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MY BIGGEST PLUMBING DISASTER
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2018
- Today I tell you the story of my worst ever plumbing disaster, fail, funny plumbing fail - whatever - I felt like the worst plumber EVER! It all started on a job with my Dad...
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Ouch, that made my eyes water and my stomach churn... :-)
When I was an apprentice I connected the cold mains to the gas!!! Water coming out the hob isn’t good!! 😂😂😂😂😂
HAHA! FFS man!
We've all done it.
Not yet lol
Now think about the mistakes trainee doctors might make!....then again, don't! :-D
Exactly. I saw a drama on TV that depicted a junior doctor who had killed a patient. Returning to work full of shame, he solemnly enters the staff room only to be greeted with cheers and the pop of a champagne bottle to be congratulated by his colleagues for popping his cherry.
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When I was an apprentice I was repeatedly told not to use the scissor lift on site, when no one was looking I had a go in the scissor lift to fit 4" clips at height, as I was raising the lift it caught onto the big commercial ventilation pipes which caused it to collapse and fall, it resulted in a big crash and bang and I jumped off the lift then ran away as it was lunch time anyway to the local snack shop. Afterwards I came back eating my lunch and loads of tradesmen and managers had gathered on site going mental like wtf happened here wtf someone's balls are getting kicked, then I joined in as well pretending I never knew anything like the fuck happened here. I got away with it.
truefalse that's hilarious 😂
Lucky that CCTV wasn't invented then
You jammy git 😂 rofl
truefalse
So, it was you! I got blamed for that
It's called heating and ventilation DUCTING for future reference and to avoid confusion.
Best Plumberparts vid I've seen in a long time. Edge of the seat stuff. Hilarious. Hope the insurance was up to scratch. And the office staff didn't string you up too much!
Thanks for the video James ,yeah when I work for HomeServe I remember it was one of our coldest Winters, few years back and I had to snatch a outside bib tap at quite high pressure I was drenched head to toe oh I was so cold I was shaking as I was driving most of the day. it was one of the worst feelings ever the customer is looking at you whilst you trying to do a bib tap live. I got it done but it took me a while to get it back on, one of those situations where the ESV was paved over, the customers but tap before was just running. I had the inside kitchen tap running and as many taps that were connected to the mains I just opened them up. but they didn't help anything really. The customer was so impressed he gave me a tip. Keep up the good videos, they are awesome to watch and thanks for the pointers as well.
I've only ever done domestic work and didn't start straight from school, I was about 29 ish when I started as a labourer. I was out working with this guy fitting a combi boiler into a customer's house, before our lunch break we lifted the boiler on to the wall and made the cold mains connection. Went out to the van to have our lunch, after lunch back into property to a scene straight out of Kevin Costners Water World. Not only had the boiler fallen off the wall jig but of course the copper pipe on the cold mains had broken. Spent the rest of that day trying to mop it all up before customer came home from work.
My lesson was NEVER TRUST THE CUSTOMERS WORD! And always double check yourself.
I turned up at a 3rd story flat on a Friday afternoon and it was the last job of the day, guy was doing a full renovate and wanted a new stopcock cut in downstream of original, he told me he had already turned it off so on a go with my slicers, turns out he isolated the wrong one and water started shooting everywhere, but somehow by the grace of god I got it on before any went to the flats below. I was shaking with adrenaline for about half hour later thinking about all the damage it could of caused. ALWAYS CHECK YOURSELF!
Having been a machine mechanic for +10 years first thing when I get job order is to confirm any claims about what has been done or what the issue is that is told . Couple times I've began to fix something that wasn't actually cause of the issue, but operator had thought so. When something happens or you waste enough time on something because of something like this, you begin to check even the most obvious looking things.
as an apprentice, my boss sent me to a job to install a lockshield valve on the h/w return side of the h/w coil, open system (mid position valve and the h/w circuit was taking all the heat as the line of least resistance etc etc), anyway, drained the heating no problem, thought i was onto a winner, as i crouched down into the small airing cupboard and squeezed into the gap i had to work with, the pressure from my shoulders pushed against the cylinder and split the cold feed on a soldered joint just before entry to the cylinder !! being there on my own i tried to quickly turn off the cold feed on the gate valve and the f'ing think was seized, at this point the customer wasn't aware what was going on, managed to hop in the loft and bung the cold storage tank and h/w open vent, managed to wiggle the cylinder out tip it on it's side and connect my hose to it!! beneath where i was working was the customers garage, managed to do the whole process without her realising a thing, very eye opening procedure at the age of 19 !!!
My adrenaline was flowing when you were talking about your AAV experience hahaha
Worst comment so far ;)
@@plumberparts that’s why you put lever valves on ya automatic air valves isn’t it
Me and my mate went to change a outside tap for this old dear many years ago on a Saturday morning, Simple job just going to turn the mains off in the kitchen but she was going to catch a bus and said she would be back in about an hour! Never mind love you can lock the back door I can still do it i'll turn the mains off in the pavement outside, she locked the door and off she went, All of a sudden I was busting for a dump my mate was laughing at me running up the garden to find a place to release my pressure!! her shed was locked and her garage so I run back down the garden and found a hole in this big hedge, just dropping my kegs and the bloke next door started cutting the bloody hedge behind me, my mate was crying and it was doing the turtles neck!! I ran passed my mate to opposite the back door sat on her bin and let it go, all of a sudden there was a shape in the doors glass and a lock being turned she only missed the bloody bus and came to tell us and caught me having a dump in her fucking bin she screamed and slammed the door and my mate broke the 4 minute mile out of her garden, Well he went and told all the lads down our local and they still laugh at it today !!!
Paul Aldershot79 haha brilliant
Fucking crying.. 😂😂😂
Brilliant!!
Paul Aldershot79 fookin hell mate i was killing myself laughing reading your story , it bought back a story from a brick layer mate. He was in a similar pickle -only the woman was in but wouldn’t let him use the loo , so being desperate grabbed a bucket and legged it behind the hording on the extension he was building. But totally pissed off, felt the appropriate pay back would be to empty the bucket down the cavity and carry on with the build hahaha I still wonder if she gets the odd whiff of shite
You filthy dog. Like
Apprentice electrician doing an inspection on a basement flat boss had left for 5 mins and I had power off in house and decided I needed the toilet not knowing anything about saniflow systems. Flushed the toilet and the water kept coming up not going down then I flushed it again and it overflowed, tried transferring water to the sink which as you guessed did not go down 😂😂 nightmare boss comes back and turns power on and cry’s with laughter as he hands me a mop 😂fail !
Many thanks for your videos, I hired a plumber to turn my bath around and fit, shower, reseal the bath, simple for you guys.
But after three months this wkd I had water leaking from bath, around the taps, so I watched all your videos to do it properly, Thank you so much I had my pants pulled down from that plumber, and at least the house is not leaking now. Legend stay sharp.
Kudus to your dear old Dad for keeping his stuff together when he got to the plant room!
This had me laughing out loud. Quality. From working in office buildings years ago I know how funny they can get about everything being clean and tidy. Just imagining their faces whilst water pisses everywhere 🤣🤣🤣
My disaster ( ish) putting pipes in bathroom extension for Father in law. Had turned mains water on and off for various checks as pipes and connections went in. Then I forgot to turn it off as I released the end stop ( quick release ) it shot at me square in middle of my chest , only wearing a T shirt , about 4.5 bar of pressure of ice cold water. Couldn't push the end stop back on. And looked down and to my left as the inch of water I was kneeling in was flowing TO start toengulf my 240 volt cutting disc grinder and 240volt SDS drill. I was out running and flicked off the electric before running/ waddling round the back of the building to mains stop cock..
Love the info you give on the videos .well done. Regards Don.
love hearing about the plumber disasters. you won't make that mistake twice. lol!
Something very similar happened to me one time with a flamco aav but luckily the circuits isolating valves were close by so didn't cause too much of a scene. We always fit service valves now on aav's, saves a lot of time
On my god what a story I was on the edge of my seat the whole time!
I was working with a plumber in a local park, to deal with a burst pipe, that fed a cafeteria, and the guy that rented it from the council was going nuts, because his tea and coffee machines were on the mains, and the low pressure meant they kept going off on fault mode, we dug up all the ground getting soaking wet, as the mains was still live so he had some water. when we were finally ready to fit the new compression fittings and the new pipe, I ran to tell the Cafe owner that we would be shutting off the supply for a few minutes to fix the pipe, I turned off the mains, and we began the repair, however we were having a hard job getting the fitting onto the cut mains pipe, and five minutes later we were still trying, when the water exploded out of the end of the pipe drowning us both and shooting ten feet up into the air, soaking wet I ran back to the stop valve to find the Cafeteria owner standing there having turned the mains water back on, because his customers were leaving, because he couldn't serve any hot drinks. And that is the last time I ever left a hydrant valve key in position whist working on the mains supply.
James, you've helped so much with other video's with your helpful tricks and tips. But with this video, you've also helped so many young apprentices and ones trying to enter the profession in many ways. As you may know some don't take it very well when they make mistakes. Thank you very much for sharing your experience.
Loving the work man keep it up i even like your toilet factory video thought it was fascinating :)
I did a washer and dryer hook up many years ago. I soldered the hot and cold water supply to the radiator lines in the basement. The family did their wash with radiator water. Thank god the boiler wasn't damaged.
Great lol!! Its good to hear its still called snatching, I knew it as that years ago when I was on the tools ;-) In the mid 90's I was a maintenance tech, I vented a Myson fan coil unit in a ground floor reception of a gravity fed 16 story building in Colchester. As I turned the vent nipple, the thread stripped and hit me in the stomach followed by the contents of the LTHW system....Fortunately there was gate valve in the basement plantroom that isolated the reception fan coils, fortunately I knew where it was... :-)
That was a great story, and well told too!
Haha i’ve Done that a few times but normally when I think water off but someone ‘helpfully’ turned it back on for me...
It gratifying to know you are human, I've had a few but never actually flooded anywhere. My worst one was hitting a heating pipe with an electric saw but wrenched the floorboard up quickly like my life depended on it , alone in the house with my finger over it stopping the water and not in reach of any tools , but there was a polythene bag just in reach so carefully I wrapped it round the pipe which set me free to go turn off and drain down.
Just found your channel and lovin it. I'm not a plumber, but I can turn my hand to a bit of pipework when necessary.
I installed my own gas fired heating system myself, have plumbed bathrooms kitchens and the like.
Going back about 30 years ago we were working on a new extension on a customers house (I am a retired Brickie) when the lady of the house came out to me half way through the afternoon and asked if I could look at one of the rads in her conservatory as it was only getting warm half way up it.
Sometimes you get a feeling that things should be left alone, I looked at the rad and said to her that it needed bleeding, I also noticed that the face brickwork that formed the dwarf wall up to the conservatory window sills was in a brick called a Midhurst White (I'll give you 3 guesses what colour they are) and the mortar joints to the brickwork was a mid grey in colour, looked quite stunning. The conservatory was used as a living room with marbled tiles to the floor and beautiful pale beige scatter rugs and light coloured soft furnishings. I said to her she needed to get a plumber in, she said to me can't you do it surely it can't be that difficult? I replied sorry I'm a brickie I don't do plumbing, if it that easy get you hubby to do it when he comes home.
The next morning when we arrived at work it was mayhem, her husband had managed to loosen the the bleed screw with a pair of pointed nosed pliers and nothing had come out so he continued to unscrew the nipple (I love saying that word) I am guessing that at around that point the heating kicked back in, the pump fired up and the bleed nipple shot across the conservatory squirting dirty dark brown water all over the white brickwork which instantly sucked the dirty water into the dry brickwork and stained all the pale jointing in the marble flooring spoiled the rugs and sprayed some dirty water over the back of a pale sofa. it cost a fortune to acid clean all the brickwork and tile grouting plus replacement of the rugs and sofa, fortunately their insurance covered the cost.
She said her husband was screaming at her to find the bleed screw while he was stemming the flow from the rad with his finger, she said a lot of the damage was done as he was trying to replace the bleed screw. Apparently he worked in a office (Paper Shuffler) and did not know the difference between LH and RH thread.
Oh man that’s a painful one🤪 had similar pain when a snatch broke on a ground floor of a 3story house👀 we all love a snatch to keep us on our toes
Put a cold feed in for an electric shower but forgot to solder an elbow! Turned water on and went the van,came back and witnessed water bubbling behind living room wallpaper .There was a waterfall cascading through the light fittings, the little old lady had her head in her blue rinse!, I made like Usain Bolt and turned water off. I then reluctantly called my boss and told him of my little problem and that I had also burnt out the recipricating saw. This was a bad day in PLUMBING HELL! (I kept my job) lol!
I have turned 19 this spring. I love plumbing and I want to work as a plumber just like you - a van full of tools and you go jobbing day after day. So my first heavy duty job was when I was 16 years old, and I was a kid back then. My girlfriend had her grandma, that was the sweetest lady in the world. So we talked, and she told me, that in her two high apartment her sewer stack was leaking. The old cast iron pipe from 1950s has been leaking for 2 years. So we decide that she will let me replace it. Of course I was happy pants, and straight jumped into the job the next day. I bust out my sledgehammer and I start busting them pipes. What HASN'T occured to my, is that this pipe is old and I need to be careful not to damage it too far up the ceiling or I ain't putting no coupling to plastic. I'm all happy pants and with full force I strike the pipe, and the bloody thing shatters into 10 pieces and drops to the ground leaving the HOLE IN THE FREAKING CEILING. I can see upper flat's bathroom and very crudely broken cast iron pipe. I star shitting my pants, I even started crying and I wanted my mom right back there and now :D. Funny how I remember it. I was so scared I felt like I was going to faint. I cry for a moment, and the lady with me came to the upper neighbour to talk about what have happened. He at first starts to swear at me and starts saying he will sue my small illegal working ass. I was mortified and I wanted to die right at the doorstep. But after some talk lady and I calmed the neighbour and we decided, that I should cut clean the shattered pipe in his place and put a plastic coupling. The job turned into the nightmare even more. I start to cut the broken pipe and the bloody thing just keeps cracking, until it reached the 50 mil vent, and so I managed to cut it off cleanely near the ceiling. I was relieved. So from there everything went good. I managed to run plastic new 110 mil pipe for loos and tubs, but then another massive disaster stroke. MY STUPID INEXPERIENCED ASS HASN'T THOUGHT ABOUT LEAVING THE CAST IRON HUB IN THE OLD FLOOR UNTOUCHED AND FINE, SO i COULD PUT IN THE RUBBER AND 110 MIL PIPE IN IT. I BUSTED OFF THE HUB AND I WAS LEFT TO DIE BASICALLY. So I take my few tools that I had (basically a angle grinder, a drill and few old wrenches from the last decade that my grandpa gave me) and started chipping away at the floor to expose the pipe and then put a cast iron to plastic rubber coupling, but I can't - a solid concrete is blocking me. So, my eyes are filled with tears, but I pulled myself together and I call my mom, and it basically goes like this: "mom I broke the pipe too close to floor and I need a small jackhammer to chip the concrete away to expose some old pipe" my mom at first starts freaking out that I broke whole block's drain system, but I calm her down and she after half an hour comes with a rented jackhammer and I successfully expose the pipe, and managed to get the work done. That job made me cry like a baby, because I wasn't prepared for that kind of stress. Now three years have passed and when I look at the work I have done, I get goosebumps on my body. Now when I do some plumbing work I am extremely careful and cautious about every single step, because I had to feel the stress it can bring to you when you do something very wrong. I love plumbing and I want to be a plumber. I hope you like my shared story, I hope you find it interesting. Plumbers on TH-cam are my idols, I always watch you guys and I love the content you put on TH-cam. Keep up the wonderful job you do. Cheers mate.
@@Morgellan Thanks. It was really stressful, how I managed to not just flip the biscuit and leave the job is beyond me. These days if I get a job I do an absolute thorough checkup of the job before I attempt to even dare touch it, cause I felt with my own ass the definition of a *shit show* :D
Plumbers in work try to snatch a new stop tap on with no access to external outside stoptap. Went horribly wrong. About 8 inches of water on the whole bottom floor of the house. We was drilling 20mm holes through the building to help drain water away
This exact thing happened when I just started working for my dad 15 years ago, I've got a great picture of a classroom covered in black sludge!
When I was an apprentice, on my first year I was working in a school redoing a whole science block, with vulcathene waste and gas taps. it was my job to fit the centre tables that had gas taps and sinks. I had piped the cold to the gas tap, when they turned the taps on they were squirting water out of them 🤦🏻♂️ I was in college at the time I found out, because my work mate showed me a video of them laughing about. it I do too laugh at this now. 😂😂
Remember trying to snatch a hot tap reviver/headgear. Tank fed tap Towels ready, headgear ready, whipped the old one out but the water was instantly BLOODY hot and shooting out. Whenever I got near it I had to yank my hand back, water shooting everywhere and steaming the room up. About the fifth attempt I got it in. Massive relief.
Alright, I’ve got one...
Basement office of a 9 storey block on Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Changing 3 port valves for 2 ports on fan coils above the ceiling. Local isolation to each, no worries. First 4 - no problem. Isolate, remove valve and pipe work, modify pipes, new valve, refill, all good. 5th one... Isolate, remove valve, remove pipe work. My mate says the words that will stay with me forever - “Well that don’t look good” - small drip appears on live side of isolating valve. 15mm compression, so I figure, I’ll tighten that up. Spanner on the nut, spanner on the valve, slight nip... BOSH, valve disappears across the room and impales itself in the plasterboard wall opposite, 10ft away. Got a bucket, naturally, but after 10 seconds, it’s full and the water’s getting hot... never seen my mate run so fast as he tried to find and isolate the main run...
Cannot believe your story is lincoln in fields as well as mine, mine was back in 60/70s .,what a weird world
An apprentice I was working with when I was on work experience didn’t put an insert into a speed fit elbow in the garage roof on the property we were working on and when he turned on the mains it caused one of the pipes in the joint to pop out of place and water was pissing it down on to the concrete floor from the ceiling, it looked like a water fall was covering the doorway that was a sight and a half
Belting, is that the day you coined the hold tight catchphrase 😂
I just replaced an AAV today haha. It was a Robocal (same design as a flamco) and the replacing is the same thing. Luckily everything went right 😅
Love your story
Amazing story mate,, love some real life situations..How did you deal with it afterwards and did your insurance covered it?
Oh Man U make plumbing fun! Been plumbing 5 years now. It’s pretty interesting stuff.
A lack of knowledge and not reading instructions for plastic pipe meant I put compression fittings on some plastic pipe at home, with mains pressure water running through it without the pipe inserts. It was fine for ages, except one morning I finished having a shower and thought I could hear the sound of rain. I discovered when I opened the bathroom door, that the sound was water pouring through the downstairs ceiling where a compression joint had let go 😂
Changing gate on cylinder and connection cylinder came out, 120 litre of hot water came out in a couple of minutes, it was around the back of the cylinder. Last year aswell after 21 years of only small things going wrong. Customer was builder and he was thinking of doing some work , so no insurance thank god
So funny mate but so painful 😂😂😂
Worst thing ever happen to me while plumbing was simply plumbing in a washing machine, I had isolated the water started to tap in to the pipe water came pissing out. Tapped the wrong pipe. 😂😂😂😂
1989 I was a second year apprentice working on a hotel in Brighouse. Monday morning my boss said from the van go and flick the booster pumps on so the hotel has pressurised water, yeah no problem I said and toddled off to the plant room, I switch the pumps on and think about what I’m ordering for my breakfast at a great cafe in Brighouse town centre. Got back to the van and off we went without a care in the world, ate a fantastic breakfast and an hr or so later said we would head back to site and check on things. We were surprised to see fire engines in the car park but we thought they must be testing the fire alarms and having a look at the suppression system. No they weren’t they were there to pump the water out from every room in the 170 room hotel. Turns out the cleaners had been working over the weekend and left all taps on as they weren’t getting any water through the system, every bath tap and basin tap was running at full bore to make matters worse I had the plant room keys in my pocket so the pumps were raging away trying to keep 4 bar in the system two 10000 litre tanks had nearly emptied and the 35 mm ball valves were emptying the local reservoir-at an alarming rate. Carpets were under 4 inches of water wooden oak flooring was warping like the starship enterprise. The opening was put back two weeks and the contractors loved me as they got paid twice. My boss on the other hand wasn’t so understanding and docked me two weeks wages 70 quid as it goes but hey no one died so result. It did teach me to not worry about small leaks they can be sorted out with a calm approach and to never leave without checking why the pumps are running at full chat😁
Unlike computers, anecdotes are priceless 👍
The most common valve I have had to do live is a gate valve on the cold feed to the cylinder, builders bag with no holes does the job one hold and one tighten the new valve on
... Had to roll a "nervous" ciggy when I heard the words "about 80 computers" (GULP!!)
Thanks for sharing mate. Out of interest did your dad have a to make a claim again his liability insurance? A simple WC fix in a flat led to water damage to the flat below which brought the ceiling down etc. I also had the cold supply to a new concealed shower valve come loose which flooded the kitchen below. Not a good day.
When I was an apprentice i went with my boss to a brand new Esso or Bp building in london and he asked me to vent the radiators I got to the board room wow it was posh burgundy floss wall paper all new I opened the vent and no air or water came out ( it had been freshly painted ) so I continued to unscrew the vent valve ......yes the screw came out and black water shot out of the radiator boiling hot and I couldn’t get the vent back in........to be honest I can’t remember quite what happened but my Boss Dary must have got it back in. Yes I am always aware of painted vent valves.
I probably have many more .....but this one came to mind as I felt for you telling your story
I was probably 17 then and I am now 67 and still plumbing
Sounds like that was one of mine, I leave the plunger out as it clashes with the ball in the valve 🤭
Once fitted a new cylinder complete forgot to blank off the shower connection whilst I took tools back to van left customer looking for leeks look horrified when that fired out everywhere and ruined room below!
Hi - I have a quick question. When our heating turns on (we have brand new radiators installed) we can hear some dripping sounds coming from the floor where we have copper pipes and it's very annoying. The sounds is only on when the heating turns on or sometimes even while it is on. What do you think it is?
could it be the pipes expanding with the heat from the water?
I am a subby mastic man for all the new build companies. I once started a bath running to seal it forgot about it came back 30 mins later to a brand new house with 1 inch of water down stairs every light fitting was pissing water and the stairs was like a water fall haha that was a bad day.
Not goooood!
Never herd my boss swear till that day
top video mate I luv it
My worst plumbing disaster wasn't my fault. Can't remember exactly (it was a while ago) but I was tightening something on and old rusty TRV that was weeping and it just broke..... Under pressure. Yes, the heating system exploded all over me and the bathroom floor.
Congrats on 100k
Thanks dude!
i had the exact same happen to me with a flamco aav in a church .
the check valve part failed
i was 2 levels up but on my own
after the split second realisation it had failed and an eruption of boiling hot water
i raced down my steps down to the boiler room and opened all drain off valves i could see
all the time swearing loudly as i had been scalded by the water this all took less than 5 minutes
but seemed like an eternity
and when i went back up to survey the mess / damage
i kid you not apart from a small puddle on the pews under the pipework and a wet patch on the ceiling where it was hitting
there was no water to be found in the ceiling void below or anywhere for that matter
i was that sure there must have been gallons of water floating about somewhere i stayed there for an hour afterwards just bemused it was a lesson learned that day always fit a service valve before the aav
I had just finished a combi boiler conversation, failed to notice one of their showers was pumped as it was hidden in the eves of a loft. Everything was fine when I turned the supplies over to mains, it took me going home, going to bed, then about 3 in the morning got the call that there was water coming through the ceiling - pump had given up on mains pressure and firing water out. Luckily the customers were very understanding!
I had exactly the same thing happen. Was working away in Bournemouth. Combi conversation. All up and running friday afternoon. Just got back to south Wales had a phone call of a leek. Had to turn around. Shower pump under the bath which i didnt now about blew off
Nightmare mate 😱
Conversation?? ;-)
@@woodbine66 vented/gravity fed systems to Combi boiler system
I broke a zurn sink carrier arm one time and took it off site to a welder had it bronzed up and put it in a wall on site without getting noticed.
My worst plumbing disaster was a tailpiece that wasn’t tightened enough and the people continue to use the sink lol and then realized they flooded their basement and wrecked their ceiling
Excellent
As an electrician, I have never had a disaster.
Everything I do goes perfectly because I am wonderful.
lol bollocks
People can't complain... if you've killed them *taps head*
I'm an electrician, not a plumber. But I was fitting an outside tap, connecting to the cold water feed under the sink. Isolated at the stop cock which was in the same cupboard... As I was isolating, the pipe dropped out of the inlet of the stop cock having never been fully tightened. Worst part was, the stop cock was fitted vertically, and the inlet pipe fell down through the hole in the bottom of the cupboard... Worse still, the plynths were all screwed on. Ran outside to isolate at the water meter, but the tap was so deep I couldn't reach it. I had to ask a particulay tall neighbour to reach down and isolate it for me... Took about 10 minutes to get the water off, meanwhile I had a 22mm open ended pipe and about 2 bar of pressure emptying into my kitchen ... Bad times
I once fitted a bath for a mate and used too longer screws for the feet ... Later that night he sat in it and rang me asking what was scratching his back !!
Omg i thought the screws of the right length came with that baths.
@@peterryan7827 they come with shorter ones for middle feet... Guess which ones I used
Only plumbers will understand that moment u turn the water on and hear water pissing out , the fear !
Hey can you put rainwater into a condense stack? Thanks pal
Didn’t check my zones, drilled a hole in the wall (above a light switch) straight through the metal capping and the lighting cable; blowing all the lights 🙈
Been in plumbing & gas for about 6 - 7 months now, at a domestic job requiring us to move a boiler from one location to the next. My colleague had instructed me to fit a pushfit tee onto the cold mains in the ceiling, as we were teeing off for the new boiler location and removing old mains pipe. So as instructed i got to work and achieved it no problems.. now the customer was an obsessive tea drinker and constantly had us turning the mains back on at every opportunity. So i was asked and agreed to turn it back on as my part on the mains was done (note, stopcock was missing handle so had to turn with grips, rather tricky) . As soon as i turned it on... i could hear this water fountain blasting out of the next room. So i walk in, water going everywhere and i thought luckily i had a 15mm pushfit in my pocket, which i wacked on asap. As soon as i did that.. water starts shooting from another end of the pipe up into the ceiling loool...so with haste i turned off the mains. Little did i know my colleague had cut two sections of the mains pipe while i was busy. Lesson learnt ; always double check pipework before turning mains back on. Especially if with someone else.
Jim you poor sod my worst nightmare your poor dad you have come a long way Jim good luck all the best mate/ Kev
Love it wet plumber on a Friday afternoon, lesson learnt lol
I was fitting an outside tap in a kitchen. Checked wall for electrics and no markings for pipe etc so drilled through then drilled through a gas pipe in the wall. Had to switch gas off and open all windows lol
Xx Zara pop
Nice! we all do it to save time, I have had a few go wrong but that was BIG :) HA HA HA
Awesome story! I'm a pilot mate but want to become a plumber. Am I mad? Might need a chat lol.
I pulled out a complete bay window 1st floor and ground floor on to the pavement and drive way .worried what the old girl would say .She had no idea what had happened as she was hard of hearing to which she said can you fix it to which I replied yer. After a silent pause she then questioned me on how many bacon sandwiches I would like. What a girl.
A long time ago let's say about 1986 I had a tenant who informed me that the hot water cylinder on her flat was leaking, needless to say I assumed the hot outlet of this fortic cylinder needed tightening. One turn ripped the whole top of the cylinder open and one flat nicely washed with scalding hot water and steam. The tenant was not very happy and nor was I. It turned out that the cylinder had pinhole all around the top due to no cylinder anode and high nitrates in the Cambridge water.
End of the day, newly decorated house, had to finish off the cold water circuit but had somehow connected the hot water tank to the mains! It was coming out the next day as a combi boiler was going in, but it had a very small crack in its base that the mains pressure opened up and yes, about 10 mins later when I was sitting in my freshly plastered and decorated lounge eating my tea water starting coming through the ceiling!! Worse was even when I turned off the water supply as the tank was under pressure it was still pissing out........
Happened just last year, I'm a maintenance assistant and had someone complain of no hot water in their shower. Boss told me to get a water temp. Me feeling cocky I took the handle of and moved the hot and cold control more to the hot (sorry don't know a lot of plumbing terms) but I didn't stop there, my boss recently showed me the mixing valves of a shower but didn't warn me of the danger, me not knowing anything I decided to loosen the hot water just a little for good measure, 3 seconds later I was instantly soaked head to toe as water gushed out, 3 hours later, 3 apartments flooded (2 were vacant thankfully) got water shut off and a new valve on the way. No water damage! Boss also stopped me from getting written up!
What happened to the halloween special? :( I had it saved to watch later til I got back from my trip and it's gone! :(
me and my apprentice froze a pipe to install a new service valve using a tin of gas have been using for years no prob the pipe burst the wrong side of the freeze o dear what f up we had to snatch in a hurry lol but not at the time
I’m not a plumber but once I was in the shower and it didn’t feel like much water was coming from the hot tap, so I started to turn it up and suddenly the tap felt really loose. Next thing I know the tap has come off in my hand! Hot water squirting out everywhere! I’m trying to put it back on! Fully naked! It’s not working and it’s really hot water! I chucked couple towels over the stream of water and make a run downstairs to turn the combi boiler off! (I had no clue where the shut off valve was so wasn’t going to risk wasting time with that!) ran back up and some how managed to get the tap back on even with cold water going in al different directions!! I can laugh now! I also learned where the shut off valve is!
Firstly I am not a Plumber, but here is my worst plumbing disaster.
As a young Shift leader on some high power radio equipment, it was part of my job to carry out periodic maintenance.
This equipment was water cooled and transmitted Megawatts of power and used 50000 volts.
This nights task involved disconnecting this huge amplifier and change some bits.
Took a few hours and at 3 am we switch it all back on, it all starts warming up, voltage up to 50000, power rising to
1 Megawatt, then
all of a sudden I notice water spraying all over the inside. Water and 50000 Volts get on very well and after a few blue flashes and some parts jumping out the transmitter it all switched off.
After much paperwork a change of grundies and a lot more physical work
I figured out two rubber washers had failed when we reconnected the water system. We had followed all the correct procedures so were a bit miffed.
The next more experienced shift relieved us later.
I explained what happened and senior guy said
" No we dont disconnect the hoses like it says in the procedure because when you reconnect them the rubber washers fail!"
I thanked him very politely and went home.. not.
I've had a couple of bad leaks but the worst was when I was an apprentice. I was installing an unvented cylinder, It was one of those cylinders where you pop the lid off and screw the expansion vessel into the top. Last day before Christmas shut down we pressurised everything, everything looked good so we locked up (No one was living there as the house was being renovated) and left for 2 weeks holiday.
We came back after Christmas and as we walked in there was water dripping through the ceiling onto the customer oak parquet flooring 😨, well as this was leaking for best part of 2 weeks the floor had absorbed all the water an swelled up so much the floor had bubbled up in the middle a good 500mm off the ground. When we checked the cylinder we noiced water round the base of the tank with no clear source of the leak, popped the lid off and the outer cylinder case was full of water, I hadn't fitted the expansion vessel properly and completely forgot to check it before we left for Christmas. As you can imagine the customer wasn't too happy about this and my boss had to replace all the flooring which came through the hallway too, cost him around £3k in total. To be fair though he never shouted at me, he knew I was gutted and that was punishment enough.
always think of Del boy and the chandeliers !!
Why am I not surprised
hahah we were in school and one of my moronic friends got in a toilet cubical with me, he opened the top toilet tank and ripped off the filler valve, a 22mm pipe of solid water was gushing like a fountain denting the ceiling, i found a stopcock and turned it off, this saved us, to this day we have not got caught although there was like 2cm of water on the floor
Old Honeywell zone valve non replacement head. undone all screws and pull the head out, the whole valve body come of and water gashing out all over !! I was in shock conventional heating system with header tank, couldn’t stop it with my hand as it was too hot
Had my knipex grips next to me, squeezed both pipes end until water slows down bit
What a nightmare, never again ever since
Been in the game for 31 years and never heard this term 'snatch'!
Done it quite a few times though and yeah...never trust a Flamco LOL
With you all the way we have all been there at some point.no matter how good a plumber you think you are,I would tell you about the Lincolns in fields story, when I was young and completely green, but its a long long story, but, yes i ended up soaked, anyway great video,.we never forget these disasters, do we?.
As an apprentice i was installing a toilet and stood the ceramic cistern up on a three step ladder to work on turned away and when i turned back i nocked the cistern off the ladder and it shattered. I looked up to see my boss on the phone whilst he watched the whole thing😂 happen
oh God, I am shocked
I thought not witness marking a push fit insertion was a bad mistake. Ouch!
Biggest plumbing disaster, not becoming an electrician instead 😂🤣😀😅😃😄😁😊😆🤩😎😝⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡
When I was six. I I was on a brand new merchant ship that was being delivered by my dad who was a chief engineer.
I pushed a red button.
The ship was on high sea.
When the ship arrived at Dover there was no gang ladder. The the red button dropped off the ladder in the English Channel.
I thought it was bad enough when I hit a nail through a hot water pipe hanging a picture for someone.
That's why I just freeze the pipes before I snatch
I was doing a bathroom refit the pipe work was about 50 years old. a 22mm reducer had a little leak and I was going to use it on a tap. So I thought I'd change the olive and pipe on the 15mm side. Turned the water off did the job turned the water back on then I could hear ting ting ting ting I'm thinking what the fu@@ was that!!! then comes the water straight through the ceiling pissing through. I shut it off quick after moving units and shit (damage limitation) I go have a look what's happened the pipe and olive come shooting out across the room. the old fitting had a wedge type olive that was larger than a 15mm so the conventional olive wouldn't crush and slid straight out I'd never seen one like that. Iv learned my lesson (have a bloody good look and no assuming anything will be straight forward)
Insurance is very good, isolating valves are much better @ the design stage.