Got2Learn (YouTube channel)
by Got2Learn · YouTube
Channel run by a working commercial plumber, built around close-up, cutaway-animated installation videos. Demonstrates setting toilets and flanges, shower and tub valves, faucets and supply connections, plus soldering, PEX and press joints and the mistakes that cause leaks.
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