Great video as ever 👍 With electrical fault finding if always start with the orange wire form the zone valve. It splits the system in half, you the know if if it’s he boiler of the controls.
Found the soldering segment interesting, I usually flux both pipe and fitting, ill try your way of pipe only next. I’ve been soldering for 35 years and I’m never too old to learn. As an apprentice, a clerk of works pulled me and removed a fitting I’d just fluxed up and showed me the excess that would have gone into the system. Now I only use Yorkshire fittings, I clean them well and never add solder.
You post great stuff and most importantly, it's real! No BS, you understand there are many ways of doing things and seem to appreciate them all. Would be great to see more of you and what you do. The stuff for Charities is immense. Well done, you are an inspiration to Us all 💪💪👍
Love the position of the zone valves!! Behind the tank. Be a lot simpler if they were a little more forward. Plan the job, use a tape measure, think of the next guy!
I used to use this same trick to dry off PCB if they had got wet for any reason say after a leak in the boiler before switching back on .very very handy bits of kit.
Hey PB, for what it's worth I thought the soldering tutorial was absolutely fine filmed in portrait. Thanks for taking the time to share your day with us. Cheers mate, Bee.
On the blown pressure vessel, you could disconnect the lower end of the flex pipe and empty it into a bucket so as to make it light and easy to remove from its support bracket.
Good video they move along at a nice pace and do not get bogged down with unnecessary detail, Can remember flux being available that was so powerful you did not need to clean the pipe.
Thanks for another informative video your knowledge of boilers is impressive, to be at your level is my goal, pro through and through, thanks for sharing your knowledge
Deffo a late start, nothing worse than finishing up then having to sort something. The portrait section is fine don't bother re-filming for a landscape bit. Great vids mate, keep em coming.
Nice one again pb , lol I think I’d rather struggle draining down than have a leak right at the end.. nice soldering btw ! Enjoy the football if your watching later.
I always use a grease based flux. It's non aggressive so won't rot pipes if it's left on/in them - especially useful for gas pipes. I use Templars Telux, but there are others like Yorkshire Traditional. Solder flows really well with these. However, because it is non aggressive, it doesn't clean the pipe so make sure end of pipe and inside fitting is always cleaned properly. Thanks for another great vid, PB.
Hi , I trained as a plumber back In the day and I have always been sceptical of pushfit plastic fittings and looking at your vids I think its coming home to roost , mind you good work generator .
quality video again mate, I do my soldering in work the way you do now as it looks so neat, also bought the fluxiator and haven't looked back since, keep them coming with the tutorials as well mate.
I don't think anyone will care about the portrait videos so long as you just quickly explain at the start. I also enjoy the tense drama that arises from the 10 minute limit. Would you rather I'd take the early start. The late finish might make me miss the football! Great videos PB thanks for all the effort you put in to give plumbing a good name
PB, regarding the CI on/off dial.. if you turn the power on/off via the fused spur etc it will stop this happening. Just dont touch the power dial on the boiler ever lol 👍
Hello PB, Any advice of what kind of a torch to use when soldering? Gas type or any manufacturers name? I see that you also used quite a small flame to solder were you not afraid that the flux might burn out causing the solder not to run properly? Great video as always.
Another cracking episode 👍 don't mind the tutorial being in portrait ether. I'd rather have the late start as there's potential to catch up, you can also blame the last plumber for not installing any drain off valves but you can't blame anyone else if your fitting fails.
Pb that format works fine on utube, I had one of those grey fittings do exactly the same yesterday when I topped up the pressure but it was under a bath so bath out floor up and a very wet kitchen lol had a few problems with them hence the fact I'm not mentioning their name for liable reasons and late finish every time I hate getting out of bed 😪
Good advice about not turning the power off, this is also the case with the Vaillant Ecomax pro 18e/28e as it uses much the same PCB as the Glow Worm, I always try to avoid turning the power off although Health & Safety tell us to do so when carrying out work on appliances, the customer is guaranteed to blame you if a £200+ repair is required when the boiler was working perfectly before you touched it. The manufacturers should be held accountable for this as I have seen half a dozen PCB's in one road taken out due to a local power cut.
I would rather a late start as they never always go entirely to plan. To redo a soldered elbow means you will have to drain down late in the day and may potentially need to cut that piece of pipework out if you can't get the solder running on it. Perhaps in another video you could show a close up of the soldering and include how long you keep the heat on the fitting, at what setting the blowtorch is kept at and how much solder to apply without overfilling and getting runs.
Hi PB, when you are testing the thermostat you placed your meter across two points on the switch live circuit, you would never get a voltage indication.. To fault find along that circuit you would need one probe on a negative and then probe along the circuit for voltage..
Hey PB Good video again, the instagram style video still works would be better in landscape but hey ho! Late finish every time I hate the jobs that fight you all the way! Who was the lucky one to win the Magna Cleanse?
I would rather a late start lad One sure thing with plumbing jobs is no two jobs/days are the same and every day is a school day! It's always the joint you thought was a gift can leak!
Another informative video PB. I really like the fault finding explanations. I don't mind the portrait format but the soldering part seemed a bit far away to see what's happening properly (would really like a closer view) and also when you were showing the end soldered joint, it was a bit out of frame to see. Thanks for spending the time and effort doing these. ATB
Good video PB Thanks for the soldering tutorial. One question, when you wiped the flux around the finished joint, how would that tell you that the solder ran? I see a lot of plumbers wipe flux over a finished joint, I always assumed it was to cool it.
P B Plumber I recommend one of these for your kit. Great for inspecting joints in awkward positions. Silverline 129472 Telescopic Inspection Mirror, 166-500 mm www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007OX2Z9U/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_5klqBbGTZ0VWB
You get two watches as I fell asleep watching last night ! No offence to you ! Love the videos , but after 10 pints of larger and sat in the sun all day I was pretty knackered !
Great vid as usual. Thanks for the heads up on the glowworm switch. Guess it's no less risky to use the fused switch? Tutorial seems fine in portrait to me.
When i began my new career as a plumber i began as a mate..plumbers who i worked with were reluctant on telling u anything or showing u anything so props to you mate
Wako Mako a lot of so called tradesmen hate it when older people retrain or get apprenticeships as they look down on you and think you'll never be a proper tradesman. I was 26 when I started my plumbing apprenticeship, been plumbing for 12 years now, and I have to say I'm better than most of the blokes that work at my place who've been doing it since they left school. I was full of enthusiasm and drive because I had experienced crappy jobs for 10 years and was desperate for something better, I love my job now, Plumbing is the mutts nuts 🤘
P B Plumber not doing fault finding on boilers and heating systems, encouraging DIYers to do it. It’s the same with the plumber parts videos its possibly doing guys out of work.
Mark Reynolds you can’t really bundle me in with Plumber parts mate, his videos are how to videos aimed at DIY mine are definitely just for plumbers and gas engineers I don’t offer step by step instructions I just show my vague method you need a lot of background knowledge to know what I’m talking about Do you agree? I don’t want to do anyone out of work
P B Plumber I really like your videos mate think you do really good for the trade but the in depth fault finding maybe shouldn’t because you will always get the customer who was “ex engineer” and try have a go
