Now I'm confident about my decision to become an electrician! I've got to take my hat off to plumbers though, it's a tough job for sure. Kudos for another job well done.

i have been looking at investing in the Ridgid flex shaft.. in this area there are A LOT of homes with long kitchen drains with disposals on them!! sometimes i have to run a cable machine 2-3 times to get it unstopped... what camera are you using to do the 2 inch lines?? thanks for sharing, good to see you back posting videos again

Wicked, they did not use sweeps and just for fun didn't throw a level on it. Job security.

I thought CTS was no longer approved due to it corroding easier

Iam a plumber out of Ontario Canada. I have a sewer jetter , camera and every size of snake , as well as locating equipment. I've never seen the reel that appears to be a camera and some sort.of grabber. It's the one with the yellow reel . What make and model is it ?

I'm curious as to how much abuse the patch can take as far as rocks gravel etc being abrasive as it settles into the void from the damaged cast iron pipe?

Why not run a shop vac hose up in there. Less damaging to the rusted pipe. Will get the standing water out as well. I'm not a plumber but have been a building contractor for 30 years. I've seen and repaired many cast iron pipes that were damaged from running chain type pipe cleaners. It always seemed like common sense if you have a corroding pipe or metal of any type and you beat the crap out of it with chains there's going to be a good chance it will damage the pipe and or cause more damage. Good video. Very informative

Thanks it was very informative.

Nice job. How long does it take from start to finish?

Thank you for the video

Been a while since I’ve seen you on insta

Iv'e been following you since knarly Carl days, keep up the good work bro, God bless🙏🙏🙏

A utility rep inspected our property to confirm a sewage backwash valve that will be installed along with CIPP is eligible for reimbursement. When I told him there was a trough worn into the bottom of the pipe for some distance, he expressed preference for bursting a new pipe in. He said a liner would follow the damaged contours of the old pipe. We're getting UV-cured resin, not epoxy, but I'm relieved to see this liner is capable of bridging the damaged sections of old pipe.

where are you located? what would you charge for that service as shown?

Does this only work for pipe runs that don't pick up other pipes? For instance, what happens when it passes through a tee fitting intersection along its way? Wouldn't it just block off the perpendicular run?

My line has a dip in it and a root going in the line will this work?

Nice job, great explanation.

Looks great, Good Job. Which lining system do you have?

Where you buy the tool?

Looks great! Impressive to do it all alone too!!

Didn't think anybody used a snake this day and age.....way too slow and like hard work compared to a hydrojetter...You would have done that in a fraction of time and made way more money....saved ya back in the process also. I bought my first trailer jetter in 2012 a HotJet USA...made enough with it in 6 weeks to pay it off...sold it 10 years later for more than I paid for it. I run a different unit now but basically with a jetter, I would have pulled a 3/8 hose to that clean out, carried over a mini reel with 200 feet of 1/4 hose, pulled out a hose for water and let the jetter do the work. I was nervous at the time investing that much money, but the best investment ever made. Also you don't contaminate everything with black water like with cables like you do dragging cables all over the place and spinning them.

i like your clean out hose bibb setup attachment! great idea!

3" lateral?? Seems unusual. Does your area have many houses with basements? Where I work the laterals are often 8 feet and deeper. Thanks for the video

Miss your plumbing content. Milwaukee!

Why's there always corn?lol

It's nice when they work out like that. Wouldn't it be nice if all cleanouts were that accessible?

The ol Michigan basement.

nice work.. we see quite a few basements like that here in southern Indiana, but most have sump pumps cause theres usually no way to get a gravity drain out!!! Happy Fathers day & thanks for sharing!!

These devices have become outdated. We have the latest devices in our company in Belgium. The process of lining the tube with a UV device is very fast without waiting a whole day.

So ground water is a major issue in this area? Where did the 3' of water come from.... the stairwell? Kinda looks like a shemozzel the whole job.

I'm amazed at your ability to make or modify something to suit your needs. This was not an easy one and you got it fixed. I'm sure the customer got a hefty bill but sometimes that's what it takes. Thanks for sharing your experience.

It was called a Michigan basement when I was a kid back in the 60's and a bunch of kids in the neighborhood helped of our friends dad dig out their crawl to a basement. Big fun.

When replacing the water line in home better get 1” at a 200psi rating

What's the attachment on drill for the sectional cable? Thats genius and also the tire seems better than the wire carrier i use 😂

Where do you get that drill atachment? cant find it anywere?

man thats gross. handling the toilet and then touching every single sink with the same gloves on.

Where can I get the cable? 100 ft of it?

Can you do the CIPP method on your sewer line if you don’t have a clean out?

😄 Great work and humor.

What's the tire for?

I miss your longform vids, thanks for sharing!

Anyone can pull plastic waterservice, pulling galvanized is the real beast. We call that coupling a dayton and typically we only expect to see it near the curb stop connection because that's what the city here has authority over and they typically use it to connect back to the homeowners water service after they make a repair to their curb stop at the street. Running into one in the yard especially when you're trying to make a pull must really suck.

Do you need to do the whole sewer line? Or can you just do part?

Hey brother we're did you get that long extension I have one but not that long.. I'm just starting off using this what size cable do you use and what kind.. Sorry for all the questions just think this is really cool and want to start using it in my arsenal..

Actually, it's 16 hours difference between LA (Pacific Daylight Savings Time) at the time you were there or 17 hours if regular PST. Jet lag doesn't hit you going to Japan but it is murder coming back to the west coast. Been doing it for nearly 30 years and it never fails to take me up to a week to recover.

Hey Art, even before you walked away from your hotel at the beginning, I knew you were staying at a Toyoko-Inn. About five years ago, if you had been to one, you had been to all. I am just watching this video now on April 11, 2024 after returning from another trip to Japan and hope you will bring up the issue Japan STILL using 'S' traps instead of 'P' traps. I am sure while you stayed at that Toyoko-Inn you noticed the faint sewer gas smell in your room's module bathroom. If you visited any homes or businesses, you probably smelled sewer gas ever so often too and if you looked at houses, you never saw vent pipes up on the roof.

I keep doing jobs where I find neighbors houses tied in on lines I’m replacing. How do you deal with that. Code says you can’t do that yet that code didn’t always exist. One job the neighbor accused me of breaking her line because roto rooter replace her entire line going down the hill to the main, in reality they threw a 45° in and ran it 10’ over to the neighbors main line. Charged her 13k for 10’ of pipe, a 45, a wye and a Fernco, they didn’t even have the decency to bury a shielded fernco

My cousin was killed in a trench collapse. That was the end of no shoring for me

How many psi are you using to shoot liner?

A lot of holes in that pipe…