BATHROOM PROBLEM...Leaking TOILET & BATH tap issues | REAL WORLD PLUMBING
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Bathroom problem and lack of access is order of the day in this video, along with a bath tap change and kitchen tap cartridge swap.... normal real world plumbing jobbing about jobs in this video.
This is a very real overview of a typical day in the life of a plumber as we go to some very common problems at a few houses.
#bathroom #plumbing #diy
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Remember to drop me a comment how you would of tackled the jobs in this video.... we all have different ways of getting stuff done.
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I get loads of leaking back to wall pans, ideally it should be a cistern frame or a cistern with a fixed flush pipe behind a tiled boxing. I usually fix the flush pipe to the back wall with rubber lined clip threaded rod and backplate and then it’s 100% secure because what happens is when the toilet is pushed back the flush pipe moves back with it, they are really designed for a furniture unit. Another thing you can do is unclip the flush in the cistern and let it run for about 5-10 minutes or if you can stick your arm down the boxing with the camera on your phone to check the flush cone at the back, seems to work for me anyway 👍
I’ve been doing it for 21 years
I put / use sanitary sealant clear on flash pipe cone and on the flexi connecting to the pan
Slides in easy give it a half hour before you use the flash and it would not leak again
Thanks for that, Mark. Maybe we should start a petition to ban tiled-in toilets! Makes you wonder if it's really progress from the days when the cistern was always on show and you could fix 90% of taps with a standard rubber washer.
100% behind that 🤣🤣🤣
They were so unsightly though, they should have access ports though.
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At least the type with the metal frame that goes behind the tiles give you more rigidity, you don't have pipes floating in the air behind the pan. And the flush plate gives you a little bit of access to the cistern. I still prefer freestanding toilets and wall-mounted cisterns. My worst nightmare is a wall-mounted pan cracking from age or previous damage and falling off the wall while I'm sitting on it - it's happened before, and not with particularly big people.
I totally agree on the ban. Yet some how in Tenerife so much pipework is tiled in as norm and some how it doesn't seem to pose any problems for decades. I dare to say maybe the have better plumbers with less leaks
Hi Mark,
You missed a great opportunity to push your Unilite safety specs, whilst hammering those tiles!
Keep the vids coming…
Very true mate
I had the exact same issue last week. End of day on a Friday (of course), close couple back to wall toilet and all it wanted to do was leak, in and out about 20 times, had me questioning my life choices and the customer questioning who the hell they’d called to fix the issue 🤦♂️
Exactly the same mate….. nightmare
😊...3 things....1. carry a 1"1/2 flexible pipe for those toilet flush pipes, done it twice it works! 2. Always put foam mat in Bath with dust sheet, I've dropped taps before, they saved me!
3. Great video as always ! Real plumbing as it happens❤
Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it
Great content again. A nice easy job kitchen/bath tap onto a nightmare of a job, the toilet from hell. Lucky with that tile when you gave it a light tap and it almost cracked pass your pencil mark. As someone mentioned a flexible flush pipe would be handy.
Yep…. Was a heart stopper that🤣🤣
Excellent way to unwind watching another plumber struggle. Been there with the in and out and no doubt more to come. A bit of waste pipe cut to a v shape and wedged between the wall and the back of the flush pipe to keep it from moving back. Also toilet seat off, a keyring torch down one hole and a beady eye down the other to look for drips on top of the flexi maybe even a small bit of blue roll taped on top. Nice one Mark.
Hahaha thanks mate 👍🏼👍🏼
well done Mark! It’s just crazy the way this stuff is all hidden away. went to a leaking cistern last week that must have been leaking into the floor slab for weeks. water company told customer about it!
Nightmare ain’t they mate
Top video again Mark. Were all for the hidden look but pain for us when they go wrong ❤
Thanks mate…. And yes… so true
I enjoy watching your videos. I’m in the process of doing my bathroom through you. You’ve give me so much confidence. I’m halfway through thanks again.
This is great to hear….. so pleased your having ago mate
Nice video, with excellent, well explained demonstrations.
That toilet - what a pain - well done persevering with that!
Thanks mate…. Yep it was a bit of a pain that’s for sure
Great video as always, must be a nightmare pushing a toilet back like that not really knowing if it sealed or not other than what you did to test 👍👍
Thanks mate…. Yep you have to be 100% sure sometimes
Hi Mark. Just caught up on all videos after being away for two weeks. My first job back to work was get access to water pump behind some fixed tiles for the plumber. Luckily for me I multi tooled between the grout joints and made it so I could fix it all back so it can come out next time. Great videos have a good week 👍
Hope you had a good for weeks mate……👍🏼👍🏼
Got to be a Victoria plumbing bath tap that ,Utterly gash and pointless...great vid
Hahahaha think it was
All ways makes me wonder why someone hasn’t brought out a flexible flush pipe, imagine a world where you could just connect both the multi quick and flush pipe on flexes and and just push the toilet back knowing they are both sealed.
There must be a reason after all this time….
That would be a dream of a fitting I think
Wouldn't it be great if they could cast toilets with a ceramic thread so you could do away with push in bungs just screw in flush connector with a washer? Plus have a Flexi connector. I hate concealed tiled in cisterns!!!
@@MJTiffPlumbing wirquin do a flexible flush pipe. Use it with a jepp cone that locks into the back of the pan and you're golden for concealed wc's 👍
It's so much easier to put blocking behind flush and soil pipes to stop them pushing back. Concealed toilets mounting onto frames have them built in and people forget we used to do clip and block them to stop them pushing back out. Even now after your fix in another 8 years they may suffer the same issue as the flush cone ages the pipe and cone will slowly push back out with every flush. Just something to bare in mind for future.
Yer I know that buddy, I mention it in all the videos when I fit a concealed cistern…. That’s why when I fit them from scratch they are fixed and secured…. However this was not possible as you can see, so you’ve got to do what you can
I signed the petition, but nothing will change. Government has already responded to it. What is needed, are police patrols and a really thorough checks - tools have numbers, marks. People do register these for warranty. Once first sellers land in prison, next one might not appear.. Slim chances at the moment it will go through debate.
Wait and see what’s happening on June 3rd mate……. 😉👍🏼
Hi Mark, some challenging jobs there, taps and toilets can be an almighty pain sometimes.
Usually I find access is always the main problem and as you say, a small job can take a lot of valuable time.
I hope the toilet job was successful for you, this was a great film as always, thank you.
Have a great week and take care, regards Chris. 👍👍👍
Thanks as always Chris……
Yep this toilet job had me really pulling the hair that I have left out🤣🤣
@@MJTiffPlumbing😂😂
When fitting the flush pipe in a similar situation situation, ie, back-to-wall pan, I ended up fitting the flush pipe ‘cone’ into the pan first, then eased the pan carefully into it. Seemed to work fine! The thing with these types of pan is that the pipe work has to be as rigid as possible for the pan to be slid into place. Bit of a nightmare definitely!
Indeed mate
bloody sealing everything in is a real pain when repairs need to be made the job took several hours as you said but if it had not been tiled should have taken about an hour tops
Yep a right pain Glyn…… but All good fun🤣🤦🏻♂️
Great video as always Mark 👌 Jepp Flex make a dedicated flexi flush pipe with 1 1/2 and 2 inch adaptors. Not cheap but there must be cheaper ones out there.
I never even knew they were avalible!!!
There's a few! Wirquin make one too for about £16 but......
I use a £3 rubber lined munsen ring clip off the back wall. Holds it solid 🤟
Will look into this mate 👍🏼👍🏼
I wish ceramic tap inserts always came with a new screw!! Flush pipe job is how many of my jobs turn out!!
Yep always need them screws….👍🏼👍🏼
Great video again you certainly know your stuff mate
Thanks Mark 👍🏼👍🏼
Hi, great video of daily plumbing issues and repairs, I’m still shocked that you didn’t wear gloves do the toilet job, as a fellow plumber this is a must to wear PPE when it come to protecting your health, it also makes me cringe when I see plumbers putting their hands into f&e tanks that are so nasty it looks like something from a horror movie, I would hate for you to catch something that will impact your health for the future for the sake of wearing gloves.
*didn’t wear gloves.
I hear you mate however sometimes you just crack on with the job….
@@MJTiffPlumbing I understand that mate but up and coming plumbers who see this and think gloves are for cold hands and won’t bother, they are £5 a box, your wear eye protection when drilling and cutting so why not when dealing with a germ ridden bacteria covered toilet 🚽 just saying mate.
I've tried wearing gloves, u can't work the same with them on. Plumbers have the best immune system in building trade
I always wear gloves, I don’t give a sh*te (no pun intended) what anyone else thinks ie soft, a pussy etc!
It really peeves me off when a customer tells me how long the job is going to take. They havn't got a clue. It puts me in a bad mood before I have even got there.
Oh, a little bit of shower grease on the flush cone always helps with the fitting.
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Should of wedged the flush cone so when pushing back it would stay in position
They always do, tbh I’ve never had an issue with them moving
Good work 👍👍👍👍
Thanks mate
Well done😊
Thanks mate👍🏼
I've had this a few times, always comes down to putting a baton behind the cistern at the bottom to stop the movement, so the flush Pipe doesn't push back as your pushing the pan back in....
Just in my experience
Yep that’s what I do on all my installs from new…. But as you see there was no chance of getting that done on this job👍🏼
Had similar mate , flimsy plastic cistern allowing flush pipe to move back ,ended up getting bit of celotex glued behind pipe . Great video as usual.
They do make flexible flush pipes, also the flush pipe should have a bracket on it to stop movement usually supplied and the cone you fitted is easy the best one as the plastic is bigger at the end so you can feel it’s in
Don’t think I’ve ever had a concealed cistern with a supplied flush pipe bracket in 30years
@@MJTiffPlumbingI work in a place with over 100 rooms all the toilets are concealed but we use gerbit cisterns perhaps just these with brackets
Looks to me like the concealed cistern is not supported properly with slight movement by the sitting person causing it to flex and come loose ?
It’s locked in solid now thankfully
Travertine tiles they look like. I'm amazed you got away with hammering them I would have out a grinder with dust extract on and grinded out that section and then had a look. If that tile had cracked further that a new tile at your expense and a huge amount more work. Top tip if your testing pan and want to check its water tight without flushing the whole lot, fill a basin and syphon the water into a bit of tube, you can use that to fill the pan and only minimal water to clean up if its not water tight. Pig of a job though to be fair, I hate replacement pans like this when you can't identify the leak, I would have checked the WC pan connector earlier for a break in it as well, that angle looks awful and it doesn't look like a quality Macapline part. Good video
Can’t test the flush pipe like that…. But yep the waste pipe can be👍🏼
@@MJTiffPlumbing put a bucket underneath and wrap it with blue roll around the outside of flush pipe, can usually see if the seal is broken or leaking that way. Doesn't always work.............. I would have lost patience taking a WC in and out that many times lol
I’ve had to go back twice recently to two toilets to change pan connectors and change the cheaper one I fitted to a mcalpine brand , this was mainly due to the cheaper connector rubber end being sub standard . The mcalpine have a couple of beads running around the seal that helps against seepage on poorly manufactured spigots on said toilets . Annoying as I’ve used the cheaper brand many times before and had no problems .
Alway the way when you have to go back….. nothing worse
U were lucky that limestone didn't break above the line of the wc. Can u remember what that box of ceramic discs cost? Only down side to having it is u will soon use the common ones and be left with half a box of the more unusual ones
Think it was about £120…. But pays for itself straight away…..
Regardless of the problem, you got it sorted for the customer. But Mark, I wonder why you don't wear gloves when you're doing these bits 🤔
Thanks mate….. I find working with gloves on a bit of a pain, always clean up afterwards with Bigwipes disinfectant etc
Loving the cameo guest star 💩 appearance in this video 😳
🤣🤣….. have to give a warning just incase
Nice video. I signed the petition and received a reply:
The Government has no plans for such a sales ban, but recognises the impact of this crime, and is consulting on how new law and other crime prevention measures can best protect a van and its contents.
The Government recognises the impact acquisitive crime can have on individuals, businesses and the wider community, including the cost and disruption when tools which tradespeople rely on to earn a living are stolen.
The Government is already taking action to tackle tool theft, including consulting on extending the Equipment Theft (Prevention) Act 2023 to include tools to prevent theft and recover stolen tools.
We welcome the latest Crime Survey for England and Wales data, which shows that neighbourhood crime is down 48% when comparing findings from the Crime Survey to year ending September 2023 with the year ending March 2010.
They will when the next step happens…. They will have to take notice
Did you put in washers for the first bath tap changes
You said something about the flexi hoses. What's the alternative?
Fixed pipework 👍🏼👍🏼
I'm no expert but you could've plugged the flush pipe hole with expanding foam and probably that would've stopped the pipe from moving! That's my uptake, as I said I'm not an expert!! ..... And probably the rubber seal worn out or went out of place and caused a leak after 8 years of use ....
Not the best way to sort it to be honest, would rather sort the problem than masking it…. But Appriciate the comment, genuine question👍🏼👍🏼
Would keeping a mini tile grinder in your toolbag not be helpful?
You can maybe trial a few cheap ones as a video?
You can get a tile bit for your multitool👍🏼👍🏼
If he retired his views dont matter end off. It should stay in Sheffield due to the history of the game there. Moving it abroad with time zones the uk people will never be able to watch it so we lose out. Yet all barry worries about is money money
What 🤣🤣🤣
Do they not do flexible flush pipes be easy to test then??
Apparently they do…. I’ve never seen any but going to find some
Makes sense if they do flexi pan connectors were a game changer
Cant see link for the petition
Oh yer… that would help🤣🤣
It’s there now 👍🏼👍🏼
I effing hate back to wall pans!!!
They are a right pain ain’t they
If it looks nice, 9/10 times, it’s a pain in the arse to work on.
Deffo right
Where do the likes of cashconverters get their tools?
Someone else’s van more than likely
Why not just jam a small piece of wood behind the pipe to hold it in place and stop the give in it as you push the toilet back to seal it. Really don't understand the logic in buying/changing the pipe when the issue is the give in it because the pipe isn't supported behind, there was no need to change the pipe..
Not being there you wouldn’t know buddy….. however if you watched and listened you would see the movement on the old pipe compared to the new one…
I want to fix stuff not bodge it….. each to there own but this is how I do it👍🏼
@@MJTiffPlumbingI did watch and listen. The only reason the new pipe worked is because you made it in your own words 1-2 inches longer which meant that when you pushed the toilet against the pipe with the extra length you had added the pipe flexed and pushed against the wall , in effect doing the same job that the block of wood would have done except your forcing of the pipe backwards has now compromised the vertical join in the pipe.
That's a bodge job, the correct way would have been to install some form of barrier behind the pipe such as a block of wood ( multiple other ways to do it) to stop it moving backwards when the toilet was pushed against it.
A barrier to stop the pipe moving backwards against the impact of the toilet pushing against it is a far better fix than just getting a longer pipe and pushing the toilet against it flexing it back 2 inches and compromising the vertical join of that pipe which is not visible unless you stick your hand up
🤣👍🏼….. ok buddy
@@MJTiffPlumbingwhat is wrong with what I suggested?
@@dgmclar This has gotta be a wind up surely, what plumber in this universe jams a piece of wood behind a pipe to stop it moving !!
Who designs toilets like this lol. Might look good but no thought of maintenance
Completely agree….. it’s all for the looks
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Always first 😉👌🏼👌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
@@MJTiffPlumbing 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
3,30 If they are so good why havent you shown us you using them ??? Adjustable spanner seem to be your favourite cowboy tool
DHC
Done a whole video on them if you look mate…..🙄…. Get your facts right….
As for an adjustable being a cowboy tool….. what are you on about 🤦🏻♂️….
Cowboy tool whats this 🤡 talking about😅😅
A must be a real cowboy as I've got 3 adjustable (shifter) spanners in toolbag. 😂😂
Exactly lads….. some people just love to put pointless uneducated crap into comments as it gives them a warm little glow inside…… bless um
Why would u even feel the need to type such a load of absolute tremendous dog shit nonsense??? Sad man
"Switch the taps out" ????? For God's sake stop the Americanisms....
For sure dude 🤣🤣
@@MJTiffPlumbing you just have to be careful not to faucet…
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Andy is an Americanism of Andrew