NOT ANOTHER ONE! These jobs have a way of finding us!!
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- Опубликовано: 31 янв 2024
- Do the plumbing gods hate us? Plumbing is suppose to be fun but how do these jobs have a way of finding us? Another day in the life of a plumber and we have a heating system not working, we have 1 radiator not working and its not the obvious, we have checked the TRV pin, both valves open, no air in radiator and shut all the other radiators off. Normally if you have 1 radiator not working one of these will fix the issue but we tried all this and still no joy. Its a stubborn one
The technique in this video is great to try if you have 1 radiator not working and you suspect its a blockage in the pipework to the radiator....only if you have tried all the basic checks first, but what happens when all this fails?
There was no other way forward other than to re pipe this one radiator which was the other side of the house in an extension and boiler being the other side of the house and we had to use speed fit which which i will admit i am not much of a fan but when the situations right it works great. The route was hard, the access was restricted and our patience was thin..just another day in the life of a plumber.
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Thank you all for your support honestly means a lot..sorry if I’m slow at responding to comments at moment…silly season is relentless at the moment 😅😅🙌👍
Your jobs are always nightmares but you always do an excellent and neat job. You deserve a lot of credit because you go above and beyond for customers. A1 person and an A1 plumber. Hopefully you get a few handier jobs this year. Best of luck luke 👍
Thanks mate, really appreciate the support 🙌👍
He does all the crap noone else wants to do just so he doesn't have to go home early to the misses she's already clumped him once for coming home early lol
Good result Like. Particularly liked the foot pump tip and the inspection panel 😀
Thanks mate 👍
Looks great
Thanks 🙌👍
Your a trooper luke, you just get on with it and the customer gets what they want. Getting home at 9.30 on the boiler job....jesus mate. You aint just a trooper.... your gladiator too! Your doing yourselve proud mate and very humble with it, i know its tough but its your kind of work ethic that EVERY tradesman should aspire too. Your a true british bulldog.
Thanks mate really appreciate the support 🙌👍👍👍👊
The foot pump trick👌🏽. Good tip Luke
Thanks mate, I will get it on video one day of it working is really good work most of the time👍
Good job mate considering the circumstances!🎉❤
He should have used 10mm Dan he won't listen would have been much easier lol
Thanks mate, just seen yours…should of used 10mm maybe 🤔 😂👍
Great job mate. I don't like speedfit but needs must . Great video. Cheers
Certainly got me out of trouble on this one👍🙌
Great job,I hope the customer realises what a nightmare job this was
Well, I did tell him it would be on RUclips so hopefully he enjoys it 👀😂🙌👍👍
You cracked it mate well done, job done.
Thanks mate 👍
Brilliant video that one,
You really get the handy jobs Mate 🤦♂️🤦♂️
👍👍🤜🤠
Magnet for the good jobs me 😂👍
Nice job👍
Thanks mate 👍👍
I had a blocked pipe to one of my radiators so I got an electrician's draw tape and a little neodymium magnet and fished the sludge out piece-by-piece. Hours of fun 😂
Sounds like the worst game ever 😂 Fairplay that some dedication right there🙌👍
Congratulations 🎉
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Plastic fantastic I hate it to ! But it Does get us out of trouble 😂
It does get into trouble I agree, still don’t like it😂👍
I thought I was the only person that got jobs like that 😮
Dan's pressfit gun would be going crazy by now
😂 it would have! Rinsing the £££s haha
He would have had to change the battery about three times😂👍
@@bluebulldog_uk yes he has switched to 10mm now as it much easier to work with he doesn't like big pipes anymore
Nice job mate, Concrete floors don't you just love them.
Thanks mate 👍
After two complaints that the rad in the hallway dint work but used to I took up the laminate floor and boards rad not even connected
Wow 😂😂
So glad you shared this job. I have a similar job coming up, I was dreading it, but mine is easier than yours. Nice honest touch with the shut isolation at magnetic filter
Thanks mate, glad it’s helped you with yours 👍
Personally I wouldn’t have bothered, I would have Powerflushed it, if it’s that bad it’s the whole system which is crapped up if not cleaner then ds40 which can be risky
Or even running a cleanser first, it can break up the blockage its not rock solid.
Nice job 👏 like how you improvised and adapted in that situation.
Thanks mate 👍
Nice neat job mate! Well done wasn’t easy at all!
Thanks mate 👍
Luke it never rains it pours - don’t worry hopefully Feb is kinder to you as we all know Jan is just a trial month 😂
All I’m gonna say is I’m glad this weeks over😂👍
Fair point
A great result from that tricky repipe! Looked pretty hard work though, and well done avoiding the mad nail spikes 😱 - I would definitely have been caught on them!
Your story at the end about the blockage is amazing! I wonder what could block a gas main like that? Maybe soil or similar in the pipe from when it was laid?
Thanks for a great video.
Yeah them spikes nearly got me. Yes, the blockage of heard stories about tree, roots blocking gas mains before. Luckily cadent came out the next day took up the road and put a new service main in. Thanks for the support mate 👍
Great content mate, don't think you had much choice using speed fit under the unit. .😊
nicely
Quality work. You could have potentially left those old pipes you capped off at floor level touching the underside of the valve. Might have looked like the pipes were connected from eye level? Either way not ideal but customer might have gone for that
To be fair, I never thought of that that might looked alright you know 👍 when the sofa is back there, you won’t see any of that anyway, but I like the idea 🙌
@@bluebulldog_uk ah the old sofa 😂 never thought of that. Defo gone the right way then. Hopefully that one in a thousand job in the future will prove a useful comment !
Think I would have 10mm in capping the larger rad then probably same after but would have tried power flush. Not being there it’s easy to critique.👍
When we saw the non barrier pipe. We knew the problems we had at a recent house and the problems we’ve had in the past with it, Powerflush might have worked but temporary fix if it was non barrier .. I thought about using 10 mm, but I do prefer running radiators in 15 👍
Always offset out you be very lucky drilling 2 15mm that close without them converging into one 😊
Drills have mind of there own, never liked trying to get pipes through walls never fun
@bluebulldog_uk get yourself a 400mm 20mm core better than using a drill bit, which makes a neater job
Sometimes a test bucket will force it out.
If I am doing the foot pump trick always try hav open end someplace if not open vented if not you fighting pressure already in system
Didn’t say I don’t think in video but had drain off valve open and system empty but yeah leave open end 👍
that pipe work in the cupboard am not gonna be insulated as you left it with the customer 😅
I have faith 😅👍
We used to some chemical on BG in the 1980’s can’t remember the name ? It would unblock anything and destroy the heat exchanger great gear 😅
Sounds mint 😂👍 least it would of got rid of blockage, sort the heat exchanger another day
I love floors boards and carpet roll back lift cut shit job done 😂
😂👍👍
What do you charge for something like that? Did you give a price before hand or after you finished?
Quoted my Day rate X2 as had someone in giving me a hand and gave customer rough guide on pipework and materials. Hard one to quote to be honest but took a day so was covered 👍
Fair play, job done and everything worked the way it should, speed fit might not look perfect but saves a load of time, copper looks tidy where it needs to.
@@smartboilercompany1983 yeah speedfit has time and place, when it’s not on show and used correctly I think it’s fine, changed my opinion on it a lot since going self employed to be honest. 👍
Non plumber here - if you were putting copper pipe in concrete should you sleeve it ? Is concrete abrasive to copper
Yes sleeve it
Yeah through walls you are suppose to sleeve to protect the pipe from damage…in 18 years I’ve never seen a copper pipe rotted in a wall thou…I’ve seen it when buried in concrete floors and unprotected thou
That one was a nightmare mate I’m glad I’m retired
Got there in the end 👍
hello did you leave the blanks in lounge just curious
You mean the cap ends on the pipes to old feeds mate?
Would it not have been worth trying to flush the system, to clear the blockage? Rather than a repipe! (butchering the kitchen cupboard and leaving 2 stabbings, capped off, above the Karndean floor?
You did see the part about me talking about non barrier pipe and know what that stuff does?
@@bluebulldog_uk tbh I didn’t watch the whole video. If it’s non barrier pipe, I know the problems (oxygen entering the system etc)
The pump trick you don't use on a vented systems I'm guessing?
No you can had an open end on this one with drain off open 👍
Had a blockage like this the other day, used very similar technique and worked a treat but I did remove rad valve first and put a bit of 15mm on then teed in the foot pump with iso after the tee to ensure bigger sized bore. (Sounds confusing, I’ll have to send a pic next time) Previous times I’ve tried with filling loop hose it just blocks in pipe or nozzle as such a small restricted flow out.
Top vid again though fella
Makes sense mate 👍 if I could of got anything out and got some flow going I would of attached a hose pipe and opened filling loop up and let the mains run through it, wouldn’t give me anything and from what was coming out it would of been rammed
I could have been water in the gas pipe I have had that and if your fitting worcesters always have the longer flue with you just in case Luke
Lesson learnt on that one big flue next time…they came out dug 3 big holes and bored a new one through old service pipe next day luckily never found out what cause it
I think electric boilers will be the future iam holding off replacing mine at home I was speaking too the heatray sadia rep today as iv got a job to prise we're they have oil at the moment
On my home system I had to mains flush 3 times & use Fernox F8 to get rid of all the deposits that when a lockshild was turnd tight sounded like crushed stones, after a good clean & filled up with Fernox F1 my average flow temperatures between 32 & 42 for a very comfortable temperature, oversized radiators but I made a mistake to as for 10mm microbore plastic, next time I go for 28 then take it down to 15mm near to rafistors,
Can I ask anybody used.Fernox DS40 is it any improvement over Fernox F8 ?
I haven’t used the Fernox DS40 mate, to be honest hasn’t heard of it so will take a look 👍👍
@@bluebulldog_uk apparently DS40 is a neutral cleaner that apparently gets rid of scale down to metal I was informed by Fernox technical team, they said it comes in powder form & you mix with 10 litres of water, I was informed leave it in the system for 4 hours no longer, they informed me it's very effective product,
So far since a good clean up & got rid of crunchy scale on the flow regulator side I've managed to get flow temperature down to around 38°C, on Stelrad K2 high efficiency radiators, to be honest I speck the system to have oversized radiators so efficiency was in my mind,
Luke it looks fine from your house 😂
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Hard job. I wonder if central heating cleaner would have done anything for that blockage if left in the system for a week.
F5 express or something similar I’ve squirted into blockages before and after a bit it’s shifted but after suspecting non barrier pipe would of built back up over time
Murphy’s law mate
They are renaming it bulldogs law 😂
Dont now why worried how it looks , u had to do what u had to do
I always worry mate I’m my biggest critic 😂👍
White clips bet that annoyed you 😂😂nice job though well done
😂😂 👍👍
Who plummed that rad
Didn’t look the best to start with to
Be honest
Luke i want to play a game 🚲
Nearly got me 😂👍
Powerflush no good in this respect ?
Not when I suspected non barrier pipe to be honest, might have worked but would of been back flushing again if it builds back up, I can’t see any other rads with it on but the hot and colds all have it
Always had a lot more success in clearing blockages by using mains water.
Never really works with air pressure
Worked loads for me
You need to relax on the JG stuff, need must.
I do mate your right