Stop doing the same projects as me This is strange, I too am replumbing my entire system tomorrow. I also dry fitted all my stuff but the valves coming out of the ground aren't square to the pad so I might have to resort to using some flex pipe ( ) I hate that stuff. It looks like crap after a year.

The only question I can answer is #2 - the time before moving to the next joint is 3 seconds.

What I fear most is getting all this done and having a leak