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@@victoriarobinson6227 I'd also imagine that's the case in real life too. You know by his demeanor that he's not a dick of a boss. He's also VERY much aware that Corey is an A+ Class Sparks. The + indicates going over and beyond, ALWAYS. He's top shelf. In fairness, they all are and will be once given the opportunity.
Get yourself a mini circular saw... Take up a board thats already up to get the depth, then set the circular saw a mill or two shallow.. Cut the boards till your hearts content knowing you wont go through then just snap the last mill or two..
Best Cory video to date. The “oh fcuk” moment and then the adrenaline kicking in to run around sorting and commanding action is a true measure of leadership under pressure. Great content again!
He knew they were there, but as he said on the phone to Jordan, the pipe was litrally touching the floorboard, so even if he cut the board perfectly, it would have still hit it. The pipe should have been a bit lower.
@@steverobinson8170 it's only 15mm pipe, you can got a bit deeper, look at the other pipes in the video, you can see a good half inch gap between the pipe and the top of the joist. Not blaming the plumber, though.
Sorry Cory; bad luck. You are a good sport allowing filming to continue - good for us to see real world problems; those pipes were really hard up against the boards.
not really. by building regs we are not allowed to cut out more than 1/8 of a joist. what i do is i leave a little diagram on top of the boards so the sparks know where my pipes are, to save them hassle like this 👍
@@rossthompson1635 At the end of the day im all about helping out other tradesmen, thats the you have to be, saves them time and money having to pay a plumber to come and fix things like this
The regs on joists are to notch 0.125 x the depth of the joist, if that’s an old 8’ Victorian joist then your allowed a 1 inch depth which is 25.4mm, you can go through the centres with a spade bit and that’s 0.25 x the depth, you can only notch and drill within 1/3 the span of the joist where it’s anchored. 👍 I recently went back to college to study for my acs like 2days ago and this was the topic of the day 😂
Never mind mate,your in a profession when things like that happen now and then,been watching you guys for many months now,and have to say your all the ultimate professional’s and an absolute joy to watch,so keep up the great vids….
I went through a hot water pipe with a rotary saw. I certainly wasn't expecting a sudden burst of boiling hot water to the face and still remember the sheer panic and falling about not sure what to do lol. The smell was rank, dusty hot water all over me and draining down to the floor below. Ironically I was there to do someone a favour. They haven't invited me back.
Haha I'm a plumber and have done it myself, and those pipes should've had a protection plate over them. Use a circular saw with a set depth, or wrap some tape round the multitool blade at 17mm so you dont go too deep. These things happen and you handled it well.
Once you’ve turned off the feed, why not just open one of the taps to depressurize? Then at least it all goes straight in the drainpipes. Oh wait, these are heating pipes, never mind.
I love seeing the panic when that pipe got cut! Done it before! I feel your pain mate. I just sat there for a good few minutes thinking it will just go away. The stop cock was in the street seized we’ve all been there
Feel for you with the pipe. Lifting bedroom floorboards to run speaker cables, circular saw set 1mm deeper than floorboards, first cut found 10mm microbore heating pipes in a 9mm notch in joist! Fountain of scalding water, no quick shut off, rip up board, fill void with towels, turn of CH pump and try and drain down heating as fast as possible, then have to do the dirty plumber stuff, before finishing cabling and repairing floor.
We've all done it mate, mine was a DIY job, fitting a new light fitting. Drill through ceiling for the rose and hit a hot water pipe. By the time the flow stopped I had a blister on my thumb which was so painful.
We all make mistakes, but you had been looking at the pipes moments before🤣! My usual approach if there's any chance of hitting pipes or cables is to carefully do the last few mm with a knife as you'll normally feel the pipes etc before you go through. I used to snap the last few mm, but learnt the hard way that splinters can pierce pipework 😭
first time i did electric work in my own home when i got qualified i carefully made sure i wasnt about to cut into a floorboard that had pipes underneath, got my saw and cut the wrong board and had a water feature in my upstairs hallway🤦🏽♂️
I feel your pain!! Did it a few years back on water main at a railway booking station near Stockport. There was no stopcock in the building, it turned out that it could only be isolated from another railway building 50 metre’s away!! OUCH! That really got me down!!
First time 🤦🏾🤣 first time with the van as well….🤣 Jordan great boss taking in his stride. As a matter of professional pride- ego was dented….but you will survive and be better for it.
Drilled through a ceiling in a tiny cloakroom, hit a heating pipe, black, smelly hot water started pouring onto me, couldn’t open the door straightaway as I was using a stepladder which took up all the floor space, only a head torch for light. 🤣🤣 Never apologise for saying “turn everything off” btw, old heating systems had header tanks with a feed from the mains so at least if you shut off the main supply you’ve only got the header tank volume, plus rads of course, but you shut them off too so all good. Great video again!
for future reference that cap he's turning at 11:17 doesn't actually turn a valve, you have to pull that off and turn the rectangle with a pair of spanners or grips. Bad Luck Cory we've all been there.
The amount of plumbers that keep the old shallow notches when running new pipes and then don't put in nail plates means this happens much more than it should. Don't worry about it, welcome to the club.
Sadly it happens, l would strongly recommend you carry a few push-fit stop end plumbing fittings for such emergencys. Keep up the good work, stay safe and good luck for the future.
Worked in a house from hell last year, kitchen fitter hadnt installed all the units or cowl for cooker hood, so first i drill through the mains water pipe at head height, running up the side of the window,got soaked kitchen soaked, chisel hole in new plaster around pipe to fit a new piece of pipe for plumber, who then doesnt fix leak properley. Went back 2 days later and leak still evident as a dribble. Then told to fix cowl above cooker hood, and drilled through gas pipe, even though it was an electric cooker, always check behind cooker for a gas supply so ran and turned off gas, house stunk of gas opened all windows etc, not at all happy.Plumber called out to cap off gas pipe . Stuff happens. Top tip if you drill a pipe under flooring, the water will fill the gap between the joists, and eventually the weight of water will pull the ceiling down, seen that, so drill a few small holes ti allow water to drain out, place buckets underneath or use a wet and dry vac to vac up any water before it causes damage.
Great to see the response to a difficult situation from Cory and the team, no quibbles just get it sorted! It sounds like you picked up a few lessons learnt from springing that leak (and good experience for Ruben), so it's not a waste. The tool-less keystone jacks, and your termination on them looked really nice and tidy - great job! It's incredibly frustrating to see sparks take off more cable jacket than is required to terminate when working with twisted pair - the jacket, twists and the cables proximity to each other are all by design, and when you take any of them away you will lose signal integrity - when you are terminating ethernet cabling on longer runs (to an EV in a garage for example) this could cause strange network problems on customer networks.
Friendly neighbourhood trucker here !!! There's a saying "" less speed more haste "" especially when you lifted the board ?? But u have a fantastic boss !! Big up to him for saying shit happens!! And then just dealing with it!!! You'd better be careful because they say it comes in three's!!!!!! Great video again it did make laugh !!! Rgds FNT
Might be a good idea to have some LLFA Tape on the vans just in case you hit a pipe you can wrap it around the hole and seal the leak until the plumber comes out and does a repair. I am going to get some now for a just incase solution, one of those things thats going to happen at some point makes you think how best to minimize the water damage.
I drilled from the inside out and drilled dead center through a downspout installing a cable drop. Ran a finish nail through a baseboard and ran dead center (again) into a water line for toilet supply that never got a metal plate on it when they built the house. The list goes on and on. If you are in any contractor trades... your day will come at least once.
Corey, i went through my first ever pipe last year and it scared the hell outa me... the panic the fear the dred... its horrible.. but how you handle it makes all the difference. Don't let it get you down fella.. Keep Calm and Carry on. Ow and i also now stock some basic emergency plumbing supplies like that emergency putty and stop ends of the 10/15/25mm varieties lol
Great job guys, but with the Keystone Jack, its usually a good idea to use the punch down tool as its spring loaded, versus just pulling the wire in by hand, ensures a long term, solid connection with the pins.
Cory it may be a good idea to cut floorboards a little further away from objects so the plumber has something to play with. I worked with an electrician who flooded the basement of a cathedral residence, 4 storey building emptied into a basement. I can laugh now but it wasn’t funnny at the time. These things happen 😂
Cory, its part of doing business. It could have been worse like you said everything can be fixed. I did something worse in my time as a technician and my boss did the same as your boss. As long as no one died. Keep the videos coming.
Cory, it could be worse... this evening whilst delivering for a well known builders merchant, I had a pallet of roof tiles break and drop out of the crane grab and smash at least half of them... had to call our transport manager as everyone else from my yard had gone home...
Cory is aswell a good sparky , also learning automotive panel repairs (lamppost's always win )+ also he becoming a multi skilled plumber lol .. great content as always 👊👍
For future reference the upstairs rads just needed closing off and the system drained enough for the water level to drop below that pipe. You kept kinda calm so hats off to you
Clean enough under the floor now? Last week installed a waterline to a cattle trough. Yesterday drove a steel picket through the waterline while putting in concrete form work. Good thing the Electrician went up and over in that area (knows who he's dealing with).
As an IT person who has worked at installations where spark’s have done network installation on s larger scale to what you have done today, echoing what you are saying from our side too…. We don’t tend to like it when a sparky does the network as much as you don’t like doing the network lol.
Cory, I know it feels like a bad month. Surprised you didnt freak out more! If that was me, would be mostly bleeped out. Good to know nothing is perfect even for the Artisan Crew. Excellent video, glad everything was shown because thats life and things go wrong!
Mother said there'd be days like these Cory mate... 4 compression couplings later... done and move on. Show me a spark that never has breached a pipe.. show my a plumber that's never caught a cable 👍
Top tip always cut the floor boards straight across the joist it stops any floorboards creaking later, when using a multi tool to cut the plasterwork for chasings use cheap Amazon wood bits they're longer so they don't damage the wall and make great chasings
When we got our kitchen replaced, we asked for some sockets to be relocated. On day one the old kitchen got ripped out and there was lots of noise... After the team had gone water started dripping through the ceiling above! What had happened was the "electrician" had tried to make existing cables longer by pulling/tugging/hauling on them, and had dislodged a cable clip. The tip of the nail holding it to a bulkhead had pierced a plastic central heating pipe when the house was built, and had been sitting there quite happily for nearly 10 years. Fortunately once the pipe leaked it was decompressed, so it didn't cause too much damage... Part of the kitchen ceiling still had to come down then get replastered.
Ah well, at least it made for good content as you say! Good on you for keeping on filming and you work really well together as a team. Jordan was very supportive too and a really good learning experience for Reuben. The rest of 2022 is going to be a breeze for you after this month! 😜
Cory, if you happen to nick a pipe again try using a earth strap clamped over the hole as a temporary bandage to stem the flow until you can get a fix. It's helped me out once or twice over the last 40 years.
I find microfibre cloths are great for directing water into one area to contain a water leak. Last year I had a problem with a leaking valve and I tied a microfibre cloth tight around the pipe below and directed the water into a container It was OK all weekend until I could fix it properly. Its good that you show everything on your videos,even when things don't go to plan .A lot of people would have edited that bit out and pretend it didn't happen.☺
When the electrician drilled through a copper water pipe at my work, finger over hole, his mate went to the van, retrieved their emergency pipe freezing kit, froze the pipe either side of the leak, cut out the section with the hole in, slipped over a compression fitting leak sealer fitting, tightened up compression fittings. Job done, no water damage or flooding. Done with no worries, no panic, almost as if was a planned part of the wiring process. I thought this would be handy for home, but sealer compression fitting is £5 and pipe freezing kit is £30. For commercial jobs £35 is obviously far cheaper than calling a plumber out.
Artisan Drilling services now... Artisan Drilling and Cutting Services, not a spark in the country not done that. I must say, I could see those pipes when you were lifting the board initiall and was thinking, a tad close there ! Couple of jubilee clips and bicycle innertube strips in your toolkit when lifting boards... temporary repair. The spark rewiring my parents bungalow that my Sister employed, when fitting an outside light drilled through the cold water feed to the kitchen, he temporary repaired the copper pipe with a plastic through fitting, it failed and flooded the the whole bungalow...for at least a week as father was in a home. Every kitchen unit swelled, ruined, every carpet was rotten, all furniture, wallpaper ruined, ceiling ruined. The boiler had beed turned off so no heating, insurance company would not pay out.. what an expensive error that was ! for one bad repair.
Great video, Forget the mistake. Remember the lesson. And maybe a length of flexible pipe and Jubilee clip on the Van to be be able to part drain a heating system in the event of a future problem ? 👍
Occupasional hazard, no matter how careful you are, even plumbers do it sometimes. As an electrician I tapped down a loose floorboard, next to the one I'd lifted, trying to be helpful, unfortunately there was an old nail sitting just above the heating pipe and it punctured it, definately a "Don't panic Mr Wainwaring" moment. Also years ago a friend of mine cut through a lead pipe in error (2 pipes that twisted over each other in a wall cavivity, so he cut into the wrong one!). I pohoned my mate who was a plumber and he said "Just hit it with a hammer over the cut so the lead seals". It worked, worth remembering.
Having gone through a radiator pipe with a screw (professional DIY classic!), and then finding out the house stop cock was jammed … (ended up tying the ballcock in the loft - thank goodness it wasn’t a mains tap… couldn’t find the buried tap outside either at 11pm in the dark!), I bought one of those emergency clamp down 15mm pipe split things. Allegedly they work in a pinch (you just need a bit of room to clamp it around the pipe fully).
If you have hit the heating circuit and it looks like it, isolating the cold water mains won't do jack... We had sparks do the same thing at work, they went through 22mm flow/return heating circuit and dumped most of the water in the circuit down the back wall of my server room.. For instances like this and if you have access, have some speedifit/pushlock cap/ends (or bungs) so you can isolate quickly...
Good choice with the Keystone! Consider start pulling twin-cat7 cables next time, since sooner or later a second line is needed (e.g. as a return path or for a different signal) Good job, as always, keep rolling!!
I had a decorator actually step of a ladder and put his foot onto the radiator with full weight to step down onto the floor kinking the outlet pipe just below the the floorboards. It flooded the ceiling well before he could get to it. He was a nervous guy just starting out and he was nearly crying and shaking when he had to speak to my Grandma. I felt so sorry for him and my Grandma kept saying to him ''look..it's just an accident! Calm down...we can fix it'' ect. We got a plumber and he had to solder a new pipe on then we painted the ceiling when it dried out. My Grandma was so kind and didn't pass on the plumbers cost which was not expensive all that time ago. Never seen a guy so upset before but it all got sorted out in a day.
When you lift the floor board put a small mirror between the joists. Then shine the light of a torch into the mirror. By moving the angle of the mirror you'll be able to see in the mirror down as far as the light can go.
It's certainly great content :) Kudos to Jordan for being a great boss and giving help rather than just shouting. I'm sure Cory's month of hell will end soon!
You never see our profession move so quickly as when we hit something 😂. Main thing is you owned it bud, and Jordan is as cool as a cucumber.....you got yourself a decent boss there mate. Sad thing is you can't even learn from it..... literally roll the dice every time we pull up a board.
i feel your pain. A couple of months ago, I put the wall chaser through the gas pipe, 3x30mm groves was the result trouble is I havent got the best sense of smell, thank god for apprentices
Doing your 1-8 with ground test is the main one we use at work on all network jobs, speed testing can be a waste of time when you have anything less that Cat6E
I really hope 2022 isn’t going to be like this for you. We all have bad days. Sure you will have more good days. Glad you guys show the bad as well. Let’s everyone know it’s not that easy .
And that’s where a skill saw set to the perfect depth of the floorboard comes into handy. School boy error not knowing the pipes were there even though he could see them 😅
Cory.....I know I shouldn't laugh, but I had to chuckle aye! You'll have to put out a video of your funny out-takes. Jordan must think you've lost the plot this month. Me, well I'd give you a wage rise for all these entertaining videos. Well done to Reuben and Max the cameraman for not laughing out loud.
It's alright Cory! I went through a mains pipe and in turning the stopcock off in the street as there isn't one in the house (it's an old mill house), didn't realise I'd turned off the water supply to 4 other properties till someone knocked and asked if the water was off 😅
Your bad luck is rubbing off on me Cory! Watched this video last night, then today drilled through my first cable! Cost me two hours digging out the wall, fixing the cable and repairing the damage.
At least with old houses with wooden floorboards you can expect to get pipework underneath near a radiator but with modern houses they can have 10mm plastic central heating pipes hidden behind the dab and dot plaster panel on the wall - don't ask I how found out when putting up a shelf above a radiator!
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@@taxiandy5698 Done lots of that..Love it ;)
Did you do T-568A or T-568B?
yep I do that all the time - The company I work for makes Cat5e/6/6a/7 - heh gotta love crimping the plugs on the end! - life of an IT Tech....
Jordan is a geeza man so relaxed. Lol legend. Everybody needs a boss
Of course in camera
@@victoriarobinson6227 I'd also imagine that's the case in real life too. You know by his demeanor that he's not a dick of a boss. He's also VERY much aware that Corey is an A+ Class Sparks. The + indicates going over and beyond, ALWAYS. He's top shelf. In fairness, they all are and will be once given the opportunity.
@@ronanotoole1973 totally agree mate.
@@victoriarobinson6227 😂
Reuben was the hero we needed and deserved there hey Cory!
Get yourself a mini circular saw... Take up a board thats already up to get the depth, then set the circular saw a mill or two shallow.. Cut the boards till your hearts content knowing you wont go through then just snap the last mill or two..
Good tip! I do this. 22 years and no burst pipes... yet.
Iv chased straight through lead gas pipes that have been buried in walls a few times though
Exactly how I do it, circular saw every time set just a few mil short then snap it off
Best Cory video to date. The “oh fcuk” moment and then the adrenaline kicking in to run around sorting and commanding action is a true measure of leadership under pressure. Great content again!
Haha how did Cory not realise the pipes were there? He literally lifted the board and you could see them. But that is something we have all done
Maybe just maybe he didn't see it.
yeah was thinking the same, he saw the pipes in the other room going that direction lol
He knew they were there, but as he said on the phone to Jordan, the pipe was litrally touching the floorboard, so even if he cut the board perfectly, it would have still hit it. The pipe should have been a bit lower.
@@puntoboy_gaming can't always go much deeper better to use plastic pipe and drill through lower
@@steverobinson8170 it's only 15mm pipe, you can got a bit deeper, look at the other pipes in the video, you can see a good half inch gap between the pipe and the top of the joist. Not blaming the plumber, though.
You handled that well Cory. Keep up the great work
Thanks 👍
He sure did
Sorry Cory; bad luck. You are a good sport allowing filming to continue - good for us to see real world problems; those pipes were really hard up against the boards.
not really. by building regs we are not allowed to cut out more than 1/8 of a joist. what i do is i leave a little diagram on top of the boards so the sparks know where my pipes are, to save them hassle like this 👍
@@logansrcs9243 Thanks for that info - and that is a very good thing to leave a diagram.
@@rossthompson1635 At the end of the day im all about helping out other tradesmen, thats the you have to be, saves them time and money having to pay a plumber to come and fix things like this
The regs on joists are to notch 0.125 x the depth of the joist, if that’s an old 8’ Victorian joist then your allowed a 1 inch depth which is 25.4mm, you can go through the centres with a spade bit and that’s 0.25 x the depth, you can only notch and drill within 1/3 the span of the joist where it’s anchored. 👍
I recently went back to college to study for my acs like 2days ago and this was the topic of the day 😂
@@MrKonquer Thank you for that info, useful. I wonder how many joists have been hacked and drilled over the years way beyond that specification.
I think Cory is one step closer to getting familiar with the new electric van 😂
Never mind mate,your in a profession when things like that happen now and then,been watching you guys for many months now,and have to say your all the ultimate professional’s and an absolute joy to watch,so keep up the great vids….
I went through a hot water pipe with a rotary saw. I certainly wasn't expecting a sudden burst of boiling hot water to the face and still remember the sheer panic and falling about not sure what to do lol. The smell was rank, dusty hot water all over me and draining down to the floor below. Ironically I was there to do someone a favour. They haven't invited me back.
😂😂😂
Reuben and Cory work really well. I really enjoy watching their jobs 👍
Bless you cory, you looked so worried, its good having a good manager who understands, and these things happen, we are human
I feel for you this month Cory! But we’ve all been there. Don’t stress too much mate!
Haha I'm a plumber and have done it myself, and those pipes should've had a protection plate over them. Use a circular saw with a set depth, or wrap some tape round the multitool blade at 17mm so you dont go too deep. These things happen and you handled it well.
Think I was a beaver in a previous life 😂😂😂 Cory cracks me up just loved the the panic in him running round turning everything off
CORRIE !!! A wee tip just release the pressure from the system … use the pressure valve on boiler …. Takes 2 sec …. Plumber can repressurise it easy
Once you’ve turned off the feed, why not just open one of the taps to depressurize? Then at least it all goes straight in the drainpipes.
Oh wait, these are heating pipes, never mind.
I love seeing the panic when that pipe got cut! Done it before! I feel your pain mate. I just sat there for a good few minutes thinking it will just go away. The stop cock was in the street seized we’ve all been there
Don't sweat it mate, no matter how careful you are, it's going to happen one day or maybe two! We have all been there!!!
Feel for you with the pipe. Lifting bedroom floorboards to run speaker cables, circular saw set 1mm deeper than floorboards, first cut found 10mm microbore heating pipes in a 9mm notch in joist! Fountain of scalding water, no quick shut off, rip up board, fill void with towels, turn of CH pump and try and drain down heating as fast as possible, then have to do the dirty plumber stuff, before finishing cabling and repairing floor.
We've all done it mate, mine was a DIY job, fitting a new light fitting. Drill through ceiling for the rose and hit a hot water pipe. By the time the flow stopped I had a blister on my thumb which was so painful.
We all make mistakes, but you had been looking at the pipes moments before🤣! My usual approach if there's any chance of hitting pipes or cables is to carefully do the last few mm with a knife as you'll normally feel the pipes etc before you go through. I used to snap the last few mm, but learnt the hard way that splinters can pierce pipework 😭
first time i did electric work in my own home when i got qualified i carefully made sure i wasnt about to cut into a floorboard that had pipes underneath, got my saw and cut the wrong board and had a water feature in my upstairs hallway🤦🏽♂️
Always keep a draining hose in the back of your van. Find a drain off and attach hose and you’re sorted
That water pipe was payback for that Mexican Carpet joke!🤣
I feel your pain!! Did it a few years back on water main at a railway booking station near Stockport. There was no stopcock in the building, it turned out that it could only be isolated from another railway building 50 metre’s away!! OUCH! That really got me down!!
First time 🤦🏾🤣 first time with the van as well….🤣 Jordan great boss taking in his stride. As a matter of professional pride- ego was dented….but you will survive and be better for it.
Drilled through a ceiling in a tiny cloakroom, hit a heating pipe, black, smelly hot water started pouring onto me, couldn’t open the door straightaway as I was using a stepladder which took up all the floor space, only a head torch for light. 🤣🤣 Never apologise for saying “turn everything off” btw, old heating systems had header tanks with a feed from the mains so at least if you shut off the main supply you’ve only got the header tank volume, plus rads of course, but you shut them off too so all good. Great video again!
for future reference that cap he's turning at 11:17 doesn't actually turn a valve, you have to pull that off and turn the rectangle with a pair of spanners or grips. Bad Luck Cory we've all been there.
The amount of plumbers that keep the old shallow notches when running new pipes and then don't put in nail plates means this happens much more than it should. Don't worry about it, welcome to the club.
maybe it's a conspiracy to ensure repeat custom.
Nail plates ain't worth shit when you're using an impact driver.
I love that you includes mistakes like this, proof that it can happen to anyone. not a reason to give up!
Sadly it happens, l would strongly recommend you carry a few push-fit stop end plumbing fittings for such emergencys. Keep up the good work, stay safe and good luck for the future.
Worked in a house from hell last year, kitchen fitter hadnt installed all the units or cowl for cooker hood, so first i drill through the mains water pipe at head height, running up the side of the window,got soaked kitchen soaked, chisel hole in new plaster around pipe to fit a new piece of pipe for plumber, who then doesnt fix leak properley.
Went back 2 days later and leak still evident as a dribble.
Then told to fix cowl above cooker hood, and drilled through gas pipe, even though it was an electric cooker, always check behind cooker for a gas supply so ran and turned off gas, house stunk of gas opened all windows etc, not at all happy.Plumber called out to cap off gas pipe .
Stuff happens.
Top tip if you drill a pipe under flooring, the water will fill the gap between the joists, and eventually the weight of water will pull the ceiling down, seen that, so drill a few small holes ti allow water to drain out, place buckets underneath or use a wet and dry vac to vac up any water before it causes damage.
At least with this and the van/lamppost you're getting all the bad luck out the way early doors.
Don’t speak too soon
Comes in 3's doesn't it
Great to see the response to a difficult situation from Cory and the team, no quibbles just get it sorted! It sounds like you picked up a few lessons learnt from springing that leak (and good experience for Ruben), so it's not a waste.
The tool-less keystone jacks, and your termination on them looked really nice and tidy - great job! It's incredibly frustrating to see sparks take off more cable jacket than is required to terminate when working with twisted pair - the jacket, twists and the cables proximity to each other are all by design, and when you take any of them away you will lose signal integrity - when you are terminating ethernet cabling on longer runs (to an EV in a garage for example) this could cause strange network problems on customer networks.
Friendly neighbourhood trucker here !!! There's a saying "" less speed more haste "" especially when you lifted the board ?? But u have a fantastic boss !! Big up to him for saying shit happens!! And then just dealing with it!!!
You'd better be careful because they say it comes in three's!!!!!! Great video again it did make laugh !!!
Rgds FNT
"I just like knowing it's clean" I think I might be in love with Cory 😂
That pipe time lapse edit was brilliant 🤣😂😂 great entertainment (ahem I mean learnings) for us all. We've all done it
Glad you enjoyed it
Might be a good idea to have some LLFA Tape on the vans just in case you hit a pipe you can wrap it around the hole and seal the leak until the plumber comes out and does a repair. I am going to get some now for a just incase solution, one of those things thats going to happen at some point makes you think how best to minimize the water damage.
I drilled from the inside out and drilled dead center through a downspout installing a cable drop. Ran a finish nail through a baseboard and ran dead center (again) into a water line for toilet supply that never got a metal plate on it when they built the house. The list goes on and on. If you are in any contractor trades... your day will come at least once.
Wouldn't that switch move be a classic job for a Quinetic switch, with the receiver behind a blanking plate at the old switch location?
Not without a neutral there. the Quintic receivers require one.
Receiver at the light then ?
@@Cablesmith switch receiver on old switch no neutral needed save the blank plate
Definitely a job for a Quinetic.
Good idea
Corey, i went through my first ever pipe last year and it scared the hell outa me... the panic the fear the dred... its horrible.. but how you handle it makes all the difference. Don't let it get you down fella.. Keep Calm and Carry on. Ow and i also now stock some basic emergency plumbing supplies like that emergency putty and stop ends of the 10/15/25mm varieties lol
Great job guys, but with the Keystone Jack, its usually a good idea to use the punch down tool as its spring loaded, versus just pulling the wire in by hand, ensures a long term, solid connection with the pins.
Cory it may be a good idea to cut floorboards a little further away from objects so the plumber has something to play with. I worked with an electrician who flooded the basement of a cathedral residence, 4 storey building emptied into a basement. I can laugh now but it wasn’t funnny at the time. These things happen 😂
8:35 this clip will be played forever in a loop just to torment poor Cory 😆😆😆
HAAHA
Cory, its part of doing business. It could have been worse like you said everything can be fixed. I did something worse in my time as a technician and my boss did the same as your boss. As long as no one died. Keep the videos coming.
Cory, it could be worse... this evening whilst delivering for a well known builders merchant, I had a pallet of roof tiles break and drop out of the crane grab and smash at least half of them... had to call our transport manager as everyone else from my yard had gone home...
Cory is aswell a good sparky , also learning automotive panel repairs (lamppost's always win )+ also he becoming a multi skilled plumber lol .. great content as always 👊👍
For future reference the upstairs rads just needed closing off and the system drained enough for the water level to drop below that pipe. You kept kinda calm so hats off to you
You sir are a star, brilliant viewing and most enjoyable.
Better days to come for you both. You both are only human. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I believe Jordan will laugh that you got cut the pipe leaking. Great teamwork! Thumbs up! Cheers!
Thanks 👍
“Turn off the canals. Maybe I was a beaver in a past life”. 😂
22:25 Did they rebalance the radiators as well? If you shut them all off at both ends that will need redoing
Clean enough under the floor now? Last week installed a waterline to a cattle trough. Yesterday drove a steel picket through the waterline while putting in concrete form work. Good thing the Electrician went up and over in that area (knows who he's dealing with).
You're getting view bombed mate, respect for not using cheesy dramatic music during the diaster.
It happens, but you can never drain the system with all the radiator valves closed.
It's not a bad shout to close off all of the radiators except the one with the drain, though. That way you won't have to drain so much.
"A beaver in a past life" LMAO
Your work is 5 star, accidents happen. Always great and enjoyable content
As an IT person who has worked at installations where spark’s have done network installation on s larger scale to what you have done today, echoing what you are saying from our side too…. We don’t tend to like it when a sparky does the network as much as you don’t like doing the network lol.
Cory, I know it feels like a bad month. Surprised you didnt freak out more! If that was me, would be mostly bleeped out. Good to know nothing is perfect even for the Artisan Crew. Excellent video, glad everything was shown because thats life and things go wrong!
Mother said there'd be days like these Cory mate... 4 compression couplings later... done and move on. Show me a spark that never has breached a pipe.. show my a plumber that's never caught a cable 👍
Ha. Ha. "Stop the canals". Brilliant.
Top tip always cut the floor boards straight across the joist it stops any floorboards creaking later, when using a multi tool to cut the plasterwork for chasings use cheap Amazon wood bits they're longer so they don't damage the wall and make great chasings
When we got our kitchen replaced, we asked for some sockets to be relocated. On day one the old kitchen got ripped out and there was lots of noise... After the team had gone water started dripping through the ceiling above!
What had happened was the "electrician" had tried to make existing cables longer by pulling/tugging/hauling on them, and had dislodged a cable clip. The tip of the nail holding it to a bulkhead had pierced a plastic central heating pipe when the house was built, and had been sitting there quite happily for nearly 10 years. Fortunately once the pipe leaked it was decompressed, so it didn't cause too much damage... Part of the kitchen ceiling still had to come down then get replastered.
The best emergency plumbing advice ever " Hammer it flat and go to the pub"😁
Ah well, at least it made for good content as you say! Good on you for keeping on filming and you work really well together as a team. Jordan was very supportive too and a really good learning experience for Reuben. The rest of 2022 is going to be a breeze for you after this month! 😜
Cory, if you happen to nick a pipe again try using a earth strap clamped over the hole as a temporary bandage to stem the flow until you can get a fix. It's helped me out once or twice over the last 40 years.
I find microfibre cloths are great for directing water into one area to contain a water leak. Last year I had a problem with a leaking valve and I tied a microfibre cloth tight around the pipe below and directed the water into a container It was OK all weekend until I could fix it properly. Its good that you show everything on your videos,even when things don't go to plan .A lot of people would have edited that bit out and pretend it didn't happen.☺
When the electrician drilled through a copper water pipe at my work, finger over hole, his mate went to the van, retrieved their emergency pipe freezing kit, froze the pipe either side of the leak, cut out the section with the hole in, slipped over a compression fitting leak sealer fitting, tightened up compression fittings. Job done, no water damage or flooding. Done with no worries, no panic, almost as if was a planned part of the wiring process. I thought this would be handy for home, but sealer compression fitting is £5 and pipe freezing kit is £30. For commercial jobs £35 is obviously far cheaper than calling a plumber out.
Artisan Drilling services now... Artisan Drilling and Cutting Services, not a spark in the country not done that.
I must say, I could see those pipes when you were lifting the board initiall and was thinking, a tad close there !
Couple of jubilee clips and bicycle innertube strips in your toolkit when lifting boards... temporary repair.
The spark rewiring my parents bungalow that my Sister employed, when fitting an outside light drilled through the cold water feed to the kitchen, he temporary repaired the copper pipe with a plastic through fitting, it failed and flooded the the whole bungalow...for at least a week as father was in a home.
Every kitchen unit swelled, ruined, every carpet was rotten, all furniture, wallpaper ruined, ceiling ruined. The boiler had beed turned off so no heating, insurance company would not pay out.. what an expensive error that was ! for one bad repair.
I have done the same with pipes, so I feel your pain.
Great video, Forget the mistake. Remember the lesson.
And maybe a length of flexible pipe and Jubilee clip on the Van to be be able to part drain a heating system in the event of a future problem ? 👍
I love the part where he thinks oh sh** turn the water off, “bleed the radiators”!!! Lol
Occupasional hazard, no matter how careful you are, even plumbers do it sometimes. As an electrician I tapped down a loose floorboard, next to the one I'd lifted, trying to be helpful, unfortunately there was an old nail sitting just above the heating pipe and it punctured it, definately a "Don't panic Mr Wainwaring" moment. Also years ago a friend of mine cut through a lead pipe in error (2 pipes that twisted over each other in a wall cavivity, so he cut into the wrong one!). I pohoned my mate who was a plumber and he said "Just hit it with a hammer over the cut so the lead seals". It worked, worth remembering.
On the positive side.. underneath the floorboards was nice and clean afterwards
Having gone through a radiator pipe with a screw (professional DIY classic!), and then finding out the house stop cock was jammed … (ended up tying the ballcock in the loft - thank goodness it wasn’t a mains tap… couldn’t find the buried tap outside either at 11pm in the dark!), I bought one of those emergency clamp down 15mm pipe split things. Allegedly they work in a pinch (you just need a bit of room to clamp it around the pipe fully).
So calm and in control, what a pro.
If you have hit the heating circuit and it looks like it, isolating the cold water mains won't do jack... We had sparks do the same thing at work, they went through 22mm flow/return heating circuit and dumped most of the water in the circuit down the back wall of my server room.. For instances like this and if you have access, have some speedifit/pushlock cap/ends (or bungs) so you can isolate quickly...
Sounds like cory has had enough of house bashing, happens to the best of us mate 🤣
Good choice with the Keystone!
Consider start pulling twin-cat7 cables next time, since sooner or later a second line is needed (e.g. as a return path or for a different signal)
Good job, as always, keep rolling!!
Great work, even though you got a pipe hit, but at least you got around the problem. Well done mate.
I had a decorator actually step of a ladder and put his foot onto the radiator with full weight to step down onto the floor kinking the outlet pipe just below the the floorboards. It flooded the ceiling well before he could get to it. He was a nervous guy just starting out and he was nearly crying and shaking when he had to speak to my Grandma. I felt so sorry for him and my Grandma kept saying to him ''look..it's just an accident! Calm down...we can fix it'' ect. We got a plumber and he had to solder a new pipe on then we painted the ceiling when it dried out. My Grandma was so kind and didn't pass on the plumbers cost which was not expensive all that time ago. Never seen a guy so upset before but it all got sorted out in a day.
I did exactly the same with the multi tool about about a multi tool. The folding bucket saved my day aswell!! 🤣🤣
When you lift the floor board put a small mirror between the joists. Then shine the light of a torch into the mirror. By moving the angle of the mirror you'll be able to see in the mirror down as far as the light can go.
It's certainly great content :) Kudos to Jordan for being a great boss and giving help rather than just shouting. I'm sure Cory's month of hell will end soon!
Fingers crossed!
Junction boxes in old houses are usually all in the floor boards on the landing
You never see our profession move so quickly as when we hit something 😂. Main thing is you owned it bud, and Jordan is as cool as a cucumber.....you got yourself a decent boss there mate. Sad thing is you can't even learn from it..... literally roll the dice every time we pull up a board.
Cory has the most entertaining commentary!
This is definitely 1 of the best videos you guys have done 👍
Wow, thanks!
i feel your pain. A couple of months ago, I put the wall chaser through the gas pipe, 3x30mm groves was the result trouble is I havent got the best sense of smell, thank god for apprentices
Doing your 1-8 with ground test is the main one we use at work on all network jobs, speed testing can be a waste of time when you have anything less that Cat6E
I really hope 2022 isn’t going to be like this for you. We all have bad days. Sure you will have more good days. Glad you guys show the bad as well. Let’s everyone know it’s not that easy .
And that’s where a skill saw set to the perfect depth of the floorboard comes into handy. School boy error not knowing the pipes were there even though he could see them 😅
Always set your blade to just less than the board thickness.When it comes to the network cables do you do a full test or just “sniff” for continuity?
Cory.....I know I shouldn't laugh, but I had to chuckle aye! You'll have to put out a video of your funny out-takes. Jordan must think you've lost the plot this month. Me, well I'd give you a wage rise for all these entertaining videos. Well done to Reuben and Max the cameraman for not laughing out loud.
It's alright Cory! I went through a mains pipe and in turning the stopcock off in the street as there isn't one in the house (it's an old mill house), didn't realise I'd turned off the water supply to 4 other properties till someone knocked and asked if the water was off 😅
You need some Griffon SFT-101 repair on the van for moments like that quick temporary fix until you sort it out correctly.
Your bad luck is rubbing off on me Cory! Watched this video last night, then today drilled through my first cable! Cost me two hours digging out the wall, fixing the cable and repairing the damage.
At least with old houses with wooden floorboards you can expect to get pipework underneath near a radiator but with modern houses they can have 10mm plastic central heating pipes hidden behind the dab and dot plaster panel on the wall - don't ask I how found out when putting up a shelf above a radiator!