I Was SHOCKED a "Professional Plumber" DID THIS!

[@BillyGold007]

Bro, trust me-upgrade to an ultra high pressure bidet. It’s like sitting on a water cannon! One second you’re just doing your business, next thing you know, you're clinging to the ceiling, contemplating your life choices. It’s not just clean, it’s a spiritual awakening!

[@BLOCKsignallingUK]

As you suggested, get a pipe sticking out of the wall. I might have been tempted to fix a push fit elbow to the wall, running to your outlet in the floor. Then you can have rigid pipe on your bidet sticking out the back, and if it pushed into place, you can be sure the pipe has mated with the push fit elbow. A bit like fitting a wall hung toilet pan. You did well with what you had.

[@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT]

@@BLOCKsignallingUK I fitted the one upstairs from scratch and it's much easier having the pipe at the back 😅

[@stuglover1526]

This was a cracking video Aiden. Little Arthur always makes me smile.

[@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT]

Thanks mate 👍

[@grahamflentke9517]

Plumbing................always a nightmare. How in the hell are you to gain access? Open the wall from behind? Lucky for you Arthur was there for you. Great Job. Graham -Orlando

[@Sean006]

I was thinking the same, just cut a hole in the wall behind the bidet. But I expect some people are so fussy about holes in walls 😌

[@Ste2023]

Aiden you did a brilliant thoughtful job...very neat .

[@theCybershot123]

The black rubber thing sometimes get called doughnut as you stated there are different sizes . Women tend to use the bidet more than men . Good video

[@jimmock]

I hate them pull up wastes I normally tell customer they cant be fit anymore and you’ll get lots of callbacks otherwise. Good video 👏

[@justinf1343]

“A big load” 😂. Not wanting to sound snobby, but most Tradesmen are only doing it, because they didn’t pay attention at school. I’ve come across more bodgers than I have decent ones.

[@garethedmondo2891]

Why would you “not want to sound snobby” about tradesmen?

[@truefoa]

That was a tough job, well thought there.

[@Hand-i-Craft]

When I was a Uni student in the 90’s pal we lived in a house one year that had a bidet. To my knowledge it was only ever used as an ash tray for the smokers whilst sat on the pan 😂😂

[@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT]

@@Hand-i-Craft 😂 that's a good use for it

[@UberAlphaSirus]

You ever caught the niff of a minging growler. Bidets are probably a god send to some old fella.

[@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT]

@@UberAlphaSirus 😂🤣

[@Ginty11]

😂😂😂

[@Paul-FrancisB]

For a first go at brazing cast iron you did really well, you are right practice is the key but looks like you are on the right path. Before i had acess to oxy or tig my first attempts were with a carbon arc torch on the wife's mini fixing bodywork many years ago. Not pretty but it worked 😂

[@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT]

I think the video changed to mine before you clicked on the comment box 😁

[@Paul-FrancisB]

@@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT you are right 🤣 well done on sorting out what was done by a "professional" BTW both my wife and I are enjoying watching your channel, unfortunately it's giving her Ideas which means a longer to do list for me

[@ULMarc]

When pushing in rigid pipe blind like that, what I prefer to do is brace the pipe to the bowl so that it cannot move or flex. In this case, I'd probably stick an off-cut of pipe vertically above it. It the fitting cannot move, and the bowl sits into place, then you've more confidence that the pipe has only gone where you want it to.

[@solo8820]

I’m a plumber too. I completely feel your pain. What a bad design. In the US at least people understand the bidet should be built into the toilet. Flexi line is a sign that a plumber didn’t install it. But in your case I see why you had to use it.

[@MasterChef12109]

amazon endoscope cameras! very useful to have, they are like 20 bucks! maybe one would've been useful in this case

[@andrewtomlinson18]

I would have been tempted to remove the pop up and fit a running waste

[@normanboyes4983]

That looked a right bar steward.😳

[@where_s_wally]

Could you have left your new tough phone under the bidet with the video recording and light on, when you did the dry fit connection trial? to check it looked ok?

[@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT]

@@where_s_wally ahaa there's an idea, although I did this a while ago so I didn't have my 2nd phone back then

[@cedarstuff]

Was going to suggest this. Making recordings that way has helped with so many awkward fittings.

[@GlennPierce]

Shouldn't that vent pipe be 900 mm above the window or any opening ?

[@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT]

Good spot 👍 this is technically ok because it has an air admittance valve on it though, there's another open stack that vents to the roof

[@GlennPierce]

@@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT So the air admittance valve on that didn't help much with the loo dragging water from the bidet I guess. I was considering putting one on but may try and find a better trap for the sink first.

[@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT]

@@GlennPierce it didn't on this because the trap was so shallow. An open stack does give better air flow so that would have helped. Plus it depends how the 110mm pipes are joined under the floor. The building regs give maximum pipe runs for different sized pipes so this should have been ok but there was just a bad combination which meant this didn't work. If you're having troubles with your sink I would also start with a different trap

[@stephengreen6338]

I was a self employed time severed plumber for many years, and let me tell you no one is whiter than white, you sometimes do what you have to, to get the job done, for example, I went to up grade to a new bathroom install, when I removed the bath panel, there on the waste outlet was looked like a rubber inner tube with jubilee clips, oh my word said the lady of the house on seeing it, well I said how long is it since you had the bathroom in?, 20yrs plus she said, well it didn't leak, did it I said, my point being bad practice, yes!, did it do the job at the time yes!

[@wobbem007]

Forget the bidet and just use a bidet spray nossle and hose over the toilet, which is great for cleaning as well

[@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT]

@@wobbem007 there's particular regulations that you need to follow for one of them, needs to have its own independent water tank supply basically

[@douglaughton7626]

Use street elbows on the waste pipe

[@frenchgreguk]

Use silicone grease next time, it'll slide right in. Good job!

[@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT]

@@frenchgreguk that's the joys of editing 😅 I cut that bit out, I did try a few times but the adapter grommet thing I had with me wasn't really designed for the top of that 110 reducer so it was tighter than usual even with the silicone lubricant. I probably could have gone and got a better 110 reducer and went with the original solvent weld pipe but I was pushed for time

[@frenchgreguk]

@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT plumbing tbh is shit and especially in this country. You've got metric, imperial, old/new, copper/ poly/ pushfit and now fukng press fit. It's so confusing. Fair play for taking the time to scratch your head to solve those issues. I'd have put a sledge on dat thang! 🤣

[@pallsmortion4750]

That's what she said!

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

Sorry, me again but all these comments about back pressure and venting and stuff, I thought that I could get away with sharing this nugget of joy from my earlier days afloat. Jammy gett that I was, in my twenties I was lucky enough to live on a houseboat on the River Thames. The first question anyone always asked was does the bog empty straight into the river? No! We were blessed with a _vacuum sewage system_ yes siree! Which shut down when it was windy for no logical reason. But that wasn't the worst of it. Muggins here was the unwitting owner of a shower tray. Fine. Common or garden, nothing to see here. That turned out to be the lowest point on the network for the whole forty or so boats. So when the giant hoover or whatever it was at the other end did go down for any length of time, there was nothing stopping err... reflux. "Hmmm ... I'm sure I sent that one on its way some time ago" was sthg that crossed my mind on such occasions. Nice, you might say. That's not the best bit, the crux of the matter, the bottom of the problem though. Henry Hoover's twisted twin brother Vincent Vacuum didn't care if I had used the facilities and certainly if I hadn't, there was nothing stopping him from proudly presenting through the grille of the shower tray any of my neighbours' own ahem.., leavings. LOVELY! I should've bought shares in Domestos.

[@happyglampers9053]

😂😂 Big load. A man after my own heart. That bidet is a right PITA, I reckon you’ve made a cracking job of this. I LOL’d when you said ‘wet wipe’. You’re in it now pal 😂😂 Well done Aden 👏👏💪

[@SeanRidley-g7z]

The shallow seal trap was the problem.

[@Dooguk]

Aren't bidets for use in countries that only used 2" drains, so they don't have the problem of toilet paper blocking them up?

[@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT]

@@Dooguk I'm pretty sure you don't use toilet paper on the bidet itself. I think you wipe with paper on the toilet until it's "clean" and then you move over to the bidet and wash with soap and a flannel or maybe your hand? 🤷😆

[@Dooguk]

@@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT In some Greek hotels for example they throw the toilet paper into a bin because the drains are so small. They don't usually have a bidet.

[@markdyballuk]

😂you should have just left a packet of wet wipes on the toilet seat

[@reedy8585]

you don't need spanners for tap flexis do them you hand tight any tighter you risk pinching the rubber washer and it is much more likely to cause a leak.

[@JurassicJungle]

I think a deeper trap would have been OK. I have recently been fitting wall hung toilets and ended up using flexi pipes. I really really don't like using them but with tight spaces and soil pipes not installed exactly where they should have been we had no choice. I really don't like working where you have no idea if the pipe has gone in correctly.

[@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT]

@@JurassicJungle sometimes you can't avoid them 🙈 I've got another video coming up about a cautionary tail concerning a toilet Flexi 😬

[@JurassicJungle]

@@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT i agree but it just feels wrong and a bodge to have a corrigated pipe carrying waste....

[@izalman]

Back to the wall bogs and bidets are shite...

[@davideyres955]

Last 2 “plumbers” work ive seen has been terrible. One claimed it was leaking because we stood on the pipe between the cistern and the bowl. Nothing to do with the pipe being too short! Oh no. The next one used fingers to wipe the silicone, smushed it everywhere and used it all over the paint work and ceiling so we can’t paint them now. And people why I don’t use “professionals”

[@marcusjenkins]

Little shower head next to the bog, ditch the bidet. Job done. Less space. Cheaper. Grohe even do a basin tap with an outlet for the undercarriage shower.

[@ottofumbler7267]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. A professional is just a person who will take payment for providing a service. The term "professional" does not in any way imply that they are qualified, competent, or trustworthy.

[@zihotki]

You could have just made the pipe longer, lube it with soap, lift the bidet using clamps or anything else, position the pipe under the bidet and slowly lower it down

[@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT]

Sounds like a mission and my name's not Tom 😅😆 I'm not sure I would have been able to get the water pipes hooked up doing it that way, good idea though and worth a try

[@thattoolguy9432]

Great to watch a channel that swears as much as me... f'king plumbers , all failed electricians 🤣🤣

[@terryatkinson899]

I wouldn't know what to do with a bidet.... i guess I'm just a bogger 😁👍🇮🇪

[@JohnHavord]

Remind me, why, they're call professionals?

[@SuperVitz]

You sort of have no choice but to use a Flexi waste pipe for anything back to wall like that. Its impossible to first fix the waste pipe in the exact spot before tiling etc. happens.

[@metallitech]

I think your flexi solution was right. No choice. I think there are better quality flexible wastes though; ones that are less accordion-like.

[@geoffreygriffiths1487]

What an F fest, where I am from that install would not pass code without an access panel.

[@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT]

No such codes over here 😅 an access panel would be a fine thing

[@metallitech]

Flexible connectors hidden in a toilet. No wonder home insurance is becoming more expensive in the UK.

[@MM-qd4km]

Don’t see the point of bidets, just do a handstand in the shower.

[@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT]

@@MM-qd4km 🤣

[@markwilliams9793]

I've never understood the need for a bidet? I would probably look at changing my diet first, it is much cheaper.

[@Akasazh]

If a professional screws up, in my book he needs to come back and fix it. The amount of work you've done yourself to fix others' shoddy workmanship is bonkers. Or are there no laws about trades like that in the UK?

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

Yes indeed there are. Plenty. But then we'd be without the entertainment of himself showing us wot's what.

[@Swwils]

Bidet is a category 5 installation and must have an adequate air-gap. You are potentially putting everyone who shares your water supply (including neighbours) at risk as it can back siphon shit 😂.

[@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT]

This one is fine as it's an over rim type with more than the minimum air gap between the rim and tap spout end 😉

[@Swwils]

@@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT no protection from back pressure

[@jimatkinson4331]

Flexible waste , bad choice , ridged pipe catching all the shit , yum .

[@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT]

@@jimatkinson4331 😂 I don't think there should be any 💩 to catch, you wipe all that off on the toilet

[@kevind7150]

I don't know why people want a pop-up waste on a bidet. let it run out as you wash.

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

Can't be a plumber did this can it? Silicone in place of good ol' Polytetrafluoroethylene tape or whatever the pros prefer? 1:30

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

And who needs bidets when there's those space age jap bogs now that apparently play Taylor Swift's latest masterpiece whilst washing, brushing and warming yer bits after you've doed the do~do‽

[@FrankReif]

Almost unsubscribed over the wet wipe comment. I know you secretly enjoy it, Aiden, don't think we don't know.

[@DavePawson]

So how did you get it off the wall... floor? How.... Put it on the floor and you can't see / work / get at anything!!! What a crap design!

[@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT]

I made a separate video for how I got it off the wall/floor 😆 I'll probably put that video out in a few weeks time

[@davedavis4269]

Mate these really are a fukin joke

[@barryckemp907]

Very good try. But you have the trap the wrong way, it’s meant to come down from the thread and then go like a p hence p trap or S for an s trap! The anti siphon Mexican hat should sit on top with the rubber part on the top and the metal bar that is on should sit in the hollow recess of the anti siphon screw top fitting.

[@snapdragogon69]

Next time just buy a Japanese style bidet toilet. Theyre only £500-600 for a wall hung which is not much at all when you cost in a bathroom refit these days.

[@SeanRidley-g7z]

The shallow seal trap was the problem.