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Thank you for all of your videos, beautifully informative, I admire your passion and knowledge on this subject. You have helped immeasurably in my kitchen, cloakroom & now bathroom refit. Cheers 🍻
Hi James, I have been following stuff on your channel for a while now, providing enough to give me confidence to do a bathroom refit last year and more recently a cloakroom. Imagine my surprise when the supplier of the vanity furniture and sink etc linked me to this video on how to do the install of the resin sink I bought. First class job as usual, keep up the great work.
Hi - I've seen a few of your videos over the years. I'm fitting a vanity sink for my daughter and her partner this weekend - great video, lots of useful tips as usual. And I didn't know you could get digital spirit levels - gonna put that on my Christmas list!
I personally always fit my flexi onto a isolation valve, but see a lot of plumbers saying you shouldn’t as isolation valve not flat and ruins the rubber in the flexi? Great video
Just done 19 bathrooms in a little block, 40yo plumber here, used clear silicone on the 1 1/4 and the 1 1/2 for the shower waste!! 😢😭 lol. Needs must lol
Not long finished fitting one of those exact vanity units (from Wholesale Direct) . Never again! The fact that the drawers are not removable forced me to do the entire underside plumbing, then fit the sink last. Annoyed, because I had to get all my fittings measured to within a millimeter. Took ages compared to a unit with removable drawers. Also, I used a quality double-sided mounting tape instead of glue to stick the sink to the unit. Worked a charm. Good video. Avoid Wholesale Direct is the message. Oh, and I used a basin mate kit instead of plumbers mait. You absolutely positively have to use something, as the seals it comes with are about as useful as a chocolate fireguard.
Can use the spare parts from a radiator kit when customer asks for TRV's to be fitted. Flexi will screw onto part and smooth end can go into service valve. Alternatively get service valves with flat edge/face
Hiya mate, could you point me in the direction of a video where you have to hang a radiator to suit the pipe/valves already there? Like the heating pipes in your bathroom now, the process you go through to find where you put your brackets on the wall so the rad hangs exactly in position for those valves to go straight onto it. Thank you 👍
I am amazed that the syphon is not made to fit next to the wall instead of under the basin. I modified mine and now have a drawer without a big cavity in the centre.
In my opinion it's best not to glue sink to vanity unit this way. If you ever need to remove it you'll destroy unit. Better to use kitchen fitter practice... place the sink on loose, then run a bead of silicone around the inside top edge (and maybe outside). This fixes it. If you ever need to remove just run a knife through the silicone and sink comes off without damage to vanity unit. But that's just my opinion.😉
So I installed mine and it’s great but the water drains very very very slowly it’s really annoying, it’s all new install so it’s not a clog, how do I fix this?
Solvent weld doesn't take long I expect it will say on the bottle but usually done in 5 minutes. Solvent weld is used for waste pipe not a water feed I usually run the tap after 15 minutes
James... quick question. Watching many (way too many) of your videos... you seem to frown on the use of the isolation valves you've used here. What's the crack with their use then? Also was this carried out on a Friday... a Flexi-friday! 😅
@@plumberparts Aren't they just. Trying to get any in our own property swapped out to F/B lever valves. One thing then about these horrid little compression valves... is there any decent one's out there or are they all prone to being 'leaky-leaky' valves? BTW.. loving your extended series on this bathroom refurb. And as Emily might be heard saying... "get on with it"🤣
@@elfidge1 yeah P trap is the standard, or you can get specifically a kitchen sink trap with connections for a washing machine/dishwasher waste to connect onto if you need it
@@daleprosser350 Nice one in that case only thing I took from this video was to get the anti-syphon valve simply to stop gurgling. Appreciate the replies fella, thank you
Which manufacturer is that bottle trap? McAlpine? My bathroom fitter fitted an S trap to a down pipe and I struggled with bad odours in the bathroom. I bought one from B&Q which leaked like mad, then tried a Wirquin which is much better but not quite perfect and has the worst nut ever!
Yep it's a McAlpine. I was so pleased with the one in my ensuite that I have got another for my main bathroom that I'm on with now. Mine came from Screwfix.
on the side of the drawer there are some blanks, pop them off and there are adjustments to drawer high and also 2 small levers to realise drawer from rails
Silicone sealant the worst thing you can use, definitely plumbers mate far better.... The amount of problems with people have used silicone sealant , that have started leaking, it's a bad idea...
totally unrelated - why plumbers insist on getting 200L cylinders from their suppliers for like 2k when I can get one fully fitted with accessories needed for under £800!!!! am I being taken for a ride as the profession enables them to? yes I am frustrated having to pay 6.9k (2k for cylinder) to get a vented cylinder replaced with an unvented cylinder!
I wish you had fitted our new sink and cabinet. The sink moved and pulled off the cold water feed and flooded the bathroom, hallway and kitchen ceiling and floor...😡 It was fitted by a so called plumber...
Don’t get why I spent years training to do my job when videos like this and the whole purpose of your channel is to encourage people to DIY plumbing and inform them how to do it step by step. Ridiculous really, it’s like a doctor training then making videos saying this is how you do open heart surgery yourself, don’t need to pay me to do it when I can tell you how to step by step for free.
Do you actually pay fully qualified car mechanics, barbers etc or do you get someone to try and do it "cheap"? I bet you don't pay qualified people the whole time. They have also been through training to earn money too just like you.
