Add Shut Off Valve Bathroom Sink

Describe and showing how really easy it is to change out a faulty shut off valve for sink toilet or anywhere you have a leak in one.

Add shut off valve bathroom sink.

With a few household tool. Under sink shutoff valves also called fixture shutoffs or stop valves allow you to turn off the water to the sink or other fixture without having to use the home s main shutoff. Install blocking behind the sink and run 1 2 inch pex tubing around the blocking and extend it out from the wall about an inch. The sharkbite push fit end allows you to simply push on to copper cpvc or pex with no solder clamps unions or glue.

First brush pipe joint compound onto the valve threads and then press the valve onto the pipe stub coming through the floor of the sink cabinet step 2. Water pipes made of copper require a compression fitting. Let the water flow through the faucet to clear air in the lines and check for leaks by feeling the fittings and. The second consideration for installing a shut off valve for a bathroom sink is the type of water pipe that supplies the water to the sink.

Turn on the main water supply and open the supply valves. Hold the tubing to the block with a drop ear bend support which is a. Next pull up on the compression nut and thread it onto the valve. If this happens to you you can simply replace the valve with a new valve that matches the old one.

Hold the valve with a wrench or a pliers and tighten the nut a one half to three quarters turn follow the manufacturer s tightening instructions. Replacing a shut off valve compression valve or angle stop may seem like a daunting task but it really takes less than 5 minutes. Insert the new valve and apply a very light coating of pipe dope to the compression sleeve. These inexpensive little valves rarely get used and when they do sometimes they leak.

Tighten as necessary until the joints are sealed.