the shutoff valve so if any of the sensors detected water it could send a message to the valve to shut it off which would prevent any more water from bursting into the house with both of these sensors there were a lot of vulnerable areas left on monitored so say a flood occurred where there wasn't a point sensor in that case the valve would remain open and the same level of water damage would occur what we've done is that we have a flow sensor that's actually installed on the main water supply line so in the event that water's running for too long of a period of time at too high of a flow rate it can let you know shut off the water so we've basically negated the need for all of those point sensors that you previously have right so the turbine inside there spins faster it spins and basically tells you there's more water being used but it's only gonna tell you if there's catastrophic leaks and there's a lot of people that are doing the same thing you're right and it's important for that reason but what we've done is we've also put in two other kinds of sensors we also have a pressure sensor in here and we also have a temperature sensor temperature sensor is important because water reaches freezing temperatures and home all around the country and the water expands in the pipe causes it to burst huge cause of catastrophic water damage so we help notify homeowners in advance of that happening to help you know maintain their homes pressure is really crucial so pressure is important because it pressures it too high of a rate for too long of a period of time it actually causes aging to the system and could cause connectors fixtures appliances to fail and burst right these flow sensors on all kinds of water meters can only tell you if water's running at a certain flow rate sure but you're still vulnerable with really small drips that happen in the water system and identifying those are really the key to being able to better maintain your home fixing those to avoid the catastrophic what you're doing is you're closing the valve and you're measuring the pressure downstream of that valve and if it's a perfectly proof system that pressure should stay constant but if you've got a leak somewhere you're gonna see that pressure drop over time that's exactly right so when the water stays constant and we run this test every single day and can identify even a drop of water a minute happening if we see the pressure stay constant we know definitively you don't have a leak in your system you get great peace of mind but in the event that we see even a slight drop in the pressure we know you have a leak somewhere and now we're helping you troubleshoot where it's coming from and because we have Wi-Fi built into the device we can communicate that alert right to your phone and help you troubleshoot where it's coming from that's great yeah so now that we got the valve installed it'll start giving you data almost immediately but it'll take about a week to start alerting you as to what your abnormal water usage looks like got you this house has had the valve installed for the last year and a half so it's already learned the habits of the home okay so you can see on the dashboard how much water you've used today so this homeowner has used 25 gallons of water today and they had a preset conservation goal of 240 gallons therefore people that live in the home on average people should use about 60 gallons of water or less creating a conservation goal of 240 gallons so you see a little visual here of how they're doing so far versus their conservation goal I mean that's so important because most people have no idea how much water they use that's exactly right if I go over to the control panel you can see in real-time how the water is being used in the home so the pressure is currently at around 61 psi there's no water running right now and the temperature is currently at 69 Fahrenheit and the waters never died that's exactly right okay so here if I come and turn on the water you can see that the flow rate immediately shows okay water is running around every yeah right we're collecting data every second so while the waters running you can see that I can just come over here and I can turn off the water at the valve I hit okay and you see that it's same closing valve and you're gonna see the water start to slow down it's not going to come to a complete stop right away and the reason for that is because there's still plenty of water in the pipes of the home but here I can just open the water right back up and in a few seconds look at that boom you're gonna see the water come right back on surge up go back to around the 1.6 gallons a minute that it was that before I want to show you a pretty cool feature of the app we have so our app can actually learn how water is being used in the home and where the water is going so here we can see that we've used the irrigation once today and that's used a hundred and forty gallons of water so you actually can see yeah the majority of the water usage in this home over the last 24 hours was actually irrigation showers was the second biggest water use and that was about 55 gallons of water 22 percent of the total water usage sure we're pretty accurate at being able to tell how the water is being used in the home very cool yeah so now I can go back to the control panel and I actually show you how this health test works so we can generate a really small leak let's see if I can get this down to just a couple trips so this is sensitive enough that it can detect even a drop of water a minute so now you see that app is reported that a small drip has been detected so I can click on that and I can get troubleshooting tips to try to troubleshoot where the leak is coming from myself or I can just contact our support team and they can help walk us through what to do next cool yeah another thing that we're working on that we're excited about is how all these devices talk to each other and make the entire home safer so as we saw we have our temperature sensor that's there to help catch when water starts freezing within the pipes to help avoid those from bursting eventually the device will be able to send a ping over to that smart thermostat to raise the temperature in the home to help avoid the pipes from freezing altogether totally cool that's the future that's where it's heading yeah and that's what we're really excited about doing with these integrations that are coming Thank You Jay for us thank you so much we appreciate it Hey that was a pretty good story there right you always bring us good information and new information although in this case not so new because your dad's been following us for a long time chasing this story about how to protect against catastrophic damage really since show one we use devices like this the main show of here controller the hockey puck or we had that sensor and I'm thrilled to see it grow to this level yeah I mean there's so many devices out on the market that are trying to do the exact same thing this is the one we showed during this segment this is another one that's on the market that's been around for a while too that's great yeah and they're backed by industry players yeah so there's other players in the market I think it's super promising technology I do have to say in the back of my head while watching it I'm thinking what about the nuisance calls well it shut me down in the middle of a shower or miss read something that it thinks it's a leak that isn't know these devices are perfect right but the good thing is that if you're gonna get a false alarm you at least are aware of what's going on right versus a catastrophic issue that you don't get alerted to right well if you don't measure it you can't modify it good information guys thank you thanks for watching this whole house has got a video for just about every home improvement project so be sure to check out the others and if you like we can see click on the subscribe button make sure that you get our newest videos writing your feed

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SPSI - The Only Answer to Property Improvement

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Watts Water Technologies

Watts Water Technologies is $1.4Billion leader in water technology products, based in the Boston area. Today Watts Water, through its subsidiaries, is a global provider of plumbing, heating, and water quality solutions for residential, industrial, municipal, and commercial settings. Watts offers one of the most varied plumbing, heating, and water quality product lines in the world. We offer a wide-range of world class, water-related solutions focused on: • Plumbing & Flow Control • Water Quality & Conditioning • Water Reuse & Drainage • HVAC • Municipal Waterworks Global Presence Watts has a global presence, from our corporate headquarters in North Andover, MA, to key business subsidiaries in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific. In addition, the Watts Water Technologies, Inc. executive team brings together significant depth and breadth of management experience. Strategic Goals Watts Water is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “WTS.” As a public company, growing shareholder value is critical. To that end, we focus on a five-part Global Strategy: Growth, Commercial Excellence, Operational Excellence, “One Watts Water,” and a Talent & Performance Culture. #watts #wattswater #wattswatertechnologies #onewattswater #watertechnology #plumbing #heating #waterquality #watersolutions #flowcontrol #waterconditioning #waterreuse #waterdrainage #HVAC #municipalwaterworks Follow us: Twitter: @wattsbrand Facebook:@wattsbrand YouTube: Watts Water Technologies Instagram: @wattswater

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Masco Corporation

Headquartered in Livonia, Mich., Masco Corporation is a global leader in the design, manufacturing and distribution of branded home improvement and building products. Masco has four product categories and a portfolio of well-known, leading brands: Plumbing: Axor, BrassCraft®, Bristan®, Brizo®, Caldera®Spas, Delta®, Endless Pools®, Hansgrohe®, HotSpring®, Hüppe, Newport Brass®, Peerless®, Mercury Plastics LLC Decorative Architectural: Behr® , KILZ®, Liberty® Hardware, Kichler Lighting Cabinetry: KraftMaid®, Merillat®, Quality Cabinets Windows & Other Specialty Products: Milgard®, Duraflex For more information about Masco Corporation, visit masco.com.

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Ferguson Enterprises

Ferguson is a diverse distributor with operations spanning multiple business groups. The company is the largest wholesale distributor of residential and commercial plumbing supplies and pipe, valves and fittings in the U.S. The company is also a major distributor of HVAC/R equipment, waterworks and industrial products and services. Founded in 1953 and Headquartered in Newport News, Va., Ferguson has sales of $16.7 billion for this past Fiscal Year and approximately 25,000+ associates in more than 1,400 locations. “Ferguson’s strong performance is the result of our focused strategy that balances short-term delivery with long-term investment,” said CEO Kevin Murphy. “Our associates continuously demonstrate Ferguson’s value to our customers each and every day, and it’s reflected in our performance.” Ferguson and its subsidiaries serve customers in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Mexico and the Caribbean. Ferguson is committed to growth - of their business, their people, and their support of the communities in which they do business. The company was acquired by UK based Wolseley plc in 1982. Coupled with Ferguson's strong commitment to customer service and entrepreneurial spirit, Wolseley's financial strength contributed to the company's phenomenal growth and has allowed them to diversify into residential, HVAC, waterworks, and commercial/industrial business groups. For more information, please visit our website www.Ferguson.com.

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