Water Sources & Supply
🌧️ How Home Plumbing Works
Follow water from supply to fixtures, drains, vents, sewer/septic, and the larger water cycle.
🚰 City Water vs Home Plumbing
Understand municipal supply, pressure, waste/vent systems, rainwater, potable water, and home distribution.
🏡 Well Water Systems
Learn how rural well water systems work with pumps, pressure tanks, filters, softeners, and home plumbing.
🔧 Well System Components
Pressure switch, pressure tank, well pump, control box, gauge, valves, and typical residential well layout.
Gravity, Pumps & Pressure
🗼 Gravity Tanks & Water Towers
Use elevation to store potential energy and create water pressure for homes, farms, emergency supply, and irrigation.
⚙️ Pressure Tank Installation
Install a pressure tank, connect the pressure switch, and understand pump cycling and pressure control.
📈 Booster Pumps
Increase low water pressure using booster pumps, pressure controls, valves, and proper installation practices.
🔁 Well → Tank → Heater → PEX
See the order of a rural plumbing system from well to pressure tank, water heater, and PEX manifold.
Filtration, Softening & Purification
🧂 Water Softener
Install and understand softeners, hard water, mineral exchange, regeneration, bypass valves, and plumbing layout.
🧪 Filtration & Conditioning
Sediment filters, carbon, iron removal, conditioning filters, softeners, and rural water treatment order.
💧 Water Purification
Basic drinking water safety, filtration paths, carbon, RO, UV, and why source water must be tested.
🏠 Best Plumbing Layouts
Compare trunk-and-branch, manifolds, and modern PEX layouts for serviceability, efficiency, and performance.
Residential Plumbing, Piping & Fixtures
🏗️ Start Plumbing a House
Plan water supply and DWV rough-in from the beginning of a residential plumbing project.
🔩 PEX Plumbing Systems
PEX manifolds, trunk-and-branch, Uponor logic, fittings, valves, and residential water distribution options.
🚽 Plumbing System Basics
Overview of hot/cold supply, fixtures, traps, vents, drains, cleanouts, and how the system works together.
🌀 Pressure + DWV Together
Understand how pressurized supply and gravity DWV systems work together inside the house.
DWV, Septic, Wastewater & Irrigation
🚽 Drain & Water Planning
Plan efficient drain and water line routing, avoid conflicts, and understand layout decisions.
🌎 Septic / Sewer Path
Follow waste from fixtures through traps, vents, drains, sewer lines, septic systems, or municipal systems.
🌱 Irrigation Pressure
Use pressure, flow, valves, booster pumps, and distribution logic for irrigation and agricultural water systems.
📋 Plumbing Plan Review
Study practical plumbing design decisions, water planning, fixture placement, and installation sequencing.