This is one of the best videos I've ever seen. Good job my friend. I rarely get on youtube and find EXACTLY what I'm looking for. This exceeded my expectations. Keep em comin! You got another subscriber here!!!
This is why the Internet is the best tool at our disposal. So much educational content on here for everyone to learn. Thank You for this amazing content.
@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 it’s a real shame we have the internet as amazing as it is. So much information. I have learned lots but today’s children use the internet for games and dumb TH-cam videos like tictoc and Minecraft video tutorials wasting the youths time with nonsense. My brother once asked me how I know everything I do about construction and codes and laws and cars and mechanics. It really comes down to two things. Experience and the willingness to learn hands on and secondly is the internet and all the instant knowledge it gives through TH-cam videos and business practices and simply reading mechanics manuals for technician procedure.
This was in my recommendations for some reason. Not being much of a handyman I didn’t expect to get much from it. Great video! I watched it twice then subscribed. I’m ready to learn from your videos.
As a general idiot when it comes to plumbing, thanks very much!!! In 2012, I bought a house that was built in the 50's. You did a fabulous job of explaining everything. Generally I am a DIY person. This house had a lot of galvanized piping, when I purchased it. For the most part I have converted it to pex. I love pex as it's easy to transport and to install. However, you also make me feel like the few times that I have spent huge money on a plumber, when I thought things were well above my expertise, it was money well spent. Thanks again for the fabulous tutorial. Two thumbs up sir.
In New Zealand, if you're not on municipal water supply, you typically collect rainwater from the roof and store it in big tanks set on the ground, then use a pump to feed it into the house. Some farms the a few rural houses will use bores (wells) for water supply, but much more common to re-use rainwater.
Every plumbing apprentice needs to watch this... Especially abs waste plumbing and understanding Venting lavs etc and how water air and gas works in plumbing
I really learned something from watching this video. I live in an established neighborhood. My home was built in 1922 and it's a Craftsman style. When walking I always see the different types of homes and systems they have. You've answered some questions about the drain system.
Great Video. Loved every second and learnt a lot. Quick note: in cases where water is supplied by a well, it's usually pumped into a storage tank. The tank is usually on the same level as the house or higher. this allows a consistent supply and pressure in the event of a power outage.
The tanks can also be pressurized to provide water pressure if power is off. The depth of the wells also vary based on location. They can be as shallow as 50 feet deep or as deep as the 500 feet he mentioned in the video (some rare cases deeper). But the average is probably only 100 to 150 feet deep.
I don’t even know how I stumbled on this video but I know watching the first couple of seconds of it I definitely was intrigued because I never thought how does my home plumbing work. Great video and great detail explanation. Appreciate the time that you put into this!
I really appreciate you adding all the extra bits. Never thought of it before but definitely as a future home buyer I will research how to better manage rain-water to my benefit without it disrupting the municipal storage! Thankyou!
I've been doing software development for over 20 years and always interested in getting into the plumbing business. Thanks for your awesome fundamental plumbing system video.
I absorb a lot of knowledge about a wide variety of things from TH-cam videos. I hold people like you in the highest respect! I am currently plumbing my house and you are just the guy I was hoping to find and learn from. It does make a difference in the way I choose to absorb information knowing that is comes from a seasoned professional. I might have a question or three along the way. I hope you don't mind if I reach out and ask you about something. Soon, I will be demolishing the cast iron stack and replacing it with PVC parts. Any advice for this is warmly welcomed. I have been the assistant for this task only one time in my life and now I know enough to be very dangerous!
This is an amazingly simple exposition of the science of basic plumbing. To the person who created this video thank you very much, for your EFFORTS, and sharing your knowledge.
@@hurricanecat33 then you’re not a plumber lol they’re constantly hopping down into crawl spaces, working in the dirtiest places in peoples houses, laying under sinks and shit
@@cameronschmit6472 there’s different types of plumbers there buddy, service, residential and commercial, as a commercial plumber I don’t do these things you speak of, educate yourself on a trade before you talk like you know something, cause you don’t, you know absolutely nothing.
That’s funny, but in actually the Amish get alone with out plumbing just fine I believe. I know my mom and her 6 siblings did back in the 60s. People on American welfare just don’t know how good they have it. Lol.
You have made an excellent video explaining a home's plumbing system. If there is anything that should be corrected are the sewage / fresh water pipe locations. Freshwater pipes are at four feet of depth, sewage pipes are six feet of depth. Your illustration has the sewage pipes above the fresh. This is not allowed by Code. If the sewage leaks, this would contaminate the fresh. Other than this, nice job.
I absorb a lot of knowledge about a wide variety of things from TH-cam videos. I hold people like you in the highest respect! I am currently plumbing my house and you are just the guy I was hoping to find and learn from. It does make a difference in the way I choose to absorb information knowing that is comes from a seasoned professional. I might have a question or three along the way. I hope you don't mind if I reach out and ask you about something. Soon, I will be demolishing the cast iron stack and replacing it with PVC parts. Any advice for this is warmly welcomed. I have been the assistant for this task only one time in my life and now I know enough to be very dangerous!
Great video! Plumbing is very similar here in Finland. What we do differently though, is that you are not allowed to absorb the rain water next to the house straight via downspouts in a new construction (lots of old houses do this still, though). We have, at least on newer areas, municipality rain water collection system as also pointed out in this video. Also you are most definitely NOT allowed to direct your rainwater from downspouts straight to french drain, as that will surely make your foundations wet! You don't want wet foundations! What we do is we collect rain water and french drain water (from two separate systems) into a single collection well that combines the two water streams and directs water to the municipality collection system. There are one or two non-return valves in place so water from the municipality system, if clogged, doesn't get into the french drain and wet the foundations.
This was super helpful, I grew up on well and septic and understood the house's plumbing. I recently moved into my first house with municipal supply and there were so many exposed pipes that I didn't understand, but now I do.
All my life I was wondering how the plumbing system worked. You just cleared up my mental fog in your short video (7 minutes). I feel like a kid who just learned the alphabet or the multiplication tables. LOL - TAV ❤ 🇺🇸 🌎 👍
As a kid, I always wondered how things work. Then after learning physcis in school the curiosity just increased and I've always found myself wondering how physics applied to these kinds of systems. This was a great explanation, easy to understand.
Friction and viscosity of flow in pipes is a major design of these systems. As he mentioned the storm and wastewater pipes are sloped so gravity driven and that slop varies based on those factors and the materials of the piping system. The less you need to slope them the fewer lifting stations you need which are expensive and require regular maintenance.
Great video. Condensation runoff is another one for houses with A/C. It is shocking how much damage even a slow leak can do over time if water is not managed properly.
I often heard bits and pieces of the information at different times but you put it all together and the visuals were spot on! I’m using it to show my son that it may be a possible career choice. Thanks a lot!
This why I love TH-cam because channel like this can share awesome information like this and people can be informed and educated about our modern society ways of living and how it works
This is amazing. I was just thinking the other day to watch a video about how plumbing works. I didn't type anything into any of my searches or look anything up on any devices and now miraculously this video popped up in my recommended algorithm.
From an engineer that designs municipal sewage systems for a living. Excellent video. Only edit I would make would be to explain how the check valve(back flow preventer) fits on the san service to protect the house during a flood event.
If there was the one video I needed to watch to clarify things that was it. And that leaves me wondering hard what made YT algorithm put this one on my recommendation list... Great job. No fuss, just concentrated information.
I dug 2 large 30 foot long ditch swales for my rainwater to collect, store and water all my fruit trees...rather than running into the street. Great video!
As a kid, I always wondered how things work. Then after learning physcis in school the curiosity just increased and I've always found myself wondering how physics applied to these kinds of systems. This was a great explanation, easy to understand.
Basic stuff like this should be taught in school, some people will never know to unwind the chain of the terlet tank to stop it filling up constantly, like YEARS in hearing it without thinking forth in the issue. Simple visuals allow emphasis to be made onto the subject explained, that's cool man.
The last part of the video should of been this is one way, most rain water / storm drains go into a local man made pond and if that over flows goes into another one close to it. This is the same for huge parking lots etc. Imagine the flooding caused if all drainage pipes etc went to rivers/ streams etc... And how polluted they would be from all the run off from roads like oil trash etc..
While there may be a vortex separator or triple basin (i.e. oil and trash separator) installed within the storm system prior to the pond, the true design intent of the retention ponds is to offset the impervious surface area created by buildings, sidewalks, and roadways that does not allow water to infiltrate back into the ground. They are not designed just to keep rivers and streams clean. Rainwater is stored for a designed period of time and discharged downstream at a rate equal to, or less than, predevelopment conditions (if the homes or roads were never constructed), so as to not create flash floods or inundate the downstream storm system. Remember, storm sewer systems are only designed to accommodate a ten year rain event (small storm events) and not heavy rainfalls such as the 100 year event (a 1% chance of happening in a year). Heavy rainfalls are expected to flow across the ground in ditches and swales at specific areas called Overland Flood Routes. It’s too expensive to install complete storm sewer systems that will accommodate all the rainfall. So next time you see rainwater running through your yard through swales or in the street it was designed to do that. Problems occur when people change their yards by regrading or installing landscaping such as trees, bushes, and flower beds.
@@leticiaaguilar7729 They are saying that the area covered by roads and roofs doesn't soak up rain water. The water is instead diverted to other ground, which can quickly saturate during a rainstorm and become unable to absorb any additional water. The water that can't soak in will "run off" into surrounding lakes or streams and cause flooding, or collect in low-lying areas which may have people living in them. Retention ponds are often dug near large buildings, communities, or roadways to contain the runoff and prevent the aforementioned flash flooding. The water caught in retention ponds will continue to soak into the ground and/or evaporate long after the storm ends, easing the burden on infrastructure and the communities served.
Finally I've found a video that explains perfectly what I've been looking to learn. Not sure how much of it is similar or completely applies to the UK but very good video nonetheless
My septic tank is under our road, lol. The road use to stop at my house and the septic tank was put in behind the road for easy access. I moved out of state for a job for a few years and we decided to move back, the road was over it. When houses were added down the road they paved over my septic tank. I called the road county manager about it, but they said there was nothing they can do about it, since it is now part of the public road system. I flush 1 gallon of buttermilk every month and it actually eats the waste. Been doing this for 16 years now. If anything happens we will have to have a new septic tank put in. Yes I did check with a lawyer and the county had the right to make the road. I found out they sent notice of the road going through, but I never received it.
@@bradleyrussell1973 Positive, I was there when they put it in the ground. The road stopped at my driveway and we put it in line with the road, so if it ever needed emptied all they had to do was backup to it.
It has been cleaned out for various pathogens, but it hasn’t been cleaned out for antibiotics, various diseases etc... drinking government water is stupid.
Another big info/tip, flushable wipes aren’t actually flushable, because they don’t breakdown like TP does and clogs pipes and those filters down the line. Don’t use flushable wipes unless you put the used ones in a trash can, maybe one like those special diaper trash cans.
I learned that lesson back in 2008. The plumber cleaned out the wipes and I got a bill for $550.00. I only flush waste and TP. My plumber that I shouldn't even flush kleenex tissue, so I stopped doing that also.
@Sindrella06 Spraying your (*)' hole with water doesn't get it 100 percent clean that's why. You really have to get up in there with toilet paper to give it a good scrubbing.
There was something I was hoping you would have at least mentioned: black water and gray water. I only found out the difference about 3 years ago from a Tiny House course on Udemy but haven’t heard it from anywhere else, only in passing mention here and there, very seldom. To be fair, I haven’t looked into it, but it seems it should be basic knowledge and even I don’t know. I mean, my entire life is now study everything under the black sun. PLUS I’ve been working in the trades for about 4 years. All the more reason I should have come across it more often. I guess that is the thing with this civilized system, where everything is so specialized to the point we become ignorant to every other aspect of the world besides our employment/vocation, hobbies, and interest.
Thank you for the video! One difference to where I live is that our water is heated using district heating. The water from the municipal source goes through a heat exchanger located at the property and gets heated by the district heating water.
Your septic tank part was very very simplified. Bacteria consume the waste, the water is treated before being pumped out into a gravel pit or irrigation system. I doubt they'd let anyone just leak their septic water into the ground anymore. They don't in my country (Australia) anyway.
In the US the waste water from the septic leeches into the soil and doesn't need to be treated. There is nothing wrong with doing it that way if it's done right.
I subscribe to a family friendly channel here on YT but had to delay watching one particular upload for an hour bec it was impossible to view while eating breakfast. Too early in the day to experience queasiness. 🤢
This is one of the best videos I've ever seen. Good job my friend. I rarely get on youtube and find EXACTLY what I'm looking for. This exceeded my expectations. Keep em comin! You got another subscriber here!!!
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This is why the Internet is the best tool at our disposal. So much educational content on here for everyone to learn. Thank You for this amazing content.
You bet!
It wasn’t touted as the information superhighway for nothing.
Agreed. I hope more people use it to learn more about world than to focus on short-term nonsense
learned more on the internet than i ever did in school
@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 it’s a real shame we have the internet as amazing as it is. So much information. I have learned lots but today’s children use the internet for games and dumb TH-cam videos like tictoc and Minecraft video tutorials wasting the youths time with nonsense. My brother once asked me how I know everything I do about construction and codes and laws and cars and mechanics. It really comes down to two things. Experience and the willingness to learn hands on and secondly is the internet and all the instant knowledge it gives through TH-cam videos and business practices and simply reading mechanics manuals for technician procedure.
From a guy that has built close to 100 houses, this was a great summary of the residential plumbing system!
Awesomrle, thanks Jeffrey!!
Hey brother do you need a certified plumber and hvac guy for great prices in AL?
Thank you
From a supreme leader who has launched 100s of ballistic missiles, i can tell you’re lying!
You got the seal of approval from a self proclaimed expert.
hello Jeffrey do you need architect or interior designer for your house??hahah
Man, modern plumbing is amazing. I’m so grateful I live in a day and age where this is a underrated reality.
Thank you, don't forget to share, it really helps the channel!
This was in my recommendations for some reason. Not being much of a handyman I didn’t expect to get much from it. Great video! I watched it twice then subscribed. I’m ready to learn from your videos.
Awesomeness!!!!!
Same!
Couldn't have said that better
So what have you done since watching? Have you any plans already in motion?
Video made me want to replace a couple sinks 😂
As a general idiot when it comes to plumbing, thanks very much!!! In 2012, I bought a house that was built in the 50's. You did a fabulous job of explaining everything. Generally I am a DIY person. This house had a lot of galvanized piping, when I purchased it. For the most part I have converted it to pex. I love pex as it's easy to transport and to install. However, you also make me feel like the few times that I have spent huge money on a plumber, when I thought things were well above my expertise, it was money well spent. Thanks again for the fabulous tutorial. Two thumbs up sir.
Thank you very much Ross!
In New Zealand, if you're not on municipal water supply, you typically collect rainwater from the roof and store it in big tanks set on the ground, then use a pump to feed it into the house. Some farms the a few rural houses will use bores (wells) for water supply, but much more common to re-use rainwater.
👍👍🖐🖐greetings from the usa.........new jersey to be exact
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Every plumbing apprentice needs to watch this... Especially abs waste plumbing and understanding Venting lavs etc and how water air and gas works in plumbing
I really learned something from watching this video. I live in an established neighborhood. My home was built in 1922 and it's a Craftsman style. When walking I always see the different types of homes and systems they have. You've answered some questions about the drain system.
Great Video. Loved every second and learnt a lot.
Quick note: in cases where water is supplied by a well, it's usually pumped into a storage tank. The tank is usually on the same level as the house or higher. this allows a consistent supply and pressure in the event of a power outage.
The tanks can also be pressurized to provide water pressure if power is off.
The depth of the wells also vary based on location. They can be as shallow as 50 feet deep or as deep as the 500 feet he mentioned in the video (some rare cases deeper). But the average is probably only 100 to 150 feet deep.
I don’t even know how I stumbled on this video but I know watching the first couple of seconds of it I definitely was intrigued because I never thought how does my home plumbing work. Great video and great detail explanation. Appreciate the time that you put into this!
Wowww thanks a million!!! 🤗🤗🤗
I really appreciate you adding all the extra bits. Never thought of it before but definitely as a future home buyer I will research how to better manage rain-water to my benefit without it disrupting the municipal storage! Thankyou!
I've been doing software development for over 20 years and always interested in getting into the plumbing business. Thanks for your awesome fundamental plumbing system video.
Thank you :)
Awesome, it's been 3 years, how did it go? Also moving from IT to plumbing right now.
y'all weird
I was a piping designer and you did an excellent job at presenting fundamental principles. Thank you.
Man humans are smart. We think of every scenario and decades of research, engineering and trial and error
My 5 year old asked me where the water (and other stuff 😂) goes… we watched this together. Great video!!
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Same!
I was fascinated with plumbing at that age!😂
I absorb a lot of knowledge about a wide variety of things from TH-cam videos. I hold people like you in the highest respect! I am currently plumbing my house and you are just the guy I was hoping to find and learn from. It does make a difference in the way I choose to absorb information knowing that is comes from a seasoned professional. I might have a question or three along the way. I hope you don't mind if I reach out and ask you about something. Soon, I will be demolishing the cast iron stack and replacing it with PVC parts. Any advice for this is warmly welcomed. I have been the assistant for this task only one time in my life and now I know enough to be very dangerous!
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This is an amazingly simple exposition of the science of basic plumbing. To the person who created this video thank you very much, for your EFFORTS, and sharing your knowledge.
You are very welcome Kirk, I am proud to say that I made this video now hehehehe
Plumbing...the most underrated job,of the universe....
Yeah if you like crawling through a foot of dirty water, rat shit, and spiderwebs in the dark
@@cameronschmit6472 deep sea fishing
@@cameronschmit6472 never done any of those things
@@hurricanecat33 then you’re not a plumber lol they’re constantly hopping down into crawl spaces, working in the dirtiest places in peoples houses, laying under sinks and shit
@@cameronschmit6472 there’s different types of plumbers there buddy, service, residential and commercial, as a commercial plumber I don’t do these things you speak of, educate yourself on a trade before you talk like you know something, cause you don’t, you know absolutely nothing.
I could not agree more with everyone's comments. Great video!!!! Thank you for taking the time to simplify this process.
Saw a funny bumper sticker one time on a plumbers van... it said " if it wasn't for plumbers you'd have nowhere to go"
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but you can still take a dump on good ol soil.
That’s funny, but in actually the Amish get alone with out plumbing just fine I believe. I know my mom and her 6 siblings did back in the 60s. People on American welfare just don’t know how good they have it. Lol.
They're number one in number two.
You have made an excellent video explaining a home's plumbing system. If there is anything that should be corrected are the sewage / fresh water pipe locations. Freshwater pipes are at four feet of depth, sewage pipes are six feet of depth. Your illustration has the sewage pipes above the fresh. This is not allowed by Code. If the sewage leaks, this would contaminate the fresh. Other than this, nice job.
“I will never look at water the same”
“Sips”
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Being a Plumber myself, I found this video to be spot-on. Great job!
I absorb a lot of knowledge about a wide variety of things from TH-cam videos. I hold people like you in the highest respect! I am currently plumbing my house and you are just the guy I was hoping to find and learn from. It does make a difference in the way I choose to absorb information knowing that is comes from a seasoned professional. I might have a question or three along the way. I hope you don't mind if I reach out and ask you about something. Soon, I will be demolishing the cast iron stack and replacing it with PVC parts. Any advice for this is warmly welcomed. I have been the assistant for this task only one time in my life and now I know enough to be very dangerous!
Thank you so much, if you want to join my forum for questions it'll be easier, it's free: got2learn.freeforums.net/
Great video! Plumbing is very similar here in Finland. What we do differently though, is that you are not allowed to absorb the rain water next to the house straight via downspouts in a new construction (lots of old houses do this still, though). We have, at least on newer areas, municipality rain water collection system as also pointed out in this video.
Also you are most definitely NOT allowed to direct your rainwater from downspouts straight to french drain, as that will surely make your foundations wet! You don't want wet foundations!
What we do is we collect rain water and french drain water (from two separate systems) into a single collection well that combines the two water streams and directs water to the municipality collection system. There are one or two non-return valves in place so water from the municipality system, if clogged, doesn't get into the french drain and wet the foundations.
Niceee!
Love this video. It visualizes all of the basic plumbing knowledge that all homeowners would learn.
You are most welcome, please share if you can, it helps the channel tremendously ✌✌
Starting my apprenticeship soon and your videos help me so much. They're so fun to watch! Keep up the great content bro
Thank you so much Andrew, you'l love it man ;)
Awesome to hear, best wishes!
Good luck union brother.
Poop runs downhill
Cold goes on the right
Don't chew on your fingernails
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I'm an aspiring plumbing engineer in my country (Philippines), and this video helped me. Thanks!
Thanks!!!
This was super helpful, I grew up on well and septic and understood the house's plumbing.
I recently moved into my first house with municipal supply and there were so many exposed pipes that I didn't understand, but now I do.
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Great information. I've already passed this knowledge to my two sons. Can't believe it took 50 years for me to understand the complete system. :)
Thank you so much!!!
Very simple to understand, with everything explained properly, thanks man!
Glad it helped!
All my life I was wondering how the plumbing system worked. You just cleared up my mental fog in your short video (7 minutes). I feel like a kid who just learned the alphabet or the multiplication tables. LOL - TAV ❤ 🇺🇸 🌎 👍
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As a kid, I always wondered how things work. Then after learning physcis in school the curiosity just increased and I've always found myself wondering how physics applied to these kinds of systems. This was a great explanation, easy to understand.
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Friction and viscosity of flow in pipes is a major design of these systems. As he mentioned the storm and wastewater pipes are sloped so gravity driven and that slop varies based on those factors and the materials of the piping system. The less you need to slope them the fewer lifting stations you need which are expensive and require regular maintenance.
What do you do now? Did you went on and continue studying physics? I bet you did something great with your life by now. Serious
From a guy that has built close to 100 houses, this was a great summary of the residential plumbing system!
Great video. Condensation runoff is another one for houses with A/C. It is shocking how much damage even a slow leak can do over time if water is not managed properly.
Yes, correct, thanks for adding that in!!
This actually helped me in my architecture course right now! just got a perfect grade! thank you Sir!
I often heard bits and pieces of the information at different times but you put it all together and the visuals were spot on! I’m using it to show my son that it may be a possible career choice. Thanks a lot!
Wow, thank you!
This why I love TH-cam because channel like this can share awesome information like this and people can be informed and educated about our modern society ways of living and how it works
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I always enjoy how direct and informative your videos are. Thank you for not beating around the bush.
My dad worked at a wastewater treatment plant and would always say, "From the toilet to the tap."
Yup :)
@@Got2Learn not every city
OR as an old time operator once said to me: "It might be poop & pi55 to YOU, but it's my Bread and Butter"
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@@samatarmohamed2328 every city does this lol
I wonder how much work you put into this - the information flow in the video is absolutely perfect! Well done and keep it up.
You don't wanna know...thanks a lot for actually noticing that ;)
A teacher once told us, “the water your flush today can be the water you drink tomorrow”
He was totally right :)
Real shit
@barefoot arizona that's why I don't drink water😌
Slyfer now I know why UFO is among us 😂
Its clean already there so many process.
Thank you! I finally found the answers to my questions about how a plumbing system is installed outside of a municipal system.
This is amazing. I was just thinking the other day to watch a video about how plumbing works. I didn't type anything into any of my searches or look anything up on any devices and now miraculously this video popped up in my recommended algorithm.
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It's funny I'm the same way. Must be a reason...
From an engineer that designs municipal sewage systems for a living. Excellent video. Only edit I would make would be to explain how the check valve(back flow preventer) fits on the san service to protect the house during a flood event.
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Great, informative video 🙂 Must watch by all home owners
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There I did you a Favour and report the spam on here😃 Tnx for the tutorials mate♨ Plus I subscribed🔥
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@Shadale Breary I literally asked the same question just now before reading your comment. Did you find out?
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i love this video......he explains it so well and basically shows how our entire plumbing system works in a clean neat graphical way.
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!
@@Got2Learn i just subscribed to your channel......thanks for your videos bro
@@kompshi you are most welcome, more videos like this one coming up 👌
If there was the one video I needed to watch to clarify things that was it. And that leaves me wondering hard what made YT algorithm put this one on my recommendation list... Great job. No fuss, just concentrated information.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This video is 7 minutes of solid gold! TY!
I dug 2 large 30 foot long ditch swales for my rainwater to collect, store and water all my fruit trees...rather than running into the street. Great video!
Good choice man, well done ;)
Never thought I'd be binge watching these for work but here I am
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I'm so happy I found YOUR video on sewage systems. Another GREAT job! Thanks Again!
Glad it was helpful, share if you can it helps tremendously :)
Illustrations like these make it so much easier to better understand, especially if your clueless like me. Just subbed and thanks for sharing. 👊
This guy must be the smartiest guy, he literally helped me pass my plumbing course
Absolutely a genius
Nice!!
Great job--- every high schooler should be required to watch this.
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Also important to note, collecting rainwater is illegal in some municipalities. Best to check your local laws before barrelling any rainwater.
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What??!!!!!? Why is it illegal to collect rain water? Im curious cause I've never about that law before m
@@scottforbes4933 can't tax rain water
Holla atcha boy, I gots ALL the barreled rain water you ever gonna need, the pure shit, tax free.
@@scottforbes4933 because it's a breeding ground for mosquitoes, so some places just don't want to give the mosquitoes that convenience
As a kid, I always wondered how things work. Then after learning physcis in school the curiosity just increased and I've always found myself wondering how physics applied to these kinds of systems. This was a great explanation, easy to understand.
Basic stuff like this should be taught in school, some people will never know to unwind the chain of the terlet tank to stop it filling up constantly, like YEARS in hearing it without thinking forth in the issue. Simple visuals allow emphasis to be made onto the subject explained, that's cool man.
Totally agree with you 👍
The last part of the video should of been this is one way, most rain water / storm drains go into a local man made pond and if that over flows goes into another one close to it. This is the same for huge parking lots etc. Imagine the flooding caused if all drainage pipes etc went to rivers/ streams etc... And how polluted they would be from all the run off from roads like oil trash etc..
Which is exactly what used to happen. Thank goodness we don't do that anymore.
@@gregdubya1993 of course you do it. It's literally the only way to prevent flooding
While there may be a vortex separator or triple basin (i.e. oil and trash separator) installed within the storm system prior to the pond, the true design intent of the retention ponds is to offset the impervious surface area created by buildings, sidewalks, and roadways that does not allow water to infiltrate back into the ground. They are not designed just to keep rivers and streams clean. Rainwater is stored for a designed period of time and discharged downstream at a rate equal to, or less than, predevelopment conditions (if the homes or roads were never constructed), so as to not create flash floods or inundate the downstream storm system. Remember, storm sewer systems are only designed to accommodate a ten year rain event (small storm events) and not heavy rainfalls such as the 100 year event (a 1% chance of happening in a year). Heavy rainfalls are expected to flow across the ground in ditches and swales at specific areas called Overland Flood Routes. It’s too expensive to install complete storm sewer systems that will accommodate all the rainfall. So next time you see rainwater running through your yard through swales or in the street it was designed to do that. Problems occur when people change their yards by regrading or installing landscaping such as trees, bushes, and flower beds.
@@Kashed I don't understand are you saying putting trees, bushes, grass is bad for the rsin system?
@@leticiaaguilar7729 They are saying that the area covered by roads and roofs doesn't soak up rain water. The water is instead diverted to other ground, which can quickly saturate during a rainstorm and become unable to absorb any additional water. The water that can't soak in will "run off" into surrounding lakes or streams and cause flooding, or collect in low-lying areas which may have people living in them. Retention ponds are often dug near large buildings, communities, or roadways to contain the runoff and prevent the aforementioned flash flooding. The water caught in retention ponds will continue to soak into the ground and/or evaporate long after the storm ends, easing the burden on infrastructure and the communities served.
Finally I've found a video that explains perfectly what I've been looking to learn. Not sure how much of it is similar or completely applies to the UK but very good video nonetheless
Glad it was helpful, thank you so much!!!
Can you make a video explaining why some houses have a sump pump and why? And how it all works? Thanks! You make great educational videos!
Thank you! Yes i'll try to make a video about that!
wow, you saved my time by explaining everything in just 7 minutes. thanks a lot!!
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BEAUTIFUL! Perfect for basics for new home-buyers!!
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My septic tank is under our road, lol. The road use to stop at my house and the septic tank was put in behind the road for easy access. I moved out of state for a job for a few years and we decided to move back, the road was over it. When houses were added down the road they paved over my septic tank. I called the road county manager about it, but they said there was nothing they can do about it, since it is now part of the public road system. I flush 1 gallon of buttermilk every month and it actually eats the waste. Been doing this for 16 years now. If anything happens we will have to have a new septic tank put in. Yes I did check with a lawyer and the county had the right to make the road. I found out they sent notice of the road going through, but I never received it.
Have you checked to make SURE ? I find it hard to believe that they would risk paving over something that could easily give in like a septic tank.
@@bradleyrussell1973 Positive, I was there when they put it in the ground. The road stopped at my driveway and we put it in line with the road, so if it ever needed emptied all they had to do was backup to it.
Now I am a certified plumber
As a water engineer, I'd much prefer if you showed the sewage treatment plant outlet DOWNSTREAM of the drinking water intake!!
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Sewer system one of the best thing humans made 100s of years ago and keep on improving
No idea why this got recommended to me, but I am glad it did. Very good explanation: easy to follow, in depth yet simple.
Glad it was helpful!!!
Modern plumbing has done more to eliminate pestulance than the who or cdc
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Love 2pac btw, cheers!
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You need a dictionary.
It's done nothing for coronavirus since it is not transported through water so your comment is nonsensical and retarded
as a DIYer, I always wondered how this engineering worked. Thank you for sharing this! Do you have anything on electricity also?
You are welcome! Unfortunately, I only run a plumbing channel, sorry!
It's almost 4 am, I can't sleep, and cant remember what rabbit hole I went through that ended me up on this video but I liked it lol
Sweeet, thank you!!
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Wow, great simplified video on how house plumbing works! thank you
The most useful video TH-cam has ever recommended to me. 👍
Could you do a video explaining housing foundations,house framing, and housing styles, maybe? You would do an amazing job!!!
6:09 Teach, I'm curious how frequent those lifting stations are. Every few kilometers/miles? Are this hydraulic rams?
Depends the city. Some can go deep, some cannot so they gotta be lifted more often.
Depends on the terrain of the city and typically they are pumps much like a water pump that "lift" the sewage.
So we’re drinking piss and crap water that’s been filtered?
That’s so refreshing!
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Ahhhhhhhh
It has been cleaned out for various pathogens, but it hasn’t been cleaned out for antibiotics, various diseases etc... drinking government water is stupid.
Finally, I found a video that explains it really well, I always wanted to know how the system works.
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When I saw a random informational video with millions of views, I assumed it was a "what is a turnaround?" situation. This is much better
As a roofer I'll tell you on the roof the pipe is almost always 4" and I call it a stink pipe lol
The animation had a kind of South Park feel to it. I liked it a lot
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Another big info/tip, flushable wipes aren’t actually flushable, because they don’t breakdown like TP does and clogs pipes and those filters down the line. Don’t use flushable wipes unless you put the used ones in a trash can, maybe one like those special diaper trash cans.
I learned that lesson back in 2008. The plumber cleaned out the wipes and I got a bill for $550.00. I only flush waste and TP. My plumber that I shouldn't even flush kleenex tissue, so I stopped doing that also.
@Sindrella06 Spraying your (*)' hole with water doesn't get it 100 percent clean that's why. You really have to get up in there with toilet paper to give it a good scrubbing.
🤯Finally! A great visual to understand plumbing! Thank you!
How can the plumbing stand massive dumps.
Glue.
You're not taking 3 inch diameter poops.
Well, I hope not.
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Don't invite Randy Marsh over
welcome to anozher episode of watching this at 5:00 AM and i dont even know why
There was something I was hoping you would have at least mentioned: black water and gray water. I only found out the difference about 3 years ago from a Tiny House course on Udemy but haven’t heard it from anywhere else, only in passing mention here and there, very seldom.
To be fair, I haven’t looked into it, but it seems it should be basic knowledge and even I don’t know. I mean, my entire life is now study everything under the black sun. PLUS I’ve been working in the trades for about 4 years. All the more reason I should have come across it more often.
I guess that is the thing with this civilized system, where everything is so specialized to the point we become ignorant to every other aspect of the world besides our employment/vocation, hobbies, and interest.
Yeah grey water is let's say the water from your sink that can be reused for non potable water :)
Thank you for the video! One difference to where I live is that our water is heated using district heating. The water from the municipal source goes through a heat exchanger located at the property and gets heated by the district heating water.
Interesting!
Licensed plumber here! That was a super great explanation!! Subbed!
Awesome! Thank you!!!!
Great animation and graphics! Especially the toilet one! Lol!
Hehe, thank you Vincent!!
I might need this for when I get hit by a truck and need to build my own city
Your septic tank part was very very simplified. Bacteria consume the waste, the water is treated before being pumped out into a gravel pit or irrigation system. I doubt they'd let anyone just leak their septic water into the ground anymore. They don't in my country (Australia) anyway.
In the US the waste water from the septic leeches into the soil and doesn't need to be treated. There is nothing wrong with doing it that way if it's done right.
Simplistic, but a very nice explanation. Everything made sense and the illustrations were very helpful.
Thanks for the feedback!
Just came back to this video, after a couple years. It is helpful and fairly easy to follow (because of the visuals). Thank you! :-)
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[looks at my cup of water]
Was this somebody's piss from years ago???
Soooooo, Google knows I eat my dinner at around 9:00.
Aaaaaaaaand, TH-cam recommends this video to me at 9:10.
Okay... okay.
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I subscribe to a family friendly channel here on YT but had to delay watching one particular upload for an hour bec it was impossible to view while eating breakfast. Too early in the day to experience queasiness. 🤢
I've actually always wondered this, so thank you.
great video. Been lookiing everywhere for this information. Too embarrased at my lack of knowledge to ask the neighbours thank you so much.
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This is a must just in case you have plumbing problems. Very educational.
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My dream is to buy land and build my own community for me and my family. Plumbing is something I know I need to learn meanwhile stackin
I was drained after watching the entire video but this is the shit I need to know.
You just needed to vent.
@@mitchjohnson4714 Or he needed to shit