That cast iron pipe has seen better days. You managed to get him fixed up. Some guys would have looked at that and told the owner I can't do nothing with it, you need all new piping. Your always willing to get someone going again if at all possible. I know your customers appreciate that. Nice job.
I'm just needing to patch a hole in an old sink drain down in the basement on my +100 year old home. Ran across this video and was mesmerized! That was beautiful! Simple, clean, perfect. You are a hero to that old lady.
+Bob Collins i use 2 part epoxy for repairing holes sometimes .if you can get it dry the epoxy will harder up nicely and most likely not leak for a while .good for a patch to get you by till pipe can be replaced with newer piping
This guy is what made me go and take up plumbing. He makes the shit actually look enjoyable! Too bad I waited until my early 40's to get serious about it, but hell....I love it!
Oh, how watching that brought back memories. I was 10 years old when I started following my dad on jobs, and that was back before No Hub cast iron, and PVC piping, (around the early 1950's). It was all XH cast iron that we used to cut with a cold chisel. I still have my dad's melting pot, caulking tools, ladles, and lead runners. As I grew older, the NO Hub cast iron came out, followed by PVC and I remember saying, what a joy it was to work with those products compared to the old Xtra Heavy cast iron. As you know, No Hub cast iron pipe is "spun cast iron" so it can only be cut with a chain cutter, or a "snapper" as you affectionately call it. Love watching you work; brings back memories of working with my dad. We had lots of good times on those jobs.
Great Video !. Yes, I am old and strangely find instructional plumbing videos entertaining. I am proud of it. LOL. Please continue posting great videos. Thank you.
Thanks Steve you helped me out big time with a similar repair at home! I’ve always been able to fix my own vehicles and it will be cool to start doing the same with the house. Be well brother take care!
Steve. You have been my go to Man for any plumbing or furnace repair issues. You are appreciated and a very knowledgable guide to helping others in new situations. You are Home ownership-do it-yourself Messiah! Joe in Coos Bay OR.
Awesome! I never thought that watching a Master Plumber do his job would be interesting, but it is totally entertaining and educational, too! Take care and what ever you do - don't run out of gloves!
This terrific helpful video enabled me to replace my own rotted 65-year old cast iron drainpipe. Great tips and instruction Steve, I greatly appreciate you making this video. I was able to replace the pipe in good time with minimal cost and mess. Thank you so much. - Peter B.
love your stuff!!! been following for years, I small plumbing due to not having a LIC but I am also a helper. you have taught me so much I appreciate it..
Love your videos my family Ben plumbers over 50 years I've been a plumber 23 years and I'm always surprised to see still there are still plumbers like yourself that do that heavy duty work very hard work on cast iron pipes sewers Etc most plumbers now shy away from that kind of work is very hard very expensive you keep doing what you're doing my man and take care of yourself please by the way I highly recommend a respirator when you're messing around with those cast iron and lead pipes... me and my family sent a shout out to Little Miss Molly.mel Lara falcone.
Get 9ML extra thick Nitrile gloves at harbor freight - out last 10 pair of regular 5MIL gloves. Also, get size XL - easier to take off and reuse especially if you get a phone call during while on the job. Thanks for bringing the camera along. Nice to see all the new pieces in place. Those cast iron hubs must cost quite a bit.
thank you for the video Steve, To everyone who is going to attempt cutting metal or plastic pipe, always wear the appropriate eye protection. Glasses at the minimum, face shield is a good idea. I have been in this industry for thirty years and have had and have seen some pretty bad injuries, all avoidable, just because of a slight bit of carelessness. protect your eyes always no matter what. Jim the plumber
As a tentative newbie, I would be terrified to use the cut wheel without a guard and to grind with a cut wheel. I’m learning a lot from your videos. Thanks for sharing these with us.
Your steady stream of thought narration is fantastic-what you're thinking and why makes your video so knowledge rich it ranks with any college course I've taken....thanks.
12:20. What a tool. I do a fair bit of plumbing in the uk and I’ve never seen one of those cutting tools used like that. In fact I’ve never seen one at all. We usually pull it out to the next joint and replace with plastic. Great repair to what is really a load of old shite that needs replacing. I like these kind of jobs. Customer won’t spend the money so you have to do what ever to get it working again.
Steve, awesome video. That repair with no hub clamps is the way to go. I just did the same repair basically but used ABS to cast iron. Thank you sir for your videos.👍
I used some *Henry* rubberized roofing cement and fiberglass mesh to seal up the bottom of a rusted out cast iron pipe under my house. It's held up pretty well along the rotted out seam over the years...
Great repair on that cluster f**k, you are a great plumber, the plumber code hot on the left cold on the right shit don't run up hill and pay days on Friday.
good on you for helping the Ol' lady out without up selling her on upgrades...codes... she prolly on a budget... * lol...I see in the comment section many question the work done....** thumbs up on fixing her problem !! 1FM Lake George, NY
Reminds me of my old house ... old cast iron drain pipes, galvanized drain pipes that have rotted and had to be replaced with PVC, Fernco's everywhere tying the old and new pipes together ... I don't miss that. :)
steven lavimoniere Sure looked like it. That was the experience in my old house -- eventually you end up replacing everything. Maybe you get lucky and you don't have to do it all at once, but eventually it all gets replaced.
That's basically my house. Built in 1891. And it's such a hodgepodge of repairs and things. For my water supply I have some sections of copper, some of PEX, and some old galvanized. For my drains I have a mix of PVC, cast iron, and clay. Not to mention all of the other shit wrong with the house, lol. If I had the money I would just tear it down and build things to modern standards so that I wouldn't have to worry about anything and so my floors would be level at least.
Steve talk about a mess plumbing wise lol , cast and pvc connections all over the place. You r right by telling the guy to save for awhile. Good vid man.
Look s like my old alley house in Minneapolis. My neighbor retired master plumber looked at my silicone I put over cast and said "good job" now DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING! Since I m a alley house it is 120feet of sewer line. This place could easily be a fricken nightmare. Love your vid, you know your s%!t!
Steve I was wondering on some of the jobs where you replace cast iron pipe with cast iron pipe instead of using PVC. What would be the reasoning for not converting the new pieces to PVC??
It's because of diameter differences between the two materials. With 1-1/2' and 2" diameter pipes, the material difference between PVC and cast iron is small, but as you move up to 3" and 4" diameters, the difference is too great if using a standard No Hub coupling so it's easier to simply continue with cast iron to make the patch.
I used to live in a house that had that kind of pipe. Somebody had ran Galvanized Pipe to My Kitchen Sink and Washing Machine. It was in really bad shape. It was running under My foundation and camping out in My Yard. I put New Colas Pipe to that and I connected it back to The Old Lead Pipe. I was still in Good Shape.
I used a grinder just like that with no guard. Needless to say the blade broke and mangled my index finger so bad right through my glove, that my finger had to be amputated. I always make sure the guard is on. For a long time I was hesitant about using power saws and grinders.
that why i do not use cheap blades the blades i use have heavy fiberglass mesh they will not come apart ever i have stepped on them and had a bad crack it them and they still will not break apart . i pay big money for the blade i use but trust them .100% been using them for over 20 years never had 1 problem with them i use them probley 3 times or more a week .moral to the story is best to by the best if your hand or face is at stack .. i buy mine at the welding supply store . there made for cutting thick metal .
He did a great job. He also probably had a tight schedule, With another job right after. "For the time being" it will definitely hold up. I'm sure eventually the homeowners will pay for a full replacement. Things cost money & not everyone can afford for a complete renovation.
i love you videos,not only to learn the steps for do a good job but to buy the right stuff because we have no help on a plumber supply house ,they don"t know nothing nothing about are jobs ,i:m electrician for more than 40 years ,i know the trick on the supply hoses,(0 training )
Hypothetically if you were to tackle repiping the whole thing in the future, which portion of the system would you start with and leave for last? e.g. sewer lateral, main drain line where it branches out, or the branches to each room. (I realize each building is unique, but I figured this one would be a good one to use as an example, since there would be little to save.)
John Granoski we never use abs in my area,,,, i see it just in house trailers .trailer parks .well we have to work within code requirements ,what you seen me do way the best thing to do in my case thats why i did it that way....
LOL....you're so damn good. I've never seen anyone cut a steel pipe before and when I saw you do it, I just about shit in my pants....LOL. Did that piece fly off? You're so confident and fearless. You used thick rubber and clamps to join the the pieces of galvanized pipes. Did you come up with that idea? I'm learning so much from your videos man. I hope to be as good as you. Thanks for showing us newbies your skills and expertise.
Lord Byron Those are "snap cutters" he used to break the piping with. They've been used industry wide for the past half century or so. They simply score & break the pipe from exerted downward pressure from the chain compression & roller blades he wrapped around the piping. The extreme compression & displacement is what makes the cut piece shoot out sideways. Before they were invented,, you'd have to score around your pipe with a coal chisel many times until creating a crease to break it evenly & it was a bitch at times when you had piping manufactured to different thickness & tolerances. I haven't done any work like this in decades & was surprised to see they (snap cutters) were still the standard benchmark for doing so. He used stainless steel "no hub" clamps which come available in all dimensions adhering to standard piping sizes & the seals are made of neoprene. That isn't "galvanized piping" he's tearing out & replacing,, it's "cast iron soil pipe" which at one time many moons ago used to be the standard as well for installing all plumbing drainage systems before ABS & PVC/DWV polyvinyl pipe was invented. It was put together melting hot lead/ingots in a gas fired pot poured with a ladle over oakum joints which you would pack around the hubs of the pipe with various irons/chisels,, one being a long neck "jute iron". The fittings he's using to make these repairs are with no hub fittings designed specifically for use with the no hub bands. The "galvanized piping" you referenced used to be utilized in water systems & was cut & threaded manually using threading dies & elbow grease working the dies up & down cutting specified size of threads on the steel piping you had to cut manually as well to a working length. Plumbing truly used to be an art form but has now evolved into measure, cut & glue methodology. The hardest part of plumbing nowadays is satisfying some asinine inspector hellbent on finding something wrong with your work so he can keep his job. Compliments to the man doing the work in this video,, his alignment was seemingly good on all the joints he installed & it's good he could stand up to do it all. Doing all that in tight crawl space on your back can be quite the chore..
Steve, I just found your channel recently and I absolutely LOVE your videos!! My father-in-law is an old school plumber like you -53 years and counting! I know this video is old but I’m hoping you still read the comments on your older videos. I have a question: Why didn’t you replace the sections of cast iron with ABS? Keep the videos coming!!
One recommendation is to make sure your wheel (you say you like to use larger wheels) can take the rpm's of your Bosch grinder. Another safety consideration. That house appears to have more issues than the plumbing. Did a bomb go off down there?
Man that's dangerous cutting cast with a grinder. And without a guard 😬 then all them poisons fumes. Use your sawzall with a Deoblo blade. It's not only safer it's faster as well. But after 27 yrs of plumbing I realized no plumber is the same. Good luck to you in your future of professional plumbing
You know you are getting old when you find watching plumbing videos very entertaining. This was great.
For sure. I like Plumbing and Truckdriver videos. I mute the TV and use my laptop to watch videos.
or mature
I’m only 22
Them chain snaps you got are the truth mines I use you have to c and it to snap the cast iron
you mean when u begin to watch soap operas, then you know you have arrived.
Damn there are more joints in that basements pipework than a drug dealers house.
Yeah right, more leaks to follow eventually with time.
That cast iron pipe has seen better days. You managed to get him fixed up. Some guys would have looked at that and told the owner I can't do nothing with it, you need all new piping. Your always willing to get someone going again if at all possible. I know your customers appreciate that. Nice job.
DC Rickerson sometimes things are not so easy and pretty ,time to roll your sleaves up and get her done
I'm just needing to patch a hole in an old sink drain down in the basement on my +100 year old home. Ran across this video and was mesmerized! That was beautiful! Simple, clean, perfect. You are a hero to that old lady.
+Bob Collins i use 2 part epoxy for repairing holes sometimes .if you can get it dry the epoxy will harder up nicely and most likely not leak for a while .good for a patch to get you by till pipe can be replaced with newer piping
This guy is what made me go and take up plumbing. He makes the shit actually look enjoyable! Too bad I waited until my early 40's to get serious about it, but hell....I love it!
TheFloorBoys plumbing is a good trade .it has been good to me
So are you a plumber today?
TheFloorBoys I’m 43 lol and where do I go to start?
Same here
I’m 55 and thinking the same thing!!
Oh, how watching that brought back memories. I was 10 years old when I started following my dad on jobs, and that was back before No Hub cast iron, and PVC piping, (around the early 1950's). It was all XH cast iron that we used to cut with a cold chisel. I still have my dad's melting pot, caulking tools, ladles, and lead runners. As I grew older, the NO Hub cast iron came out, followed by PVC and I remember saying, what a joy it was to work with those products compared to the old Xtra Heavy cast iron. As you know, No Hub cast iron pipe is "spun cast iron" so it can only be cut with a chain cutter, or a "snapper" as you affectionately call it. Love watching you work; brings back memories of working with my dad. We had lots of good times on those jobs.
Great Video !. Yes, I am old and strangely find instructional plumbing videos entertaining. I am proud of it. LOL. Please continue posting great videos. Thank you.
I really appreciated the, "Why do I wear gloves?" it was a great reminder for a repair I did in my basement. Yeah, gloves are a good idea.
Your Dad taught you well, you know what you need and how to get the job done, no waisted time.
Thanks Steve you helped me out big time with a similar repair at home! I’ve always been able to fix my own vehicles and it will be cool to start doing the same with the house. Be well brother take care!
Your videos are so cool, my buddies and me watch them and have a few beers and love your side comments.
Steve. You have been my go to Man for any plumbing or furnace repair issues. You are appreciated and a very knowledgable guide to helping others in new situations. You are Home ownership-do it-yourself Messiah! Joe in Coos Bay OR.
Awesome! I never thought that watching a Master Plumber do his job would be interesting, but it is totally entertaining and educational, too! Take care and what ever you do - don't run out of gloves!
Longeno55 i carry extra gloves all the time
I'm sure that you do ; )
William Tecumseh Sherman You wouldnt make a pimple on a plumbers ass, nor could you carry my tools. I AM THE MASTER. Lol
I LIKE A DR. PLUMBER, AS MY SELF. THAT WEAR SAFETY EQUIPMENT NOT SHORT CUTS. ONE OF THIS DAY HE WILL REMEMBER TO BE SAFE.
This terrific helpful video enabled me to replace my own rotted 65-year old cast iron drainpipe. Great tips and instruction Steve, I greatly appreciate you making this video. I was able to replace the pipe in good time with minimal cost and mess. Thank you so much. - Peter B.
Peter Bentivegna thanks for the comment
love your stuff!!! been following for years, I small plumbing due to not having a LIC but I am also a helper. you have taught me so much I appreciate it..
I know this is an old video, but want to thank you nontheless. I have the same problem and this is exactly what I needed to see.
Love your videos my family Ben plumbers over 50 years I've been a plumber 23 years and I'm always surprised to see still there are still plumbers like yourself that do that heavy duty work very hard work on cast iron pipes sewers Etc most plumbers now shy away from that kind of work is very hard very expensive you keep doing what you're doing my man and take care of yourself please by the way I highly recommend a respirator when you're messing around with those cast iron and lead pipes... me and my family sent a shout out to Little Miss Molly.mel Lara falcone.
Anyone who questions a plumbers salary should just watch videos like this..
Get 9ML extra thick Nitrile gloves at harbor freight - out last 10 pair of regular 5MIL gloves. Also, get size XL - easier to take off and reuse especially if you get a phone call during while on the job.
Thanks for bringing the camera along. Nice to see all the new pieces in place. Those cast iron hubs must cost quite a bit.
thank you for the video Steve,
To everyone who is going to attempt cutting metal or plastic pipe, always wear the appropriate eye protection.
Glasses at the minimum, face shield is a good idea.
I have been in this industry for thirty years and have had and have seen some pretty bad injuries, all avoidable,
just because of a slight bit of carelessness.
protect your eyes always no matter what.
Jim the plumber
As a tentative newbie, I would be terrified to use the cut wheel without a guard and to grind with a cut wheel. I’m learning a lot from your videos. Thanks for sharing these with us.
Your steady stream of thought narration is fantastic-what you're thinking and why makes your video so knowledge rich it ranks with any college course I've taken....thanks.
+stp479 thanks for watching
I have learned " Why do you wear gloves" quote and apply to all my work now without hesitation. Thanks from the pro's.
rmwaseem i wear gloves because some of the stuff i touch is nasty
12:20. What a tool. I do a fair bit of plumbing in the uk and I’ve never seen one of those cutting tools used like that. In fact I’ve never seen one at all. We usually pull it out to the next joint and replace with plastic. Great repair to what is really a load of old shite that needs replacing. I like these kind of jobs. Customer won’t spend the money so you have to do what ever to get it working again.
Steve. good luck on replacing the 4" cast iron pipe. you are the best plumber,that I know.you will make out ok!!!!MAMA!!!!!
These American style sewer repairs do not stop to astonishing me :D
Steve, awesome video. That repair with no hub clamps is the way to go. I just did the same repair basically but used ABS to cast iron. Thank you sir for your videos.👍
Jeez! You weren't lying about that place. Patch 'n' match, Mama!!
I used some *Henry* rubberized roofing cement and fiberglass mesh to seal up the bottom of a rusted out cast iron pipe under my house. It's held up pretty well along the rotted out seam over the years...
Great repair on that cluster f**k, you are a great plumber, the plumber code hot on the left cold on the right shit don't run up hill and pay days on Friday.
good on you for helping the Ol' lady out without up selling her on upgrades...codes... she prolly on a budget...
* lol...I see in the comment section many question the work done....** thumbs up on fixing her problem !!
1FM
Lake George, NY
Awesome... I love it when you talk to yourself.... do you ever win or lose arguments ????
Reminds me of my old house ... old cast iron drain pipes, galvanized drain pipes that have rotted and had to be replaced with PVC, Fernco's everywhere tying the old and new pipes together ... I don't miss that. :)
+Art Cancro (IGnatius T Foobar) this house needed new plumbing
steven lavimoniere Sure looked like it. That was the experience in my old house -- eventually you end up replacing everything. Maybe you get lucky and you don't have to do it all at once, but eventually it all gets replaced.
That's basically my house. Built in 1891. And it's such a hodgepodge of repairs and things. For my water supply I have some sections of copper, some of PEX, and some old galvanized. For my drains I have a mix of PVC, cast iron, and clay. Not to mention all of the other shit wrong with the house, lol. If I had the money I would just tear it down and build things to modern standards so that I wouldn't have to worry about anything and so my floors would be level at least.
Thanks for showing us how to tackle a mess and turn it into a nice restoration.
David Patton thanks for watching
Steve talk about a mess plumbing wise lol , cast and pvc connections all over the place. You r right by telling the guy to save for awhile. Good vid man.
You,did it a really good job steve
A vintage kick ass video Steve!!!!!!!! 👍☝💯💥😏
what an awesome cutter, great job brotha
Hybrid nj this way the pipe will not crush .and break for being thin from old age
The repair and maintenance is great.
Looks somewhat simple but I don't have a basement.. only small crawlspace with dirt floor
good job i love your work steven god bless you iam learning a lot from you
Steve is getting the job done.
Look s like my old alley house in Minneapolis. My neighbor retired master plumber looked at my silicone I put over cast and said "good job" now DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING! Since I m a alley house it is 120feet of sewer line. This place could easily be a fricken nightmare. Love your vid, you know your s%!t!
Nice work bro. That black hose connected to the pvc is something special!
Steve I was wondering on some of the jobs where you replace cast iron pipe with cast iron pipe instead of using PVC. What would be the reasoning for not converting the new pieces to PVC??
It's because of diameter differences between the two materials. With 1-1/2' and 2" diameter pipes, the material difference between PVC and cast iron is small, but as you move up to 3" and 4" diameters, the difference is too great if using a standard No Hub coupling so it's easier to simply continue with cast iron to make the patch.
I love your videos! Thank you for sharing your work!
I love the look of those large cast iron pipes, to bad they rarely build with them anymore.
You make it look so easy.
Charles
hannarye after 32 years it is easy
***** thanks for commenting mike
I used to live in a house that had that kind of pipe. Somebody had ran Galvanized Pipe to My Kitchen Sink and Washing Machine. It was in really bad shape. It was running under My foundation and camping out in My Yard. I put New Colas Pipe to that and I connected it back to The Old Lead Pipe. I was still in Good Shape.
I used a grinder just like that with no guard. Needless to say the blade broke and mangled my index finger so bad right through my glove, that my finger had to be amputated. I always make sure the guard is on. For a long time I was hesitant about using power saws and grinders.
that why i do not use cheap blades the blades i use have heavy fiberglass mesh they will not come apart ever i have stepped on them and had a bad crack it them and they still will not break apart . i pay big money for the blade i use but trust them .100% been using them for over 20 years never had 1 problem with them i use them probley 3 times or more a week .moral to the story is best to by the best if your hand or face is at stack .. i buy mine at the welding supply store . there made for cutting thick metal .
Thank you Steven ! That was fun.
beautiful idea, really can appreciate the couplings though.
The whole time you were cutting that pipe I kept wondering what the smell must have been like!
You did what you could with what you were given, but god what a mess!
+Ian Butler thanks man
Great video, thanks for taking the time to post this.
"Ya never got shit on ya before" - LOL - Sooner or later everybody does.
wow, you can do a lot with couplings and rubber.
the amount of time you spent patching you could have replaced 80% of the cast iron to pvc. simple job
Against code in Mass. Cant "Patch in" PVC in the middle of cast iron.
@John Smith didn't want to pay for it.
He did a great job. He also probably had a tight schedule, With another job right after.
"For the time being" it will definitely hold up. I'm sure eventually the homeowners will pay for a full replacement. Things cost money & not everyone can afford for a complete renovation.
@@nopc9728 Since when was a tight schedule an excuse for shoddy work? Ridiculous.
John Smith thank you sir any good plumber would just do that right off the bat no brainer
Steve! You're killing me with the hundred clamp/cast patch! P....V.......C!
against code.
Great job Steve looks great !!!!!
Harry Dickson thanks for commenting harry
Good job Steve! At least you had a basement to work in! Crawl spaces under 100 year old houses are never fun!
Josiah Hanna 98% of houses up my way have cielers
Dealing with drain pipes is always a shitty task...
😂 I liked the ending of the video. and the job done.
Sometimes you got to do what ya got do. Good job. Thanks for the video.
Steve, Good Job. They need a complete re-pipe. Some of those wood trusses look water damaged
S Sam old farmhouse has issuues
certainly a disaster zone there steve lol. GREAT VIDEO AGAIN. FOR A 8 YEAR OLD VIDEO, im going through all your vids for entainment night.
i love you videos,not only to learn the steps for do a good job but to buy the right stuff because we have no help on a plumber supply house ,they don"t know nothing nothing about are jobs ,i:m electrician for more than 40 years ,i know the trick on the supply hoses,(0 training )
Here in CA we would have replace the entire drainage with ABS pipes.
Great repair
hvachookup thanks for watching
"Hey! Make sure she dont flush the toilet!"
I turn off toilets, then flush them. Problem solved.
And I thought this was a random comment. 6:35
I’ve shit down the building, flushed the wc’s and still had people get buckets of water from a neighboring building to flush on me.
Yes She Can!!
@@chadhauck1 And still people think that plumbers charge too much....
6:41 - best line in a youtube video ever.
AxiomMaximum thanks for watching
i love this stuff. Thanks for the lesson
+Frederique Grewal thanks for the comment
Love the videos and very Inspiring also dewalt makes a guard for those size cutting wheels just a heads up keep em coming bro
Nice Job Steven, I still wanna know why you wear gloves though
T&N Services LLC. why do you wear gloves ???lol
lol
That plumbing looks like Frankenstein's monster.
"Sometimes you just have to make things happen." Yep!
yes sir
Angle grinder..a must have tool
Good work why not use pvc?
Great job Steve that was a tough one.
Reciprocating saw and a good diamond blade is the fastest way to go that grinder got me worry .
Hi there, from Germany.
Looks like patchwork. Don't get me wrong, good work!
Greetings
WolF
That's how's done, ladies and gentlemen. That's how real plumbers work.
6:35 "Hey, make sure she don't flush that toilet!"
6:41 "Oh, c'mon...you never got chit on you before??"
:D
jmr1068204
Okay people the joke is actually at 6:45. "What does she do?"
If you dont use a "god" on yer tool it should be a sin.
i had an asshole use the shower, when i told them not too. Probably good idea to shutoff the main to prevent a mess
Le saluda un humilde i honesto maestro gasfiter desde Chile
Good stuff.
mazzmari thanks for commenting
Hypothetically if you were to tackle repiping the whole thing in the future, which portion of the system would you start with and leave for last? e.g. sewer lateral, main drain line where it branches out, or the branches to each room. (I realize each building is unique, but I figured this one would be a good one to use as an example, since there would be little to save.)
Nice video...but invest 4 bucks in a face shield, with or without the guard
Great job - well done :)
Duxbury Rambler thanks for watching
NICE WORK STEVEN!!!
Great video but you need to use side handle and the guard on your grinder!
Correction: Think I should have stated ABS (rather than PVC) is code in our area.
John Granoski we never use abs in my area,,,, i see it just in house trailers .trailer parks .well we have to work within code requirements ,what you seen me do way the best thing to do in my case thats why i did it that way....
I think your accent is awesome!
LOL....you're so damn good. I've never seen anyone cut a steel pipe before and when I saw you do it, I just about shit in my pants....LOL. Did that piece fly off? You're so confident and fearless. You used thick rubber and clamps to join the the pieces of galvanized pipes. Did you come up with that idea? I'm learning so much from your videos man. I hope to be as good as you. Thanks for showing us newbies your skills and expertise.
Lord Byron thanks for the support
Lord Byron Those are "snap cutters" he used to break the piping with. They've been used industry wide for the past half century or so. They simply score & break the pipe from exerted downward pressure from the chain compression & roller blades he wrapped around the piping. The extreme compression & displacement is what makes the cut piece shoot out sideways. Before they were invented,, you'd have to score around your pipe with a coal chisel many times until creating a crease to break it evenly & it was a bitch at times when you had piping manufactured to different thickness & tolerances. I haven't done any work like this in decades & was surprised to see they (snap cutters) were still the standard benchmark for doing so. He used stainless steel "no hub" clamps which come available in all dimensions adhering to standard piping sizes & the seals are made of neoprene. That isn't "galvanized piping" he's tearing out & replacing,, it's "cast iron soil pipe" which at one time many moons ago used to be the standard as well for installing all plumbing drainage systems before ABS & PVC/DWV polyvinyl pipe was invented. It was put together melting hot lead/ingots in a gas fired pot poured with a ladle over oakum joints which you would pack around the hubs of the pipe with various irons/chisels,, one being a long neck "jute iron". The fittings he's using to make these repairs are with no hub fittings designed specifically for use with the no hub bands. The "galvanized piping" you referenced used to be utilized in water systems & was cut & threaded manually using threading dies & elbow grease working the dies up & down cutting specified size of threads on the steel piping you had to cut manually as well to a working length. Plumbing truly used to be an art form but has now evolved into measure, cut & glue methodology. The hardest part of plumbing nowadays is satisfying some asinine inspector hellbent on finding something wrong with your work so he can keep his job. Compliments to the man doing the work in this video,, his alignment was seemingly good on all the joints he installed & it's good he could stand up to do it all. Doing all that in tight crawl space on your back can be quite the chore..
You're a beast Lav!
Great job!!!!!!
leanorlando thanks willie
No prob, big pipe there!
Steve, I just found your channel recently and I absolutely LOVE your videos!! My father-in-law is an old school plumber like you -53 years and counting!
I know this video is old but I’m hoping you still read the comments on your older videos.
I have a question: Why didn’t you replace the sections of cast iron with ABS?
Keep the videos coming!!
by code if there is cast on both sides you should go back with cast ..
That is one cobbled up house, you have to do what the owners want ,the clothes are trashed lol
One recommendation is to make sure your wheel (you say you like to use larger wheels) can take the rpm's of your Bosch grinder. Another safety consideration. That house appears to have more issues than the plumbing. Did a bomb go off down there?
Nice job guys. I’m in crawl space no basement so I’m not happy.
Man that's dangerous cutting cast with a grinder. And without a guard 😬 then all them poisons fumes. Use your sawzall with a Deoblo blade. It's not only safer it's faster as well. But after 27 yrs of plumbing I realized no plumber is the same. Good luck to you in your future of professional plumbing
Great Vid !