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Back in the day we just soldered directly over the pinholes. Did this on a pipe in my mother's house in 1977 and it is still good today never leaked. Thanks for the video.
A few beers down, trying to install a bracket and managed to hit the mains. Watched this and tried the hose clamp. Worked like a charm! You’re an absolute legend.
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One time I was installing sheet rock on a wall hat had a copper pipe in it. The pipe went into a corner of the room, so I could not cut the pipe or sperate the ends if I could have cut the pipe. Unfortunately a sheet rock screw found the pipe and made a hole in it. I removed the sheet rock and a professional recommended cleaning the area around the pin hole, adding flux around the pipe. and then WRAP THE PIPE SEVERAL LOOPS WITH 12 GUAGE COPPER WIRE, flux the wire, and solder the wire and pipe together. It has held for 15 years so far.
You, sir, are brilliant. We had a pinhole leak and couldn’t get a plumber out until tomorrow - the rubber /clamp solution worked perfectly. Thank you!!!
That was just excellent - thank you. 3 very simple methods, each explained with a minimum of fuss and good camera work backing up the commentary. Perfect for a DIY'er like me. Thanks for sharing!
Your idea of the rubber and jubilee clip was great. I can't get a plumber yet so I solved the immediate problem this way. It was a leak in the pipe under the washbasin. I got really tired and stressed cause I don't bend myself to that extreme so often and my hands ache, but I'm really happy not to waste water anymore. You've been like an angel for me today. You're very nice and made me laugh the way you explained everything. THANKS, THANKS A LOT FROM CHILE.
You have NO IDEA how you helped me as I was all alone in a seeming disaster! Fixed it and kept grinning all day...still am...THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
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@@plumberparts please help what do you do if only the top of the radiator is warn and the bottom is cold heating is on full and you should be able toch the radiator please help
@@definitelymabe2311 your radiator could be clogged, possibly need your system flushing through or powerflushed. Sometimes its easier just to replace the radiator for a new one.
Being one who records whilst they work and edits in the twilight hours. I know the difficulties and how much effort goes into making these videos. Material like this is undervalued. Education has changed so much with RUclips. Society are gaining the equivalent of a RUclips plumbing degree. It's good when it's used for something positive like making individuals better engineers. Onsite experience is vital as well as real qualifications. Yet this media stream and experience passed on is helping nations strive to better engineering standards. It would have been a game changer if I had some of these videos when I initially qualified as a plumber 13 years ago. There was hardly anything like this to watch. It's great that the information is there for those that are thirsty to grow in their knowledge of the trade.
Amazing tips James, I am not a plumber but seen and done a lot of work on my house plumbing. Really learned a lot. First trick never knew that :) looks like I knew the proper ones :) - Today you got yourself a new fan :)
Love your tutorials mate. Some are even shown in my college. I am at level two at the moment. Also completing an NVQ. Can't wait to qualify in June and move on to level 3. Not bad for an old Soldier!
Hi, thanks. I am just a DIYer and needed to fix a leak last year. There was no spring in the pipe at all so I cut out a larger section of 20 cm. And inserted a section of say 16cm (can't remember exactly) with 2 compression fittings. This way I could get both slid on because of the extra manoeuvrability. I looks a bit naff but did the job for me...
Many thanks mate! That's what is wonderful about the internet. A lad in the UK saves the life of someone in LA. It was 10PM and and I drilled a hole in the wall it went right through and hit a copper pipe on the other side water gushing out. You can't shut off the water in this place. So much so that I could not even turn off the main valve. What the hell do I do now? Here comes your video and your jubilee clip solution was the answer. I found a rubber gasket and took off the clip from another pipe and fixed the leak in less than 5 minutes. That was two weeks ago and I am still to call the plumber because the leak is repaired very well. I just wait until I'll have some plumbing work and I will ask the plumber to do this too because a plumber quoted me $250 just for this. Not worth it.
Innertube cut in strips stretched and wrapped in layers over the leak, then held in place with wire. We moved into a house in an extremely isolated community on Vancouver Island, when I went to do some plumbing work on the house, there were innertube and wire fixes in numerous places, no leaks, on a community water system with a fair amount of pressure and they had been there for years! So for an emergency fix....
Turned off water at mains and used some bicycle tube doubled over a few times and placed it over the pinhole and then wrapped a jubilee clip around the pipe and patch and tightened it up well. Turned the mains water back on and voila problem solved until my plumber has time to get to me to carry out a permanent repair. Top Man James and Many Thanks.
Subscribed because everytime I have had issues with my heating it's been one of your videos that helped me fix it, the videos are easy to understand even for someone like me who had no clue about plumbing last time my radiators were full of air and unbalanced, i fixed it :)
I was working late on my re-plumb the other night and I woke up the next morning to a damp floorboard. When I lifted it I realised I had put a bloody screw through the heating pipe. Fountain of water, no-one to help, no valve would turn, panic setting in. I put the screw back in the pipe and ran downstairs looking for a jubilee clip and a bit of rubber hose which I cut to flatten it out. I wrapped it around the pipe tightened the clip and no more leak! I really don't know what I would have done if I hadn't watched this video a few weeks earlier. Cheers James!
Thank you for the lesson on how to fix pinholes in the copper pipe. I wish I watched this two years ago. I am not a plumber but now I have the knowledge I need to do this. Thanks Again, Dave
A few beers down, trying to install a bracket and managed to hit the mains. Watched this and tried the hose clamp. Worked like a charm! You’re an absolute legend.
Just discovered a potential leak in a central heating pipe under concrete in a Bungalow, probably a pinhole as it took time for the floor to become somewhat damp. I have no idea what I am going to find once I dig up the concrete to get to it later today, but this video has given me a few options once I do! Hard to find a plumber this time of the year!!
Excellent little video but I have a further reason as to why pinholes develop. It can be due to high Ph value in soft water areas. The water leak can also turn blue which looks strange. My plumber had to replace the bad lengths of copper on two occasions with plastic as you suggested. I was renting but worried how many more leaks would develop in the future down here in Devon.
I recently fixed a mains pressure pinhole leak by cleaning the area, fluxing and tinning, then flowing a dome of solder onto it. Perfect repair and really quick.
Finally a plumber that I can relate to! I can never find all my tools, and for some reason I will touch a hot solder Seriously, thank you mate from a grateful Texan!
Thanks for the video. I had a pinhole leak yesterday on a 15mm mains pressure copper pipe. I hadn't seen your video then, but luckily the local Wickes was still open and I managed to get clamp (£18) which I eventually managed to use to stop the leak. The hole was close to a right-angle bend and I had to use sandpaper to remove excess solder from the pipe before the clamp would make a good seal. It's still holding, but I'm back off to the DIY shop to get some pipe to make a permanent repair. I'll take a look at your how to solder video first. 😊
Being a plumber, I wasn't surprised by anything here, except the terminology! I guess I'll nip down to the home depot and grab some jubilee clips, Yorkshire couplings, and bungs. Ha!
@@east73rdst brass and copper are fine together, in fact brass is a dielectric and good to use between copper and ferrous metals like a water heater tank. no ferrous metals (steel/iron) should come in direct contact with copper water lines without a dielectric between them. many water heaters come with a dielectric nipple already installed for that reason.
Shark Bite fitting all the way, the latest and greatest in plumbing repair! Prep the cut pie the same way, DEBUR the inside of pipe on both sides where u made your cut, slip the shark bite coupler on one end and push until it clicks, then stuff the pipe in the other end until it clicks (Or she yells, THATS THE WRONG HOLE, bahahahahhaaa) and you are done my friend!
Yeah, but they don't make anything in 5/8" OD anymore, the only thing I need. Everything that said it was 5/8 was actually 1/2" OD, and now I'm waiting on Everything I need to solder it from China. 30 bucks for aluminum soldering rods with Flux, a big butane torch, and then I already went to great lengths to find the 5/8 OD Sharkbite sleeve, and it required one piece of wrapped gorilla tape on each end just to attach the broken spigot. But if I turn the water halfway on or more at the main shut off, it leaks. Sometimes the teeth don't hold the top part of the spigot in place, it flies out even with tha tape and the sharkbite connector. Turns out it's a metric pipe, and comes to 5/7", not 5/8". So I bought a bunch of tools and aluminum solder stuff and I'll put epoxy over the aluminum soldered part where the pipe snapped. Then I'll take the "waterproof" (it's definitely not) flex Seal tape that I first tried and even used clamps, and it didn't work. But in a few days there won't be anything to worry about, it will be soldered and fixed the right way for 30 dollars worth of tools and soldering Stuff.
There are patches clip fix i think I’ve done it by cutting a section 30 mm or so and just over half the diameter of the pipe so that it grips the pinholed pipe, worked a treat. Love yu videos it’s the way you deliver them 👍🏽
until one end blows off, compression fittings are not all that, one bump of the pipe and you have yourself a full blown leak, AGAIN! Get a SHARK BITE COUPLER, that there is a true permanent fix. You will figure out what I'm talking about when u try to compression a fitting together where thee is pressure on the pipe and you're not able to get the ends to line up perfectly. You will always have a drip there. Go with a shark bite coupler, u literal cut pipe in half, debur both ends of pipe, then clean the outer edges on both ends, push the shark bite fitting over one end until it clicks, then push the pipe in the other end of the shark bite coupler until it clicks. Done! 100% fixed and no worries what so ever if ya bump the pipe.
How the F*ck you supposed to "push" a pipe into anything when its permanently mounted?!?! This isnt a stretchy piece of rubber tubing, its non flexible metal that stays in place...
Great video and really helpful Thanks. Subject to no underlying cause I have also just soldered up the hole in the past or in an emergency stretchy electrical tape will also suffice on a gravity fed pipe.
James. Just went through the bathroom wall with a mutitool. Used your tip number one to hold the leak until pipe is moved to fit new shower. Super stuff. No dramas. Cheers.
Many years ago I just flowed some solder over the hole and plastered it with araldite. It worked and was still working when I sold the house. Apparently in the 1970s there was a lot of poor quality copper pipe prone to pinholes around.
There is a rubber and gear clamp repair on a nail punctured 1/2 copper line at my mom's house that my father "temporarily " fixed when I was young. ABOUT 50 YEARS AGO.
I've been using pin-hole clamps for years. The clamp pieces are interchangeable so you can get the dense flexible forever gasket easily over the pin hole. The clamp is 3" long and the gasket goes roughly end to end. You mark 2" on each side of the hole so when you put the clamp on you can judge where the center is. Then install the clamp and tighten the SS screws. You're done. It's so easy and it'll last longer than the pipe itself.
Great video! I just discovered my goose neck under the bathroom sink is leaking. This will do the job until I can replace it. Hopefully this product or something similar is available in Canada.
Just used the rubber and jubilee clip trick on a screw hole in a pipe as a temporary fix. Brilliant and so simple. Had the right bits in my bicycle drawer! Thanks a million.
I found that around toothpick works I inserted one 20 years ago still holding an inserted toothpick in pinhole water caused it to swell like a cork in a bottle. Try it it works.
Being a cyclist I have plenty of old inner tubes lying around. If you cut a slightly longer piece you can wrap it around several times keeping in under tension. All you need to do then is to hold the end so it doesn't come adrift. Although one can't recommend it I have one job done (outside on the farm) where I never got around to making the permanent fix and the tube has lasted for 20 years. You can be lucky. I think it perished together and onto the pipe giving a really tough solid bond.
For a pinhole leak I have actually used a self tapping screw which blocks the hole but a bit dodgy if the pipe is a bit weak from corrosion. When fitting a compression fitting if the pipe cannot be moved lengthways its important to cut a piece of pipe off to allow for the compression fitting. It still might be necessary to smooth the inside of the fitting so it can slide completely over one side of the joint then slid back to the centre.
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My general builder accidentally drilled through 3 copper pipes. Yes 3 ...all fixed with push fit fittings. Which I was not happy about. Especially as water is mains fed. The fitting is now leaking in kitchen behind plaster work. NIGHTMARE... Can't find traditional plumber. Do you suggest wealed option is longest lasting repair???
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Hello from the USA! I enjoyed your vid but I must tell you, when you said "jubilee clip" I was like WTF?? Over here in the states we call them hose clamps or screw clamps so I learned a new terminology today. I haven't checked your soldering how to as yet but I wanted to mention that IF there is ANY water in the pipe you will never be able to properly solder it. Even turning off the water a residual amount might be present. To fix this dilemma, take a piece of bread and stuff it into the pipe to prevent any water from oozing toward your solder repair. Afterwards the bread will dissolve and you will be a happy camper as we say in the states. Thank you for the video!!
I'm in Ireland - I've had to replace a lot of copper pipe this past few years - a lot of it because of my mothers brothers dodgy plumbing - he actually installed a copper cylinder and had it sitting on polystyrene which the tank sank into over the course of 2 years - kinked all the joints into it and had to be replaced - plus the quality of copper pipe here is pretty poor...! Anyway I've a pin hole and this video is a great help thanks bud....!
great video you could also use a sharkbite coupling in place of a compression coupling and a copper sweat repair coupling, no stop, so you just have to slide the fitting back and forth without having to slide the tubing lengthwise. soldering up the hole itself also works....with a little skill. i've done it in a pinch.
+karaoke1st lol I remember in gas fitting class the prof made a joke about plumbing... that a homeowner couldn't drown from a plumbing/water leak, but indeed the house could explode from a natural gas leak
Thank You, I have just applied the temp fix (jubilee clips and rubber) as we can not yet access a greater length of pipe, going to wait until I can then maybe apply compression joint if the pipe next to it allows space, if not, do both pipes, just seems to me a shame to chop a decent pipe,, anyway thanks again.
I used to fix my mk4 vw golf gti turbo coolant pipe like this i must of put 10 cut in half rubber pipes over the holes and tighten them with jubilee clips.
James, once again, HOT HOT HOT stuff - I mean your training and information that you impart!! ... Keep up the fantastic work!! Thanks. Love from Scotland! x.
I am really surprised that there are only 266, 000 subscribers on this site I mean years ago this guy was on the way up I would have thought he would have had a million by now I'm wondering if he's still really doing this I got to check this out
On larger holes I have cut out a piece of pipe like a sticking plaster on soldered it over. Works well on buried pipes and it's always worth a try rather than dig the whole wall out.
Not to throw shade, nor to make myself look stupid or lazy, but I have repaired pinholes the first way and, ten years later, the repairs hold. It is possible to develop leaks near these types of repairs but, it will NEVER leak from the original pin hole. Just use a piece of old radiator hose, which is reinforced, and clamp it. Absolutely permanent fix. Really.
I just find you five years a little too late. In any case your program is very informative. Were where you when I moved to Venezuela from Uruguay in 1975? In both countries we use compression fittings to repair galvanized pipes. Copper is mostly used in refrigeration and gas;I guess this material is a little too expensive down there. When I arrived in Canada at the end of the eighties I was convinced that I've found gold to add to my trade. Copper pipes are lighter,safe and way easier to work with. I did find,as well,that in here ABS pipes(oppose to PVC) are very common and easier to install;as long as they are not used inside the walls in high rise buildings. We even have invented a four ways fitting nicknamed Toronto T made out of this material. Do you use these pipes in there?. Greetings from Toronto from this old happily retired colleague. P.S : wear your mask pal,even your Prime Minister got infected.......
I’ve used black mastic plumbers tape on pinholes with pressure in the pipe. It held for years until the bathroom was renovated and the pipe was replaced as part of the renovation.
I have used the clamp with rubber from a bicycle tube to patch a pin hole . Still working after 3 years . Easy to reach area so if it failed again I will fix it properly .
I've had more pinhole situations caused by hard water. Copper deteriorated so bad I could crush it with my hand. Other hard water issues where any compression or solder attempts are a fruitless effort. Don't get me wrong, great advice. I've used "rainbow rubber" many times in life. Always keep some in my vans. Can also become an instant pump seal or similar. I'll keep an eye on this channel
Great info! Good idea to polish the pipe b4 using a compression fitting. IF the pipe is healthy and IF you can dry it, then the hole can be silver soldered. There is also an epoxy "bandage" available which I have not tried. I do very little plumbing and found out that flux can go bad after several years! If in doubt, throw it out.
Actually I've done this for a *temporary* fix. Here's how to do it: sand the area around the hole and clean the area thoroughly with acetone. Put a *tiny* bit of past flux just around the hole making sure to keep it contained to just the area around the hole - don't use too much! Solder won't stick to the copper without flux so just a tiny speck of flux so it doesn't run when you heat the pipe. Then heat the pipe and a touch of solder should blob right over the hole and not spread out leaving the area too thin.
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Back in the day we just soldered directly over the pinholes. Did this on a pipe in my mother's house in 1977 and it is still good today never leaked. Thanks for the video.
A few beers down, trying to install a bracket and managed to hit the mains. Watched this and tried the hose clamp. Worked like a charm! You’re an absolute legend.
The British are so honest. Excellent workmanship and right to the point.
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One time I was installing sheet rock on a wall hat had a copper pipe in it. The pipe went into a corner of the room, so I could not cut the pipe or sperate the ends if I could have cut the pipe. Unfortunately a sheet rock screw found the pipe and made a hole in it. I removed the sheet rock and a professional recommended cleaning the area around the pin hole, adding flux around the pipe. and then WRAP THE PIPE SEVERAL LOOPS WITH 12 GUAGE COPPER WIRE, flux the wire, and solder the wire and pipe together. It has held for 15 years so far.
There are easier and better ways but whatever works for You.
@@leowilliams7578can you do that with water running out
@@GGHBK953 I don't know. I've never heard of this technique before.
You, sir, are brilliant. We had a pinhole leak and couldn’t get a plumber out until tomorrow - the rubber /clamp solution worked perfectly. Thank you!!!
Great to hear Lori. Hope you get it fully sorted tomorrow. 👍
That was just excellent - thank you. 3 very simple methods, each explained with a minimum of fuss and good camera work backing up the commentary. Perfect for a DIY'er like me. Thanks for sharing!
Glad it helped!
Your idea of the rubber and jubilee clip was great. I can't get a plumber yet so I solved the immediate problem this way. It was a leak in the pipe under the washbasin. I got really tired and stressed cause I don't bend myself to that extreme so often and my hands ache, but I'm really happy not to waste water anymore. You've been like an angel for me today. You're very nice and made me laugh the way you explained everything. THANKS, THANKS A LOT FROM CHILE.
Hey, how long did it last? He says it's temporary :)
Thanks
You have NO IDEA how you helped me as I was all alone in a seeming disaster! Fixed it and kept grinning all day...still am...THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
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Which method did you use?
@@plumberparts please help what do you do if only the top of the radiator is warn and the bottom is cold heating is on full and you should be able toch the radiator please help
@@definitelymabe2311 your radiator could be clogged, possibly need your system flushing through or powerflushed. Sometimes its easier just to replace the radiator for a new one.
@@plumberpartswhat if the pin hole is on the CH pipe, does turning the water off (stop cock) stop it
Being one who records whilst they work and edits in the twilight hours. I know the difficulties and how much effort goes into making these videos. Material like this is undervalued. Education has changed so much with RUclips. Society are gaining the equivalent of a RUclips plumbing degree. It's good when it's used for something positive like making individuals better engineers. Onsite experience is vital as well as real qualifications. Yet this media stream and experience passed on is helping nations strive to better engineering standards. It would have been a game changer if I had some of these videos when I initially qualified as a plumber 13 years ago. There was hardly anything like this to watch. It's great that the information is there for those that are thirsty to grow in their knowledge of the trade.
This dude is the most upbeat, fun guy to watch. He needs a DIY show on television. U.S.A
Amazing tips James, I am not a plumber but seen and done a lot of work on my house plumbing. Really learned a lot. First trick never knew that :) looks like I knew the proper ones :) - Today you got yourself a new fan :)
Haha! Cheers Dino! 😍
You have a great energy and enthusiasm for an educator. Everything you said was in perfect layman’s terms for non professionals. Thanks for that :)
Cheers man! 👌
Love your tutorials mate. Some are even shown in my college. I am at level two at the moment. Also completing an NVQ. Can't wait to qualify in June and move on to level 3. Not bad for an old Soldier!
Hi, thanks. I am just a DIYer and needed to fix a leak last year. There was no spring in the pipe at all so I cut out a larger section of 20 cm. And inserted a section of say 16cm (can't remember exactly) with 2 compression fittings. This way I could get both slid on because of the extra manoeuvrability. I looks a bit naff but did the job for me...
Wow, this video saved my day! I used the pipe clamp and rubber washer method to keep a leak fixed until the weekend. Thanks!
Many thanks mate! That's what is wonderful about the internet. A lad in the UK saves the life of someone in LA. It was 10PM and and I drilled a hole in the wall it went right through and hit a copper pipe on the other side water gushing out. You can't shut off the water in this place. So much so that I could not even turn off the main valve. What the hell do I do now? Here comes your video and your jubilee clip solution was the answer. I found a rubber gasket and took off the clip from another pipe and fixed the leak in less than 5 minutes. That was two weeks ago and I am still to call the plumber because the leak is repaired very well. I just wait until I'll have some plumbing work and I will ask the plumber to do this too because a plumber quoted me $250 just for this. Not worth it.
Innertube cut in strips stretched and wrapped in layers over the leak, then held in place with wire. We moved into a house in an extremely isolated community on Vancouver Island, when I went to do some plumbing work on the house, there were innertube and wire fixes in numerous places, no leaks, on a community water system with a fair amount of pressure and they had been there for years! So for an emergency fix....
Turned off water at mains and used some bicycle tube doubled over a few times and placed it over the pinhole and then wrapped a jubilee clip around the pipe and patch and tightened it up well. Turned the mains water back on and voila problem solved until my plumber has time to get to me to carry out a permanent repair. Top Man James and Many Thanks.
Subscribed because everytime I have had issues with my heating it's been one of your videos that helped me fix it, the videos are easy to understand even for someone like me who had no clue about plumbing last time my radiators were full of air and unbalanced, i fixed it :)
I was working late on my re-plumb the other night and I woke up the next morning to a damp floorboard. When I lifted it I realised I had put a bloody screw through the heating pipe. Fountain of water, no-one to help, no valve would turn, panic setting in. I put the screw back in the pipe and ran downstairs looking for a jubilee clip and a bit of rubber hose which I cut to flatten it out. I wrapped it around the pipe tightened the clip and no more leak! I really don't know what I would have done if I hadn't watched this video a few weeks earlier. Cheers James!
Thank you for the lesson on how to fix pinholes in the copper pipe. I wish I watched this two years ago. I am not a plumber but now I have the knowledge I need to do this.
Thanks Again,
Dave
Don't try the soldered joints. Best quick fix is push fit fittings.
A few beers down, trying to install a bracket and managed to hit the mains. Watched this and tried the hose clamp. Worked like a charm! You’re an absolute legend.
Great vid as always! Could also use a slip coupler if really tight and no play in the pipes.
I was about to buy another pipe! This video saved me 40 dollars, you've DEFINITELY earned this subscription!
Just discovered a potential leak in a central heating pipe under concrete in a Bungalow, probably a pinhole as it took time for the floor to become somewhat damp. I have no idea what I am going to find once I dig up the concrete to get to it later today, but this video has given me a few options once I do! Hard to find a plumber this time of the year!!
Excellent little video but I have a further reason as to why pinholes develop. It can be due to high Ph value in soft water areas. The water leak can also turn blue which looks strange. My plumber had to replace the bad lengths of copper on two occasions with plastic as you suggested. I was renting but worried how many more leaks would develop in the future down here in Devon.
I recently fixed a mains pressure pinhole leak by cleaning the area, fluxing and tinning, then flowing a dome of solder onto it. Perfect repair and really quick.
Brilliant. Watching solder flow in a joint is weirdly memorising!
@mastermind D'oh! Yes I did! Don't think I can even blame auto correct on that one! Thanks! 👍
Master of your trade, you’ve helped me out on numerous occasions! Thank you very much for making these videos!!!
Finally a plumber that I can relate to! I can never find all my tools, and for some reason I will touch a hot solder
Seriously, thank you mate from a grateful Texan!
Thanks for the video. I had a pinhole leak yesterday on a 15mm mains pressure copper pipe. I hadn't seen your video then, but luckily the local Wickes was still open and I managed to get clamp (£18) which I eventually managed to use to stop the leak. The hole was close to a right-angle bend and I had to use sandpaper to remove excess solder from the pipe before the clamp would make a good seal. It's still holding, but I'm back off to the DIY shop to get some pipe to make a permanent repair. I'll take a look at your how to solder video first. 😊
Being a plumber, I wasn't surprised by anything here, except the terminology! I guess I'll nip down to the home depot and grab some jubilee clips, Yorkshire couplings, and bungs. Ha!
Stelth Jubilee clips in UK terminology. Here in America we call them automotive hose clamps. Never mind the bungs!
not a plumber but if i found out that there are 3 pinholes on half a meter pipe i would call the police first...
In my plumbing class, we were taught NOT to apply any other type of metal to copper....
@@east73rdst brass and copper are fine together, in fact brass is a dielectric and good to use between copper and ferrous metals like a water heater tank. no ferrous metals (steel/iron) should come in direct contact with copper water lines without a dielectric between them. many water heaters come with a dielectric nipple already installed for that reason.
@@east73rdst emergency temporary fix
Worked great!!! Stopped our leak. You tube never disappoints. Thank you for awesome temporary fix and tip.
What did you end up doing? And did you have a plumber later?
Shark Bite fitting all the way, the latest and greatest in plumbing repair! Prep the cut pie the same way, DEBUR the inside of pipe on both sides where u made your cut, slip the shark bite coupler on one end and push until it clicks, then stuff the pipe in the other end until it clicks (Or she yells, THATS THE WRONG HOLE, bahahahahhaaa) and you are done my friend!
Yeah - I can’t bring myself to trust anything with a rubber o-ring seal since working in the auto industry…
Very helpful video ! Would a Rubber lined euro clip with the rub already fitted be even better for a temporary fix ?
Very helpful video ! Would a Rubber lined euro clip with the rub already fitted be even better for a temporary fix ?
Yeah, but they don't make anything in 5/8" OD anymore, the only thing I need. Everything that said it was 5/8 was actually 1/2" OD, and now I'm waiting on Everything I need to solder it from China. 30 bucks for aluminum soldering rods with Flux, a big butane torch, and then I already went to great lengths to find the 5/8 OD Sharkbite sleeve, and it required one piece of wrapped gorilla tape on each end just to attach the broken spigot. But if I turn the water halfway on or more at the main shut off, it leaks. Sometimes the teeth don't hold the top part of the spigot in place, it flies out even with tha tape and the sharkbite connector. Turns out it's a metric pipe, and comes to 5/7", not 5/8". So I bought a bunch of tools and aluminum solder stuff and I'll put epoxy over the aluminum soldered part where the pipe snapped. Then I'll take the "waterproof" (it's definitely not) flex Seal tape that I first tried and even used clamps, and it didn't work. But in a few days there won't be anything to worry about, it will be soldered and fixed the right way for 30 dollars worth of tools and soldering Stuff.
There are patches clip fix i think I’ve done it by cutting a section 30 mm or so and just over half the diameter of the pipe so that it grips the pinholed pipe, worked a treat. Love yu videos it’s the way you deliver them 👍🏽
I love them compression fittings they just make life easy
until one end blows off, compression fittings are not all that, one bump of the pipe and you have yourself a full blown leak, AGAIN! Get a SHARK BITE COUPLER, that there is a true permanent fix. You will figure out what I'm talking about when u try to compression a fitting together where thee is pressure on the pipe and you're not able to get the ends to line up perfectly. You will always have a drip there. Go with a shark bite coupler, u literal cut pipe in half, debur both ends of pipe, then clean the outer edges on both ends, push the shark bite fitting over one end until it clicks, then push the pipe in the other end of the shark bite coupler until it clicks. Done! 100% fixed and no worries what so ever if ya bump the pipe.
How the F*ck you supposed to "push" a pipe into anything when its permanently mounted?!?! This isnt a stretchy piece of rubber tubing, its non flexible metal that stays in place...
Nice water pipe fixes. I'll include some of these in my backup water pipe servival kit. Thanks so much!
My friend that is the best demonstration l've seen how to fix leaks on copper pipes
Second to none!
Great video and really helpful Thanks. Subject to no underlying cause I have also just soldered up the hole in the past or in an emergency stretchy electrical tape will also suffice on a gravity fed pipe.
No worries! Well done.
Oh man, your first method really saved my butt over this weekend.
Thanks
James. Just went through the bathroom wall with a mutitool. Used your tip number one to hold the leak until pipe is moved to fit new shower. Super stuff. No dramas. Cheers.
Great video to watch while having a poo, just the right length of time. Nice work James!
+James Garlick the video is almost ten minutes long..... Have yyou got enough fibre in your diet?
+loafer sheffield As long as you wiped I don't care! PP!
Doing the same here
lmao
Lmao I also am on the toilet watching this
Just put a screw in a landing pipe. Had a quick tantrum then found this vid. The rubber & jubilee clip worked a treat. Lifesaver.
Wheyyyyy! Top work! 😎
Brilliantly demonstrated. He makes repairing pin holes almost like fun😉.
Good plumbing repairs are not achieved easily - they only look fun when you have done a few hundred!!
Many years ago I just flowed some solder over the hole and plastered it with araldite. It worked and was still working when I sold the house. Apparently in the 1970s there was a lot of poor quality copper pipe prone to pinholes around.
Did the same many years ago.
YEP! 5 O'Clock on a Friday afternoon. Can't tell you how many times I have had exactly this scenario happen! Almost like magic.
There is a rubber and gear clamp repair on a nail punctured 1/2 copper line at my mom's house that my father "temporarily " fixed when I was young. ABOUT 50 YEARS AGO.
For quick fixes I use a brass screw, Just for an emergeny of course.
Great idea! I will keep that in mind, I’m starting a career in plumbing, just finished plumbing classes level 1 😄
I've been using pin-hole clamps for years. The clamp pieces are interchangeable so you can get the dense flexible forever gasket easily over the pin hole. The clamp is 3" long and the gasket goes roughly end to end. You mark 2" on each side of the hole so when you put the clamp on you can judge where the center is. Then install the clamp and tighten the SS screws. You're done. It's so easy and it'll last longer than the pipe itself.
When using the compression fitting why not simply cut a piece out of the pipe to accommodate the fitting's length?
Great video! I just discovered my goose neck under the bathroom sink is leaking. This will do the job until I can replace it. Hopefully this product or something similar is available in Canada.
You can also use Shark bite fitting
Yep!
Shark bites are good quick fixes... i dont see them as a long term option
@@JcP3737 I have seen licensed plumbers use them on mains.
Just used the rubber and jubilee clip trick on a screw hole in a pipe as a temporary fix. Brilliant and so simple. Had the right bits in my bicycle drawer! Thanks a million.
Old inner tube? (or old tyre...?). I have a few of those as well...
Temporarily like for 4 years lol
Would this rubber and clip potentially hold up for a weekend even if the pinhole is on the hot water out from a water heater? 😅
I found that around toothpick works I inserted one 20 years ago still holding an inserted toothpick in pinhole water caused it to swell like a cork in a bottle. Try it it works.
Thanks PP. Came here cos I have a leak out of the shower pipe that enter it from the bottom. Looks like some sort of chrome pipe!
Great video , straight to the point , well explained to people that’s never done this before
Cheers Gaz!
Being a cyclist I have plenty of old inner tubes lying around. If you cut a slightly longer piece you can wrap it around several times keeping in under tension. All you need to do then is to hold the end so it doesn't come adrift. Although one can't recommend it I have one job done (outside on the farm) where I never got around to making the permanent fix and the tube has lasted for 20 years. You can be lucky. I think it perished together and onto the pipe giving a really tough solid bond.
For a pinhole leak I have actually used a self tapping screw which blocks the hole but a bit dodgy if the pipe is a bit weak from corrosion. When fitting a compression fitting if the pipe cannot be moved lengthways its important to cut a piece of pipe off to allow for the compression fitting. It still might be necessary to smooth the inside of the fitting so it can slide completely over one side of the joint then slid back to the centre.
I have used this method many times with a tiny twist of ptfe on the screw.
This has just saved us from a major leak into our kitchen. Love this channel
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My general builder accidentally drilled through 3 copper pipes. Yes 3 ...all fixed with push fit fittings. Which I was not happy about. Especially as water is mains fed. The fitting is now leaking in kitchen behind plaster work. NIGHTMARE... Can't find traditional plumber. Do you suggest wealed option is longest lasting repair???
Why Not Just Apply Some Solder Over The Pin Hole
Thanks for that trip it worked for me
Thanks very much. We fixed the leak, hopefully it will be a permanent fix.
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Hello from the USA! I enjoyed your vid but I must tell you, when you said "jubilee clip" I was like WTF?? Over here in the states we call them hose clamps or screw clamps so I learned a new terminology today. I haven't checked your soldering how to as yet but I wanted to mention that IF there is ANY water in the pipe you will never be able to properly solder it. Even turning off the water a residual amount might be present. To fix this dilemma, take a piece of bread and stuff it into the pipe to prevent any water from oozing toward your solder repair. Afterwards the bread will dissolve and you will be a happy camper as we say in the states. Thank you for the video!!
...but not on a closed central heating system of course.
thanks mate i learnt a fair bit from this video!
Good stuff dude!
I'm in Ireland - I've had to replace a lot of copper pipe this past few years - a lot of it because of my mothers brothers dodgy plumbing - he actually installed a copper cylinder and had it sitting on polystyrene which the tank sank into over the course of 2 years - kinked all the joints into it and had to be replaced - plus the quality of copper pipe here is pretty poor...!
Anyway I've a pin hole and this video is a great help thanks bud....!
The building I work in uses the first repair then leaves it for the next 5 years
Sharkbites! I know nothing of how to fix things, but these worked perfectly. So easy and dont need to know anything but cutting the pipe and applying
You just saved me from getting a plumber, thank you sir.
great video you could also use a sharkbite coupling in place of a compression coupling and a copper sweat repair coupling, no stop, so you just have to slide the fitting back and forth without having to slide the tubing lengthwise. soldering up the hole itself also works....with a little skill. i've done it in a pinch.
So nobody saw the spider run across the video
+karaoke1st HA!
+karaoke1st It's one of those jumpy exploring-type spiders, those guys are cool. Other spiders I kill. Except daddy longlegs spiders, they're ok.
+Walter's Playground won't be many around if plumber parts keep making leaks ......could have swore he had scuba gear on....
+karaoke1st lol I remember in gas fitting class the prof made a joke about plumbing... that a homeowner couldn't drown from a plumbing/water leak, but indeed the house could explode from a natural gas leak
HAHA I didn't. I am however from Australia, so had one not ran across the video I would have noticed that as being odd.
Thank You, I have just applied the temp fix (jubilee clips and rubber) as we can not yet access a greater length of pipe, going to wait until I can then maybe apply compression joint if the pipe next to it allows space, if not, do both pipes, just seems to me a shame to chop a decent pipe,, anyway thanks again.
I’d have included solder on pipe repair patches, slip couplers and maybe even those emergency pipe repairs from rothenberger.
Thanks for sharing. I just had a pinhole leak. Thanks!!
"So...the first thing you do is go down to the pub for a pint...."
I did the temp. "fix" with pad of rubber and a hose clamp 25 yrs. ago. Still dry but guess I should get around to fixing it properly.
He's got woh-aaa coming out everywhere..😂
I just can't figure ou(t) how they know when or when no(t) to pronounce the "T" ?????
I used to fix my mk4 vw golf gti turbo coolant pipe like this i must of put 10 cut in half rubber pipes over the holes and tighten them with jubilee clips.
James, once again, HOT HOT HOT stuff - I mean your training and information that you impart!! ... Keep up the fantastic work!! Thanks. Love from Scotland! x.
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@@plumberparts Even better, Sister!! :-)
Lately I have been using tinning flux. The solder incorporated in the flux pulls seems to pull the solder in faster.
Brilliant,I’m off to buy a drill!! ...great vid
😂😂😂
I am really surprised that there are only 266, 000 subscribers on this site I mean years ago this guy was on the way up I would have thought he would have had a million by now I'm wondering if he's still really doing this I got to check this out
why not just sand it, flux it, heat the pipe, and solder it, and wipe it?
You can do that too bro!
Because in real case scenario there will be water in the pipe
@@daraghevans7637 if you torch the area long enough wouldn't that dry out the inside of the pipe?
@@user-ty2uz4gb7v sometimes it can if its a small bit of water
On larger holes I have cut out a piece of pipe like a sticking plaster on soldered it over.
Works well on buried pipes and it's always worth a try rather than dig the whole wall out.
Not to throw shade, nor to make myself look stupid or lazy, but I have repaired pinholes the first way and, ten years later, the repairs hold. It is possible to develop leaks near these types of repairs but, it will NEVER leak from the original pin hole. Just use a piece of old radiator hose, which is reinforced, and clamp it. Absolutely permanent fix.
Really.
Wow man, that's impressive!
A real bobby dazzler , I must say !,,,thanks Mr. PP !
I just find you five years a little too late. In any case your program is very informative. Were where you when I moved to Venezuela from Uruguay in 1975? In both countries we use compression fittings to repair galvanized pipes. Copper is mostly used in refrigeration and gas;I guess this material is a little too expensive down there. When I arrived in Canada at the end of the eighties I was convinced that I've found gold to add to my trade. Copper pipes are lighter,safe and way easier to work with. I did find,as well,that in here ABS pipes(oppose to PVC) are very common and easier to install;as long as they are not used inside the walls in high rise buildings. We even have invented a four ways fitting nicknamed Toronto T made out of this material. Do you use these pipes in there?. Greetings from Toronto from this old happily retired colleague. P.S : wear your mask pal,even your Prime Minister got infected.......
are you related to Colin furze? look and sound like him
my first thought too !
sorri, this video is absolutely useless, & The plumber him self isn't organizing.
I’ve used black mastic plumbers tape on pinholes with pressure in the pipe. It held for years until the bathroom was renovated and the pipe was replaced as part of the renovation.
Funny how temporary turns into until it breaks again! ;)
I have used the clamp with rubber from a bicycle tube to patch a pin hole . Still working after 3 years . Easy to reach area so if it failed again I will fix it properly .
what did he say?
Can't understand him, as fast as he talks he must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.
Excellent video mate ! Same technics apply when you repair a plastic pipes ?
Amalgamating Electrical tape would seal it without turning the water off lol
I did this on a central heating pipe in my house when I bought it 18 years ago and it's still holding.
I've had more pinhole situations caused by hard water. Copper deteriorated so bad I could crush it with my hand. Other hard water issues where any compression or solder attempts are a fruitless effort. Don't get me wrong, great advice. I've used "rainbow rubber" many times in life. Always keep some in my vans. Can also become an instant pump seal or similar. I'll keep an eye on this channel
There's no WATER pressure on this tank, pinhole water line!
Great vid, but when mis pipe for 3rd repair which wasn't over pin hole did you recut or as soldering didn't matter?
I saw the spider too daandaan the suspense continues
God Bless you thank you. was in a panic. great video calm approach
keep waiting for him to burst in song about " cut price carpets.."
He sounds like someone selling something nobody wants at 3am in the morning..
Great info! Good idea to polish the pipe b4 using a compression fitting. IF the pipe is healthy and IF you can dry it, then the hole can be silver soldered. There is also an epoxy "bandage" available which I have not tried. I do very little plumbing and found out that flux can go bad after several years! If in doubt, throw it out.
4th way, solder blob it ;)
Nice one!
Sirus You could also come home one day to 15000$ in water damage.
Actually I've done this for a *temporary* fix. Here's how to do it: sand the area around the hole and clean the area thoroughly with acetone. Put a *tiny* bit of past flux just around the hole making sure to keep it contained to just the area around the hole - don't use too much! Solder won't stick to the copper without flux so just a tiny speck of flux so it doesn't run when you heat the pipe. Then heat the pipe and a touch of solder should blob right over the hole and not spread out leaving the area too thin.