It's always interesting to watch these videos. I learn more about how drain systems in Korea work and what you have to do to avoid clogs or how to spot them there. Greetings from The Netherlands!
This is why I own a duplex and refuse to rent out one of the apartments. One of my sons lives down there. The neighbors have caused this in my house bt backflow after a heavy rain. I had the sewer guys come out a couple of times the last few years. It was always clogged with fast food crap, tampons and grease. A few times it was condoms and things of that nature. We don't use any of that stuff. I dispose of grease in a container or dump it in the compost if I'm lazy. The city messed up the pipes a few years ago redoing the streets and wont fix it. Every time it happens it costs me at least $300 to drain my basement.
nice to know that the sewers of the world all have the same issue grease and what ever crap we throw down the drain to block em thanks for your hard work
I can't imagine what the tenets living in that house would be going through,it would be one of my worst nightmares,water is something very messy and annoying to deal with,that y I stopped with aquariums
I have a 55 gallon I agree sometimes It makes me regret getting the tank but then i look up and remember it wasn’t worth it but i don’t NOT like my tank yk😂 it’s a love hate relationship
This is common in multiple eastern countries. It makes so much sense to have the entire restroom be water proof. Makes cleaning it so much easier. No worries about damaging the walls. Only downside is if you want tonchange the decor, it's an entire change, not just one part.
It has nothing to do with "making sense since it's easier to clean". They do it that way since most Asian households and apartments are incredibly tiny. Having it all in one saves a ton of space. This is normal in Asia.
@@GamerNerdess not really as an Asian it is convenient for cleaning. Never understood the bathroom from the western side. I felt so uncomfortable to use toilets from America and Australia when I visited there.
@@wickedsai yeah, that's one thing about these shower bathrooms I do like!!! I would still prefer a separate cabin as the shower though!! so that I can still store towels and other utensils in my bathroom
Im 5"1 and this looks like I might bang my knees ... I would catch a whole panic attack in that bathroom at least put a window in it even if I have to look into the living room lol
I remember when we had to go to a combination small apartment building with a big restaurant on the first floor. The drains were backed up all the way into the basement and the landlord was swearing up and down that the tenants were bad that tenants did all this stuff just so he have to spend money. I should say he owned the restaurant on the first floor. So we're down there opening up all the cleanouts trying to find which waste line this clog was coming from. Well we finally found it and we were pulling out washcloths and underwear and a lot of tampons and several small white towels and the landlord was jumping up and down about how he's going to find out which tenant did this and he's going to throw him out. The waste line that it was coming from was directly from the restaurant. He was so mad that he couldn't charge a tenant for our services he tried not to pay us. No my boss was an old softy who didn't like confrontation. That's one of the reasons he hired me. There is no way I'm working in human waste for 4 hours and not getting paid for it I had a few words with the landlord and he paid right up. You can mess with me you can mess with my house but there are three things you never mess with with me. My animals my kids and my money
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I was a pretty good plumber not that long ago but a long time ago I remember using a one-way check valve and I remember there was a reason for it but for the life of me I can't remember what it was. In my 15-year experience I found that one-way check valves are very very rarely used. If something happens you have to cut out all the pipe around it and then put the pipe back in. I prefer good old-fashioned ball joint valves
What a mess!! Veggies mixed in with grease. Even I know that you aren't supposed to put any kind of vegetation down the drain, especially if it's still whole like that. Here in Canada, that goes in the green bags, which is wet or compost trash. Sad how so many people are getting lazy and just don't want to do that little bit extra to dispose of it properly. If I did that, I'd end up costing myself a pile of money, as I have to pay to have my septic system cleaned out. It's a private septic system (rural area). Then I'd have to pay for a plumber to come in and clean out my pipes inside the house. That gets freaking expensive. Been there, done that. lol Keep up the excellent work, gentlemen!!
@@friendlyneighborhoodcow8776 lol Korean drains are not like Canadian drains. They throw more down their drains than we do. You are a sanitation engineer, I'm just a dumb broad. lol
Almost all sinks in kitchens have strainers to catch food waste. I think people don't use it well..... or it's easier to just pour it down the drain and hope it goes away. Food waste is separated fro normal waste. There can be a communal bin downstairs of a apartment complex to throw away food waste. There are also special bins specifically for food waste. It's up to the individual though, to follow the rules correctly.
@@roxy918 Yes, and I used mine religiously. There's always some food and grease sneaking their way down the drains. I had a pipe plug up after 20+ yrs of that happening.
I always look forward to your videos. I have a question? what type of food does all that grease blobs come from? We have the same problems here in America and a lot of the grease comes from meat oil and bacon grease. Some people still cook with lard.
Thank god, i was thinking why my country does not have hidden sewer underground. Now after watching i say will its good to have covered surface sewer easy to dignose and doesn't get messed up easily just open one of the block remove the blob with sticks and it works fine
Great video! Yuk, what a awful mess in that Bathroom. I've only ever seem a combination shower & toilet in a hotel once in Europe, is it common in Korea?
Sunken bathrooms with a floor drain is the norm in Asia. Also the floor and walls all tiled. They call them “wet rooms”. Hard to get used to since you have to put on shoes to go into the bathroom. I bought a house in the Philippines and renovated it to a western style. I gutted the bathrooms, stripped the tile from the walls except for the shower, sealed up and tiled over the floor drains, and put wax seals and bolts on the toilet. I now have a bathroom I can walk into in the middle of the night without fear of slipping. Never had an issue in 7 years now.
i refuse to live in an apartment because of my brother. His upstairs neighbors were either professional bowling ball droppers or were addicted to moving 1 to 2 ton pieces of furniture.
I don't think we're supposed to throw in the trash though 🤔. I'm not sure but I heard if we do that then it still pollutes the amm like natural underground water reserve (sorry, forgot the name) because in some places the trash is buried. (Don't know if that made sense 😅) I think we're supposed to recollect all the grease and cooking oil and take it to some company that recycles it.
Some things like the colour in turmeric paprika cooked tomatoes and a few other things are more lipid soluble than they are water soluble. So they dissolve in the oil and fat in dishes and used in the cooking and stay in those lipids after that.
@@stackie10able I know that smart guy, I was asking if they use the same water pressurized system. I called the "plumbers" and they show up with the stupid snake system.
@@killerkitten812 Ye thats what i thought. In Poland we also have somewhat waterproof bathrooms, but mostly to prevent mould spread after all it is wet place. But we dont have high doorsteps like u do, so whole aprtment wuld be filled in cases like that. And we rearly have floor drain, mostly in public places.
So this is problem in modern city where all sewer r connected . . Lucky still in country where we can dump anything practically to the nature sewer . . Wkwkk.