Measure a 45 Offset | Advanced Plumbing

You take too long to figure that out. Better to just do it the old school way.

Why you don't get a PVC cutter way easier @RogerWakefield

I thought he said it would be easier lol

Can you use a laser of some sort?

That app he just gave us is = to a collage textbook 📕

That formula also works on sheet metal 45 * elbow , been using this formula for years on duct ells !!

Eyeball and dry fit. Then grasshopper measure center to center and subtract takeoff/makeup.

This isn't advanced plumbing this is level one shit 😂

Easy way to do this glue your 45 on and a long enough piece running to the other pipe. Once you get that done cut the other pipe to fit into hub and your done

Did anybody fall asleep like me or did anybody actually watch this to the end I could have done 4 of these by now

Nice tip!

I thought stow piping was a made up term by my journeyman 😂

I’ll just stay eyeballing it thanks

2.613 for 22

For all that's curious. He used 1.41 because that's the secant of theta 45 degrees..... If you have a different angle that needs to be made, use your calculator and type in that degree of angle you want then the (sec) button. The number you see you then multiply by your, "center to center" measurement.

You should do a plumbing school channel, I bet it would be hugely popular

Same mulitipliers we use for conduit offset.

This older guy would of had it fixed in 2 minutes without out the extra math.

Yeah it's really quite easy and if you did not fall asleep in math class in like the 6th grade you should know how to do it because if you don't know how to find the area of a square and you don't know how to divide that by two then you need to go back to school.

I learned i am oldschool from this video lol. Spent 10 years plumbing in the oilfield if eyeballing ia good for 10kLbs of pressure. Its gooding enough for drain line. If things pool or siphone throw a brick on it or under it lol.

I use this to find where to start a wye so its diagonal lands perfectly at a fixture or stack that's at the end of that section. If you're really good at this, it makes a big underground so fun. Other guys are using more fittings... guessing at perfection... never quite hitting it. While I'm smoking them by slamming waste and vent groups fast and clean and tight as a gnats ass... ah, good times 😊

If youre not good at this your cast iron probably looks like shit... you might think it looks good but your crooked eye lies to you.

If pvc pipe cost the same as solid gold pipe, this would make sense, but it’s just pvc if it’s a little long trim it, if it’s short cut another, use the piece somewhere else. Also use a chop saw, smooth clean cuts every time.

2.6 multiplier. Great video!

the most impressive part of this vid was that straight sawzall cut... rogers a freaking laser

Great vid, teaches how it works AND why it works, a MUST for a tradesman even though it may be eyeballed most of the time.

Ok, how do you do a 22.5?

Are u gonna have to cut travel piece and and glue this for journey man test or just find the offset with the 1.41 equation

So we had a bathroom bulit in our basement with standup shower and sink All run into sani flo upflush macerator toliet. We had about year now and just bad smell figured was building up in macerator. I looked at sani flo Descaler and it’s $70 for gallon 2 uses. So I been buying Zep Calicum lime remover $20. But it deff helps but still a smell I put my nose in toliet and shower don’t smell it. Where could it be coming from?

Rog..Where does the 1.41 come from?....Please.

Im a service guy just got my journeymen license and went to commercial. This week was my first time doing top out and my work looked better than the commercial guys I just work a bit slower. I have more knowledge than them and they hate it. This week I’m moving to the finish crew

I am old school and was taught math early on as well as marking locations and dropping a plumb line and snapping chalk lines. Then adding fittings and drilling hangers. To be a good plumber you need to spend about 4 years in all types of plumbing and then pick which one to stick with or do like we did and just do all of it

Where does 1.41 come from?

Chop saw, and a rigid deburring tool🤔

2.613

Kids. This is a REAL social media influencer. This video is gold. Thank you for teaching us an important step in plumbing. True craftsmanship. Thank you Roger.

I used the same formula on my journeyman's test and got one question right and the other one wrong.....

Pretty sure my math was consistent..... Haha

Teach about rolling offset

I can tell you are an old school plumber. Nowdays you get fired for wasting time taking those measurements, strapping the pipe into a table, filing the edges lf
The pipe ext.

More practical videos like this please.

Why not dryfit a section of pipe to the 45 you had in your hand and mark directly on the pipe where you needed to cut instead of eyeballing. That also avoids the triple checking with the tape measure. Marking directly on the parts is typically the faster and more accurate way to cut to size.

Definitely a good way to figure out the length for that offset but realistically you'd only do this if you were an hourly worker. Like Roger showed, the first way is way faster and usually just fine😄

Good video sir,you could use a metal cutting blade instead of that wood blade, will cut a lot smoother.

U literally did the look at the end of this lolol I get the split measurement tho

Ain't got no table either boss on the site lol

Ain't no time for all that man be realistic loll

Never seen a sheet lol

I'm a plumber in NC and I have never seen this method i will try it it next time i come across a 45° vent situation. I love your videos Mr.Wakefield.

Awesome, plumber here and I forgot how to do a 45 offset using 1.41. I’ll probably end up using it now to make those 45s crisp and less room for error. I’m used to eyeballing now but always trying to improve

And meanwhile the rest of us made 3, maybe 4 cuts, fit it and are half way through the next task