cast iron pipe leaking in ceiling
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- cast iron pipe leaking in ceiling
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Always enjoy the cast iron videos, Thanks Steven!
"They run that sink, I'm gonna be bullshit." I'm still CRACKED UP.
Good old cast iron what a leaker great video Steve
Steven has come back from the future.
You have the plumbing van with the never ending stock. It even comes with a Miss Molly for entertainment purposes. Good job Steve. 👍
Cool Sunday morning video. Thanks for filming! You had us on edge hoping they wouldn't turn the sinks on. lol. Enjoy your Sunday Steve. No snow still!
Another excellent job.
That previous replacement cast iron tee must seen some heavy use of Draino or other stronger acid.
I can tell by the hole on that spot.
It should last 20 years and more.
Lok Tom I believe its because the pipe he replaced previously isnt at the right angle so that area will always have a little standing water . He’ll be back in about 1 yr maybe 2 .
@@lplp765 Exactly right.
Should have a hanger upstream of wye. With no support the connection will sag causing wye to back grade and rot prematurely because of the standing waste water.
Steve, nice fix on those drains, those rubber clamps make it easier!
Nice work Steve.
Steve I have one question that's always puzzled me, why do you wear gloves
It looked like the Wye connection connecting to that line was slightly short. It had a sag and you can notice when you took the coupling off. Any hoot! Good job
That's def going to pool a little water...
Thanks Steven!!!
Just keep using that Drano. Keep Steve employed.
I was taught to never use impact or drill on no hubs or huskys.. anyone else taught that way?! Steves next level
Good morning Steve, Next level!
I before E except after C. Keep up the good work Steve.
When it comes to spelling Steve is a great plumber.
Omg somebody sir that hyper kid running laps in time out! Lol great patience Steve!
3 no hub couplings and a wye.... . nicccceee job my friend
keep the videos comimg love watching from uk
Gotta admit he’s right though. 1996 cast iron and it’s that thin already? Must be coming from overseas...Steve will your local code allow you to replace it all with plastic if it all needs to be ripped out?
@@Doing_it_right_the_first_time Same here in Northern Indiana..That's why I love this channel to see how things are done in other area's! Great job Steve!!! Oh mama
Ma you can't use plastic in commercial
Edward Heath so your one of those guys that tells the customer they need a repipe because the garden hose is leaking. So your assuming Steve has X-ray eyes and knew that wye was going to leak. Get real man.
Edward Heath I’m not going to get into a pissing match with some keyboard warrior in the comment section of a TH-cam movie. You don’t know me from Adam. You insulted my character without know a thing about me. You disregard my 25 years of experience, 3 associate degrees, State contractor and Journeyman licenses, and certification from HUD as a federal contractor. So go ahead and keep belittling some guy that just was saying the fitting wasn’t leaking when he worked on it the first time and disagrees with replacing the entire DWV system because one leak.
No you can't, if the commercial plans called for cast iron than it stays cast iron. Period.
Real leaker mama, good fix.
I bought new tv and first thing i do dial in steve lav to test tv
That looks a lot like Fall River, MA. I went to J&W University in nearby Providence, RI back in the late 80's. Sometimes I would go shopping in the outlet stores located in some of the many old brick mill buildings seen in the beginning of the video. When I think of these old mill buildings and outlet stores I think of a very funny plumbing related story. One of these buildings had a restroom that men and women shared. There were two brick walled toilet cubicles and a shared trough sink in a common area. This setup was probably left over from when the building was a factory. The sink looked nearly identical to an old fashioned enamaled cast iron urinal trough. The only difference was that it had two faucets mounted through the backsplash along with soap dispensers and a mirror. One day I went to use this restroom and I saw a very frantic looking note taped to the mirror. It said "THIS IS NOT A URINAL!!!! TOILET>>>>" with arrows pointing towards the toilet stalls. I can imagine that a women who probably worked there walked in on some dude taking a leak into the sink. The way the entrance faced the sink whoever walked in would have seen the dude's "parts" immediately. There was no door to the sink area if I remember correctly. I couldn't stop laughing when I saw this and I can still laugh about it now over 30 years later!
Jed Davis Thats New Bedford Cove Rd area
Jed Davis , There were a lot of trough type sinks years ago that had multiple faucets on the wall so that employees could wash up before going home from work.
@@lplp765 Thanks. It really does look similar. It's been 30 years since I've been there too.
@@johnkrim8377 Yes I've seen this several places. I live in Australia now and I've seen long troughs with faucets here too in old factory/warehouse buildings converted to other uses. The ones in Australia are made of stainless steel though. Plumbing is interesting and quite different in Australia. Just like in England older buildings usually have the entire DWV system outside on the wall of the building. If you watch Drain Addict's excellent and entertaining drain cleaning videos you will see this as well as other plumbing quirks here like gulley traps etc.
Is there any advantage to cast iron over PVC? Back in 1996 there was PVC, right? Why would they install cast?
The only advantages of cast iron over PVC that I'm aware of is no toxic fumes from cast iron in a fire, and the sound of water and waste going through the walls is a lot quieter in cast iron.
Right away it looks as though the pipe is sagging. At least use a heavy duty coupling on the inlet or a new support. It’s another temporary repair.
paul gilliland Indeed....Indeed... perhaps you are correct 🧐🤔
Wow, some of those jobs you need to use those cow infertilation gloves
Another one bites the dust Steve 😀👍👍👌
“A cattywampus angle”.......amen, brother!
Shouldn't that wye be kinda flush to the line? I noticed that when you installed the rubber gasket there was a liitle play. Won't it leak in the future?
Yes, the pipe was sagging and the fitting wasn't tight because the pipe was cut shorter than it should have been, his fix will soon be leaking again. It should have been supported much better and cut then a coupling added to extend it so that it fit closer to the 2" wye.
What kinda driver are you using
Hold up Steve use a Power tool that new
That malco reversible chuck is nice eh
How come you did not use a PVC Y fitting?
can not use pvc in commercial building per code
Is their a reason you didnt replace it with PVC? Are the fittings different dimensions?
Andy Crowley yes, wouldn’t have been an easy fix with the pipe coming in from the top like it is with no room. Easier to put a no hub cast wye back in
Andy Crowley , The main reason he used a cast iron wye is because his state like others don't allow PVC in commercial buildings. As far as the fittings sizes ,they should be the same or close enough even if you had to trim them if you had too.55 year retired plumber
that 's not good.. praying things go well for you Steven.
Oh yeah got to love them drain repair jobs lol 😂 Peace ✌️
Bad hair day. 🐶. Catty wompus 🤪
Seems that day care center is falling apart LOL
4:10 You need a 1/4" universal joint to get around that angle. I used one a lot when I was in the field (electronics technician).
Great this video 👍👍
Aren’t those the best sockets ever? 1/4”&5/16”
Scott Kneeland those malco bits are awesome
They have a new one out. 1/4 & 3/8 yellow and blue
Could that pipe Y have been defective from the factory with a thin spot? Most cast iron pipe lasts much longer than that.
I was thinking that too....I noticed the water dripping out was milky colored. If they are putting drain'o down those sinks that could eat that pipe quick
I've been noticing the same thing here in California. I do new construction plumbing and the C.I. pipe that comes from China snaps just by me tightening the chain on the snap cutters. Like I dont even need to force the handles.
Jed Davis , The fitting may have been defective from the factory , cast iron pipe has been getting thinner ever since they did away with hub and spigot end pipe and lead and oakum joints, but the cause of that hole is the sag at the inlet of the wye causing water to lay in the wye all the time. 55 year retired plumber
@@johnkrim8377 I thought so. A lot of cast iron piping is close to or over 100 years old and still in good shape. Thos goes for here in Australia too where I know live. Here it is visible on the outside of old buildings.
I would have expected some kind of support under that wye.
I would've put one in too. Perhaps the wonky angle is causing water to sit there, resulting in the hole.
@@YuriyRusko you cont support under a y unless there are several fittings in a row
Fred Travers I noticed part of it was attached to a Joyce but the rear (right side) was not. It did look to sag just a little on that side.
@@rickeykeeton71 code is support within 18 inces of a fitting
Fred Travers maybe it had a support I did not see. It does have ONE, but with what seems to be a slight sag to the right, and it being a flexible Y, I would think it would need one at least on both sides.
The drop I saw was dripping if the right or incoming side of the Y. It was as if it had leak through the hole and ran back to the right side of the Y which appeared to be the low side of the sag.
At first I thought it may have been leaking from the high part of the Y coming from the sink, but then I noticed the hole in the straight pipe that should have been running at a slope to the right.
Somebody got a new flip bit.
I like to show my cat Miss Molly and tell him she's his friend.
You can't transition to PVC?
Thanks
Not in a commercial building in ma
I don’t understand why they have such backwards laws , black high density pvc would last a lot longer, especially if the building was re-piped with it.
Happy Sunday Night ^_^
What are they putting in that drain?
@@throttlebottle5906, thank you.
You should sign your work with a white paint pen
Good morning Steve
That pipe looked kinda crooked, but much better when you were done. Should drain better now.
Newer cast iron pipe must not be as good as older cast iron. My drain pipes in my house are 70 years old and still serviceable
Steve had to put three new Jack Clampett's.
Cast iron pipes. Oh boy the US are still stuck in the dinosaur age.
Charlotte Pipe is the largest manufacturer of plastic piping in North America. They also happen to be one of two pipe companies to still produce service weight and no-hug Cast Iron pipe in the US. They have been quoted as saying Cast Iron pipe is superior in a multitude of ways. If you want, I can explain to you some of the benefits of cast iron pipe.
110 year old cast in my house and still working. We're so backwards in the US that our people are leaving in droves.....not.
Pipe_Slinger_ 215 sound dampening for one. You ever been in a house with a pvc stack and drains? Sounds like a waterfall when they flush on upper floors!
Good Morning Steve. I am from Wisconsin and have an older building, with an older oil-burning steam radiator furnace. I was wondering if I sent you pictures and if you could start in me in the right direction on a nozzle size for my boiler. My Best guy for oil burners is sick. It runs fine and I use the best fuel oil around. I have everything adjusted right, but the nozzle is not a good burn. The flame is perfect but it fingers out. It does not blast like my old one. Somebody changed the nozzle, when I was away one winter. Thanks for your time if you read this.
ml2trick-T.W Here’s a rule of thumb to get you started:
Nozzle flow is rated in GPH @ 100 psi pressure. One gallon of #2 fuel oil contains approximately 140,000 (give or take a 1000 or 2). So a 1 GPM nozzle @ 100 psi is a 140,000 BTU burner input. If the burner efficiency is 80%, that means 20% of the fuel energy goes up the flue as unused energy. So a 1 GPM nozzle on an 80 % efficient burner is equal to around 112,000 BTU’s available from the fuel.
Give it the ol’ gunga mama!! 😀
Lp Lp , Its " the old gundy" not gunga!
Stubby nut driver was my nick name in high school
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Why would you wear gloves?
I could never figure it out!
i never seen one of those floating in the wind
That should last at least till Thursday
I don't get it why do you wear gloves???
WHEN IN DOUT CHANGE IT OUT
have you explained, why you wear gloves yet?
Ceiling.
why do you wear gloves again ?
1996, i was expecting at least 50 years old
Once again a repair not an fix pvc is the best cast Iron is old
I couldn't see where the leak was coming from.
The y was back graded
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Back pitch is better than no pitch baby.
@@DonJosesito no that's why the bottom of the y rotted plus cast iron needs to be supported close to the y
@@throttlebottle5906 no standing water will rust the bottom of the fitting are you a plumber
Really wow you said the same thing I did
China uses multi generation recycled steel for all US products.
catawampus for sure !
Could have been a real shit show MaMa !!
Steve has done a mediocre job at best in repairing this pipe, Steve has not fix the root of the problem. The main is cocked at the front of the 'wye', this is the cause of the thinning pipe and the fitting. the main and the branch needs to be re-leveled. hopefully Steve you will read this and remedy the problem. Solutions from one plumber to another. Good luck.
Crusty Mama !
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