It's always interesting to watch these videos. I learn more about how drain systems in Korea work and what you have to do to avoid clogs or how to spot them there. Greetings from The Netherlands!
This is why I own a duplex and refuse to rent out one of the apartments. One of my sons lives down there. The neighbors have caused this in my house bt backflow after a heavy rain. I had the sewer guys come out a couple of times the last few years. It was always clogged with fast food crap, tampons and grease. A few times it was condoms and things of that nature. We don't use any of that stuff. I dispose of grease in a container or dump it in the compost if I'm lazy. The city messed up the pipes a few years ago redoing the streets and wont fix it. Every time it happens it costs me at least $300 to drain my basement.
nice to know that the sewers of the world all have the same issue grease and what ever crap we throw down the drain to block em thanks for your hard work
I can't imagine what the tenets living in that house would be going through,it would be one of my worst nightmares,water is something very messy and annoying to deal with,that y I stopped with aquariums
I have a 55 gallon I agree sometimes It makes me regret getting the tank but then i look up and remember it wasn’t worth it but i don’t NOT like my tank yk😂 it’s a love hate relationship
Im 5"1 and this looks like I might bang my knees ... I would catch a whole panic attack in that bathroom at least put a window in it even if I have to look into the living room lol
This is common in multiple eastern countries. It makes so much sense to have the entire restroom be water proof. Makes cleaning it so much easier. No worries about damaging the walls. Only downside is if you want tonchange the decor, it's an entire change, not just one part.
It has nothing to do with "making sense since it's easier to clean". They do it that way since most Asian households and apartments are incredibly tiny. Having it all in one saves a ton of space. This is normal in Asia.
@@GamerNerdess not really as an Asian it is convenient for cleaning. Never understood the bathroom from the western side. I felt so uncomfortable to use toilets from America and Australia when I visited there.
@@wickedsai yeah, that's one thing about these shower bathrooms I do like!!! I would still prefer a separate cabin as the shower though!! so that I can still store towels and other utensils in my bathroom
I was a pretty good plumber not that long ago but a long time ago I remember using a one-way check valve and I remember there was a reason for it but for the life of me I can't remember what it was. In my 15-year experience I found that one-way check valves are very very rarely used. If something happens you have to cut out all the pipe around it and then put the pipe back in. I prefer good old-fashioned ball joint valves
I remember when we had to go to a combination small apartment building with a big restaurant on the first floor. The drains were backed up all the way into the basement and the landlord was swearing up and down that the tenants were bad that tenants did all this stuff just so he have to spend money. I should say he owned the restaurant on the first floor. So we're down there opening up all the cleanouts trying to find which waste line this clog was coming from. Well we finally found it and we were pulling out washcloths and underwear and a lot of tampons and several small white towels and the landlord was jumping up and down about how he's going to find out which tenant did this and he's going to throw him out. The waste line that it was coming from was directly from the restaurant. He was so mad that he couldn't charge a tenant for our services he tried not to pay us. No my boss was an old softy who didn't like confrontation. That's one of the reasons he hired me. There is no way I'm working in human waste for 4 hours and not getting paid for it I had a few words with the landlord and he paid right up. You can mess with me you can mess with my house but there are three things you never mess with with me. My animals my kids and my money
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I always look forward to your videos. I have a question? what type of food does all that grease blobs come from? We have the same problems here in America and a lot of the grease comes from meat oil and bacon grease. Some people still cook with lard.
What a mess!! Veggies mixed in with grease. Even I know that you aren't supposed to put any kind of vegetation down the drain, especially if it's still whole like that. Here in Canada, that goes in the green bags, which is wet or compost trash. Sad how so many people are getting lazy and just don't want to do that little bit extra to dispose of it properly. If I did that, I'd end up costing myself a pile of money, as I have to pay to have my septic system cleaned out. It's a private septic system (rural area). Then I'd have to pay for a plumber to come in and clean out my pipes inside the house. That gets freaking expensive. Been there, done that. lol Keep up the excellent work, gentlemen!!
@@friendlyneighborhoodcow8776 lol Korean drains are not like Canadian drains. They throw more down their drains than we do. You are a sanitation engineer, I'm just a dumb broad. lol
Almost all sinks in kitchens have strainers to catch food waste. I think people don't use it well..... or it's easier to just pour it down the drain and hope it goes away. Food waste is separated fro normal waste. There can be a communal bin downstairs of a apartment complex to throw away food waste. There are also special bins specifically for food waste. It's up to the individual though, to follow the rules correctly.
@@roxy918 Yes, and I used mine religiously. There's always some food and grease sneaking their way down the drains. I had a pipe plug up after 20+ yrs of that happening.
Great video! Yuk, what a awful mess in that Bathroom. I've only ever seem a combination shower & toilet in a hotel once in Europe, is it common in Korea?
Thank god, i was thinking why my country does not have hidden sewer underground. Now after watching i say will its good to have covered surface sewer easy to dignose and doesn't get messed up easily just open one of the block remove the blob with sticks and it works fine
@@stackie10able I know that smart guy, I was asking if they use the same water pressurized system. I called the "plumbers" and they show up with the stupid snake system.
@@killerkitten812 Ye thats what i thought. In Poland we also have somewhat waterproof bathrooms, but mostly to prevent mould spread after all it is wet place. But we dont have high doorsteps like u do, so whole aprtment wuld be filled in cases like that. And we rearly have floor drain, mostly in public places.
I don't think we're supposed to throw in the trash though 🤔. I'm not sure but I heard if we do that then it still pollutes the amm like natural underground water reserve (sorry, forgot the name) because in some places the trash is buried. (Don't know if that made sense 😅) I think we're supposed to recollect all the grease and cooking oil and take it to some company that recycles it.
Sunken bathrooms with a floor drain is the norm in Asia. Also the floor and walls all tiled. They call them “wet rooms”. Hard to get used to since you have to put on shoes to go into the bathroom. I bought a house in the Philippines and renovated it to a western style. I gutted the bathrooms, stripped the tile from the walls except for the shower, sealed up and tiled over the floor drains, and put wax seals and bolts on the toilet. I now have a bathroom I can walk into in the middle of the night without fear of slipping. Never had an issue in 7 years now.
Some things like the colour in turmeric paprika cooked tomatoes and a few other things are more lipid soluble than they are water soluble. So they dissolve in the oil and fat in dishes and used in the cooking and stay in those lipids after that.
Because they washed down to many veggie debris basically sayin they washed to much trash from vegetables down the drain when they could have thrown it in the trash
i refuse to live in an apartment because of my brother. His upstairs neighbors were either professional bowling ball droppers or were addicted to moving 1 to 2 ton pieces of furniture.
Glad I do NOT have smel-o-vision.
Sadly i do... Fml man... My imagination is too strong...
@@garujix same lmfao
Well that is just 0.000001% of what these guys smell even with masks
Waking up to that would really ruin your day.
Never live on the Ground floor of an apartment block, especially in Korea. Lesson learnt
Was thinking that myself lol
usually first and second floors in apartment complex suffer when there's a clog. Never, ever live in those.
But if i live any higher the water pressure will suck and cant shower
@@ReptilianLaserbeam also infestations, cockroaches rats anything starts at the bottom
8:22 1 frame into hellish alternate reality 😰
It's always interesting to watch these videos. I learn more about how drain systems in Korea work and what you have to do to avoid clogs or how to spot them there. Greetings from The Netherlands!
I'm more impressed by the fact that they're cleaning up the bathroom for the client.
I love that the dude recording told the other guy to take a short rest and he will clean. These guys seem like good people.
Note to self on visit to Korea: 2nd floor or higher hotel room please:)
why? what do you mean? i dont really understand how this drain guys on YT do all the pressure washing stuff.
@@digvijaysaxena4516 because the ground floor gets this shit most often than the upper floors
For Your Information: Drainspotters uses a hand held pump up small sprayer with disenfectant in it to sanitize the area when he was through.
Sorry ratty no corn
Beat me by two months
Lmayo
This is why I own a duplex and refuse to rent out one of the apartments. One of my sons lives down there. The neighbors have caused this in my house bt backflow after a heavy rain. I had the sewer guys come out a couple of times the last few years. It was always clogged with fast food crap, tampons and grease. A few times it was condoms and things of that nature. We don't use any of that stuff. I dispose of grease in a container or dump it in the compost if I'm lazy. The city messed up the pipes a few years ago redoing the streets and wont fix it. Every time it happens it costs me at least $300 to drain my basement.
nice to know that the sewers of the world all have the same issue grease and what ever crap we throw down the drain to block em thanks for your hard work
The moment I heard green onions I was like "toilet ramen?"
I can't imagine what the tenets living in that house would be going through,it would be one of my worst nightmares,water is something very messy and annoying to deal with,that y I stopped with aquariums
I have a 55 gallon I agree sometimes It makes me regret getting the tank but then i look up and remember it wasn’t worth it but i don’t NOT like my tank yk😂 it’s a love hate relationship
$3,000 on a 55gallon
Been semi keeping track of how much I’ve spent since I got it a year ago
It would take me days of cleaning to get the restroom clean enough to use again
I'll move the f out
Charge all the people in the building except the ground floor. LoL way
The most claustrophobic toilet I’ve ever seen
it's basically a shower with a toilet and sink inside. efficient
Im 5"1 and this looks like I might bang my knees ... I would catch a whole panic attack in that bathroom at least put a window in it even if I have to look into the living room lol
yo who puts grease in the sewer anyway it congeals in the pipes making problems very expensive too fix who can shell out money these days?
Glad that was not my bathroom. Good job.
Watching all these has taught me to never live on the bottom floor of any building in Korea, they always seem to get the overflow
Omg! I can't! Plumbers are hero's too!!!
They use equipment instead of jumping turtles.
Awesome job cleaning everything out! God, I miss Korea. I can't wait to go back!
Im more intrigued about the shower being a bathroom.
This is common in multiple eastern countries. It makes so much sense to have the entire restroom be water proof. Makes cleaning it so much easier. No worries about damaging the walls. Only downside is if you want tonchange the decor, it's an entire change, not just one part.
Sus though
It has nothing to do with "making sense since it's easier to clean". They do it that way since most Asian households and apartments are incredibly tiny. Having it all in one saves a ton of space. This is normal in Asia.
@@GamerNerdess not really as an Asian it is convenient for cleaning. Never understood the bathroom from the western side. I felt so uncomfortable to use toilets from America and Australia when I visited there.
@@wickedsai yeah, that's one thing about these shower bathrooms I do like!!! I would still prefer a separate cabin as the shower though!! so that I can still store towels and other utensils in my bathroom
I wonder why one way check valves aren't being use to prevent backflow.
@Nick Kirschner Oh, ok. Thank you.
I was a pretty good plumber not that long ago but a long time ago I remember using a one-way check valve and I remember there was a reason for it but for the life of me I can't remember what it was. In my 15-year experience I found that one-way check valves are very very rarely used. If something happens you have to cut out all the pipe around it and then put the pipe back in. I prefer good old-fashioned ball joint valves
I remember when we had to go to a combination small apartment building with a big restaurant on the first floor. The drains were backed up all the way into the basement and the landlord was swearing up and down that the tenants were bad that tenants did all this stuff just so he have to spend money. I should say he owned the restaurant on the first floor. So we're down there opening up all the cleanouts trying to find which waste line this clog was coming from. Well we finally found it and we were pulling out washcloths and underwear and a lot of tampons and several small white towels and the landlord was jumping up and down about how he's going to find out which tenant did this and he's going to throw him out. The waste line that it was coming from was directly from the restaurant. He was so mad that he couldn't charge a tenant for our services he tried not to pay us. No my boss was an old softy who didn't like confrontation. That's one of the reasons he hired me. There is no way I'm working in human waste for 4 hours and not getting paid for it I had a few words with the landlord and he paid right up. You can mess with me you can mess with my house but there are three things you never mess with with me. My animals my kids and my money
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Good Job guys, Well done, gday from Australia.
Great video, like every time! 👏😊 I love your videos and your teamwork. Thanks and greetings from Germany. 🤗 #staysafe 💚
Thanks for the video. Well done.
Thank you for the great videos!!
Another good video. I hope you men stay safe and happy holidays.
They should investigate who is chucking vegetables down their drains and charge them the call out/clean-up fee.
Keep doing this great job!!! Excellent. A hi from Brazil. 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
From clicking on a single vid of a pimple being popped, algorithms took me here. Now my recommended video feed is full of cleaning videos
Salute for their hardwork.
This is why we don’t put grease down the sink... everrrr...
Don’t ever rent the lowest apartment unit!
A tough one, looked like it had you guys feeling down. American plumbers have those days too. Good work!
Perfect!
I love these videos!
thats why you should always install water gate on your bathroom door
I'm watching this while eating at same time.
You guys are truly professional
Why cant I stop watching these videos?
Very professional job👍🏻
Respect for ppl working jobs like these
Wow that's a lot of grease...lukily the bathroom had a floor drain to get it all out without removing the toilet.great job guys
Because it's not just a bathroom but a shower as well, notice the shower head at the sink they're using and the plastic stool in the corner.
If I ever have a clogged drain, I'd be happy to see these guys. They are very professional.
Crazy how they aren’t wearing masks. the smell must be putrid, I can’t even imagine.
after enough time they are probably at least somewhat resistant to the smell. still great people for dealing with with it.
Love how he walks in looks at it and then turns around and leaves
I always look forward to your videos. I have a question? what type of food does all that grease blobs come from? We have the same problems here in America and a lot of the grease comes from meat oil and bacon grease. Some people still cook with lard.
Korean love Samgyeopsal which is close to bacon, and we also love meaty soup like beef bone soup or samgye-tang.
Woo.. I am hungry now 😁
@@blockeddrainkorea312 Hopefully folks can change that- be encouraged to put grease in garden compost or recycling into bio-diesel.
@@blockeddrainkorea312 That does sound good., Thanks for the feed back.
What a mess!! Veggies mixed in with grease. Even I know that you aren't supposed to put any kind of vegetation down the drain, especially if it's still whole like that. Here in Canada, that goes in the green bags, which is wet or compost trash. Sad how so many people are getting lazy and just don't want to do that little bit extra to dispose of it properly. If I did that, I'd end up costing myself a pile of money, as I have to pay to have my septic system cleaned out. It's a private septic system (rural area). Then I'd have to pay for a plumber to come in and clean out my pipes inside the house. That gets freaking expensive. Been there, done that. lol Keep up the excellent work, gentlemen!!
What do you mean? I toes into containers
@@friendlyneighborhoodcow8776 lol Korean drains are not like Canadian drains. They throw more down their drains than we do. You are a sanitation engineer, I'm just a dumb broad. lol
Almost all sinks in kitchens have strainers to catch food waste. I think people don't use it well..... or it's easier to just pour it down the drain and hope it goes away. Food waste is separated fro normal waste. There can be a communal bin downstairs of a apartment complex to throw away food waste. There are also special bins specifically for food waste. It's up to the individual though, to follow the rules correctly.
@@roxy918 Yes, and I used mine religiously. There's always some food and grease sneaking their way down the drains. I had a pipe plug up after 20+ yrs of that happening.
Just get it over with, no matter how many times you adjust your headgear you will still have to deal with that nasty bathroom.
Вы ребята красавцы, молодцы!
Спасибо!
Milwaukee tools! Quality tools right there
Great video! Yuk, what a awful mess in that Bathroom. I've only ever seem a combination shower & toilet in a hotel once in Europe, is it common in Korea?
@@powerpcmac Interesting, Thanks for the reply.
It's very common in most Asian countries. Housing is so small they have to do it to save space.
what line?
Is the plumbing in korea really this bad?
different looking pipe there bud no wonder why they clogg so easily
Thank god, i was thinking why my country does not have hidden sewer underground. Now after watching i say will its good to have covered surface sewer easy to dignose and doesn't get messed up easily just open one of the block remove the blob with sticks and it works fine
Do we have this same system of uncogging pipes right here in USA?
Yes. They are called Plumbers
@@stackie10able I know that smart guy, I was asking if they use the same water pressurized system. I called the "plumbers" and they show up with the stupid snake system.
Yes they do, but they only pull those out for bad clogs. Mainly, a snake does just fine.
Rotorooter or pipe snake
Man.. why didn't you remove the stuff in Bathroom before working in there? That's cold blooded!
I know it is not the customs in Korea but I never pour or drain grease in my sink.. I keep empty bottles and cans for grease
Note to self. Do not rent on low level floors. People will keep on dumping and no one should wake up to this.
COVID OR NOT I'D HAVE A SCUBA SUIT ON
Is this the whole bathroom or just a toilet? It looks so tiny but it have shower head?
Over there it’s common for the entire bathroom to be waterproof. So the entire room serves as a shower as well
@@killerkitten812 Ye thats what i thought. In Poland we also have somewhat waterproof bathrooms, but mostly to prevent mould spread after all it is wet place. But we dont have high doorsteps like u do, so whole aprtment wuld be filled in cases like that. And we rearly have floor drain, mostly in public places.
Omg I never saw their faces before!
Thats a poop ?
Call a plumber here in California to deal with that, and you'll have to open a mortgage.
@Blocked Drain Korea 헤헤 나중에 화장실 청소할 때 그 부분이 좀 마음에 들었는데 저거 거의 커피거품 같았어요 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Hold on, Is that bathroom a: Toilet, Sink and shower in one space 🤔(not separate in the same room) ? That's legitimately interesting 😄
That is actually very normal in some country
Space is limited so they make the most use of it. Its smart
@@MrRahimhosein my thoughts exactly, NGL I wouldn't mind having something like this just slightly larger so it wouldn't be as cramped.
@@FLUXXEUS it is widely use in most asian house
@@wanhanif7575 yup like my house
untung itu area kamar mandinya tinggi (pembatas pintu) klo ga udah ga kebayang bisa masuk luber ke luar kamar mandi. stress tingkat dewa
😂
wow i fell bad for you guys
2:24 😳
5:00 Wait, no no, stop washing the clumps of grease back into the drain!
Oh I think they were planning on cleaning it again the entire time and just hit different angles.
Why do they dump vegetables scrap down the drain?
They don’t but one person did
but why
I guess there's no info in Korea about the fact that grease should never be poured down the drain 🙄🙄🙄
why do people keep pouring grease down the sinks? is there a law saying you cant throw grease in the trash?
Its in there culture.
As an American living in the Philippines I face the same problem with housekeepers. I tell them many times not to do it but they don’t listen.
I don't think we're supposed to throw in the trash though 🤔. I'm not sure but I heard if we do that then it still pollutes the amm like natural underground water reserve (sorry, forgot the name) because in some places the trash is buried.
(Don't know if that made sense 😅)
I think we're supposed to recollect all the grease and cooking oil and take it to some company that recycles it.
because it would stink in the trash and people are lazy.
Man when you say you had a shitty day your not lying
The puddle is so big it contains a Croc🐊
😂😂
I got a question, How’s that smells guys? 😂
I will never live on 1st floor!!!!
Why not get all that stuff out when you saw it backing up!
The Korean with the shirt hair and glasses is very cute🥰🥰 just saying
He’s just wearing sneakers and not rubber boots 😖 won’t his shoes and socks get soggy
Lucky there was a high treshold
Sunken bathrooms with a floor drain is the norm in Asia. Also the floor and walls all tiled. They call them “wet rooms”. Hard to get used to since you have to put on shoes to go into the bathroom. I bought a house in the Philippines and renovated it to a western style. I gutted the bathrooms, stripped the tile from the walls except for the shower, sealed up and tiled over the floor drains, and put wax seals and bolts on the toilet.
I now have a bathroom I can walk into in the middle of the night without fear of slipping. Never had an issue in 7 years now.
My question is why is the grease always orange? Until I started watching these videos I'd never seen orange grease in my life.
Some things like the colour in turmeric paprika cooked tomatoes and a few other things are more lipid soluble than they are water soluble. So they dissolve in the oil and fat in dishes and used in the cooking and stay in those lipids after that.
Grease conspiracy. It gets dyed orange to designate its place in the hierarchy once it is underground.
Guys your touching the home shower and taps with your used give hands your going to have to buy them new shower hose n bit
Instead of lifting such heavy pipes and machines, installing a ramp to your vehicle can help
why did he say someone crossed the line? idk
Because they washed down to many veggie debris basically sayin they washed to much trash from vegetables down the drain when they could have thrown it in the trash
guys please dont dump oils into your sink if its a little bit wipe it off the surface of the kitchenware and throw it away
just drink the grease. Drain problem solved!
@@Squidbush8563 😑funny lol
Yummmy lol👍
I will never live in a apartment because of this problem.
i refuse to live in an apartment because of my brother. His upstairs neighbors were either professional bowling ball droppers or were addicted to moving 1 to 2 ton pieces of furniture.
@@Squidbush8563 they are playing planet smash
Ok
Kramer needs to stop making salads in his shower JERRY!
If this scene had been in Squid Game, I couldn't have watched it!
I could smell it. 🤮
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