Day in the life of a plumber | Adding a radiator
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2024
- Day in the life of a plumber
In todays video I add a new radiator onto an existing heating system. I show the complete job from start to finish to show you the problems and solutions we have to find as plumbers. Sometimes things have to be compromised on jobs like these, but all you can only ever do is your best
As always, thanks so much for watching, all the support is so greatly appreciated
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Left the place like you wasn't even there. Top professional work as usual Tom 👌
Thanks for the support Mike 👍
Love it when we get a new Tom plumb video, nearly half an hour too, brilliant :-)
Thanks for the support mate, I'm so pleased you are enjoying the videos, have a great weekend 👍
You really remind me of the younger me, turn up and just get on with it, no drama, no faff, just do the best you can with what's available. Great video Tom, enjoy your weekend.
Thanks for the support mate, I'm so pleased you enjoy my style, have a great weekend
What I loved about this one Tom is the fact it showed how difficult just adding one rad to a system can be! Some customers get my estimate thinking I’m robbing them. They genuinely don’t realise how difficult it can be.
Fantastic as usual 😊
That's' it mate, it's never easy, all the customer sees is a rad on the wall and the bill, they don't see anything hidden and what's actually involved, thanks for watching as always
I like the fact that you show the warts and all awkward jobs that we all get and not just the nice easy ones. Great work as ever. Personally I like awkward jobs if nothing else for the challenge.
I love a challenge as well Paul, it gets you thinking, thanks for watching as always mate
Great work mate - always good to watch. I had a good laugh when you were struggling in the 25c heat 🤣 perfect weather
I struggle in the heat, it just seems to sap my energy, thanks for watching mate 👍
I really like all your uploads you are a true professional and great person.Keep making your videos please
Thanks for the support Kevin, I'm so pleased you are enjoying the videos
Great video, hopefully you'll be able to pass on your way of working and skills, to the next generation of plumbers.
Thanks for the support mate, it is greatly appreciated
Top work as always mate 👍 I always check the smoke alarm at no extra cost too 👍😂
Thanks for the support as always Chris, it's an essential check , I reckon I should have put it on the bill
Very good work Tom , the footy not being very good hopefully they will improve Saturday evening ,have a good weekend Tom and enjoy your time.👍👍👍👍👍👍🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🍺🍺
Thanks for the support as always mate, sorry for my slow response, we have to go through it all again on Wednesday now
@@PlumbLikeTom that will be ok if just score more goals in the 100 minutes 👍👍🏴
Great video Tom , just love seeing the nitty gritty part of plumbing that we all go through , fantastic !
Thanks for the support as always Chris , hope you have a great weekend 👍
Great job Tom nothing wrong about that I would have put a couple of valves under the floor upstairs saves draining down again 👍
Fair point Kevin, I will likely bung the system when I go back, thanks for watching as always mate 👍
Hi Tom, it’s some years since I have seen any 8mm pipe, I get the occasional 10mm but microbore is not my favourite.
You did a great job especially showing the problems that can be encountered just to successfully add one radiator.
I would definitely have done it the same way as you did, to ensure the new radiator will get hot enough during the winter months.
That’s another great film thank you and you are well on the way to 10k subscribers now, it’s well deserved. Have a great weekend and as always, take care. 👍👍👍
Thanks for the support as always Chris, we are getting close to the big 10k, there is a fair bit of 8mm around me, it seems to be in houses built in the 90's, usually with the egg box type walls as well
Hope you get to 10K soon Tom. Always great videos. Fully appreciate the time spent creating these, so can understand why some 'sell out' to make it financially viable, however its nice just to watch you crack on and not ramble on about Tradify or something!
Thanks for the support as always James, we are getting close 10k now
Thanks for another great video Tom, no one can fault your work ethic, top class as always. Thank you for all the effort you put in. You will soon smash 10K subs.
Thanks for the support as always Andy, we are getting so close to 10k now
Great content Tom, done well getting onto them 15mm pipes
Thanks for the support as always James, I think it was certainly worth finding the 15mm runs
Really neat job there Tom, and very interesting to see how you go about it.
Agree about steel wool - I’ve also tried loads of things but none are as good, I found.
Thanks for the support as always Steve, you can't beat wire will, it certainly makes the pipes shine
I love the way you just go for it mate. I would often dither thinking "oh shallI do it this way or that way" and then wouldn't do it either way. Respect to you for not falling into the sponsor trap. I used to watch a couple of other guys on here and they're signed up to different companies and it's become a bit like a cult amongst what I call "the expensive soft tool bag lads brigade". They tell you that you can get this great tool bag for just £80 when you buy it through their site. I thought now I'm older and retired I'll get me one of those soft lightweight bags. So I found one with the logo "Tough Master" it matches the colours of my Dewalt and Stanley tools and cost me just 22 quid from the main online sellers. Really well made and strong. Great vid mate.
Thanks for the support as always mate, I've had a few offers from companies but I would never want to mislead my viewers into buying something I don't truly believe in. I'm happy just to make videos I enjoy, I would hate myself If I ever swayed somebody into buying something I'd been given for free, only for the product to fail.
Some of these guys make me chuckle , not Tom , he's a real plumber. They have
an expensive tool for every little eventuality and think they're the best plumbers on Gods earth. Would love to see how they get on threading a bit of 2"pipe or doing a shutdown on a time limit with some manager breathing down your neck.
No the best plumbers are the guys doing the gritty stuff , working in a hospital undercroft for instance , not seen by anyone , out of sight but doing vital work.
@@paullbennett2923 Yes I agree, there are so many plumbing gods on YT who are always telling us that when they charge £200 to change a tap washer/cartridge that people are paying for their skill and knowledge and specialist tools. They make me laugh. I started off in the early 80's with 2 spanners and a 5 quid blow torch and when I retired 17 years ago I still didn't have one of those special tools for applying flux. How had I managed through all of those years.
Another good vid Tom. It was a bit of a sweaty weeks plumbing wasn't it. And for the record yes Scotland were robbed. 😂
Thanks for the support as always Tom, it certainly was a hot one, Scotland did get a bit unlucky but didn't really create enough
Nice work tom, I think would have done the drops in copper and sweated 90° bends for the rad tails
Fair point Andrew, thanks for the support as always mate
Great video and shows perfectly how you have to think on your feet.
Thanks for the support as always mate, glad you enjoyed
Nearly 10k and well deserved Tom, I understand you turning down sponsors etc, and don’t put yourself down honestly your work is up there with the best.
Thanks for the support as always Charles, it is so greatly appreciated
Well done Tom. Showed the thought process well.
And yes I am sure many plumbers would have taken the easy option and connect on to the 10mil.
Thanks for the support as always Colin, I've seen it done a few times in the past on jobs like these
Micro-bore always a pain. Great work Tom excellent video
It is Mark, thanks for the support as always
Nice content Tom, I like the way you have also thought of potential further work at the property when someone puts their curtain hooks too far back and drill through the pipe! It’s never happened to me ………….. honest😉👍🏻
Thanks for the support as always mate, hopefully they go for the blinds that fit within the window reveal, it will save them drilling my pipes
Thanks Tom another great down to earth video 👍
Thanks for the support as always John, glad you enjoyed, have a great weekend 👍
Nice job tom👍
Thanks for the support Patrick 👍
Tom I will say one thing. You're some man, for the one man! Really enjoy your videos. Fair play to ye! Ye definitely know your stuff. Keep up the good work! Cheers from Berlin! 👍
Thanks for the support Ray, I'm so pleased you are enjoying the videos
Another great video. I always put collet clips on when i use speedfit just gives me a bit more reassurance
Thanks for the support Darryl, I need to order some in, nobody stocks them around here
@@PlumbLikeTom I always find the odd pack in screwfix
Lovely old job Tom
Thanks for the support as always Andy
Top job tom
I hate chipboard floors
Agreed, thanks for watching mate
That's how I used to be Tom .go to an unknown job .
Just have to do the best you can with what you have been given .
Customers sometimes think its an easy job to do .but sadly not always .keep up the good work to .👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks for the support as always John, hope you have a great weekend 👍
enjoy your weekend tom, thanks for another awesome vid 🤣
Good job jobbed Tom, tight roof space on a hot day, you can’t beat it 🤪good result though, and easy for everyone to follow, even a plasterer can’t moan surely 👍take care and have a great weekend 🚽👍
Thanks for the support as always Peter, I'm sure the plasterers will find something to moan about
Great video Tom👍
Thanks for the support Jack 👍
Great video as usual Tom, have a relaxing weekend.
Thanks for the support as always Steve, hope you have a great weekend 👍
Great video mate. ❤️
Thanks for the support as always mate 👍
Nice job, thanks for the video.
Thanks for the support Mark, glad you enjoyed
Great video thank you for showing all the details 👏👍
Thanks for watching mate, glad you enjoyed
Good work tom. Looking forward to the videos
Thanks for the support as always mate, there should be some good stuff coming, I've got loads filmed I just need to find time to edit it all
Great job Tom, great video too. Have a good weekend 👍😎
Thanks for the support as always Pb, hope you have a great weekend
Great content Tom love the videos.
Thanks for the support Gerry, I'm so pleased you enjoy my videos
Great job
Thanks for the support as always Ian 👍
I always have used steel wool mate, it's just what my dad used. Great video as always mate keep it up
You can't go wrong with steel wool, it's cheap and lasts ages, thanks for watching as always Gary
Good video Tom, I used to like doing that type of job.👍
Thanks for watching as always mate, I enjoy these jobs as well, nothing to stressful
Great video as alwaysTom
Thanks for the support as always Keith 👍
Super 😊😊😊😊😊
Thanks for the support as always Ross, it is greatly appreciated 👍
i saw you chiselling the wall ! told you many times before, wrong tool! its essential you use a vde screwdriver for concrete 😜👍
Love your content, had to give up plumbing due to health reasons but would love to get back to it, your content is just down and dirty just like I had to put up with, true to life. But I must say I was pissed at your comment when you said you wernt worthy, bollocks my friend, you are a true life insperation and a true to life plumber, stop putting yourself down, there are so many piss poor plumbers on here that chery pick content, nothing to do with real life, good luck bud and enjoy.
Thanks for the support mate, I'm sorry to hear about your health problems. I'm so pleased you enjoy my videos.
Great video Tom, you make things look so easy. Which English football team do you support?
Thanks for watching Max, I support Lincoln City, I only go to a couple of games a season though so I'm not really a proper fan.
Great video Tom . Do you work alone most of the time why don’t you have Jacob working with more often to make life easier.
It just depends what jobs I have and how busy I am, It is nice working with someone else but when there are loads of jobs we have to split up, if we need a hand we help each other out
Enjoyed that Tom, thank you. How's the running going btw?
Thanks for the support as always mate, the running has slowed down a bit because of the hot weather, I'm going to try and do 5k plus today though
Another great vid tom...would you have been happy to t off for thst rad if pipe was 10mm rather than 8mm pipe...just curious..always learning thanks ...
Not without a disclaimer, I've been bitten before and it's cost me, if the customer is fully aware it might not work I will but if there is an alternative I will always try that, thanks for the support as always Paul
That’s how I would have done it Tom❤
Thanks for the support as always Glyn, hope you are feeling better
Client was lucky you have integrity. Another might have tapped into the 8mm and run fast.
I've seen it done, thanks for watching as always mate 👍
Hi Tom, i would have done that job the same way as you, as you know teeing off 8mm would have not worked properly due to each rad having drops downs from a 15mm ring in the ceiling, some job are pain but plummers are magicians/wizards in some people eyes😎they don't know what's involved, just put me a rad under that window please🤪🤪
That's' it mate, it's never easy, all the customer sees is a rad on the wall and the bill, they don't see anything hidden and what's actually involved, thanks for watching as always
BRING BACK THE RAIN!
Agreed, thanks for the support as always
Good job Tom. I hate microbore pipes. Interesting looked like there was some insulation on the edge of ceiling? Got a feel of someone couldn't be a*sed finishing or went walkies with insulation? Don't to jink England will be going far on their performance so far?
Thanks for watching mate, the builder is going to insulate the roof space now, I up sized my radiator a bit because I wasn't sure so it should be nice and warm in there now
Plumbers making a mess,never happens lol
We certainly do Tom, thanks for watching as always mate 👍
did you work out Regulations Formula before drilling into the JOIST ?
It is difficult on jobs like these because I couldn't see the end of the joist to work out where on the span I was drilling. On Mondays video that's coming out I do show the correct way and explain where and how big you can drill in joists, thanks for watching as always mate
Do you check the pump speed at all when you're heating up the system? Cuz i find that people putting new boilers onto old systems that unless upgrade the whole system then it just wont heat the property properly and we've all been losing heat and thus money for decades now!? Ta
I always check and balance the entire system when I change a boiler, if the pump of zone valves look old I always include them in my quote as you can fit a new boiler and get a call back to something stupid, thanks for the support as always mate
what do you mean by the pumped side of Y plan system
I needed to connect the pipes on after the pump, and on the heating side of the 3 port for it to work properly. I couldn't just connect onto the flow and returns on the boiler, as the circuit wouldn't have another control, and the radiator would come on when ever the boiler fired for either hot water or heating
always wonder how 10mm speedfit works, by the time an insert is in there's a tiny hole for the water flow
It does worry me a bit as well Pete, I keep the runs as short as possible so if it ever blocks you can connect a pump on it and blast the crap out
Ideal classic, indirect, fully pumped, 3 port system. Open H cold feed and vent. Poor water quality, microbore 8mm. I know it's not in your spec but surely the customer must think about having it all out and not adding another radiator?
I agree, it is difficult on these types of jobs to explain to the customer that the system needs money spending on it, thanks for watching
That was a lovely little job Tom considering how hot it was in that attic, you make it look so easy as always mate,
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Thanks for the support as always Tony, the heat makes the job so much harder, it just saps energy
tom, please stop putting the quality of your work down, your up there with the best, i have seen some atrocious crap done by so called professionals. got to be a flat cap giveaway at 10k. suprised nike not been in touch, aerodynamic flat cap for jogging 🤣 .
Thanks for the support as always Pete, I should have a special 10k hat made up and give that away 😀
I've got a leak coming from my tf1 filter and the isolation valves it is connected to do I need to drain my central heating system fully in order to remove the tf1 filter and the isolation valves I have a gravity fed system with a immersion heater in one of the upstairs cupboards
You might just get away with isolating the filter itself, the valves are normally ok on these but the washers themselves do leak, they sell a service kit with all the washers and orings you should need
@PlumbLikeTom I've managed to replace washers and now fixed leaks other problem I have now is green light on worcester boiler won't fire up
What app do you use Tom?
I use mr combi calculator, its good because you can put your flow and return temperatures in, I did upsize this rad because I wasn't sure on the insulation, the builder is going to now insulate the roof void, thanks for watching as always Dave 👍
hi who do you think will win the Euros?
It's tough to say but Spain look decent, before the tournament I would have said France but they have not looked that good, thanks for watching as always 👍
Great vid Tom, Question for you mate . I’m fairly new in the trade only qualified earlier this year
I’m on a job where the meter has been relocated so I’m forced to do quite a long run in 28mm.
It’s basically coming up the side of the bungalow through the loft and down the hall way wall to connect on to the old gas outlet (and tee off to boiler and hob)
Reasons for this seems the builder didn’t want to rip up this elderly lady’s floor etc .
Have you ever had to run many gas pipes internally ? It’s seems abit of an eye sore. I’m going to label it with gas tape but again it’s not great to look at !
Gas pipes can be a bit of an eye sore but there's not much you can always do. I have run them internally before, all you can do is try to keep them into corners as best as possible to make the possibility of boxing easier. Technically you don't have to label domestic gas pipes, but I sometimes think its good practice
@@PlumbLikeTom thanks for the reply Tom. I appreciate it!