Al Carrell: To talk about the finishing-out phase in plumbing, we've invited Ed Del Grande back. Hello there Ed, it's good to see you.
Ed Del Grande: Al, it's always a pleasure being with you.
A.C.: Ed is the Worlds Funniest Plumber. Now, there's not much fun in what we're going to talk about today is it?
E.D.: Actually, there's no fun, but there's a good deal of relief because we're at the finish-out stage and it's going to be great just to see there's something running...
A.C.: You bet.
E.D.: ...washing dishes and just having fun with our kitchen sink.
A.C.: I don't do dishes, but you go ahead.
E.D.: Well let me show you how a sink is finished out. You can see here the faucet has already been mounted. It's a one-handle faucet with a spray. That's pretty standard. Now, if you look in this bay right here, you can see we've added what's called a basket strainer. These do not come with a sink. If you look on this side, that's what it looks like, so you can pick out different basket strainers. Sometimes they like things that are painted white, you know, different colors. Some people like polished brass. So you pick out what you like for your own house and you put it in.
A.C.: Yeah, we have gold in our house.
E.D.: You have gold, oh, with your salary, I don't doubt it. I have paper, that's all I can afford.
A.C.: What's that hole over there for?
E.D.: That hole over there is an option. Now it can be covered up with what's called an excussion cover. Basically it just something that looks like a shiny quarter, could cover up the hole. Or, we could put in an instant hot, if you want to get fancy, have a nice cup of hot coffee in the morning.
A.C.: Ah-huh.
E.D.: Or you could put in a soap dispenser. That way you don't have to have bottles of soap lying around that could spill all over the place. And it's a great option and they left it in so we can do whatever we want with that hole. Now, if we look underneath there, we'll show exactly what make the faucet work.
A.C.: Yeah. This is the important part for us fixers.
E.D.: Okay, you're going to see a series of valves. On a standard sink usually there's three. On the right is your cold water.
A.C.: Ah-huh.
E.D.: On your left is your hot and you'll see on your hot water side that there's actually two valves.
A.C.: Ah-huh.
E.D.: One valve goes up to the kitchen faucet, that's usually the one on the top, because it points up, so it's easy to spot that one. Now you look for another valve that's pointed down. That one goes to our dishwasher.
A.C.: Right.
E.D.: That way, if there's every any problems, like a flood, if a pump goes, you reach underneath there and shut off the lower one and you can stop a flood in your house.
A.C.: All right.
E.D.: Now we also have our drain hookup that hasn't been done yet. The reason is, we're waiting for our disposal to get in. And once that arrives we'll mount it up here. The drain from the disposal will go right down into that open line there, making it drain out very easily and we've a plug that we'll just put like a pigtail on the disposal and you can plug it in, just like a radio, it'll work fine.
A.C.: Okay, great.
Episode 021 1995 - 96 Season
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