"I am glad I called you"... Steve - " you haven't seen my bill yet Mama" lol

It's like 50% of your job is being a social worker/psychologist!! It's so awesome to watch because your just a little bit angry all the time, but still really nice. You sort of grumpily work your way through the problem while protecting your customer the whole way and not taking advantage of them. It's plain to see that you genuinely care about your customers and your work. Great channel....

As old as your slippers! Lmao

Thanks to Steve, we ditched cable, this is 10 times better! Fire up the popcorn and sit back and watch the show mama!

@bradley.loveland

3 жыл бұрын

and a ton of videos to boot :-)

@Fireship1

3 жыл бұрын

And unlimited knowledge!

@bobc2786

3 жыл бұрын

You can’t beat it! First the wife always busted my stones for watching “Steve Lav, that you tube plumber guy,” now she’s got it up on the living room TV waiting for me to get out of work to see his latest upload, next level!!!

@milotorres6894

3 жыл бұрын

Liked the unit is old as his slippers,😆👍✌️😊

@aaronsmith5433

2 жыл бұрын

So totally better, poison jab commentary included ! Me? Big fan of breathin", no shot for me. Like Pinocchio, "& always let your conscience be your guide !" "Got no strings. Got no strings, I've got no strings on me. I take my ivermectin and now no boogeyman can get to me. Btw- I haven't watch regular boobtube for months, I don't think I'll ever go back, it KZread all the way for me.

This is for you Steve, I saw this sign in a shop today and it said : "Shop Rate: $45 per hour, $55 if you looked at it, $65 if you touch it, $75 if you watch!, $100 per hour if you Offer Advice on how to fix it.".

I think your hilarious the way you talk to people

Classic Steve! “Some people get offended when I say good enough for this neighborhood.” “Have you ever heard Mr. Grinch? I sing that!”. The guy didn’t know what to say.

@Fireship1

3 жыл бұрын

I put a Bosch dishwasher in a dumpy old house last year. Probably the nicest thing that was in that kitchen. When I was done I said “good enough for this neighborhood “. The old lady I did the job for said “what the hell is that supposed to mean?” I guess she was less than Impressed. Lol

That guy was a piece of work, he was intense. You can’t answer the questions as fast as he can ask them. Nice job Steve, that Utica will still be going when the wall hung shit box is scrap.

17:44 - "so you just walk in and they shoot you in the ass or what?" i don't know how or why you ended up in my youtube suggested videos, Mr. Lavimoniere.. but I get this weird feeling like you're gonna keep racking up subscribers. I started laughing and couldn't stop, and I don't know why about that either.

Customer says, He has no smell? Hell, he's worse off now, then before the shot.

An old Polock plumber I worked with for 20 yrs used to say. “Good enough for the girls we go with”.

@craigharding475

3 жыл бұрын

I used to work for the state of Virginia. We would say: "Good enough for government work!"

Glad we installed 2 woodstoves in case the boiler fails...course we have 3 cords of wood to go with it...GREETINGS from Baltimore

Tell them Steve. We’re not part changers. We fix the problem

"as old as your slippers"

"wall hung piece of shit" and the other day it was "feels like wet baby shit". Hahaha, love this channel

@Joe-iw9eh

2 жыл бұрын

😁

Steve, love the interactions you have with your customers. Got to have patience I guess when they hover around firing questions when you are trying to work.

@vyger6336

2 жыл бұрын

It's part of the job !!! Ask any HVAC guy ..

I agree with you not telling people you think how long a boiler will least, life happens.

Thanks for the great video, Steve. Not saying the control wasn't bad but when the customer says he changed the thermostat a couple of days ago and now has no heat, I would check it and his wiring first. Could've shorted the transformer because he likely didn't cut power to the unit. Laughed my ass off when he had it set to cool. The burner would never come on.

@Berzerk29

3 жыл бұрын

The customer said it wasn't working before he changed the thermostat. Then Steve manually set the control to call for heat and it fired.

Have a AO Smith from 1966. Big enough for three houses. Looks and runs great. I keep it clean and maintained.

he truly had 20 questions mama...

2 appliances in 1 flue. Just saw that at the end. Being a mason I pick up on that stuff.

Steve you fix the Utica boiler, and I will meet you for a cold one at the Utica Club! It's on me and i'll buy you a matchbox helicopter too!

Never seen a control like that before, always learning something new from Steve

I got one in the truck. :) Steve Lav's Supply.

I am here to laugh, I love it..Steve you are the man.. You service your customers in more ways than one.. ;)

@georgeswindoll9138

3 жыл бұрын

I'm with you on that!!!!

@Joe-iw9eh

2 жыл бұрын

😁

@MacMilly707

2 жыл бұрын

😂👍

I am an 83 yrs old, retired electrical engineer. I got both Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shots with absolutely no problems. So did my 87 year old friend and his wife. By the way you do excellent work.

@65csx83

3 жыл бұрын

How long ago did you get the shots? Are you being monitored? Do you get the annual flue vaccine?

@jazbell7

3 жыл бұрын

JAMES AZBELL I got the shots on Jan 20 and Feb 15 at the Ohio Health facility in Columbus. I had no effect and no monitoring. Yes I have had the annual flu vaccine every year since 1985 and haven't had a case of flu since 1985. Vaccines work, smallpox, polio, shingles, flu, chickenpox; the list goes on.

@65csx83

3 жыл бұрын

@@jazbell7 Good for you.Your results are better than what I'm hearing locally. A few just sore arms but many others have a miserable flu-like reaction from the second shot. Take care.

@jazbell7

3 жыл бұрын

JAMES AZBELL Younger people are more likely to have a mild reaction, but any of that is better than ending up in an ICU or worse. More than 500K Americans have died from COVID-19. Terrible numbers elsewhere.

@cliveramsbotty6077

3 жыл бұрын

only absolute retards are freaking out about the vaccine. anyone with half a brain is snapping it up when offered.

You can't stop a Utica!

talk about a shadow, what a pain

You mean it doesn't turn on the heat when it's in cool mode.!!!

@bradley.loveland

3 жыл бұрын

lol !! :-O

@WeatherNut27

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe he thought "cool" meant. "Cool thermostat"

Good job.

Another satisfied customer. With the cast iron burners the boiler is good to go; most likely for a long time. Miss Molly says turn up the heat Daddy.

Another great job Steven !!

Probably as old as your slippers😂😂😂😂

If you get a reaction from the second shot that is your immune system going to Navy Seal training.

@jblyon2

3 жыл бұрын

Rather have my immune system go to Navy Seal training. Was knocked on my ass by the worst respiratory infection of my life for 2 weeks late Jan/early Feb last year, 5 days after close contact with someone who had just flown back from northern Italy. Aside from loss of taste it ticked all the symptom boxes. Have to assume I caught the damn thing, but way before there was testing. Never want to repeat that again.

@lonewolf744

3 жыл бұрын

@@jblyon2 I had the same thing in Feb. I'm sure it was the rona rona momma

@jblyon2

3 жыл бұрын

@@lonewolf744 Yeah. Went to get checked for pneumonia, twice. Only thing that's ever felt similarly. Thankfully I could already work from home and isolate myself before they even said to do that. It was so bad I just didn't want anyone else possibly catching it.

@milotorres6894

3 жыл бұрын

@@jblyon2 about 12 yrs. ago my partner on terminal 3 job in Vegas drank out my water bottle gave me confirmed swine flu , worse shit like flu on roids felt like walking death they can eat that vaccine, sister got it coughing issue for past month just to go back to work ,what a shit show that's going on, euro astrozenaca blood clot issues for older set,🙏😨✌️😔🙏

@coldfoot99

3 жыл бұрын

@@jblyon2 I too had the same type of event at the same time of year. Was exposed to someone from the Pacific Northwest who also got sick. Sickest I was in over 40 years. Took the antibody test and it came back negative but it may have been to long from the event to show positive. I took the vaccine recently as I want any protection I can get, risk or not.

Getting the shot? Me not a chance......

@petersmart1999

3 жыл бұрын

Buddy of mine wasn't really a believer that covid was,even a real thing,and hecwasnt going to hamper his life style by not doing things,camping travel etc,so they had a Christmas party,40 people,but it was outside so it was ok.Well 27 of them got Covid,3 in hospital and one in ICU for a week,but he never got it! Now he is a believer,his kid almost died from it ,so he feels kinda bad!

@rickgreen3874

2 жыл бұрын

@@tonymanero5544 yes sir Rey bob…..especially if you’re Already Fully Vaxed!?!

It's as old as your slippers 😂😂

that guy had no smell ... on lord this guy might have the you know what .... lol

I watch you every day. Very honest man..great job

@topcat5777

3 жыл бұрын

He'd be an honest man if he told his customers the truth that he post these videos on KZread.

Given the power pile the old “how ya doin

This is a realy good vid. Thank you.

Another well done quality job

I am a third year mechanic your videos have taught me alot thanks for posting

I used to do a retrofit from powerpile to 24vac gas valve and a pilot setup from a junked out water heater :D

Looks like you have lots of 40 years old units up there; I thought my 2001 Lennox Two-Stage Furnace is old, I have swapped out a main board, main fan, condensation line was replaced. I can see why repair guys try to sell new units. That must be dicey working on that stuff I can see why you video the work on them.

Nice job and video like always Steven

How come Steve never tells his customers that he posts his video on KZread?

Walking walking walking, right up to the Soylent Green machine...

HUMAN GUINEA PIGS WITH THE POKE

Great job

Great video Thanks!

I hope he has a liner in that masonry chimney. The ceramics flues cannot withstand the mixture of moisture and fumes from gas appliances. Many a chimneys failed due to converting to gas and not installing liners.

@bg147

3 жыл бұрын

Mine isn't lined and I have considered doing something about it. This is a warmer climate and the chimney looks good inside and out.

@brikkijim

3 жыл бұрын

@@bg147 Good. The problem is moisture. The exhaust coming out of boiler/water heater is moisture. Keep an eye out at the top. That's where it condensates the most. You may start to see flakes of the orange flue starting to flake apart. I live in WMass.

@bg147

3 жыл бұрын

@@brikkijim I think it is just exposed brick. Some years back, I fabricated a new cap for it that sheds water away from the bricks and there wasn't a flue. When I cleaned the chimney floor in the basement, I vacuumed up maybe 50 pounds of what appeared to be broken up orange debris... I believe. Installing a liner would be a project and I didn't want to rebuild the cap to accommodate one. This is an old town of 5000 with most houses built in the 1920s after the Tri-State tornado of 1925 leveled it. There is blight and the houses are not maintained. My chimney looks better than 80& of the others, but if I need to do it, I will. Thank you.

Looking good great video

He was a talker. You got everything on that truck👍

My 1961 Richmond boiler is still going. No external power source. Two (2) pilot lights. One thru the gas valve (primary safety valve) The second one DIRECT from the gas pipe. Do not know if a thermocouple or a thermopile. But it does power BOTH primary and secondary valve. Wonderful video, very informative.

@robfmas

Жыл бұрын

Its interesting, my parents, now deceased, own a CT home built in 1928. That house had a Holland gas fired hot air furnace. It was massive with ductwork going in every direction. When my family sold the house. it was still there, operating as it should. I dont ever remember it giving any trouble, other than the pilot light blowing out on a very windy night, and i can count on my hand how many times it happened. Very reliable. So I dont necessarily believe something should be replaced due to age if its been taken care of.

Steve saves the day again. Lavimoniere Plumbing, we specialize in home owner shit show's. No extra costs for fixing your screw ups.

It is supposed to be Spring here near Asheboro North Carolina, but it got down in The 40°'s Last Night and again tonight.

Geetings from Canada. Say Steve, how many miles do you drive in a year?

When he said, What do you think of the wall hung high efficiency units? Hahaha I knew it was coming. I agree they are pieces of shit.

Love the sound of that diesel engine on your truck.

So it still didn't work with the new control because the thermostat incorrect setting. Is that why it was failing to operate with the old, almost cooked control? Did the homeowner understand that when the thermo display showed COOL, it wasn't a measurement that the house was cool. but rather it was telling the system to operate in cool mode.

Nice job Steven, Thanks for posting.

Probably as old as his slippers lol

...cast to tv....while I think about new invention

If his house lost the neutral at the service , and he had a bad ground, it would send 240 volts in series to the whole house and would definitely fry stuff. You’ll know it because some lights are dim and some lights are bright, and you’ll smell burning plastic from various electronics burning up.

If the lady who got assurances detrimentally relied on them then she can recover....But no more than her losses and a discount for the wear on the old system. It would be unconscionable to reward someone with a windfall for a wild ass guess.

@craigharding475

3 жыл бұрын

Thankyou, Phil. That is a very good and lawyerly reply! The irony is that if you ain`t no lawyer someone might try to sue you for your trouble. "No good deed goes unpunished."

He was a nice guy

thank for ms molly she makes the vid

Hey Steve I'm suprised you dont see many cast iron Buderus Oil boilers. Over in Western Mass that's all people want. We install Buderus boilers with Reillo burners and tell people they are life-time. I've never seen a Buderus cast iron boiler leak, I'm all for american made but sadly they dont compete anymore. Keep up the good work Steve!

@dougfields5798

2 жыл бұрын

We install Buderus gas boilers quite often although they are labelled Worchester now ,we are fitting 2 80 KW models in a Carehome at the moment.

Steve we need a video about the power pilot and milivolts aqua stat control explanation.

Another job well done Steve.

I think I get the logic for keeping some heat in the boiler on an older unit but what exactly would help the system from not leaking? Is it to do with the heat cycles and the expansion/ contraction?

Steven lavimonier I like your utube videos

You could make 2 service calls in the time you spend repeating answers. I have asked chatty customers to please be silent or be gone so I can get my work done and get to the next customer. Why did you keep bringing up the lo limit?

Rought enough for the bush Steve

Years ago My Dad had a Guy that was supposed to be a Professional Air Conditioner Man, and He wired it wrong and burned up the Thermostat and the transformer buzzed for the whole time afterwards. We had to buy a new thermostat also.

Maybe the "tenderloin" is just breathless when you're around Steve?

@jimhoward1655

3 жыл бұрын

😆

@stevenlavimoniere

3 жыл бұрын

yes i took her breath away . my northern charm

@jimhoward1655

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevenlavimoniere he's a charmer momma

Steve do you ever get backlash because of your opinion on the high efficiency boilers? And I know this is a little off topic but we are coming up to the season - what is your favorite brand of heat pump?

I love to watch your videos ,i wish you explain what the part are you connect to.

What would be the best oil furnace to put in a mobile home I live in Canada

Great video brother, the unit was as old as his slippers ! Oh gosh man I almost fell in the floor,do you think he needs new slippers or a new unit Lol.

Chimney vent boiler is still your better boiler and furnace maybe only 80% or less problems you will get longer life out of those then you will wall hung 90 Plus the wall hangs are throwaway boilers when you start having it issues you're going to end up replacing a boiler

U DA MAN!

Old school stuff. I wonder if anyone ever used the manual switch on one of those aquastats for gravity heat during a power failure. My guess is most homeowners wouldn’t know what that switch even does and would leave it alone.

He had the convection radiators. That is an awesome setup. Not sure why he would want to remove one...

Steve, Hooked on the videos Keep em Coming Don't know what I like best. "She's a leaker" She's a crusty one or "It's a real s---t show.

Some of the older furnaces from the 70's are far more dependable and easier to work on than the newer furnaces. They may not be as efficient but after you factor in all the repair costs and time the newer furnaces cause your probably still ahead money wise by keeping the older furnace in place.

As a plumber there is nothing I hate more than customers hovering over me while I’m trying to work. It takes me longer when you’re hovering over and hounding me! Stop it please!

ADD some of that corned beef to that transformer and some cabbage..

I agree...maybe... get the shots steve.

The customer gave an interesting clue early on about a power problem in the street blowing all his breakers.

@petersmart1999

3 жыл бұрын

Power Co,shorted neutral!

Man that sounds so familiar I have people call me in the summer and their condenser is not working and they tell me that the only thing they need is freon I run a test on it and the cap is out

how many gallons of water that water tower on Cross rd. can hold?

Sounds like you got another egg beater there. (Helicopter)

" I have what i need ".... " but if i could just please tell you the specific model num- " .... " MISTER, I SAID I HAVE WHAT I NEED " Arrives at the job and looks at the unit : " Oh, thats a special one, i might not have it, i hope i have it, i know i have it " -_- !!!! lol

is type m copper not allowed there

why don't you try to replace the transformer on the old controllers guessing reliably but think if you changed out the relay also it could live aging

Yep all that and the cause of the no heat was a non power pile t start

Just because I have something and can't fix it doesn't mean I don't know what it is

@lisawilson3833

3 жыл бұрын

We have an old Burnham gas broiler and it works great.

I had both of the Moderno shots a month ago. No issues other than a sore arm on the second shot for the first evening. I also know approximately 15 others family and friends and neighbors that have their vaccinations and nobody had any issues other than a sore arm and some just felt weak on night of the second shot. At this point there are millions that have the vaccinations with very few problems but over 500,000 dead from Covid-19. You decide, minimal issues or dead. Which sounds better to you?

@rustyshackleford498

3 жыл бұрын

Take my chances with death.

@petersmart1999

3 жыл бұрын

I look at it this way,back when TB,Rubella,plague,polio and all the others that we didn't have to deal with because of vaccinations were eradicated, and those were created in time by maybe a hundred people working on it,this was the work of tens of thousands of scientist's working together,so it was much faster!

@lpmjerry

3 жыл бұрын

That number is a fabricated they counted everything in that total motorcycle accidents flu cases u name it do some research

How much did you charge for the part 😁