Watch Me Do an Under House Sewer Repair - Real Plumbing Jobs
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- čas přidán 24. 03. 2020
- Today I'm back up under a house doing a sewer repair. Y'all seem to love seeing me under houses, but this one's a little different. This pier and beam home had a serious issue with their sewer. We were able to find the problem and do an under house sewer repair to fix it. Enjoy the video and let me know what you think in the comments below.
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Roger Wakefield Thanks for the playlist
Hell yeah! Props to you sir. Still out here kicking ass!
I have a question about you classes you are doing . If one was to take them would it help them pass or be able to get a license? And do you have to be a master plumber in order to get the license?
Rodger Wakefield you're the man but did you really ream and clean all that pipe that good would you really do that in real life
Rodger Wakefield have you ever got glue in your eye?
And this is why plumbers charge what they charge.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, You are the Godfather of plumbing
Thanks for the support!
@@RogerWakefield Hey sr I need your help with a kitchen/ laundy drain problem I'm having I'm in the dfw
No he not He's the one that thinks that he knows it all and everything he does is the right way Nobody's better than him He knows when he 1st started plumbing he did what everybody else is doing. He likes criticizing the new plumbers out there instead of teaching them and helping them Mr. No it all
@@freddycastillo1312 you do realize that by leaving your salty comment you’re supporting his channel? 😂
AND your point is. Over a year old.
Any owner that is jumping in the trenches with the rest of the plumbers is one dude I would love to work for. Keep up the good work. Plumb on!
I'm an electrician,but I love watching these videos.
Couldn't agree more with you my friend on grading the trench. Im a journeyman plumber in Arizona. I absolutely love your professionalism. Doing the right way is not always the easiest but its the right thing to do. Thanks for the awesome videos Roger.
Roger I love your videos you make me want to get back in plumbing again.
Thank you
What's preventing you from getting back into plumbing?
My favorite part was when you cut the quarter inch off the pipe you already put primer on!
That is so real! I don’t know how many times I had to do that???
I love your videos I know how you feel!
The challenge is worth the reward!!
Best plumbing videos!!
Thanks James! I'm glad you liked it.
Roger Wakefield you’re the man!
That's a beautiful luxurious office space you've got there! Being able to sit up while you work, I give it an A+!
Your are absolutely godly at the plumbing trade , much respect to you Mr. Wakefield
👍👍 Great job... always doing great jobs and staying safe 👍👍
Awesome video Roger! It's really beneficial for me to see these real plumbing projects.. lets me know what I'm in for! Looks so fun, can't wait to graduate high school and actually plumb every day
Glad to see a young future plumber! You're going to have a great career. Thanks for the support and good luck on your journey!
You chuck barron are mi favorites your are honest and good plumbers I have only 4 years in the trade but I have learn a lot from you honesty is it all
Tbh I never thought I'd be watching plumbing videos, you genuinely make great, and informative videos.
P.s. you are amazing I love your vids
-a fellow subscriber
Got that Miner look going on! Love how percise you are with the primer!
Good stuff, Rog
Good Job. Very neat and clean work.
Roger is like the Mike Homes of plumping!Awesome videos
Good job and good experience for plumbing work 👍👍
You explain every step love your videos man
I do a lot of this work. Not really tunneling under houses as much because we don’t see a lot of that here but I do enjoy watching how other people do things . Some things I throw in the memory toolbox for when and if I hit these same situations
That Milwaukee Hackzall is sooo clutch under a house, literally upped the quality of life for me by like 20%.
Foreal! Only plumbers know what’s up with this tool ! Makes working under the house soooooo much easier
I have two hackzall’s , wore out my first one after one year. Bought a second one, sent first one back to Milwaukee through supply house. Week and a half later I got a call that Milwaukee sent me a new one. Week and a half later my drill died, so I bought a drill and impact combo kit, brushless type.
The video you shared is very helpful! hope to be your companion in the future, thank you for everything!👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Hi there, in Australia we do these types of installations a bit differently to you, I won’t go into detail about your repair but I will say I would tackle that job in another way, in saying that all plumbers work and think in mysterious ways ! Good luck
Great video!!
Thats satisfying
Love the video
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Will you do a video on different types of fittings??
Perfect timing I just got a call for today underground leak
Did you already find the leak? Or are you going to do some leak detection?
Roger Wakefield leak detection
Roger me and my grandfather absolutely love your vids, thanks for you and drain addict for bringing me and him closer. Also what was the music you used in the beginning and near the end cause it gives off many positive vibes.
well done roger
Hi roger you make great videos! I was wondering if you could make videos pertaining to boilers,hydronic heating or flushometers in the future ?
Trick of the trade, I do these daily…hang all your pipe without couplings in your hangers and set your fall. Then you go back and cut in your 4x2 combos or whatever fittings.
Dame your vids are great almost makes me miss when i used to apprentice as a plumber tho I was a commercial plumber
Love your videos! But i prefer gray glue when doing pvc! That way you can visually see the joint is premiered and glued.
Good video
Thanks Jack!
I lost it at "remember *fart noise* runs downhill" or something like that. I died! 😭🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂😂😂
unless you put a pump on it
Great video Roger! Who does your excavation for your crew ?
Good to see you are a customer at teters faucet parts hahaha. I recognize their logo on the shear band.
you should do a video on the dig crew and how you backfill
Watching this makes me so grateful that we dont use glued parts in Norway, it looks so cumbersome to use.
Easy on the primer Roger lol. Just kidding looks good buddy
This is the one reason plumbing is not for me, I don't have the mental strength to deal with sewer, toilets & I appreciate hard working people like you.
Had my sewer system replaced about a year ago. 80 ft of tunnel and $22,000 later, it works! I'm in grand prairie, tx.
22,000??
Sure makes me glad I do plumbing work in areas where there are mostly basements... most of the time at least 😂
Do you ever use celluar core pvc, i was taught to clean and glue the flat end of the pipe as well for testing as air could possibly travel through the celluar core
Ahhhh roots. My favorite part of plumbing haha.
Heard different lingo from different areas of the country, Wisconsin is a new one for me.
Right. I had to listen to it a few times. In California it’s a closet bend/closet San tee. Never heard Wisconsin before
@top dead center not new to plumbing. Probably a California thing. We have to do a lot more odd things to pass inspection here.
I see it now, it’s a San tee with a side inlet.
@Top Dead Center Don't think you can get those anymore unless they are special ordered. But we would refer to that as a side inlet tee.
Never understood why plumbers use the purple primer. Makes things look soo messy. And in my experience it makes more sense to go ahead and change all that old cast to pvc already down there with all the equipment. Saves someone from doing it later. But other than that good work.
Some inspectors want it so they know it was primed. We try to be neat about it.
Roger Wakefield completely understandable
Roger Wakefield try deluding a can of clear with just a small amount of purple, just enough so the inspector can see it. Shouldn’t be an issue, it’s the same here in Maine and country wide for the most part. Keep up the great work and keep your fingers out of your mouth !
It's required by code unfortunately so the inspectors can easily see visually that every joint has been properly primed. If they see no purple, it's an instant fail.
Just gotta take the extra time to not make a complete mess with the primer.
Oh I use one of the silver Empire levels too, not bad, but I prefer the orange Bahco ones
We call that fitting a low heel 90...and the band is a transition band
I'm 75 and I have some 2 inch cast iron to cut in a crawl space. It is under house, with 18 inches vertical. How much should I dig out before calling a plumber with a sawzall? The good thing is that the whole job can be done in about 4 feet square, but I don't know how much clearance is reasonable for a young and small plumber.
Lol....I repipe under houses sewers and water systems at least once a week here in Oregon.....90% of houses are post and beam .. ...and I'm 5'6" ...and 150 lbs.... The perfect size to usually fit 😂....some times it sucks ...but I will say it keeps me working steady 40+ hours a week
Its freaken horrible going under...much respect..
Roger, you can use the beams to measure off of as well. You know if you're making your hangers at 4ft apart, you can add an inch drop and you will have 1/8 fall every time.
If the concrete is level!
1 inch of drop in 4 feet equals a quarter inch per foot not 1/8 inch per foot
Did y’all put any glue on it or just the purple primer?
is filing the end of the pipe really necessary? Don't get me wrong you have way more experience than i do but isn't running your finger around it to remove the burrs just as effective?
VERY very nice job Roger. However, as an engineer I would have performed a re route so this problem could never happen again under the slab.
what’s that purple thing he used???
btw, roger, you’re awesome, you’re the best plumber i’ve ever watched, i’ve learned many things by watching your vids, i’m not a fully plumber, i’m in 10th grade, next year i’m going to be atudying plumbing in highschool, and that’ll be fun, you’re funny man, keep on making vids man, love ya man✌🏻❤️
-love from norwegian fella❤️🇳🇴
The purple is primer. It cleans and softens the PVC prior to gluing. It's required by code so the inspector can visually see all the joints have been properly primed. That's why it's dyed purple and isn't clear like the glue. They make clear primer as well that you can use for non-inspected work. Just know that you'll fail an inspection if you use clear primer.
thank you for deburring, can't tell you how many times i've seen, even 30+ year experienced plumbers not deburr
Do you chamfer the ends of your pipes?
What type / manufacturer of gloves are those?
Do they not allow ABS in Texas or is Roger just anti ABS?
Did you cut a straight piece of pipe, just to cupling it back together?.?.
what blade was that? cuts it so smooth the abs pipe
What type of gloves are those?
I saw that cast iron move at 8:25. Did that affect the toilet seal?
Not at all. We checked it too Mark. Good catch.
But what do you do with the full bucket
I am plumber in uk for 2 years now, quick question, when you glue the pvc don’t you need to clean the pipe ?
I really enjoy your videos
In the states we do. Have to prime them all all glue each one
That's what the purple primer does, it cleans and softens the PVC prior to gluing.
Dallas brand band cast to plastic?
Can you use schedule 40 pipe for underground sewer jobs? Or is the sdr 35 the preferred pipe to use? I'm out of New York thank you
You can here in PA and surrounding areas
I was told you only need to know two things to be a plumber poop runs down hill and pay day is Friday .lol.,,really good video thank you
I m also working as a plumbing FORMAN in Saudi arab
CAN YOU PLEASE DO A VIDEO ON TRENCHLESS SEWER REPAIR? I AM LEANING TOWARDS ITS BECAUSE IT IS CHEAPER THAN BRAND NEW PIPING!
I have! search "trenchless" on my main CZcams page, it should come up
we have the same torpedo level!
We use grey pvc pipes or the black ones.
There is something to be said about being underneath a house in a fucked up situation, no one wants to be in, but getting a job done correctly with your fellow man.
Be careful working under buildings. I had a coworker die last year in a cave in. Make sure you use shoring or find a way to make that tunnel safe.
We are always safe in our tunnels. Thankfully this was a pier and beam home. So we just dug a trench where the lines were. The house was picked up off the ground about a foot, no way we could get completely collapsed in. We had a plumber in Dallas pass away to recently from a collapsed tunnel 🙁
There in Texas they don't have standards down there
Is purple primer required in state of Texas , For our state we know homeowners are doing the work if you using purple primer.
Most states require purple primer to be visible so the inspector knows the joint has been properly primed just by seeing the purple. Clear primer is against code in most states but you can still use it if your work isn't going to be inspected.
What is a WISCONSON? Is it a fitting or a combination or what?
It's probably a wye
When I did plumbing I was also a dig crew 😂
Hey Roger, WTH is a 'Wisconsin'? I'm from Iowa and worked mostly in California. **Wisconsin**?
Why you did not use glue with primer
Why no fernco for the copper to pvc fitting ?
My mistake should’ve kept watching 😅
How did the builder get away with running a sanitary drain and potable water in the same trench?
Is it required in Texas to
use purple primer? That’s stuff is horrible! We use clear primer in Ohio. Glad you shared the video!
Yeah we have to use purple, its code here in NC
TN requires purple on all new construction and underground so the inspector can tell primer was used.
The purple isn't required, I just prefer the purple primer because it lets the inspector know we put these fittings together properly. I'll use the clear primer under cabinets and things like that so it looks nicer for the customer.
Texas and the upc code calls for metal strapping to be okay on pvc? Check out my cast iron toilet flange replacement video. Florida full service plumber trying to document all jobs and post them. Subscribers would be great. New camera is ordered.
prime the hell out of it 😂
We in Germany use HT pipes( with rubber seals) for sewer installation. Is this not common in US?
Was ist HT? Das graue Kunststoff mit eingebauten Dichtungen?
No, those are absolutely NOT used here in the US. Nothing with integral joints. All slip-fit plastic pipe with glue [aka: 'welded' per Universal Plumbing Code] fittings. Comes in white PVC and black ABS. Thicker walls than German pipes and quite rigid by comparison. [PVC=polyvinyl chloride; ABS= acrylic butyl styrene] Not better; just different.
Also, the toilet drains here come out the bottom of the toilet, not the rear.
Hab ich mich oft gefragt bei den videos, geht so viel einfacher als die kleberei.
I also like your really safe knee workbench! No but really I saw someone doing something similar, (he cut wood I believe) somehow the tool slipped. He got some parts of his knee replaced and had to go to rehab and so on. He can be happy that we live in Germany and the Arbeitsunfallversicherung (work accident insurance) from the company or his normal health insurance was paying for all this.
Also wished you could sit up in every crawl space, shits awful some times just got bite by a spider the other day while crawling over dead 🐀!🤣
That's definitely one of the worst parts of the job!
Lol left that there because it would have required a ton of extra work to do right by the customer , open walls supports etc to replace that Cast t
How much would a repair like this cost?
Thousandsssss
So you do mean to say that somebody came back and changed out that metal ribbon that you just put on that plastic pipe I hope
I don’t mind paying for something done right and will last, fewer petals pride in their work and in the long run everyone suffers for it
Why not use a 2 ft level?
You need some knee pads?? Nice video!!
Great job but recommend using respirators when working under houses like that all sorts of nasty things in the air under homes 🤢
I understand that you’re a licensed plumber in the state of Texas and your videos are a great introductory to
plumbing. I just wanted to ask about a certain nit picky thing I noticed in the last few moments of the video. Where the hanging straps were shown in the shot been changed from galvanized to plastic to prevent the pvc from rubbing and potentially prevent any leaks?