How To Make A Water Level To Relevel A House

How to make a water level that can roll with the punches. He makes these to survive crawling under houses.

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00:00 How he makes a water level
00:25 4" Sewer to drain adapter
00:45 DWV Test cap
01:00 Use rain or shine to glue the cap into place
01:30 The water will sit in this area
01:40 Need 3/8 clear line need 50'
02:00 Put that on a 3/8" threaded barb
02:25 Want to drill a hole and put the barb in it
03:05 Your going to put silicone around it
03:25 Things you can use the water level for
03:48 The cost of this is $13 plus the cost of the hose
04:20 Only fragile part is inside

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Transcript:
I told you guys that I would show you how I make a water level. I've used the ones that are for acoustical ceiling, and they're fragile after a while. These are pretty rugged. The way I make them. And what I use is this is a four inch adapter. It's called a four inch d w v 4” sewer to drain adapter DWV.

Then this costs $6.28. This is a test kit, a four inch D.W. v t a D.W. v test cap and that will fit right in there. We're going to glue that you're just using some rain or shine glue. It can be any kind of PVC glue, could be silicone. But in this case, this is what I have very readily available.

This will make it seal up and hold water. Okay. Now to get, since the water is going to sit in this area and this is your platform, we need to get some clear line like this. This seems to be quarter inch, but you need 3/8 line. This 100 foot of this, which you only need 50 is $22 at Lowes.

So you would get 3/8 instead of quarter inch. In this case, that's quarter and that's because you're going to put it on this three eight inch barb right there. And then we're going to use a half inch threaded right there. This, as I recall, was $4.50. I think the whole thing costs about $13 at Lowe's. I think I had the receipt, as a matter of fact, in my wallet.

I don't have the drill bit this size, but this is something I do have and we want to drill this just above where that sitting so that this sits just like so. Okay, So that'll be at the bottom. So you kind of of the drill, just add the water a little bit, but you can literally tighten it up in there that it can be a little looser because you're going to put the silicone all the way around that, and seal that that is the basis for water level.

Now you need to use the three eights because this is going to be too small, a quarter inch, 3/8 inside diameter, that's ID. So it'll slip over this and you really only need 50 foot. You put this in the center of a house and you can go or you can do a soffit or ceiling use benchmarks and go up.

Or you can you can set concrete grade and dirt grade with it by setting it a certain height, putting a mark on a stick and go around, say, okay, this needs to go up, but this is $13 plus the cost of the hose, which has got to be clear. Then you put colored water in. That food coloring is all you need in a gallon water, a little bit of food coloring, and it changes it to red, green, maybe if you find orange, but usually red, green or blue, a darker color. If it’s yellow you might see it.

So again, that is how you do a water level that's really rugged and drop it. Don't break only fragile part is in here. And believe it or not, we actually crank the one to the other. One will go one in there and hit it and we sealed it back up. But you can bang on it, throw things on it.

That's going to be really, really, really rugged. And it's the last one I made last for ten years. So far more than that maybe one before that got stolen. So I can imagine 20 years you could make it last. Must be some value because somebody stole it. Had to be. Somebody didn't know what it was. So this is your old type of water level and you can use it for any number of issues and you'll see me using it on when I re level houses and such. And there you go, guys.