Something you guys might try for calcium build up is muriatic acid. You can get it pretty cheap at most hardware stores, and it'll even dissolve rust stains and other crap on porcelain. I've seen old fixtures work just like they're brand new from it.
I volonteer at a student bar in Denmark, the university sponsored us switching to waterless, after many many manhours Dealing with urine crystals, and very expensive filters breaking We have finally switched back to a standard, rinse the trap and plenty of warm water through the system every other month and and the bar stinks way less of piss
Drinking my coffee at 6am and watching drain opening videos. Love watching you and Drain Addict. Thinking about doing this at my company as well. The things us drain guys see 🤣
Fact def found his channel through him too.. I found addict at 2am down a weird recommend video path lol woulda never thought about searching something like this... 😭😭
Joey Shoez 😂 Welcome! I love watching his videos as well.. I decided to start my channel after seeing a couple different channels doing the same things I ran into during work daily!
Charles Murphy Lol 😂 we try and clean it up to make it look like we were never there, unfortunately at this place that’s no possible! Appreciate you watching 👍
I ran my little faucet augur $10 (lowes) into a modern urinal today many times and I could fell the calcium get pushed further in and bet broken up, then I used my $20 (Amazon) air blaster 5-7 times for good measure to with flushes to make sure it gets to the bigger drain line
That bathroom is a mess! Nice clean up guys but I don’t think anyone would’ve noticed if you just left the drywall and calcium there. Tu at green dumpster was filled to the brim 🤣🤣
StoneWell Forever Definitely! People have been burning the calcium out of urinals and toilets for years. It’s safe for the porcelain and plastic piping but weakens and thins out the metal pipes such as copper/galvanized/cast iron, so a lot depends on what kind of piping you have do the line if we are going to use it. We have some stuff that has an odor additives in it so while we let the acid sit, it doesn’t stink everyone out of the restaurant! 👍
Easiest way pull urinals put in 2" plug fill with acid soak for 1hr or so done! do it all the time fastest way. In the long run no call backs now you see how our kidneys feel. Newer urinals are even harder to clean built in traps longer soak need plug to keep acid in contact. The ones with internal trap if its real chunky after soaking send piano wire thru and tie it to string and flush with water hose out bottom then use wire like a hand saw back and forth in trap just not super hard will cut gouges in porcelain. Will clean it right up. But in newer ones and customers are rushed. swap out is in order that's why I keep two three types of urinals on hand for that 8pm party on friday or satuday night middle of summer 100deg stinks like a pigfarm. Usually just dumping acid in drain won't work you cant keep trap totally full of acid. Just make sure you scrub under your nails nothing like bitting your nail and getting a bite of a piss pebble nasty. Rather shit hit me in the face. Then fermented who knows what. I will gag at some rotten ass urine then walking in and snaking a sewer or rotten grease trap.
I swear with my recommendation it’s like TH-cam is trying to get me out of my comfort zone 😂 welcome to the channel Daniel! Appreciate you taking the time to check us out 👍
They sell a urinal drain cleaner it eats away at the calcium works awesome my local plumbing supply switched companies they were bought out and it sucks they no longer carry it I’ve been meaning to look on line for it and have our secretary order some
Oh for Christ Sakes. Run a drain snake through a Urinal? Just tell the owners to put a cup or more of white vinegar in the water. Leave it as long as possible. Change it as often as possible. There is a lot of Calcium in human Urine. Most Urinal fixtures you can't even get it through the internal trap. It always depends on how the plumber piped the urinal drains. I never found one that couldn't be cleaned with Vinegar. Urinals have 2" drains. If they drain into 3", there is a good chance that a snake will go UP the pipe and not down. Over 50 years says I know what I am talking about.
@@Ariccio123 If Numb Nuts would stop shutting down the water flow to urinals, the problem goes away. Unless it is already calcified. Besides, on almost every ud=rinal I ever worked on, you couldn't get a snake through the trap-way.
@@chrisgordon5719 ...are you talking about water savings? I mean, that's absolutely a good thing, and even design changes like adding acid are preferable to water waste.
@@mungrus White Vinegar is a mild acid. What do you think Drain cleaner is? A stronger acid. If you wear any type of dental appliance in your mouth, it will get calcium deposits and turn white. You can buy commercial products to clean them. Or leave in in White Vinegar overnight. Cheaper and better.
Frowned on now a days! If all the pipes were made of plastic it wouldn’t be an issue at all, but on this one it’s copper and cast iron under the ground so the acid eats away at the pipes as well as the clog. 👍
I didn't see you clean out the trap on the second urinal even though you were able to get it to go down a little better you know good and well that trap is filled to the brim like the first one
then it would last even alot longer for years and not have any issues i mean i gess i understand if people dont have alot of money like you know new toilets new plumbing new walls cement cleaned up etc
Did you really say grab a rag and we will clean this up? You just cleaned off of a severly pissed on floor hard calcium from piss?lol! Sorry cleaning lady here and I couldn't bypass the ridiculiously futile effort but good on you for going for it and being professional.
Yeah some bathrooms are super dirty. This one is for the ware house guys out on the floor and looks like it’s been pieced together over the years as things have broken. I don’t see them changing anything any time soon. Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment!👍
What up man new to the channel but have seen a few vidRos and u do a good job. I work for Mr Rooter in MA. Have seen the vans in a couple vids. And yea urinals are the worst. I’d rather pull a shitter everyday of the week and twice on Sunday than a urinal 🤣
As soon as a Urinal starts slowing down, they close off the water flow so it doesn't overflow. If it overflows, there isn't enough water flowing through the Urinals. That's by body sensing Flushometers help solve the problem. Then, no one wants to tough the Flushometer handle. So the urine gets super concentrated and the calcium crystals get worse and worse. Is that a Copper waste on those Urinals? No code in the USA allows copper tubing for Urinal Wastes. It MUST be IPS pipe. UPSTATE New York? Were exposed P-Traps ever allowed in New York? They aren't allowed in New York City and they aren't allowed in Massachusetts. For REASON.
We don’t see them to often up here Chris. I think it was more of a handy man that put that bathroom together and that why they have to exterior traps. Really the only situation we run into them up here are the bars, and I’d say that’s for easy access when the place is crowded. I believe the code is only interior traps but I’d have to break out my book to be 100%!
@@DrainPros That looks like used equipment. However, never forget or underestimate the effect of the toilet tank not having enough water in it. Especially with those Hunter ball cocks that I never could figure out how to adjust them. Some toilet tanks need the water level in the tank just below the overfill tube.
There is not enough fall on that urinal pipe that goes into the main stack , there lies the problem and will keep getting blocked until re piped properly.....👍
Yeah looks pretty flat.. I’m not entirely sure that the warehouse workers are twisting the knob to flush either, so it pretty much straight urine non diluted slowly flushing out causing the calcium to form up! 👍 Thanks for watching yensabi!
That's true. But it gets harder and harder to buy urinals with external traps. They don't make them anymore. So you have to get them from building salvage yards.
The only way to fix that bathroom is 5 gallon of deasel fuel and a match. I don't care if it is a factory there is no reason for a restroom to be that filthy.
Larry Johnson Almost always with a hoot best down of the pipe with a cable machine. The pipes for urinals get loaded with calcium build up from urine and it’s when it hardens in its rock form it can be a pain in the butt! 👍
For some reason men piss in the urinal and walk away and don't flush. This causes uric salt to build up quicker. The urinals in my factory have no drain covers just a gaping hole, with a rubbery deodorizer screen sitting in there. U can see the build up, reminds me of stalactites in a cave or the crystals of a geode.
Funny that you say that.. the manager was going to dump some in the next few night after to see if it would break up some of the calcium before entering the trap 👍
Also you can't just "pull" a random pipe like it's not tightly closed. Also the pipe was old, so if you did pull it, it would break and the urine would run around the walls and basically, only rebuilding everything would work
You’ve clearly never had a bad backup. Now just imagine one on an 8inch sewer pipe every week. Take into consideration the stench, time, energy, and disgust that goes into each job.
That spot you cleaned on the floor is the cleanest part of that dump.
Warehouses are usually dumps anyway
Something you guys might try for calcium build up is muriatic acid. You can get it pretty cheap at most hardware stores, and it'll even dissolve rust stains and other crap on porcelain. I've seen old fixtures work just like they're brand new from it.
Oh come on, that surely satisfies both of you and you had real fun together...😅 Have both a nice weekend !
Kempinger 😂! It’s always nice having a second guy on the job.. have a great weekend!
His name still apears as kempinger rohreinigung berlin xd
I think I want to go somewhere quiet and safe now (and clean, jesus that place) and just be glad for guys like this in the world.
Now that they are pushing for "waterless" urinals, and low-flow, I wonder if that makes the potential for pipe build up all the worse.
I volonteer at a student bar in Denmark, the university sponsored us switching to waterless, after many many manhours Dealing with urine crystals, and very expensive filters breaking
We have finally switched back to a standard, rinse the trap and plenty of warm water through the system every other month and and the bar stinks way less of piss
Here in Californicate our corrupted politicians are promoting trees instead of urinals..
Drinking my coffee at 6am and watching drain opening videos. Love watching you and Drain Addict. Thinking about doing this at my company as well. The things us drain guys see 🤣
Drain addict brought me here
Erick Morton Welcome!!
Fact def found his channel through him too.. I found addict at 2am down a weird recommend video path lol woulda never thought about searching something like this... 😭😭
Joey Shoez 😂 Welcome! I love watching his videos as well.. I decided to start my channel after seeing a couple different channels doing the same things I ran into during work daily!
me to
hey i got a ? to anyone in the world i chew alot of snuff does any one know if snuff is getting impacted by this virus i hope not or ill go crazy
Appears that entire building is treated like a s**t hole.
Good job guys! Just shovel the mess over next to the other mess lol
Charles Murphy Lol 😂 we try and clean it up to make it look like we were never there, unfortunately at this place that’s no possible! Appreciate you watching 👍
I just watched one of your videos yesterday and now I super addicted
The urinals when they get like that it gets very horrible and smelly and I don't have traps like that!! Very awesome video! Thank you
also why didnt you go from under the urinal p trap to snake? Would that be easier than breaking the drywall?
So chewing gum, pubes and piss crystals to unblock.
I work in drainage and urinals still have potential to make me nearly spew
😂😂😂! Thanks for watching Potato!
Sounds like your customers use Urinals for a Water Closet.
Hi can’t
I seen an Aussie use Hydrochloric acid and it worked great!
I ran my little faucet augur $10 (lowes) into a modern urinal today many times and I could fell the calcium get pushed further in and bet broken up, then I used my $20 (Amazon) air blaster 5-7 times for good measure to with flushes to make sure it gets to the bigger drain line
I watch the same kind of things and to me its satisfying
Yeah. To me this is just like watching Dr. Pimple Popper. So gross and painful, until the end. ha ha when it's all over and fixed. lol.
That bathroom is a mess! Nice clean up guys but I don’t think anyone would’ve noticed if you just left the drywall and calcium there. Tu at green dumpster was filled to the brim 🤣🤣
I've seen other online plumbers use hydrocloric acid and a plunger and it's cleared easily, no digging into walls.
The only time I used vix under my nose was cleaning a line that served a boys bathroom at our high-school the line was put in 1960
oh my god that sounds unbelievably grim. salute to you.
From what I’ve seen and herd people use muratic acid to undo clogs. Don’t know if it’s true. Would like to know. Thanks :)
StoneWell Forever Definitely! People have been burning the calcium out of urinals and toilets for years. It’s safe for the porcelain and plastic piping but weakens and thins out the metal pipes such as copper/galvanized/cast iron, so a lot depends on what kind of piping you have do the line if we are going to use it. We have some stuff that has an odor additives in it so while we let the acid sit, it doesn’t stink everyone out of the restaurant! 👍
My nose is clogged, come unclog it 😂
Easiest way pull urinals put in 2" plug fill with acid soak for 1hr or so done! do it all the time fastest way. In the long run no call backs now you see how our kidneys feel. Newer urinals are even harder to clean built in traps longer soak need plug to keep acid in contact. The ones with internal trap if its real chunky after soaking send piano wire thru and tie it to string and flush with water hose out bottom then use wire like a hand saw back and forth in trap just not super hard will cut gouges in porcelain. Will clean it right up. But in newer ones and customers are rushed. swap out is in order that's why I keep two three types of urinals on hand for that 8pm party on friday or satuday night middle of summer 100deg stinks like a pigfarm. Usually just dumping acid in drain won't work you cant keep trap totally full of acid. Just make sure you scrub under your nails nothing like bitting your nail and getting a bite of a piss pebble nasty. Rather shit hit me in the face. Then fermented who knows what. I will gag at some rotten ass urine then walking in and snaking a sewer or rotten grease trap.
That’s a pretty cool idea! 👍 always the 8pm Friday party going on when 💩 hits the fan!
bloody hell. Ha Ha.
Good stuff fellas!
1:25 A blowtorch should help remove the hair from the tip...
Damn! Didn't know urine caused issues. Is this more prevalent with those water saving urinals?
What a filthy building. And he tried to wipe up a nasty floor at the end.
So, this was in my Recommended... What are you trying to say TH-cam?!
I swear with my recommendation it’s like TH-cam is trying to get me out of my comfort zone 😂 welcome to the channel Daniel! Appreciate you taking the time to check us out 👍
This is one of the nastiest places I've ever seen.
that poor screw driver lol
😂 Yeah that one needed a good sanitation bath 🛁!!!
They sell a urinal drain cleaner it eats away at the calcium works awesome my local plumbing supply switched companies they were bought out and it sucks they no longer carry it I’ve been meaning to look on line for it and have our secretary order some
Very cool video. Thanks for posting and have a nice day too.
How are you handling that smell?
On a 2" drain go in with a 1/2" cable specially for urinals
Oh for Christ Sakes. Run a drain snake through a Urinal? Just tell the owners to put a cup or more of white vinegar in the water. Leave it as long as possible. Change it as often as possible. There is a lot of Calcium in human Urine. Most Urinal fixtures you can't even get it through the internal trap. It always depends on how the plumber piped the urinal drains. I never found one that couldn't be cleaned with Vinegar.
Urinals have 2" drains. If they drain into 3", there is a good chance that a snake will go UP the pipe and not down.
Over 50 years says I know what I am talking about.
White vinegar down the urinal to clear it out?
Maybe someone should design a urinal that auto dispenses a tiny bit of acid in every flush? Wait is that what urinal cakes are for?
@@Ariccio123 If Numb Nuts would stop shutting down the water flow to urinals, the problem goes away. Unless it is already calcified. Besides, on almost every ud=rinal I ever worked on, you couldn't get a snake through the trap-way.
@@chrisgordon5719 ...are you talking about water savings? I mean, that's absolutely a good thing, and even design changes like adding acid are preferable to water waste.
@@mungrus White Vinegar is a mild acid. What do you think Drain cleaner is? A stronger acid.
If you wear any type of dental appliance in your mouth, it will get calcium deposits and turn white. You can buy commercial products to clean them. Or leave in in White Vinegar overnight. Cheaper and better.
Do you clean the pipes out with caustic soda or is that frowned on these days.
Frowned on now a days! If all the pipes were made of plastic it wouldn’t be an issue at all, but on this one it’s copper and cast iron under the ground so the acid eats away at the pipes as well as the clog. 👍
I didn't see you clean out the trap on the second urinal even though you were able to get it to go down a little better you know good and well that trap is filled to the brim like the first one
then it would last even alot longer for years and not have any issues i mean i gess i understand if people dont have alot of money like you know new toilets new plumbing new walls cement cleaned up etc
i mean heck they way that room looks like looks so old needs updated to modern
You should get a spartan 100 machine, with a drop head. I can't stand them little machines like you have, they're such a pain in the arse! Lol
If you have access from the back cut the vent go from there no mess
Did you really say grab a rag and we will clean this up? You just cleaned off of a severly pissed on floor hard calcium from piss?lol! Sorry cleaning lady here and I couldn't bypass the ridiculiously futile effort but good on you for going for it and being professional.
Yesterday you are the enterologist, today you are the urologist.
Haha 😂!
If it was yesterday, you would have to say were. No offense
@@slicedbanana3968 Thank you. English is not my mother tongue, it's my bad not my grammar teachers', they did teach me that.
What about just Taking The 2 Urinals off The Wall and Cleaning it out????
So vinegar is good to use???
Not all hero’s wear capes! Some deal with poop and pee pee. 😎😎😎😎😎
Great video! 🙂👍
Thanks Keith, Have a great weekend! 👍
That bathroom looks like the seventh circle of hell. Probably smells like it too.
That happend at my school once
Sizzle is your friend
I did one just today
Was this ground zero for covid?
Haha 😂 not sure, but it’s the first place I would check!
Are those drain pipes copper?😕
That looks like a 5/16 cable?
Yeah we use 5/16” cable on most kitchen and bathroom drains.. 5/8” on the bigger stuff
Love ur voice
Thanks you Guidito ❤️! I cringe every time I hear it after uploading... feel like that’s common with most people tho hearing their own voice
@@DrainPros id love to see your face!
in my opion places that look like that should be redone and look new again like all new walls ne toilets etc
Yeah some bathrooms are super dirty. This one is for the ware house guys out on the floor and looks like it’s been pieced together over the years as things have broken. I don’t see them changing anything any time soon. Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment!👍
@@DrainPros yea i know of this whole dam virus just wish it would disappear and everything go back to normal again
DATE 20/2/2020
ME: WOAH SO MANY 2!
If I had a dollar for every time the “snake went the wrong way” when trying to unclog something I’d be a millionaire.
How does a urenal Ger clogged
Over time the wee builds up in the pipes
is it calcium or AJAX ??
What up man new to the channel but have seen a few vidRos and u do a good job. I work for Mr Rooter in MA. Have seen the vans in a couple vids. And yea urinals are the worst. I’d rather pull a shitter everyday of the week and twice on Sunday than a urinal 🤣
Nice to meet you David! Definitely on pulling a toilet over a urinal any day of the week! Keep fighting the good fight brother 🍻
Mass is pretty cool what part are you in?
Lemonade anyone!?
As soon as a Urinal starts slowing down, they close off the water flow so it doesn't overflow. If it overflows, there isn't enough water flowing through the Urinals. That's by body sensing Flushometers help solve the problem. Then, no one wants to tough the Flushometer handle. So the urine gets super concentrated and the calcium crystals get worse and worse. Is that a Copper waste on those Urinals? No code in the USA allows copper tubing for Urinal Wastes. It MUST be IPS pipe.
UPSTATE New York? Were exposed P-Traps ever allowed in New York? They aren't allowed in New York City and they aren't allowed in Massachusetts. For REASON.
We don’t see them to often up here Chris. I think it was more of a handy man that put that bathroom together and that why they have to exterior traps. Really the only situation we run into them up here are the bars, and I’d say that’s for easy access when the place is crowded. I believe the code is only interior traps but I’d have to break out my book to be 100%!
@@DrainPros That looks like used equipment. However, never forget or underestimate the effect of the toilet tank not having enough water in it. Especially with those Hunter ball cocks that I never could figure out how to adjust them. Some toilet tanks need the water level in the tank just below the overfill tube.
quick and easiest way of getting rid of hair is burn it (:
Seems like that’s one of the only ways to get rid of hair. Even the drain acids don’t really break the hair down. 👍
@@DrainPros i agree tbh
Muriatic acid will clean it up and make it shine
Only time I love seeing acid is when it’s being dropped into a urinal.. does an awesome job 👍
What happened
Make sure you wipe your feet on the way out lol
Be better to just flatten the whole building, yikes
poppypuff Lol bring in the dozer! 🚜
Oh I know. What a mess!
Or u could of just taking off the two traps first.....FFS
Most urinals have urinal mints (:
Haha yeah not sure why they aren’t using them.. after most urinals we through them in with a pad that says “we aim to please, you aim too please” 👍
There is not enough fall on that urinal pipe that goes into the main stack , there lies the problem and will keep getting blocked until re piped properly.....👍
Yeah looks pretty flat.. I’m not entirely sure that the warehouse workers are twisting the knob to flush either, so it pretty much straight urine non diluted slowly flushing out causing the calcium to form up! 👍 Thanks for watching yensabi!
Take the u bend pipe off under the urinal youll see the calcium build up
That's true. But it gets harder and harder to buy urinals with external traps. They don't make them anymore. So you have to get them from building salvage yards.
@@chrisgordon5719 Why'd they stop?
Do Urinals like That have WAX Seals????
Sizzle for 30 minutes
Why can I smell pee after watching this? Made my nose hairs burn off and I am not even there
😂 Weird how the brain plays trick on you!
I found this by looking at #overflowing
The only way to fix that bathroom is 5 gallon of deasel fuel and a match. I don't care if it is a factory there is no reason for a restroom to be that filthy.
Those are like the worst urinals! What brand is that, so I know not to buy those!
You can watch this full 2160p what
water is cheaper than a plumber- what fool boss told the men to flush once a month
How the hell do you clog a urinal?
Larry Johnson Almost always with a hoot best down of the pipe with a cable machine. The pipes for urinals get loaded with calcium build up from urine and it’s when it hardens in its rock form it can be a pain in the butt! 👍
Its calcified salt from urine dries and clogs ..not enough flushes
Thomas Lowdon Absolutely! What a pain it can be sometimes 👍
By being a sloppy lazy asshole, that’s how
For some reason men piss in the urinal and walk away and don't flush. This causes uric salt to build up quicker. The urinals in my factory have no drain covers just a gaping hole, with a rubbery deodorizer screen sitting in there. U can see the build up, reminds me of stalactites in a cave or the crystals of a geode.
Open up the p trap under the urinal buddy
You could have done that without drilling any holes in behind there 😒
ok so ik shit is bad but 4 some reason piss is just....💀💀
Canada
is that all piss?
Yummy
CLR will break that up.
Funny that you say that.. the manager was going to dump some in the next few night after to see if it would break up some of the calcium before entering the trap 👍
If you know its out of order stop using it
Your comment is out of order
the place is pretty disgusting, damn
Jeez man lay off the fiber just sayin🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
OFF
That ain’t water
papa bits Definitely wouldn’t drink that stuff 😂😂!
I can litterly see paper DONT BUT PAPER IN MENS TOILETS!😡
Jesus
Jesus pull the urinal Instead if drilling a hole in the pipe
Are you a expert plumber? If not, shut the fuck up
Also you can't just "pull" a random pipe like it's not tightly closed. Also the pipe was old, so if you did pull it, it would break and the urine would run around the walls and basically, only rebuilding everything would work
Sliced Banana damn man are you good haha
Ooof
Vac
I am a cleaner urinals are the most disgusting things on earth
Your soon Intense about your job😂 easy man.... Its just unclogging pipes.
You’ve clearly never had a bad backup. Now just imagine one on an 8inch sewer pipe every week. Take into consideration the stench, time, energy, and disgust that goes into each job.
يطن
Absolutely buzzing! 👍
GROSS