IMMERSION HEATER SWAP but it’s not that simple!!! REAL WORLD PLUMBING 

Well done Mark clearly the best way to navigate around the lack of thought by the builders. Love watching your vids and i posted before about being 55 and taking a professional plumbers course up to NVQ level 2, hope I'm not too old, also great to see you was visiting St David's i live in Pembroke if you are down this way again give us a shout would be great to meet the legend and maybe have a pint.

Just love your vids Mark... Real time plumbing& heating at its best👍🏿

You really are a star Mark. I think the big difference is that you genuinely care about the customer and your standard of your work. Pity there aren't more like you.

Nice job Mark! The builders obviously didn't think about the future when they installed the system, they just banged it in ( 'banged it in' sounds like a character in a Carry On film 😆).

Love the way you explain every step, to be honest, I at first thought drain tank, cut hole fit Essex flange install the short 11-inch heater, and extend the wire to the heater, But you got over that very well indeed brilliant video, cheers for that, PS we all need a break, and camping is a great way.

Great work, I like the way you just find a solution and get on with it. 👏

Really enjoyed that, was brilliant watching how you overcame that issue, brilliant work mate 😀

Holy shit Mark, I would have flipped if I'd been called to this job. Who the hell makes an immersion heater this unaccessible it just beggars belief. Either way we'll handled mate another cracking job. So glad I came across your channel. Even after 13 years in the trade I'm picking up loads of tips from you. Keep up the great work, loving it!

The washer on an immersion is a fibre washer so if any moisture gets to it it expands and seals it. I agree ptfe on the thread but PASTE NEVER on the washer as it will be rock hard by the time the immersion needs to be undone again and it will not move even with a big pipe!! You love your paste - I have never used it and never had a leak after I have greased the olive!! I've had some immersions in daft places too!!

Nice job in the end mark and good tip about informing the customer that the boss can twist on the tank. I hate doing immersion heaters as 9 times out of 10 they have boss white on the threats and they are stuck meaning plenty of patience and slowly slowly with heat.

That’s my home county, great for excuses to go back and see the family, enjoy Mark 👌

Hi Mark, A great film just my kind of job, love the nice pipe bend around the immersion heater. The old 3/4 pipe and fitting strikes again, real world plumbing I guess. A great solution with the access panel, it’s also now ready for the next visit. Have a great time away that looks a great place to stay, take care, regards, Chris. 👍👍👍

Lovely job Mark,well explained to, I know it's not plumbing related but would love to see tent set up and inside of tent, beautiful spot to wake up in,and yeah love the number plate never clocked it before,I'm surprised pimlico plumbers haven't put a bid in for it they seem to own all the plumbing related number plates . Look forward to next video 👍

Client seemed like a nice genuine bloke. Love to see it

Top lad mate. I was going to ask about bending the hot flow for future maintenance. It is after all you that's going to be at it. 👌👏

Well deserved break mate. Love the 'other way round ' comment. With the tenting and kids 😂😂.

great content Mark also loved your van tent and if you picked up any work happy days that heater looked a bummer but you were honest in your videos with that and your standards are great so many cowboys out there

Great work as usual

hi mark nice easy job again lol keep going pal glad you had a break we all need 1 now n then

What a nightmare of a job mark 😯. The last one i had to change I ended up hacksawing around the old gasket so i could free it off to get it out .😯😯

Cracking vid unusual place for it so high up camp site looked lovely great view’s 👍👍👍😎😎😎

Top video mate as per 👍

Brave man! I’d have said use a kettle till boiler back & just keep using that to heat water !😁 It never ceases to amaze me, why HWC’s are mounted up like that as if it will give better hot water flow when as we know, it’s the height BELOW the CWS tank that gives that plus of course making sure that fill level is 50mm below overflow ie: full enough!🙄

Great video the tent looks quality 🎪💯 lol to the access to the immersion swap. Keep it up mate! Love your videos

Once again my plumbing brother another great video. I went to a house what had one of these and were your is standing on wood. the one I had was on wood the fecker snapped the bottom of the wood and you should have seen the mess

Well done Mark fair play on that immersion heater look like a right bastard of a job always heart in mouth when you try to take an old existing 👍😎👍😎👍👍😎😎👍

I was given an old castiron spanner by an old steam boiler builder about 40 years ago. Weighs a frigging ton but my god it fits those immersion nuts like a glove and the tiniest pull and they always come loose with minimal effort. Retiering soon so i will pass it on to someone

Fantastic result. A job well done meant to try you. Could have been worse if immersion had been side feed at bottom of tank

Another challenge conquered💪💪

I carry a metre of small bore rubber tube to put down the tight screw in elbow just to drop the water lever below the immersion heater.

U can always shock the immersion by hitting the immersion spinner with a lump hammer…… goes every time. That’s the way I do them every time

I thought you might have kept a couple of 3/4 -22mm end feed couplers on the van Mark . I always have those in the van for that situation

If I'd known you were down pal I'd have dropped in to say hello. I live just outside Swansea, would have come down on the bike to give it a bit of a run

Well thought through and fixed up .brilliant

I would take the wall down, and put up a curtain.....Nice work

Cut the ceiling out , it’s the only way 🤣been there got the T shirt

If I knew you were in st David’s I would have bought you a pint in the Bishops 🍺 hope you had a great time!

Fantastic video Nick. Just discovered your channel recently and watched heaps of your videos. I’m on my first reno and learning as I go. I bought a 60s bungalow with a new grants boiler but it costs a fortune to heat 500 litres a month. Do you think this is because of the old cast iron massive single panel radiators that weigh a ton? Should I change these for something more modern?

Haven't seen an immersion heater for a while.🤔😂

Tidy job on the immersion lucky you managed to get good access pity you were not close to Carmarthen i live about ten miles north of the town we could have met up for a chat for ten minuets hope you had a nice break

Good move setting the pipework round immersion heater ..those cheap elements only last a year or so ..🤣🤔🤣

Where abouts is that camp site Mark? Looks fabulous

Dam you could of said before you were in Wales need me boiler changed 🤣🤣 only 10 mins from where you were

How did you connect the other end of the 22mm pipe surely it was an imperial three-quarter inch fitting.

I had a fun day on Friday cylinder 40 years old customer wanted an immersion never had one the cap was welded on took an hour to get off with the blowtorch and then cylinder got a pinhole in it I told the customer it could happen that's the risk, they weren't happy to fork out for a new cylinder but what can you do they got 40 years out of a cylinder and on my case all day asking is it finished yet when you have to drain down the system and take the cylinder out that's enclosed in a hotpress and repipe everything as the pipes don't match up torture 😆

Have you got a link for the campsite you staying at please.

Few weeks for a oil boiler change normally I take 2to 3 days

Got a link for the tent?

what eeijit puts a cylinder in at that height?

Willis type immersion heater would have been an option.

Watch out for low bridge 😂

How long did that take and how much did you charge labour I think I would have charged 160/180 plus immersion. It’s one of those jobs you can’t charge the actual time taken and you have to think what cost is the customer expecting

Lol just unscrew it, snap the element then try angling the new one in

Looks a good bit of kit that tent do we get a discount code for 1? 💪👊🏼

RWP 👍

I have watched many of your video and know you are a paste man for all joints but for an immersion you have the fibre washer to seal it in so using paste will make it a nightmare for removal in future. Ptfe acts as a lubricant and a bit of additional sealing.. When its all wired up and switched on I always use a screwdriver against my ear and touch the nut of the immersion so I can hear it is working. Electricity hums!

What was the campsite name looks stunning

If you split the tank taking out old element. Is it covered on your house insurance as accidental damage?

🤘😎🤘💪

Bit dodgy leaving a van in the corner of a campsite with that on your number plate! 😂

No need to cut the wall, could have worked in the immersion in from the top.

easier to just fire a willis type immersion on

What a pain in the arse!! Could have been worse though, just imagine if that cupboard had been built with masonry walls 😨 Say what you will about stud walls, but it’s situations like this that make me thank god for them.

OR you could leave it in situ .....drained the tank fully ...............and put a bottom side entry Element in ? Problem solved today and in the future. No redecorating costs for the customer.