Like many people watching, I just recently found your channel with the explosion of popularity it has had this last week, but I gotta say man I've been watching like 10 of your videos or more a day and I just love the content. I get to learn while being entertained and that's my favorite combination for sure. It's also amazing to see the way you have gained so many subscribers making videos about what you are passionate about, and it's well deserved with the quality you put in too
Best one I've seen. Friend had the drywall behind his shower in his second story apartment starting to look water damaged half way up the wall. I looked told him a pipe was leaking from behind and running or spraying on the drywall. Before the landlord came by to fix it (6-8 weeks later) the drywall collapsed exposing the pipes behind. The issue... the spring on the vicegrips holding the valve and the showerhead line together had rusted and snapped. Every time they turned the shower on it would spray and because the shower was on they never heard running or leaking water. Best part... when the landlord did come he quickly installed a new pair of vicegrips and drywalled over the issue.
@Chump Tard yeah the last two landlords i had made me give up renting and buy a house. One cost me a fridge and a New $3000 PC because the electrical was FAR from "to code". The second cost me $2700 in hot water taking nearly 7 months to fix a shower that was losing 3 gallons a min by the 6 month mark. Not including all the mold on my furniture and anything in a closet. I would have fixed it myself but it was tiled over cinder block (internal) walls with pipes running in the blocks. I keep good records tho so each of them paid me back through landlord tenant boards. Wasn't worth the stress tho. SUCKS to be a perfect tenant who takes care of the place never misses a payment and gets stuck with a bad landlord.
@@Hell4Gamers I had 2 rentals, one had a great tenant paid on time, fixed stuff with her money, before asking me, I refunded the money, and told her to call me for prompt response and repair next time. Had another tenant, Brenda Shelton, was a retired Marine, and a full time middle school teacher. She trashed, ruined the house, left her dog locked in the bedroom in 85 degree heat, and , screwed me out of $15,000.00 . Oh well.
At 22 started working at the plumbing department in home depot couldn't tell the difference between cpvc and pvc piping but now im learning something new with the help of your channel thank you brother!
I love this man, really. He shows some much passion for his job. And he also takes time to do stuff like that too. This kind of videos are really great because he's just no bashing things up for views, he analyse what he sees and try to figure things out. And sometimes, he also explain why it is, THAT bad. You know that some good sh*t when you can get hooked on a channel about things that you usually don't care about.
Mr. Wakefield, I love your videos. I just wanted to share that my grandfather owned a plumbing company in midland that my dad worked for. And the both of them have taught me so much about plumbing, and now that I am 25 years old the three of us have a tradition that anytime we are working on a plumbing job and we are about finished, we check for leaks. Whoever did the installation and has leaks has to buy a round of beers for everybody. Again love the videos keep up the good work.
New sub here, love the videos! I've been in the plumbing and HVAC game up here in Elk County Pa. for 33 years, 23 years on my own. Just when you think you have seen it all....somebody comes along and blows your mind. what got me to subscribe, was a video I was watching and you made a comment about no real plumber will use a SharkBite fitting. Boy I couldn't agree more I'm an old-school guy I like my copper. Hey, with all the shark bite, flexy p traps and the ice machine piercing valves, that pretty much keeps job security haha
Roger you and the team have been crushing it! Congrats on your success, brother!!! Can’t wait until we can catch up again at a conference whenever we’re able to do it again.
The whacky plumbing pic must have cost over $2500 in materials alone judging by the amount of shark bite fitting....that's nuts........that pvc shower was pretty creative though, very primitive
I nce purchased a home, knowing that some repairs were due. Getting the house at a very reasonable price made it a great deal, but there were, of course, some surprises. One such head scratcher was the kitchen sink drain. The fittings had been "sealed" with candle wax. In case anyone thinks they'd like to copy this technique, it didn't work. An oddity was the backward plumbing. Every fixture in the house had hot on the right, cold on the left. (The light switch in the bathroom was also located behind the door, and the shutoff valve for the water heater were behind the tank, near the floor, in a corner. The pipes had to be disconnect and the water heater moved to even find the valve.)
Laguna Beach CA We used to call it "plumbing grenades" like someone threw a grenade in the room and BOOM wherever it lies it lies. My favorite was galvanized to copper (no union) to pvc back to galvanized back to copper, teed off for a hose bib and house feed... which the entire inside of the house was galvanized... awesome!
Man Roger, I just stumbled across your channel looking for more information to further my knowledge. I love it. 2 year plumbing apprentice outta Fort Worth, looking forward to more videos and to watching things you've all ready posted. Man this is a deep rabbit hole. Best regards, Chase H.
3:00 The grey sleeve reminds me of a connector of some sewage tubes used for washing machines. 10:06 If you do not have enough pipe clips: Just add more filters. They might hold all the stuff in place. For a while at least. Maybe. ^^
Here in my municipality, you are allowed to join pvc pipe to a cast iron hub via lead and oakum. Not allowed to do so underground as shown in that last picture however.
I have seen lead and okum joints with cast iron and PVC. The okum will maintain the seal if it stays wet. I still wonder about the hot lead and plastic however.
From an electrician's point of view. The second from the last picture was scary...Cloth wrapped wiring, that stuff is about as safe as knob and tube wiring. That wiring is older than Roger, way older. If you plumbers see that in the field, call your electrician buddy to take a look at that, it could save your life.
Not to hijack Roger's comment section, but I have one that may make you smile. After arriving on a job site to replace the main panel in an RV, I followed their shore power cord to the garage. It was wired directly to the buss bar in a 100A panel. Cloth wrapped wire coming in from all directions, most w/o strain relief. The panel was actually radiating heat! The owner told me it had worked that way for over 40 years, and refused to call a licensed electrician. About an hour later, the garage caught on fire, with the panel as origin. Video on my channel titled "fire in Snohomish". 😁
Roger Wakefield Im a new subscriber and really enjoying the vids man, I've been hooked ever since my first video and really enjoy your commentary and insight. Keep doing your thing man!
Hey, could you do one of those play by play overlay videos with these (like on American football), where you draw over the picture with arrows n stuff. Get a tablet and stylus :) love it.
When I was little, my younger brother and I were throwing darts at a dartboard in our basement. I threw a dart and of course it missed and hit the copper water line. Me being the genius kid I am, decided to wrap blue painters tape around the hole. Spoiler alert: it only worked long enough for me to think it would hold for a long time. It did not.
Now, I'm not saying it's OK to do but duct tape can keep a *drain* pipe from leaking. They aren't pressurized. Water basically just runs down them using gravity. If you had a leaking drain from your sink or something that you found late Friday evening, you can probably get away with taping the hell out of it until Monday morning when you can get parts or a plumber. The problem comes when it actually works too well so people just basically say eff it and leave it like that until the problem gets worse again.
I am a handyman with very little interest in much plumbing, I found you by look up how to do jobs the rite way. If I cannot do a job properly or I feel it’s over my knowledge level I just tell the homeowner they have to get a plumber to take care of it. It goes a long way with my reputation because a homeowner would rather hear you don’t know how to do it than try anyways and screw it up costing them more money in the long run.
I once used plumbers tape years ago, for a TEMPORARY FIX, and replaced the pipes a week later. I can't imagine using duck tape or concrete. That's just another level I'm not ready to go to.
Hello, Roger saw the video and it was very entertaining! I couldn't help but notice on the crazy plumbing picture (the one that should be sponsored by sharkbite) haha, you forgot to point out on the tankless water heater that the fresh air vent is taking in fresh air from the room!! Not outside! Now I have been in the trades my whole life my father owned a construction business for 25 years, I started my HVAC apprenticeship with a commercial company that did a whole array of work from digging and installing septic systems to installing huge tankless water heaters, I basically did it all learned a lot doing it and I enjoyed doing it! Now the master plumber that trained me told me it is very important on the tankless water heaters to run the exhaust and the vent directly outside, it can be PVC because it does not get hot enough to melt and that's the current building code where I live. If the unit does not get enough fresh air the unit will not fire up and function properly. This was proven true to me when I rolled up on a job and something similar to what I saw here happened. The fresh air vent was run under an enclosed porch and wasn't directly ran outside in the open, It kept tripping a code on the board that resulted in a misfire and eventually it disabled the unit. Very funny to watch tho! Keep it going!
They just pulled the green gobbler commercial off of TH-cam. I guess people got fed up with all their lies. Thanks to you we know the truth. Thanks Roger Wakefield. I appreciate your honesty. At least you’re not a liar and BS seeing people and telling them a product works when it doesn’t. I give you thumbs up.👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😁😁😁😀
My dad told me when he was working on a boiler once half the pipes were bent and sagging and one was broken and they just taped it together with SCOTCH TAPE
Recently found this channel and so far really like it. Learned quite a bit and got a lot of entertainment along the way. Only thing wrong is you being a Texas fan, Boomer Sooner. Keep up the good work
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet. The filter sharkbite nightmare "softener" is actually another filter. I work at Lowes in the plumbing department and we used to sell this unit. I love watching your videos!
I am the handy man in our home. i fix the pvc line for the water, i replaced the old float system for our toilet bowl for the newer push button type and i replaced the busted P trap of our sink and i have to tell you, You will find happiness and pride in doing plumbing work if you know that you are doing it well and you are doing it right.
just started watching your stuff since im a handyman i guess and wanted to learn a thing or two about the proper way to do plumbing since im not too familiar and sometimes i need to try and "fix" things around the house when they happen (love your videos so far btw) i was just curious if you could show your mouse when viewing the pictures because i get the feeling your moving it around where your talking about but i have no idea what it is or where keep up the great vids though and thank you in advance ^_^
Flex seal and joint tape are two of my favorite handyman solutions for leaks. A pvc pipe in my parents basement was leaking(shooting water) and it didn’t smell like sewage so I wrapped it with some stretchy white tap and put flex seal take around the joint. It’s been 4-5 years and is still sealed.
I will say this to play devils advocate. There have been times over my career so far that I mcguyver something together as a stop gap to get someone out of an emergency to come back with the proper repair in a day or 2, especially during late night on call situations with advanced problems. Only for the customer to say they’re just gonna hold off until my “repair” actually fails. It kills me every time, once I even went out in my spare time and gave them the cheapest version of a legitimate repair practically for free because i felt it was unsafe to leave it beyond that night. I can’t imagine any plumber doing stuff like this and not feeling anxious knowing it’s being treated like permanent. The number of people who seem to be content living over an open sewage pit really amazes me.
Hye I just stumbled upon your channel and I have to say thank you. Hearing about the tips on your channel, tips from a plumber with a real company and reputation to uphold have and will save me time, health, and money. Thank you again
Duct tape is "perfect" for non-pressurized applications. It's like the crescent wrench of fittings; one size fits all. >>;=) Wacky plumbing must've had a $300 gift card for sharkbites and used ALL of it LOL
My family was renting a house for 10 years. The owner decided she was getting a rental management company. Our outside water tank (those really big ones that lay on their side) every once in a while we had to drain and scoop out sand or we would start getting sand in out water (we had a water pump, not city connection) so we call the company because we are getting sand, they someone out there that drains the tank and thats it. We call again, they come out, drain the tank and then move the outlet piping from the top of the tank to the bottom of the tank (sand sink so idk how they expected us to NOT get sand in our water) my uncles has to drain the tank and scoop out the sand. About a year after this the tank develops a leak, we call the company, they say they will come out, week later nothing, so my cousin puts a big ass nail in the hole to get it to stop leaking, it works for a week, company still hasnt come out. The nail shoots off on week 2 so my cousin outs the nail in the hole and a piece of wood on a scissor jack to hold the nail in the hole, its still leaking but not as bad. This works for week 3, company hasnt come out, week 4 the tank decides its had it and a big ass hole just develops. FINALLY after much bitching the company comes out and sends someone to change the tank, brand new, looked beautiful, they kept the bottom outlet connection, which we thought was stupid but whatever. They leave the old, corroded tank on the property and when we moved out almost a year later the management property has the audacity to try to charge us for removal of the old water that THEY LEFT ON THE PROPERTY!!! But anyways that is my family’s rigging of a water tank.
My most frustrating Plumbing issue is I bought a really nice $800 tankless water heater and $200+ of Wiring. Then realized installing a 240v tankless heater in a 120v supplied house should be done by an electrician. I don't care what Oms's law says I don't play with zappity zap things.
Hey Roger! Love your videos! I’m not a plumber but a locksmith and some of the things I see daily done wrong are crazy 😜, I would love to see maybe a mouse cursor on the screen to see what you’re pointing out bc I don’t know all the names and stuff like that out to what you’re referring to. Thank you!
Yeah it looks like the bucket is used for water changes lol, people either get a drum or a bucket depending on output of RODI and size of fish tank. I'm only familiar with the blue one but I kind of wonder if this is a saltwater setup bc u have like 3 filters attached to that thing.
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Absolutely. It never surprises me how people screw stuff up 🤣
Yes I do enjoy these
@Roger Wakefield Yes!
Yes please
Honestly, I'm not a plumber, I'm not a homeowner but damn is this interesting to look at
Same I’m 13 and watching videos on plumbing not that I want to be a plumber but it’s enjoyable
Same
I thought my plumbing was bad cause I accidentally put cold water on the left instead of the right for my bath/shower.
I was very... very wrong.
I have an interest in home construction but they denied me the classes in high school due to my disability.
@@fuzzybuzzy3159 that sucks man you should try talk to a higher up in your school
Like many people watching, I just recently found your channel with the explosion of popularity it has had this last week, but I gotta say man I've been watching like 10 of your videos or more a day and I just love the content. I get to learn while being entertained and that's my favorite combination for sure. It's also amazing to see the way you have gained so many subscribers making videos about what you are passionate about, and it's well deserved with the quality you put in too
Plumbing is a life style🤣😎
same
Ohh...I have lots more crazy pics/videos coming your way, soon.
Thanks Joe blow
Thanks Joe Blow
Mmmm I cannot wait!
Oh look at the thick raisin
Thanks joe blow
You must have a strong brain to see all of this pain
Roger, the fact that you manage to keep a job and be a youtuber is insane, congrats on being a good plumber too!
That black ring in the first pic almost looks like a roll of black duct tape 😂
They basically just removed the cardboard in the middle
Haha thinking the same thing but its the roll itself not the tape
Best one I've seen. Friend had the drywall behind his shower in his second story apartment starting to look water damaged half way up the wall. I looked told him a pipe was leaking from behind and running or spraying on the drywall.
Before the landlord came by to fix it (6-8 weeks later) the drywall collapsed exposing the pipes behind.
The issue... the spring on the vicegrips holding the valve and the showerhead line together had rusted and snapped.
Every time they turned the shower on it would spray and because the shower was on they never heard running or leaking water.
Best part... when the landlord did come he quickly installed a new pair of vicegrips and drywalled over the issue.
@Chump Tard yeah the last two landlords i had made me give up renting and buy a house. One cost me a fridge and a New $3000 PC because the electrical was FAR from "to code". The second cost me $2700 in hot water taking nearly 7 months to fix a shower that was losing 3 gallons a min by the 6 month mark. Not including all the mold on my furniture and anything in a closet.
I would have fixed it myself but it was tiled over cinder block (internal) walls with pipes running in the blocks.
I keep good records tho so each of them paid me back through landlord tenant boards. Wasn't worth the stress tho.
SUCKS to be a perfect tenant who takes care of the place never misses a payment and gets stuck with a bad landlord.
@@Hell4Gamers I had 2 rentals, one had a great tenant paid on time, fixed stuff with her money, before asking me, I refunded the money, and told her to call me for prompt response and repair next time. Had another tenant, Brenda Shelton, was a retired Marine, and a full time middle school teacher. She trashed, ruined the house, left her dog locked in the bedroom in 85 degree heat, and , screwed me out of $15,000.00 . Oh well.
@@treeguyable Yeah, sounds like another one of those professional renters who never pay for the roof over their head. Just nuts.
At 22 started working at the plumbing department in home depot couldn't tell the difference between cpvc and pvc piping but now im learning something new with the help of your channel thank you brother!
I love that almost every plumber can be so sarcastic, to the point where you cant tell if they are being serious or not 😂
As a first year apprentice plumber, it can make it difficult to learn 🤣
Plumbers learn to be pretty deadpan, after all the literal and figurative s*** they have to put up with!
I love this man, really.
He shows some much passion for his job.
And he also takes time to do stuff like that too.
This kind of videos are really great because he's just no bashing things up for views, he analyse what he sees and try to figure things out.
And sometimes, he also explain why it is, THAT bad.
You know that some good sh*t when you can get hooked on a channel about things that you usually don't care about.
Mr. Wakefield, I love your videos. I just wanted to share that my grandfather owned a plumbing company in midland that my dad worked for. And the both of them have taught me so much about plumbing, and now that I am 25 years old the three of us have a tradition that anytime we are working on a plumbing job and we are about finished, we check for leaks. Whoever did the installation and has leaks has to buy a round of beers for everybody. Again love the videos keep up the good work.
1:46 I think its a roll of duct tape and the "glue" is JB weld.
Definitely JB Weld. Fernco couplings must not exist on this planet!
Jeez. The cost of that many shark bites. Could have hired a plumber for that.
Gotta love that sharkbite job. That's like $1000 worth of fittings!
New sub here, love the videos!
I've been in the plumbing and HVAC game up here in Elk County Pa. for 33 years, 23 years on my own. Just when you think you have seen it all....somebody comes along and blows your mind.
what got me to subscribe, was a video I was watching and you made a comment about no real plumber will use a SharkBite fitting.
Boy I couldn't agree more I'm an old-school guy I like my copper.
Hey, with all the shark bite, flexy p traps and the ice machine piercing valves, that pretty much keeps job security haha
Just come to Central America and you can film incorrect plumbing all day long 👍
Wait y’all have plumbing?
Roger you and the team have been crushing it! Congrats on your success, brother!!! Can’t wait until we can catch up again at a conference whenever we’re able to do it again.
Hey my dad is a plumber and loves to watch’s your vids during his lunch break
Just wanna say well done for the huge growth recently! You deserver it
The whacky plumbing pic must have cost over $2500 in materials alone judging by the amount of shark bite fitting....that's nuts........that pvc shower was pretty creative though, very primitive
I nce purchased a home, knowing that some repairs were due. Getting the house at a very reasonable price made it a great deal, but there were, of course, some surprises. One such head scratcher was the kitchen sink drain. The fittings had been "sealed" with candle wax. In case anyone thinks they'd like to copy this technique, it didn't work.
An oddity was the backward plumbing. Every fixture in the house had hot on the right, cold on the left. (The light switch in the bathroom was also located behind the door, and the shutoff valve for the water heater were behind the tank, near the floor, in a corner. The pipes had to be disconnect and the water heater moved to even find the valve.)
Laguna Beach CA
We used to call it "plumbing grenades" like someone threw a grenade in the room and BOOM wherever it lies it lies.
My favorite was galvanized to copper (no union) to pvc back to galvanized back to copper, teed off for a hose bib and house feed... which the entire inside of the house was galvanized... awesome!
I'm new to the channel, and absolutely love the editing already haha. Excellent use of the metal gear alert sound 👌
10:22 Watching Roger try to dissect that mess was so funny! 😂
Roger is A LOT nicer than me about these ugly/moronic plumbing pictures
Man Roger, I just stumbled across your channel looking for more information to further my knowledge. I love it. 2 year plumbing apprentice outta Fort Worth, looking forward to more videos and to watching things you've all ready posted. Man this is a deep rabbit hole.
Best regards, Chase H.
3:00 The grey sleeve reminds me of a connector of some sewage tubes used for washing machines.
10:06 If you do not have enough pipe clips: Just add more filters. They might hold all the stuff in place. For a while at least. Maybe. ^^
5:35 Home owner special 😂
I know if you attach two P-Traps you can get an S-Trap, but at that point wouldn't you call it a PeePee Trap lol
Dang, the water heater with the T&P valve closed off and the flue completely disconnected was a death trap! As always, great content!
Here in my municipality, you are allowed to join pvc pipe to a cast iron hub via lead and oakum. Not allowed to do so underground as shown in that last picture however.
I have seen lead and okum joints with cast iron and PVC. The okum will maintain the seal if it stays wet. I still wonder about the hot lead and plastic however.
9:30 "today's sponsor is SharkBite fittings"
Man roger those duck tape jokes are on point 😂😂😂, love the videos man
I love watching professionals critique others' work
“If your a plumber, or even just a home owner”
Me, a 12 year old who wants to be a game designer: *worryingly blinks twice in quick succession*
His mic cord lay out is a good look into his work ethic and quality.
From an electrician's point of view. The second from the last picture was scary...Cloth wrapped wiring, that stuff is about as safe as knob and tube wiring. That wiring is older than Roger, way older. If you plumbers see that in the field, call your electrician buddy to take a look at that, it could save your life.
Not to hijack Roger's comment section, but I have one that may make you smile. After arriving on a job site to replace the main panel in an RV, I followed their shore power cord to the garage. It was wired directly to the buss bar in a 100A panel. Cloth wrapped wire coming in from all directions, most w/o strain relief. The panel was actually radiating heat! The owner told me it had worked that way for over 40 years, and refused to call a licensed electrician. About an hour later, the garage caught on fire, with the panel as origin. Video on my channel titled "fire in Snohomish". 😁
Didn’t realise how early I was lol cool videos keep em coming.
Roger Wakefield Im a new subscriber and really enjoying the vids man, I've been hooked ever since my first video and really enjoy your commentary and insight. Keep doing your thing man!
Hey, could you do one of those play by play overlay videos with these (like on American football), where you draw over the picture with arrows n stuff. Get a tablet and stylus :) love it.
Great video Roger, keep up the great work!!
When I was little, my younger brother and I were throwing darts at a dartboard in our basement. I threw a dart and of course it missed and hit the copper water line. Me being the genius kid I am, decided to wrap blue painters tape around the hole. Spoiler alert: it only worked long enough for me to think it would hold for a long time. It did not.
You're only mistake was not using duct tape, as we all know duct tape fixes everything
Okay the thumbnail threw me way off! Who duck tapes their pipes?
You'd be surprised....
Now, I'm not saying it's OK to do but duct tape can keep a *drain* pipe from leaking. They aren't pressurized. Water basically just runs down them using gravity. If you had a leaking drain from your sink or something that you found late Friday evening, you can probably get away with taping the hell out of it until Monday morning when you can get parts or a plumber. The problem comes when it actually works too well so people just basically say eff it and leave it like that until the problem gets worse again.
😅😅😅
It's because of all the poop shots in your videos that I've vowed to never touch another piece of plumbing again 😂
Ive just come across your videos and im binging em! You're funny and informative emd honest and i love it! Keep up the awesome work!
Oooohhhh I love these, glad I'm early!
I would love to see more of these. Very very entertaining!
Reminds me of when a customer says “I can do it but I just don’t have the time or tools.” This is what they would get if the had the time/tools.
I love the content man , Keep it up!
This is some crazy stuff! But I'm mainly watching your videos to hear you say "pop." Galvanized pop, PVC pop, cast iron pop... love it!
5:32 "They just didn't use enough duct tape. That's all that's wrong with it." Lmao
I am a handyman with very little interest in much plumbing, I found you by look up how to do jobs the rite way. If I cannot do a job properly or I feel it’s over my knowledge level I just tell the homeowner they have to get a plumber to take care of it. It goes a long way with my reputation because a homeowner would rather hear you don’t know how to do it than try anyways and screw it up costing them more money in the long run.
Been watching your videos for some time now, and just realized your a fellow Dallas plumber! Keep up the good work.
Welp. Quarantine brought me here and I do not regret it one bit. As a contractor myself it’s always nice to see someone else take pride in their work.
Roger at day: Roger Wakefield
Roger at night: Roger Sleepfield
This channel just blew up so suddenly because this guy makes plumbing so interesting.
I’m not a plumber or an apprentice but for some reason these videos are really entertaining to watch
I once used plumbers tape years ago, for a TEMPORARY FIX, and replaced the pipes a week later. I can't imagine using duck tape or concrete. That's just another level I'm not ready to go to.
I'm not even a plumber, but I love watching these... You're really charismatic and seem easygoing .
Thank you so much
A Plumbing We Will Go is a good episode.
I was fired from my apprenticeship because of my epilepsy and your videos help me keep learning while im figuring these seizures out. Thank you 😊
Hello, Roger saw the video and it was very entertaining! I couldn't help but notice on the crazy plumbing picture (the one that should be sponsored by sharkbite) haha, you forgot to point out on the tankless water heater that the fresh air vent is taking in fresh air from the room!! Not outside! Now I have been in the trades my whole life my father owned a construction business for 25 years, I started my HVAC apprenticeship with a commercial company that did a whole array of work from digging and installing septic systems to installing huge tankless water heaters, I basically did it all learned a lot doing it and I enjoyed doing it! Now the master plumber that trained me told me it is very important on the tankless water heaters to run the exhaust and the vent directly outside, it can be PVC because it does not get hot enough to melt and that's the current building code where I live. If the unit does not get enough fresh air the unit will not fire up and function properly. This was proven true to me when I rolled up on a job and something similar to what I saw here happened. The fresh air vent was run under an enclosed porch and wasn't directly ran outside in the open, It kept tripping a code on the board that resulted in a misfire and eventually it disabled the unit. Very funny to watch tho! Keep it going!
Love the video! I'm not a pro but have had my share of plumbing nightmares.. Love the content! Subbed!
Wow Roger. Amazing videos of late.
They just pulled the green gobbler commercial off of TH-cam. I guess people got fed up with all their lies. Thanks to you we know the truth. Thanks Roger Wakefield. I appreciate your honesty. At least you’re not a liar and BS seeing people and telling them a product works when it doesn’t. I give you thumbs up.👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😁😁😁😀
I love these crazy pictures people send in, it's pretty great. Love the vids Roger, keep it going!
I actually liked that makeshift PVC shower, it wasn't too bad, just a bit weird. Lol.
My dad told me when he was working on a boiler once half the pipes were bent and sagging and one was broken and they just taped it together with SCOTCH TAPE
I am 17 and i have been wondering what i want to do in life and i think i’ve decided on plumbing, you were a big inspiration.
Wow! The guy who installed the filtration system must have been
Related to the guy who put the water heater in!
Recently found this channel and so far really like it. Learned quite a bit and got a lot of entertainment along the way. Only thing wrong is you being a Texas fan, Boomer Sooner. Keep up the good work
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet. The filter sharkbite nightmare "softener" is actually another filter. I work at Lowes in the plumbing department and we used to sell this unit. I love watching your videos!
7:24 Lmfao! Your reaction made me laugh so hard I cried!
I am the handy man in our home. i fix the pvc line for the water, i replaced the old float system for our toilet bowl for the newer push button type and i replaced the busted P trap of our sink and i have to tell you, You will find happiness and pride in doing plumbing work if you know that you are doing it well and you are doing it right.
just started watching your stuff since im a handyman i guess and wanted to learn a thing or two about the proper way to do plumbing since im not too familiar and sometimes i need to try and "fix" things around the house when they happen (love your videos so far btw) i was just curious if you could show your mouse when viewing the pictures because i get the feeling your moving it around where your talking about but i have no idea what it is or where keep up the great vids though and thank you in advance ^_^
Great content my guy. Keep up the good work, and amazing thumbnail too
My girl thinks it's weird I'm sitting here laughing my ass off at plumbing videos.. plumber life hahaha
Flex seal and joint tape are two of my favorite handyman solutions for leaks. A pvc pipe in my parents basement was leaking(shooting water) and it didn’t smell like sewage so I wrapped it with some stretchy white tap and put flex seal take around the joint. It’s been 4-5 years and is still sealed.
Your channel is growing so fast and im all for it. Keep it up!
I will say this to play devils advocate. There have been times over my career so far that I mcguyver something together as a stop gap to get someone out of an emergency to come back with the proper repair in a day or 2, especially during late night on call situations with advanced problems. Only for the customer to say they’re just gonna hold off until my “repair” actually fails. It kills me every time, once I even went out in my spare time and gave them the cheapest version of a legitimate repair practically for free because i felt it was unsafe to leave it beyond that night. I can’t imagine any plumber doing stuff like this and not feeling anxious knowing it’s being treated like permanent. The number of people who seem to be content living over an open sewage pit really amazes me.
Hye I just stumbled upon your channel and I have to say thank you. Hearing about the tips on your channel, tips from a plumber with a real company and reputation to uphold have and will save me time, health, and money. Thank you again
It ballvalves everywhere 😂
Duct tape is "perfect" for non-pressurized applications. It's like the crescent wrench of fittings; one size fits all. >>;=) Wacky plumbing must've had a $300 gift card for sharkbites and used ALL of it LOL
@1:33 That's spray foam I'm pretty sure, people use it like a form of concrete though lol. Your stuff cracks me up thanks for these sir.
That thumbnail... we had someone that 'fixed' leaks with rolls of duct tape. He's the reason all tape was removed from the shop lol
To be honest the sink full of dishes would make me turn around and leave before the pvc poked into the cast-iron of the previous clip would.
Glad you're taking off in popularity, you deserve it
I’m not even a plumber and never done plumbing but I love watching these videos😂
you are so successful in life, keep it up, and I will be there to supportyou throughyour journey
I like the shutoff valve on the T&P on the ventless water heater .... I would love to see that water heater over pressurize
My family was renting a house for 10 years. The owner decided she was getting a rental management company. Our outside water tank (those really big ones that lay on their side) every once in a while we had to drain and scoop out sand or we would start getting sand in out water (we had a water pump, not city connection) so we call the company because we are getting sand, they someone out there that drains the tank and thats it. We call again, they come out, drain the tank and then move the outlet piping from the top of the tank to the bottom of the tank (sand sink so idk how they expected us to NOT get sand in our water) my uncles has to drain the tank and scoop out the sand. About a year after this the tank develops a leak, we call the company, they say they will come out, week later nothing, so my cousin puts a big ass nail in the hole to get it to stop leaking, it works for a week, company still hasnt come out. The nail shoots off on week 2 so my cousin outs the nail in the hole and a piece of wood on a scissor jack to hold the nail in the hole, its still leaking but not as bad. This works for week 3, company hasnt come out, week 4 the tank decides its had it and a big ass hole just develops. FINALLY after much bitching the company comes out and sends someone to change the tank, brand new, looked beautiful, they kept the bottom outlet connection, which we thought was stupid but whatever. They leave the old, corroded tank on the property and when we moved out almost a year later the management property has the audacity to try to charge us for removal of the old water that THEY LEFT ON THE PROPERTY!!! But anyways that is my family’s rigging of a water tank.
That first picture is a "whatever the hell is in the garage" special.
I'm subscribed now , fantastic, time to dig out some photos
Entertaining as always. Thanks!
Hey Roger, what is your opinion on push to connect drain fittings?
My most frustrating Plumbing issue is I bought a really nice $800 tankless water heater and $200+ of Wiring.
Then realized installing a 240v tankless heater in a 120v supplied house should be done by an electrician.
I don't care what Oms's law says I don't play with zappity zap things.
Hey Roger! Love your videos! I’m not a plumber but a locksmith and some of the things I see daily done wrong are crazy 😜, I would love to see maybe a mouse cursor on the screen to see what you’re pointing out bc I don’t know all the names and stuff like that out to what you’re referring to. Thank you!
Dude i love the editing
9:57 to me it looks like an in house water filtration/softening system for fish tanks
Yeah it looks like the bucket is used for water changes lol, people either get a drum or a bucket depending on output of RODI and size of fish tank.
I'm only familiar with the blue one but I kind of wonder if this is a saltwater setup bc u have like 3 filters attached to that thing.
Definitely an aquarium setup