I see at least one wall that would benefit from being changed to 6" studs. If the carpenter changes that wall I'm sure the plumber will thank him for the extra space.
Daaaamn man you are earning your pay today. I'd love to see the plumber walk this job with the framer so he could get a real ear full about those plates he chopped up.
It happens all the time. When the carpenter does punch out before the framing inspection, he will add studs under the end of the top plates and install metal straps along the plates to tie them in.
And in my state, they won’t let me do my own plumbing. They say I have to hire a “licensed plumber.” Who do you think is going to care about the results more? 🙄
That’s why there’s a code, and license system in place. To stop people that shouldn’t even be allowed to do plumbing. That should also go back to whoever pulled the permit, and hired that hack.
Liked subscribed and hit the bell, love the chaos being discovered. It’s almost like builders get what they pay for unfortunately the future homeowner is paying way more to take over these half built turds priced at half a million and rising. All heroes don’t wear capes some have clipboards and walk around shaking their head in confusion trying to figure out what in the heck is going on.
Good to see a inspector on his game making sure it’s done right. Our inspectors won’t even get in a crawl space they shine a light from the access hole see what they can see.
wow!!! poor homeowner- but then again glad you did your professional Job. This Plumber obviously never heard of venting LOL. This is almost a classic !
i love watching all these videos and i think i need to toss this out there on them. i consider myself a decent diy, yet for major plumb/ac i would hire someone. my comment is when you show what is done wrong is there a way to also include a side-by-side illustration or photo from another site that i done right, just so avg people can make a clear understand of what was specifically done wrong?
The washinh machine box shouldve been around 36" to the base then the 2" dwv scheduled 40 shouldve gone down directly into a 2" p-trap then with a 2_9/16 hole one bay over as long as its clear underneath? No beams or joist to be touched, anyway into a 2" dwv tee- vent up and out and waste down under preferable to collect right into the 3" or 4" main running inbetween all the drops if possible and as he stated needs a box with air arrestors or spliced in just below the connections and ran up about 12" with a cap and fastened well, the tubs big ass crooked hole that looks like my dog chewed through needs flashing for fire reduction, tub spouts really need to be hard piped so no pex that will leave your spout flopping around like a dead fish after everything is done, ( thats just the way i do them,) he has no insulation or spray foam retardent on any holes, all his water holes are big enough for waste lines, no boca plates to refortify the wall cut in half and he needs a level and a tape and how to use it, i give him credit for the primer use and he didnt get it all over the damn place, thats all thats ok, wtf is the line going off the washer drop? I hope he dont think thats going to vent it? Guys like this give us plumbers a bad name, probably quoted at 1250 a fixture too, smh the buildning department needs to pull this guys licence, if he has one? Smh just tell him to rip it all out and start over, to much risk trying to salvage that mess, feel terrible for homeowner, they trust the contractor and apparently this one dont know any reputable subs, save a 100 now spend a $1000 in 3 months kinda guy!!!
@@tonymanero5544: What most viewers don't understand is, he Already spends hours sorting, editing and splicing together many many clips, per video. Especially, on a hacked up job like this.
So there are hundreds of thousands of homes that aren’t being built to code and the home owners have no idea unless YOU give the call? Man, this seems like a recipe for disaster, and even more. Thanks for being you!
So did you ever figure out what was up with the drain line that was tee’d into the laundry drain? I hope it wasn’t a vent for some other fixture but that might explain why there wasn’t a trap there. Lol
So, the P-trap was in the crawl space. That line that was Tee'd to the left was a vent line tying back into a sanitary line in the crawl space. This guy didn't know what the hell he was doing.
This kind of vent is permissible and it works, usually used in a kitchen island, but I'm pretty sure that's the wrong wye on it, and it isn't tall enough.
I mean, that’s not really a disaster, it might be a little odd, but in reality doesn’t make any functional difference. You have plenty of homes where they just bring the potable water up through the floor and bottom of your vanity for convenience.
Thanks for the vid👍. Was a plumber here in australia for 45 years and o’h man what a mess you just exposed😳. Saw some serious cowboy s**t in my 45 years in the trade here😉
Per the energy code, supply water pipe on the exterior walls require insulation. Water hammer arrestors are required at all quick closing valves....dishwasher, washing machine boxes, etc
As an auto mechanic with my own shop I use to do the same thing looking at other shop's repair jobs on their vehicles, some would say what are you laughing at and I would tell them it's either laugh or cry! Shoddy work has no boundaries.
from what i can tell, its a 3 inch vent pipe for most if not all of the plumbing system for the house, it is completely unnecessary and overkill. the "plumber" doing this work had a vague grasp of knowledge and completely ruined a wall by oversizing a pipe that did not even need to be there. he could have ran every vent up to the attic at minimum pipe size and tied them in to a 3 inch stack above the rooms, if he really wanted to run a 3 inch vent through the roof. i did construction plumbing for 10 years and never ran a 3 inch vent out a roof even on a 5 bath house. he probably just wanted to only cut one hole through the roof which is just lazy.
im failing to understand why a 3 inch vent is required to be stacked inside a wall, if at all in that house in the first place, if he was just trying to save roof flashing money theres no reason why he couldnt have vented each vent 2 inch out the roof
2:25... I mean.. if the plans call for a 3" DWV in a 2x4 wall... What was supposed to happen? It doesn't seem like the trades has come back for there pick up work. A simple Rps-18 strap for the top plate should suffice
The stack at 2:10 with the sill and top plates completely cut out was legal in 2000 when I plumbed my house. I was going to fur out and box it, but the inspector told me I was allowed to just cut it out like this house shows.
@zapa1pnt It was a renovation to a house built in 1913 in Powell River BC. I was adding a two piece bath to a bedroom upstairs and connecting to the drain line in the crawl space. And no, I followed the inspector's allowance as I didn't want to give up the space in the rooms.
@zapa1pnt Strucally it makes no difference. Even if it's load bearing the stud sill support the trusses overhead. The only logical thing I don't like about it is you shouldn't lave it like that because than your drywall is the bridge. Only way it doesn't work if that is specified to be a shear wall( a wall that adds rigidity to the structure)
Looks like the work done on our house only it was electricians and not plumber's. Told the wife we better take out more fire insurance. I always heard when a plumber needs a hole in drywall he uses his foot. LOL!! Wow how scary.
1:36... He calls for insulation... 2x4 was called for r13 or maybe r15... What would be the issue with spitting the insulation around the pipes? Seems to meet code and RESnet standards for energy
looks like hes trying to vent everything on a 3 inch vent pipe going down off fixtures into the crawl to tie into it. im pretty sure thats not legal. at least not on a suds producing fixture like that acw, also if i remember correctly the maximum vertical fall length from a fixture to a trap is 24 inches so if that acw trap is in the crawl its a code violation as well
@@PPG1967 thank you for the content, im a off and on again 20 year in and out of the plumbing trade, just recently gotten my life back together and am preparing to take the residential specialty test and your content helps keep things fresh in my mind so thank you and please keep posting
My best friend Gary would laugh his ass off this 'plumbing job'. I don't have the experience he does but even I can note all the violations in this one.
looks like they tried a revent, that never works, I guess they never heard of nail plates. Where he cut the bottom and top plate, it should have been a 6" wall. Dude is definitely a hack, but some of it was a framing issue.
no only exterior walls, some load bearing walls (like extra high walls) and some sheer walls are required to be 2x6. every jurisdiction has different rules but for the most part theyre relatively the same. in my honest plumber apprentice opinion, this 3 inch vent for this house is ridiculous and unnecessary. i would never put a 3 inch vent out a roof unless it was required by my cross sectional or by code. thats way too large of an opening to have pointed straight out your roof...
No vent for the laundry box. Nail plates missing. The butcher job on the top plate for that vent. The line off the laundry box was ridiculous. Should be sealing around all wall penetrations as well (top and bottom plates) Should be using 1/2" mickey mouse for securing water pipe to wall plates. I like to use 2-hole strap to secure the drain risers. The work speaks for itself....what a hack!
@@mrcryptozoic817isn't your garbage disposal directly below water ? Codes in some areas of the US they require a receptacle inside of the sink base as a quick disconnect for the disposal and dishwasher .
Lol. Several times I've had plumbers blow the whole side of my sink base cabinet out to run a drain line from the dishwasher to the sink drain . Imagine trying to fix that after the countertops are installed . I've also had them install the two supply lines so close to the drain line that there was no way to put an escusion around the pipes to cover the hole drilled through the back of the sink base . It's down right maddening .
Some of the worst workmanship I have seen in a while. One thing that I noticed was the use of pex to the tub spout. I know both Delta and Moen say you can't use it due to back pressure causing the shower head to drip when using as a tub.
@@PPG1967 Pex in my area just flexes and moves a little with the force of the waters momentum. No banging, no noise, no recoil, no problem... so no arresters.
@@PPG1967 agreed, water pressure surges from valves shutting are very destructive forces... ESPECIALLY in pex. The little movement in the flexible pex line doesnt deaden or stop the force it compounds it into massive problems.
its a Rough, other than the P trap being below, Id assume they wouldn't hide all the lines form you with insulation so you couldn't see it, just for you to tell them to take it out so you can see it. Infact I dont see any insulation in the whole house yet..... I think you're reaching on some things here.
Went to a finished project yesterday with my buddy. They had the Gardner do all the plumbing on 4 units,everything and I mean everything was 1/2” pex/copper the tankless water heater 1/2” cold and hot 🤦♂️ that’s why you need to get things inspected
I've seen plenty of licensed plumber work like this. Most times the mp is out on other jobs and the journey is screwing it up. But then I've also seen mp doing shit work with excuse being "it's fine, the inspectors don't care." So, it wouldn't surprise me at all.
I’m gonna piss a lot of people off by saying that none of this seems that bad to me. I’ve seen way worse on houses that have been standing for 100 years now. I’m glad when someone takes pride in their work, but it’s not heirloom furniture. So what if a non load bearing top plate gets cut thru instead of having 95% cut out with a hole saw. Cut it and charge me less.
@@PPG1967 in the PNW we have housea built with that stuff and it just burst without warning. It makes us lot of money in resto work. In our code in new construction we are not allowed to use CPVC any more in WA State.
@@PPG1967 I've been to Florida, there are exposed rpg's all over the place with no freeze boxes. Outside showers all over the place. Water mains buried maybe 6 inches. Virginia has no issue with pipes in exterior walls, we just insulate them. Up north you don't run pipes in exterior walls but Florida? I don't care about your opinion, IPC, IFGC and IBC trumps whatever your opinion is, no offense but that's what building code is about.
Yeah why not? It carrys a longer warranty then some copper, if its installed correctly its good stuff, got alot more tolerance then copper, pex can expand and contract, coppers great but i think youve been detured over the polly issue, pex is a completely different animal then polly..
@@steveg5576 Building Officials and Code Administrators - a legacy model code group which in 2000 joined with SBCCI and ICBO to form the ICC; International Code Council. The blending of the three codes into one was quite an undertaking and took several years to complete. Actually we still hear about how we did this or that under the legacy codes and never killed anyone . . .
Roughing a house is done with kids mostly. Whether it’s plumbing, electrical or HVAC . They only know what someone taught them. Usually no formal apprenticeship training and oversight. They learn by getting it wrong IF the inspector catches the violation. If it isn’t caught, they repeat the same mistakes. The homeowner suffers afterwards with a shoddy and sometimes dangerous installation.
@@PPG1967 Okay but literally why would plumbing need to be insulated in a already insulated exterior wall.. Sometimes y'all inspector just like to bust the contractors nuts because you have to find SOMETHING wrong even if it don't make sense.. In Ohio pex is NEVER insulated, so I don't know what sily code your district has.
Are you serious???...pipes freeze on exterior walls, pipes freeze in unfinished areas (crawl space, attics, & basements) ... you say you live in Ohio???. You got to be joking... unbelievable!!!!
A crawl space or exterior wall with PEX, never gets cold enough to actually freeze and burst PEX, it never happens in ohio It's NOT a code here.. copper or PVC yes, but PEX expandes pretty considerably.. I'll look up the code for Georgia but that's ridiculous in such a warm climate....
Nice to see there are vigilant inspectors out there working on behalf of the home owners. THANK YOU 😊
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An inspectors job is to make sure a job passes code. There is no homeowner or contractors side. It simply passes code or it doesn't.
The expert low bid plumber hired for this job was an expert landscaper last week. I guarantee it.
Probably....thanks for watching!!
Gonna have to give the carpenter a call too, to fix everything the plumber messed up
For sure...thanks for watching!!
When do you hold the builders accountable to use a licensed Plumber. I know they watched a video on putting on purple primer but enough is enough.
Whoever did this "work"/damage is no plumber.
I see at least one wall that would benefit from being changed to 6" studs. If the carpenter changes that wall I'm sure the plumber will thank him for the extra space.
Daaaamn man you are earning your pay today. I'd love to see the plumber walk this job with the framer so he could get a real ear full about those plates he chopped up.
Yeah, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
That hurt to the core
It happens all the time. When the carpenter does punch out before the framing inspection, he will add studs under the end of the top plates and install metal straps along the plates to tie them in.
Not ready for inspection. They are using you to provide them a punch list and you might miss to many violations.
Yeah, that did cross my mind...I appreciate you watching!!
And in my state, they won’t let me do my own plumbing. They say I have to hire a “licensed plumber.” Who do you think is going to care about the results more? 🙄
That's true...however, you'll probably get better results with a licensed plumber.
the 3" stack through the 2x4 is pure gold
That’s why there’s a code, and license system in place. To stop people that shouldn’t even be allowed to do plumbing. That should also go back to whoever pulled the permit, and hired that hack.
I appreciate your feedback, and thanks for watching.
Liked subscribed and hit the bell, love the chaos being discovered. It’s almost like builders get what they pay for unfortunately the future homeowner is paying way more to take over these half built turds priced at half a million and rising. All heroes don’t wear capes some have clipboards and walk around shaking their head in confusion trying to figure out what in the heck is going on.
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We need more inspectors like you for sure!
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Good to see a inspector on his game making sure it’s done right. Our inspectors won’t even get in a crawl space they shine a light from the access hole see what they can see.
wow!!! poor homeowner- but then again glad you did your professional Job. This Plumber obviously never heard of venting LOL. This is almost a classic !
It was a mess.. I appreciate you watching.
insane, glad people like you are out there
Yeah, it's unbelievable!!!!...I appreciate you watching.
i love watching all these videos and i think i need to toss this out there on them. i consider myself a decent diy, yet for major plumb/ac i would hire someone. my comment is when you show what is done wrong is there a way to also include a side-by-side illustration or photo from another site that i done right, just so avg people can make a clear understand of what was specifically done wrong?
I was looking for the same thing. The problems and solutions aren't as obvious for those learning.
The washinh machine box shouldve been around 36" to the base then the 2" dwv scheduled 40 shouldve gone down directly into a 2" p-trap then with a 2_9/16 hole one bay over as long as its clear underneath? No beams or joist to be touched, anyway into a 2" dwv tee- vent up and out and waste down under preferable to collect right into the 3" or 4" main running inbetween all the drops if possible and as he stated needs a box with air arrestors or spliced in just below the connections and ran up about 12" with a cap and fastened well, the tubs big ass crooked hole that looks like my dog chewed through needs flashing for fire reduction, tub spouts really need to be hard piped so no pex that will leave your spout flopping around like a dead fish after everything is done, ( thats just the way i do them,) he has no insulation or spray foam retardent on any holes, all his water holes are big enough for waste lines, no boca plates to refortify the wall cut in half and he needs a level and a tape and how to use it, i give him credit for the primer use and he didnt get it all over the damn place, thats all thats ok, wtf is the line going off the washer drop? I hope he dont think thats going to vent it? Guys like this give us plumbers a bad name, probably quoted at 1250 a fixture too, smh the buildning department needs to pull this guys licence, if he has one? Smh just tell him to rip it all out and start over, to much risk trying to salvage that mess, feel terrible for homeowner, they trust the contractor and apparently this one dont know any reputable subs, save a 100 now spend a $1000 in 3 months kinda guy!!!
The inspector didn’t day much, but he can’t spent hours with video editing.
@@tonymanero5544: What most viewers don't understand
is, he Already spends hours sorting, editing and splicing together
many many clips, per video. Especially, on a hacked up job like this.
Well, I think if you don't know or not familiar with the task at hand... just hire a professional.
So there are hundreds of thousands of homes that aren’t being built to code and the home owners have no idea unless YOU give the call? Man, this seems like a recipe for disaster, and even more. Thanks for being you!
I appreciate your feedback, and thanks for watching.
So did you ever figure out what was up with the drain line that was tee’d into the laundry drain? I hope it wasn’t a vent for some other fixture but that might explain why there wasn’t a trap there. Lol
So, the P-trap was in the crawl space. That line that was Tee'd to the left was a vent line tying back into a sanitary line in the crawl space. This guy didn't know what the hell he was doing.
So... wait... he vented around the trap? So there would just be sewer gas continually wafting out of that drain pipe? Amazing
Lol
Where in the hell is the job site foreman or superintendent?
Coffee break@@dgraf8076
This kind of vent is permissible and it works, usually used in a kitchen island, but I'm pretty sure that's the wrong wye on it, and it isn't tall enough.
And I saw on one lavatory that the potable water stubouts are underneath the drain stubout. What a complete disaster!
I honestly couldn't believe what I was looking at!!!!
I mean, that’s not really a disaster, it might be a little odd, but in reality doesn’t make any functional difference. You have plenty of homes where they just bring the potable water up through the floor and bottom of your vanity for convenience.
Thanks for the vid👍. Was a plumber here in australia for 45 years and o’h man what a mess you just exposed😳. Saw some serious cowboy s**t in my 45 years in the trade here😉
I appreciate your feedback, and thanks for watching.
@@PPG1967 👍🙂
Wow! What a nightmare. The plumber just lost his cushion. The carpenters are going to be pissed, also.
To say the least... thanks for watching !!!
Holy crap!!! I'm speachless
I know right??
Do you need to insulate pipe in exterior walls or hammer arresters with PEX?
Per the energy code, supply water pipe on the exterior walls require insulation. Water hammer arrestors are required at all quick closing valves....dishwasher, washing machine boxes, etc
Does the water hammer arrester need to be installed at the rough plumbing?
Normally, not at the plumbing rough inspection.
I love how he giggles through the whole video
Thanks for watching!!
As an auto mechanic with my own shop I use to do the same thing looking at other shop's repair jobs on their vehicles, some would say what are you laughing at and I would tell them it's either laugh or cry! Shoddy work has no boundaries.
Cut completely through double too plate plus the pvc looked like it was sticking out
Is it possible to vent two kitchen exhaust fans through a single wall vent
Of course... you probably would have to upsize the single wall duct.
Please tell me a licensed plumber didnot do this work. If so, wow!
For what I understand, a plumber did this. I'm not sure if he was licensed.
If he was licensed, he certainly wasn't "qualified". @@PPG1967
@@PPG1967he had a license, alright...a license to kill ... the James Bond of plumbers
What is the code for piping on exterior wall?
It's not a code violation. It's a bad construction practice. Supply pipes and P-traps on the exterior wall tend to freeze during the winter.
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I'm assuming this job site has no supervision such as a foreman or a superintendent?
I think the plumber was left to do his thing...unfortunately it didn't work out too well.
You can put 3in pipe in 2x4 wall?
Can you??
I’m a layman here, what’s going on with how the plumbing is going through the top and bottom plates of the walls?
from what i can tell, its a 3 inch vent pipe for most if not all of the plumbing system for the house, it is completely unnecessary and overkill. the "plumber" doing this work had a vague grasp of knowledge and completely ruined a wall by oversizing a pipe that did not even need to be there. he could have ran every vent up to the attic at minimum pipe size and tied them in to a 3 inch stack above the rooms, if he really wanted to run a 3 inch vent through the roof. i did construction plumbing for 10 years and never ran a 3 inch vent out a roof even on a 5 bath house. he probably just wanted to only cut one hole through the roof which is just lazy.
Your guess is as good as mine.
You can make assumptions if you have seen the plumbing plans maybe that's vent should be in a chase or a 6" wall a 3" vent is common practice.
How is the 3 in vent pipe supposed to be plumbed through the top plate i know you shouldnt totally cut it in half
That wall shouldve been changed to 2x6
@@shortsilwady thanks, i was just going to say that.
Have the builder frame up a chase in the corner.
im failing to understand why a 3 inch vent is required to be stacked inside a wall, if at all in that house in the first place, if he was just trying to save roof flashing money theres no reason why he couldnt have vented each vent 2 inch out the roof
@@shortsilwady true
2:25... I mean.. if the plans call for a 3" DWV in a 2x4 wall... What was supposed to happen? It doesn't seem like the trades has come back for there pick up work. A simple Rps-18 strap for the top plate should suffice
How about requesting a chase for that 3" pipe???
At least he was clean with the primer 😂
I guess....thanks for watching!!
Meth is one hell of a drug. Productivity thru the roof
I know, right??
LMAO cause it sounds like who built are deck. A meth head.
Is there a 2nd video with underneath the crawl space? 😂
I'm afraid not, I didn't film it, bad lighting in the crawl space.
@@PPG1967 probably would of been a horror filming the plumbing 😆. 👍
That’s mind blowing who 😂 sorry I’m speechless 😢.
Yeah, I know.... me too.
Hello Mr George
🤣🤣🤣🤣
The stack at 2:10 with the sill and top plates completely cut out was legal in 2000 when I plumbed my house. I was going to fur out and box it, but the inspector told me I was allowed to just cut it out like this house shows.
Cutting the structure away, ok in 2000?
Where the Hell was that?
I sure hope you followed your original plan.
@zapa1pnt It was a renovation to a house built in 1913 in Powell River BC. I was adding a two piece bath to a bedroom upstairs and connecting to the drain line in the crawl space. And no, I followed the inspector's allowance as I didn't want to give up the space in the rooms.
@zapa1pnt Strucally it makes no difference. Even if it's load bearing the stud sill support the trusses overhead. The only logical thing I don't like about it is you shouldn't lave it like that because than your drywall is the bridge. Only way it doesn't work if that is specified to be a shear wall( a wall that adds rigidity to the structure)
Looks like the work done on our house only it was electricians and not plumber's. Told the wife we better take out more fire insurance. I always heard when a plumber needs a hole in drywall he uses his foot. LOL!! Wow how scary.
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Whats up with the cement board on the floor?! All those pieces behind the toilet!!! Thats all going to fail! Lol
Yeah, I couldn't believe what I was looking at.
Damn I wanted to see the crawlspace ahaha
I was a mess..
come on man dont leave us hanging!! I gotta know what the heck that pipe was on the washer drain standpipe! LOL
I couldn't do it to you... it was mess.
I think that plumber has been in my house...
Oh ok
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LOL me too.
1:36... He calls for insulation... 2x4 was called for r13 or maybe r15... What would be the issue with spitting the insulation around the pipes? Seems to meet code and RESnet standards for energy
Where are you located???
Supply water lines require insulation on the exterior walls and unfinished or unconditioned areas.
I can’t even laugh this is what I’m going through right now with our remodel contractor on three bathrooms 🤦♂️ fml
Really??.... I'm sorry to hear that.
Get what you get with the low bid.
looks like hes trying to vent everything on a 3 inch vent pipe going down off fixtures into the crawl to tie into it.
im pretty sure thats not legal. at least not on a suds producing fixture like that acw, also if i remember correctly the maximum vertical fall length from a fixture to a trap is 24 inches so if that acw trap is in the crawl its a code violation as well
Yeah, I'm not sure what he was doing. I appreciate you watching!!
@@PPG1967 thank you for the content, im a off and on again 20 year in and out of the plumbing trade, just recently gotten my life back together and am preparing to take the residential specialty test and your content helps keep things fresh in my mind so thank you and please keep posting
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Is this a owner-builder permit? cause that guy is not a plumber.
I couldn't believe what I was looking at...
count me in on that one. @@PPG1967
Dude must've left all his tools at home
A very uneducated & unskilled plumber.
My best friend Gary would laugh his ass off this 'plumbing job'. I don't have the experience he does but even I can note all the violations in this one.
Yeah, it was pretty bad. I appreciate you watching.
1:56... Huge opening? Just T-Ply to block and add some foam prep...
You joking right now??
What a nightmare!!!
To say the least....thanks for watching!!
looks like they tried a revent, that never works, I guess they never heard of nail plates.
Where he cut the bottom and top plate, it should have been a 6" wall.
Dude is definitely a hack, but some of it was a framing issue.
Aren't Bathroom walls supposed to be 2x6
Where's that in a code book??
no only exterior walls, some load bearing walls (like extra high walls) and some sheer walls are required to be 2x6. every jurisdiction has different rules but for the most part theyre relatively the same. in my honest plumber apprentice opinion, this 3 inch vent for this house is ridiculous and unnecessary. i would never put a 3 inch vent out a roof unless it was required by my cross sectional or by code. thats way too large of an opening to have pointed straight out your roof...
It’s all about the money. Hurry up. Get paid.
It's sad...thanks for watching!!
Surely they asked to see his license BEFORE they hired him
I'm sure they did...however, the guy with the license probably didn't do the plumbing rough-in.
@@PPG1967 used to drill 2x4 and run Romex for my dad and then stub in to the box I mounted . . . But he connected . . . He had the license!
Didn’t even know you could plumb a Auto washer like that 😂
Yeah, it's pretty bad...thanks for watching.
No vent for the laundry box. Nail plates missing. The butcher job on the top plate for that vent. The line off the laundry box was ridiculous. Should be sealing around all wall penetrations as well (top and bottom plates) Should be using 1/2" mickey mouse for securing water pipe to wall plates. I like to use 2-hole strap to secure the drain risers. The work speaks for itself....what a hack!
Yeah, the plumbing contractor obviously didn't know what he was doing.
Electrical box below water?!
@@mrcryptozoic817isn't your garbage disposal directly below water ? Codes in some areas of the US they require a receptacle inside of the sink base as a quick disconnect for the disposal and dishwasher .
Lol. Several times I've had plumbers blow the whole side of my sink base cabinet out to run a drain line from the dishwasher to the sink drain . Imagine trying to fix that after the countertops are installed . I've also had them install the two supply lines so close to the drain line that there was no way to put an escusion around the pipes to cover the hole drilled through the back of the sink base . It's down right maddening .
The lav wasn’t vented also😢
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AAV for the lav
You see this all the time in Texas.
That's not good...
Some of the worst workmanship I have seen in a while. One thing that I noticed was the use of pex to the tub spout. I know both Delta and Moen say you can't use it due to back pressure causing the shower head to drip when using as a tub.
This is totally unacceptable…. I guess the builder fell to do a walkthrough to check behind his subcontractor..
Plumbers are gods! Rules don't apply! :)
Really???...interesting.
No vent pipes on any fixture!
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The second i saw that washer box i knew this was not a plumber. Fake-a-plumber
He said he was a plumber.
Hammer arrest on Pex lines???? its not copper, whats going to hammer?
Water hammer can occur with copper and pex pipe.
all water service lines have velocity so any fixture with an automated function should require a water hammer arrest
@@PPG1967 Pex in my area just flexes and moves a little with the force of the waters momentum. No banging, no noise, no recoil, no problem... so no arresters.
Even with Pex pipe, the shock wave still goes back through the plumbing and can cause damage, including loosened connections and causing leaks.
@@PPG1967 agreed, water pressure surges from valves shutting are very destructive forces... ESPECIALLY in pex. The little movement in the flexible pex line doesnt deaden or stop the force it compounds it into massive problems.
My boss would have fired me for work that looks like this!
Facts..
They make external water arrestors
Oh ok...thanks for watching!!
And we’re supposed to want to build a new house????
This might just be an anomaly. There are some very good contractors out there.
Looks like homeowner diy plumbing.
For sure.
Looks like a job I would do with no plumbing experience. Lol
Exactly...thanks for watching!!
Something is very wrong with the plumbing on the tub faucet, first person that knows what it is, wins the internet for the day!
They didn’t upsize it .25? Yawn.
Ok, I appreciate your feedback.
Somebody didn't have all the hole saw sizes needed
I guess so...I appreciate your feedback.
Wow.
That's what I said....thanks for watching!!
Looks good button her up
I wonder what the framing will have to say about that mess.
Get her done
Pretty much.
its a Rough, other than the P trap being below, Id assume they wouldn't hide all the lines form you with insulation so you couldn't see it, just for you to tell them to take it out so you can see it. Infact I dont see any insulation in the whole house yet..... I think you're reaching on some things here.
Really??... you think I'm reaching with this video??... are you serious??
Went to a finished project yesterday with my buddy. They had the Gardner do all the plumbing on 4 units,everything and I mean everything was 1/2” pex/copper the tankless water heater 1/2” cold and hot 🤦♂️ that’s why you need to get things inspected
I concur...thanks for watching!!
I've seen plenty of licensed plumber work like this. Most times the mp is out on other jobs and the journey is screwing it up. But then I've also seen mp doing shit work with excuse being "it's fine, the inspectors don't care." So, it wouldn't surprise me at all.
Yeah, it's not a good situation.
Sounds like those MPs and Journeys assigned their titles to themselves.
I’m gonna piss a lot of people off by saying that none of this seems that bad to me. I’ve seen way worse on houses that have been standing for 100 years now. I’m glad when someone takes pride in their work, but it’s not heirloom furniture. So what if a non load bearing top plate gets cut thru instead of having 95% cut out with a hole saw. Cut it and charge me less.
Ok, I appreciate your commenting.
using CPVC is just asking for trouble on a shower install.
How so??
@@PPG1967 in the PNW we have housea built with that stuff and it just burst without warning. It makes us lot of money in resto work. In our code in new construction we are not allowed to use CPVC any more in WA State.
I'm a licensed plumber , that is definitely not a plumber that is licensed in any state UPC or IPC 😅😅😅
I concur...thanks for watching!!
Plumbing in exterior walls is fine depending on where your at.
Florida isn't going to freeze an exterior wall.
I lived in Tampa for 4-1/2 years... I experienced a number of nights with freezing temperatures. It even snowed there a few times.
@@PPG1967 I've been to Florida, there are exposed rpg's all over the place with no freeze boxes. Outside showers all over the place. Water mains buried maybe 6 inches.
Virginia has no issue with pipes in exterior walls, we just insulate them.
Up north you don't run pipes in exterior walls but Florida?
I don't care about your opinion, IPC, IFGC and IBC trumps whatever your opinion is, no offense but that's what building code is about.
Insulating supply water pipe is in the code sir... the IRC and the IPC.
It's not my opinion. My whole channel is based on code or manufacturer's installation instructions.
It's in the energy code as well.
The venting is wrong as well
There's a lot wrong with this one.
I would never use PEX in my home.
Why not??
Yeah why not? It carrys a longer warranty then some copper, if its installed correctly its good stuff, got alot more tolerance then copper, pex can expand and contract, coppers great but i think youve been detured over the polly issue, pex is a completely different animal then polly..
Washer drain with no trap or vent. Hmmm.
It's a cluster f#*%
BOCA Plates -- that's an old term..
How so??... Google Boca Plate sir.
@@PPG1967 How are you..BOCA means what ?
130 years old.
BOCA is an abbreviation for ?
@@steveg5576 Building Officials and Code Administrators - a legacy model code group which in 2000 joined with SBCCI and ICBO to form the ICC; International Code Council. The blending of the three codes into one was quite an undertaking and took several years to complete. Actually we still hear about how we did this or that under the legacy codes and never killed anyone . . .
It's like Dora the explorer
For sure..
I appreciate you watching.
I can guarantee this was not installed by a licensed plumber.
Probably not..
Roughing a house is done with kids mostly. Whether it’s plumbing, electrical or HVAC . They only know what someone taught them. Usually no formal apprenticeship training and oversight. They learn by getting it wrong IF the inspector catches the violation. If it isn’t caught, they repeat the same mistakes. The homeowner suffers afterwards with a shoddy and sometimes dangerous installation.
I don't agree....there are some very competent contractors out there.
This is nothing I seen frames taking shit in basement and plumbers drilling 4 inch holes on 6 inch joists
Ok, I appreciate your feedback.
Homeowner job.
Nope, it was a plumber.
@@PPG1967
Amazing
Wait you have to insulate PEX?
Wtf it is actually designed to expand alittle..
It's not like copper... Now that makes NO sense..
PEX doesn't freeze???
@@PPG1967 Okay but literally why would plumbing need to be insulated in a already insulated exterior wall..
Sometimes y'all inspector just like to bust the contractors nuts because you have to find SOMETHING wrong even if it don't make sense..
In Ohio pex is NEVER insulated, so I don't know what sily code your district has.
Are you serious???...pipes freeze on exterior walls, pipes freeze in unfinished areas (crawl space, attics, & basements) ... you say you live in Ohio???. You got to be joking... unbelievable!!!!
I'm sure the winters in Ohio are twice as bad as down here in Georgia.... some of the comments I read are truly unbelievable!!!
A crawl space or exterior wall with PEX, never gets cold enough to actually freeze and burst PEX, it never happens in ohio
It's NOT a code here.. copper or PVC yes, but PEX expandes pretty considerably..
I'll look up the code for Georgia but that's ridiculous in such a warm climate....
Probably done by the homeowner
Unfortunately not...a very unskilled plumber did that.
That thumbnail picture is certainly...uh... "creative"
They still need to call for an insulation inspection. Not sure why that’s funny?
Huh??... it's a plumbing rough inspection. I need to see insulated pipes before everything gets covered up.
@@PPG1967 said walls need to be insulated. You need to call for that inspection as well before closing up.
This is Plumb Crap......!
I agree....thanks for watching!!
Maybe you can briefly explain how to do it right rather than just the snarky giggles
I'm not teaching a class....and giggling is my way of dealing with looking at the same stupid stuff everyday.