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@@victoriarobinson6227 I'd also imagine that's the case in real life too. You know by his demeanor that he's not a dick of a boss. He's also VERY much aware that Corey is an A+ Class Sparks. The + indicates going over and beyond, ALWAYS. He's top shelf. In fairness, they all are and will be once given the opportunity.
Get yourself a mini circular saw... Take up a board thats already up to get the depth, then set the circular saw a mill or two shallow.. Cut the boards till your hearts content knowing you wont go through then just snap the last mill or two..
Sorry Cory; bad luck. You are a good sport allowing filming to continue - good for us to see real world problems; those pipes were really hard up against the boards.
not really. by building regs we are not allowed to cut out more than 1/8 of a joist. what i do is i leave a little diagram on top of the boards so the sparks know where my pipes are, to save them hassle like this 👍
@@rossthompson1635 At the end of the day im all about helping out other tradesmen, thats the you have to be, saves them time and money having to pay a plumber to come and fix things like this
The regs on joists are to notch 0.125 x the depth of the joist, if that’s an old 8’ Victorian joist then your allowed a 1 inch depth which is 25.4mm, you can go through the centres with a spade bit and that’s 0.25 x the depth, you can only notch and drill within 1/3 the span of the joist where it’s anchored. 👍 I recently went back to college to study for my acs like 2days ago and this was the topic of the day 😂
He knew they were there, but as he said on the phone to Jordan, the pipe was litrally touching the floorboard, so even if he cut the board perfectly, it would have still hit it. The pipe should have been a bit lower.
@@steverobinson8170 it's only 15mm pipe, you can got a bit deeper, look at the other pipes in the video, you can see a good half inch gap between the pipe and the top of the joist. Not blaming the plumber, though.
Never mind mate,your in a profession when things like that happen now and then,been watching you guys for many months now,and have to say your all the ultimate professional’s and an absolute joy to watch,so keep up the great vids….
Once you’ve turned off the feed, why not just open one of the taps to depressurize? Then at least it all goes straight in the drainpipes. Oh wait, these are heating pipes, never mind.
first time i did electric work in my own home when i got qualified i carefully made sure i wasnt about to cut into a floorboard that had pipes underneath, got my saw and cut the wrong board and had a water feature in my upstairs hallway🤦🏽♂️
First time 🤦🏾🤣 first time with the van as well….🤣 Jordan great boss taking in his stride. As a matter of professional pride- ego was dented….but you will survive and be better for it.
Best Cory video to date. The “oh fcuk” moment and then the adrenaline kicking in to run around sorting and commanding action is a true measure of leadership under pressure. Great content again!
I went through a hot water pipe with a rotary saw. I certainly wasn't expecting a sudden burst of boiling hot water to the face and still remember the sheer panic and falling about not sure what to do lol. The smell was rank, dusty hot water all over me and draining down to the floor below. Ironically I was there to do someone a favour. They haven't invited me back.
Sadly it happens, l would strongly recommend you carry a few push-fit stop end plumbing fittings for such emergencys. Keep up the good work, stay safe and good luck for the future.
Haha I'm a plumber and have done it myself, and those pipes should've had a protection plate over them. Use a circular saw with a set depth, or wrap some tape round the multitool blade at 17mm so you dont go too deep. These things happen and you handled it well.
We've all done it mate, mine was a DIY job, fitting a new light fitting. Drill through ceiling for the rose and hit a hot water pipe. By the time the flow stopped I had a blister on my thumb which was so painful.
We all make mistakes, but you had been looking at the pipes moments before🤣! My usual approach if there's any chance of hitting pipes or cables is to carefully do the last few mm with a knife as you'll normally feel the pipes etc before you go through. I used to snap the last few mm, but learnt the hard way that splinters can pierce pipework 😭
Might be a good idea to have some LLFA Tape on the vans just in case you hit a pipe you can wrap it around the hole and seal the leak until the plumber comes out and does a repair. I am going to get some now for a just incase solution, one of those things thats going to happen at some point makes you think how best to minimize the water damage.
All of us have done something like this at some stage. It could have been so much worse in so many ways - imagine if it had been an apartment block creating a leak for the tenant underneath etc. Cory, it's just another day at the office!
Great job guys, but with the Keystone Jack, its usually a good idea to use the punch down tool as its spring loaded, versus just pulling the wire in by hand, ensures a long term, solid connection with the pins.
Feel for you with the pipe. Lifting bedroom floorboards to run speaker cables, circular saw set 1mm deeper than floorboards, first cut found 10mm microbore heating pipes in a 9mm notch in joist! Fountain of scalding water, no quick shut off, rip up board, fill void with towels, turn of CH pump and try and drain down heating as fast as possible, then have to do the dirty plumber stuff, before finishing cabling and repairing floor.
Emergency pipe-freezing kits are a very good thing to keep on your van and some basic pushfit pipe connectors!! Ive done exactly that with a multi tool twice, put a screw through a pipe once and the best one ever was a lead water main above a larve and plaster ceiling I put a holesaw through drilling out a downlight. I penciled out the cutout size, poked a pilot braddle up making 4 tiny holes on oposite sides of the circule and there was a lead watermain up there in the most unlucky place possible. Flooded the flat i was working in and flat below that one before I found the stopcock in the street to turn it off......haha. luv it
Artisan Drilling services now... Artisan Drilling and Cutting Services, not a spark in the country not done that. I must say, I could see those pipes when you were lifting the board initiall and was thinking, a tad close there ! Couple of jubilee clips and bicycle innertube strips in your toolkit when lifting boards... temporary repair. The spark rewiring my parents bungalow that my Sister employed, when fitting an outside light drilled through the cold water feed to the kitchen, he temporary repaired the copper pipe with a plastic through fitting, it failed and flooded the the whole bungalow...for at least a week as father was in a home. Every kitchen unit swelled, ruined, every carpet was rotten, all furniture, wallpaper ruined, ceiling ruined. The boiler had beed turned off so no heating, insurance company would not pay out.. what an expensive error that was ! for one bad repair.
Cory is aswell a good sparky , also learning automotive panel repairs (lamppost's always win )+ also he becoming a multi skilled plumber lol .. great content as always 👊👍
Great to see the response to a difficult situation from Cory and the team, no quibbles just get it sorted! It sounds like you picked up a few lessons learnt from springing that leak (and good experience for Ruben), so it's not a waste. The tool-less keystone jacks, and your termination on them looked really nice and tidy - great job! It's incredibly frustrating to see sparks take off more cable jacket than is required to terminate when working with twisted pair - the jacket, twists and the cables proximity to each other are all by design, and when you take any of them away you will lose signal integrity - when you are terminating ethernet cabling on longer runs (to an EV in a garage for example) this could cause strange network problems on customer networks.
Friendly neighbourhood trucker here !!! There's a saying "" less speed more haste "" especially when you lifted the board ?? But u have a fantastic boss !! Big up to him for saying shit happens!! And then just dealing with it!!! You'd better be careful because they say it comes in three's!!!!!! Great video again it did make laugh !!! Rgds FNT
I feel your pain!! Did it a few years back on water main at a railway booking station near Stockport. There was no stopcock in the building, it turned out that it could only be isolated from another railway building 50 metre’s away!! OUCH! That really got me down!!
Great video, Forget the mistake. Remember the lesson. And maybe a length of flexible pipe and Jubilee clip on the Van to be be able to part drain a heating system in the event of a future problem ? 👍
Corey, i went through my first ever pipe last year and it scared the hell outa me... the panic the fear the dred... its horrible.. but how you handle it makes all the difference. Don't let it get you down fella.. Keep Calm and Carry on. Ow and i also now stock some basic emergency plumbing supplies like that emergency putty and stop ends of the 10/15/25mm varieties lol
For future reference the upstairs rads just needed closing off and the system drained enough for the water level to drop below that pipe. You kept kinda calm so hats off to you
Top tip always cut the floor boards straight across the joist it stops any floorboards creaking later, when using a multi tool to cut the plasterwork for chasings use cheap Amazon wood bits they're longer so they don't damage the wall and make great chasings
Cory, its part of doing business. It could have been worse like you said everything can be fixed. I did something worse in my time as a technician and my boss did the same as your boss. As long as no one died. Keep the videos coming.
I find microfibre cloths are great for directing water into one area to contain a water leak. Last year I had a problem with a leaking valve and I tied a microfibre cloth tight around the pipe below and directed the water into a container It was OK all weekend until I could fix it properly. Its good that you show everything on your videos,even when things don't go to plan .A lot of people would have edited that bit out and pretend it didn't happen.☺
I love seeing the panic when that pipe got cut! Done it before! I feel your pain mate. I just sat there for a good few minutes thinking it will just go away. The stop cock was in the street seized we’ve all been there
Cory it may be a good idea to cut floorboards a little further away from objects so the plumber has something to play with. I worked with an electrician who flooded the basement of a cathedral residence, 4 storey building emptied into a basement. I can laugh now but it wasn’t funnny at the time. These things happen 😂
Clean enough under the floor now? Last week installed a waterline to a cattle trough. Yesterday drove a steel picket through the waterline while putting in concrete form work. Good thing the Electrician went up and over in that area (knows who he's dealing with).
If you have hit the heating circuit and it looks like it, isolating the cold water mains won't do jack... We had sparks do the same thing at work, they went through 22mm flow/return heating circuit and dumped most of the water in the circuit down the back wall of my server room.. For instances like this and if you have access, have some speedifit/pushlock cap/ends (or bungs) so you can isolate quickly...
Cory, I know it feels like a bad month. Surprised you didnt freak out more! If that was me, would be mostly bleeped out. Good to know nothing is perfect even for the Artisan Crew. Excellent video, glad everything was shown because thats life and things go wrong!
Doing your 1-8 with ground test is the main one we use at work on all network jobs, speed testing can be a waste of time when you have anything less that Cat6E
The amount of plumbers that keep the old shallow notches when running new pipes and then don't put in nail plates means this happens much more than it should. Don't worry about it, welcome to the club.
Having gone through a radiator pipe with a screw (professional DIY classic!), and then finding out the house stop cock was jammed … (ended up tying the ballcock in the loft - thank goodness it wasn’t a mains tap… couldn’t find the buried tap outside either at 11pm in the dark!), I bought one of those emergency clamp down 15mm pipe split things. Allegedly they work in a pinch (you just need a bit of room to clamp it around the pipe fully).
Mother said there'd be days like these Cory mate... 4 compression couplings later... done and move on. Show me a spark that never has breached a pipe.. show my a plumber that's never caught a cable 👍
for future reference that cap he's turning at 11:17 doesn't actually turn a valve, you have to pull that off and turn the rectangle with a pair of spanners or grips. Bad Luck Cory we've all been there.
Cory, if you happen to nick a pipe again try using a earth strap clamped over the hole as a temporary bandage to stem the flow until you can get a fix. It's helped me out once or twice over the last 40 years.
Just stay at home till 1st Feb!, keep lamp posts & copper pipes safe this January. I've hit a water main before with a jack hammer on cold winters morning before worst day ever! 🥶
Ah well, at least it made for good content as you say! Good on you for keeping on filming and you work really well together as a team. Jordan was very supportive too and a really good learning experience for Reuben. The rest of 2022 is going to be a breeze for you after this month! 😜
I really hope 2022 isn’t going to be like this for you. We all have bad days. Sure you will have more good days. Glad you guys show the bad as well. Let’s everyone know it’s not that easy .
i feel your pain. A couple of months ago, I put the wall chaser through the gas pipe, 3x30mm groves was the result trouble is I havent got the best sense of smell, thank god for apprentices
Worked in a house from hell last year, kitchen fitter hadnt installed all the units or cowl for cooker hood, so first i drill through the mains water pipe at head height, running up the side of the window,got soaked kitchen soaked, chisel hole in new plaster around pipe to fit a new piece of pipe for plumber, who then doesnt fix leak properley. Went back 2 days later and leak still evident as a dribble. Then told to fix cowl above cooker hood, and drilled through gas pipe, even though it was an electric cooker, always check behind cooker for a gas supply so ran and turned off gas, house stunk of gas opened all windows etc, not at all happy.Plumber called out to cap off gas pipe . Stuff happens. Top tip if you drill a pipe under flooring, the water will fill the gap between the joists, and eventually the weight of water will pull the ceiling down, seen that, so drill a few small holes ti allow water to drain out, place buckets underneath or use a wet and dry vac to vac up any water before it causes damage.
As an IT person who has worked at installations where spark’s have done network installation on s larger scale to what you have done today, echoing what you are saying from our side too…. We don’t tend to like it when a sparky does the network as much as you don’t like doing the network lol.
When you lift the floor board put a small mirror between the joists. Then shine the light of a torch into the mirror. By moving the angle of the mirror you'll be able to see in the mirror down as far as the light can go.
Drilled through a ceiling in a tiny cloakroom, hit a heating pipe, black, smelly hot water started pouring onto me, couldn’t open the door straightaway as I was using a stepladder which took up all the floor space, only a head torch for light. 🤣🤣 Never apologise for saying “turn everything off” btw, old heating systems had header tanks with a feed from the mains so at least if you shut off the main supply you’ve only got the header tank volume, plus rads of course, but you shut them off too so all good. Great video again!
It's certainly great content :) Kudos to Jordan for being a great boss and giving help rather than just shouting. I'm sure Cory's month of hell will end soon!
Good choice with the Keystone! Consider start pulling twin-cat7 cables next time, since sooner or later a second line is needed (e.g. as a return path or for a different signal) Good job, as always, keep rolling!!
It's alright Cory! I went through a mains pipe and in turning the stopcock off in the street as there isn't one in the house (it's an old mill house), didn't realise I'd turned off the water supply to 4 other properties till someone knocked and asked if the water was off 😅
At least with old houses with wooden floorboards you can expect to get pipework underneath near a radiator but with modern houses they can have 10mm plastic central heating pipes hidden behind the dab and dot plaster panel on the wall - don't ask I how found out when putting up a shelf above a radiator!
When we got our kitchen replaced, we asked for some sockets to be relocated. On day one the old kitchen got ripped out and there was lots of noise... After the team had gone water started dripping through the ceiling above! What had happened was the "electrician" had tried to make existing cables longer by pulling/tugging/hauling on them, and had dislodged a cable clip. The tip of the nail holding it to a bulkhead had pierced a plastic central heating pipe when the house was built, and had been sitting there quite happily for nearly 10 years. Fortunately once the pipe leaked it was decompressed, so it didn't cause too much damage... Part of the kitchen ceiling still had to come down then get replastered.
I have fixed problems like that by cutting the pipe down line and sliding over a quick flow pipe joint over the cut down line slid the joint over the cut. Solder it and use a second joint were I make the cut. Easy fix in tight spaces.
Cory, it could be worse... this evening whilst delivering for a well known builders merchant, I had a pallet of roof tiles break and drop out of the crane grab and smash at least half of them... had to call our transport manager as everyone else from my yard had gone home...
The heating system is a combination boiler so only has a small amount of water in the system, just drain a rad downstairs, don't bother trying to turn the rad valves off you'll just make the job harder as you'll need to re balance the system
I would love to see more of you guys running/installing data cabling, but you need to bring the same OCD(ish) standards you have for electrical wiring to the process of "data cabling". "Rules of Thumb" like making sure the edge of the PVC/plenum sheet is as close as possible to the wire "punch down" point with as little as possible untwisting of the colour pairs, wiring a small drop loop into a cable to allow moisture buildup to run down and away from a connector instead of into it (not so important these days with better insulation in homes although relevant to this video 😁), not running data cable parallel to and within 400mm (approx 15in) of power cables especially fluorescent lights (again not so important these days with Cat6 and Cat 7 cable), etc. Most of these RoTs (and others) are historical in nature and may not be as important as getting the job done especially in a home installation (most are "best practice" guidelines for commercial stuff). As for T568A vs T568B, you should find that T568B is more common to experience "in the wild" these days, but it is recommended that if you find "A" in a location then you should use "A" for new installs or if you find "B" then use "B" for new installs and if it is all new installs, then use "B". The only difference between T568A and T568B is that the white/green+green pair and the white/orange+orange pair are swapped and are electrically similar(ish). T568A is also sometimes mandated in government contracts (especially in the USA) as a historical consequence of older (USOC I think) phone wiring standards (again not so relevant today for ethernet data and VOIP phones). Please excuse the length of this missive. I just needed to wind down from a small WISP (wireless ISP) installation that got a little more "political" than I wanted, earlier this afternoon. Keep up the realism guys and have a good 2022...
Huge message for someone who installs data cables. Get to college for 4 years then pass your 2391 and become an approved electrician before you comment on your job fool.
Cory.....I know I shouldn't laugh, but I had to chuckle aye! You'll have to put out a video of your funny out-takes. Jordan must think you've lost the plot this month. Me, well I'd give you a wage rise for all these entertaining videos. Well done to Reuben and Max the cameraman for not laughing out loud.
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Please do a networking video!
Best case: Full house networking install with 19“ rack install 😍
@@taxiandy5698 Done lots of that..Love it ;)
Did you do T-568A or T-568B?
yep I do that all the time - The company I work for makes Cat5e/6/6a/7 - heh gotta love crimping the plugs on the end! - life of an IT Tech....
Jordan is a geeza man so relaxed. Lol legend. Everybody needs a boss
Of course in camera
@@victoriarobinson6227 I'd also imagine that's the case in real life too. You know by his demeanor that he's not a dick of a boss. He's also VERY much aware that Corey is an A+ Class Sparks. The + indicates going over and beyond, ALWAYS. He's top shelf. In fairness, they all are and will be once given the opportunity.
@@ronanotoole1973 totally agree mate.
@@victoriarobinson6227 😂
You handled that well Cory. Keep up the great work
Thanks 👍
He sure did
Get yourself a mini circular saw... Take up a board thats already up to get the depth, then set the circular saw a mill or two shallow.. Cut the boards till your hearts content knowing you wont go through then just snap the last mill or two..
Good tip! I do this. 22 years and no burst pipes... yet.
Iv chased straight through lead gas pipes that have been buried in walls a few times though
Exactly how I do it, circular saw every time set just a few mil short then snap it off
Sorry Cory; bad luck. You are a good sport allowing filming to continue - good for us to see real world problems; those pipes were really hard up against the boards.
not really. by building regs we are not allowed to cut out more than 1/8 of a joist. what i do is i leave a little diagram on top of the boards so the sparks know where my pipes are, to save them hassle like this 👍
@@logansrcs9243 Thanks for that info - and that is a very good thing to leave a diagram.
@@rossthompson1635 At the end of the day im all about helping out other tradesmen, thats the you have to be, saves them time and money having to pay a plumber to come and fix things like this
The regs on joists are to notch 0.125 x the depth of the joist, if that’s an old 8’ Victorian joist then your allowed a 1 inch depth which is 25.4mm, you can go through the centres with a spade bit and that’s 0.25 x the depth, you can only notch and drill within 1/3 the span of the joist where it’s anchored. 👍
I recently went back to college to study for my acs like 2days ago and this was the topic of the day 😂
@@MrKonquer Thank you for that info, useful. I wonder how many joists have been hacked and drilled over the years way beyond that specification.
Reuben was the hero we needed and deserved there hey Cory!
Haha how did Cory not realise the pipes were there? He literally lifted the board and you could see them. But that is something we have all done
Maybe just maybe he didn't see it.
yeah was thinking the same, he saw the pipes in the other room going that direction lol
He knew they were there, but as he said on the phone to Jordan, the pipe was litrally touching the floorboard, so even if he cut the board perfectly, it would have still hit it. The pipe should have been a bit lower.
@@puntoboy_gaming can't always go much deeper better to use plastic pipe and drill through lower
@@steverobinson8170 it's only 15mm pipe, you can got a bit deeper, look at the other pipes in the video, you can see a good half inch gap between the pipe and the top of the joist. Not blaming the plumber, though.
I think Cory is one step closer to getting familiar with the new electric van 😂
Bless you cory, you looked so worried, its good having a good manager who understands, and these things happen, we are human
Reuben and Cory work really well. I really enjoy watching their jobs 👍
Think I was a beaver in a previous life 😂😂😂 Cory cracks me up just loved the the panic in him running round turning everything off
I feel for you this month Cory! But we’ve all been there. Don’t stress too much mate!
Never mind mate,your in a profession when things like that happen now and then,been watching you guys for many months now,and have to say your all the ultimate professional’s and an absolute joy to watch,so keep up the great vids….
CORRIE !!! A wee tip just release the pressure from the system … use the pressure valve on boiler …. Takes 2 sec …. Plumber can repressurise it easy
Once you’ve turned off the feed, why not just open one of the taps to depressurize? Then at least it all goes straight in the drainpipes.
Oh wait, these are heating pipes, never mind.
first time i did electric work in my own home when i got qualified i carefully made sure i wasnt about to cut into a floorboard that had pipes underneath, got my saw and cut the wrong board and had a water feature in my upstairs hallway🤦🏽♂️
First time 🤦🏾🤣 first time with the van as well….🤣 Jordan great boss taking in his stride. As a matter of professional pride- ego was dented….but you will survive and be better for it.
That pipe time lapse edit was brilliant 🤣😂😂 great entertainment (ahem I mean learnings) for us all. We've all done it
Glad you enjoyed it
Best Cory video to date. The “oh fcuk” moment and then the adrenaline kicking in to run around sorting and commanding action is a true measure of leadership under pressure. Great content again!
I went through a hot water pipe with a rotary saw. I certainly wasn't expecting a sudden burst of boiling hot water to the face and still remember the sheer panic and falling about not sure what to do lol. The smell was rank, dusty hot water all over me and draining down to the floor below. Ironically I was there to do someone a favour. They haven't invited me back.
Always keep a draining hose in the back of your van. Find a drain off and attach hose and you’re sorted
At least with this and the van/lamppost you're getting all the bad luck out the way early doors.
Don’t speak too soon
Comes in 3's doesn't it
Sadly it happens, l would strongly recommend you carry a few push-fit stop end plumbing fittings for such emergencys. Keep up the good work, stay safe and good luck for the future.
Haha I'm a plumber and have done it myself, and those pipes should've had a protection plate over them. Use a circular saw with a set depth, or wrap some tape round the multitool blade at 17mm so you dont go too deep. These things happen and you handled it well.
That water pipe was payback for that Mexican Carpet joke!🤣
We've all done it mate, mine was a DIY job, fitting a new light fitting. Drill through ceiling for the rose and hit a hot water pipe. By the time the flow stopped I had a blister on my thumb which was so painful.
We all make mistakes, but you had been looking at the pipes moments before🤣! My usual approach if there's any chance of hitting pipes or cables is to carefully do the last few mm with a knife as you'll normally feel the pipes etc before you go through. I used to snap the last few mm, but learnt the hard way that splinters can pierce pipework 😭
I love that you includes mistakes like this, proof that it can happen to anyone. not a reason to give up!
Might be a good idea to have some LLFA Tape on the vans just in case you hit a pipe you can wrap it around the hole and seal the leak until the plumber comes out and does a repair. I am going to get some now for a just incase solution, one of those things thats going to happen at some point makes you think how best to minimize the water damage.
All of us have done something like this at some stage. It could have been so much worse in so many ways - imagine if it had been an apartment block creating a leak for the tenant underneath etc. Cory, it's just another day at the office!
Great job guys, but with the Keystone Jack, its usually a good idea to use the punch down tool as its spring loaded, versus just pulling the wire in by hand, ensures a long term, solid connection with the pins.
Feel for you with the pipe. Lifting bedroom floorboards to run speaker cables, circular saw set 1mm deeper than floorboards, first cut found 10mm microbore heating pipes in a 9mm notch in joist! Fountain of scalding water, no quick shut off, rip up board, fill void with towels, turn of CH pump and try and drain down heating as fast as possible, then have to do the dirty plumber stuff, before finishing cabling and repairing floor.
I believe Jordan will laugh that you got cut the pipe leaking. Great teamwork! Thumbs up! Cheers!
Thanks 👍
Emergency pipe-freezing kits are a very good thing to keep on your van and some basic pushfit pipe connectors!! Ive done exactly that with a multi tool twice, put a screw through a pipe once and the best one ever was a lead water main above a larve and plaster ceiling I put a holesaw through drilling out a downlight. I penciled out the cutout size, poked a pilot braddle up making 4 tiny holes on oposite sides of the circule and there was a lead watermain up there in the most unlucky place possible. Flooded the flat i was working in and flat below that one before I found the stopcock in the street to turn it off......haha. luv it
"I just like knowing it's clean" I think I might be in love with Cory 😂
Artisan Drilling services now... Artisan Drilling and Cutting Services, not a spark in the country not done that.
I must say, I could see those pipes when you were lifting the board initiall and was thinking, a tad close there !
Couple of jubilee clips and bicycle innertube strips in your toolkit when lifting boards... temporary repair.
The spark rewiring my parents bungalow that my Sister employed, when fitting an outside light drilled through the cold water feed to the kitchen, he temporary repaired the copper pipe with a plastic through fitting, it failed and flooded the the whole bungalow...for at least a week as father was in a home.
Every kitchen unit swelled, ruined, every carpet was rotten, all furniture, wallpaper ruined, ceiling ruined. The boiler had beed turned off so no heating, insurance company would not pay out.. what an expensive error that was ! for one bad repair.
Better days to come for you both. You both are only human. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I have done the same with pipes, so I feel your pain.
Cory is aswell a good sparky , also learning automotive panel repairs (lamppost's always win )+ also he becoming a multi skilled plumber lol .. great content as always 👊👍
Great to see the response to a difficult situation from Cory and the team, no quibbles just get it sorted! It sounds like you picked up a few lessons learnt from springing that leak (and good experience for Ruben), so it's not a waste.
The tool-less keystone jacks, and your termination on them looked really nice and tidy - great job! It's incredibly frustrating to see sparks take off more cable jacket than is required to terminate when working with twisted pair - the jacket, twists and the cables proximity to each other are all by design, and when you take any of them away you will lose signal integrity - when you are terminating ethernet cabling on longer runs (to an EV in a garage for example) this could cause strange network problems on customer networks.
You sir are a star, brilliant viewing and most enjoyable.
Friendly neighbourhood trucker here !!! There's a saying "" less speed more haste "" especially when you lifted the board ?? But u have a fantastic boss !! Big up to him for saying shit happens!! And then just dealing with it!!!
You'd better be careful because they say it comes in three's!!!!!! Great video again it did make laugh !!!
Rgds FNT
I feel your pain!! Did it a few years back on water main at a railway booking station near Stockport. There was no stopcock in the building, it turned out that it could only be isolated from another railway building 50 metre’s away!! OUCH! That really got me down!!
Great video, Forget the mistake. Remember the lesson.
And maybe a length of flexible pipe and Jubilee clip on the Van to be be able to part drain a heating system in the event of a future problem ? 👍
Corey, i went through my first ever pipe last year and it scared the hell outa me... the panic the fear the dred... its horrible.. but how you handle it makes all the difference. Don't let it get you down fella.. Keep Calm and Carry on. Ow and i also now stock some basic emergency plumbing supplies like that emergency putty and stop ends of the 10/15/25mm varieties lol
For future reference the upstairs rads just needed closing off and the system drained enough for the water level to drop below that pipe. You kept kinda calm so hats off to you
Top tip always cut the floor boards straight across the joist it stops any floorboards creaking later, when using a multi tool to cut the plasterwork for chasings use cheap Amazon wood bits they're longer so they don't damage the wall and make great chasings
Cory, its part of doing business. It could have been worse like you said everything can be fixed. I did something worse in my time as a technician and my boss did the same as your boss. As long as no one died. Keep the videos coming.
Your work is 5 star, accidents happen. Always great and enjoyable content
I find microfibre cloths are great for directing water into one area to contain a water leak. Last year I had a problem with a leaking valve and I tied a microfibre cloth tight around the pipe below and directed the water into a container It was OK all weekend until I could fix it properly. Its good that you show everything on your videos,even when things don't go to plan .A lot of people would have edited that bit out and pretend it didn't happen.☺
I love seeing the panic when that pipe got cut! Done it before! I feel your pain mate. I just sat there for a good few minutes thinking it will just go away. The stop cock was in the street seized we’ve all been there
Don't sweat it mate, no matter how careful you are, it's going to happen one day or maybe two! We have all been there!!!
On the positive side.. underneath the floorboards was nice and clean afterwards
Cory it may be a good idea to cut floorboards a little further away from objects so the plumber has something to play with. I worked with an electrician who flooded the basement of a cathedral residence, 4 storey building emptied into a basement. I can laugh now but it wasn’t funnny at the time. These things happen 😂
Clean enough under the floor now? Last week installed a waterline to a cattle trough. Yesterday drove a steel picket through the waterline while putting in concrete form work. Good thing the Electrician went up and over in that area (knows who he's dealing with).
If you have hit the heating circuit and it looks like it, isolating the cold water mains won't do jack... We had sparks do the same thing at work, they went through 22mm flow/return heating circuit and dumped most of the water in the circuit down the back wall of my server room.. For instances like this and if you have access, have some speedifit/pushlock cap/ends (or bungs) so you can isolate quickly...
Cory, I know it feels like a bad month. Surprised you didnt freak out more! If that was me, would be mostly bleeped out. Good to know nothing is perfect even for the Artisan Crew. Excellent video, glad everything was shown because thats life and things go wrong!
Doing your 1-8 with ground test is the main one we use at work on all network jobs, speed testing can be a waste of time when you have anything less that Cat6E
The amount of plumbers that keep the old shallow notches when running new pipes and then don't put in nail plates means this happens much more than it should. Don't worry about it, welcome to the club.
maybe it's a conspiracy to ensure repeat custom.
Nail plates ain't worth shit when you're using an impact driver.
Having gone through a radiator pipe with a screw (professional DIY classic!), and then finding out the house stop cock was jammed … (ended up tying the ballcock in the loft - thank goodness it wasn’t a mains tap… couldn’t find the buried tap outside either at 11pm in the dark!), I bought one of those emergency clamp down 15mm pipe split things. Allegedly they work in a pinch (you just need a bit of room to clamp it around the pipe fully).
Mother said there'd be days like these Cory mate... 4 compression couplings later... done and move on. Show me a spark that never has breached a pipe.. show my a plumber that's never caught a cable 👍
for future reference that cap he's turning at 11:17 doesn't actually turn a valve, you have to pull that off and turn the rectangle with a pair of spanners or grips. Bad Luck Cory we've all been there.
I feel you pain bud I’m 21 years in and done my 2nd pipe last year and was lived in 😭😭😭🤣🤭👍🏻
8:35 this clip will be played forever in a loop just to torment poor Cory 😆😆😆
HAAHA
It happens, but you can never drain the system with all the radiator valves closed.
It's not a bad shout to close off all of the radiators except the one with the drain, though. That way you won't have to drain so much.
Wouldn't that switch move be a classic job for a Quinetic switch, with the receiver behind a blanking plate at the old switch location?
Not without a neutral there. the Quintic receivers require one.
Receiver at the light then ?
@@Cablesmith switch receiver on old switch no neutral needed save the blank plate
Definitely a job for a Quinetic.
Good idea
Cory, if you happen to nick a pipe again try using a earth strap clamped over the hole as a temporary bandage to stem the flow until you can get a fix. It's helped me out once or twice over the last 40 years.
Just stay at home till 1st Feb!, keep lamp posts & copper pipes safe this January. I've hit a water main before with a jack hammer on cold winters morning before worst day ever! 🥶
I did exactly the same with the multi tool about about a multi tool. The folding bucket saved my day aswell!! 🤣🤣
So calm and in control, what a pro.
Ah well, at least it made for good content as you say! Good on you for keeping on filming and you work really well together as a team. Jordan was very supportive too and a really good learning experience for Reuben. The rest of 2022 is going to be a breeze for you after this month! 😜
I really hope 2022 isn’t going to be like this for you. We all have bad days. Sure you will have more good days. Glad you guys show the bad as well. Let’s everyone know it’s not that easy .
i feel your pain. A couple of months ago, I put the wall chaser through the gas pipe, 3x30mm groves was the result trouble is I havent got the best sense of smell, thank god for apprentices
This is definitely 1 of the best videos you guys have done 👍
Wow, thanks!
Worked in a house from hell last year, kitchen fitter hadnt installed all the units or cowl for cooker hood, so first i drill through the mains water pipe at head height, running up the side of the window,got soaked kitchen soaked, chisel hole in new plaster around pipe to fit a new piece of pipe for plumber, who then doesnt fix leak properley.
Went back 2 days later and leak still evident as a dribble.
Then told to fix cowl above cooker hood, and drilled through gas pipe, even though it was an electric cooker, always check behind cooker for a gas supply so ran and turned off gas, house stunk of gas opened all windows etc, not at all happy.Plumber called out to cap off gas pipe .
Stuff happens.
Top tip if you drill a pipe under flooring, the water will fill the gap between the joists, and eventually the weight of water will pull the ceiling down, seen that, so drill a few small holes ti allow water to drain out, place buckets underneath or use a wet and dry vac to vac up any water before it causes damage.
You're getting view bombed mate, respect for not using cheesy dramatic music during the diaster.
As an IT person who has worked at installations where spark’s have done network installation on s larger scale to what you have done today, echoing what you are saying from our side too…. We don’t tend to like it when a sparky does the network as much as you don’t like doing the network lol.
Sounds like cory has had enough of house bashing, happens to the best of us mate 🤣
The best emergency plumbing advice ever " Hammer it flat and go to the pub"😁
"A beaver in a past life" LMAO
When you lift the floor board put a small mirror between the joists. Then shine the light of a torch into the mirror. By moving the angle of the mirror you'll be able to see in the mirror down as far as the light can go.
Drilled through a ceiling in a tiny cloakroom, hit a heating pipe, black, smelly hot water started pouring onto me, couldn’t open the door straightaway as I was using a stepladder which took up all the floor space, only a head torch for light. 🤣🤣 Never apologise for saying “turn everything off” btw, old heating systems had header tanks with a feed from the mains so at least if you shut off the main supply you’ve only got the header tank volume, plus rads of course, but you shut them off too so all good. Great video again!
It's certainly great content :) Kudos to Jordan for being a great boss and giving help rather than just shouting. I'm sure Cory's month of hell will end soon!
Fingers crossed!
Good choice with the Keystone!
Consider start pulling twin-cat7 cables next time, since sooner or later a second line is needed (e.g. as a return path or for a different signal)
Good job, as always, keep rolling!!
It's alright Cory! I went through a mains pipe and in turning the stopcock off in the street as there isn't one in the house (it's an old mill house), didn't realise I'd turned off the water supply to 4 other properties till someone knocked and asked if the water was off 😅
thanks for sharing been their my self many times 👏😎
You need some Griffon SFT-101 repair on the van for moments like that quick temporary fix until you sort it out correctly.
At least with old houses with wooden floorboards you can expect to get pipework underneath near a radiator but with modern houses they can have 10mm plastic central heating pipes hidden behind the dab and dot plaster panel on the wall - don't ask I how found out when putting up a shelf above a radiator!
“Turn off the canals. Maybe I was a beaver in a past life”. 😂
When we got our kitchen replaced, we asked for some sockets to be relocated. On day one the old kitchen got ripped out and there was lots of noise... After the team had gone water started dripping through the ceiling above!
What had happened was the "electrician" had tried to make existing cables longer by pulling/tugging/hauling on them, and had dislodged a cable clip. The tip of the nail holding it to a bulkhead had pierced a plastic central heating pipe when the house was built, and had been sitting there quite happily for nearly 10 years. Fortunately once the pipe leaked it was decompressed, so it didn't cause too much damage... Part of the kitchen ceiling still had to come down then get replastered.
Not a very dry January! We’ve all done it mate. Mine was fixing a floor board with carpet fitters on the way…..
I have fixed problems like that by cutting the pipe down line and sliding over a quick flow pipe joint over the cut down line slid the joint over the cut. Solder it and use a second joint were I make the cut. Easy fix in tight spaces.
Cory, it could be worse... this evening whilst delivering for a well known builders merchant, I had a pallet of roof tiles break and drop out of the crane grab and smash at least half of them... had to call our transport manager as everyone else from my yard had gone home...
All that tasty kit and not a metal detector/pipe locator in sight!! ALWAYS run a metal detector where you are going to drill/cut - building 101.
The heating system is a combination boiler so only has a small amount of water in the system, just drain a rad downstairs, don't bother trying to turn the rad valves off you'll just make the job harder as you'll need to re balance the system
I would love to see more of you guys running/installing data cabling, but you need to bring the same OCD(ish) standards you have for electrical wiring to the process of "data cabling". "Rules of Thumb" like making sure the edge of the PVC/plenum sheet is as close as possible to the wire "punch down" point with as little as possible untwisting of the colour pairs, wiring a small drop loop into a cable to allow moisture buildup to run down and away from a connector instead of into it (not so important these days with better insulation in homes although relevant to this video 😁), not running data cable parallel to and within 400mm (approx 15in) of power cables especially fluorescent lights (again not so important these days with Cat6 and Cat 7 cable), etc. Most of these RoTs (and others) are historical in nature and may not be as important as getting the job done especially in a home installation (most are "best practice" guidelines for commercial stuff).
As for T568A vs T568B, you should find that T568B is more common to experience "in the wild" these days, but it is recommended that if you find "A" in a location then you should use "A" for new installs or if you find "B" then use "B" for new installs and if it is all new installs, then use "B". The only difference between T568A and T568B is that the white/green+green pair and the white/orange+orange pair are swapped and are electrically similar(ish). T568A is also sometimes mandated in government contracts (especially in the USA) as a historical consequence of older (USOC I think) phone wiring standards (again not so relevant today for ethernet data and VOIP phones).
Please excuse the length of this missive. I just needed to wind down from a small WISP (wireless ISP) installation that got a little more "political" than I wanted, earlier this afternoon.
Keep up the realism guys and have a good 2022...
Huge message for someone who installs data cables. Get to college for 4 years then pass your 2391 and become an approved electrician before you comment on your job fool.
I love the part where he thinks oh sh** turn the water off, “bleed the radiators”!!! Lol
Tip for pipes under boards,check to see if the boards have been up before 👍
Plumbers and sparks best practise should mark on the floorboard where they install new cable and pipe
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It comes in 3s Cory. All learning points.
Cory.....I know I shouldn't laugh, but I had to chuckle aye! You'll have to put out a video of your funny out-takes. Jordan must think you've lost the plot this month. Me, well I'd give you a wage rise for all these entertaining videos. Well done to Reuben and Max the cameraman for not laughing out loud.