"Yea I was over a lady's house the other day she was 96! She was Krusty looking but still livin at home!"🤣

Between the dog and his special voice this guy doesn’t realize what a unique and special channel he has. Someone should do production for him and maybe some animations.

@gerrycgc

3 жыл бұрын

i agree. Maybe something on the Colbert Show, Cartoon or something.

I think the elderly in your area are lucky to have a guy like you come into their homes and treat them right. You are a good man.

@stevenlavimoniere

6 жыл бұрын

i have worked for this lady many times .she is a good sole

@4everbassets

6 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same 😍

kudos for retaining that copper drain. The old stuff was awesome!

...the first plumber that I've ever seen with a level of respect to actually take the extra few seconds to place a towel beneath a dripping drain like that to prevent water from damaging everything. Honestly its as if most plumbers don't think its a big deal but I think its amazing and deserves recognition...

Hey Steve, nice job as usual! I take care of a 48 apt. complex and have learned a lot from you. Thanks for all the videos!!

Here in Australia our hot water units have anodes in them over time they degrade and create magnesium build up in shut off valves etc great job steve your the working man

We had that same storm up here in Maine! Two weeks in a row we got dumped on. That snow was the worst to get through the snowblower. I feel your pain Steve! Oh ya your vids are always a must watch!

Steve you are funny your comments have me in tears with laughter and your a good plumber cuddos

Awesome repair Steve.

You are the guy for a reason.

Great job Steve!

Copper drain piping and trap -- interesting to see. thanks for the video Steve

Happy St. Patrick's Day Steve. That snow will be gone before you know it.

"She's 96 going to be 97". Steve, on top of everything else you are a math genius! lol

@flexiblestrategist9922

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha

Your pup has a really sweet face Steve.

Steve, you're better than this old house

good find steve, under sinks is a pain thankl god you are less weight at our age you are impressive keep it up i had to cut back at 58 too fat too old great vids thank you

I was waiting for "why would you wear gloves" and you delivered!!

Steve is a working man mama next level

Another good find and resolution Steve. You like talking about that 96 year old grand lady customer you had a little while back. "she's 96 almost 97. She's lookin a little crusty but still kicking and at least she's not dead!" We should be so fortunate. You must be a chick magnet Steve for those more mature ladies. They like you and trust you as they should. Well done.

Love the videos, Plumber from Florida...but originally from Lowell Mass...the accent makes me miss home lol!!

Steve , I'm gonna tell my heart doctor about that zip tie trick next time I see him ...lol ...it should clear arteries out pretty good ...

Nice job steve, a lot of snow ! We don't see that in S Carolina

looks like the old dip tube from your old hot water heater when bad ao smith was a nightmare for that ed leak master plumbing in ct

Look up videos on the impeller mod for your snow blower, makes them unstoppable.

We have 8 chihuahuas and they ALL love Baby the Dog.

@stevenlavimoniere

6 жыл бұрын

good to hear that ..baby the dog is a big star

Note to self: Do not watch Steve's drain-snaking videos after coming home from work and eating dinner....

@eaglevision993

4 жыл бұрын

That is exactly what I am just doing....came home from work, dinner on plate and watching the "what´s in the drain" show.

Steve, you know what you are doing and you provide a great service. You could use a new drain bucket though

@stevenlavimoniere

6 жыл бұрын

maybe its time for a new drain bucket .

@laradolensky5882

6 жыл бұрын

i sent you one. did you get it? the package had an american standard motor, somethin for the dog, a new drain pan, and a spider light, and some 3m dust masks. what, did the battery in the spider light explode, or did the feds intercept my package, or what? it was sent probably like last year.

@stevenlavimoniere

6 жыл бұрын

i did get it did not know who sent it know i now i o you a dinner or drink some time

@laradolensky5882

6 жыл бұрын

you don't owe, but i am coming through your area third week of june. i will text you and see if you are free around then

@stf2400

6 жыл бұрын

Just give them some eggs and any chickens that aren’t productive anymore, lol.

first comment

@mikelisowski7619

6 жыл бұрын

steven lavimoniere why on earth would you wear gloves? I having a hard time trying to figure it out

@markpowell1031

6 жыл бұрын

That's cheating still and I think we tied on time

@Darwinq84

6 жыл бұрын

Why would he not wear gloves? Nasty water all over the place.

@bboyette1017

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikelisowski7619 the stuff that drains isn't stuff you want on your hands at all I had a nasty experience with this. He smart for wearing them.

@mikelisowski7619

4 жыл бұрын

Lmfao.. I was kidding. He says it in every video. " Why do you wear gloves? I cant figure it out"

Baby dawg!

Steve should have removed the aerator on new faucet before you turned the water on, I noticed all the rusty water coming out the first time now rust particles in screen. Cheers

Cholesterol stop/pipes. Steve did heart/bypass on both sinks.

@michaelambler2982

6 жыл бұрын

That's "Dr. Steve"...:-D

@ravit6223

6 жыл бұрын

Surgeon Steve obvious will wear gloves so they keep asking him about gloves ;-D

Locks are easy to pick, put the club upsidedown to make it harder. Add kill switch to fuel pump, so you would hear attempting to start and you can bring out the 12gauge. Let er rip.

I wish you could be my plumber... But I'm way out here in Minnesota.. But hey.. If you ever want to visit the twin cities... And want to make a few bucks while on maybe a vaca... You're welcome here... You could even stay here.. We have some maintenance issues would love to have you repair... It's no Taj Mahal probably more of a shht show but... Lol love to have ya...

..gotta love those old crusty shit stained plungers, I always rinse mine after use

I need one of those small sawz all

Talk about rock hard water up there...

Jesus you had some snow there Steve , we had some too but not like this , fuck me Keep up the good work

Steve I did one just like that no water on cold side I went to take supply line off shut off valve and the nipple fell off because of the rust had to open wall up and sweat in new copper pipe and install new shut off valve due to the cholesterol in the nipple it was completely clogged peace

Lmao shes a little crusty. Still kicking. I love it. Need to ask how she does it? At that age in hvac ill be dust

that's hard water deposit in the blocked valve... drop the valve in dilute sulphuric acid that deposit gets dissolved ...in the end love that water flow from the faucet mama... wondering how the cold side flow got restored when you restored hot...plumbing puzzle ...next level !!!

@stevenlavimoniere

6 жыл бұрын

i changed the faucet also there was a blockage in spout ,

Watching this, compared to the UK... shows how crap we are at dealing with snow, 4-6 inches blocks all the roads, because the city simply WON'T plow... they don't have any snow plows! And they salt the main roads... but not the side roads people live in, which is ridiculous

@elliotmedrano9612

4 жыл бұрын

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Steve, great video. Is there anything that can be done down the line to prevent the "cholesterol" from being built up?

"Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy" Stinky Whizzleteats

when i found restricted hot water i would shut off the water heater and back flush into the heater by putting a coin in the flow stratner and turn on the hot and cold to back flow from the faucet to the water heater out the t&p or the drain

we had a water supply line to are toilet that was clogged and after taken it off and cleaning the blockage out that are toilet was back up and running without any issues

My question is, water heater possibly causing some of the issues? We have hard water here and I had to drain my water heater several times plus let it run out the drain with the water turned on (the heater was turned off) to get all the crud out. It was making a banging noise while it ran for a long time before we drained it. Once I flushed it all out the noise stopped and water flow is 10x better than before.

' Go with the dribble ?'

Those supplies were "blocked up tighter than a buzzard's ass in a power-dive"!

Steve, amazing how those deposits accumulate, is that water from a well or city? Like that mini saw you used what brand is it? Do you see that on just older homes? Thanks !

Do you disinfect your tools afterwards?

That was some serious buildup in that pipe. Wow.

I always find it funny when I see a 45 on a drain line. Put in a Wye and put in a C/O.

@Straycurrent

6 жыл бұрын

Great idea. From my limited experience installing new piping I have difficulty thinking up good routing and fitting ideas like this. Thanks for the tip.

@markallan9050

4 жыл бұрын

For sure! As a service guy who does some new construction I always use a wye and fitting cleanout combo (sink draining into the branch of wye). Its actually code here for kitchen sinks (Alberta, Canada)

New t-shirt slogan -- "It's spittin' like a camel".

if you ever install a water softener on a system with scale deposits like that .... get ready, that stuff can flake off in large chunks and cause stoppages. Cities have to gradually mix softer water with old hard hard water supplies when they change to softer water, like from wells to surface water. Obviously, hard water can scale up a boiler pretty quickly if the water chemistry isn't balanced.

@stevenlavimoniere

6 жыл бұрын

the house is in the city. so it treated water .problem is the pipes in the street are loaded with stuff .if you ever seen whats in them you would be shocked

"So you wanna be plumber, huh?"

That's looks like a heavy duty bronze trap. I have never seen anything like that.

@xcross8537

4 жыл бұрын

FixItYourself Deb it’s ancient lol

Why would u wear gloves?

Would a water softener help to stop or prevent that build up?

Got hammered lol

I periodically rent a snake to clear my parent's drains. Once it punches through the blockage, I turn on the faucet and continue to run the snake. The fresh water clears out the line and cleans off the snake. It comes out clean as a whistle.

How wet was it? (drum roll)

Note to self dont eat shepherd pie while watching steve work

@stevenlavimoniere

6 жыл бұрын

drain snaking videos can be a bit nasty .

When was her home built? I get nervous when I see old pipes like that.

What brand was that sawzall?

Not EZ been cheezie

thats from minerals in the hard hot water

Check the water heater and zink anoid ?

What brand faucet did you install?

took us the longest time to figure out why our drain line to septic always froze, it was a leaking toilet flipper. If toilet runs on in Minnesota north, it's bad news.

Maybe copper has some sort of electrical property that makes it susceptible to clogging like that.... is that galvanical corrosion?

Second time watching 7/28/2020

Always have gloves on is smart.

When it's just the hot side.. would that likely to be in the hot water heater....the anode rod ??

@stevenlavimoniere

6 жыл бұрын

the lady said there were working on street water piping then all this started right after that. there is a new water heater installed down there .so i dout its the anode rod.

hey Steve why are you wereing gloves 😂

If she doesn't have a new hot water heater and if both hots were blocked its time for a new hot water heater ;) The inside of the hot water heater is breaking down causing rust to sit in the pipes.

You need merchandise with the phrase, "Why would you wear gloves some morons would say."

Hi Steven, Nice Job with everything...question not relating to this....I am a contractor out of Weymouth, Ma. and have done you name it 40+ years ...a quick question you might be able to answer with beckett burners had a little problem with mine today with transformer weak spark, iron core type , 10,000 volt, could not get same one today as southshore heat closed noon time today had a spare newer beckett unit with electronic ignitor which is 20,000 v...... i took igniter off it and put on older beckett ....solved problem running great your experience are they inter changeable the older iron core with the electronic types everything bolts and lines up just wondering about electrodes and stuff, watching your videos i think we where trained in same school , Mcleod Construction

@stevenlavimoniere

6 жыл бұрын

you can run a electronic transformer ,but it should drop out after starting .the old honeywell 8184g protector relay will stay on all the time sparking ....so .. you need a newer style protector relay .my self i only run the old style transformers .i had to must trouble with them electronic transformers . but i will use one in a pinch. i do not stock them on my truck anymore. i think i still have a wain burner one left in truck . somewere

Gundy was given

@RangerCaptain11A

6 жыл бұрын

he came, he saw, he gundyed. problem solved.

why not run cable thru the drain plug

Kinda crazy to put a tee in, especially when they put a vent between it and the unit.

You think that stuff in the water is bad for pipes, imagine what's its doing to your body..

MY DAUGHTER IS NOT SPRING CHICKEN NO MORE LOL

Shark bite valve and new faucet snake the drain quick easy fix

I thought you were supposed to remove the valve core before soldering the valve body.

If a rig existed to do it with, would a vinegar flush through the faucets clear the cholesterol?

@djscrizzle

6 жыл бұрын

You'd need a stronger acid like Muratic acid, to clear a lot of scale in a quick manner. Then flush the system really well. Note that the water heater would be bypassed, and anything else not desired, the same treatment.

@rcpasc1948

6 жыл бұрын

I believe service techs use vinegar to flush tank less water heaters to clear "cholesterol" as normal periodic maintenance. I think the keywords you used appropriately was "quick manner."

Steve why you don't remove handle with washer before soldering a valve?

@stevenlavimoniere

6 жыл бұрын

its not needed ,so why do it ?????

@786otto

6 жыл бұрын

I always take those apart thinking will cook rubber gasket washer.And makes me feel better :)

Seems like allot of backups are caused by too little flow allows buildup in the drain to form.

Hot water tank needs flushed maybe?

Why do people paint pipes. Like it's going to make the pipes stronger or make the basement look better.

@cl8ff

6 жыл бұрын

i dont like that silver color... but im guessing those old pipes get rusty and leave trails of rust under them.

Boy oh' boy, the gloves thing really bugs him - lol.

@amtraktraveler9118

4 жыл бұрын

He should work as an EMT or Paramedic> He's going to wonder why we have to wear gloves.

Maybe the water heater needs to have the Androids replaced you know what I mean since it's hot water

3rd comment 5th thumbs up.

Yippee first comment twice in the same week

Yeahhh this is why i dont like copper water lines lol.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Fair. Drop off snow Steve how's the chicken's coping?

@stevenlavimoniere

6 жыл бұрын

there fine all inside in heated coops .staying warm .i just feed them in the coops . i let them out today .they were glad to get out and strech there wings

@caithnessrailrambler2698

6 жыл бұрын

That's good Steve I enjoy watching your vids buddy keep them up hopefully get to see your chickens soon again ;) big shout out to the star off the show! ;)

Spiting like a 🐫 😂

Amazing that he didn't melt the valve seat when soldering the valve in place, he could have removed the stem and seat first.

@gidzey4783

4 жыл бұрын

Ive sweat in tons of valves. Just open them up all the way when soldering. No need to pull the stem