Whole House Trap Removal! Plumbing Repair!
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- Опубликовано: 25 сен 2023
- Whole house traps are notorious for clogging when they are old and rough on the inside. This one clogged twice in a short period of time. We told the homeowner he should have us remove it and he chose to do so! Enjoy this short video of the process involved.
I found a amazing way to remove the lead from a hub, you cut the pipe flush with the hub and then use a hole saw to remove the lead and the pipe falls right out:)
Lead chips and dust-lead particles are no joke.
buildup and roughness is one issue, but the bigger issue is "low flow" everything. the toilets no longer send enough water to keep the lines cleaned out, not many people hand wash dishes and drain sinks full of water, same for taking showers instead of soaking in the tub. water usage way down, problems way up^^^
Awesome 👍
lets see you do it to old corroded pipe AND what happens when the hub is junk... so many easy vids. we'd all like to see a challenge!
The more knowledge, experience and skills you have, the easier tricky tasks like this get. I’ll try to get a really tricky one on film for you.
Are the old cast iron fresh air vents no longer needed? Or do they have a vent outside in the yard?
A fresh air vent is no longer needed here, because there isn’t a trap. The fresh air vent aids the flow of sewage through the house trap in an attempt to prevent temporary air lock. Hope that answers your question.
Nice Video. Why did you go with ABS instead of PVC in this application? Thanks!
ABS is the preferred pipe choice where we are located. We pipe everything in ABS, unless there is a repair needed to PVC piping, and even then we transition a lot of that to ABS.
I haven’t done plumbing in a long time I would prefer to keep my house trap,but I can see it being unnecessary in certain areas, but I would still want to keep my fresh air, when you look up the definition of the fresh air it doesn’t mention anything about the house trap. not in the plumbing code in my area. I believe it was a keeps the atmospheric pressure balanced within the plumbing system or some bullshit like that. But in my case, after the hurricane the sewer is backed up, and the water went out my fresh air and not into my house, which was very nice, so I would never get rid of my fresh air.
You cannot have a fresh air vent without a house trap. It’s not allowed. You would have to cap it, and it would serve as a cleanout. If your homes sewer line has a likelihood to back up during storms, then you should have a back water valve installed.
whole house traps date back to the time when toilets and sinks didn't have traps, they also didn't have venting out the roofs. the trap kept the street sewer gasses from coming back into the home, but obviously did nothing for your own stink-moat and sinks(lol).
the vent could also double as an overflow if all the fixtures and holes were above it's height, it would dump outside, but often the caps are loose, missing, leaking and they've added drains/fixtures lower than the vent over the years. pretty much obsolete stupidity now days, which should be removed from any requirements and code (new/replumb), providing the building has a vent out the roof and everything is trapped.
nice
use a holesaw to remove lead and oakum
I would definitely like to try that trick out in the future.
Never seen these before in a house in my area. What part of the country?
We are in the northeast. We see them fairly often. But we try to remove them whenever possible.
@@valenzaplumbing Never seen this in any of the old houses in Connecticut I've lived in. Interesting 🤔
Thats the biggest mistake you can make. Now the swer gases are gona come inside
That’s not true, at all. The internet runs rampant with misinformation. Please refrain from commenting if you don’t know the facts.
@@valenzaplumbing let me ask I have an expensive plumbing problem at my hands im going to have to do something soon enough. I come from the city of New York, and moved to the O.C in the state, I have house trap and the line is weak as fuck nothing like city apartments. I have a plumbing company that says remove your house trap because I have septic and that its one part of the problem with back ups in my house the u-shape and I have another person who has a great plumber license who works his own business and tells me DONT REMOVE IT AND DONT LISTEN TO THE PLUMBER FROM THE COMPANY. I need to be able to flush my toilet and not worry about what toilet tissue I flushed through it what should I do?
A 4” TY on its back? Not where I live.
Not where we live either. I didn’t put it in lol.
Foundation block badly cracked where the pipe was coming in at.
I am only a plumber and can only fix what I can fix.
If you have the right holesaw size, you can use it to drill out the lead on the cast iron hub , plumber from North California
Same thing on ABS and PVC fittings instead if using a reamer
I prefer a house trap it does protect the house
Just curious what the house traps protects against, that a trap on each individual fixture doesn’t? Just like to hear others opinions on the matter!
@@valenzaplumbing for the record my local inspector has also eliminated the need for a house trap. This is something I have struggled with back when I was an apprentice 40 years ago because it is written that you are not allowed to have a double trap on anyting but as soon as you install a house trap everything in the house is technically a double trap. So I would ask a question with these inspectors and they would say it would protect the house. And now all these years later I mainly do residential service. And as part of my service I will do a walkthrough for my customers mainly elderly people. Also young people that just don't know. Everything from where their main shut off his furnace filters dryer vents etc etc etc. So many times I walk into the basements and there's an old toilet that has no water in it a second bathroom that hasn't been used with no water in the bathtub the sink or the toilet then I'll explain to them that once in awhile the water needs to be run in these fixtures. And you'll be surprised it only takes one or two weeks in the heating season the water in the traps have evaporated. So that being said that's why I think the house trap is very important. God bless and Fish on
@@ricklee827 That’s actually a good point.
Maybe get a tripod and show more of the actual work? You could put an edited short up, that links to the full video. A lot of us watch these to learn how to do this stuff, so seeing the work is what I'm hoping for.
Your explanations and pointing stuff out isn't nothing, it's still good, but including the work would be even better.
Check out the newest video and let me know what you think!
@@valenzaplumbing Yes, Whole Home Re-Pipe! was really good. I subscribed and I hope other do as well - you guys deserve it because of the high quality plumbing work you do.
easy money, 2k i would charge for that job, minimum is 2k.
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No trap for the sewer gas.
There’s a trap on every single fixture in the home.