Have you ever touched on why you should NEVER tie brass and galvanized fittings together? The metals react chemically which causes both sides to corrode at a significantly accelerated rate, sometimes it blows in 6 months, sometimes it takes 2-3 years. That water heater with the galvanized feeding in to sharkbites would've blown in no time.
@@chris76-01 well I don't see him dancing naked and looking pretty and ripping his clothes off so most likely the Paul Teutul Sr. of plumbing, you know since they're both masters of welding pipes that you sit on.
Floor drains are super common in Japanese bathrooms. I work with big aquariums, where we have them too. So jealous I can't be as sloppy at home with my water hahaha
I work in an industrial area and in our faclity we have floor drains and it makes it super easy to clean the rubber flooring because we can just pressure wash the floors then sweep the water in to the floor drains with a push broom
I’m not a plumber and have only done the simplest of plumbing tasks around the house, but you make it fascinating and I’ve watched several videos already. Great videos.
It’s absolutely awesome seeing someone with your expertise on RU-vid. I think your doing the community a huge favor by educating regular people about plumbing. Keep it up
Been having a lot of trouble deciding what trade field to get into and did my research into plumbing fell in love with the channel. Then yesterday made my first step into getting into the plumbing field and had a interview for a apprenticeship.
I wish I still had the photos. I bought a mobile home that had been completely remodeled and I kept having issues with bad smells. I finally figured it out and made a deal with the company I purchased the mobile home from...I told them if the plumber finds a p-trap under my tub, I would pay for the plumber, if they didn't find one, they paid for the plumber. Sure enough, no p-trap. The gases from my septic tank were backing up into my house 🤮
Odors can be hard to find. story, this old man had a smell so he calls a plumber. the plumber gets into the crawl space and finds a dead dog. tells the old guy his sewer is broken but don't worry I can fix it. To make it look good cuts a few feet out of the cast iron for a spot repair. then pulls the dog out. Next thing the old guy hears is get your check book. [$2500.] P.S The guy was to old to crawl down there himself.
In Finland it is nowadays regulation that modern student apartments must have 2 drains in the bathroom. Because passing out in the shower and on the drain and causing a flood was such a problem in student apartments especially. 😅
You're the real MVP! My personal favorite and funniest video I've edited so far is Roger's Video Titled : Plumber Vs. Electrician, If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2boyjA5MuBA.html
My husband is a cabinet installer, both business and residential, and he's seen stuff like this in new construction. Blows my mind what can happen when you go with the lowest bidder.
Water Heaters blowing up are insane. As loud and as powerful as a bomb. They can even shoot through the roof of the house like a rocket and level the room nearest too even from the basement when they go off. Then even tested it on Mythbusters.
As a lawncare guy, I find the videos fascinating. I do have a question, I understand that a sharkbite is a push-to-connect fitting, and I understand that they're designed to bite harder against back pressure in normal operating conditions, so why is it considered not OK to use them? I have sharkbites on the line going to my water dispenser, and they've been solid for years (It was what the machine came equipped with, on tiny pex fridge-water line). Thanks for posting! Stay safe!
I wish I had a picture of my shower in my college apartment. It was similar to the one with all the ball valves. Another good one was a trap with a hole in that I saw while working.
At a retail store I work at, in the mens public washroom, the toilets were not bolted, or otherwise fixed, to the floor so you could easily shift the toilets side-to-side on their base. The only thing holding those toilets to the floor was the plumbing. Needless to say, the floor around them needed constant moping due to water leakage. Luckily, no one has had an accident in the toilets breaking away from the plumbing.
This is why expansion tanks are great. An they help with getting hot water faster as with a recurc pump. Oh man thats crazy. The out door spicket on the tube was to funny lol hey if ot works it works. 😂 Great video Rodger
People think sharkbites are the way to go..but also most people don't want to solder copper fittings. I tell my customers they'll save money by shouldering considering sharkbites start at about 9 dollars. Its on them. Love your content Roger. Keep up the good work and stay safe!
First think I did when I bought my out of state, 90s era house was to look at the plumbing that was given the OK by an inspector. I found the original 50 gal water heater in the second story attic rusting in all the wrong places. I called a local outfit to remove it and put in a tankless unit in the garage. Coming from the north, I never saw a HW tank in an attic but it is done all the time in the south. Crazy idea even if there is little worry about freezing.
Tuber Turds 💩Here's My personal favorite and funniest video I've edited so far for Roger Titled : 'Plumber Vs. Electrician' , If you want a laugh I highly recommend it! This video is jam packed with humor and the memes are strong with this one lol ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2boyjA5MuBA.html
Hey Roger, great videos. I have a question I’ve been wanting to ask you for awhile. Are you a Hulkamaniac? If so you pull off the best match to the big man. Kudos!
The water heater at the 8:30 mark, where they've got all the reducers and different fittings, looks like the spot where the pressure release valve should be. And the thing you called the cold water inlet, isn't that where the drain valve is suppose to be?
Man, I wish I had some pics of the house down the road from where I grew up. Their "water heater" was about 100 feet of garden hose laid across the roof. Their faucets were garden bibs, angle valves, or whatever other valves they could scrounge up. The drains were 5 gallon buckets under sinks and toilets and "showers" were drained to a pit in the yard. And, as you can imagine, the whole "system" was a mish-mash of any and everything they could find a way to stick together by whatever means, including duct tape and even packing tape!
Hey Roger. Just discovered your channel recently and subscribed. I was wondering if I could get your professional opinion on something. Let's say I wanted to run water lines to several camping trailers in my yard. Would I want to run a separate line to each or run one long line and branch off for each trailer? And is there anything I can do to increase the water pressure to keep up with the increased load? Thanks.
@ 4:16... I've seen that done. It was to provide a drain tub & H/C supply to a laundry washer. The rent there was ~$200 per Mo. We put up with it for a couple of years... 8-)
About 40 years ago, one of the families in the town I grew up in lost about half their house when the water heater blew up. Luckily, they were not at home at the time, but it blew that side of the house all to hell. I would guess that the pressure valve stuck or something ( I was about 10 at the time, so I only heard this from my parents.)
4:31 This reminded me of some installs I did long ago for hunting cabins, camping sites, etc....in middle of nowhere, where it’s meant to be a “functional” wash tub/bath etc....and not anything one would “see” in a res home. I’m guessing the pipe farthest from “us” (by cold water) is a vent🤔 (maybe a line for soap dispenser or filtered water😉)? Enjoy this series fo videos you out 2gether for us. Thanks✌🏼 p.s. my grandad is named Roger & he retired 15-20 yrs ago from Pipe Fitting....... You remind me of him, great guy & the STORIES, oh my😂👍🏻
You should look at the aftermaths of boilers going up it’s extremely catastrophic I have my minnesota class 2A boilers license we went through a lot of those aftermath shots... people also seem to not know you can add around 5 years to the lifespan of their hot water heaters if they just open up there blowout spit for about 5 seconds once a year to blow the sediment out of their water heaters
I am not exactly a plumber... but I was able to replace my broken shower cartridge pretty easily. That handyman fix had to have taken much more time to do, haha.
at 9:22 that looked like the T&P valve with iron pipe and sharkbite + flex hose running off somewhere, the image has it hidden behind the reduced and sharkbite copper on water outlet LOL that is some hack work for sure
The last one. Did they take out the pressure relief valve to get water out of the tank??? Wha??? Isn’t that a no no blow up the tank if something goes wrong thing???
Man, just learned so many things😂. Gonna have to remember that ball valve trick, think next time my bathroom faucet drips, I'll just fabricoble a little ball valve to it. Or should I use a gate valve?😁
We think the shower installer did some like that at my work as ever so often you get a sewer gas smell. they replaced one of the staff toilets for a shower room. been reported to the central estate's team but no word back on any investigation.
Not sure about other areas; but local lowes and depot are stark on plumbing supplies; going guess alot more ahem "workaround" plumbing fixes this year.
The handyman "fix" looks like somebody told him to make the shower work as cheap as possible. If that's not the case I can't fathom anybody paying to have that done.
I would imagine the convo went like this: H: "It'll be $xxx to replace the parts that have failed." C: "I can't afford that. Any way you can fix it cheaper?" H: "Uh... I mean... I can put some valves on there to stop the leak..." C: "How much?" H: "$cheap." C: "Perfect." H: "sigh .. Okay... It's not gonna be pretty." C: "Don't care. Have you seen my bathroom? This ain't the Four Seasons."
Yea, I feel that guys pain with the galvanized drain line. I bought a house built in the 50's. Took out approx 15' of galv drain line. Pencil sized hole left for drainage. It was so heavy I could barely lift it.
Last time I saw this much damage.A family went on vacation for a week and probably the day they left the o-ring or valve failed behind there upstairs toilet. When they returned home there finished basement with all electronics were detroyed and all the floors on the first floor had to be ripped up to the studs.
i had a sewer pipe from laundry room to the mail that was 99% clogged. I have a photo of it. I had it powered washed 10 times over a 8 year time frame. i had it snaked as well during that time. i got tired f the flooding so replaced it..
The last job in this video, with the thermastore tank, looked like a dairy farm utility room to me. The insulated pipes probably went to the bulk tank for cooling the milk 🥛.
I once put a ball valve one my bath faucet 😂 my dog broke the faucet and pipe off but the shower head and cartridge were fine so I just put a ball valve sticking out of my wall so I could still shower until I had time to fix it properly
My 10 yr old extremely critical daughter leaned over my shoulder the other day when I was watching you and she actually laughed at some of the things you were saying because she genuinely thought you were funny. She also thought the mustache mask was hilarious in a good way. I'm still in shock over her reaction lol
Thats why u always need a safetyvalve for the waterheater that thing holds tons of pressure and when it explodes all that pressure pushes it out from the bottom and blows through roofs and more.
I think I’ve used a shark bite twice and only as a temp fix because it’d be late and only had to last until was fixed at 8am the next morning. Now it’s all pex or propress fittings. Faster easier safer and stronger than soldering and far better than shark bites
My parents in 1985 had a water tank ruppture in the loft/attic space. It was due to the pipes freezing in the winter. The water flooded the whole house, they came home & said it was coming down the staries like a waterfull. The dog was floating around in his bed soaking wet & while the insurence covered the damages. The whole house had to be gutted & rebuilt, about 95% of the belongins in the house ended up in the skip. What did suvive the initial flooding went into storage & then proceeded to go moldy & also had to be skiped. This was also around the time of their wedding to. Since that inserdent my parents have not been a fan of any kind of water tank in the loft. PS: The dog was fine just a little cold & wet.
Got charged $800 for a plumber to replace 3' of drain pipe to a sink, and put some sort of compression seal on a leaky cast drain. (The sink was draining to this same cast iron drain) About 2 months later that cast iron pipe clogged, but I didn't have a million bucks to call the plumber again. Replaced 10 feet of the 10" pipe. It looked just like that photo in this video. Also replaced the toilet flange, and the same sink drain again. The other issue I had was the toilet flushing would temporarily overwhelm the cast iron pipe, and send water over to the basement sink's pump via a wet drain. Not a plumber myself, but that seemed like a bad setup to have toilet solids being routed to a pump not rated for that. I wasn't sure what would happen if I just eliminated the wet drain. Instead I built a sort of upside down water trap to allow air to pass as needed to/from the toilet, but prevent water and toilet solids from going down the wet drain. My whole project cost me around $100 and about 1 day's work. Only mistakes I made were: 1. There is probably a better way to fix the wet drain issue. 2. The old pipe was 10", I replaced it with about the same dimension PVC. I should have dropped to a 4" pipe. But whatever, it worked, and had no more issues. I could flush the toilet and not hear the pump kick on downstairs.
Not gonna lie. I had rented a house from a couple who were “handymen”. (Even though, that may be too much credit.) however. The shower they put in, didn’t even have a spout. Used a straight stop (not even an angled one) for the spout. Idea was to use shower head only and no spout I guess.
