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  • @Cheepchipsable
    @Cheepchipsable 2 года назад +69

    "I was in a Japanese hotel and took a peek at the plumbing..."
    That's an unusual fetish, even for Japan.

    • @us89na
      @us89na 2 года назад +1

      Would expect it more in a German hotel TBH.

  • @bugato
    @bugato 3 года назад +166

    What heck... I'm from Brazil an I'm watching a american plumber reviewing japanese plumbers ... it's actually interesting...neat
    What a time to be alive

    • @tearodman
      @tearodman 3 года назад +1

      plumbers are expensive... yes. here in Brazil, they wanted to charge me 1200 coins to find a leak at my house. Other plumber spent 2 days searching. And by sealing the water tanks we found the leak route. So I made by myself an aerial route to the water tanks. So 200 coins for the plumber, 200 coins on pvc tubes and connectors and one weekend day with a help of my father in law. Problem solved. Well, it is not pretty, but it worked, lol.

    • @halonothing1
      @halonothing1 3 года назад

      Heh, I remember as a kid in the 90's playing video games on my Super Nintendo, I'd imagine that I was playing against some random person half way around the world. Online gaming existed in small numbers at the time, but I was too young and computer illiterate to be familiar with it. But even if I was, I never would have imagined how common it would become.
      It's probably more common to play online now than local online gaming. And I actually miss the days of playing Goldeneye 64 with a bunch of friends in the same room. There's a lot more interaction and reactions to what happens are immediate. You don't have to wait for them to type something in the chat window. But with local you could see what was on their screen. I'd always make a note of where they respawn and place proximity mines there so they'd get blown up the second they respawn. lol
      But personally, I'm not a huge fan of online gaming. I've only played games online literally a few times. These days I play games to get away from people, so it kind of defeats the purpose. I have agoraphobia and my computer area is sort of like my safe space. So having other people interacting with me on the computer (at least in real time) feels like it violates that safe space and just makes me feel uncomfortable. Especially if there's a webcam involved.
      I actually had an idea for a system where you'd each have your own headset display with headphones, sorta like a VR display, but without the 3D so you could only see and hear what your character experienced and couldn't cheat by looking at the other players' screens. Even if such a product was released, it would have only been useful for 5-10 years until online gaming became popular.

    • @lanceg3208
      @lanceg3208 2 года назад

      I love this comment

  • @spyda450
    @spyda450 3 года назад +35

    That's not a second sink or urinal that you're seeing in that restroom, it's an ostomy toilet, or for the layman, a toilet to clean out your colostomy bag. I had the same question in 2016 and a architect who had done work in Japan clued me in.

    • @carolinanava3300
      @carolinanava3300 3 года назад +3

      Wow

    • @shaymorcormick8743
      @shaymorcormick8743 3 года назад +7

      That makes sense as the japanese population is aging massively. Soon it will just be one giant nursing home for the largest number of above a century old people

    • @rsmith02
      @rsmith02 2 года назад +3

      That was my conclusion too- I saw a similar one in a new facility in my town. I appreciate that focus on an aging population.

  • @Lw2201
    @Lw2201 3 года назад +35

    I subbed because this guy is so positive. We need more of that

  • @Angrymuscles
    @Angrymuscles 3 года назад +102

    It's quite common for toilets in Japan to be more sophisticated than the one on the space station.

    • @IsaacIKE
      @IsaacIKE 3 года назад +15

      The from the space station sucks, hehe literally.

    • @captaincanuck4576
      @captaincanuck4576 3 года назад +1

      That's why I love japan. Who else is going to over engineer stuff for us

    • @ScreaminMadMurphy
      @ScreaminMadMurphy 3 года назад +4

      space station is a butt gasket attached to a vacuum. anyone with a shopvac and some duct tape has a more sophisticated system.

    • @captaincanuck4576
      @captaincanuck4576 3 года назад +1

      @@ScreaminMadMurphy that's a bit of a claim to make

    • @ScreaminMadMurphy
      @ScreaminMadMurphy 3 года назад +1

      @@captaincanuck4576 not at all. the design is a simple vacuum with fittings for #1 and a butt gasket for #2. The complexity people attribute to it have to do with waste storage and treatment. These are not things a toilet does. A toilet receives doodoopeepee to be delivered to waste management.
      Shopvac and duct tape. That'll be 23 million dollars please.

  • @DeputatKaktus
    @DeputatKaktus 3 года назад +57

    Why those „from see-thru to privacy“ thing doesn’t exist in the US or outside Japan in general?
    Because it would be smashed to pieces 5 minutes after being installed.

    • @kelaarin
      @kelaarin 3 года назад +7

      True enough. Here in San Diego the city spent $250K on a single "Portland Portable" and installed it on the street downtown... then removed it less than a week later, because it had been totally trashed.

    • @CyberlightFG
      @CyberlightFG 2 года назад +5

      There would be graffiti and scratches on ours in Germany.
      Normally, there are no public standalone toilets outside because of vandalism.
      The free toilets on the Autobahn are always a mess.
      The city relies on restaurants to provide toilets.

    • @johnwheeler7805
      @johnwheeler7805 2 года назад +2

      I really wish you were wrong.

    • @littlejackalo5326
      @littlejackalo5326 2 года назад +1

      Those toilets are specifically designed to keep out the homeless and people doing nonsense like shooting up and passing out. The whole reason they go from transparent to opaque is because there is a timer. If you don't finish within the allotted time, it turns transparent and unlocks. Why would there be any other reason to have a transparent to opaque toilet? Why would you want that.

    • @JeffMTX
      @JeffMTX 2 года назад

      by democrat yoots

  • @nasilemak868
    @nasilemak868 3 года назад +4

    1:57 think that dude got it the other way round, up 小 for small, down 大for big

  • @adambomb7331
    @adambomb7331 3 года назад +35

    I'm remember seeing the glass that changes from chear to solid in Vegas 15 years ago. Rich people have it in their houses too. 😂

    • @kenbrown2808
      @kenbrown2808 3 года назад +15

      good thing is it goes opaque if the power goes out instead of clear.

    • @joeh858
      @joeh858 2 года назад

      @@kenbrown2808 Wow

    • @kenbrown2808
      @kenbrown2808 2 года назад

      @@joeh858 it's cool stuff

  • @ba1050
    @ba1050 3 года назад +38

    In Turkey public restroom was a hole in the floor with a small bucket and spigot to flush it down.

    • @dinil5566
      @dinil5566 3 года назад +6

      Same in all over Asia and probably Africa 👍

    • @loumorningstar7709
      @loumorningstar7709 3 года назад +9

      In rural China you're the flush. Poop and then flush onto the ground below the hut with your urine.

    • @shaymorcormick8743
      @shaymorcormick8743 3 года назад

      Thanks to Top Gear I've come too see that is the standard. Being 6-4 I'd dread visting those places.

    • @TheChenchen
      @TheChenchen 3 года назад

      And you need to know how to squat

  • @tgvaillancourt
    @tgvaillancourt 3 года назад +37

    That "plunger" is just asking for sh*t water to be pushed up into the tank

    • @user-wr3vt8uq4s
      @user-wr3vt8uq4s 3 года назад +19

      I envision the adhesive seal breaking and the flood to follow...

    • @scottwpilgrim
      @scottwpilgrim 2 года назад +5

      @OneHairyGuy and created as a way to plunge a toilet without having to worry about expelling waste particles into the air.

  • @XxMeatShakexX
    @XxMeatShakexX 3 года назад +69

    When you said aerobic septic system with the bike on screen I thought it was pedal powered lol

  • @cjhification
    @cjhification 2 года назад +3

    Was told the toilet room walls being transparent was because people were worried about people lurking in the loos, this way you can see it's empty before going in.

  • @digi3218
    @digi3218 3 года назад +56

    I went to the bathroom in the middle of the city and forgot to enable the privacy glass

    • @austinvasquez1213
      @austinvasquez1213 3 года назад +9

      🤣🤣 i’m dead

    • @samjanssens1509
      @samjanssens1509 3 года назад

      wow cool story bro, not real tho

    • @lukelegg9915
      @lukelegg9915 3 года назад +2

      @@samjanssens1509 and how do you know?

    • @samjanssens1509
      @samjanssens1509 3 года назад +3

      @@lukelegg9915 nobody goes to the bathroom in a clear glass stall, and "forgets" to lock the door so that the glas blurs . that just doesnt happen in real life, only in "cool story sad fantasy land"

    • @lukelegg9915
      @lukelegg9915 3 года назад +3

      @@samjanssens1509 I mean it can happen, if you've got to go badly enough you may forget to hit the button

  • @slycordinator
    @slycordinator 3 года назад +7

    The one with the cellophane-like plunger wasn't Japanese. It's got Korean writing all over it.
    edit:
    And potentially, that plunger is not good in that the poop particles could get pushed up through the holes where the water comes. Possibly, it would get stuck there.
    And the bidets they have here in Korea often don't have the sensor for being seated. At my previous school, I sometimes got water shot at me because the thing would stop when you shut it off then as it retracts, it would shoot out again randomly... Good times...

  • @satorudo
    @satorudo 3 года назад +7

    Note that with Japanese houses being very small, combing a sink with a toilet allows for bathrooms to have a very very small footprint. Half bathrooms in America look like Versailles compared to the tiny toilet at my grandma's home

  • @jtraveny
    @jtraveny 3 года назад +42

    there are a lot of things in japan that i wish we would adapt to have

    • @thedarkestsoul5901
      @thedarkestsoul5901 3 года назад +1

      @@OGDACMAN86 not entirely true Japan has a little more the 1/3 of America's population and is only a little smaller then California

    • @MrTehpker
      @MrTehpker 3 года назад

      @@OGDACMAN86 what state has 130 million people lmfao

    • @OGDACMAN86
      @OGDACMAN86 3 года назад +1

      @@MrTehpker Apparently none. Ill admit my ignorance. I def didnt realize 130 mil could fit on that island. Lol

    • @robertopics
      @robertopics 3 года назад

      @@OGDACMAN86 which state has a large population than Japan or even population density?
      Japan's population is over 123 million vs California 4 million
      Japan is 140 square miles which makes it 20 million square miles smaller than California yet has 3 times the population.

  • @unboxheroes1388
    @unboxheroes1388 3 года назад +3

    Love your vids bro!

  • @dr.doppeldecker3832
    @dr.doppeldecker3832 3 года назад +2

    I never knew plumbing is such an interesting field of work! i love these videos! Thank you very much for your content, greetings from Germany:)

  • @stopdusty420
    @stopdusty420 3 года назад +1

    Wicked video, you are well informed sir. The sink/toilet idea is something I have tryed to convey to building buddy's for years. From a layout perspective its quite smart. The bathroom only needs to be as wide as the toilet. Not a counter top and walk way. Also the tub/shower situation is worth a look. Recirculating tub water to keep the temp up. I will try to get footage.

  • @velosiped135
    @velosiped135 3 года назад +14

    They didn't mention the heated seats, and the tunes they play to cover unpleasant sounds on toilets over there in Japan. They're not all expensive either. Most urban homes in Japan have a version of those.

    • @GalironRunner
      @GalironRunner 3 года назад +1

      The heated seats alone are to die for.

    • @littlejackalo5326
      @littlejackalo5326 2 года назад

      Yes he did. He very clearly mentioned the heated seats and music.

  • @explicitgaming6120
    @explicitgaming6120 3 года назад +7

    Literally been waiting for this video for so long!

  • @joeblow6199
    @joeblow6199 3 года назад +25

    The sink filling up the toilet is pretty slick

    • @AlessioSangalli
      @AlessioSangalli 3 года назад +1

      I'd hate to have it: you fill the toilet tank with filthy water possibly containing fecal material and you let it sit for hours at a time. God forbid tou have a guest with epathitis that uses that toilet;

    • @joeblow6199
      @joeblow6199 3 года назад

      @@AlessioSangalli 👍🏼

    • @TheStickyfingers88
      @TheStickyfingers88 3 года назад +1

      @@AlessioSangalli I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure the water that fills your toilet is clean.

    • @kefkajanar1629
      @kefkajanar1629 3 года назад +2

      @@AlessioSangalli it's akin to sink water, since it's coming from the water main, to the sink, to the toilet. If there is enough fecal matter that the faucet would be dangerous to use then that's not the sink, that's neglecting to clean your toilet.

    • @AlessioSangalli
      @AlessioSangalli 3 года назад +2

      @@TheStickyfingers88 yes but if you use it to wash dirty hands it not clean anymore. Also, I assume one uses soap to wash hands after taking a dump. Will the soap residues sitting in the tank for hours at a time not have any effect on the flushimg mechanisms?

  • @xxxblizzardxkingxxx
    @xxxblizzardxkingxxx 3 года назад +2

    Love the videos man.
    Keep doing what we all love, which is just you doing what you do.
    You're great entertainment and educational content and i'm never bored during a video.
    A+ 10/10 content 🙂

    • @RogerWakefield
      @RogerWakefield  3 года назад +1

      Wow! Thank you. I need you to call and talk to me everyday before I get going! Thank you so much!!!

  • @EURIPODES
    @EURIPODES 3 года назад +9

    A friend once told me I was strange for having a bidet. I told him I wasn't strange, I just had a cleaner assh___ than him.

    • @littlejackalo5326
      @littlejackalo5326 2 года назад +1

      Nah, you just sprayed poop spatter all over your butt and pants. Little poop particles all over the place.

    • @derkauzigeberg-eremit1221
      @derkauzigeberg-eremit1221 2 года назад

      @@littlejackalo5326 not if you use it correctly lmao

  • @Healthy_Horseman
    @Healthy_Horseman 2 года назад +2

    I've seen the sink toilet lid before in America, I thought it was awesome because it recycles the grey water from hand washing to flush the toilet.

  • @Boodieman72
    @Boodieman72 3 года назад +18

    You can get most of those "diamond" toilets from the 2nd to last in the US from Toto.

    • @Boodieman72
      @Boodieman72 3 года назад

      @@restopesto9448 King me! :)

  • @JustAnjuK
    @JustAnjuK 3 года назад +15

    I just wanted to point out that a few of those videos are not actually Japan. (One's like Korean (that cover plunger thing) because I recognize Korean writing.) Also, those "holes on the ground" toilets are actually quite common in Asia not just in Japan. I remembered going to HK 10 years back and their gov buildings still uses those. But anyways, it's interesting as always. Love your vids! :]

    • @jonnybolt3341
      @jonnybolt3341 3 года назад

      there just generic videos for generic viewers...... just a few happen to know some facts and details of witch there is not enuff of us for them to care there selling videos

    • @littlejackalo5326
      @littlejackalo5326 2 года назад

      Those squatty potties in Japan, so it's definitely not Japan. And they don't wipe with their hands either, so definitely not Japan.

  • @crazyt1483
    @crazyt1483 2 года назад +1

    I definitely agree that nowadays we should be looking at implementing grey water systems in new build houses

  • @Cuda-the-Dog
    @Cuda-the-Dog 3 года назад +1

    These kind of videos are awesome. Its really cool to see how things are done elsewhere in the world.

  • @glennash4606
    @glennash4606 3 года назад +12

    I've lived in Japan a fair bit, really modern toilets now deodorize the room too.

  • @daltonmckee4788
    @daltonmckee4788 3 года назад +30

    Yes, RUclips algorithm this is much more important than sleep

    • @cammy649
      @cammy649 3 года назад

      Don't attack me like that

    • @Preciousrandogoods
      @Preciousrandogoods 3 года назад

      @Draven Luciano omg lol did u find anything of interest

  • @jussayinmipeece1069
    @jussayinmipeece1069 3 года назад +1

    dude you got the funkiest accent i have heard in a while and i have lived in about 8 different countries

  • @Maninawig
    @Maninawig 3 года назад +2

    The reason the see-thru toilet is not in USA is that it is actually a functioning art exhibit that came out, I believe, in 2020. You must lock the door for the fog glass to activate, and there is a huge warning, but it is quite embarassing when someone doesn't...
    I hear it is also made self-cleaning too

  • @benisplayin
    @benisplayin Год назад

    having over 40 years in construction trades, I always look how how stuff is made and put together. I have seen stuff that was simply genius and others that were pure ignorance. Really enjoy your channel. Keep up the good work.

  • @JasonMMoreno
    @JasonMMoreno 3 года назад +2

    great channel. i always thought that the sink on the toilet tank is beyond genius.

  • @justinklrjms
    @justinklrjms 3 года назад +1

    We installed a viessmann boiler in japan, the plumbing in the building was steel pipe with a pex liner...when you threaded the steel pipe together the pex would seal Into the fittings with orings, it was a trip. Oh, and can't forget they had black & Grey water sewer lines to the city center system.

  • @ecospider5
    @ecospider5 3 года назад +12

    Japan rarely supplies toilet paper for public restrooms. It has caused a secondary market of packets of toilet paper being passed out on the street with marketing materials on the packaging. Way better than the paper marketing fliers they try to hand out in the US.

    • @readysetsleep
      @readysetsleep 3 года назад +3

      Have you even been to Japan?
      In Japan all public restrooms have toilet paper. All train stations that have public toilets are stocked with Toilet paper. Even the remote bathrooms in the public park have rolls of Toilet paper. They even have deer gates in the park toilets to keep the deer out from eating the toilet paper if you head to the hiking trails out on Miyajima island in Hiroshima Bay .
      That is just regular tissue they hand out. It's called Tissue-pack marketing (Tisshukubari) is a type of guerrilla marketing that is a phenomenon in Japan. Companies use small, portable tissue packages to move advertising copy directly into consumers' hands. Because flyers end up tossed out, but a pack of tissue is something that people will use and hold, since it's useful. Or give to friend or relative that needs tissue.
      I think you are mixing up China. That is the country you have to carry your own roll of toilet paper.

    • @bennri
      @bennri 3 года назад

      Some don't

    • @rsmith02
      @rsmith02 2 года назад

      I wouldn't say rarely these days. All train restrooms do, subway maybe not. Hotels, shopping malls, etc. definitely.

    • @ecospider5
      @ecospider5 2 года назад

      I was in Japan 25 years ago. We had to use the tissue packs almost everywhere. Especially the malls and train stations. Maybe it is different now.

    • @calebfuller4713
      @calebfuller4713 2 года назад

      @@ecospider5 I've come across public toilets without paper, but it seems pretty rare nowdays. There's a horrible, cramped old squat toilet (with a wonky tap on the sink) in a park near me, and someone STILL not only stocks it with toilet paper, but puts the little triangle fold on the end when they do!

  • @darinsmith9468
    @darinsmith9468 3 года назад +1

    I've spent some time in Japan. It was there that I discovered I wanted a washlet (bidet toilet seat) for my home, which I now have. I am now married to a Vietnamese lady--Vietnam using bidets due to their history as a French colony--only the Vietnamese use "hand-bidets"...essentially the same thing as your kitchen veggie sprayer, but at the toilet. So I have the hand-bidets in 2 bathrooms and a Toto washlet on a Toto Drake II in the master bath. I love the Toto setup--both the toilet and the washlet. They are superior products IMO. The electronic opaque glass has been around a while, but Japan has taken the lead on innovative use for public toilets. Back in 2009, I did encounter some squat-toilets, but on subsequent visits have seen fewer and fewer. They are disappearing in preference to the western-style toilet. Squat toilets are actually more hygenic (your skin doesn't touch anything), but less convenient--and with an aging population they are problematic. 2 things I didn't see on your video that exist in Japan: self-cleaning, self-drying public toilets and most recently public toilets similar to the glass one you showed where you can see out, but nobody can see in. The thought there is to prevent attacks on ladies coming out of a public toilet, as they will be able to see the potential attacker. I think the one you showed is a similar concept. Finally, you don't see TP in the stall there, which is very common. One thing westerners have to get used to is TP might not be available. Many expect you to have your own--which is why all the department stores hand you packs of tissues (Kleenex) on the way out the door. That, or there should be a bidet you can use.

  • @billwomack3055
    @billwomack3055 Год назад

    I LOVE THIS CHANNEL. Thanks for this video! I lived in Japan for 11 years, from early 80s to early 90s. My first (very cheap) apartment had a toilet like the one with the faucet on top… brilliant idea. I miss the Japanese plumbing install philosophy of keeping the toilets separate from the bathing space. My toilet in that very basic apartment was in a separate room from the bath. The bathing room was small but included an adjacent soaking tub and shower. The idea is to shower and clean yourself, THEN get into the deep cube-shaped tub for a good hot soak. Awesome. The tub had its own recirculating gas instant hot water heater plumbed through the outside wall, and would recirculate the water while you bathed. I learned to reuse that (clean!) water, and would leave the tub full of fresh water all the time in case there was an earthquake (very common there) so I’d have water to boil for drinking, just in case. I’m looking for a Japanese-style simple soaking tub now for my bathroom in Virginia. So far, no luck.

  • @connorgolden4
    @connorgolden4 3 года назад +1

    Haha! I love these reactions to foreign plumbing!

  • @Billary
    @Billary 3 года назад

    I just found your channel today and I love your videos! Great content!

  • @leroyjenkins6256
    @leroyjenkins6256 2 года назад +2

    2:38 It's all fun and games until you're doing your thing, and then the toilet malfunctions and the seat retracts from under you

    • @Cheepchipsable
      @Cheepchipsable 2 года назад

      Or starts playing the National Anthem and you are forced to stand!

  • @stevenmorris3181
    @stevenmorris3181 2 года назад +1

    Heard many years ago that the USSR had some crazy sink traps with moving parts etc. Love to get a visual on some.

  • @FWDoraDora13
    @FWDoraDora13 3 года назад +1

    Hey Rodger on the second video he is using a piece of wood sharpened to a point to plug the hole on the main. We call it broomsticking. Common practice. You then cut the wood flush with the main and put a permanent repair clamp over it. We do it when the corporation valve on the main has to be removed or gets hit during excavations.

  • @chris76-01
    @chris76-01 3 года назад +36

    You're literally flushing your money down the drain buying a $50,000 toilet. Lol

    • @TheAlex445
      @TheAlex445 3 года назад +7

      Technically you’re always flushing your money down the drain, if you’re on city water

    • @tell-it7649
      @tell-it7649 3 года назад +2

      Not if you're rich enough

    • @chris76-01
      @chris76-01 3 года назад +2

      @@tell-it7649 just like with a vehicle, you can buy a jalopy or a rolls royce and they'll both take you to your destination. Just depends on how much money you want to spend and how much luxury you want. 😆

    • @kaitan4160
      @kaitan4160 3 года назад +1

      It gets better.
      Look at that Toilet agai nand wathc what is on the lower left side of it.
      An outlet with an Plug in it. Ofc it needs electricity from somewhere.
      I dont know about you but i dont see alot of Bathrooms with an low outlet like that. Or even an low outlet like that near the "soon to be" Toilet Position.
      Add to that all the codes surrounding how to do electrical wiring in an Bahtroom ... that Toilet will cost you alot more than 50k.

    • @chris76-01
      @chris76-01 3 года назад

      @@kaitan4160 it should be wired for wet locations like you would for an outdoor outlet with gfci.

  • @loupgarou8867
    @loupgarou8867 3 года назад +1

    One funny thing in quite a few public toilets in shopping malls in Tokyo at least is that they had a "Privacy mode", which was basically an option on the toilet remote to play white noise, or generic music to cover any sound you might make and avoid "embarrassment". Although I'm not sure if it was yours, or anyone else in the toilet.
    Also as a practical non plumbing thing, it was not unusual to find an over sized toilet stall in both men and women's toilet for parents who were alone but looking after a toddler. Inside the stall was a child seat mounted on the wall so you could put your toddler in the seat inside the stall with you while you went to the toilet.

  • @squirrellysquirrels1167
    @squirrellysquirrels1167 3 года назад +1

    LA has some crazy plumbing ideas... They use rain to flush the toilet (sidewalk)! But not everything flushes...

  • @dracomacolovish6890
    @dracomacolovish6890 3 года назад +1

    A Real man's Job Respect ✌️

  • @gamergopt9872
    @gamergopt9872 3 года назад

    Love the sink above the toilet, clever way to save water

  • @TheLeemccormack1
    @TheLeemccormack1 3 года назад +2

    I’ve fitted some of these futuristic toilets, over in Scotland, they’re quite interesting, the wiring that goes into them is crazy.

  • @justinwinsbro7770
    @justinwinsbro7770 3 года назад +1

    I love the camera showing Rogers Custom Ear phones or CIEM’s

  • @benjaminblack5888
    @benjaminblack5888 3 года назад

    40 years ago I saw an entertaining aquarium mounted above the toilet tank that had the fill water spinning and lighting up a variety of colorful playful of plastic spinners, water wheels, waterpower lifts for marbles, fountains and then into a small hand washing sink before draining into the toilet tank. Very creative idea.

  • @nickrog6759
    @nickrog6759 2 года назад

    What the Hell You Tube !!! I wanted JAPANESE PLUM CAKE Recipe !!! ... Anyway , I still watched it ... & ... Subscribed .

  • @johnwheeler7805
    @johnwheeler7805 2 года назад

    As an American who has traveled to Mexico I have seen some sketch plumbing. Love the sink back toilet

  • @-----REDACTED-----
    @-----REDACTED----- 3 года назад

    When we renovated our bath I went through pains to get one of those bidets. A duravit one from germany because that has a decalcification cleaning mode.
    So far I am a massive fan of those things ever since I got to know them in Japan and Korea!

  • @scorpio6587
    @scorpio6587 3 года назад

    Great episode

  • @stephenpyrek4726
    @stephenpyrek4726 2 года назад

    Love the video’s , love how u correct the bloke that say bidet wrong. Come to england we’ll teach you how to really say it

  • @aegusa12
    @aegusa12 3 года назад +4

    Wow I've never been this early!!!

  • @TheJagdog
    @TheJagdog 3 года назад

    Hi roger, hope you see this comment. I am a “handy man/diyer” and I just bought a shower that I call a stand alone shower tub because it’s one that has feet underneath the tub to sit on the floor and then has a glass top half that gets silicone sealed on the tub. (It’s a steam shower with a rain head and other accessories with it) this shower has the input watering fitting right on the back side of the diverged that are attached to the back of the control panel. This is my first time doing a project like this and the water piping running the whole house is cpvc. I knew I wanted to use pex for the new shower lines and so I went with shark bite fittings. The first connection I made was a straight half to half shark bite to convert from the cpvc to the pex and that fitting leaked right off the back and I fingered out right then and there real fast that they are very serious when the material has to be almost flawless before installing the fitting. I had tiny knicks in the cpvc that cause a tooth or two in the fitting not to bite and the O ring not to seal. Over all my total new pipe length uses six shark bite fittings. (Four elbows and two straights. I’ve been checking the last four days the new shower has been installed and only had a small leak that came from my own error of missing a small gap when siliconing the tub. No water has leaked from the water lines and nothing from the fittings. Is this an appropriate set up or should I dismantle what I’ve done and buy cpvc and fitting and glue them together. Thanks for any advice.

  • @OneOfDisease
    @OneOfDisease 3 года назад

    A lot of the toilets show were ADA accessible units, the big sink with a flush handle is for emptying and washing out things like colostomy bags.

  • @fyowona2755
    @fyowona2755 3 года назад +1

    The first one reminded me of Blu-Lock fittings

  • @floresfam2488
    @floresfam2488 3 года назад +4

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @Titantitan001
    @Titantitan001 3 года назад +1

    I had originally planned to visit japan before this pandemic hit. I really enjoy the culture over there when it comes to work ethic and stuff like that. My Aussie buddies wanted to take me.

  • @Light256
    @Light256 3 года назад +1

    that sink/fill for the toilet thing is simply mind boggling why we don't have that here...in the USA id totally use that

  • @bruceyung70
    @bruceyung70 3 года назад +1

    At 4:27 with the clip of yellow plastic plunger to unclog the toilet is in the Korean language written on the plastic wrap.

  • @JimmySal1
    @JimmySal1 3 года назад

    Parker makes a shop air line system with aluminum pipes that get a bead/flare on the end and composite fittings that attach them together that looks very similar to the pipe fittings you saw around 7 minutes in. It's called Trans air. Not cheap, but works very good and if you design it properly it saves you on running costs for compressed air. They also make a smaller version called fastpipe that works kind of like pex/sharkbite.

  • @5x535
    @5x535 3 года назад +2

    Perhaps a few words about the difference between aerobic and anaerobic would be helpful here. I have never heard of an aerobic septic system before. Aerobic bacteria refers to the group of microorganisms that grow in the presence of oxygen and thrive in an anoxygenic environment. Anaerobic bacteria refers to the group of microorganisms that grow in the absence of oxygen and cannot survive in the presence of an anoxygenic environment. A septic system is anaerobic by definition---as far as I know.

  • @ianmontgomery7534
    @ianmontgomery7534 3 года назад

    I stayed in a hotel in Snhenzhen China that had the inlet for the toilet coming from the hot water tap pipe for the basin. It was onbviously deliberate as the cold water tap was closer to the toilet. I thought it was an excellent idea but it only works well if the basin and toilet are in the same room.

  • @LeftBlankIntentionally
    @LeftBlankIntentionally 3 года назад +1

    I saw one of your truck s a few days ago in Garland, Texas

  • @NinjaSushi2
    @NinjaSushi2 3 года назад +1

    I agree with everything you said.

  • @astroidyeti2169
    @astroidyeti2169 3 года назад

    I grew up in the country we had a septic tank and weeping bed, wow was that grass ever green all year bit of a pain to keep cut though

  • @TheJtrent238
    @TheJtrent238 3 года назад

    5:35 I seen those rooms before it was in a building its called "Smart Glass"

  • @peger
    @peger 2 года назад +1

    2:21 i think you can retrofit your toilet replacing top of the water tank with one that have faucet

  • @geezer.d.luffy.
    @geezer.d.luffy. 3 года назад +5

    5:10 that's really gonna suck when your hands go straight through it into poop water

  • @CxwBxyFrxmHxll
    @CxwBxyFrxmHxll 2 года назад

    I’m a first year plumber’s apprentice (UA 68 South Texas) never thought I would be I. This trade growing up but I do enjoy the career very much. There’s so much to learn, so this is pretty interesting to watch!

  • @pitafun
    @pitafun 3 года назад

    Been wondering for a while about that stick on film to unplug toilet, how does it really work when there's overflow tube? .. Pressure would vent thru the over flow tube unless it was filled with water..

  • @vinnyjohn7671
    @vinnyjohn7671 2 года назад +2

    Pretty advanced over there, it’s nice to see

  • @throughmyeyes8568
    @throughmyeyes8568 3 года назад

    #2 when you think you have the valve to the off position... only happened twice. it was a quarter turn valve both times

  • @evawulf
    @evawulf 2 года назад +1

    It's interesting that you called out the lack of toilet paper in the public restrooms. When I was living there, most restrooms didn't have toilet paper in them at all, but a lot of local arcades, karaoke boxes, and shops would hand out promotional packets of tissue. At first I had thought that they were just like Kleenex packets or something, but they're actually meant for being tucked away as emergency public restroom toilet paper.

  • @Cheepchipsable
    @Cheepchipsable 2 года назад +1

    2:23, that's basically the flare they put in brake lines on cars.

  • @riftdancer1349
    @riftdancer1349 3 года назад

    I've seen the transparent to solid walls in clubs before. Pretty nice.

  • @ronniewilliz153
    @ronniewilliz153 3 года назад

    Oh yeah it's a whole different world over seas plumbing wise an other stuff lol it's wild. Whats the lead ap stand for when you say ur name ?

  • @dstyd
    @dstyd 3 года назад

    Been to Japan used a bidet toilet and the squat toilet too. Sometimes wish I had a bidet toilet in my apartment.

  • @MundMoriginal
    @MundMoriginal 2 года назад

    I'm going to buy such a sink+toilet some time later this year to replace one of our toilets, duo to the small size (about 1.2m² room with slide door). Gonna be hard to find one for there's not much use for it in Germany.

  • @jl-dc6dt
    @jl-dc6dt 3 года назад +62

    that “plumger” is actually Korean

    • @editorgrayson1073
      @editorgrayson1073 3 года назад +13

      whoopsie :(

    • @mx-lj4qq
      @mx-lj4qq 3 года назад

      Pali pali chingu

    • @cherrysdiy5005
      @cherrysdiy5005 3 года назад

      I was about to say... you beat me to it. Lol

    • @tabortollefson
      @tabortollefson 3 года назад +1

      @@cherrysdiy5005 And you beat me to commenting "beat me to it".

    • @cherrysdiy5005
      @cherrysdiy5005 3 года назад +1

      @@tabortollefson Haha, just when you are about to make a comment and someone else made it. Been there done that! Have a good night.

  • @joshyingling
    @joshyingling 2 года назад

    We have the electric glass walls here in some shops in Florida, there is one at the ice cream shop in west Palm beach, they work by being clear while power is supplied to the glass then when the power is off it turns opaque, there is more science to it but you get the idea.

  • @shaugnb_
    @shaugnb_ 3 года назад

    5:40 My old office door and conference room wall was like that

  • @chriskelvin248
    @chriskelvin248 3 года назад

    In NYC, a water main tap inadvertently pulled out by a backhoe during utility excavation can be temp plugged by hammering broomsticks into the exposed tap hole. Takes skill and balls as you are franticly working waist-deep in raging water that was a dry trench 10 seconds ago. Otherwise, you stand at the top of the trench waiting for DEP to arrive an hour later to shut down the whole block while you explain to your supervisor on the phone how you intend to clean up all the affected flooded basements...

  • @kramler
    @kramler 3 года назад

    I like when people, like this, knows that things are different outside his country, and doesn't bash them for doing things differently

  • @4513goalie
    @4513goalie 3 года назад +1

    first one looks like a copy from, Uponor mlc press fittings

  • @newmango2488
    @newmango2488 3 года назад +15

    I might have to call you up to come down here because my toilet keeps rising for no reason

  • @HarrisWaterandSewer
    @HarrisWaterandSewer 3 года назад

    Interesting to see!

  • @Cam-wi3tp
    @Cam-wi3tp 2 года назад

    on the part where they sealed the toilet on top to use as a plunger, wouldn't the pressure be diminished from the air going up into the tank from the holes under the rim?

  • @eljayleveille3721
    @eljayleveille3721 3 года назад

    36 years ago in South America,
    La Paz Bolivia they had electrical shower heads, wired to an open two poll switch!. No water heaters .. i got zapped.. everything else was like a normal American bathroom.

  • @diefordethklok3711
    @diefordethklok3711 3 года назад

    My wife lived in Moscow up until a decade ago. The apartment buildings they have there get shut down once a year for maintenance on the hot water (from what I’m guessing it’s hard and builds a lot of calcium) so they need friends in other apartments or use gym memberships to shower. Fun fact for the day.

  • @arcanask
    @arcanask 3 года назад

    7:32 oh geez. that's so obvious. We use similar method to put together concrete irrigation pipes.

  • @battdepo
    @battdepo 3 года назад

    Hi, we have one bathroom that changes from transparent to solid in Montreal old port, it's pretty nice.

  • @TheBachelor916
    @TheBachelor916 2 года назад +1

    I came here hoping to hear a reaction to the way their tubs drain, was disappointed.
    Great video still. 👍😁

  • @james10739
    @james10739 2 года назад

    I feel like I have seen them for sale online and there is nothing stopping you from using them

  • @nyftn
    @nyftn 3 года назад +1

    my grandparents had a hightech toilet back in the 90's