Yes, it makes me feel better about the work I did to install a replacement water softener after the old one's valves were seized in the bypass position with age
Love your videos! I have been working for 13 years as a plumber in Sweden so it is interesting watching all the different things you do over in the US compared to over here in northern Europe! If I ever travel to texas I would love to join for a day haha
Hey, I think that kitchen faucet to shower conversion is pure genius. Just proves that if you think about a problem long enough, and drink the proper beverages you can solve any problem.
I’m glad I found this channel. I’m not a plumber necessarily. I’m a licensed water system operator for a municipality in a state with the first public drinking water system in the US. There are still sections of wooden water mains in use today. Crazy doesn’t begin to describe some of the things I’ve seen. It’s nice to see that I’m not alone.
There are only 2 reasons you should use one of those flex pipes. 1. You're plumbing a camper or some other outdoor thing 2. As a temporary fix so the people can still use their sink until it can be properly fixed
Roger Wakefield, 4:15 hey who ever connected this up was saving a little dough; he was saying to himself "I have that salvaged faucet, I can make this work... !!!"
Mr. Wakefield as a ICC Certified building official and a state licensed plumbing inspector I love your videos and believe it or not I’ve learned a few things from you and I appreciate that I think I’ll plumbers and even inspectors need people like you that keep us on our toes thank you for your service
Mr.Wakefield I got a plumbing job, your interview video really helped #1 statement I remembered, "what time do you start" never ask what time we're done thank you so much sir
For my water line, I still have to cut out some of the old galvanized pipe in my basement, re-adjust the new lines and put in some elbows instead of bending my pipe (using pex). It got to the point of me just wanting water back so I did what I had to do to get it back on. No leaks, and was my first time soldering to copper pipe in a few spots like the inlet and by the hot water tank.
The rough in pipes in the cabinet at 5-6 minutes are clearly for a sink next to an ice machine. I love the way some plumber gets trash talked for a perfectly good rough in.
I'm a irrigation technician for over 13 years... I see everything that you see inside homes...outside.....so probably even more ridiculous than you can imagine. Love the content, keep up the good work!
Its true what you say about the flux, I am a gas engineer in the uk and I was called to a leak where someone had fluxed some copper around the meter but had forgotten to solder it. They did a tightness test and it was gas tight from the flux. Few days later the flux dried out... big smell of gas! Flux will seal end feed copper together... until it dries
Bollocks! I HATE when that happens. Friend of mine had a new house built, found one bathroom sink water shutoff valve wasn't soldered, and another had a leaking valve that was allegedly new out of the box.
7:32 i had to do something like this for a sink. The reason Being that the sink was replaced when we replaced the counter, and the drains no longer lined up, so the normal P trap didn’t fit anymore and we’d have to physically move the drain. So we had to use an accordion flex pipe. Not a professional so it was a diy hack job at best, but it’s holding ok so far, it’s not a sink that gets used a ton anyways.
Ok Roger, I am sorry brother, when you flashed the "Retro Roger" pic, all I saw was a 1970's album cover. For a limited time only you can own "Songs of the plumber" by Roger Wakefield!! songs you love like: "Down the Drain with my love", "Drain snaking my way back to you" and that one hit wonder " Expandable pipe, Not for me babe!" and many more!. (sorry Roger, I had to go there)
I work for a GC, one project (over 400 key retirement community) the plumber had the hot and cold reversed on every single sink and shower. Not the craziest mistake but multiply that by 2,000...
Just purchased a mobile home which happens to have poly-b water pipes. Going to immediately rip that crap out and replace it with PEX, your videos of awful plumbing give me more confidence that I'm not as incompetent as I often think I am and will probably be able to do it decently.
That's great advice about being a good rough in plumber, to do top-outs not only top-outs but your top-outs. Half assing laying out walls/backfilling whatever it may be, does not save the company time. Check your overall measurements. Also when we check it, and find out that one of our guys messed up and we got the super and the homeowner there it makes all of us look bad when you miss a wall. Thankfully I was always in every stage of plumbing. And I wasn't the fastest on every stage, but I wasn't pulling the chipping hammer off my truck. A little extra time on the rough in equates to alot of time saved in the top-out and trim.
I'm no longer in the trades industry, but several years ago when I was an apprentice plumber, we went to a job to fix a frozen and busted water line in a crawl space on copper... Cut and dry job until we noticed the gas lines, the entire house was ran with 1" and 3/4 SCH 40 PVC gas lines. The home owner had recently purchased the house without an inspection, and needless to say the lines were replaced with Wardflex and black iron ASAP.
This is the same with electrical. I used to work for a company who had guys that refused to trim out. They did sloppy rough ins and I couldn’t stand going behind. If everyone had to finish they’re own rough in, the world would be a better place.
I hate having to listen to water try to go through accordion pipes when I’m at air B&B’s because it sounds stupid and makes me wonder who installed it.
You should see the plumbing in the 89 trailer I'm renting. The back bathroom is directly above where the plumbing drops into the septic, yet they ran it back to the other side of the trailer to the main bathroom where it ties in and flows back in a separate pipe. We've had plumbing issues since we first moved in, and some weeks the spare bathroom is unusable.
I am a rough in fire sprinkler pipe fitter. I've had the opportunity to see lots of plumbers rough-in work.... This just got me thinking of a job site that I worked in Tampa, where they used PEX through the entire job. And it was incredibly satisfying to look at how well it was installed.... Rough-in always looks better than service. No building inspector comes out to check out service work done, so you got to hope you have a good plumber.
That last one looks like a Pex adapter and whom ever did it could get in there with the crimpers so they wrapped teflon around the ribs of the fitting to try to make it water tight. LOL
If you can not get the crimper in for the proper crimp fitting you could get an automotive worm gear hose clamp with a screw driver/hex head on it and tighten that up enough to make it water tight. Not the proper way to do it but you would have the advantage of being able to loosen it and pull the hose off in the future without needing to cut the crimp off.
I live in a mobile home that I bought about 3 years ago. When I came in, I discovered that all the sink drains (kitchen and bathroom) were all just stunned out under the cabinets and never connected to drain pipes and that is the way they used it, can tell by all the water damage. Then I discovered the bathtub just drained under the mobile home. The toilet was connected to a drain pipe and ran over to the pipe going to the septic system, but was never connected to the septic pipe. They left a 1 inch gap between the tub drain pipe and the septic pipe. I had to redo the entire drain system connecting everything up properly. The water lines all work, but there is a spaghetti mess of pipes in the closet where the water heater is. I haven't taken the time yet to fix all of that mess yet since it was working.
Unfortunately they put those right next to the p traps in the plumbing department. One time i was almost frustrated enough to buy one but came to my senses
They're not up to code here in NJ yet they still sell them at Home Depot, Lowe's, ect. You see them in a lot of DIY homeowners houses, had a guy call me because he was getting a sewer gas smell from his bathroom sink, turns out it was because bacteria was stuck in the folds before the p trap
@@richardelliott9511 it's not worth it when you can offset the waste with a 22° or 45°, I'm not gonna lie when I 1st started plumbing 7 years ago my 1st year doing it my uncle hired me to do a new kitchen sink in his house and I used the accordion extension tail piece and an accordion trap because i barely knew what i was doing at the time but after 6 months of working I went back and installed it the correct way
I was looking at a house to potentially buy a few years ago down here in Florida and we were walking around doing a look about. I was checking in closets etc and came across a closet near the kitchen, inside of it was a 40 gallon electric water heater and how they plumbed the lines in just astonished me. They had garden hose, and black fuel line feeding in the water lines,I believe it was 13 hose clamps all up and down this Frankenstein"plumbing" then for the heater expansion valve on top of the tank, they used that clear reinforced vinyl tubing that just went into a wall, I had no idea if it went outside or anything. I just couldn't believe those hoses and hose clamps held high temperature 60psi for so many years. We didn't buy the house.....
2:15 for everyone else, the idea being you don't want your hot and cold lines rubbing against each other, it's just inefficient. But also I'd like to comment, did the guy run out of elbows before going into the wall? lol.
Lived South Texas for 4 and 1/2 years and some of the stuff I saw was just as bad ! Almost every house I went to had the bath tubs set with the Faucet on the outside wall ( brick houses ) with tile walls . If the faucet was leaking you COULD NOT replace the faucet without destroying the tile ! There was one plumbing supplier that maintained a huge supply of valve seats and faucet washers for every type of faucet ! Then comes the fun of trying to remove the seat without destroying it so you could match it at the supplier ! Most of these houses were built in the 50's,60's, 70's !
Couple months ago I found a compression fitting in a 15 year old house hand tight on a copper line, never leaked on the shutoff was there to replace the dishwasher supply line. couldn't believe it, I could spin the ferule around freely
I am a forensic architect. How have I not seen this channel before? Granted my specialty is building envelope, roofing, and waterproofing, but occasionally I trace leaks back to the plumbing. This first example is a nightmare. I have always hated pex after I attended a test of a system in an assisted living facility. They pressurized the system and every single "pipe" blew at the manifolds. I don't even call it piping. Its fish tank tubing, period. Gimme COPPER!
i've seen that last one a couple times, they teflon the pex adapter and usually use a hose clap on the pex pipe, the hose clap could have rotted off at some point here. Some people man i swear.
I am a self-employed plumber in New York State with 34 year's experience. I have seen some ridiculous/ terrible PEX installation's usually done by HANDY MEN that claim they do PLUMBING too. A PEX installation can look like MODERN ART if done and HUNG correctly.
I'm a fire alarm and suppression technician in Texas and yes... You definitely gotta fight to keep your license... And you gotta keep your career from looking like a used car salesmen does after people like those in these pictures do this stuff...
The one with all the PEX I would have used a Manablock so each run has a separate shutoff. The one time I have been told to tie hot and cold together was when you are running to a toilet but you need a mixing valve to control how much hot goes in. This is to prevent your toilets from sweating due to humidity and cold water.
Hi Roger, great videos and info. I had flashbacks of my 20 years as a Union Pipe Layer ( underground ultilities of all types incl. surface reclamation etc ) I wish i had a video of an experience I witnessed f a co worker in a deep man hole at the bottom of a steep street, removing an 8 " T handled mechanical type plug from the down inlet to the man hole from the pipes up hill. He did not tie it off before loosening the plug so as it loosened, the preasure blew the plug into the man hole directly into the out fall exit side of the flow and pluged it ! The water rushed in so fast that the sewage almost drowned him as he scrambled up the ladder. He had been engulfed at times and climbed out of the man hole with toilet paper and sewage driping from head to toe. It was an unsafe thing that ended up being hilarious ! A veteran journeyman should have known better ! lol.
Hello, I just bought a new home and the basement is half finished. I'm handy enough to finish, however there was the beginning of a bathroom. There is a stone shower and the feed lines for a sink and toilet. Is there a way I can check to make sure the drains are actually hooked up?
I dont have a picture but I used to work at a mom and pop hardware store, local handy man (not a plumber) comes in with the wild 9 in long stack of compression adapters with a speedy valve in the middle he found under a customers sink, he knows its crazy but just wants to replace the one leaking adapter at the top becuase i looks too complicated for him to sort out. it was a .5 inch straight male speedy valve with adapters on the pipe side to make it compression and adapters on the compression side to make it .5 inch pipe thread. I unscrewed the adapters and slowly flipped it upside down till he realized what was going on. I cant remeber if I scraped the brass or if I just resold those adapters. I hope I explained that right it was a long time ago now
10:30 What should I use instead of flex? The one at my laundry is old and I recently had to bend it in order to stop it from leaking, since the plastic has hardened with the years, lost elasticity and seems to have a small cut. Should I replace it with another one or use another type of thing? It´s for a sink.
I used an accordion pipe as a drain on a fish cleaning table on the side of the house. Just to keep the draining water from going down on my feet. Aimed it back away from me and it works great.
I have been plumbing for 20 years and I'm a master plumber. Some of the things I have seen other plumbers do is almost worse than some of the work I have seen home owners do
In the third picture one of the cold could be a sleeve for a refrigerator,ice maker, ect. But just speaking for myself i like to use 3/4 for sleeves. So the soft copper pulls nice.
Here's one for ya, 3" drain main line for a house, goes to the stub from the ground 4"which is at an angle of about 22.5 off from the 3"..... someone took a 3" sanitary 90, followed imediately by a 45 and just stuck into the bell of the SDR 35 4", and duct taped to seal it up......
"Okay, whatever is coming out of the wall...that is a whole crazy thing." 🤣🤣 every time I watch your videos I'm either laughing hysterically or screaming no at the screen lol
Some crazy stuff there. I have to admit that I'm guilty of one a bit quirky install in the US where an European shower faucet was installed and the quirk there is that the Euro copper pipes are metric, the US aren't. So there was some additional dimension transitions involved, all using copper and brass. But the next plumber will have to scratch their heads a bit on that one. As for accordion drain - I can consider it on RVs where there's a lot of movement and vibration causing normal pipes to crack.
6:11 I think the ball valve and the cold line above it is roughed for a 1/2 PRV going to the toilet. It may be tied into a 100 psi sprinkler system line so the toilet can keep fresh water in the sprinkler system. ✨✨✨
as a kinda do it all handyman im even perplexed at some of the crazy i see on here. in the early 2000s i became a home inspector just because of the scam jobs on here. love videos and keep them coming.
I am really enjoying the videos on the weird plumbing set ups. I use PVC pipe to make frames that hold plant lights for my light loving plants and also to start seeds for the garden. PVC is cheap and easy to work with. win-win
Teflon tape is banned in my shop. We have to use Permatex with PTFE. Teflon tape particulates can crash a sleeve or kingsbury bearings if they get in the oil costing, in some cases, hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. Over taping can cause issues down the line and potentially prove costly. I really enjoy the videos and Ive learned alot so far. I'm just an electrical motor mechanic but Ive been able to adapt some of the things you teach into plumbing the large motors that hold gallons of oil in their sumps and have fittings everywhere. Thanks for doing what you do. If i see some messed up plumbing some incoming motors, ill be sure to send a couple pictures.
Just when you think you've seen it all. I can tell how a person will use a tool if their mechanically inclined or not, and I've had to let those people go. I'm thinking of starting my own channel to show how it's supposed to be done right. Some of the soldering I've seen on RUclips would not pass my inspection. Good job Roger. 😎👍
The video at the end reminded me when our flex hose brust in our first home my parents own. It leaked down into my room and ruined my sister's brand new mattress which was in a little room with our electrical box. As well we had to find the water shut off which was in the downstairs frezzing cold bathroom. Lucky our insurance covered most of it but i was stuck out in our den for a bit then the craft/guset room while they fixed my ceiling and redid my floor.
How could you miss that on the first video, the flue coming up from the water heater shall be 1' straight up before making any bends, looks like it's only 6" before they put that 45° on it
The accordion Style pipe that you showed in your video I see a lot in HVAC in mobile homes for the drain. Also Mini splits. But never as home plumbing. Most of it is used as condensate drain for AC systems In mobile homes and mini splits
Some older houses had whole house P-traps under the house or in the basement so they did not have to install P-traps on every water drain in the house.
The flex pipe is designed for temporary repairs. That way you can keep things up and running until you can get a professional, or fix it yourself. It works great for its intended use.
The first one where you said it looks like both the hot/cold were linked up at that particular point...It looks too dark to be linked up, more like it looks like both the hot/cold plumbing share the same hole that's been drilled into the wall. Only reason i say that is if you look at the point where both the red and blue piping vanishes the black area has a distinct curve to it so what i think they did is they just used a single hole so they didn't have to drill more than what was needed.
The vent for the gas water heater is too short. It should have a 12" rise before the elbow, otherwise you trip the sensor as gases don't have enough room to rise before being _pushed_ back from the restriction and setting a code.
it's an older home, judging by the 3 prong/3wire dryer outlet on the wall to left, So I'd guess a minimally evasive replumb was done. the pex kind of looks older, so the water heater max have just been swapped by that company and nothing else. granted they probably should have opted for a short model, it likely got what they had stocked in a last minute swap.
Commercial right after the Glacier Bay kitchen/shower faucet "What I love about being a home inspector...". Somehow, I doubt they knew where their commercial was going to show up, but it made for a funny transition.
Thanks Roger...I was a little skeptic on some of your video when you couldnt tell from one thing to another.... on one of the video there was a pipe burst and the guys tried to repair it ...that's call "on the fly" I done that so many times ...it's because there is no shut off valve... they could had froze the pipe ....but man...freezing the pipe is a lot more work... I hated that ....and the machine is not cheap. I'm glad I retired from plumbing myself....I regret it now...my hand are all dented and arthritis on both hands.
Do you want to see more plumbing reaction vids?
Roger Wakefield yes please also nice intro pic. I was like they kind of tried more then others.
Yes
Yes, it makes me feel better about the work I did to install a replacement water softener after the old one's valves were seized in the bypass position with age
Those weren't threads, it was a hose barb adapter wrapped in Teflon tape and shoved into the end of that line.
Watching the thumbnail.. plumbing umbrella 😎
I have no interest in plumbing what so ever but this channel pops into my recommended and I clicked on the video and now I am subscribed
Yep that was me a few weeks ago lol
Yep-
same lmao
Slammed
Same here. I don't understand why I enjoy this.
Haha that's a good one..."so far outside the box, they may never find their way back in"
Love your videos! I have been working for 13 years as a plumber in Sweden so it is interesting watching all the different things you do over in the US compared to over here in northern Europe! If I ever travel to texas I would love to join for a day haha
"Rube Goldberg Plumbing, how may I help you?"
I don't know what you're "supposed" to use accordion pipe for but I use it to make mazes for my rats...
I think that is the only use.
We use it to keep the moisture out of electricals that we run through potentially humid areas.
@@IxodesPersulcatus Good to know. Thanks!
Must be some small rats. Would be very uncomfortable for biggies.
Gutter drains for eavestroughs and that’s about it.
Hey, I think that kitchen faucet to shower conversion is pure genius. Just proves that if you think about a problem long enough, and drink the proper beverages you can solve any problem.
I was actually impressed lol. I mean, imagine it from a, "I scavenged all these things" in a shtf scenario. I might want that guy on my side lol.
You should have seen the responses I got when I shared that faucet on Facebook & claimed I did it myself. That was a good time 🤣
@@BlueCollarBoom I could imagine lol.
I’m glad I found this channel. I’m not a plumber necessarily. I’m a licensed water system operator for a municipality in a state with the first public drinking water system in the US. There are still sections of wooden water mains in use today. Crazy doesn’t begin to describe some of the things I’ve seen. It’s nice to see that I’m not alone.
There are only 2 reasons you should use one of those flex pipes.
1. You're plumbing a camper or some other outdoor thing
2. As a temporary fix so the people can still use their sink until it can be properly fixed
Roger Wakefield, 4:15 hey who ever connected this up was saving a little dough; he was saying to himself "I have that salvaged faucet, I can make this work... !!!"
What he is saying is that the money saved isn't worth the time wasted and the shoddy outcome.
I’ve never searched plumbing before but I have not stopped watching you today and you’ve opened my eyes to plumbing
Mr. Wakefield as a ICC Certified building official and a state licensed plumbing inspector I love your videos and believe it or not I’ve learned a few things from you and I appreciate that I think I’ll plumbers and even inspectors need people like you that keep us on our toes thank you for your service
Mr.Wakefield I got a plumbing job, your interview video really helped #1 statement I remembered, "what time do you start" never ask what time we're done thank you so much sir
For my water line, I still have to cut out some of the old galvanized pipe in my basement, re-adjust the new lines and put in some elbows instead of bending my pipe (using pex). It got to the point of me just wanting water back so I did what I had to do to get it back on. No leaks, and was my first time soldering to copper pipe in a few spots like the inlet and by the hot water tank.
The rough in pipes in the cabinet at 5-6 minutes are clearly for a sink next to an ice machine. I love the way some plumber gets trash talked for a perfectly good rough in.
I'm a irrigation technician for over 13 years... I see everything that you see inside homes...outside.....so probably even more ridiculous than you can imagine. Love the content, keep up the good work!
Its true what you say about the flux, I am a gas engineer in the uk and I was called to a leak where someone had fluxed some copper around the meter but had forgotten to solder it. They did a tightness test and it was gas tight from the flux. Few days later the flux dried out... big smell of gas! Flux will seal end feed copper together... until it dries
Bollocks! I HATE when that happens. Friend of mine had a new house built, found one bathroom sink water shutoff valve wasn't soldered, and another had a leaking valve that was allegedly new out of the box.
I appreciate that you used the pointer mouse! Love that you guys are on top of the comments!! So awesome!!!!!
7:32 i had to do something like this for a sink. The reason Being that the sink was replaced when we replaced the counter, and the drains no longer lined up, so the normal P trap didn’t fit anymore and we’d have to physically move the drain. So we had to use an accordion flex pipe. Not a professional so it was a diy hack job at best, but it’s holding ok so far, it’s not a sink that gets used a ton anyways.
I'd love to hear about some of your funniest, weirdest and and most embarrassing moments throughout your plumbing career.
Ok Roger, I am sorry brother, when you flashed the "Retro Roger" pic, all I saw was a 1970's album cover. For a limited time only you can own "Songs of the plumber" by Roger Wakefield!! songs you love like: "Down the Drain with my love", "Drain snaking my way back to you" and that one hit wonder " Expandable pipe, Not for me babe!" and many more!. (sorry Roger, I had to go there)
I wish he saw this, such a wasted comment.
My father was a plumber and I gotta say, your channel is addictive as hell lol keep up the great content my dude. Cheers!
6:03 the ball valve on the left is the incoming water service for the house. I've seen that once before.
looks that way, seemingly it's black poly pipe judging by the hose clamp underneath it.
I work for a GC, one project (over 400 key retirement community) the plumber had the hot and cold reversed on every single sink and shower. Not the craziest mistake but multiply that by 2,000...
Ohh man let's go your videos always brighten my day
Just purchased a mobile home which happens to have poly-b water pipes. Going to immediately rip that crap out and replace it with PEX, your videos of awful plumbing give me more confidence that I'm not as incompetent as I often think I am and will probably be able to do it decently.
That's great advice about being a good rough in plumber, to do top-outs not only top-outs but your top-outs. Half assing laying out walls/backfilling whatever it may be, does not save the company time. Check your overall measurements. Also when we check it, and find out that one of our guys messed up and we got the super and the homeowner there it makes all of us look bad when you miss a wall. Thankfully I was always in every stage of plumbing. And I wasn't the fastest on every stage, but I wasn't pulling the chipping hammer off my truck. A little extra time on the rough in equates to alot of time saved in the top-out and trim.
I bet those lines going into the clean-out are a relief valve, t&p or something, or a condensate drain, and the smaller is from a condensate pump
Yeah, the small one was a condensate. I don't remember what the pex was being used for.
I'd guess washer/dishwasher drain and water softener the small line :)
I'm no longer in the trades industry, but several years ago when I was an apprentice plumber, we went to a job to fix a frozen and busted water line in a crawl space on copper... Cut and dry job until we noticed the gas lines, the entire house was ran with 1" and 3/4 SCH 40 PVC gas lines. The home owner had recently purchased the house without an inspection, and needless to say the lines were replaced with Wardflex and black iron ASAP.
You can't use black iron on water galvanized steel brass copper and pex black iron is for gas unless you use gas tight which is flexible gas line
This is the same with electrical. I used to work for a company who had guys that refused to trim out. They did sloppy rough ins and I couldn’t stand going behind. If everyone had to finish they’re own rough in, the world would be a better place.
Hot and cold lines are going through a hole in the first one and aren’t tied together . But this is crazy haha
I hate having to listen to water try to go through accordion pipes when I’m at air B&B’s because it sounds stupid and makes me wonder who installed it.
The first one looks like a children's museum exhibit
looks like the thing in hair cutterys with the wooden things you slide around while you wait for mom to finish getting her hair done
You should see the plumbing in the 89 trailer I'm renting. The back bathroom is directly above where the plumbing drops into the septic, yet they ran it back to the other side of the trailer to the main bathroom where it ties in and flows back in a separate pipe. We've had plumbing issues since we first moved in, and some weeks the spare bathroom is unusable.
I am a rough in fire sprinkler pipe fitter. I've had the opportunity to see lots of plumbers rough-in work....
This just got me thinking of a job site that I worked in Tampa, where they used PEX through the entire job. And it was incredibly satisfying to look at how well it was installed....
Rough-in always looks better than service. No building inspector comes out to check out service work done, so you got to hope you have a good plumber.
That last one looks like a Pex adapter and whom ever did it could get in there with the crimpers so they wrapped teflon around the ribs of the fitting to try to make it water tight. LOL
Precisely.
If you can not get the crimper in for the proper crimp fitting you could get an automotive worm gear hose clamp with a screw driver/hex head on it and tighten that up enough to make it water tight. Not the proper way to do it but you would have the advantage of being able to loosen it and pull the hose off in the future without needing to cut the crimp off.
Hot & cold looks like it's going through the wall
I live in a mobile home that I bought about 3 years ago. When I came in, I discovered that all the sink drains (kitchen and bathroom) were all just stunned out under the cabinets and never connected to drain pipes and that is the way they used it, can tell by all the water damage. Then I discovered the bathtub just drained under the mobile home. The toilet was connected to a drain pipe and ran over to the pipe going to the septic system, but was never connected to the septic pipe. They left a 1 inch gap between the tub drain pipe and the septic pipe. I had to redo the entire drain system connecting everything up properly. The water lines all work, but there is a spaghetti mess of pipes in the closet where the water heater is. I haven't taken the time yet to fix all of that mess yet since it was working.
I think the accordion pipe is used for small pool pumps or something like that. Only thing I’ve seen it on that makes sense.
Unfortunately they put those right next to the p traps in the plumbing department. One time i was almost frustrated enough to buy one but came to my senses
They're not up to code here in NJ yet they still sell them at Home Depot, Lowe's, ect. You see them in a lot of DIY homeowners houses, had a guy call me because he was getting a sewer gas smell from his bathroom sink, turns out it was because bacteria was stuck in the folds before the p trap
I do pools and wouldn't touch the accordian stuff for that either.
@@richardelliott9511 it's not worth it when you can offset the waste with a 22° or 45°, I'm not gonna lie when I 1st started plumbing 7 years ago my 1st year doing it my uncle hired me to do a new kitchen sink in his house and I used the accordion extension tail piece and an accordion trap because i barely knew what i was doing at the time but after 6 months of working I went back and installed it the correct way
I was looking at a house to potentially buy a few years ago down here in Florida and we were walking around doing a look about. I was checking in closets etc and came across a closet near the kitchen, inside of it was a 40 gallon electric water heater and how they plumbed the lines in just astonished me. They had garden hose, and black fuel line feeding in the water lines,I believe it was 13 hose clamps all up and down this Frankenstein"plumbing" then for the heater expansion valve on top of the tank, they used that clear reinforced vinyl tubing that just went into a wall, I had no idea if it went outside or anything. I just couldn't believe those hoses and hose clamps held high temperature 60psi for so many years. We didn't buy the house.....
2:15 for everyone else, the idea being you don't want your hot and cold lines rubbing against each other, it's just inefficient. But also I'd like to comment, did the guy run out of elbows before going into the wall? lol.
The glacier bay kitchen faucet photos look like something out of a crime scene documentary
Lived South Texas for 4 and 1/2 years and some of the stuff I saw was just as bad ! Almost every house I went to had the bath tubs set with the Faucet on the outside wall ( brick houses ) with tile walls . If the faucet was leaking you COULD NOT replace the faucet without destroying the tile ! There was one plumbing supplier that maintained a huge supply of valve seats and faucet washers for every type of faucet ! Then comes the fun of trying to remove the seat without destroying it so you could match it at the supplier ! Most of these houses were built in the 50's,60's, 70's !
Couple months ago I found a compression fitting in a 15 year old house hand tight on a copper line, never leaked on the shutoff was there to replace the dishwasher supply line. couldn't believe it, I could spin the ferule around freely
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I am a forensic architect. How have I not seen this channel before? Granted my specialty is building envelope, roofing, and waterproofing, but occasionally I trace leaks back to the plumbing. This first example is a nightmare. I have always hated pex after I attended a test of a system in an assisted living facility. They pressurized the system and every single "pipe" blew at the manifolds. I don't even call it piping. Its fish tank tubing, period. Gimme COPPER!
I think the hot and cold that look like theyre tied together go through the wall. Love your videos always a good laugh.
This is some of the most fantastic art I have ever seen!
Art? Hmmmmm......
i've seen that last one a couple times, they teflon the pex adapter and usually use a hose clap on the pex pipe, the hose clap could have rotted off at some point here. Some people man i swear.
Oh God
I am a self-employed plumber in New York State with 34 year's experience. I have seen some ridiculous/ terrible PEX installation's usually done by HANDY MEN that claim they do PLUMBING too. A PEX installation can look like MODERN ART if done and HUNG correctly.
The accordion thing is a plumbing part. Lowes and HD sell it. It's a nightmare and should of never been invented but it is a plumbing fitting.
I'm a fire alarm and suppression technician in Texas and yes... You definitely gotta fight to keep your license... And you gotta keep your career from looking like a used car salesmen does after people like those in these pictures do this stuff...
The one with all the PEX I would have used a Manablock so each run has a separate
shutoff. The one time I have been told to tie hot and cold together was when you are running to a toilet but you need a mixing valve to control how much hot goes in. This is to prevent your toilets from sweating due to humidity and cold water.
Yes this was from a real plumber and we live in Maine
Hi Roger, great videos and info. I had flashbacks of my 20 years as a Union Pipe Layer ( underground ultilities of all types incl. surface reclamation etc ) I wish i had a video of an experience I witnessed f a co worker in a deep man hole at the bottom of a steep street, removing an 8 " T handled mechanical type plug from the down inlet to the man hole from the pipes up hill. He did not tie it off before loosening the plug so as it loosened, the preasure blew the plug into the man hole directly into the out fall exit side of the flow and pluged it ! The water rushed in so fast that the sewage almost drowned him as he scrambled up the ladder. He had been engulfed at times and climbed out of the man hole with toilet paper and sewage driping from head to toe. It was an unsafe thing that ended up being hilarious ! A veteran journeyman should have known better ! lol.
8:55 Most likely draining HVAC. but without a proper trap, that's scary.
The second picture. He used the interior of a mobile home 8inch shower valve. The crazy thing is fml by ml by fml after. Lol
Hello,
I just bought a new home and the basement is half finished. I'm handy enough to finish, however there was the beginning of a bathroom. There is a stone shower and the feed lines for a sink and toilet. Is there a way I can check to make sure the drains are actually hooked up?
No clue why I keep getting your videos recommended to me but so far haven't been disappointed. For some reason your vids are super satisfying...
“You gotta love it” never thought I’d love a Plummer more
Is a Plummer someone who picks plums? Lol
joe m close enough
I dont have a picture but I used to work at a mom and pop hardware store, local handy man (not a plumber) comes in with the wild 9 in long stack of compression adapters with a speedy valve in the middle he found under a customers sink, he knows its crazy but just wants to replace the one leaking adapter at the top becuase i looks too complicated for him to sort out. it was a .5 inch straight male speedy valve with adapters on the pipe side to make it compression and adapters on the compression side to make it .5 inch pipe thread. I unscrewed the adapters and slowly flipped it upside down till he realized what was going on. I cant remeber if I scraped the brass or if I just resold those adapters. I hope I explained that right it was a long time ago now
10:30 What should I use instead of flex? The one at my laundry is old and I recently had to bend it in order to stop it from leaking, since the plastic has hardened with the years, lost elasticity and seems to have a small cut. Should I replace it with another one or use another type of thing? It´s for a sink.
12:00 looks like they tried to glue it into the tubing or maybe just wrap it with some of that pink teflon tape.
I started working the plumbing department in a Lowe’s. Now I watch these videos to understand wtf I’m looking at and this is all funny as heck to me
I used an accordion pipe as a drain on a fish cleaning table on the side of the house. Just to keep the draining water from going down on my feet. Aimed it back away from me and it works great.
I have been plumbing for 20 years and I'm a master plumber. Some of the things I have seen other plumbers do is almost worse than some of the work I have seen home owners do
Ain't that the truth.
We can call the accordion pipe a temp fix until a plumber can get in lol.
The hot and cold you thought were tied in look like there’s a hole leading elsewhere rather than an elbow
In the third picture one of the cold could be a sleeve for a refrigerator,ice maker, ect. But just speaking for myself i like to use 3/4 for sleeves. So the soft copper pulls nice.
Here's one for ya, 3" drain main line for a house, goes to the stub from the ground 4"which is at an angle of about 22.5 off from the 3"..... someone took a 3" sanitary 90, followed imediately by a 45 and just stuck into the bell of the SDR 35 4", and duct taped to seal it up......
Duck tape doesn't pass code on your area??
"Okay, whatever is coming out of the wall...that is a whole crazy thing." 🤣🤣 every time I watch your videos I'm either laughing hysterically or screaming no at the screen lol
the cabinet looks like the b.v was for an out side faucet. then just hot and cold for sink but idk how he gonna trap and vent it properly.
I've blocked it out so I don't remember how that one turned out.
@@BlueCollarBoom oohhh i bet it was ugly lol
You're probably right.
Some crazy stuff there.
I have to admit that I'm guilty of one a bit quirky install in the US where an European shower faucet was installed and the quirk there is that the Euro copper pipes are metric, the US aren't. So there was some additional dimension transitions involved, all using copper and brass. But the next plumber will have to scratch their heads a bit on that one.
As for accordion drain - I can consider it on RVs where there's a lot of movement and vibration causing normal pipes to crack.
6:11 I think the ball valve and the cold line above it is roughed for a 1/2 PRV going to the toilet. It may be tied into a 100 psi sprinkler system line so the toilet can keep fresh water in the sprinkler system. ✨✨✨
as a kinda do it all handyman im even perplexed at some of the crazy i see on here. in the early 2000s i became a home inspector just because of the scam jobs on here. love videos and keep them coming.
I am really enjoying the videos on the weird plumbing set ups. I use PVC pipe to make frames that hold plant lights for my light loving plants and also to start seeds for the garden. PVC is cheap and easy to work with. win-win
Teflon tape is banned in my shop. We have to use Permatex with PTFE. Teflon tape particulates can crash a sleeve or kingsbury bearings if they get in the oil costing, in some cases, hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. Over taping can cause issues down the line and potentially prove costly. I really enjoy the videos and Ive learned alot so far. I'm just an electrical motor mechanic but Ive been able to adapt some of the things you teach into plumbing the large motors that hold gallons of oil in their sumps and have fittings everywhere. Thanks for doing what you do. If i see some messed up plumbing some incoming motors, ill be sure to send a couple pictures.
First pic....
When your boss tells you just to slam it in, didn't make any money on this job.
Just when you think you've seen it all. I can tell how a person will use a tool if their mechanically inclined or not, and I've had to let those people go. I'm thinking of starting my own channel to show how it's supposed to be done right.
Some of the soldering I've seen on RUclips would not pass my inspection.
Good job Roger. 😎👍
Those were amazing plumbing creations 😳
I wonder how low their water pressure was 💧
Lol my front bathroom sink has an accordion fitting... and looks nearly exactly like that photo..... did he come to my house!?
I'm exercising my 5th amendment rights.
man this makes me feel like i know what I'm doing , in fact I would say I have excellent van plumbing
The video at the end reminded me when our flex hose brust in our first home my parents own.
It leaked down into my room and ruined my sister's brand new mattress which was in a little room with our electrical box. As well we had to find the water shut off which was in the downstairs frezzing cold bathroom.
Lucky our insurance covered most of it but i was stuck out in our den for a bit then the craft/guset room while they fixed my ceiling and redid my floor.
I'm not even a plumber and know nothing about it but even i can see that every picture has some jacked up work done
How could you miss that on the first video, the flue coming up from the water heater shall be 1' straight up before making any bends, looks like it's only 6" before they put that 45° on it
I'm not a plumber, dont know how he got into my recommended feed, but now I'm hooked. Great videos
I love how on RUclips there is a community for everything
The accordion Style pipe that you showed in your video I see a lot in HVAC in mobile homes for the drain. Also Mini splits. But never as home plumbing. Most of it is used as condensate drain for AC systems In mobile homes and mini splits
That first one is a modern art masterpiece!
This is a great addition to the normal format.
I love this channel, i am not anything close to a plummer, but I have a new appreciation for this craziness.
Some older houses had whole house P-traps under the house or in the basement so they did not have to install P-traps on every water drain in the house.
I absolutely know nothing about plumbing. Yet I still enjoy your videos.
The flex pipe is designed for temporary repairs. That way you can keep things up and running until you can get a professional, or fix it yourself.
It works great for its intended use.
The first one where you said it looks like both the hot/cold were linked up at that particular point...It looks too dark to be linked up, more like it looks like both the hot/cold plumbing share the same hole that's been drilled into the wall. Only reason i say that is if you look at the point where both the red and blue piping vanishes the black area has a distinct curve to it so what i think they did is they just used a single hole so they didn't have to drill more than what was needed.
Hot and cold run together? Could that be some half-hearted effort to temper water going to the toilets?
Where the first one looks tied together is where hot and cold go through the wall to one of the units
The vent for the gas water heater is too short. It should have a 12" rise before the elbow, otherwise you trip the sensor as gases don't have enough room to rise before being _pushed_ back from the restriction and setting a code.
Hot water heater? Why would you heat HOT water?
it's an older home, judging by the 3 prong/3wire dryer outlet on the wall to left, So I'd guess a minimally evasive replumb was done. the pex kind of looks older, so the water heater max have just been swapped by that company and nothing else. granted they probably should have opted for a short model, it likely got what they had stocked in a last minute swap.
@Glen Gross someone got their carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide mixed up
Commercial right after the Glacier Bay kitchen/shower faucet "What I love about being a home inspector...". Somehow, I doubt they knew where their commercial was going to show up, but it made for a funny transition.
Thanks Roger...I was a little skeptic on some of your video when you couldnt tell from one thing to another.... on one of the video there was a pipe burst and the guys tried to repair it ...that's call "on the fly" I done that so many times ...it's because there is no shut off valve... they could had froze the pipe ....but man...freezing the pipe is a lot more work... I hated that ....and the machine is not cheap. I'm glad I retired from plumbing myself....I regret it now...my hand are all dented and arthritis on both hands.
drinking game, drink whenever he says "that's kinda wild"!
❤ 13:08 a similar thing was proposed in my state apparently, that schooling won’t be required to become a journeyman. I think that’s terrible.