ITS TOOLS CLEARANCE HERE: www.its.co.uk *_INNIT!_* 🍺 *JOIN THE Alearmy Exclusive weekly live videos on Thursday* kzread.infojoin 🛠 *AMAZON TOOL STORE* www.amazon.co.uk/shop/plumberparts 📺 *VLOG CHANNEL:* kzread.info

@jamesh9512

2 жыл бұрын

Where can I buy the pipe/paint cleaner that u fit on the drill from?

Don’t take a trap off and empty it down the sink your working on.

@plumberparts

2 жыл бұрын

Haha! Done that a few times!

@don2deliver

Жыл бұрын

Put a bucket under the trap before removing. That way you can use the sink to do a quick rinse of the threads and seals on the trap.

@carlgreen4497

Жыл бұрын

Been there done that.

@davidboyle9636

Жыл бұрын

Or hand the trap to someone else to empty down the sink while you're still lying underneath it........😂😂

@carlosonliones202

Жыл бұрын

@@davidboyle9636 sounds like brexit….! Lol!

Best trick for removing water out of pipework without a wet vac for me is I use the spray part of a kitchen cleaning disinfectant bottle as you can Push the small tube down the copper and spray the water out always worked for me nice video as always james keep up the good work 👍

@millomweb

2 жыл бұрын

Cut the pipe, fit a Tee and fit a drain cock !

@travlangley1

2 жыл бұрын

@@millomweb still won’t be able to solder the bottom part of the tee if there’s water in there…I like his idea of the spray bottle head. I just use a shop vac or pro press, but I think it’s clever

@markthacker6213

2 жыл бұрын

Nice didn't think of that. Thanks for sharing

@gf5328

2 жыл бұрын

I use a diesel pump with a 10m u gauge hose at the end of it and can make it as long as you’d like.

@rodneythompson3026

Жыл бұрын

Was expecting him to give that as a tip too.

I've been watching your videos for about 5 years now. Since then I've learned loads about plumbing, DIY etc. I'm a plumber by trade and you've shown me lots of great tips over the years. I've even had a go at tiling and boarding. Your a legend James. Thank you 🤟

@CommercialGasEngineerVideos

2 жыл бұрын

Well said

@plumberparts

Жыл бұрын

Cheers bro! ❤️

I am a retired plumber (heating engineer) and just seen your very good video. However a few comments, ptfe tape, says on the reel " thread sealing tape" and that is exactly what it is NOT olive sealing tape. The conex manual states ideally no compound should be required although boss white etc may be used. The idea is to present a smooth even surface to the seal, PTFE tape makes a very uneven surface and in time will bed in and cause a leak. Incidentally Conex also say " hand tight plus 3/4 of a turn". Oh yes as you say clean the pipe ! ! Thanks, Bob.

@russellthomas9391

5 ай бұрын

Spot on ! Annoys me the amount of times I see it . Not only is it wrong as its ’thread sealing Tape’ - it’s also a waste of time !

An ESSENTIAL video. A click must. Water leaks can be so damaging, so got to get it right. Thank you for presenting these so well as always.

Superb little video, as always. Lovely stuff. The man who has made no mistakes has made nothing.

Good stuff, I am 56 years old and I have learned quite a bit of things here now

I have just completed a successful diy basin installation thanks to your videos. Woo!

Your videos are gold dust for DIYers. Been able to do so many jobs around the house thanks to them! Might even have a go at soldering next time I need to do some pipe work. Thanks for making this possible.

@CommercialGasEngineerVideos

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more

@jackpartridge7891

2 жыл бұрын

Soldering is so easy lol

@plumberparts

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers bro, Answering in the next comments vid!

The gentle unscrew-until-click trick also works for reinserting woodscrews and helps to avoid stripping the thread in the wood.

@millomweb

2 жыл бұрын

Yep - and screws screwed into plastic - saves cutting a new thread.

This video was a lot of fun. It lifted me out of DIY plumbing despair.

@plumberparts

Жыл бұрын

YES BOI!

That was a great video... Very helpful and entertaining at the same time. Thank you so much

Very Useful for an amateur - and a professional - Thank you

Great no nonsense video because we have all done those things in this video in the past 😀

Top man, always useful advice and fun to watch !

@plumberparts - thanks for this - i'm a DIY'er and wanted my downstairs loo refurb to be a personal project - was connecting a new compression tap valve to 1960's pipework and kept getting a drip - yep i put ptfe on the thread!!! It's now on the olive - THANK YOU!

Thank you for your time to explain this, it really helped me today

Cheers for this! Started as a plumber last week with a friend! Hes taught me some.of these already but good reinforcement

Not young, not an apprentice but still I've learnt heaps, brill video, cheers my friend.

Very useful thank you especially about compression fittings.

Always good to see the simple stuff. 👏👏👍

Click bait??? Never. Great videos. Thanks for sharing.

found this video very informative and useful.

Excellent James well done👍

Top lad james keep the good work up👍👍

Since following advice on You Tube on using jointing compound and not over tightening compression fittings the number of water features in our house has dropped to zero in past years. Thanks mainly to James!

@plumberparts

2 жыл бұрын

Answering in the next comments vid!

Great advice. Thanks

Thanks so much this helped ❤

Great info vid', for diyers and pros' alike. I must admit I got 9/10 😇 but have been doing diy for over 50yrs. Great vids, keep them up 👍

The best advice given is about making mistakes 👍

Thanks for the tips. Some I wasn't aware of. But making mistakes don't teach you unless you know you've made a mistake ;-) but next DIY plumbing job I hope I'll recall enough to be better informed.

Good fun and very informative, thank you!

When i got married at 19 my father in law wanted me to have a trade so he took me to work with him at weekends and some evenings to learn the trade unfornately he was a painter!!! i wanted to be a plumber!! great tips

I'm learning a lot from you sir you are a genius

Just to say big thank you for all your great videos 📹 👍

Beautiful 😍 thanks

Hi mate Great videos keep them coming. After 22yrs military service I’m now retraining tiling / bathroom installations. Definitely going to make loads of mistakes along the way. Remember to FAIL is just the FIRST ATTEMPT IN LEARNING (FAIL).

@plumberparts

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers man!

Great advice

Good knowledge and helpful for house wife

Thanks, good advice for a joiner👍

Good sound advice - thanks.

Brilliant, thank you 👍👍

Great video from a great personality.

Thank you I will tell my dad how to improve his plumbing now hahaha

Great vid thanks very much 👍🏻

Brilliant !

Brilliant content

great tips thanks.

Love it! What's do you call the drill attachment to clean the pipe? Thanks!

Good Saturday morning to you sir and your family

Excellent advice, James. Have you a link to the drill attachment you used for cleaning the copper pipe? That looked really handy.

Great stuff

Great video. Im just starting out and it’s great to know the common mistakes. 👍

Discovering Jet Blue jointing compound was my biggest DIY plumbing improvement. Handy brush built into the lid too.

@45graham45

Жыл бұрын

Do you mean Jet Lube?

@WEEChannel-in4wi

Жыл бұрын

@@45graham45 Yes that was a typo Jet Lube V-2 plus

A clever man learns from other peoples mistakes. It is bad practice to use jointing compound on compression fittings ( that method is for plumbers in a hurry ) If a compression fitting is cleaned and unmarked it will not leak when tightened, If jointing compound is used it is a pain in the ass when you come to undo the fitting at a later date, also some of the compound can get inside the pipe and clog up any partially open rad valves further down the pipe, it can also get on the faces of ceramic discs in water taps causing taps to drip. Just one of the common faults found in new build houses where the plumbing has been done in a hurry.

@simonarmstrong2754

2 жыл бұрын

Using jointing compound on a compression fitting shouldn't be necessary, but done properly as demonstrated by James minimises the chances of leaks should the mating surfaces not be perfect as is often the case with many cheap nickel plated fittings. A job done badly, i.e. getting compound inside the pipe, is just that.

@RobertJones-pr9rh

2 жыл бұрын

Hi John, agreed it shouldn't be necessary to use compound on a compression joint but it is not a problem if it is applied to the pipe and not the fitting. This also applies to flux for soldering. Thanks, Bob.

Excellent video,you are too good 👍

Thanks

I must admit I did not know about the jointing compound on compression joints, thanks for that one, cheers

@erikt9677

2 жыл бұрын

Forget about it !

Great videos… just wondering about compression fittings on Jg speed fit? I don’t feel like jointing compound would be right.. but they do they leak a bit without tape,..I don’t think I’m over tightening 🤔

Is the jointing compound used on compression fittings the same stuff that's used for making threaded connections with linen/flax/hemp? Mine says "sealing compound" on the box, so I'm unsure if that's the same thing...

Some great tips, 👍 👍

I've been taught by a Plumber with 27 years experience, and he told me (and showed me) how to put PTFE onto the thread of fittings. Never again!

Top video!

Nice work . I wrap ptfe onto a pencil and then roll the pencil around the fitting, great in those hard to get to spots. Put your pencil in a drill if you want to spool a lot of tape on. Reversing threads for the "click" is one of the first mechanical tricks I learned, probably fixing me Chopper or Grifter in the 70s 🙂

@dillsplosion5334

2 жыл бұрын

You must have been the strongest person on earth to lift a grifter 💪

@baldyslapnut.

2 жыл бұрын

@@dillsplosion5334 Nah just make sure you're out with mates and it's downhill to home🤣

@ScottyDog345

2 жыл бұрын

Handy for fixing reservoirs in shower units

Very informative! Can you tell me again what is the material you used to tank the floor of your bathroom? It stuck to the 9mm ply sheet you put down? I had a shower put in and we’ll things were not done how they should have. So the more I can do to stop leaks or water coming through my ceiling the better. Thank you again! Just got to work out how to drain the hot water down so I can put an isolation valve in. 🖖

I was taught at college (many, many years ago) that a new compression fitting does not need PTFE tape or jointing compound adding to make a water tight seal. I stick with that to this day and very rarely get a problem.

@anthony342

2 жыл бұрын

depends on the brand , conex dont , but cheap tool station do .

@michaelcurtis7822

2 жыл бұрын

Me too, 5 year apprenticeship 1960, would have been sacked if I had followed any of this advice.

@erikt9677

2 жыл бұрын

That got me triggered to.lol.

@erikt9677

2 жыл бұрын

@@anthony342 No! if a press fitting needs any compound or tape, its just junk!

@anthony342

2 жыл бұрын

@@erikt9677 you dont use anything on push fit pal

Many years ago I elanred that PTFE should be on the olive and it made perfect sense, however I was today years old when I learned that compound could be used instead. My experience with compound has always been that of an observer trying to fix something and it seems to have appeared in places where the manufacturer has supplied a substantial rubber washer and used the words "do not use compound" in the instructions. A fiver for a little tub is fine and it can sit in my plumbing odds and sods box. Thanks!

Very good hints however I have a question. Should we use PTFE tape everytime on threads when we are using jointing compound as well? Can we use one of these or should we use both at one time?

What was the tool you used to clean the end of the pipe before soldiering and where did you buy it

thanks

Thanks.

Any chance of some info on where you get that powered pipe cleaner you used on your drill please. Struggling to find one. ta

NOT click bait at all... GOOD VID.

Where do you get the de-burrer attachment from for the drill? Not in Screwfix or B&Q or Wickes etc

Do you have a link the the drill pump you mention in the video please? I can search on amazon of course but I assume anything you are using is reasonable quality and worth buying.. I'd love your recommendation.. I have been to your web store on amazon but I cant see a search option, within your store...

No it wasn't click-batey, some very useful tips thank you.

I use a couple of turns of ptfe tape on olives, I seen that manufactures of compression fittings say it's not necessary to use pipe putty, I use it on threaded joints with hemp, still the best combo.

The Master of his trade. Anyone lucky enough to be is apprentice should thank There Lucy stars. What a brilliant teacher

You forgot to mention not putting inserts inside the plastic pipes and soft copper pipes. May be in part two if there is enough suggestions. 😉 Thank for the video!

@millomweb

2 жыл бұрын

I've installed my own CH. I made an air trap - in such a way as it self-bleeds the system. One leg of it has a piece of 10mm pipe - that's the only piece I forgot to put inserts in !

Currently gutting and redoing the bathroom. Did all rhe plumbing turned the water on on had few weeps tightend them up then others started weeping. Turned water off had a smoke had a think back to what my dad used to do found some ptfe tape in 1 of my tool boxes n taped up all joints all sound now. Prob should of had the smoke n watched this vid 1st thing this mornin rather than at 9.30 at night. I did watch your mixer shower install vid this morning as that was my 1st task. U dint mention the jointing compound on there I don't think

What's that pipe polishing bit you've got in the Bosh drill? I can't find a link for it, but maybe I haven't looked hard enough.

Oh! As an old-time cable jointer, I'f never contaminate any surface I was going to tin lol. No greasy fingers on the prepared pipe mate :-)

excellent

I have fitted a flexi in a gentle U shape, seemed fine. :)

Is hawk white (non-potable) OK for rad valve fittings on a combi boiler system?

Thanks u boss wold 🙏🏼🧘‍♀️💟🧄🥦

That's a good call, you put the PTFE tape on the correct side of the olive. Unlike most plumbers

Whats the name of the pipe cleaner bit ? And where can i buy it ? Thx

Mate I am total Newbie, leccy stuff I'm okay with and chippy stuff but anything around water not to good, so any advice you give is great, meaning less ear bashing from the trouble and strife when when I don't flood the bathroom 🤣🤣

Here in Ireland historically for a long long time we kept with the Imperial cooper pipework and fittings ... For the likes of retro fitting Boiler's folks here use adapter's maybe in a similar way to Blighty... Steel pipe fittings can be a real mess as the American Imported products use National Pipe Thread ... NPT... Where as the British use British Pipe Thread ... B S.P. ... Things get Sketchy when some D.I.Y. folk try to Push On or Click Fit metric pipe Fittings onto old Imperial pipe.... Great Upload....

Please please please can you tell me where you got the pipe cleaning thing on the drill please? Thanks

First time i cleared a basin blockage i got the wet crotch , never again ! block up those overflows ! :)

What is that pipe cleaning tool on the drill called?

All good tips... some pro's dont even do some of them. Re PTFE on compression fittings, I always put a couple of turns on the threads - not to seal them but to assist in reducing the brass to brass squeeky friction when tightening.

@truthseeker7794

2 жыл бұрын

You don't need PTFE tape on compression fittings. They're precision made fittings and as long as the pipe fits squarely into the body of the fitting then it won't leak. I was an electrician/plumber for some years, I retired about 15 years ago at the age of 48, but during my working life I worked on many houses built in the late 50's early 60's and onwards and most of them still had their original compression fittings. None of the original fittings had PTFE tape or any kind of sealing compound on them as these products didn't exist back then. You would sometimes come across hemp seals in other fittings or a toilet soil pipe sealed with putty and paint. The only time I would use PTFE tape on a normal compression fitting is if I was connecting a new compression fitting/body to an old nut where the olive was embedded into the copper pipe. Of course, there are many other uses for PTFE tape in plumbing.

@anthony342

2 жыл бұрын

@@truthseeker7794 they used boss white back then on most compression fittings . seen red lead used as well

@truthseeker7794

2 жыл бұрын

@@anthony342 I only ever saw it on bigger fittings such as tank connectors and back boilers with the old 1inch copper. Yes I remember my dad using red lead on the immersion heater thread.

@anthony342

2 жыл бұрын

@@truthseeker7794 you sir are somebody who knows about plumbing just from that reply

I had a heating engineer come and service my combi boiler and he replaced the PRV but the new one had tapered threads and he didn't use ptfe and so it would lose pressure every day but because the valve was on top of the water store it was evaporating so it took him 3 call outs before he solved the issue

Excellent teach in the video,i just wondered does anybody actually still uses hemp, and boswhite , anymore,i still have a pack in my garage and would still swear by it for most threaded joints,thanks again.

@ziggs1980

2 жыл бұрын

Where can I buy the copper pipe cleaning drill attachment please?....hold tight!!

Can I use a soggy popadum instead of sour dough?

Hi. Where can I buy a drill attachment for a drill to clean the pipes? Is showing in fix7 part, but I can found on Internet anything like that.

Something else came to mind Don’t forget to deburr the inner part of the copper pipe,where the cut is made. keep a nice clean flow of water. Nice video always handy info,👍🏻

@millomweb

2 жыл бұрын

That's what the deburring tool on your pipe cutter is for ;)

@erikt9677

2 жыл бұрын

deburr the inner part of the copper to prevent sound to, makes a big differents in how it will sound using water.

@peterhanson3962

2 жыл бұрын

@@millomweb unfortunately my two pipe cutters don’t have a deburring tool attached so I have just bought a deburring pencil. Great bit of kit.