What To Feed A Plumber: Shop Build #22 

I am a beginner to woodwork, the main test I have with this bundle ru-vid.comUgkxTNB_zFBSnTo_O1PqfVUwgi7ityw0JlKt is that I think that its hard to settle on a choice of the plan and outline to use as there are a large portion of them there. Nonetheless, I like the simple stride to step directions laid out there.

I always assumed plumbers ate cash and PVC paste.

This channel is far, far far better than what Wranglestar has become. Everything from talking as a wise Grandpa/ Dad, to plumbing, wood working through being just an awesome human.

If Phil had a channel, I'd just watch him work. Never a dull moment!

Really enjoyed Phil’s story about his interaction with the doctor. Perhaps you’ve heard the story about the guy who called the plumber for a job he knew he wasn’t up for. It took the plumber 15 minutes to finish the job. The plumber handed the guy a bill for $230. The guy was dumbfounded. He says: “$230 for 15 minutes work? I’m a doctor and I don’t make that kind of money.” The plumber says: Yeah, I didn’t make that kind of money when I was a doctor either.”

Love your plumber. What a personality.

Is that an ex ambulance that Phil uses for his work truck? If it is then that’s just made him the Peter Venkman of the plumbing world. Phil seriously needs his own channel.

Scott, I’ve installed many of those shower units in my 30 years of working on homes in my area. I can attest that they are the most persnickety things! I always pick out the units rather than have the client buy what they think is good. Phil is a gem and I could watch him all day!

Always a good episode of EC when Phil Rokus graces us with his presence.

I have a tip for you. When you use the plastic Cheep shower surrounds, I always use low expanding foam to fill all the soap shelf areas on the back. it adds longevity to the products

Please pass along to Phil that he LOOKS healthier already! Keep it up!

Gotta Love Phil! **Paying him the Highest compliment because it's coming from an Electrician!

Phil we add a frozen banana, a little frozen fruit and frozen lemons (whole) to our green smoothies and the taste improves dramatically

Phil and Cy are the two best recurring characters

Love doing new construction plumbing. I definitely felt that comment about the glue! Nothing like working a 2 story job and getting some glue falling into your hair/eye to make life that little bit more...fun.

I smile every time I see Phil's grinning face on my new videos feed from EC!

With this house, I finally became the owner of the house I always wanted to be in. The hospital elite package has 2 bonuses; the first is about the base and the roof, ru-vid.comUgkxS-P9OAq3v4HNpPFqYFWNEq9A-E_PbZIN the second is about the confidential staff who give advice and the advice that worked for me. Thank you very much

I would watch Phil read the phonebook. Any video with him in it is going to be golden. Love that guy.

Phil’s videos are always my favorite! It’s like having a “Special Guest Star” on your show.

Your speech when talking about homeowners picking things out that aren’t industry standard and try to save money is so true. You ALWAYS end up spending more on the labor for us to figure out how that junk is supposed to work.

So Phil, I'm an auto mechanic by trade, so I like to think I know my way around oils and lubricants. There's a right lubricant for the job most of the time, and 99% of the time in my trade that means some form of oil or grease. But knowing which one to pick when you can't just look it up is one of many reasons why I get paid more than the guy working at the Jiffy-Lube. Of course, I've made a few wrong judgements in my younger days, and because of that I'm far more familiar than I'd like to be with the various ways that oils and solvents can degrade rubber, even if that rubber is some fancy synthetic elastomer that has crude oil as its base stock instead of being made from the gunk that they harvest off of Latex trees in the tropics. I'm amazed (and thankful) that the chemists that went to college for their jobs were able to make a rubber compound that can resist hot engine oil power steering fluid or ATF and still last as long as it does in service. These days I'm barely ever replacing hoses that carry oil or coolant anymore, unless they're physically damaged of course. Same with serpentine belts, you usually don't even see them getting replaced while the car's still under warranty anymore, and it's all thanks to the better rubber compounds the industry has come up with. In any case, rubber is great and all but the main reason that I'm here is that there's a kind of lubricant that's "an oil" to most people but it's "not oil" enough that rubber won't degrade when in constant contact with it (well, all kinds of rubber except silicone rubber). That stuff is usually known as the broad category of silicone oils and greases, and they're almost always "compatible" with (as in won't degrade) any kind of rubber except for of course those "rubber" compounds that are in fact silicone themselves (even then, there are kinds of silicone rubber that don't degrade when in contact with silicone oils). Because of my career in auto repair, I know that one of the best places to find a "generally useful" silicone grease is the lubricant they use between the brake pads and the brake caliper. If it says it has some sort of metallic powder in it you don't want it, that stuff IS silicone grease but the metal powder in it is something that makes it useful for ONLY lubrication of brake parts. If your auto shop doesn't carry "plain" silicone grease for brake parts, you might see the same thing labeled as "dielectric grease", because another advantage of silicone greases and oils is that they are VERY good electrical insulators. With the silicone grease used for brake parts, it's used for the same reason you'd want to use it around other kinds of rubber parts. A crude oil derived grease would ruin the brake pads by chemical action. On the other hand, the silicone grease apparently doesn't do that (I'm not a chemist so I can't explain exactly why that is). Of course, when you're doing a brake job you're not supposed to use so much of it that you get it on the friction surface of the brake pad anyways, because it's still "a lubricant", and lubricated brakes don't work well without some very special kinds of "lubricant" (that's why automatic transmission fluid is special, it has stuff in it that makes the clutches in an automatic transmission "grip" when it would otherwise "slip", called "friction modifiers"). In any case, long story short, you can probably get silicone grease at the auto parts store. It's also great O-ring lubricant, for the same reasons it's a good lubricant of all kinds of rubber that aren't silicone. With how little you'd be using as a plumber, you could probably get a year or more out of a single "normal-sized" squeeze-tube of the stuff. And it's not "too" expensive either, that squeeze tube of silicone grease with nothing else in it might cost you $15 at the most, and that's "over the counter" prices (The auto shop I work at, like most, gets a discount on parts and supplies from the same auto parts stores that "normal people" shop at, because then we're able to take the difference as profit or pass the savings on to the customer).

If Phil ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. That's my kind of guy. Lol

I love watching this stuff. I have my own big old grumpy pre diabetic plumber who does my work here in New Zealand. He is so much like Phil. Funny and a font of knowledge. And always complaining that my building work isn't the way he wanted it 😊. Some of the systems and rules you guys have are a bit different but the people are so relateable. Tradespeople seem to be the same everywhere. Especially the mistakes that are made and the solutions that are found. And the humour that comes with that

Alot of us wait way too long to start seeing a Doctor regularly, glad phil is taking care of himself. I about died from stubborness.

it hurts watching Phil work... because he's so dang funny that my face starts to hurt from smiling so much

I like when Phil is on the channel. Great guy, and honest

Love it when Phil is on site!

Whenever I use one of those "Oatey no caulk shower drains", I run a thin bead of clear silicone around the inside covering the nut, gland ring and lip of the pipe after its tight. So basically, I caulk the no caulk drain!😂 Cheap insurance.

Ur an awesome dad!! Grew up with a a single mom that's disabled I left school beginning of 9th grade I've been taking care of her ever since our house caught fire and was destroyed only thing that was saved was half of the framing. once my mom started to recover I started to rebuild the house and realized someone went under the house and cut all the copper plumbing out... I had no money no home a disabled mother who at the time was burnt in the fire and I really felt trapped and alone. It's been a few years now and I rebuilt the whole house except the roof and electric. If it wasn't for you I don't know what I would of done. He helped me more than you'd ever know also a great role model thanks so much EC

I’ve been a self employed plumber for 5 years now. Grew up around it with my dad also being a self employed plumber. Phil is clearly a very good plumber. I’d love to spend just a week with him and update his plumbing tool arsenal. The stuff we have now makes all these tedious things that we deal with so much easier.

Always enjoy a phill video, I use that Rockite all the time in industrial settings. I prefer the 5# box dump the powder into a bucket add clean bottled water and mix with a small paint mixer on your cordless drill, put the bag that the rockite came in back inside the box to hold the bag open dump the freshly mixed rockite back into the bag and tie a knot in the top of the bag now tug on the corner of the bag it will stretch the corner into an elongated spout now you can use it like a piping bag to inject it into tight spaces, around posts, repair craters in slabs etc clean and easy. Amazing stuff

Phill has a wealth of knowledge in exerience. Great to learn for him, and you!

Is that a modified ambulance as a plumbers truck?

21:40 You can plug a drain like that to keep tools from disappearing with white Wonder bread as it will dissolve away when wet.

This guy cracks me up every time he’s in your videos. Love it.

We need to get Phil a Milwaukee uponor tool! Make life easier on the master!

I'm thinking, you could probably weld the plumber a socket to tighten that fitting in that shower pan. Kind of like how they have how they have sockets for hubs on a truck.

24:23 I've set a lot of steel handrail in Rockite. Use gravel in the hole bored or cast into the concrete around the pipe to get the uprights plumb, then pour 'flowable' Rockite into the hole and it flows down through the gravel.

You get what you pay for but, sometimes you pay for what you get!

Phil is the best.

I just think the world would be a better place with "The Phil Rokus Podcast" in it.

Great content! I keep coming back for Phil.

Great video. Someone get that guy one of those battery powered fitting expanders

Phil = instant click. I don't even have 30 min to watch but I'll fit it in.

Phil seems like a fun guy to work with. His stories and antics were great.

It's nice to see a real pro who is doing good work but still working quickly and not worrying about absolute perfection when good enough really is good enough.

Problem solving 101, keep up the good work!

- Phil is a good man. It’s a pleasure to watch him work.

Those Delta Inclosures are Nice and Tricky to Install... 😅 Great Video Man 💯🙏

I like your plumbers style; steady and competent. The only time I hired a plumbing contractor was when I was building my home in Colorado. They were speedy and passed inspection, but later left me with a low spot in the septic line in the crawl space. It would back up and then freeze at the outlet into the septic tank. Once I located the low spot, it was an easy fix. I just found the episode ironic as it was 1 of 2 systems in the house which required inspection. I had hired professionals and it had been inspected and was still inoperative. Turns out, a good man is worth two 'pros' and an inspector.

Okay, it's hilarious that the plumber drives an ambulance. 😀

Those shower wall kits are an absolute nightmare. I just thought I wasn’t smart enough to figure it out. I got so frustrated with it all after the walls were up I tore them out and put up tile. I still used the pan and the door; it ended up making a nice shower that way.

Funny your comments on that shower. I bought the same one as it was "cheaper"than the other one we were looking at. That savings was lost in addition framing material and my time figuring out how to make it happen in the tight area we were placing it in.

Phil is the man he makes it look easy, I've never seen black abs glue, I'm not a fan of working with abs pipe.

Plenty of work and life left in these two chaps 👍

When I saw this video come up, I immediately put it in my watch later list so I could properly sit down & savor it. 😂 Finally got to it tonight. We love you, Phil! Keep up the good work!

Glad to see Phil using Uponor!! Best Pex ever... always tries to shrink back and you don't get any presure drops due to fittings dropping an 1/8-1/4 size at each fitting... PEX B is useless and I can't believe its even used... Pex A or Uponor is the best..

14:51 "be careful when you pick something that's outside of the box" and yet you will most likely find it in a big box. 😅🤣😂😆

When someone asks me why I ALWAYS hire a plumber. This is it. This is also proof that there will always be a need for the trades. A good tradesmen is someone who is a problem solver. Tradesmen may not be college grads but they are very smart-- at least the ones who learned their trade. I had a friend who when he finished college said, " I can look up anything , but I forgot what end of a screwdriver to use".😅

Excellent episode! Edit: "If you keep doing what you've always done,then you'll keep getting what you always got!" Thank you Phil, for putting on a clinic!

Phil is such a legend!

Love to see Phil taking care of his health by changing his life style rather than destroying his liver with meds!

Phil’s the best. I was grounded for a year. Until my mom was sick of it. It didn’t matter to my dad he was at work. That was how so many of us grew up back then.

It is impressive to see the Pro's work and finish the project. And this was even more impressive because the Pro taught us as he worked. Thank you to the Pros. Felix

Looks like Phil's drink was made from the the stuff scraped out of a mower deck

Love your episodes with PHIL! The Man is PROPER! ⭐️⭐️👍⭐️⭐️

I could watch Phil all day

Good to see Phil, and of course, our friend Kenny.

Love how he has an ambulance as a work van/truck. Great idea, lots of storage in those.

Nice job, you two work well together. thanks for sharing.

I. Love. Phil.

Always a good time when you bring in Phil! Even with challenges your work always comes out looking so nice. Nice job gentlemen!

Thanks for the entertainment

I love watching Phil doing the rough in and top out stuff. Its satisfying seeing another plumber doing such great work 😎

Around the 25 minute mark you mention rockite. About 45 years ago I would get a maybe 4 to 6" puddle a few inches from outside poured concrete wall.on my basement floor whenever it rained hard. Finally figured out that the 1.25" steel gas line emerging house was on a slight downward slope. Removed concrete from around d gas line and it looked like a funnel hole. Hope on other side on concrete walk had a 5 to 6" wide hole that tapered down to hole a little larger then gas pipe. Old time plumber in work told me to purchase hydraulic cement and use that. It did get warm after I added water. Never had a drop of water leak there in last 45 years. Yep got my moneys worth & then some.

Nice ice cream plumber truck 🚚 👍👍👍

True words on the shower. Tried and true for the win.

I like how the rocktite has warning, can cause burns, can cause skin *something* etc and "were gonna mix it with our bare hands LOL

How 2 stay motivated just watch ec

Phil is awesome! Reminds me a bit of my Uncle Phil. They both have a unique sense of humor. Seems like the older I get the more I take interest in older fellas. Just getting to know them is a treat! Thank you.

Love me some Phil. Get that man a channel of his own.

We almost bought one of those showers. years ago. Glad we didn't. YOU already know, old tried and true is usually better in someway. It may not look at nice but if it works. I'm in. I hate a nice looking anything. but if they can't change a tire. worthless. I mean if the car doesn't' even have a tire to give, worthless. When the time saved, really isn't. sorry. I'm redoing my shower now and phil has saved me some heartache with glue up and running pipes methodology. Love you guys. I'll keep up the old traditions. I love me some copper pipes over them fangled plastic.

Phil is a one of a kind, and a great guy to boot. Always willing to tell you why what you did will work, but not the way HE would have done it. 😉

Always look forward to EC on Saturday!

Always enjoy a visit from Phil, hope he's keeping well

Phil would be amazing on "This Old House", so much fun to watch and listen to.

These are so great! Thank you

Thanks for the tour!

I love Phil

Fantastic stuff today. Thanks

Phil is the best!! I wish someone would follow Phil around & put it on RU-vid!! Just his plumber's personality & his years of experience are so good!! Thank you, Phil!! KUTGW

Love your videos!

I just love watching you guys work. God bless and enjoy the new shop.

I wish milwaukee would give Phil a pex expander! The dude is working too hard with that hand expander!

Nice work!

Thank you for the awesome content and great video!!!

I wasn’t intending to watch this, but I love that plumber!! I’d pay him just for his company!

Great show chaps 👍

Love a video with Phil. Make’s education entertaining and entertainment educational 😊

This is awesome.