Was literally just looking for videos on punching out tap holes in ceramic just before this. I was clenching up just watching, I did a granite sink with a hole saw a few weeks ago, had to have a proper sit down after that one.
Thanks, Mate(s). After trying a few stabs at alternatives that didn’t resolve the problem of my widening a faucet hole for a porcelain bathroom sink, I thought of using a punch with some apprehension (my long past father-in-law earned a reputation of building what he called a million dollar bathroom all because of a cracked toilet from a DIY job gone wrong). I now have that bathroom that has since seen changes over time. I luckily ran into your video using the method this Canuck chose. Fortunately, I located my missing punches just prior to this project. After seeing your success with your Belfast sink, I decided to go for it. My mindset was that if it didn’t work out I’d just have to toss a sink from H*ll. Well, definitely not a job for someone with little patience or other tools on hand, but I managed to use my smallest punch (one I use for finishing nails and hardwood floor resets of nails). Slow and easy as has been mentioned worked well, but only when a large properly situated piece fell away and then others followed nicely, No diamond bit or grinder to buy for what may be a one time job. Nice! Not for the timid, but doable and much thanks again. Odd that we say that a hole is cut. Actually it’s left behind. LOL Cheers!
We try very hard to catch people in the act but it doesn't always happen. We have some great loft conversion stuff with James and Ian so watch out for that.
That sounds so smart. I'm smart, but I don't know how to close my curtains or switch on a light or play musical cassettes, so I'm waiting for a house smart enough to connect to a giant server that checks if it's safe for me to have anything happen in my house. Then, hopefully, I can get curtains closed and lights switched on while wax cylinders spin away to their artificial heart's content, pumping out the correct music. It's so exciting being all New Normbotty and waiting for the next update to what I'm going to be allowed to do even in my own house, and, being smart enough to know how smart Smart things are, I will soon have illumination in the evening from a Smart candle, and Smart curtains providing privacy in the room (apart from connecting to the giant server and requesting the ability to do things that less smart people can still do by hand whenever they want without asking the server). Those lazy luddites need to please wake up and smell the future coffee; assuming they're smart enough to ask the server to switch on a kettle (or whatever one does to a kettle to get coffee out of it). I can't wait to ask and find out! I'm off to look in the fridge for any toast deliveries. Stay Smart, everybody!
You are one Smart fella and I agree completely. My Smart watch that tells me when I have been sitting down for too long and it is time to wave my arms and legs around. The trouble is that the home automation has done everything so I just spin like a windmill for no purpose or gain.
Hilarious but I don't actually think you understand smart routines. Your comment is based on the idea that each individual item is commanded by a person. Telling a system to turn on your lights and then telling it again to do your curtains and again to play music is probably harder than turn on a switch, doing the curtains and turning on your radio. But a routine automates it. For example you could have a routine that does it all at once. You could have a holiday routine that will schedule all of your heating, lights curtains and radios etc automatically when you go on holiday rather than setting up timers. You could have a home from work routines that clicks on the heating 15mins before you get home, turn the lights on and do the curtains in advance. You already automate a lot of things in your car so why not your home?
Thar was really the appeal of the Belfast sink, long before people had bathroms you could wash the kids in it. I was one of those washed in the sink kids, once a week we went to the local bath house in London and shared a big tub with my dad but mostly it was strip naked and stand in the sink.
Skill Builder many generations of us have I still do with my young on I’m a 23 year old Roofer from Belfast & I used to wash my 7 year old in the same sink I was washed in. Solid kit they are.
@@SkillBuilder Spot-on :) I remember a classic scene from 'Steptoe & Son' where the old guy was having a bath in the kitchen sink, washing himself with a tin of Vim.
Can see 'smart' houses needing rewiring every ten to fifteen years just to keep up. I've fitted stuff like Honeywell Evo Home and the like. Customer is always super excited at first. Then when they've lived with it and all it's foibles; batteries to change , signals dropping randomly, noisey TRV operation etc, buyers remorse usually sets in.
Same method I would've have used as ceramics, tiles etc you have to make a pilot hole with a sharp punch gently before drilling with a masonry drill or masonry cutter , or as James is doing gently punching it out... Good video on HOW to do it!! I've seen silly sods ruin a perfectly good job because they're too much in a hurry to get finished on the job which ends up costing!!
@@SkillBuilder Ha ha!! I was taught that by a master sparky who taught me a hell of a lot when I started in the trade after coming out of the "Mob" Royal Navy in 1974 and was a fledgeling spark...I'm forever grateful to him... AND we used to clean up proper after each day and job!! He made bloody sure of that! LOL!!
Completely agree with the spark regarding the standard GU10 fire rated downlights, I can’t stand the sealed ones and I hope they go out “fashion” as such. Another point is when the sealed downlight fails in X number of years then you have to try and find a matching one and hope they are for sale still.
I think the same about all the smart technologies that are coming in. What if the manufacturer goes tits up and you can't get spares in the future? They're not wired like a traditional lighting circuit and data cables thrown in everywhere, so you couldn't just revert back to a standard 230V lighting circuit. So then do you have to change all your products to an alternative manufacturer? I'm not sold on these smart systems...yet.
@@Daniells1982 They're starting to make standards and interoperability between manufacturers. Technology takes time, early on the big boys all want to dominate the market but when it begins to saturate they start working for mutual benefits. In a few years there will be standards that they are set to and you should be able to retrofit 3rd party items. I say a few years...
The installation instructions for all roof windows show a splay at the top and a vertical liner at the bottom but very few carpenters frame out the opening to allow for this. It is a shame because squaring the opeinging can cut the light distribution down by 25% and promote condensation. James is one of the few carpenters we have come across who seems to do it right.
Great video thanks, just plucked up the courage to do my sink, same design different make, but I didn’t realise the surface has a drop on it to let the water drain down. So now I have a tap that’s got one hell of a lean on it, any ideas on how to fix that? Wish I’d noticed this before knocking the hole in!
As a DIY monkey I fitted a sink which you had to punch a hole through. Looked at the instructions, ‘congratulations on purchasing your new sink, now hit it with a hammer 🔨........ carefully!’
Not really creepy. Obsolescence is the REAL think to worry about. KeyWe smart lock and a massive bug that allowed you to bypass the lock and had no fix. You have the likes of LG, Samsung etc with smart fridges becoming unsupported so no longer get updates. Smart TVs such as our LG in the bedroom is from 2015 and no longer supports a feature the other half requires on NOWtv, so we're forced to use it on the downstairs one unless we buy a new TV. THIS is the massive issue with smart kit. Its open to attack and once obsolescence kicks in, becomes dump. And don't get me started on kit that requires a centralised, cloud server too work. Once that company goes bust, your kit becomes a brick. I'm an IT Engineer and I even stay away from smart stuff.
There is a video clip on YT where they bypassed the front door locks with a laser and opened the door. All the needed was line of sight. Not for me thanks
What I worry about is if the manufacturer of the gear goes bust and you can't get the parts to repair in the future. Some systems work on data cables being ran to accessories so you don't have twin and CPC at the switches, so to convert back to a 230V standard lighting circuit isn't an option. You might have to change all your accessories then to an alternative manufacturer of the smart products which I imagine would cost a pretty penny. We have a tendency to overcomplicate things these days. We've managed this long turning on a light switch using the traditional finger method, why change it?
100% agreed. I won't use Alexa because I don't want some gadget in my house with a microphone listening into every move I make - and even more so since Amazon confessed to having an office full of people doing exactly that. No thanks. Old-school 5-lever BS3621 mortise locks, bog-standard switches and walking 5 metres to turn on my heating will do me just fine.
hi have you ever rendered and screed a swimming pool.could you tell me the ratio mix i would need .also prep work do i put a slurry mix on first a few tips thanks so much .just paid someone to do the pool and its all breaking up complete disaster .I did not have much time so thats why i got him.so now i have to have time off work to fix the problem,is screed and render the same on a pool just adding waterproofer.really rather desperate his screed is coming up in sheets not glued to base at all
I got fed up of changing the Phillips led gu10’s in my bathroom ceiling, so I changed for sealed units which have much better cooling for the led drivers and it’s been 2 years now as opposed to every 3 or so months. Also sometimes those bulbs are a pita to twist out.
Was literally just looking for videos on punching out tap holes in ceramic just before this. I was clenching up just watching, I did a granite sink with a hole saw a few weeks ago, had to have a proper sit down after that one.
Glad the sparky had his hoodie embroidered with what he was doing that day in case he forgot 😃
They were 2nd fixing tho 🤔?
Daniells1982 , I reckon they had been 1st fixing in the morning 😀
Thanks, Mate(s).
After trying a few stabs at alternatives that didn’t resolve the problem of my widening a faucet hole for a porcelain bathroom sink, I thought of using a punch with some apprehension (my long past father-in-law earned a reputation of building what he called a million dollar bathroom all because of a cracked toilet from a DIY job gone wrong). I now have that bathroom that has since seen changes over time.
I luckily ran into your video using the method this Canuck chose. Fortunately, I located my missing punches just prior to this project. After seeing your success with your Belfast sink, I decided to go for it. My mindset was that if it didn’t work out I’d just have to toss a sink from H*ll. Well, definitely not a job for someone with little patience or other tools on hand, but I managed to use my smallest punch (one I use for finishing nails and hardwood floor resets of nails). Slow and easy as has been mentioned worked well, but only when a large properly situated piece fell away and then others followed nicely, No diamond bit or grinder to buy for what may be a one time job. Nice!
Not for the timid, but doable and much thanks again.
Odd that we say that a hole is cut. Actually it’s left behind. LOL
Cheers!
After watching this I successfully punched the tap hole in a ceramic sink. Phew. Great video 👍
Good man Roger. Enjoyed it. Keep it up.
How refreshing to listen to decent professionals talking about their jobs
Decent guys all round. It makes a big difference
Appreciated lads!
Thanks Shaun. It is good to get your encouragement.
Wow. That was a hold your breath moment knocking that sink out.
I has every confidence in you James nice job 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Yes I knew he could do it but you have the build the tension
Skill Builder . Yep and we all want a good viral vid too 😉😂😂
The video and the humour went south once the spark piped up
Love how when filming James it’s actually real life stuff.
We try very hard to catch people in the act but it doesn't always happen. We have some great loft conversion stuff with James and Ian so watch out for that.
Spreads,chippies,sparkies,we used to call the decorators the Chelsea set
That sounds so smart. I'm smart, but I don't know how to close my curtains or switch on a light or play musical cassettes, so I'm waiting for a house smart enough to connect to a giant server that checks if it's safe for me to have anything happen in my house. Then, hopefully, I can get curtains closed and lights switched on while wax cylinders spin away to their artificial heart's content, pumping out the correct music. It's so exciting being all New Normbotty and waiting for the next update to what I'm going to be allowed to do even in my own house, and, being smart enough to know how smart Smart things are, I will soon have illumination in the evening from a Smart candle, and Smart curtains providing privacy in the room (apart from connecting to the giant server and requesting the ability to do things that less smart people can still do by hand whenever they want without asking the server). Those lazy luddites need to please wake up and smell the future coffee; assuming they're smart enough to ask the server to switch on a kettle (or whatever one does to a kettle to get coffee out of it). I can't wait to ask and find out! I'm off to look in the fridge for any toast deliveries. Stay Smart, everybody!
You are one Smart fella and I agree completely. My Smart watch that tells me when I have been sitting down for too long and it is time to wave my arms and legs around. The trouble is that the home automation has done everything so I just spin like a windmill for no purpose or gain.
Banana milkshake you’re not that smart you’ve just wasted about 5 mins or more of your life writing that useless drivel out 🤦♂️
@@ozzyefc44 May have taken them 5 mins to wrote that but it took your entire brain capacity for the month to compose that useless novel.
@@ozzyefc44 the world's gone mad with all this smart rubbish. I thought what he said was hilarious!
Hilarious but I don't actually think you understand smart routines. Your comment is based on the idea that each individual item is commanded by a person. Telling a system to turn on your lights and then telling it again to do your curtains and again to play music is probably harder than turn on a switch, doing the curtains and turning on your radio. But a routine automates it. For example you could have a routine that does it all at once. You could have a holiday routine that will schedule all of your heating, lights curtains and radios etc automatically when you go on holiday rather than setting up timers. You could have a home from work routines that clicks on the heating 15mins before you get home, turn the lights on and do the curtains in advance. You already automate a lot of things in your car so why not your home?
Working on my sink, that's why I'm here... But I'm an automation programmer, available for work if you need one!
Us Irish love 'The owl Belfast sink'. Have one myself, can bath the wee ones in it.
Thar was really the appeal of the Belfast sink, long before people had bathroms you could wash the kids in it. I was one of those washed in the sink kids, once a week we went to the local bath house in London and shared a big tub with my dad but mostly it was strip naked and stand in the sink.
Skill Builder many generations of us have I still do with my young on I’m a 23 year old Roofer from Belfast & I used to wash my 7 year old in the same sink I was washed in. Solid kit they are.
@@SkillBuilder Spot-on :) I remember a classic scene from 'Steptoe & Son' where the old guy was having a bath in the kitchen sink, washing himself with a tin of Vim.
Making holes in Belfast sinks are so scary
Punching holes. It is the scariest thing kitchen fitters have to do.
I have done hundreds and still get nervy.
I drill a hole then use a dremel to in large hole
JRS You are not wrong. I know a good carpenter who once cut a worktop too short and ever since then he has subbed it out to Mr Worktops.
Skill Builder I know the feeling I’ve done a kitchen with oak tops and under mounted sink this week
Especially when you guys are working on high end kitchens where the materials cost a fortune. The pressure is on. Maximum respect from me.
Can see 'smart' houses needing rewiring every ten to fifteen years just to keep up. I've fitted stuff like Honeywell Evo Home and the like. Customer is always super excited at first. Then when they've lived with it and all it's foibles; batteries to change , signals dropping randomly, noisey TRV operation etc, buyers remorse usually sets in.
Thanks for sharing that information. It would make a good video in its own right
Same method I would've have used as ceramics, tiles etc you have to make a pilot hole with a sharp punch gently before drilling with a masonry drill or masonry cutter , or as James is doing gently punching it out... Good video on HOW to do it!! I've seen silly sods ruin a perfectly good job because they're too much in a hurry to get finished on the job which ends up costing!!
Silly sods! Yep that was me with the first one I did.
@@SkillBuilder Ha ha!! I was taught that by a master sparky who taught me a hell of a lot when I started in the trade after coming out of the "Mob" Royal Navy in 1974 and was a fledgeling spark...I'm forever grateful to him... AND we used to clean up proper after each day and job!! He made bloody sure of that! LOL!!
So is this why taps are called taps then?
Completely agree with the spark regarding the standard GU10 fire rated downlights, I can’t stand the sealed ones and I hope they go out “fashion” as such.
Another point is when the sealed downlight fails in X number of years then you have to try and find a matching one and hope they are for sale still.
I think the same about all the smart technologies that are coming in. What if the manufacturer goes tits up and you can't get spares in the future? They're not wired like a traditional lighting circuit and data cables thrown in everywhere, so you couldn't just revert back to a standard 230V lighting circuit. So then do you have to change all your products to an alternative manufacturer? I'm not sold on these smart systems...yet.
@@Daniells1982 They're starting to make standards and interoperability between manufacturers. Technology takes time, early on the big boys all want to dominate the market but when it begins to saturate they start working for mutual benefits. In a few years there will be standards that they are set to and you should be able to retrofit 3rd party items. I say a few years...
Should be "James of all trades"
Genius thinking with that Velux. Here's me thinking James didn't own a square...😂
Splay the back out and get a bit more light!!
The installation instructions for all roof windows show a splay at the top and a vertical liner at the bottom but very few carpenters frame out the opening to allow for this. It is a shame because squaring the opeinging can cut the light distribution down by 25% and promote condensation. James is one of the few carpenters we have come across who seems to do it right.
Skill Builder a vertical liner at the bottom and a splayed top also help for any heat from rads uft etc to move up and away from the velux 👍
Done plenty of those, usually cut my fingers doing it though!
Leaving some blood at the scene makes the customer think they are getting value for money
Great video thanks, just plucked up the courage to do my sink, same design different make, but I didn’t realise the surface has a drop on it to let the water drain down. So now I have a tap that’s got one hell of a lean on it, any ideas on how to fix that? Wish I’d noticed this before knocking the hole in!
All you can do it get some kind of tapered washer on it. I can't think how but leave it with me and I might come up with an idea
Looking for the kind of mitigator for our sink just like the one in this video. Anybody got some tips on what brand this might be?
As a DIY monkey I fitted a sink which you had to punch a hole through. Looked at the instructions, ‘congratulations on purchasing your new sink, now hit it with a hammer 🔨........ carefully!’
Ha! that is very funny. Did you ball pein or punch?
personally, i'm dreading all this SMART home stuff. something creepy about it.
1984
Not really creepy. Obsolescence is the REAL think to worry about. KeyWe smart lock and a massive bug that allowed you to bypass the lock and had no fix. You have the likes of LG, Samsung etc with smart fridges becoming unsupported so no longer get updates. Smart TVs such as our LG in the bedroom is from 2015 and no longer supports a feature the other half requires on NOWtv, so we're forced to use it on the downstairs one unless we buy a new TV. THIS is the massive issue with smart kit. Its open to attack and once obsolescence kicks in, becomes dump. And don't get me started on kit that requires a centralised, cloud server too work. Once that company goes bust, your kit becomes a brick.
I'm an IT Engineer and I even stay away from smart stuff.
There is a video clip on YT where they bypassed the front door locks with a laser and opened the door. All the needed was line of sight. Not for me thanks
What I worry about is if the manufacturer of the gear goes bust and you can't get the parts to repair in the future. Some systems work on data cables being ran to accessories so you don't have twin and CPC at the switches, so to convert back to a 230V standard lighting circuit isn't an option. You might have to change all your accessories then to an alternative manufacturer of the smart products which I imagine would cost a pretty penny. We have a tendency to overcomplicate things these days. We've managed this long turning on a light switch using the traditional finger method, why change it?
100% agreed. I won't use Alexa because I don't want some gadget in my house with a microphone listening into every move I make - and even more so since Amazon confessed to having an office full of people doing exactly that. No thanks. Old-school 5-lever BS3621 mortise locks, bog-standard switches and walking 5 metres to turn on my heating will do me just fine.
hi have you ever rendered and screed a swimming pool.could you tell me the ratio mix i would need .also prep work do i put a slurry mix on first a few tips thanks so much .just paid someone to do the pool and its all breaking up complete disaster .I did not have much time so thats why i got him.so now i have to have time off work to fix the problem,is screed and render the same on a pool just adding waterproofer.really rather desperate his screed is coming up in sheets not glued to base at all
6:14 Jack Whitehall has a new job?
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What no diamond drill!? I'd fuck that up for sure. I'll stick with my barrel
I break it out only a little, then I get my mortar rake on my grinder and go from there. Much nicer to work on.
Good tip! 👍
I've got a black ceramic sink. I've had it for 10 years and never fitted it due to being scared of making the holes.
If it cracks it'll be white.
Can't you start with a tile drill bit?
you can but it will go if you use a punch gently
@Skill Builder Just sounds terrifying when these kitchen sinks are so much money. Thanks for confirming and keep up the great work and advice
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Be very aware
Tin foil hat time...I've got mine at the ready.
I always get someone else to do it , then it's their fault
You must be my lost twin 😂
Just use the kango & stop faffing about 🙄😏
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ruclips.net/video/0Bjmq-cwTJc/видео.html Ball pein method
Why not drill the hole I have holesaws that would?
where is the fun in that
@@SkillBuilder having chipped a few electrical back boxes into tiles I must admit there’s a sense of satisfaction when none get broken 😁
The electricians a donut ! GU10 bulbs are utter shite !
£3.00 each as opossed to £13.00 and the customer can change them. I think that was his point.
Yes but £3 every few months on multiple lights starts to get expensive
I got fed up of changing the Phillips led gu10’s in my bathroom ceiling, so I changed for sealed units which have much better cooling for the led drivers and it’s been 2 years now as opposed to every 3 or so months. Also sometimes those bulbs are a pita to twist out.
I use a diamond hole cutter. Stop squeaky bum