Why Easy Plumbing Is Never As Simple As You Think..So Much Went wrong!
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- Опубликовано: 6 июн 2024
- Plumbing is never dull. Day in the life of a plumber, one week I'm thinking its easy the next plumbing can throw some challenges your way! Being a plumber is all about problem solving and keeping a cool head when everything around you seems to be going wrong. This week we have a nice simple plumbing task of installing a radiator, should be bread and butter for any plumber, but on this job everything seemed to go against us, one thing after another plumbing in this radiator seemed to just hold us up or slow us down. But in the end we will show you how to overcome some of these plumbing problems
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00:00 Introduction
02:07 How to hang a radiator
03:00 Draining the system
04:01 How to use a olive puller
05:17 How to remove water out of a pipe
06:46 How to measure and mark to hang a radiator
08:25 Problem Number 1
10:26 Why isn't this level?
13:13 That Rapid Blue Stuff
14:58 Just...WHY?!?
17:06 Filling up and testing
18:13 5K Giveaway Update 
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Love these vids bro, plumber of 21 years and absolutely love these keep going fella…….. love how down to earth you are 🇬🇧
Thanks mate appreciate the support 👍
Im a plumber and this is a carbon copy of my days....hahaha great vids
😂 cheers mate 👍👍
Wow such an honest intro I was really impressed with your humility and honesty more than anything in this video. That wasn’t easy at all and goes to show you never ever expect an easy plumbing job no matter how easy you assume it is going to be. Great stuff.
Thanks mate 👍
Some days you’re the Pigeon & some days you’re the Statue!! We all get bad days mate👍👍
The Filling Loop is fitted the wrong way?!!
Thanks for sharing.
I like that😂 feel like a statue half the time..never even noticed the filling loop to be honest
When you have dot and dab you should try putting the plugs in the holes and then with a screw and hammer, tap the plug through the plasterboard wall and into the hole that you have drilled into the brick behind. Add a inch to your screw length.
I do feel your pain mate, some times the simplest of jobs really do try your patience, I huff & puff too 😮
All part of the job thou, would be boring if we didn’t get a challenge sometimes 😅
Yes the other week
Thanks for posting what a true day can be like. We do solve problems. Sometimes the finished jobs never shows the grief to get it finished.
Your right there mate, was actually a job for a friend and they just see a new rad, asked them to watch and see some of the problems a simple job like this can throw at us
Yes good stuff
Superb content. Been a Plumber for 30yrs, son at college doing Plumbing. glad you show real situations.
Thanks mate 🙌👍
Feel your pain man, had one of those myself and it is what it is. Yes, I’ve found some brackets welded on the rads were not at the same height and I had to reset the wall mounts. I fix the adjustable holes first, check the rad then I fix the one on the hole if that makes sense.
Makes sense mate, seems like a few have had same problem judging from comments
In this case a radiator is your mortal enemy. And Lao Tzu once said: "There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent."
I always use a vacuum cleaner (wet/dry of course) to remove the water before soldering.
Great job.
😂 love the quote, it was my enemy that day…wet vax would of sped that up but I always find when it’s downstairs rad even when wet vac been on water always seems to pool in fitting…wet vac will work most of time thou 👍
Been there mate many a time
Some days the plumbing Gods aren’t on our side mate. Get it all the time. You soldier on and get it done! Well done mate keep it up you do a great job!
Thanks mate, plumbing gods only grant us good days occasionally 😂👍
Good job. Good to see you show how you work through the problems, because that is what really happens on jobs and mainly on the so called straight forward jobs
I like to do my own plumbing and I am only a D.I.Y.er but it’s good to see how a professional gets around problems. It helps my failed jobs
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I had the exact same thing in college this week. Brackets dead level rad was a mile out. College rads are battered though😂 Good job that one threw in some curve balls.
College radiators am the worse 😂 I remember ours holding on for dear life, not a grill left on them 😂😂👍
Got a boiler and 8 new rads to fit today, all the tails need alternating. Fingers crossed it’s a smooth one, not a Friday job really.
How did you get on mate?
Glad you covered up that nice new floor I'd fitted, nothing ever goes to plan lol
Mint job on that floor…and the kitchen mate 🙌👍
Good video/ time and problem mistakes overcome on jobs makes a good plumber I started as a plumber in 1981 and still at it till I die on a job ,next rad you'll not make as many mistakes and so on
Nice video, Luke. Very honest.
Thanks mate 👍
Love your honesty mate keep up the good videos 👍👨🔧
Thanks mate appreciate the support 👍
Love the content, it’s all the things that go wrong for me too! Thank you!!
Thanks mate 👍👍
Great video mate 👏😎
Thanks mate 🙌👍
Great tips on measuring the rad brackets out to suit existing pipework. Can't count the amount of rads I've re piped not knowing how to do that 😆
I’ve re piped a few until someone showed me, used to hang it and hope for best 😅
I'm just starting out and these vids where you show what can go wrong are so useful. Subbed 👍👍
Thanks mate, appreciate the support 👍 any questions you have on videos il do my best to help 🙌
great video
Thanks 👍
🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵Above and beyond and great video 🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵
Blimey, well done sorting that out!
Personally, I would have effing constantly- at least in my head!
Great video!
Off camera a few words were said 😂😂
I had one myself recently where the actual hanging struts were not welded straight so got it changed.
Brilliant, thanks for your time and the upload. In this situation for me, you move to adjusting one of the brackets out of level to true up the rad, sometimes a radiator will also be dead level but because the wall, skirts and floor aren't true, it still doesnt look right, especially in older properties, you end up occasionally eying things up, but excellent upload, great tips expanding my knowledge from my level 2 c@g
I’ve had that before. Hang a radiator dead level and looks awful because the window is out of level 😂 thanks mate glad it’s helped 👍
All looked good to me. Regarding the radiator being on the wonk, as long as it doesn’t cause a problem, no normal person will ever notice.
Thanks mate 👍👍
FairPlay top video mate ! I’m a chippy and sometimes the tape measures lie but we get over it 💪🏻
Thanks mate 👍👍
lovin this " making simple plumbing look hard " lol ..nowt simple about plumbing
Maybe Side entry fill valves swaps? Even then I’ve known them throw up a challenge 😂
Could the cover on the top of the radiator have been a bit warped or not pushed down properly
Did you check the back of the rad where the brackets attach onto. Maybe they aren’t level, molded wrong back at the factory or something
@@mfielding007 must of been that to be honest, it looked level and the brackets on back of rad was level
@@conorbryan9436 yes mate was dead level, must of been top of rad
Brilliant content warts and all honesty is best nothing straightforward being a jazz drummer .keep us entertained pal 👍🏼 onwards and upwards
Thanks mate appreciate the support 👍
A few silly problems…..but you sorted it in the end!
Cheers mate never a dull moment in plumbing 👍
Know exactly what you mean,you did well to get out of it the way you did.
Mate that made me smile, we all have shit jobs like that, "should take an hour" lol ends up being 3!! Only thing i do differently is put 'anchor' screws in when level cause if you're off by a bit you can always tappy tap and screwdriver to level 😂
The “hour jobs” am always the worse…took one yesterday just to cap off a gas pipe…3 hours later I was rerouting the main supply because they had a full drop…back home at 9pm 😂
During the pandemic I was fitting two rads either side of the living room under the windows,at that time I could not get any skirting board,it was trade only,due to Covid,so I knew the size of board I was going to use,marked the height on wall,because the window sill was out I fitted the rads to look level,4 or 5 weeks later managed to get the skirting board,started to fit it around the room and found the floor was running out by 35mm,under the windows the other way,it looked terrible,lucky it was my Daughter house,she said,don't worry Dad the curtains will hide it.😊.
Can’t win can you sometimes, done that many a time, hung a rad dead level just to step back and it looks awful 😅
You’re great man. Thinking of going self employed as work for a company fitting bathrooms at 13 pound an hour, that includes everything, so really hoping that going self employed I can make a little bit more than that whilst having more variety
If your good at bathrooms mate you will fly self employed, always work fitting bathrooms, just take into account the extra work with book keeping, quoting etc…it’s worth it but it’s hard graft 👍👍
@@bluebulldog_uk thanks a lot for that man. Don’t mind hard work as long as u get paid ok for it but 104 pound a day working hard isn’t worth it. Keep up the awesome vids mate, they really help new plumbers like myself and old I’d imagine
@@jaffplumbs26 thanks mate really appreciate the support 🙌👍
@@jaffplumbs26that's slve labor mate painters are on more than that you should be on £250 a day I have a guy that does my bathrooms now at that price and I charge £350 a day
I will switch to Dan's channel he's the perfect plumber lol
😂😂 definitely not showing him that comment his head will swell
Ow bin ya bulldog.....i feel for ya mate. Ive had soooooo many days like that. Nice simple jobs and.......yeahhhh. they do try ya patience and i reckon if you knew you wasnt on camera itd be "bollocks, fuck me, what the fuck?! WHY MEEEE! Were all human, great video again though mate. Made me laugh it did. Not at you, just the similar situations ive been in. Keep smiling fella.
Made me laugh editing it 😂 mate if you get a laugh and some enjoyment from my suffering on a job it’s all good, content is there to help and entertain 🙌👍
good job there, plumbing has never been simple
Some days you get where everything lines up and it’s brilliant…most days I’m sweating in my head and having arguments with pipes and fittings 😂👍
Street elbows with a long tail are available on eBay, much better than standard street’s 👌👌
They am good them long streets always make sure I’m stocked up on them now 👍
I am a retired plumber of 32 years thank god I'm out of it been through this shit so many times.. No such thing as a easy job.
Me too, 42 years,done dusted threw away my kit so I can’t be asked
Real life plumbing as Tiff says people say it’s easy sometimes it just doesn’t go to plan
Cheers mate, real life plumbing never goes to plan 👍
Where the bracket sits on the Rad they are wrong most of the time due to manufactures messing up on welding the mounts, best thing to do is leave one bracket floating on the wall and adjust with the Rad on, when u get the Rad level mark the bracket and tighten that bad boy up. The rad will always be level that way, the brackets itself don’t have to be level, hope that makes sense
Some rads especially some cheaper ones from screwfix seem to have the brackets welded onto the back of the radiator on the squiff! Proper annoying! Also with them grilles on the radiator tops I always put my level on the bottom of the radiator once hung to get a better reading 👍 edit. You did this as I was typing haha!
Proper threw me off on this job, drove me mad for about 10 minutes, it looked fine looking at it but will be checking the welds on back in future 👍👍
Thanks for the great video. As an amateur I thought I was cursed so it's reassuring to find that pros like yourself also suffer with daft problems like sticking nuts and manufacturing defects. I was a little surprised to see you soldering with the radiator valve in place, given that the melting point of solder is around 240˚C. Can the washers tolerate such high temperatures?
Thanks mate 18 years on the job and still have days where simple stuff goes south quick…to be honest I’ve always done it like that and never had a problem….yet…never say never 😅
Grate video mate..
where do you get your compression spanner from?
Cheers mate, red Nerrad one from plumbers tools (tiktok) and the grey one was from Amazon 👍
I've had it when the grill is not that good when it's been slightly damaged, but the one you did was mad, well do with that job mate.
Drove me mad for about 10 mins 😂 cheers mate 👍👍
Had the same issue yesterday. Brackets bang on level but rad was way off level..Turned out to be the lugs on the back of the rad were welded in the wrong place and was throwing rad off.
Few people have said about the welds on back been off…never had it but will definitely be keeping on eye out for it now 👍
Had it myself a few times now..really annoying when your trying to get in and out to the next one.
Did you measure the brackets attached to the back of the rad from the top of the rad to the top of the welded back bracket? possibly one is a couple mm out. I always thought you needed a slight tilt to the bleed valve so any air would be removed before water
I did check and seemed ok, it looked sound in the end, no rad should be perfectly level but I’m using that as an excuse if I ever fit one wonky from now on 😅👍👍
I don’t think I’ve ever had a rad sit perfect! You can level the brackets till the cows come home but if the lugs on the rad are out a mil or do then there ya go . I don’t worry unless it’s massively out! Put the bleed valve on the higher side and let more air out? 😂👍
Sounds like a good idea that 😂👍
trying to put my own cast iron vertical radiator on the wall, its a struggle haha
Feel your pain on that one!
Hi we always remove the rad top and side trim panels when checking for level as you can some time find they don’t sit totally flat and show the rad not level . But what’s the chance of to faulty levels show the same exact amount of out of level 😳.
Proper threw me for about 10 mins this one!
What do you think about using the core fix fitting for a doc m grab rail pack on a tiled dot and dabed wall and may be chem mix resin the holes in the thermal block work before you screw your fixings in?
And also a disabled shower seat fixed the same way
Them core fix am really strong, the way your saying to do the fixing, you wouldn’t have a problem I don’t think….Bullfix do some really good fixings as well for dot and dab
Loved it! Maybe the brackets on the rad weren't welded on right. I have a rad with a bit of 3 x 2 wedged down behind it because when I'd got it hung I noticed it was shaped like a banana 😅
Things we think of as plumbers to get round stuff 😂 if it works and looks ok then fair play 🙌👍
Great video mate, why was it wonkey? The brackets on the back of the rad slightly out ?
I checked the welding on back and seemed level to be honest, think the top grill was out
I absolutely bottled it with that radblue stuff. Its un nerving how easy the tail goes into the radiator 😆
First time I did one I was nervous, doesn’t feel right does it 😂
@@bluebulldog_uk haha it feels just a little to easy. I have a towel rad coming up in the next week so I might give it another go. 👍
@@Isicobez once you get your head round it won’t leak it’s brilliant 😂 best to put the tails in early, give them 5-10 minutes to set them crack on 🙌👍
Tbh I never pipe it into streets either… great minds think alike (passion 4 plumbing)
🙌👍 just ain’t enough room to get a proper fixing is there, never like to see it done
It's actually really refreshing to see other people have days like it especially as a trainee plumber 🪠
If you see videos of a smooth plumbing day…there few and far between…to be fair thou that’s why I love the job, always a challenge and never boring 👍
i think the radiator not being level is the bracket welded on the back of the radiator. had one a long time ago. So to remedy you have to lower one bracket to make up for the allowance.
Thought this after taking it off the 2nd time but I did check the back and it was level…messed with my head for about 10 minutes 😅
Thanks for pointing that out thou mate I didn’t include that in video so good for people to know to check for that 👍👍
I spent ages scratching my head trying to get my living room radiator level. Turned out the middle straps had been welded slightly lower than the left and right straps!
Out of curiosity, why did you go to all the bother of re-soldering flow and return only to keep the radiator offset to the left like that?
To be honest I just lined it up with the right hand pipe and adjusted the left, there is a small utility to left which is unheated so closer to that I suppose…never even thought of that you know 😂
How do you know which end to put the thermostatic valve on?
Bi directional TRV but normally put it on the flow if I can
Thanks thats what I was told but how do you work out which ends are flow and return?
If you take the anti rattle off the one side it may have levelled the rad out mate? Great real world vid 👍
I’m sure it was the grill that was out as it looked dead level to be honest, thanks mate 👍👍
The top covers of modern radiators are very flimsy and often get bent even in the packaging so I always take them off before I starting hanging so level goes onto the top of the radiator. Or one of the plastic supports had been knocked off!!
Yep modern rads extremely flimsy for the covers
Just been researching Rapid Blue as an alternative to good old ptfe. Can a spigot or other threaded joint be undone and redone if there is a leak?
Radiators are definitely hit & miss at the moment i've had it so many times over the past few months where all my lines are perfect but it still reads out when hung
First one I’ve had where it was like this but few have said in comments they have had problems
They are the best TRV’s, I just wish they were in chrome.
Ever since i moved away from purmo rads to cheaper branded rads ,i find the brackets on the backnofnthe rads arnt level
It’s the rad
Drama Queen I was hoping you drilled through a pipe behind the rad bracket 😂🎉
😂😂 actually did that last year before I started RUclips, that would of been a good video
Mate was that a kudox rad from screwfix.... a few years ago I had several that the brackets on the back of the rad were spot welded slightly wonky total nightmare didn't trust them again stelrad aoftline all the way now 😂😂
It was mate yes, never had an issue with them before to be honest always been ok, occasional one will look like it’s been dragged around the warehouse sometimes 😅
What a nightmare mate 😂
Was suppose to be so simple 😂😂👊
Long tail M F York shire
Rule number , never give a quote as a price straight away , always say it’s an estimated quote , you experience enough to know this a sheit job 😂 specially when you see street elbows on a pipe work , I never use them for radiator installs they’re very awkward fittings, and it’s to easy to kink the street elbows on a compression fittings than a copper pipe itself … 😅
Them streets should of been a dead giveaway it wasn’t going to go very well 😂 just seemed like a lot of problems for 1 job
I’ve been a plumber/ heating engineer for 40 years it’s not a difficult trade , it’s just a bit of planning that’s required
Key word there is planning, 100% 👍
Why wouldn’t you just fit the rad a little higher and solder a coupling and a short stub of copper
Because the rad was further off the wall, I could of gone higher and put on offset in but would of been really high to fit one in
Ive had it when the brackets are level and the radiator is wonky too 🤣
Drove me mad 😂
Me too, ended up moving one bracket up a bit!
@@bluebulldog_uk
I put it down to the brackets welded on the radiator being out
@@johncooksey87 I’m sure on mine it was the top of the radiator but had me second guessing myself
Great video as usual
@@bluebulldog_uk
Few questions mate I really want to be a plumber buy I'm scared of heights and math is not that good is it still possible to be a plumber?
Cheers in advance for any replys and ir advice you pass onto me its very much appreciated and btw you rock mate.
I watch your channel religiously and think you are a smooth craftsman with such skill its very inspiring.
Thanks mate 👍👍 I don’t do heights to be honest, never liked them myself, with the maths, there was lads on my course that struggled so they did a course along side the plumbing to help them…don’t let things like that put you off there’s always ways round anything…plumbers=problem solvers 🙌👍
Screwfix rads 🤦🏼♂️ so many times I’ve had the brackets on the rad welded uneven ….
Wipe our nuts later…. Giggdy 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂👍
Aaaalright!
Apprentice videos!
The annoying nut stuck on an elbow. They tend to go flying across the room with me, never to be seen again.
Still haven’t got it off, gone in scrap bag now 😂
Water going around in a pipe not that difficult. Now if you were to be educated as an Electrician then you would really know a difficult trade. Lol only kidding mate but why are the supposed simple and easy jobs always the most taxing.
Says the trade who has to have everything colour coded 😳😂 love banter with sparks 👍😂
You am right thou simple jobs always seem to give you the most grief
@@bluebulldog_uk The best part is I'm colour blind lol. Good look for the future I am now retired but omg do I miss the the banter we had on the sites.
@@chrisardern4594 banter keeps you laughing and gets you through day 👍 thanks mate appreciate the support
Sometimes the top grill can throw rads off
I usually use straight edge just off the top grill on front of rad
Video that just grows arms and legs 🙈
Thanks mate, yeah started off 1 annoying thing and just escalated from there 😅
dodgy bracket or fixing on rad
normal sh-t