I COULDN'T JUST WALK AWAY 

Thanks for the support and kind comment, I'm so pleased you enjoy the videos

Thanks for the support as always mate, it's hard to see people in a bad place, hopefully things will start to get better from this point for him, the hardest part can be just asking for help

Thanks for the support as always mate, it is greatly appreciated

Thanks for the support as always Andy, it's so sad to see people living like this, hopefully things are going to get better for him now

Thanks for the support as always Carl, have a great weekend mate

It sounds like a right nightmare mate, they are never nice jobs seeing someone in a mess and struggling, all you can ever do is your best and deal with every situation in a professional manner, thanks for watching as always Robert

Thanks for the support as always Jim, I try to show things how they are, not everything is going to perfect out there, I'm so pleased you enjoy my content

Thanks for the support as always Chris, it feels good to help people, money should be secondary on jobs like this, no way would I leave someone in a mess

You are right there Ian, I never judge anyone, like you say there are a multitude of things that can lead to people living like this, hopefully things are looking a bit more positive for him now, thanks for the support as always mate

Thanks for the support as always Tony, it is greatly appreciated mate

It certainly isn't easy mate, I think it's often part of the job that gets overlooked, you don't go to college and learn about how to dealing with people but it's an essential part of the job

Thanks for the support as always Paul, have a great weekend mate 👍

Thanks for the support Steve, someone once said to me walking away just wears your shoes out faster

Thanks for the support as always Charles, I do my best to help out when I can, hopefully he is getting some help now and things will improve

Thanks for the support mate, it is greatly appreciated 👍

Thanks for the support as always mate, it certainly was a bit of a mess, hopefully things will start to get better for him now, have a great weekend mate

@@PlumbLikeTom you too mate

Thanks for the support Matthew, I do my best to try and help others, I hate to see people struggling

Thanks for the support as always Robert, adding a second pump wouldn't have really done much, I wasn't happy with the job so I decided just to put it back how it was, I would have fitted a larger pump but even then because the pipes aren't lagged I don't think it would have fixed it fully, sometimes you can only do your best, thanks for watching mate

Thanks for the support mate, I'm so pleased you enjoy my videos, plenty more to come in the future hopefully

Thanks for the support mate, I always see it as a duty of care, like you say to walk away from a dangerous situation, even if you are not there to fix that issue, makes you responsible, most of the time things can be made safe quite easily. To me money always comes second in theses cases, people are way more important, if I end up not being paid all I have lost is an hour of my time and a couple of cheap valves, in the big picture its nothing

Thanks for the support as always Paul, have a great weekend mate

Thanks for the support as always mate, they are not nice job to be honest, all you can do is deal with the situation in the best way you can

It is a very varied job, you meet people from all walks of life, thanks for the support and have a great weekend Peter

Thanks for the support mate, I'm so pleased you enjoy my content so much

It's tough out there mate, when you walk into a place like that you can't quite believe how someone can actually live, it can't be a pleasant existence, hopefully now things are moving in the right direction, the toughest part can be just asking for help

It's so sad when people get themselves in a mess, I've had a couple of jobs over the years and it really does make you apprecaite what you have got, we may all go through tough times and when you get yourself in a mess it can be tough to get out, thanks for watching

I think things are moving in the right direction for him now, there are some cleaners going in so we can then look at get some heating and hot water sorted, thanks for watching as always mate, it is greatly appreciated 👍

@@PlumbLikeTom you're very welcome I appreciate the videos 😊

Thanks for the support as always PB, have a great weekend mate

Thanks for the support as always Jim, they are never nice jobs to deal with but all you can do is your best, hopefully things are going to get better on this one now, they have a clean team going in and then I can sort a price out to get some heating and hot water back on, thanks for watching as always mate

Thanks for the support John, it is greatly appreciated

Thanks for the support as always Tom, I felt bad as well to mate, hopefully things are looking better now, fingers crossed he can get things sorted

You do have to be extremely careful with asbestos, all jobs like this have a full report, my local authority have spent millions removing it so the majority of boilers rooms are now asbestos free, pipe lagging is particularly dangerous as the fibres are loose and the age of it now will mean it's probably in an unstable condition, I did a job last week in a school where the floor tiles below the vinyl were all asbestos, we are not allowed to enter until we have a clean air certificate, thanks for the support as always mate

@@PlumbLikeTom Good to hear that. The only difference that I could tell from your video was that the lagging that you were exposed to was wrapped in polythene whilst the stuff that I came across in the late 70s (also in a boiler house) that was asbestos was wrapped in cloth secured with metal clips. Best wishes.

Thanks for the support as always mate, I think he is getting some help now mate which is great, hopefully things are going to get much better for him

Thanks for the support as always mate, it's a tough world out there, jobs like this put life into perspective for me

Thanks for the support mate, it is greatly appreciated

I didn't realise it was that bad when I got asked to price the job, I felt I needed to stop the water leaking as it was the right thing to do, there is a clean team going in and then I can look to sort a price out, hopefully everything works out Ok for him

Thanks for the support as always Chris, I am going to make a big effort to get to installer show this year, I don't like taking time off work but I think it would be a great day out, have a great weekend mate

It's always tough mate, hopefully things will get better for him, thanks for watching as always Paul 👍

Thanks for the support as always Darren, you never forget them jobs, I think I would have had to politely decline a drink on this one as well

I wasn't happy with this job to be honest mate, the entire thing was a bad set up and asking for problems, it's been an issue for years with low temperatures and constant air locks, I did price for point of use water heaters as this would eliminate all dead legs and would probably be cheaper to run, thanks for watching as always

Thanks for the support as always Frankie, this one certainly was a real world job, the thing with my job I meet people from all walks of life, often it's those with nothing who are the nicest, hopefully things are going to improve for him, the hardest part can sometimes be asking for help

@@PlumbLikeTom yes I know what you mean m8t I was a heating engineer in the north of England for over 20years and it really opens your eyes at the conditions of these houses like you say some people have nothing and the council aren’t interested in helping them basically your left in a box to die….look after yourself m8t.👍

I know mate, the way I look at these situations is I look after people like they are my family. At the end of the day people are way more important than money, I don't mind doing a bit to help people out when you can see they need help, thanks for watching and have a great weekend 👍

some of them hoard money too. i know exactly what your saying though. old lady looked like a pauper, piles of rubbish in every room, when she died her next door neighbour who used to take food for her everyday was left everything. north of 4 million . and i felt guity charging her for materials.

A combi would be perfect for him as there is only one bathroom, it's only a bungalow so I have allowed to repipe the heating and hot and colds with plastic in the roof, some of the pipes were crispy up there and I couldn't see what the rads were like, thanks for the support as always James

Thanks for the support as always mate, I think you might be right in the fact I might have been the first person to step foot in the house for a while, hopefully things are going to start to get better for him now, like you say these things are often a mental illness, it's not just a case of being dirty, have a great weekend mate

It's tough out there, sometimes it's hard to see people living in poor conditions, hopefully things are going to get better for him on this one, thanks for watching as always mate

They are tough jobs Keith, sometimes there is only so much I can do, hopefully things will get better for him now, thanks for watching as always mate

Thanks for the support mate, it certainly was a bit of a mess

It's a tough job mate, nowhere to hide when it all goes wrong, not being paid sometimes and having to deal with the phone ringing all hours of the day as well as everything else, I'm sure there are easier ways of making a living but I do enjoy the job

Thanks for watching as always Wayne

You are not wrong there mate, I am pricing to sort the problems, I think oversink multipoint water heaters will be cheaper to run, the Andrews is coming towards end of life and there are only 3 sets of toilets and 4 other sinks, in the long run multipoints will be better as there will be no dead legs and less running costs

I agree, thanks for watching

Thanks for the support mate, the cylinder on this job was a vented one, the problem with having a lever valve fitted on this pipe is that it blocks the vent, if it had been unvented cylinder a lever valve on the hot draw off would have been fine and is actually quite a good idea, thanks for watching 👍

Thanks for the support mate, it's tough to see people living in bad conditions and even harder to work in, I guess you never quite know what you are walking into all the time, I used to do emergency call outs out of hours, I once went to a job where a person had ripped a rad off the wall, the house was a total mess, when I got there, there was a police with a film crew filming for a cop show, jobs like stick with you a while

Thanks for the support Stuart, I work for my family business, I look after the plumbing side if things but we do all aspects of construction

That’s great mate. Keep going. One of the best on RU-vid for me as your so honest 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I've gone right off rothenburger, I snapped my bender in half, it wasn't very old, I bought a second hand record one off a carboot and it's been brilliant, my superfire 2 gas lamp has never been right either that I recently bought, the quality of their tools that are aimed at professionals in my opinion is quite poor compared to other brands, thanks for watching mate

@@PlumbLikeTom np mate i enjoy all the vids keep up the hard work

Thanks for the support as always Danny, good spot on the heating pumps, I never actually paid to much attention to it at the time, I was just focused on getting the secondary working

I think half the issue is the hot keeps air locking, I have priced to remove the Andrews water heater as its coming towards end of life and put over sink unvented heaters in, there are 3 sets of toilets and 4 others sinks, this will work out way cheaper to run and cheaper than replacing the Andrews heater which will need replacing within the next couple of years, it will also do away with all the old hot pipework and all dead legs, I will have to wait and see what happens, it's just a very poor design as all the hot water is on the opposite side of the building to the boiler room

@@PlumbLikeTom It’s one of those fast jobs , as longs it looks pretty, but many mistakes done in calculations, usually they have to measure the height of the pipe work going upstream, the size of the pipe work they going to need , secondary return ain’t that simple , and they have to be on a similar pressure to balance it out if they have hot water booster pump , the resistance needs to be calculated , I don’t know how many storey this building is , once any works or new plumbing appliances have been installed inside the property , could mess it up whole system , they might not even install secondary return on a new hot water run , and it’s more further away the actual primary hot water run , what happens it will pickup a cool-down water on a circuit and creates the air bubbles , causing airlocks and restricting the flow , every new install should be branching off closes as it can from secondary return into primary hot water run closes as it can from any tap outlet .😅 Could be TRM valves if they have them pushing through a hot water pipe work or failed and picking up cool water that’s including showers in the house . There’s absolute headache … to sass everything out, but you’re knowledgeable guy , and I believe you know exactly what , I’m talking about 😂

I did do the job, it is on my channel somewhere, I think it was called BBU to combi, I did get paid as well which is always a bonus, thanks for watching

That's what I think too mate, I still don't think it will fully resolve the issue but it would certainly improve it, thanks for watching as always

It is really tough sometimes mate, hopefully this job will have a happy ending, there is a clean team going in and then we can hopefully get a boiler sorted out, he wants help so I think that's a very good start, like you say people can live how they like and social services won't always get involved in the person is happy. thanks for the support, it is greatly appreciated

I will do what I can do to help, like you say I'm no social worker but you can't help but feel sorry, thanks for watching as always mate, it is greatly appreciated 👍

Thanks for the support as always Steve, it was a bad one, I'm hoping things will get better for him now

I think you are right mate, hopefully now he can get some help, sometimes the hardest part can just be asking

On jobs like that there are task orders issued, I just act as a sub contractor so have to complete the job exactly as described, I can then do a report to enable further remedials actions, unfortunately I can't go against what has been put on the task order. It was a weird one because normally on jobs like this I get an order to investigate a problem and come up with a workable solution

@@PlumbLikeTom Fair play matey. I thought you were solely on your own.