Condolences to Ratty for the untimely loss of a family member. Ollie, you got one good workout in on this one. Lots of steps and arm swings! I'm surprised you had the energy to get this video produced and uploaded! Thanks for your hard work! As usual, all good!
Now that's a nasty break. Saw a lot of missing pipe there. Hoping they get it fixed. Great job, Ollie and Ratty. NY Drains found corn for Ratty today, so all good!!!
I just found this channel today. Every video is like a mini adventure. "Wheres the block gonna be? Oooo a breakage!" The ridgid scout serenades our ears. Love this stuff. Youve got a badass job. Im sure you get some great satisfaction from it.
I caught the jump cut after the blockage when you forgot to turn the water back on 😁, I was waiting for the run back to the van but you deprived us of this, probably for the best
I guess a messy van is just part of the trade since all my dad's plumber clients have the same messy van😂 love your videos. They bring back good memories
@davido9208 here in England I have a special "gentlemen's precision tool" ie a hammer and when something needs a good old whack to free it up that is the application of "Bruce Forsyth". (He was a very popular presenter/entertainer/dancer/comedian/husband to Miss Worlds, who died in 2017 aged 89 after 70 years in the entertainment business.) Anyway, I use "Bruce Forsyth" instead of "brute force".
Might have to jet the jetter, I detected a bit of Ratty magic there Ollie, you marched off from the van without opening the discharge valve, despite me yelling at the screen, yet magically there was water pressure at the second reel.
@@MrThedwp it's actually an 1770 Irish "trirg" my great grandfather use to tell me stories about the March of the wicket, it was to show a confidence of the strong and to shake the blood from the fist of war.
@@astroboy5456 that wouldn't surprise me that Vinny Mac stole it as just about everything in pro wrestling has been stolen from something else but in recent times Vince made it famous which Conor then stole to the point that people think he came up with it when that's far from the truth
Ironically, I was watching this video about 15 minutes after it was uploaded, got to around the 30 minute mark and heard a gurgling sound coming from the bathroom... The toilet and bath started to fill up with clear water. I managed to get some of the water out of the toilet to stop it overflowing, luckily. Not the greatest thing to be doing at 10pm at night. Had to call the jetter guy to jet the external drain. He said it was under a lot of pressure but it's cleared now and that it's an old 70's/early 80's 'dropper' or 'back drop' and they do often block. Sadly, he wasn't as cool and crazy as Ollie and didn't have Ratty with him...but at least I can sleep easy tonight without waking up to a swimming pool of a flat tomorrow morning :)
In a country where deadly spiders and snakes could be crawling just under any bush, I admire this man's courage in getting on all four and crawling around. Perhaps this is just part of being Australian?
Imagine, you're cooking some corn as a side dish for your family. Little do you know that in a few days a man is going to feed a piece of it to a plastic rat on youtube while thousands of people around the world watch. Wild.
easy to find, just watched it. but he doesn't go into much detail of what's in the van. what I know of it, it's basically a very large pressure washer. when he turns the water off, coming from the engine, it'll build pressure in the lines (which you can hear bogging down the engine a bit) until it reaches a high enough pressure that a bypass valve will release, which cycles the water back around into the tank on top. from what I know, most pressure washer pumps need some pressure on the inlet side, but whatever pump he's using for this, it doesn't need such a thing, and just gravity feeds from the tank on top. the tank is there because the pump can at times pull water faster than a garden hose can supply. in this video, blocked drain 535, we can see the float he was working on, which is the water supply to fill the tank. when the tank is full, the float turns off the supply. you also see an elbow pipe to the left of the float which seems to be the bypass line from the pump. this water will stop flowing from the pipe when the output line is turned on and flowing, when the pump doesn't need to bypass excess pressure.
@@roughneckwolf Tiny tiny volume at that. Ollie's tank is 60L as he told me once, and he rarely has had to run back to shut down the pump and refill the tank mid-work in the jobs he recorded.
Well, today's video was a real rippin' yarn! Long-distance drain clearing, a wonky float valve fixed by our resourceful hero, a Gatorade bath, and Ratty looking like Scylla waiting for Charybdis to appear! Good show!!!
I’m lying in bed sick and this has just cheered me up awesome as always Ollie and ratty thanks all good 👍 damn that was a big lizard ratty needs to be careful
One of the fancier places you've jetted in a while. I mean, not only was there no corn, but the fountain and the golf cart to get around the estate? I did wonder if your tracer dyes were marine friendly.
A plumber doing plumbing on the plumbers equipment 👍 When in doubt hit it to make it work👌👍 That was very relaxing watching the whirlpool and the water going down.😌 Hooroo .....haven't heard that said for a long time my friend in Queensland used to say that too.👍
Worked my way through all 535 videos now since Christmas... got withdrawal symptoms now! Quick Ollie... get some more posted for us soon... I'm going 'cold turkey' here! :-)
Thanks for uploading regular videos Ollie :) your fans really looking forward to them in these hard times during this covid crisis, it always make me happy when i see you have uploaded a new video and i look forward to Ratty saying Hello! haha
I would guess the dye is mainly fluoresceine, easy to tell from the vibrant yellowish green colour and the brown-red reflective colour which is an interesting and pretty rare property it has. It's not really toxic, mostly not in that concentration, so I wouldn't worry much about the pond even if it had fish in it.
You know you are watching Drain Addict too much when there are plumbers at your job, you hear "Rigid" and you grab your phone because you don't want people to know you are watching TH-cam. Only to realize that you were watching something totally different.
Every single video I never noticed the over exaggerated arm swings because I’ve played video games. Now I can’t unsee them.
Lol
The fast one at around 19:55 had me in stitches :D
NPC walk
Same. Reminds me of Minecraft lol
Always noticed this, he definitely tries to mess with our heads 😂
The anticipation wondering what he could be working on until he says "blocked drain", gets me every time
Lmfao 🤣
Sometimes it's "blocked stormwater" or "blocked toilet"!
"blOCKed Draain"
Same here 🤣😂
Someday he's just gonna say "helicopter engine" or "organ transplant" instead of "blocked drain"
Wonder if the customers get a briefing before hand. " I will be talking to my pet rat" I swing my arms around like a madman" haha
Don't mind the rat head mask.
That gives people more to talk about to their friends and family!
Multiplies the words of mouth advertising 10X.
If I ask a man to come to my house and literally work in sheit he can walk en talk however he likes
@@sjaakspaak facts
"I love corn"
Condolences to Ratty for the untimely loss of a family member. Ollie, you got one good workout in on this one. Lots of steps and arm swings! I'm surprised you had the energy to get this video produced and uploaded! Thanks for your hard work! As usual, all good!
The poor rat
That looks like the ooze that would turn Ratty into Master Splinter.
That means Ollie might need to practice Ninjitsu in front of him.
*stares at the lizard at the start of the video*
............Yo we gonna get Godzilla from Australia. O_o
Ollie giving Ratty the mentos wrapper, doing his whole voice thing and the guy behind is probably going - WTF? Brilliant!!
Lol, I think that’s why he was off to see the shrink👍
I highly recommend the Mentos brand tracing dye. It's especially effective underneath waterfalls.
When you start with the hose from the van fully unreeled you know we are going to the next State to meet Ratty
Lol
Nah I think they met up in New Zealand, not just another state!
@@lexxie2494 he’s over in Papua New Guinea cleaning out a dirt hole.
“Things are a bit hectic at the moment.”
Pretty much sums it up.
Now that's a nasty break. Saw a lot of missing pipe there. Hoping they get it fixed. Great job, Ollie and Ratty. NY Drains found corn for Ratty today, so all good!!!
Watching this is more important than online school
+1
@Gamer69 It's educating and interesting all the same :)
Yeah. College can wait
If there is a Gamer69 then there is a Gamer420
Agreed.
I just found this channel today. Every video is like a mini adventure. "Wheres the block gonna be? Oooo a breakage!" The ridgid scout serenades our ears. Love this stuff. Youve got a badass job. Im sure you get some great satisfaction from it.
Doin his Job but in germany let met Tell you very Job is a andveture 🤣🤘🏻
I caught the jump cut after the blockage when you forgot to turn the water back on 😁, I was waiting for the run back to the van but you deprived us of this, probably for the best
Lol👍
The moment I saw he didn't turn the water i wanted to see that run back to the van.
Did I just watch a whirlpool slowly form for the past 45 minutes? Yes, and I'm damn proud of it
I guess a messy van is just part of the trade since all my dad's plumber clients have the same messy van😂 love your videos. They bring back good memories
The prep time for this job has to be unbelievable.....That's the part Ollie and Ratty spare us...Thank you!
The landscapers that planted the plants could have done the damage to the drain pipe long ago, and it's just now showing up. IMO.
G’day Ollie and Ratty! Still proudly wearing my Ratty sweater as a fashion statement here in Paris!
Thats so freakin awesome!
All good!😏👍🏻
Amazing , Ratty on the catwalk in Paris! 👍🐀
@@DrainAddict I see what you did there! Very puny
@@DrainAddict it’s a ratwalk not a catwalk!!
Aren't they great? I have a Ratty T-shirt. Brings me luck when I wear it.
I swear this man has Batman’s detective vision sniffing out them pipes and blockages and all
Just another day in the office for a Plumber , ain't nothing we can't do .
Ratman's
It's his superpower
The official US Army term for smashing something with a hard object until it works is "percussive maintenance"
@davido9208 here in England I have a special "gentlemen's precision tool" ie a hammer and when something needs a good old whack to free it up that is the application of "Bruce Forsyth". (He was a very popular presenter/entertainer/dancer/comedian/husband to Miss Worlds, who died in 2017 aged 89 after 70 years in the entertainment business.) Anyway, I use "Bruce Forsyth" instead of "brute force".
Might have to jet the jetter, I detected a bit of Ratty magic there Ollie, you marched off from the van without opening the discharge valve, despite me yelling at the screen, yet magically there was water pressure at the second reel.
Magic 👍
Cut at 20:39 heh
Same here. I felt so bad that Ollie was going to have to go all the way back to the van to turn on the discharge valve.
I did the same. I was like hes gona have to walk all the way back to the van. But he edited that part out! Lol
"When in doubt, give it a whack!" Ah yes the tried and true Unga Bunga method.
when all else fails, use a hammer.
percussive maintenance strikes again
Like an old TV, its always good to keep a wrench or other blunt object nearby in case it needs a good thump to correct the picture.
i tried the ollie walk the other day , its not as easy as one might think
Lol
He stole that from Conor McGregor...lol
@@astroboy5456 who in turn stole that from Vince McMahon
@@MrThedwp it's actually an 1770 Irish "trirg" my great grandfather use to tell me stories about the March of the wicket, it was to show a confidence of the strong and to shake the blood from the fist of war.
@@astroboy5456 that wouldn't surprise me that Vinny Mac stole it as just about everything in pro wrestling has been stolen from something else but in recent times Vince made it famous which Conor then stole to the point that people think he came up with it when that's far from the truth
Ratty, sleeping on the job, hold on...that's not ratty 😂
Ratty doesn't sleep on the job and the other rat was dead tired
Ratty earned extra corn on this job for being under water so long-hazard pay. Best channel on TH-cam. Cheers.
Ironically, I was watching this video about 15 minutes after it was uploaded, got to around the 30 minute mark and heard a gurgling sound coming from the bathroom...
The toilet and bath started to fill up with clear water. I managed to get some of the water out of the toilet to stop it overflowing, luckily. Not the greatest thing to be doing at 10pm at night. Had to call the jetter guy to jet the external drain. He said it was under a lot of pressure but it's cleared now and that it's an old 70's/early 80's 'dropper' or 'back drop' and they do often block.
Sadly, he wasn't as cool and crazy as Ollie and didn't have Ratty with him...but at least I can sleep easy tonight without waking up to a swimming pool of a flat tomorrow morning :)
When I saw how long the driveway was I knew it would be a long video. Such JOY!
ps
Wonderful artistic images !!!
Can’t get enough of these videos you upload. Thank you Ollie and Ratty.
Disposing of toxic waste with Ratty sounds cool.
22:00 Save Private Ratty! You're not an otter, you silly rat...
Even though he managed to hold his breath for a good 11 minutes, impressive.
In a country where deadly spiders and snakes could be crawling just under any bush, I admire this man's courage in getting on all four and crawling around. Perhaps this is just part of being Australian?
I can do that. I'm not afraid of spiders and snakes. I think they are cute
@@lillywright2227 Think there's an OLD song about *Spiders and Snakes* 😯
Some people really wanna sterilize the earth 😂 if you dont like wildlife move to the UK
What better than to get a new video on my friday 10mins before I get off work!! Hello to Ollie and Ratty from Ohio, USA!
Imagine, you're cooking some corn as a side dish for your family. Little do you know that in a few days a man is going to feed a piece of it to a plastic rat on youtube while thousands of people around the world watch. Wild.
All in perspective. You could drive yourself mad thinking about it too much lol
The inner workings of Ollie's set up are terribly interesting. Maybe one day he'll do a video where he talks about some pieces more!
He has an older video about his tools I'm not sure which one it is tho
@@danistador
The title is "Tools of the trade" IIRC.
easy to find, just watched it. but he doesn't go into much detail of what's in the van. what I know of it, it's basically a very large pressure washer. when he turns the water off, coming from the engine, it'll build pressure in the lines (which you can hear bogging down the engine a bit) until it reaches a high enough pressure that a bypass valve will release, which cycles the water back around into the tank on top. from what I know, most pressure washer pumps need some pressure on the inlet side, but whatever pump he's using for this, it doesn't need such a thing, and just gravity feeds from the tank on top. the tank is there because the pump can at times pull water faster than a garden hose can supply. in this video, blocked drain 535, we can see the float he was working on, which is the water supply to fill the tank. when the tank is full, the float turns off the supply. you also see an elbow pipe to the left of the float which seems to be the bypass line from the pump. this water will stop flowing from the pipe when the output line is turned on and flowing, when the pump doesn't need to bypass excess pressure.
@@lorenzo42p It looks like a small cat style triplex plunger pump. High pressure, low volume.
@@roughneckwolf
Tiny tiny volume at that. Ollie's tank is 60L as he told me once, and he rarely has had to run back to shut down the pump and refill the tank mid-work in the jobs he recorded.
Well, today's video was a real rippin' yarn! Long-distance drain clearing, a wonky float valve fixed by our resourceful hero, a Gatorade bath, and Ratty looking like Scylla waiting for Charybdis to appear!
Good show!!!
I burst out laughing at the “Ratty’s sleeping on the job” cameo
I loved watching you trouble shoot the water tank. Great vid cheers Ollie
Always excited to see a Drain Addict notification, Ollie and ratty you never disappoint
Can we give a round of applause to the flashlight for being a good whacking device
"Fresh drinking water"
*proceeds to slap it with a glove covered in some green nuclear wastewater*
And he used the same gloves to open his own personal water bottle that I know he drank out of later 🤣
HEV: Warning: Hazardous radiation levels detected.
I really love the ambient background sound of the building humming away as the water slowly goes down the drain. It's very ASMR
Even my wife asks me are you watching ratty. Every time she hears you start the compressor. Wishing you and ratty all the best from the u.k. 😎😎😎😎.
#1 fan from Idaho here! Hello Ollie and Rati!
It always makes my day too see a new video too sit back in the couch and enjoy!!! Love ya Ollie and ratty
This one was full of drama! I laughed, I cried, I had to go pee halfway through.
Rest in peace ratties furry relative 😢
I’m lying in bed sick and this has just cheered me up awesome as always Ollie and ratty thanks all good 👍 damn that was a big lizard ratty needs to be careful
👍🐀
Some of the gardens in his videos are beautiful. The paver patterns are interesting!!
I do not what it is but after working all day it is relaxing to see you work and watch water go down. Keep it up for us Americans.
Muy bueno el trabajo que realizas sigo todos tus videos yo realizó el mismo trabajo aprendo mucho con tus trabajos día a día
You did a lot of walking on this one!
Ratty’s cousin had a really bad day.
There's nothing like percussive maintenance!
I know I have said this before but you can teach the plumbers in the UK and USA so much about presenting on You Tube. Thank you
Little do we know hes the one actually making those bird noises
The smooth walk and the arm movement looks just a newer VR game hahahah
One of the fancier places you've jetted in a while. I mean, not only was there no corn, but the fountain and the golf cart to get around the estate?
I did wonder if your tracer dyes were marine friendly.
What are the sqeak noises he puts in the beginning? Crack me up every time 🤣
if ratty falls down we have the final dive scene from "the abyss"
It's my biggest fear him flushing Rattie.
Leo, Raph, Don and Mikey send their regards for sorting the ooze out.
Someone named Shredder said he's on his way though.
Not only do you get to jet pipes, but you also get to fix thing ama bobs and doohickeys. Never a dull moment.
A plumber doing plumbing on the plumbers equipment 👍 When in doubt hit it to make it work👌👍 That was very relaxing watching the whirlpool and the water going down.😌 Hooroo .....haven't heard that said for a long time my friend in Queensland used to say that too.👍
Yeah yeah we know the drill "Blocked Drain"
"Nah, today it's blocked jetter"
lol
He needs a jetter for his jetter
Most interesting channel on TH-cam
After watching many of your vides I am amazed at how your kit does not get pinched out of your van...
It's because everyone in Australia is a nice and honest person.
The smell may play a small roll also lol
Having watched the videos, and knowing where most of the kit has been, would you take it? :D
Why the hell am I so fascinated by DA's videos?! LOL.
The return of the turtle juice!
I always get so worried when ratty is close to the drain pipe, scared he’s gunna fall in all the time 😂
Love the N64 007 walk!
Ah Goldeneye, that's what it is!
The arm swing killed me 👏🏼
Can we have a Sydney Star Drains map showing all the places you've been, please? "On the left, we have the infamous Blocked Drain #464!"
Some customer would say it’s an invasion of there privacy
The companions of the Honda getting unclogged by open surgery was a pleasant plot twist.
This guys stride...hahahaha love it! Why is seeing a drain get cleared so satisfying, awesome job with these videos.
OMG! The creation of Slinter the Mutant Ninja's Sensei with the dosing of the juice
Love the waterfall, gorgeous colors & plants
That was a tough one mate. Some days you get the Bear and somedays the Bear gets you! Sorry about the loss of your friend Ratty. RIP old rat!
NO OLLIE YOU DIDNT TURN THE VALVE BACK ON!!! Man he'll have to go back
These videos are the definition of TH-cam rabbit hole. How did I get here? Good job mate.
The way he walks makes me feel like I’m in a first person game
My wife heard the kookaburra, rolled her eyes and went to another room.
rats: lets leave the sinking ship
ratty: lets go for a dive
Worked my way through all 535 videos now since Christmas... got withdrawal symptoms now! Quick Ollie... get some more posted for us soon... I'm going 'cold turkey' here! :-)
Just a really enjoyable watch,
Love the intro and the off-canter walk.
Jess from london.
Rattys cousin was proper sleeping on the job 🤣👍
Thanks for uploading regular videos Ollie :) your fans really looking forward to them in these hard times during this covid crisis, it always make me happy when i see you have uploaded a new video and i look forward to Ratty saying Hello! haha
Ollie and Ratty save lives in lockdown cos how they help mental health and keep the spirits up is priceless!
@@beatricegrand1230 Very True!
You almost had to use the jetter on itself lol
Your a mechanic at heart bro!
I would guess the dye is mainly fluoresceine, easy to tell from the vibrant yellowish green colour and the brown-red reflective colour which is an interesting and pretty rare property it has. It's not really toxic, mostly not in that concentration, so I wouldn't worry much about the pond even if it had fish in it.
Must be odd having someone kind of stand behind you and watch you work. Thanks for the videos
When you get the Rigid out, I swear it says Richard, I get a chuckle every time. "Look Rattie he's got his Richard out".
Love when you break the clog. 💚💚
but how does Ratty speak so clearly underwater? what an amazing rat.
Turns out the blockage is a collapsed pipe under the pond, which is now just a muddy pit ;)
You are the best in my home own book.Thx
Nice sneaky cut from having to run back to the van and turn on the valve on the fixed reel.
That looks suspiciously like radiator coolant!
This is one of my favourites, equipment malfunction :D
Ratty sure can hold his breath a long time.
Nice one Ollie and Ratty. Tough job there.
You know you are watching Drain Addict too much when there are plumbers at your job, you hear "Rigid" and you grab your phone because you don't want people to know you are watching TH-cam. Only to realize that you were watching something totally different.
Ratty Can Seriously Hold His Breath Is This A Record ...?
I’d say this was a rough one,you worked for it today 👍👍👍😎😎😎
The way he walks kills me, lol
Love the videos tho. The Queen must be watching!!!