Most plumbing videos on you tube show jobs that run smoothly without a hitch, this was the exact opposite, !! the way you reacted after you got the situation under control was amazing most people would have has PTSD after that😂😂
Dan Stevo thanks soo much.. I just wasn’t sure to put it out there .. but then that’s not me.. you have to be able to laugh in this game. Thanks much appreciated 👍
We’ve all had them, it’s good to laugh about these situation instead of hiding them. Keep up the vids it’s educational for me as I’m trying to move to more the repair and service side rather than installs. 👌🏼 thanks!
Adrian Darke if it Ain’t happening to ya now and again.. either you ain’t doing enough or not pushing yourself.. or you’re Lying 🤥😂🤣😂🤣 thanks for watching 👍🙏
Brilliant mate! Unbelievable. I cannot believe they couldn't hear you!!!! Fair play, handled it well. Goes to show things can happen outwith your control.
Nice one , lol with the dimwit tenant , it was handy having the luxury of side access to get to the block , the problem with modern boilers is the amount of plastic components that are used ( leaks waiting to happen ) . Thanks for the entertainment......😄 Cheers.......👍
Just to show You the reality of being a plumber when what seems to be an easyish job flies out of control briefly..This is what we do and how we do it. Sometimes its how you react to a situation that counts the most. Anyway enjoy a Big laugh..Comments below Im sure there will be a Few !! Enjoy your Easter Just spent the Whole of Easter Friday Editing this for You guys !! Thanks for watching.
Oh man, its happened to all of us!, i had to laugh as horrible memories flooded,,, back! ha ha, great videos, great tips i'm always willing to learn as a sole trader, especially the changes since condense boilers,top man keep up the good work
Just watched this again had me laughing my head off with your billiant remarks such a good watch i know i should not laugh as it can happen to any of us Heating Engineers i felt for you and i wish i will be never in that situation as u handled it brilliant great vid mate
You did brilliantly Dr Pipe, great video, we are always up against it, respect to you, Dr Pipe versus Tenant, you won the war! Only lost a wee watery battle lol 😆
You done amazing protecting that pcb and recording!!!, for what seemed like ages lol your finger must've been killing you, really loving all your videos, I've got a lot left to watch, and look forward to what's to come, you excel in presentation and very very educational, a wee gold mine of content!!!!
This channel will overtake PB plumber and or plumber parts you actually show the real world that not everything is perfect and everything goes to plan and every space is available your videos really show the real world of what it’s like to be an on call heating engineer dr pipe you really really need to carry on this channel you can’t give it up it keeps me going knowing that I’m not the only one suffering out there sometimes I do think why am I doing this job and I watch your videos it’s sort of gives it a new lease of life knowing
Thanks for the Kind words 🙏 I set this up to just document my life as I don’t like writting. Was never my intention that Anyone would watch them, genuinely. Not gonna give it up .. Statement... “ This is the Hardest trade of ALL trades out there” fact Mentally it will mess with u ... physically it will DEstroy ur body. But in my case it’s too late but work as smart as you can.. knees shoulders elbows Painfull. Pleased u like it 🙏🙏
gas on appreciate that.. it’s good for us all to see things like this and way guys n girls handle things. Someone said you should have bashed the door down and turned it off myself... umm interesting going into a room with a girl ready for a shower 🥴 now I’m really in trouble !!
PB Could have been worse.. run up the stairs bashed the door down.. Doris standing stark bollock naked.. ur honour honestly what was a man supposed to do 😂🤣🤣🤣 6 years later ! 👍👍👍👍
She definitely qaulifies for a Darwin award! The hairdryer, a boiler repair man's essential tool 😀 Glad you showed it as this is real world and it ain't always pretty.
JeeZ! Apart from the early bath, that was real plastic surgery by The Good Doctor Pipe. Wooshitter Botch Tupperware shitboxes. Wouldn't touch one or Viessman. Intergas all the way. Great vids, please keep them coming Dr Pipe.
woodbine66 You are officially welcomed to the party with a comment like that 🤪😂 Just commissioned an intergas ... there’s nothing in it ! Only thing I noticed why put the pump at the back left facing inwards 😮 same as the Atag but that’s at the front. Would like to do a strip down service on one tho mate looks fun. Not the boilers 1/2 the time it’s the Customer/installer error. 👍
Did anyone say party?? I'll bring a Party Seven and some crumpet. Agree the Inter has one or two niggles, but the rest is about as good as you'll get these days. I'm allergic to boilers full of substandard plastic. Got a 15 year old Turbomax Plus in my place and I hope to get another 10 years out of it. As long as Intergas don't go all plastic, one of theirs will eventually replace the Turbo. I reckon it'll be a worthy successor. Thanks again and keep up the good work.
Think this would have broken me! Although I sometimes think the main difference in being more time-served is that you simply keep your head more in these situations.
Simon Mander I know what you mean but I have a very determined nature. I was brought up to Never give up. And all the old cliches come true..a quitter never wins...and a winner never quits. However I know when enough is enough..when it's safety Etc. Thanks for watching really appreciate the comments and at the least I hope it made you smile .
Had the cold feed of CDi plate to plate fall off as i was about to climb into the cupboard to fix it. Dove underneath to see what had happened and as i tried to put hand under plate to plate it sliced my fingers open.So open end and blood everywhere ,going through the ceiling..runs downstairs blood dripping everywhere to find where stop tap was.. customer shouts through its under the sink..trouble was her disabled 25 stone son was in his wheelchair in front of the cupboard.. eventually got him out the way and water off..looked like a cross between Saw and Noah ..
Mahan Rai the cold water was off to the boiler.. problem was that the cold supply to any mixer taps was on.. the feed came thru cold pipe at a mixer found its way round the hot side and came out of the hot outlet on the boiler.. back feeding.. if check valves on taps etc were fitted wouldn’t have had the issue. Cold isolation to property was unknown to us as it wasn’t in the kitchen and iso in the street had been removed. Hope that helps.
Some painters told me they were working on a 1st storey pitched metal roof of a private girls school above the main entrance. for some paint access reason they'd disconnected a section of plastic soil pipe serving a communal w/c block on the floor above .Unexpectedly at that moment a coach pulls up & a load of girls return from a trip out &rush in all needing a loo break. Within seconds there was a non stop torrent as they both frantically tried to reattach pipe- they were covered! it was cascading off the roof as all the girls came back out looking up at the shite covered clowns slipping and screaming above in their once pristine white overalls!
Lol that was funny, but people just don’t understand. I normally turn off the water at the stopcock in large houses. By the way, what watch are you wearing?
The only thing i have done is told the tenants im working on the boiler not to use any tapes never mind its one for the book two rules always have a push on cap in your bag and a bung always gets you out of the brown stuff lol
The flow switch inners can be changed on their own, or did you have additional issues which required the manifold.... not a dig just interested to know.
Richard mate I’m glad you said that... can’t believe I forgot to put the footage in 😂🤣.. yes there was a leak at the back of where the flow turbine was my mistake.. did I not show the issue after removal ? It was tho crack in housing. Yes I know you can get the inners I do about 10 a year. Pleased you said you were not havin a go 👍 a few smarty pants on here ! Glad u enjoyed 👍👍
I was in a loft once and I was changing a ball valve and during the replacement the tenant turned the water back on!😂 I was screaming and shouting and no one could here me for at least 10 mins😂
I'm not surprised, had a boiler in one of my properties in pieced being repaired and tenant walked in and asked if the hot water was working.... Duuhhhh. I'm sure tenants are a bit thicker than your average person.
What a fookin nightmare mate ! How you kept cool after that to contuine I don’t know id of been off and said you need a new boiler after that. Love the bit about fire extinguisher lmao 😂
Heat Service bwc uk it’s just not me to run and hide.. was more worried abt the sparks.. but didn’t show me voice dialling the customer .. it’s got an Rcd should be fine 😂
Ohhh mate that’s wounded had that happen to me I turned the stop tap off he didn’t realise and turned it back on but new I was in the house not good is it liked the video though never done the dreaded Worcester block before but heard bad things haha
This made my evening I was crying with laughter. You are normally so composed and quietly spoken 😂. I had the same happen to me on a baxi fitted at virtually floor level in an upstairs airing cupboard lying on my back trying to stop the cold main at full bore screaming at the tenant downstairs to turn the water off. Happy days & glad it happens to the best of us 😁
Lovely HMO's . I worked on a house with a blocked condensing pipe connected into soil stack also backing up to the third floor Loo's sewer problem . plumber removed condensing trap flooding the kitchen with sewage . sh1t job
Yes ...dried with the paper towel then hair drier all is good in the hood ! You would be surprised what boilers will take before they fail ! Thanks for watching hope you enjoyed it.
Tenant knew boiler would be repaired , but just didn’t give a toss anyway , cold water but still didn’t get clue , no apologies given , had the boiler gone wrong and she be charged for new pcb , bet she wouldn’t be so cool with it , the attitude beggars belief
Gokhan Bacak so true mate 👍 I went to a house once and they had a timetable of when you could use the wmc and if not in those times u would be charged 👍 when there money at stake they remember.
I wish I could may have helped in this situation 😂 but the Answer is not at the moment. On the odd occasion when I meet someone that I feel deserves a chance or break I try and take them out. But to be fair I’m trying to HElp you guys by making the videos. It’s my way of giving back. I wish you much success and hard work as that’s what this job is. Good luck I’m sure with patience you will get there. All the best and thanks for watching
I had the same thing always turn the mains off if they have mixer taps now cos of this I was changing a plate on a old CDI and that big fuck off clip would not go In 😅😅
Why not tell all the tenants not to use any water whilst you carry out the work or if unsure turn the cold mains off. Not really the tenants fault, unless you explained not to use and they ignored you. Great video, nevertheless 👍
There’s elements Both good and bad in Every boiler I’m sure we can all agree on ?.. I’m a big fan of a single pass Hex in stainless I’m sure you know the one 💪. Prob is the customers in my local will not go for them.. Together with the fact I install 5 boilers a year these days... and fix that number a day. I’m happy to fix stuff now. Thanks for dropping by.. big fan 🙏🙏
@@drpipe I just worked on a Worcester after making my comment and now commit myself to not working on more. Shame you not local I could pass you all my Worcester enquiries. Love your channel mutual fan.
M Leo Unfortunately wasn’t available either. Take a look at my other video where Thames water couldn’t find the stop valve and took 6 weeks to replace 😂 in that case we froze it but in this case everyone was told but she didn’t observe. Thanks for watching.
ALAN SMITH basically. Mains cold off at Boiler only so rest of cws still on.. mixer shower upstairs cold service went thru valve cold down hot pipe reverse flow out out on boiler
ALAN SMITH basically. Mains cold off at Boiler only so rest of cws still on.. mixer shower upstairs cold service went thru valve cold down hot pipe reverse flow out out on boiler
