a QUICK SNATCH to get CONTROL 

Anyone coming into this line of work. Old or new. Apprentice or served time (not Prison) 😄 Tom should be recognised more on RU-vid. He is way beyond any other you will see on plumbing and heating channels.

I have never seen this situation with a Company stop tap and meter inside a single occupancy domestic dwelling, I will admit I live in a Rural area, but everywhere in my area, both my village and surrounding ones, also our local town, the meters are fitted next to the company stop tap underground outside the property, I have had to do a snatch on more than one occasion when the customers own indoor stop tap was ceased and the company one wouldn’t turn off, I personally do not understand why we don’t just do away with stop taps and have full bore lever valves instead as they’re fully WRAS approved Kudos to you Tom for using full bore lever ball valves, and not restricted ballofix ones, though even those are preferable on a tap installation to none, and I have found many such poorly designed installations, I make it a habit whenever installing to fit the lever valves whilst I have the water supply off, that’s how I was taught, and I often wonder what people are taught in Technical College now, I do know that in at least some cases students practical work is only assessed using a dry pressure pump, the problem with this being that they’re work won’t hold Water Literally 😮 I now work as a site maintenance manager for a large primary school trust, and due to the age of the buildings I have encountered many ceased stop taps, generally in very awkward situations where access is restricted by existing immovable kitchen equipment making access for tools very difficult or even impossible 😢, the more I do the job, the more obvious it becomes that there is a serious skills gap in the contracting industry, far too much bodge it and run, things that would have turned my old governor puce !, and which constantly frustrate Me ! - Julie

Fantastic job under the kitchen sink Tom. By far the best and most informative plumbing channel on RU-vid. Keep up the good work mate.

Wish whoever had plumbed under my kitchen sink would have done such a neat job that you do. It’s those touches that make all the difference and tell you something about the plumber on that job. Thanks for the videos Tom.

Proper tidy work, im going to use those brass clips for my pipes, look way better in exposed areas than plastic clips.

Fantastic Tom another brilliant video excellent work under the sink one of the neatest I have seen have a good one young man

I remember you first fixing that one Tom, it’s ages ago, and your right you never know who’s been meddling between visits, but it looks like the attention to detail on your first fix is spot on. 🚽👍take care.

Hi Tom, a nice neat job under that kitchen sink. The bathroom job also appears to be coming along nicely now. Have a great week and as always take care mate. 👍👍👍

Ace bit of plumbing for under a kitchen sink mate, nice to see someone take pride in their work

Great work under sink. Inspirational to see your attention to detail

Great video, I'm glad I'm not the only one that has those concerning thoughts about jobs that we do, I guess it's that we just want a job to be do right to the best of our ability.

Another top job Tom, nice to hear you share my hatred of water 👍😂. Gas much more civilised 🤙

Neatly arranged Tom, done some connection cold and hot water and setting out for the radiator, put the water back on and for got about the shower water feed hadn’t put a stop end cap on it as it came out of the floor behind the door, had a shower without fitting one 😂😂😂 , I see you still got Henry the bucket 😂

Tom another brilliant video excellent work under the sink one of the best i've ever seen.

Top work as always mate

Lovely job under that sink Tom I enjoy doing those jobs 👌

Great video Tom, nice neat functional work. The only thing I would add is that you don't need silicone on the top of the waste, only the bottom as that is where the seal is made.

Wow special looking work under that sink Tom, looks the part mate, well done.

Great Vedic as always Tom. Great to see the that job starting to come together, hopefully it all goes well. 👍

I’ve used lever ball valve recently no problem ❤

Great video Tom! Nice pipework under the sink- I think lever valves are much better than stopcocks as they are much easier for people to use. That small pipe bender looks great; found some old bending springs in the attic the other day - not used ones in decades and still remember the struggle that sometimes happened in getting the bloody things out!

love your videos, your knowledge is like my old mans who is close to retirment now lol

Great vid Tom. You show how it really is in the trade.

Beautiful work Tom 👊

Yet another great video Tom 😀👍 Andy

Nice one fella as always

Smart job great vid!

Another good video Tom. 😁

nice job love your content

Great content Tom 👍 I hate some of them sink waste kits, they can be a pain.

Nice under sink plumbing Tom, but my OCD went into overdrive with how you left that tap. Surely, it's got to be front facing and not on an angle.

You do get some jobs Tom .great when the water will not turn off correctly. Nice bit of work in the cupboard. That other job not good when you have no control of the job and don't know what is happening. I remember you doing that job a long time ago . Anything could have happend in the mean time.

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You ever thought about a freeze machine? They not cheap but would come in handy for somthing like this

Respect 🫡

Nice work Tom. Just as an aside - are the water companies receptive to requests for fixing street stop taps that are passing?

I know it sounds corny but I changed my Ball a fix valve on my out side tap this winter for a lever valve because all you UTube guys use them now.😂😂

Tom, do you know where the kitchen tap was from?

Will the shelve fit ?.

Who the hell ordered that tap to go with that sink set up 🤦🏼‍♂️🤣

wel that was a disappointment mate ...expected a decent deluge lol

if you knew the stop tap didn't work why didn't you fit a new one while kitchen bare before units

Don’t really understand the stoptap vs lever valve argument, after all, water companies use quarter turn valves in their water meter housings in the street.

Those water meters inside the property should be illegal, because you can't do any work/change the piping without notifying the water company (which they'll tell you they need to send their engineers out to do the work or else you're at breach of contract for touching their equipment and they'll make a tidy profit on it) and then you have the situation where you have pipe in the road belonging to the water company, pipe from the curb to the house belonging to you and then that short bit of pipe in your property belonging to the water company again. The fucking state of our infrastructure because we allowed Australian and Saudi investment firms own our plumbing and run it at a profit is beyond me. Tidy job by the way.

I think that sweeping up brush definitely needs to retire Tom….

There is a reason for using a stop cock, it has a jumper in it to stop backflow into the mains water supply. I wish that plumbers on u tube would stop using them on mains coming into property. Ot is showing Joe blogs the wrong information. Water regulations state that the mains coming into a property needs to be a stop cock with drain off. Lever valves do not have backflow prevention, being wras approved is irrelevant.

Thank you for the insight into how things work. Appreciated as always. Stay safe.

Another good on Tom. These ISO Valves are crap & not worth fitting, they restrict the flow & leak if you turn them off. I never silicone Basket Strainer Wastes & never had a leak. We tip here: if you do a lot of BS Wastes, get a Stainless Steel Brick Tie, one will be left at the Brickies arse!! They’re perfect for the BS screw👍👍