This is one of the best videos I've ever seen. Good job my friend. I rarely get on youtube and find EXACTLY what I'm looking for. This exceeded my expectations. Keep em comin! You got another subscriber here!!!
This is why the Internet is the best tool at our disposal. So much educational content on here for everyone to learn. Thank You for this amazing content.
@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 it’s a real shame we have the internet as amazing as it is. So much information. I have learned lots but today’s children use the internet for games and dumb RUclips videos like tictoc and Minecraft video tutorials wasting the youths time with nonsense. My brother once asked me how I know everything I do about construction and codes and laws and cars and mechanics. It really comes down to two things. Experience and the willingness to learn hands on and secondly is the internet and all the instant knowledge it gives through RUclips videos and business practices and simply reading mechanics manuals for technician procedure.
This was in my recommendations for some reason. Not being much of a handyman I didn’t expect to get much from it. Great video! I watched it twice then subscribed. I’m ready to learn from your videos.
I really learned something from watching this video. I live in an established neighborhood. My home was built in 1922 and it's a Craftsman style. When walking I always see the different types of homes and systems they have. You've answered some questions about the drain system.
As a general idiot when it comes to plumbing, thanks very much!!! In 2012, I bought a house that was built in the 50's. You did a fabulous job of explaining everything. Generally I am a DIY person. This house had a lot of galvanized piping, when I purchased it. For the most part I have converted it to pex. I love pex as it's easy to transport and to install. However, you also make me feel like the few times that I have spent huge money on a plumber, when I thought things were well above my expertise, it was money well spent. Thanks again for the fabulous tutorial. Two thumbs up sir.
In New Zealand, if you're not on municipal water supply, you typically collect rainwater from the roof and store it in big tanks set on the ground, then use a pump to feed it into the house. Some farms the a few rural houses will use bores (wells) for water supply, but much more common to re-use rainwater.
I don’t even know how I stumbled on this video but I know watching the first couple of seconds of it I definitely was intrigued because I never thought how does my home plumbing work. Great video and great detail explanation. Appreciate the time that you put into this!
Every plumbing apprentice needs to watch this... Especially abs waste plumbing and understanding Venting lavs etc and how water air and gas works in plumbing
Great Video. Loved every second and learnt a lot. Quick note: in cases where water is supplied by a well, it's usually pumped into a storage tank. The tank is usually on the same level as the house or higher. this allows a consistent supply and pressure in the event of a power outage.
The tanks can also be pressurized to provide water pressure if power is off. The depth of the wells also vary based on location. They can be as shallow as 50 feet deep or as deep as the 500 feet he mentioned in the video (some rare cases deeper). But the average is probably only 100 to 150 feet deep.
I've been doing software development for over 20 years and always interested in getting into the plumbing business. Thanks for your awesome fundamental plumbing system video.
I really appreciate you adding all the extra bits. Never thought of it before but definitely as a future home buyer I will research how to better manage rain-water to my benefit without it disrupting the municipal storage! Thankyou!
I absorb a lot of knowledge about a wide variety of things from RUclips videos. I hold people like you in the highest respect! I am currently plumbing my house and you are just the guy I was hoping to find and learn from. It does make a difference in the way I choose to absorb information knowing that is comes from a seasoned professional. I might have a question or three along the way. I hope you don't mind if I reach out and ask you about something. Soon, I will be demolishing the cast iron stack and replacing it with PVC parts. Any advice for this is warmly welcomed. I have been the assistant for this task only one time in my life and now I know enough to be very dangerous!
You have made an excellent video explaining a home's plumbing system. If there is anything that should be corrected are the sewage / fresh water pipe locations. Freshwater pipes are at four feet of depth, sewage pipes are six feet of depth. Your illustration has the sewage pipes above the fresh. This is not allowed by Code. If the sewage leaks, this would contaminate the fresh. Other than this, nice job.
This is an amazingly simple exposition of the science of basic plumbing. To the person who created this video thank you very much, for your EFFORTS, and sharing your knowledge.
@@hurricanecat33 then you’re not a plumber lol they’re constantly hopping down into crawl spaces, working in the dirtiest places in peoples houses, laying under sinks and shit
@@cameronschmit6472 there’s different types of plumbers there buddy, service, residential and commercial, as a commercial plumber I don’t do these things you speak of, educate yourself on a trade before you talk like you know something, cause you don’t, you know absolutely nothing.
From an engineer that designs municipal sewage systems for a living. Excellent video. Only edit I would make would be to explain how the check valve(back flow preventer) fits on the san service to protect the house during a flood event.
This was super helpful, I grew up on well and septic and understood the house's plumbing. I recently moved into my first house with municipal supply and there were so many exposed pipes that I didn't understand, but now I do.
All my life I was wondering how the plumbing system worked. You just cleared up my mental fog in your short video (7 minutes). I feel like a kid who just learned the alphabet or the multiplication tables. LOL - TAV ❤ 🇺🇸 🌎 👍
Great video! Plumbing is very similar here in Finland. What we do differently though, is that you are not allowed to absorb the rain water next to the house straight via downspouts in a new construction (lots of old houses do this still, though). We have, at least on newer areas, municipality rain water collection system as also pointed out in this video. Also you are most definitely NOT allowed to direct your rainwater from downspouts straight to french drain, as that will surely make your foundations wet! You don't want wet foundations! What we do is we collect rain water and french drain water (from two separate systems) into a single collection well that combines the two water streams and directs water to the municipality collection system. There are one or two non-return valves in place so water from the municipality system, if clogged, doesn't get into the french drain and wet the foundations.
That’s funny, but in actually the Amish get alone with out plumbing just fine I believe. I know my mom and her 6 siblings did back in the 60s. People on American welfare just don’t know how good they have it. Lol.
As a kid, I always wondered how things work. Then after learning physcis in school the curiosity just increased and I've always found myself wondering how physics applied to these kinds of systems. This was a great explanation, easy to understand.
Friction and viscosity of flow in pipes is a major design of these systems. As he mentioned the storm and wastewater pipes are sloped so gravity driven and that slop varies based on those factors and the materials of the piping system. The less you need to slope them the fewer lifting stations you need which are expensive and require regular maintenance.
As a kid, I always wondered how things work. Then after learning physcis in school the curiosity just increased and I've always found myself wondering how physics applied to these kinds of systems. This was a great explanation, easy to understand.
Great video. Condensation runoff is another one for houses with A/C. It is shocking how much damage even a slow leak can do over time if water is not managed properly.
I absorb a lot of knowledge about a wide variety of things from RUclips videos. I hold people like you in the highest respect! I am currently plumbing my house and you are just the guy I was hoping to find and learn from. It does make a difference in the way I choose to absorb information knowing that is comes from a seasoned professional. I might have a question or three along the way. I hope you don't mind if I reach out and ask you about something. Soon, I will be demolishing the cast iron stack and replacing it with PVC parts. Any advice for this is warmly welcomed. I have been the assistant for this task only one time in my life and now I know enough to be very dangerous!
This why I love RUclips because channel like this can share awesome information like this and people can be informed and educated about our modern society ways of living and how it works
I often heard bits and pieces of the information at different times but you put it all together and the visuals were spot on! I’m using it to show my son that it may be a possible career choice. Thanks a lot!
Basic stuff like this should be taught in school, some people will never know to unwind the chain of the terlet tank to stop it filling up constantly, like YEARS in hearing it without thinking forth in the issue. Simple visuals allow emphasis to be made onto the subject explained, that's cool man.
I dug 2 large 30 foot long ditch swales for my rainwater to collect, store and water all my fruit trees...rather than running into the street. Great video!
The last part of the video should of been this is one way, most rain water / storm drains go into a local man made pond and if that over flows goes into another one close to it. This is the same for huge parking lots etc. Imagine the flooding caused if all drainage pipes etc went to rivers/ streams etc... And how polluted they would be from all the run off from roads like oil trash etc..
While there may be a vortex separator or triple basin (i.e. oil and trash separator) installed within the storm system prior to the pond, the true design intent of the retention ponds is to offset the impervious surface area created by buildings, sidewalks, and roadways that does not allow water to infiltrate back into the ground. They are not designed just to keep rivers and streams clean. Rainwater is stored for a designed period of time and discharged downstream at a rate equal to, or less than, predevelopment conditions (if the homes or roads were never constructed), so as to not create flash floods or inundate the downstream storm system. Remember, storm sewer systems are only designed to accommodate a ten year rain event (small storm events) and not heavy rainfalls such as the 100 year event (a 1% chance of happening in a year). Heavy rainfalls are expected to flow across the ground in ditches and swales at specific areas called Overland Flood Routes. It’s too expensive to install complete storm sewer systems that will accommodate all the rainfall. So next time you see rainwater running through your yard through swales or in the street it was designed to do that. Problems occur when people change their yards by regrading or installing landscaping such as trees, bushes, and flower beds.
@@leticiaaguilar7729 They are saying that the area covered by roads and roofs doesn't soak up rain water. The water is instead diverted to other ground, which can quickly saturate during a rainstorm and become unable to absorb any additional water. The water that can't soak in will "run off" into surrounding lakes or streams and cause flooding, or collect in low-lying areas which may have people living in them. Retention ponds are often dug near large buildings, communities, or roadways to contain the runoff and prevent the aforementioned flash flooding. The water caught in retention ponds will continue to soak into the ground and/or evaporate long after the storm ends, easing the burden on infrastructure and the communities served.
Thank you for the video! One difference to where I live is that our water is heated using district heating. The water from the municipal source goes through a heat exchanger located at the property and gets heated by the district heating water.
This is amazing. I was just thinking the other day to watch a video about how plumbing works. I didn't type anything into any of my searches or look anything up on any devices and now miraculously this video popped up in my recommended algorithm.
If there was the one video I needed to watch to clarify things that was it. And that leaves me wondering hard what made YT algorithm put this one on my recommendation list... Great job. No fuss, just concentrated information.
My septic tank is under our road, lol. The road use to stop at my house and the septic tank was put in behind the road for easy access. I moved out of state for a job for a few years and we decided to move back, the road was over it. When houses were added down the road they paved over my septic tank. I called the road county manager about it, but they said there was nothing they can do about it, since it is now part of the public road system. I flush 1 gallon of buttermilk every month and it actually eats the waste. Been doing this for 16 years now. If anything happens we will have to have a new septic tank put in. Yes I did check with a lawyer and the county had the right to make the road. I found out they sent notice of the road going through, but I never received it.
@@bradleyrussell1973 Positive, I was there when they put it in the ground. The road stopped at my driveway and we put it in line with the road, so if it ever needed emptied all they had to do was backup to it.
Went to school for plumbing, almost impulsively. Never really aspired to be a plumber but was given the opportunity to go, so I went. Once I graduated, did some plumbing in the Gettysburg, Pa area and quickly decided it wasnt what I wanted to do for the rest of my life haha However, Ill never regret going to trade school. Its a good knowledge to have. Same as being able to work on your own car. Gettysburg, being an extremely old town, had extremely old plumbing... Sometimes there was still lead pipe in the buildings. Cast Iron sucks big time because it peels away on the inside, dont really know how else to explain it. And its a nightmare to replace because it disintegrates as soon as you try to do anything to it.. PVC/ABS are amazing, low friction, doesnt degrade, LIGHTWEIGHT. You really gotta abuse a drain system to clog it up, if its been installed correctly... Copper water lines are generally fine, until they freeze, but the same goes for PEX due to the pieces the pipe gets clamped on to. But PEX is really a cool pipe material, it stretches when the water inside freezes, and returns to normal when it thaws. The T's/90's/45's/valves/etc are the weakness. Brass is a soft metal and the water will eventually erode its way through after 15 years of use(speaking from experience in my own house). They make plastic ones, I dont have much experience with them but they feel cheap, however they may hold up better.
Finally I've found a video that explains perfectly what I've been looking to learn. Not sure how much of it is similar or completely applies to the UK but very good video nonetheless
Your septic tank part was very very simplified. Bacteria consume the waste, the water is treated before being pumped out into a gravel pit or irrigation system. I doubt they'd let anyone just leak their septic water into the ground anymore. They don't in my country (Australia) anyway.
In the US the waste water from the septic leeches into the soil and doesn't need to be treated. There is nothing wrong with doing it that way if it's done right.
If you are having any problems with your home with Flo always call the city first to make sure it's not the mains out in the street holding to affect your house the city Mains are the city's problem, it could save you a lot of money from a plumbers visit.Rain in any ways does not effect your sewer issues unless you have so much rain the Ground under your lawn caves in.
Another big info/tip, flushable wipes aren’t actually flushable, because they don’t breakdown like TP does and clogs pipes and those filters down the line. Don’t use flushable wipes unless you put the used ones in a trash can, maybe one like those special diaper trash cans.
I learned that lesson back in 2008. The plumber cleaned out the wipes and I got a bill for $550.00. I only flush waste and TP. My plumber that I shouldn't even flush kleenex tissue, so I stopped doing that also.
@Sindrella06 Spraying your (*)' hole with water doesn't get it 100 percent clean that's why. You really have to get up in there with toilet paper to give it a good scrubbing.
I honestly never knew what those thin black pipes coming out of houses' roofs were for. Would never have guessed they were for the plumbing system. Amazing!
People who invented water sewer system is god.Very helpful video.I am not English native so I just got 60 to 70 percent of your talking but anyway I understood the context.
Thank you this was very helpful. I'd like to build a small vacation house and have zero knowledge of construction. The way you presented it makes it almost entirely crystal clear !
I subscribe to a family friendly channel here on YT but had to delay watching one particular upload for an hour bec it was impossible to view while eating breakfast. Too early in the day to experience queasiness. 🤢
It has been cleaned out for various pathogens, but it hasn’t been cleaned out for antibiotics, various diseases etc... drinking government water is stupid.
There was something I was hoping you would have at least mentioned: black water and gray water. I only found out the difference about 3 years ago from a Tiny House course on Udemy but haven’t heard it from anywhere else, only in passing mention here and there, very seldom. To be fair, I haven’t looked into it, but it seems it should be basic knowledge and even I don’t know. I mean, my entire life is now study everything under the black sun. PLUS I’ve been working in the trades for about 4 years. All the more reason I should have come across it more often. I guess that is the thing with this civilized system, where everything is so specialized to the point we become ignorant to every other aspect of the world besides our employment/vocation, hobbies, and interest.
Something too many take for granted, but is advanced technology, and foundational to our present civilization, with more to come, as research and development occurs.
This is one of the best videos I've ever seen. Good job my friend. I rarely get on youtube and find EXACTLY what I'm looking for. This exceeded my expectations. Keep em comin! You got another subscriber here!!!
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This is why the Internet is the best tool at our disposal. So much educational content on here for everyone to learn. Thank You for this amazing content.
You bet!
It wasn’t touted as the information superhighway for nothing.
Agreed. I hope more people use it to learn more about world than to focus on short-term nonsense
learned more on the internet than i ever did in school
@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 it’s a real shame we have the internet as amazing as it is. So much information. I have learned lots but today’s children use the internet for games and dumb RUclips videos like tictoc and Minecraft video tutorials wasting the youths time with nonsense. My brother once asked me how I know everything I do about construction and codes and laws and cars and mechanics. It really comes down to two things. Experience and the willingness to learn hands on and secondly is the internet and all the instant knowledge it gives through RUclips videos and business practices and simply reading mechanics manuals for technician procedure.
Man, modern plumbing is amazing. I’m so grateful I live in a day and age where this is a underrated reality.
Thank you, don't forget to share, it really helps the channel!
From a guy that has built close to 100 houses, this was a great summary of the residential plumbing system!
Awesomrle, thanks Jeffrey!!
Hey brother do you need a certified plumber and hvac guy for great prices in AL?
Thank you
From a supreme leader who has launched 100s of ballistic missiles, i can tell you’re lying!
You got the seal of approval from a self proclaimed expert.
hello Jeffrey do you need architect or interior designer for your house??hahah
This was in my recommendations for some reason. Not being much of a handyman I didn’t expect to get much from it. Great video! I watched it twice then subscribed. I’m ready to learn from your videos.
Awesomeness!!!!!
Same!
Couldn't have said that better
So what have you done since watching? Have you any plans already in motion?
Video made me want to replace a couple sinks 😂
I really learned something from watching this video. I live in an established neighborhood. My home was built in 1922 and it's a Craftsman style. When walking I always see the different types of homes and systems they have. You've answered some questions about the drain system.
As a general idiot when it comes to plumbing, thanks very much!!! In 2012, I bought a house that was built in the 50's. You did a fabulous job of explaining everything. Generally I am a DIY person. This house had a lot of galvanized piping, when I purchased it. For the most part I have converted it to pex. I love pex as it's easy to transport and to install. However, you also make me feel like the few times that I have spent huge money on a plumber, when I thought things were well above my expertise, it was money well spent. Thanks again for the fabulous tutorial. Two thumbs up sir.
Thank you very much Ross!
In New Zealand, if you're not on municipal water supply, you typically collect rainwater from the roof and store it in big tanks set on the ground, then use a pump to feed it into the house. Some farms the a few rural houses will use bores (wells) for water supply, but much more common to re-use rainwater.
👍👍🖐🖐greetings from the usa.........new jersey to be exact
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I don’t even know how I stumbled on this video but I know watching the first couple of seconds of it I definitely was intrigued because I never thought how does my home plumbing work. Great video and great detail explanation. Appreciate the time that you put into this!
Wowww thanks a million!!! 🤗🤗🤗
Every plumbing apprentice needs to watch this... Especially abs waste plumbing and understanding Venting lavs etc and how water air and gas works in plumbing
Great Video. Loved every second and learnt a lot.
Quick note: in cases where water is supplied by a well, it's usually pumped into a storage tank. The tank is usually on the same level as the house or higher. this allows a consistent supply and pressure in the event of a power outage.
The tanks can also be pressurized to provide water pressure if power is off.
The depth of the wells also vary based on location. They can be as shallow as 50 feet deep or as deep as the 500 feet he mentioned in the video (some rare cases deeper). But the average is probably only 100 to 150 feet deep.
I've been doing software development for over 20 years and always interested in getting into the plumbing business. Thanks for your awesome fundamental plumbing system video.
Thank you :)
Awesome, it's been 3 years, how did it go? Also moving from IT to plumbing right now.
y'all weird
I really appreciate you adding all the extra bits. Never thought of it before but definitely as a future home buyer I will research how to better manage rain-water to my benefit without it disrupting the municipal storage! Thankyou!
My 5 year old asked me where the water (and other stuff 😂) goes… we watched this together. Great video!!
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Same!
I was fascinated with plumbing at that age!😂
I'm an aspiring plumbing engineer in my country (Philippines), and this video helped me. Thanks!
Thanks!!!
I absorb a lot of knowledge about a wide variety of things from RUclips videos. I hold people like you in the highest respect! I am currently plumbing my house and you are just the guy I was hoping to find and learn from. It does make a difference in the way I choose to absorb information knowing that is comes from a seasoned professional. I might have a question or three along the way. I hope you don't mind if I reach out and ask you about something. Soon, I will be demolishing the cast iron stack and replacing it with PVC parts. Any advice for this is warmly welcomed. I have been the assistant for this task only one time in my life and now I know enough to be very dangerous!
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Hands down the best plumbing video for beginners
Glad you think so, thank you so much!
You have made an excellent video explaining a home's plumbing system. If there is anything that should be corrected are the sewage / fresh water pipe locations. Freshwater pipes are at four feet of depth, sewage pipes are six feet of depth. Your illustration has the sewage pipes above the fresh. This is not allowed by Code. If the sewage leaks, this would contaminate the fresh. Other than this, nice job.
This is an amazingly simple exposition of the science of basic plumbing. To the person who created this video thank you very much, for your EFFORTS, and sharing your knowledge.
You are very welcome Kirk, I am proud to say that I made this video now hehehehe
Plumbing...the most underrated job,of the universe....
Yeah if you like crawling through a foot of dirty water, rat shit, and spiderwebs in the dark
@@cameronschmit6472 deep sea fishing
@@cameronschmit6472 never done any of those things
@@hurricanecat33 then you’re not a plumber lol they’re constantly hopping down into crawl spaces, working in the dirtiest places in peoples houses, laying under sinks and shit
@@cameronschmit6472 there’s different types of plumbers there buddy, service, residential and commercial, as a commercial plumber I don’t do these things you speak of, educate yourself on a trade before you talk like you know something, cause you don’t, you know absolutely nothing.
From an engineer that designs municipal sewage systems for a living. Excellent video. Only edit I would make would be to explain how the check valve(back flow preventer) fits on the san service to protect the house during a flood event.
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“I will never look at water the same”
“Sips”
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This was super helpful, I grew up on well and septic and understood the house's plumbing.
I recently moved into my first house with municipal supply and there were so many exposed pipes that I didn't understand, but now I do.
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All my life I was wondering how the plumbing system worked. You just cleared up my mental fog in your short video (7 minutes). I feel like a kid who just learned the alphabet or the multiplication tables. LOL - TAV ❤ 🇺🇸 🌎 👍
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Being a Plumber myself, I found this video to be spot-on. Great job!
Great video! Plumbing is very similar here in Finland. What we do differently though, is that you are not allowed to absorb the rain water next to the house straight via downspouts in a new construction (lots of old houses do this still, though). We have, at least on newer areas, municipality rain water collection system as also pointed out in this video.
Also you are most definitely NOT allowed to direct your rainwater from downspouts straight to french drain, as that will surely make your foundations wet! You don't want wet foundations!
What we do is we collect rain water and french drain water (from two separate systems) into a single collection well that combines the two water streams and directs water to the municipality collection system. There are one or two non-return valves in place so water from the municipality system, if clogged, doesn't get into the french drain and wet the foundations.
Niceee!
Saw a funny bumper sticker one time on a plumbers van... it said " if it wasn't for plumbers you'd have nowhere to go"
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but you can still take a dump on good ol soil.
That’s funny, but in actually the Amish get alone with out plumbing just fine I believe. I know my mom and her 6 siblings did back in the 60s. People on American welfare just don’t know how good they have it. Lol.
They're number one in number two.
As a kid, I always wondered how things work. Then after learning physcis in school the curiosity just increased and I've always found myself wondering how physics applied to these kinds of systems. This was a great explanation, easy to understand.
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Friction and viscosity of flow in pipes is a major design of these systems. As he mentioned the storm and wastewater pipes are sloped so gravity driven and that slop varies based on those factors and the materials of the piping system. The less you need to slope them the fewer lifting stations you need which are expensive and require regular maintenance.
Man humans are smart. We think of every scenario and decades of research, engineering and trial and error
As a kid, I always wondered how things work. Then after learning physcis in school the curiosity just increased and I've always found myself wondering how physics applied to these kinds of systems. This was a great explanation, easy to understand.
Great video. Condensation runoff is another one for houses with A/C. It is shocking how much damage even a slow leak can do over time if water is not managed properly.
Yes, correct, thanks for adding that in!!
Great information. I've already passed this knowledge to my two sons. Can't believe it took 50 years for me to understand the complete system. :)
Thank you so much!!!
I could not agree more with everyone's comments. Great video!!!! Thank you for taking the time to simplify this process.
From a guy that has built close to 100 houses, this was a great summary of the residential plumbing system!
I absorb a lot of knowledge about a wide variety of things from RUclips videos. I hold people like you in the highest respect! I am currently plumbing my house and you are just the guy I was hoping to find and learn from. It does make a difference in the way I choose to absorb information knowing that is comes from a seasoned professional. I might have a question or three along the way. I hope you don't mind if I reach out and ask you about something. Soon, I will be demolishing the cast iron stack and replacing it with PVC parts. Any advice for this is warmly welcomed. I have been the assistant for this task only one time in my life and now I know enough to be very dangerous!
Thank you so much, if you want to join my forum for questions it'll be easier, it's free: got2learn.freeforums.net/
Very simple to understand, with everything explained properly, thanks man!
Glad it helped!
Love this video. It visualizes all of the basic plumbing knowledge that all homeowners would learn.
You are most welcome, please share if you can, it helps the channel tremendously ✌✌
Starting my apprenticeship soon and your videos help me so much. They're so fun to watch! Keep up the great content bro
Thank you so much Andrew, you'l love it man ;)
Awesome to hear, best wishes!
Good luck union brother.
Poop runs downhill
Cold goes on the right
Don't chew on your fingernails
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This why I love RUclips because channel like this can share awesome information like this and people can be informed and educated about our modern society ways of living and how it works
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This actually helped me in my architecture course right now! just got a perfect grade! thank you Sir!
My dad worked at a wastewater treatment plant and would always say, "From the toilet to the tap."
Yup :)
@@Got2Learn not every city
OR as an old time operator once said to me: "It might be poop & pi55 to YOU, but it's my Bread and Butter"
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@@samatarmohamed2328 every city does this lol
I wonder how much work you put into this - the information flow in the video is absolutely perfect! Well done and keep it up.
You don't wanna know...thanks a lot for actually noticing that ;)
I often heard bits and pieces of the information at different times but you put it all together and the visuals were spot on! I’m using it to show my son that it may be a possible career choice. Thanks a lot!
Wow, thank you!
Basic stuff like this should be taught in school, some people will never know to unwind the chain of the terlet tank to stop it filling up constantly, like YEARS in hearing it without thinking forth in the issue. Simple visuals allow emphasis to be made onto the subject explained, that's cool man.
Totally agree with you 👍
I dug 2 large 30 foot long ditch swales for my rainwater to collect, store and water all my fruit trees...rather than running into the street. Great video!
Good choice man, well done ;)
The last part of the video should of been this is one way, most rain water / storm drains go into a local man made pond and if that over flows goes into another one close to it. This is the same for huge parking lots etc. Imagine the flooding caused if all drainage pipes etc went to rivers/ streams etc... And how polluted they would be from all the run off from roads like oil trash etc..
Which is exactly what used to happen. Thank goodness we don't do that anymore.
@@gregdubya1993 of course you do it. It's literally the only way to prevent flooding
While there may be a vortex separator or triple basin (i.e. oil and trash separator) installed within the storm system prior to the pond, the true design intent of the retention ponds is to offset the impervious surface area created by buildings, sidewalks, and roadways that does not allow water to infiltrate back into the ground. They are not designed just to keep rivers and streams clean. Rainwater is stored for a designed period of time and discharged downstream at a rate equal to, or less than, predevelopment conditions (if the homes or roads were never constructed), so as to not create flash floods or inundate the downstream storm system. Remember, storm sewer systems are only designed to accommodate a ten year rain event (small storm events) and not heavy rainfalls such as the 100 year event (a 1% chance of happening in a year). Heavy rainfalls are expected to flow across the ground in ditches and swales at specific areas called Overland Flood Routes. It’s too expensive to install complete storm sewer systems that will accommodate all the rainfall. So next time you see rainwater running through your yard through swales or in the street it was designed to do that. Problems occur when people change their yards by regrading or installing landscaping such as trees, bushes, and flower beds.
@@Kashed I don't understand are you saying putting trees, bushes, grass is bad for the rsin system?
@@leticiaaguilar7729 They are saying that the area covered by roads and roofs doesn't soak up rain water. The water is instead diverted to other ground, which can quickly saturate during a rainstorm and become unable to absorb any additional water. The water that can't soak in will "run off" into surrounding lakes or streams and cause flooding, or collect in low-lying areas which may have people living in them. Retention ponds are often dug near large buildings, communities, or roadways to contain the runoff and prevent the aforementioned flash flooding. The water caught in retention ponds will continue to soak into the ground and/or evaporate long after the storm ends, easing the burden on infrastructure and the communities served.
Never thought I'd be binge watching these for work but here I am
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No idea why this got recommended to me, but I am glad it did. Very good explanation: easy to follow, in depth yet simple.
Glad it was helpful!!!
Thank you for the video! One difference to where I live is that our water is heated using district heating. The water from the municipal source goes through a heat exchanger located at the property and gets heated by the district heating water.
Interesting!
Also important to note, collecting rainwater is illegal in some municipalities. Best to check your local laws before barrelling any rainwater.
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What??!!!!!? Why is it illegal to collect rain water? Im curious cause I've never about that law before m
@@scottforbes4933 can't tax rain water
Holla atcha boy, I gots ALL the barreled rain water you ever gonna need, the pure shit, tax free.
@@scottforbes4933 because it's a breeding ground for mosquitoes, so some places just don't want to give the mosquitoes that convenience
Great, informative video 🙂 Must watch by all home owners
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@Shadale Breary I literally asked the same question just now before reading your comment. Did you find out?
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i love this video......he explains it so well and basically shows how our entire plumbing system works in a clean neat graphical way.
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!
@@Got2Learn i just subscribed to your channel......thanks for your videos bro
@@kompshi you are most welcome, more videos like this one coming up 👌
This is amazing. I was just thinking the other day to watch a video about how plumbing works. I didn't type anything into any of my searches or look anything up on any devices and now miraculously this video popped up in my recommended algorithm.
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It's funny I'm the same way. Must be a reason...
If there was the one video I needed to watch to clarify things that was it. And that leaves me wondering hard what made YT algorithm put this one on my recommendation list... Great job. No fuss, just concentrated information.
Glad you enjoyed it!
My septic tank is under our road, lol. The road use to stop at my house and the septic tank was put in behind the road for easy access. I moved out of state for a job for a few years and we decided to move back, the road was over it. When houses were added down the road they paved over my septic tank. I called the road county manager about it, but they said there was nothing they can do about it, since it is now part of the public road system. I flush 1 gallon of buttermilk every month and it actually eats the waste. Been doing this for 16 years now. If anything happens we will have to have a new septic tank put in. Yes I did check with a lawyer and the county had the right to make the road. I found out they sent notice of the road going through, but I never received it.
Have you checked to make SURE ? I find it hard to believe that they would risk paving over something that could easily give in like a septic tank.
@@bradleyrussell1973 Positive, I was there when they put it in the ground. The road stopped at my driveway and we put it in line with the road, so if it ever needed emptied all they had to do was backup to it.
A teacher once told us, “the water your flush today can be the water you drink tomorrow”
He was totally right :)
Real shit
@barefoot arizona that's why I don't drink water😌
Slyfer now I know why UFO is among us 😂
Its clean already there so many process.
Great job--- every high schooler should be required to watch this.
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Thank you! I finally found the answers to my questions about how a plumbing system is installed outside of a municipal system.
Went to school for plumbing, almost impulsively. Never really aspired to be a plumber but was given the opportunity to go, so I went. Once I graduated, did some plumbing in the Gettysburg, Pa area and quickly decided it wasnt what I wanted to do for the rest of my life haha However, Ill never regret going to trade school. Its a good knowledge to have. Same as being able to work on your own car.
Gettysburg, being an extremely old town, had extremely old plumbing... Sometimes there was still lead pipe in the buildings. Cast Iron sucks big time because it peels away on the inside, dont really know how else to explain it. And its a nightmare to replace because it disintegrates as soon as you try to do anything to it.. PVC/ABS are amazing, low friction, doesnt degrade, LIGHTWEIGHT. You really gotta abuse a drain system to clog it up, if its been installed correctly...
Copper water lines are generally fine, until they freeze, but the same goes for PEX due to the pieces the pipe gets clamped on to. But PEX is really a cool pipe material, it stretches when the water inside freezes, and returns to normal when it thaws. The T's/90's/45's/valves/etc are the weakness. Brass is a soft metal and the water will eventually erode its way through after 15 years of use(speaking from experience in my own house). They make plastic ones, I dont have much experience with them but they feel cheap, however they may hold up better.
Finally I've found a video that explains perfectly what I've been looking to learn. Not sure how much of it is similar or completely applies to the UK but very good video nonetheless
Glad it was helpful, thank you so much!!!
This guy must be the smartiest guy, he literally helped me pass my plumbing course
Absolutely a genius
Nice!!
Modern plumbing has done more to eliminate pestulance than the who or cdc
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Love 2pac btw, cheers!
@@Got2Learn that’s my dad
You need a dictionary.
It's done nothing for coronavirus since it is not transported through water so your comment is nonsensical and retarded
Illustrations like these make it so much easier to better understand, especially if your clueless like me. Just subbed and thanks for sharing. 👊
I always enjoy how direct and informative your videos are. Thank you for not beating around the bush.
Your septic tank part was very very simplified. Bacteria consume the waste, the water is treated before being pumped out into a gravel pit or irrigation system. I doubt they'd let anyone just leak their septic water into the ground anymore. They don't in my country (Australia) anyway.
In the US the waste water from the septic leeches into the soil and doesn't need to be treated. There is nothing wrong with doing it that way if it's done right.
I might need this for when I get hit by a truck and need to build my own city
I'm so happy I found YOUR video on sewage systems. Another GREAT job! Thanks Again!
Glad it was helpful, share if you can it helps tremendously :)
This video is 7 minutes of solid gold! TY!
As a water engineer, I'd much prefer if you showed the sewage treatment plant outlet DOWNSTREAM of the drinking water intake!!
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Can you make a video explaining why some houses have a sump pump and why? And how it all works? Thanks! You make great educational videos!
Thank you! Yes i'll try to make a video about that!
welcome to anozher episode of watching this at 5:00 AM and i dont even know why
If you are having any problems with your home with Flo always call the city first to make sure it's not the mains out in the street holding to affect your house the city Mains are the city's problem, it could save you a lot of money from a plumbers visit.Rain in any ways does not effect your sewer issues unless you have so much rain the
Ground under your lawn caves in.
Sewer system one of the best thing humans made 100s of years ago and keep on improving
Another big info/tip, flushable wipes aren’t actually flushable, because they don’t breakdown like TP does and clogs pipes and those filters down the line. Don’t use flushable wipes unless you put the used ones in a trash can, maybe one like those special diaper trash cans.
I learned that lesson back in 2008. The plumber cleaned out the wipes and I got a bill for $550.00. I only flush waste and TP. My plumber that I shouldn't even flush kleenex tissue, so I stopped doing that also.
@Sindrella06 Spraying your (*)' hole with water doesn't get it 100 percent clean that's why. You really have to get up in there with toilet paper to give it a good scrubbing.
The animation had a kind of South Park feel to it. I liked it a lot
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It's almost 4 am, I can't sleep, and cant remember what rabbit hole I went through that ended me up on this video but I liked it lol
Sweeet, thank you!!
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I honestly never knew what those thin black pipes coming out of houses' roofs were for. Would never have guessed they were for the plumbing system. Amazing!
wow, you saved my time by explaining everything in just 7 minutes. thanks a lot!!
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as a DIYer, I always wondered how this engineering worked. Thank you for sharing this! Do you have anything on electricity also?
You are welcome! Unfortunately, I only run a plumbing channel, sorry!
As a roofer I'll tell you on the roof the pipe is almost always 4" and I call it a stink pipe lol
Now I am a certified plumber
People who invented water sewer system is god.Very helpful video.I am not English native so I just got 60 to 70 percent of your talking but anyway I understood the context.
Thank you this was very helpful. I'd like to build a small vacation house and have zero knowledge of construction.
The way you presented it makes it almost entirely crystal clear !
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Could you do a video explaining housing foundations,house framing, and housing styles, maybe? You would do an amazing job!!!
My dream is to buy land and build my own community for me and my family. Plumbing is something I know I need to learn meanwhile stackin
Soooooo, Google knows I eat my dinner at around 9:00.
Aaaaaaaaand, RUclips recommends this video to me at 9:10.
Okay... okay.
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I subscribe to a family friendly channel here on YT but had to delay watching one particular upload for an hour bec it was impossible to view while eating breakfast. Too early in the day to experience queasiness. 🤢
Thanks! I started a plumbing apprenticeship two weeks ago and I’m super interested in this!
Best of luck!!!!
Licensed plumber here! That was a super great explanation!! Subbed!
Awesome! Thank you!!!!
So we’re drinking piss and crap water that’s been filtered?
That’s so refreshing!
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Ahhhhhhhh
It has been cleaned out for various pathogens, but it hasn’t been cleaned out for antibiotics, various diseases etc... drinking government water is stupid.
There was something I was hoping you would have at least mentioned: black water and gray water. I only found out the difference about 3 years ago from a Tiny House course on Udemy but haven’t heard it from anywhere else, only in passing mention here and there, very seldom.
To be fair, I haven’t looked into it, but it seems it should be basic knowledge and even I don’t know. I mean, my entire life is now study everything under the black sun. PLUS I’ve been working in the trades for about 4 years. All the more reason I should have come across it more often.
I guess that is the thing with this civilized system, where everything is so specialized to the point we become ignorant to every other aspect of the world besides our employment/vocation, hobbies, and interest.
Yeah grey water is let's say the water from your sink that can be reused for non potable water :)
4:42 You can pump water from the well by hand if it's hooked up that way. No generator required.
I’m here still don’t forget me
Thanks bro!!!
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Something too many take for granted, but is advanced technology, and foundational to our present civilization, with more to come, as research and development occurs.
When I saw a random informational video with millions of views, I assumed it was a "what is a turnaround?" situation. This is much better
Great animation and graphics! Especially the toilet one! Lol!
Hehe, thank you Vincent!!
[looks at my cup of water]
Was this somebody's piss from years ago???
I've actually always wondered this, so thank you.
The most useful video RUclips has ever recommended to me. 👍
Finally, I found a video that explains it really well, I always wanted to know how the system works.
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2:03 Leach Field = Neighbours garden
Hahahaha....normally in rural areas, the neighbors are spread out quite far ;)
That's how I make a living repairing those. Happens a lot......lol
Schlohmotion 👀