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Summary: Set up a cold water line to run into a new bathroom. Learn how to run cold water to your new bathroom, including construction and fixture installation tips with this free home improvement video.
Dave Pollack owns Dave's Handyman service in Cottonwood, Arizona. He has been doing home repairs for years and is considered a Jack of all trades.read more
"Ok. Now, we're going to talk about how we ran cold water. Again, our cold water line was already existing here. So, I cut off the old pipe added a ninety. And, we've started running it along the wall here. And, then here we have a "T" that runs up and gives us cold water to our shower valve here. Then, we continued on around the hot water pipe over here. But, this time we had to stop and drop in cold water for our toilet. Because we needed to get water into that toilet. We continued on over here, with our hot line our hot water line. It comes through and notched out, out of the stud. So, that the pipe had room to run through the stud. We teed off, came up here for our hot water. And, then on the other end of the "T" we continued on over so that we have hot water for the sink. Then, when we ran the cold line we came around and you can see we had to come up and over and then through. And then up here and around. We ended up coming around from the other side of the wall, coming up here for our cold line. And, this is our cold water valve right here. And, then we ended up continuing on over with our cold line for our sink. So, that we'd have cold water in the sink. Then, out of the "T" we continued to run on over so that we would have cold water for sink and our vanity."
eHow Article: Cold Water Lines in Bathroom Installation