How to Connect a PVC Pipage to ABS Pipe

This is the best way to connect these two types of pipes

Introduction

Connect PVC and ABS plastic pipe with special transition fittings, correctly sized to the pipe size. They make a audio joint and meet plumbing codes.

Tools Required

Materials Required

  • Transition coupling

The Best Way to Articulation PVC and ABS Plastic Piping

If you're plumbing in a new drain or vent and have to join two different kinds of plastic pipe, black ABS and white PVC, don't assume that you can simply glue them together. Virtually plumbing codes don't allow ABS pipage to be solvent-welded (glued) to PVC. Check with your local plumbing inspector.

Project step-by-step (2)

Stride one

Connecting PVC and ABS

Connecting PVC and ABS

When inserting a piping betwixt two fixed ends, cut the new slice to leave an 1/8-in. gap at both joints. Loosen and slide the metallic jacket and clamps off the rubber sleeves and slide the jackets onto the fixed pipes. Push one end of the prophylactic sleeve onto the fixed pipage and then roll back the other end (Photo ane) to brand room for the new piece of piping. Hold the new piece of piping between the two fixed pipe ends and unroll the rubber sleeves over the ends of the new pipe. Adjacent, slide the metallic jackets over the condom sleeves and tighten the clamps. Snug them upwardly with a socket wrench.

Stride 2

Transition Coupling Close-Upward

Transition coupling close-up

A transition coupling consists of a rubber sleeve and steel jacket. The proper way to use a transition coupling consists of a neoprene rubber sleeve that fits over each pipe. It'south and then held tight with a stainless steel metal jacket and integral clamps. The coupling will be labeled as to which blazon of pipe (plastic ABS and PVC, steel, cast iron, copper) each stop can exist attached to. Wait for a plastic-to-plastic designation on the coupling.

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Originally Published: Dec 04, 2022