I love how people who aren’t skilled enough or have the determination to get into trades (I’m not in one myself) get online and tell a plumber how to do his job. Blows my mind lol.
All the negative comments are from people that have probably never run a single service call in their entire life. You absolutely did the right thing. Nice repair!
nah he could have used a sharkbite valve that just pushes on instead of a pex valve with a copper crimp ring, would have taken 2 seconds and saved himself the flood. He got it done but if this was my employee i would fire him for going about it this way. Just find the water service and stop being lazy.
@@crunchie83 it can also go like this 100$. Which arguably makes more sense, 100(dollars) vs (dollars)100. Especially when you are doing (plus)100(dollars).
Dude, you cut into a water line AND kept your composure AND filmed it AND stayed out of the shot AND did the job without mistakes. That was impressive.
@@PlumbHeroEver had to locate a buried well? The owner had a 2nd driveway put in and buried his well. He died and now nobody knows where it is. Ive already exposed the pipe under ground at the house. Its on the side of a mountain so I don't know how deep it may have been buried. Maybe 1 ft maybe 15 ft lol
@brandonbullins oh gosh, that sounds both scary and e pensive for the owner. that well must be deep. I live on top of a 1000ft hill. my well is 600ft. that well must also be deep
@@JACpotatos I feel like your speaking of an in ground pool which wouldn't be the average pool, most people have a pool but not a nice in ground one. Water from the hose on your hose will run you about $8 dollars per 1,000 gallons (this can be googled) Most family pools hold a little more than that so saying about $20 is more than fair
@@pooderjefferson6019 I mean Google is available if you want to just guess, and even that says $200-400. But I also know from experience $20 is just laughably small
Spot on. Keep your cool, it saves making mistakes. Done this as a plumber with many pipes. Surprising how little water comes out. And it soon dries out. Its the constant drips that do the damage, not the one off quick soaking.
They also don't realize that the water company isn't going to come out and turn the water off for free, and they're probably not going to wait around for him to put a shutoff on. So they may come out twice. I'm sure that is going to cost more than the 50 cents worth of water that got wasted.
You're lucky that's all that happened. I accidentally flooded the basement, it was an earthen basement , dirt walls, dirt floor. Wooops! Mushrooms grew down there after that.
Any one putting this down needs to change their nylon Y fronts, whilst festering in their mother's cellar. Looks to me like you were prepared from experience and made any one who has had a similar experience, relieved and others confidence to try it in an emergency. 👍💯👏😊
I’ve had to do this in my old house. Kitchen was an add-on so it only had a small crawl space underneath. One day it was about -40 and both the hot and cold shut off valves burst. The house was over 100 years old so the interior shut off didn’t work and I didn’t have a key for the water box out front. Had to run to Depot, get the stuff I needed and come back to lie in a puddle of water that had chunks of ice floating all over in it. Sometimes you’ve just gotta do what you’ve gotta do! Suffice it to say I changed the plumbing that spring and moved the shut-offs to the warm interior of the house and it never happened again
I learned while living on a sailboat that it's a good idea to keep spare valves and tubing around. At home, I welded up a tool to turn water off at the meter, it has a hook on one end to help remove the meter box cover as well. Comes in handy.
@@ChadVanrynyou actually make a pretty valid point there, I’d like to check the facts on it but when I had that issue I know it was a shit ton of water I lost so it’s probably very true
You did right!! Keeping composure and doing what needs to be done in a live-action changeout is EXACTLY how to get it done. You were focused and did every step in order, including shutting the water off BEFORE attaching the other side. 👍🏼 GREAT WORK! 👍🏼
Bought a house in Florida that was foreclosed on so the pool was disgusting. Realtor said we shouldn’t drain it because it will cost hundreds to fill. Water bill got a $30 bump that month.
As a plumber, you did what any of us would have done. In my career, I’ve noticed people just like to cry when they dont understand a situation. Great work brother.
I will NEVER forget this quote, which is perfect here: "Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast." As you said in the video; you were taking time to maintain composure to not fuck it up and end up worse. You did the right thing.
I have worked several jobs in restoration where not having a functioning main shutoff has caused smaller problems inside of homes to turn into huge losses. A suggestion I have for all homeowners is to learn where all main shutoffs for all utilities are because you can mitigate 95% of potential damage by shutting things down before a restoration company will be able to respond and shut off an active leak. Curb stops are often buried with overgrowth or not marked well enough to find within a reasonable time for an immediate response. Good on you for adding a main shut off where it should have been in the first place. Also props on doing this with
As a plumber you definitely have to do what you need to do and I think this was best in this situation as well from information that I saw in the video. Good job. It's easy for people to make comments when they're not the ones on their knees in a wet crawl space getting ready to cut a water line.
Hey bud, FireTruck Mechanic here, if you get different size bolts, you can plug the line/hose with a bolt that fits snug. That's how I worked on the trucks Plumbing and Hydrolics with minimal spills! And don't forget, the average person doesn't have a clue, but they all have opinions hahaha 😆
Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast! Plumbing apprentice here. Making sure it's done right and accurately even if it slows your movements down a little still makes the job go faster over all
Also? People have no idea how much water it takes to spend $100 from municipal supply. Even in drought-ridden states, $100 of water would give you time to go out to your truck, go have an hour lunch, then come back to invent, mill, assemble and THEN install that valve.
I think you did a great job! It’s under the house, on plastic not my floors or in my walls, and you clearly spent time thinking through the steps and what you would need. Bravo.
@@Ginto_Oif you do something too fast you end up taking longer from messing stuff up along the way and having to redo it. If you do something slow (the correct way) you end up getting it done faster
Definitely wasn't $100 lost lol man did a great job most people don't have a clue I'm a handyman and this has helped me!! I'm not a plumber but I do some plumbing and sometimes I have to research things this has helped me 100% There is nothing wrong with what you did I'd hire you to work on my house any day
@@squidlings there's so much wrong with both of those suggestions I can't stop laughing long enough to explain (actually I'm just assuming you're trolling & don't really need an explanation because nobody can really believe either of those make any sense whatsoever).
As a plumber myself this has to happen more than i would like. 1. Its really not that much water....in a crawl space a little water dries up pretty quickly. 2. Sometimes you need to get it in and off to prevent something much worse somewhere else. I've had to do this with angle stops and hose bibs...and once a fire sprinkler going off...which was not easy...
You did a great job. 👍 Your work is clean from what I have seen and know as a plumber myself. I have thought about making content myself and those comments and hate have made me hesitant... You may not know it but it's inspiring to see hard-working folks just doing what they do. Keep at it I might work up the nerves to post again.
I'm impressed. You planned the work, then worked your plan with precision. Life sometimes puts us in situations that are simply not normal when you have to do the extreme to get it done. You did it!
That’s brilliant, the only thing I may have done differently was to have a 5 gal bucket placed where the water was draining from the house side, granted, it was a small amount compared to the firehose out the other end but I’m glad I ran across this in case I ever have to do it. Thanks for sharing.
I had to do this a few times. I worked In a steelmill. So they were made of steel sometimes and a lot bigger pipe. I think you did a great job. Congrats. Take a bow my friend.
As an experienced plumber this is one of the best things you could have done and handled it gracefully. Some jobs there is no option but to make a bit of a mess, but you save them so well in the long run!
Just goes to show some people don't know that we don't live in a perfect world, and sometimes sacrifices must be ma, e and you have to work with what you got to get the job done. Nicely done my man 👍
There is a reason you shouldn't listen to RU-vid comments when it comes to actual work, this is actually the best valve addition with running water I've seen, nobody on RU-vid cares about the background of the situation, they care more about complaining.
I mean in all honesty, he could have used a storage tote, or a container to collect some of that water. You really don't want water to get down in your crawl space at all. But doing construction, or trade work. Nothing really goes according to plan anyways.
@virginiareaper1178 this is a crawl space but prob not the one you're thinking of, this is under the house, all the water will do is soak into the ground, the complaints are about the water bill, even though that much water was realistically about $3.
That’s really working under pressure! I’ve seen a this a few times before and I think it’s impressive. Gotta do what you gotta do! I could never do that but it was super stressful when I had to shut off the water to the entire house move some pipes inside the wall to fit what began as a quick bathroom remodel. Once I cut the pipes I couldn’t turn the water back on until it was completely done without flooding the house. And I did this on a Saturday night. For context, I’m a DIYer single mom that never did THAT before. Changed a faucet and put installed a toilet but never messed around with rough plumping especially inside the wall. I left the wall open for like 2 weeks to make sure no leaks popped up. It’s been 8yrs now, never had a problem.
And wheres the main breakers for electrical, well as sub valves, so case there is leak in one part of the system, what ever the electrical or water, that part can be separated from the system, while rest of the system can be still used. Also all piping should run inside tubes, so if there is a leak, water is directed to space that had floor drain, or least off from construction that hides it, so any leak can be detected early, before whole area needs to be demoed. PEX piping is good since you can just run it inside the sleeve pipe into location and if some dumb mf puts screw trough it, that section can be swapped with out opening everything. Its just planning ahead and such tube does not cost that much extra, while saving thousands on renovation expenses if something does happen. Also always run pipes and wires 90dgree turns (given the material in question) so run from a box goes always into direction, so by looking where the wiring box is and checking what direction it goes, you can easily know where it goes from there. Another reason why you are not allowed to cover junction boxes.
Keyword "should." Sometimes I end up surprising homeowners when I show them all the stuff the house has and can do and where things are located even if they've lived there for 20 years
Had this problem more than once and ended up buying a freezer and an air tank. The thing worked amazing only used it one time but it was effective and now I never have to soak another building again.
Used to do HVAC service calls in an aging city. Nothing was new construction, all the buildings were very old, and every service call came with a guarantee that a dozen other people had already rigged up a half baked solution behind you. But the customers we worked with, some we came to know very well, knew they could rely on us to do the best job we possibly could. And even if we had to rig something up ourselves, we'd do it thoughtfully, keeping in mind none of these fixes last forever and eventually someone else will have to put their hands on that work again. You did the best you could with what you had, and it isn't always pretty. I bet the person who called you was happy the water was running again.
I saw your original video and was really impressed by how well you did. I just assumed there was a good reason to do it this way otherwise who in their right mind would want to do that. Good work.
Been there before, just did it in a 3 story building full of condos. On the top floor, in someone's apartment. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Even with a plan and experience keeping your composure Is a concentrated effort in moments like that. Nice job!
I'm a flooring contractor and quite often have to remove/install toilets when doing bathrooms. I ABSOLUTELY HATE touching someone else's toilet. It can be a $100,000 house or a million dollar house......there is ALWAYS piss on the toilet and floor. I out nitrile gloves on, cover my arms and it still makes me sick and I spend 20min washing my arms and hands afterwards. So I got a lot of respect for plumbers.
Yes & No 😂 Yes, it would’ve shut the water off quicker… but a shark bite is still a temporary repair, and the repair he actually made is permanent not temporary…
@@codyreber8370 yes I’m fully aware of this… but shark bites are still a temporary repair because they are removable and reusable… I’ve only found a handful of times I personally could have used them in 15 years… I don’t like them but that doesn’t mean they don’t have a place, I’ve removed more of them being installed improperly than I care to count… but hey they keep guys like me who know how to solder and have a propress in business lol
That pipe is unsupported. The shark bite is going to be holding the pipes together and resisting the bending moment. I don’t think this is an ideal setting for a shark bite. That gasket will have a hard time getting to 25 years.
Man plumbing has been a huge part of my business for years and I've had to do this several times for different reasons. I always hated having to do it and discussed it with the customer first, but sometimes ya gotta do stuff ya don't wanna do. I went to a property that had 3 homes coming off of one meter with no shut offs in any of them. Dude had set 3 mobile homes but had only gotten permit for the first one, set 30ish years ago. Nothing was up to code. The guy who owned the place needed work done and didn't want water killed to his tenants while I did it, so I did exactly what you did. I've had a home where a lady lived alone and didn't realize when she let a porch get built over her meter and was not ok with any water going anywhere, so I dragged 4-5 buckets under there with me, and then when I was done, i sprinkled some absorbent on the little bit of over spray, swept it into the buckets with the water and dragged it back out. Ya gotta handle every situation according to what the customer wants or is ok with. Nothing wrong with what you done, especially if there is good ventilation under the house
I added a bunch of shutoff valves when working on my house. Yes, the sinks and toilets each have their own so we can work on the fittings and replace them if need be, but there’s one for each bathroom,the kitchen, the laundry room, and another for each floor and one inside that shuts off everything. They’re all easily accessible, clearly labeled and organized with pex for hot and cold. Outdoor water spigots have their own so those can easily be replaced without inconveniencing the rest of the house and the water heaters which each have their own at both the intake and outflow so that I can trap water inside invade I need to drain water from the rest of the system(there is a point lower than the hot water outflow) and I won’t have to worry about shutting off the breaker to the electric water heater or shutting down the gas water heater and then going through any checks with the start up process. I may be paranoid, but my place is old and it’s not that much extra work or cost.
When you don't have a choice, you don't have a choice. Well done. My dad had a TON of ground water coming into his sump pit, and the bearings of the pump were screaming the song of their people. At the rate it was coming in, I figured I had a minute, 90 seconds at the outside, to swap in a new pump before the water climbed up out of the pit. I got all my ducks in a row including extra tools in case I dropped something, and then let 'er rip, cutting out the old, dropping in a new with a stub and mission band already in place, slide the band up and plug in the pump, tightening the band while the pump was already running. Pulled it off with time to spare. 😎
Some plumbers have a kit from Ridgid that freezes a section of pipe to create an ice plug, so that you can do work downstream of the ice plug. (there are also some that use liquid nitrogen). A friend needed to use this type of service, as we were unable to locate the outside shut-off, and the city was not able to locate it either. (it may have been paved over in the driveway, or under some landscaping) It was the shut-off right inside the house that needed changing. The plumber dug out a bit of the concrete to access some upstream pipe, froze it, and swapped out the shut-off. It wasn't cheap,, but it got the job done. The freezing kit is often use by plumbers that often work on high-rise or condos, as often the shut-off's are not functional.
They have a $50 spray can kit to freeze the pipe for someone that does not have the expensive machine. A plumber is crazy to not have that cheap kit on their truck. My guess is the guy in this video is not a real plumber.
The freez kit is for copper piping . Pex piping is easy to connect. If you call the city there is always a chance the shut off valves are not working well. Water in a low crawl space with plastic in it , you did great
Awsome job man. I don't fault you for what you had to do. Good work in fact for thinking it thru and planning it out. I'd also say you did it pretty fast to me. You also don't wanna rush it either.
"thats another hundred dollar on the water bill" Is often said by the same people taking an hour showering or watering their garden daily. Also,I rather have a 100$ extra water bill than thousands of dollars of repair fees
I have to do this often here in fl. Little trick i use. Long Extraction/vacuum hose and a piece of 2" pvc maybe like 6" of it and a 2" to 1.5" adapter. I cut out the 2" where i have like a little window to work. The adapter connects to the hose which i have going to the yard, and i slide that 2" pvc with a window cut in it onto the adapter. Cut the line and put it in the 2" pvc line. Water goes to the yard. With the window i cut, i can put the new shutoff on and bring it to the end of the 2" pvc to crimp and boom, done. Very minimal, if any water damage.
reminds me of the boss of the plumbing company I was learning at getting to a building site with a defect gas shut off (we were supposed to swap a gas meter in a flat) and discussing wether they should call the city and delay this for probably weeks or just "use the rag" - told me to slowly walk around the flat, tell everyone to disconnect anything electrical and put out any fire because we were going to open the gas line - non of the other builders were alarmed, seemed normal, I didn't know what was going on so their calm made me not worry. .. They basically did what you see in this video. With Gas on full blast, just a wet rag stuffed into the pipe while they were getting the new meter in position to connect.. I was not happy about any of it :D
Quick fix shut off is the best thing you can do, especially for duplexes or shared any shared spaces. Also the next guy behind you will appreciate it so much
It was a smooth fix and that water was trivial. You fixed it and that’s all that matters. Half the people making the comments probably don’t even know how to use these tools 😂
After 45 years in the service industry, a/c & commercial refrigeration, stationary engineer’s license. Sometimes you gotta do what is necessary to get the job done. Good job!
This guy is not slow. When you keep your composure when something like that is happening like this guy did that is absolute skill. I do this work I know every facet of building a home and I don't know of any plumbers who could have done that and kept their composure.
Water damage technician here, that amount of water wont do anything in a crawlspace that size. People see a little bit of water on the ground and are convinced it immediately destroys the materials
Fixed the problem correctly, and not really that much water was wasted. It was an efficient solution under the circumstances. It actually saves time to complete the whole job. The meter and shut off can be located later.
