Wow! I worked for a water utility 22+ years. They would often host "tapping contests" where teams would add a valve to a large pipe under pressure in the shortest time possible. Some clever engineers manages to adapt this technology for the plumber. Outstanding.
thanks for your comment the EasyFit is a patented product with dual seal technology it was designed in the UK and has been sold for just over 10 years.
The Easyfit seals on the ends of the pipe as well as the sides unlike a saddle valves and is classified as a ball valve and has a 12 month guarantee in the US@@aquaphobicFish
@@aquaphobicFishYes true but saddle valves are extremely flawed in design and have a very high rate of failures. Most plumbers won't install them because of this fact.
Yo broski! I'm a pro woodworker and amateur plumber. I've always done my own plumbing since I've been too poor to hire a pro. Over the years I've installed 4 water heaters, replaced all the galvanized pipe in my basement in one day, several remodels, and lost track of how many times I've had to pull a toilet to get a toy that's been lodged in the bend. Sometimes I've wanted to jump off a roof mid-project, but turning the water on with no leaks at the end is so damn satisfying. Your videos are great. I love watching a master do his trade. NYC plumbers have to be the best of the best since you guys are working on all kinds of jacked up stuff going back well over a hundred years sometimes. I know it's hard work but you make it look easy. Props to all the hard working tradesmen who keep the world turning. Peace broski!
I am a retired plumber.That valve is a life saver.I own several rental properties with older mains with a few old gate valve that I dread having to open and close if needed.I am gonna install a few of those.👍👍
Just now looked this item up on eBay & most are shipped from the U.K. for around $100… Still not bad at all in considering the price most plumbers would have to charge in hard circumstances LOVE YOUR ENTHUSIAST CONTENT BRO👊🏼👍🏼
If the EasyFit ever stops working you can replace the valve core without shutting off the water by using the EasyFit recore tool.That alone makes it worth the money.
As a retired Plumber from Melbourne Australia I love watching your videos. Having only been to NYC once and experienced the traffic, it must be a real pain in the a..se when you get to a job only to find you’re short of a fitting, valve etc. That’s the only problem with plumbing, you can usually improvise to get the job done but being short one lousy fitting can ruin your day. As we say here “good onya mate” 😁👍
"Hey ya, so I need content and I want to show off my easy fit isolator valve, can I install it temporarily at your facility?" This is how I imagine those awkward phone calls went 😅
This was amazing to see! I've been asked to fix plumbing things before change taps, fix a leak, etc, but never touched the jobs for fear of making it worse (I'm a welder, not plumber). I never even knew it was possible to do plumbing on pipes that are still fully pressurized. Very educational in more things then just plumbing (I never knew why things lined up easier when going diagonally for screws). I also like the way you gave the information, it was professional and well thought out~
Dude amazing video. best one of this valve ive seen. Your NYC cadence makes your videos masterful. If radio was still big id say you could make it big on the radio lol. You got a gift plumbing and that voice.
Really just a bolt on line stopper fitting for copper, like a Mueller or TDW used in the gas distribution business every day. A good adaption for a very old product. Pricy but worth it for leaks, like the pro-press.
I'm always amazed by the difficulty of simply turning off the water in NYC and the fact that inventions like this get people so excited. Don't get me wrong, it's a cool product and great review!
This is why I love engineering. When I bought my starter home which was built 100 years ago I was concerned about the old shutoff valve which looked corroded and flimsy. I imagined a product such as this which I could put in front of the existing shutoff and not have to mess around with the old shutoff. Engineers see a problem and find a solution. Seeing how often the problem is getting supers to agree to a shutoff, this product alone will make plumbers job so much easier.
This solution can actually save you valuable time and allow you to make more money. Instead of waiting for a water shutdown, you can install this in 5 minutes and get on with the job! Impressive.
@@DinDooIt if you own a plumbing business in an expensive area, there’s no way you wouldn’t charge that at minimum lol. Total profit for this at $1500 is $386.00 after all overhead costs and taxes and paying your employee to install this. Oh and we have to legally warranty this item for 2 years cause it’s a permanent and it malfunctions? You now just lost all profits. But if you’re a small company or a solo plumber and don’t have any employees you make around $521. “It’s a 5 minute install”, let’s get real here, you take your time to investigate issue needing this device and driving there and diagnosing exactly where to install this probably took you minimum 2 hours, then you need to order this item and return which is another 1-2 hours. 3-4 hours of you or your employees time invested. I’m now thinking this should be closer to $2000.00.
Omg!!!!!! I needed this so bad years ago!! All 4 of the water shut off lines from the main though the water meeter all failed and could not turn off the water. This would have saved me sooooo much trouble that day!
I needed one of these recently. The customer was stealing water. He had two meters at the sidewalk. One for his shop and the other for his restaurant. He poured cement into the meter box and smoothed it level with the sidewalk. He then convinced the city that the shop meter was the only one for the whole property. when i had to rebuild a bibb faucet I couldn't stop the flow.
I have used these they aren’t too bad they cost 50 quid in the Uk which is a bit steep for a isolation valve. The problem which them is what they do to the pipe I have seen it crush the pipe or have seen a seal leak which isn’t too bad because you can tighten up the screws. Plus they only seem to come in 15mm versions. Personally I prefer a freezing kit some problem can destroy the pipe but it is more adaptable. On steel it never goes wrong from my experience. Personally I prefer an isolation and a drain down.
Very cool. I would open the drain a little to give any cuttings from the saw a place to go. I find it hard to believe no debris is getting in the pipe.
It's a sick product, but dang is it not cheap! Also, it does limit the shut off point to the existing pipe network, but I guess that can be worked around...
IF YOU DON'T CLEAN THE COPPER FIRST WITH A CLEANINGPAD WHERE IT'S SHINY, YOU'LL HAVE TROUBLE FREEZING IT. WHEN YOU CLEAN THE COPPER A CONDUCTS BETTER AND FREEZES RIGHT AWAY. THAT MOST LIKELY WAS YOUR PROBLEM.
No Disrespect. This made me laugh, I think it was sometime between 2004 and 2006 I was a foremen on a water treatment facility's major upgrade and reno for a remote community. Now picture that valve so big you need an excavator to lower it 10 feet below grade. The Subs, contracted to do the "hot splice" did all the work, I just had to have several 4" trash pumps setup incase everything went to FFS. I think it was 14" od and 10" id poly pipe. The valve they used was about the size of an ATV/Quad. Good Video
Hey bud. Love you and your videos. Great content every time. That valve wouldn’t work for me in NJ because you’re not allowed to drill into a water line to create a valve and also we aren’t allowed to have needle piercing valves on water lines. Ty for the video on the product
Thanks for the video! Now I knkw these exist and don't have to call the water company now! Appreciate it, bud! Keep up the awesome work, my dude! Love your videos
This is a pretty revolutionary product for us service guys, It could save alot of time and headache for a few extra dollars. My only question is, how many copper shaving does it produce and what happens to the cookie cut out of the copper pipe?
Hard to believe there would be no debris inside the line but this valve is hard to believe in itself to begin with. Must be expensive but invaluable when needed.
That's pretty good. When my mains tap started leaking I thought it'd be a big thing to replace it, but the guy who came out just unscrewed it and screwed the new one on. Because he had the tap set to the open position, it went on without any resistance. Makes a bit of mess but it works
Good innovation from UK. Definitely handy to have to for when things have gone south im a hurry. They also make auto bleeding radiator valves that can be handy.
That is nice……i cannot recall how many times one of these would have came in handy for me when i was doing service work on large apt. Buildings here in S.F……..i actually own 4 homes that 2 of them have faulty gate valves goin to the buildings that need to be replaced to ball valve but im just too lazy to do it…..no im gonna have to look into getting 2 of these in 1”…..nice…..edit i just googled the price and these are $500 valves….i may be lazy but im Not about to throw away $1000 on something i can do for $100…..if i had zero coice then i guess so
Just out of curiousity, what happened with the cutted piece? Is it fully cutted or is it kind of a punched hole that still attached to the pipe? Is there any obstruction in the pipe? Can someone explain.
Great for if a stopcock is seized or broken and the pressure is too high to freeze the pipe, can put that on upstream, now possible to remove that old valve entirely, just put in a straight.
Great job explaining the install and this product in general, instead of bloviating about yourself like everybody else does in these videos. I do however wonder if this valve creates some type of a restriction in water flow
@hydronyc Those valves are considered saddle valves. Saddle valves are not plumbing code compliance. At least here in Florida, I don’t know about NYC. All I can say is that NYC codes are more strict than Florida’s Let me know if it’s code compliance in NYC. Thanks Hey buddy can you respond and let us know if they are code compliance in NYC
Not a lot of people would take a chance with it on a big building that can’t be shut off. If you fuck up the install while there’s an active leak, for example, that would be horrible, while trying to convince the super, “it’s all good.” 😅
Lol, I remember seen this a few yrs back . I recommend it to my company but as always they ignore me. It's a valve that comes in handy for meters that can't be turn off or located.
