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Is there a gasket seal under tap against sink surface ?

Manufacturers say no to the dope and over tightening .👍

Just no, and work out how to use a wrench too

Worst advice

This was painful to watch.. Go to the hardware store and get yourself some Pex cutters.. Saves this world of hurt.

What is the tool called?

Crikey I didn't realise the leg was so serious. I thought that it would be 6 weeks until you were out of the cast! Pleased to hear that it's on the mend

Im a DIYer, do I need to heat/solder all the joints at one time, Or can I do one at a time, for example joining a 'T' Yorkshire fitting (3, joint's closely together)?

Nice video mate, I need to do my outside tap as that leaks when it’s on.

Sweet Finn!

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I also wanted to ask, can you do a video or dispense some advice about air locks in systems? I have a gravity fed system that I’ve been adapting and I seem to be plagued with air locks which I’m finding quite confusing. I thought about converting to an unvented system and although our water pressure meets the minimum needed (2 bar), our flow rate is only around 16l/m (20 is recommended as far as I understand). I suspect our immersion heater is generating the air in the tank which is getting sucked along some long pipes via a shower pump, where it gets stuck and accumulates. I fitted a s flange to the tank yesterday, which acts a bit like a straw, drawing the water from a lower part of the tank, which I hope will improve things. Any advice welcome!

I was asked to look at a leaking flexi connection for a friends sink… whoever had fitted it had tightened it so tightly to the service valve that they had cut a perfect disk out of the seal! I showed my friend but she didn’t seem interested or understand why I was excited to have unpicked the issue, oh well at least I can tell people on the internet!

It's an Olive NOT a ferrule, we are not Americans

Very very good video for beginners Thank you

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Great channel mate. Can learn alot from you. Thanks

basin mate seal every time....never fails

Another informative video. Good job!

We call what you call a spanner a crescent wrench, an adjustable wrench or a thumb wrench in the U. S. I like the term spanner, though.

Watching from Alabama in the US. As always, very informative.

Greetings from Canada, I enjoy watching your you daily videos, of plumbing with a broken leg....looking forward to the next :) I would love to have you sign my name on your cast :)))))

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Good job, Paul!

Crikey sorry to hear about the leg! Hope that you're on the mend. I plumbed a little and low basin in for the first time last week for my toddlers. I hung the basin in about 20 minutes, so far so good. Adjusted the water supply and connected up the taps in another hour.. excellent. And then it came to connecting the trap and waste pipes, what a nightmare! I learnt that there's different waste diameters, various external pipe diameters depending on if it's push fit, compression fit or solvent. My trouble was that I was trying to connect it to some 40 year old push fit plastic drain pipes with an external diameter of 36mm. I managed it in the end with compression fittings. I also ended up using a load of jointing compound on the connection between the waste and the trap to stop it from leaking. Overall that step must have taken four hours and a number of trips to screwfix! I think it's probably the hardest bit of plumbing I've ever done because as far as I can tell there's a lot of choice of components that are not compatible with each other and you must maintain a fall. Then again I'm probably just doing it wrong!

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Can never see too many of these type of vids!

Nice soldering video but I would use a dry rag rather than a damp rag. The wet rag will cool the pipe and solder too quickly leaving lumps and waves on the pipe. Your video is educational and well explained.

3:38 "making sure you don't nick the pipe" you mean like you did 😂

You didn't admit to catching the pipe with the hacksaw which was clearly visible when the olive came off.

If you unloosen something does that mean you tighten it.

Why is the music always ten times louder than the speaking????

Ok, I have never heard of calling a ferrule an olive. Then again, I get paid in dollars not pounds.

Is there a way to remove (or reduce) that slime from the pipe that goes into the wall? Preferably without removing the trap? Just thinking more preventative maintenance. .

when i worked as a plumber we just used a regular pipe wrench to "chew" in different locations around the olive. This increased its diameter and it was then easy to pull the olive off moving the pipe wrench back and forth.

Can an olive be re-used?

You’ll have to ask the person who put the basin in originally 🤷🏼‍♂️

why a bath trap on a basin?

I recently used a variation of the hacksaw trick on a 1/4" ferrule, instead of a hacksaw I used a Dremmel cutoff wheel to split the little bugger.

Too bad you nicked that pipe with your hacksaw. Use a couple of wraps of teflon tape over the "olive" for lubricant instead of that pipe dope.

Unloosen. How about loosen. Sorry pet peeve.

The main purpose of flux when soldering metals is to prevent oxidation. Without this the solder wouldn't stick to the copper and flow into the joint under capillary action.

Mostly I prefer to use end feed because they are cheaper and look neater. However in certain situations where access is limited I will use a Yorkshire fitting and in my experience they are very reliable.

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thanks for sharing! very interesting!

It's all wonky.

Some people are calling it a ferrule but in Britain we call them olives or rings, a ferrule is a round piece of metal or brass put onto the end of a chisel etc to stop the handle from splitting when struck with a hammer. This is to explain to some of the reviews what we call them in the uk.

That olive couldn't have been done good enough if all it took was an adjustable spanner to knock it off, frightening what could happen if it was under a lot of pressure, why bother removing an olive when its easier cutting the pipe and adding a piece on.

Wow ! Great !