Vanity Unit..Simple enough Plumbing…What could go wrong? FIND OUT

Vanity Units, very popular with customers giving bathrooms a stylish look while giving you storage options and concealing all the pipework. Most of the time they are straight forward plumbing jobs, However there are some hidden elements that might make this simple plumbing task a little more awkward.
We will show you how to remove a pedestal and basin and also how to remove a wall hung basin. Sometimes removing these are not straight forward and leave you with more plumbing work than your first thought.
After that we will show you how to install 2 different types of vanity units also showing what fittings we would recommended when trying to so this plumbing task.
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[@bluebulldog_uk]

Thank you all for your support with the channel, if you haven’t already click that subscribe button…hoping to hit 10K to do another giveaway 🙌👍

[@CommercialGasEngineerVideos]

Onwards and upwards buddy, tried clicking those mentioned buttons a few times but it only works once.

[@AaronM4275]

I use cheese wire for running down the back of toilets and basins that are siliconed to the wall, works wonders 👍 great video again

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Thanks mate, been thinking of getting some wire PVC cutters for next time

[@Roblovesbushcraft]

Crikey that trap was at a crazy angle, amazed it never leaked. Deffo polished a turd there mate, well done love your down to earth vids, keep up the great work.

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Cheers mate, rolled it around in glitter as well 😂😂👍👍

[@philipmorris9761]

Alright bud I never worked on one of these yet, but remember seeing it in my plumbing course book, I think they are call "Semi-pedestal wash basin. What a pain with all that silicone at the back of the basin. Surely it should have come with a fixing kit so just needed a bead of silicone around the back instead of a whole tube. You can tell the perfectionist in you was fighting with the thought of having to leave the vanity unit downstairs as it was but you pretty much polished a turd customer got to be be happy that you went above and beyond to make it look as good as you left it in the end. Thanks for the warning.

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Yeah I watched video back and you can tell I ain’t happy 😂 customer was so that’s the main thing best of a bad situation

[@stuartday1876]

Looks spot on considering what you were up against!

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Thanks mate 👍👍

[@andrewtomlinson18]

I carry a nice thin large bread knife for cutting behind basins

[@bluebulldog_uk]

I tried hacksaw blade and wood saw just couldn’t get through the stuff. Thinking of getting PVC pipe wire cutter for future

[@andrewoleary9704]

12”” hacksaw blade

[@MarkMcCann1888]

That’s what I was thinking

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Hack saw blade and wood saw I tried, just couldn’t get it, recip maybe but I’m thinking of getting the PVC wire pipe cutters for future

[@MarkMcCann1888]

@@bluebulldog_uk good shout

[@ArifPolicewala]

Good job Luke. The floor on the second one was awful mate. You made. The best of a bad situation

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Thanks mate, yeah the 2nd one was all over place but got there in the end 👍

[@johnrowland6214]

you will find the silicon smoother if you use the tool the other way round with the straight edge going forward rather than the chamfered edge

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Thanks for advice mate 👍

[@Michael-di5cl]

working around a bodge job is pure stress,you done very well.

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Always fun trying to patch up 😅👍

[@alimack42]

I always use a hacksaw blade down the back to cut the silicon

[@copyandpastification]

If i only knew about that Thomas Dudley basin seal before .... It can turn out to be a nightmare to get a proper seal using the original seals...nice video thank you buddy

[@bluebulldog_uk]

They am good mate cost peanuts as well 👌👍👍

[@Hammerman48]

Great job…..first basin a nightmare!

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Thanks mate 🙌👍

[@robertpeters8531]

Good man great job again mate and your presentation and how you interact with the viewers is very good. I’ve used a reciprocating saw on the back of a cistern it did the job but unfortunately I scraped the paint off the wall. It’s very hard to watch every thing all you can do is your best. Superb mate keep up the excellent work. Must get a Dudley basin waste looks fab.

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Thanks mate very much appreciated, yeah give the Dudley’s a go, always use them now instead of what comes with waste, lot better 👍👍

[@london_roubenl]

All of the previous comments very valid, but I have found even being methodical and patient on jobs like this, I have removed a sink and still managed to crack the tiles, just from the movement and everything else-this is how it is sometimes, you end up being multi skilled as a plumber, nothing straightforward sometimes, deceptively simple job

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Thanks mate…I knew them tiles was doomed from seeing that crack was just delaying looking back, yeah being a plumber you need to know a little bit of every other trade just to get by!

[@andrewhoughton2617]

Love watching your work as a fellow plumber. You potentially could have use a reciprocating saw with a metal blade to cut down the back of the old sink. That way you would have cut the foam/silicone and the fixing bolts clean. Anyway keep up the great work 👍

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Was thinking of getting a PVC wire cutter for future, recip…yeah good shout not sure the vibration would of loosened the tiles anyway but good shout

[@olympusplumbingheating5027]

Customer is king mate they have to live with it

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Very true 🙌👍

[@actorlyric]

Great video as always I had a job a few years ago where they had silicone all the cistern to the wall all the way down. All I could use was a wood saw took me nearly 2 hours just so I could get it off the wall and the loo. So I can empathise with you there . Was it possible to fit a 90 bend on the waste behind the back panel up and and then another pointing to the trap , that way you'd only have a scallop off the top of the back panel instead of the hole you drilled. Either way great job. The vanity upstairs I carry a bag of spacers from screwfix cost about 20 quid so ideal for things such as out of level floors and on wc pans & the pack lasts ages . My only gripe with those basin mates is that rubber washer is so tight to get on and if you are sealing the waste fitting through the top of the basin with silicone it becomes a messy job !! I prefer the macalpine variant. But hey whatever works fella 👍👍

[@bluebulldog_uk]

I don’t think I’ve tried the Mcalpine one mate I might give them a try, yeah bag of spacers always essential on vanity units, nothing is ever level, thanks for advise mate 👍

[@thomascoyne157]

Yes I agree with you they basin waste Mate are good I’ve fitted 5 of them and never had any issues as a DIY nice work with what you had to work with they person who fitted the towel radiator, obviously left the tiles gap on the previous radiator so the Tyler only went round the old stuff 👍👍👍👍☘️

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Love it when they tile around a bracket 😂 got there in end and love the basin mates, best £2.50 I spend when doing a basin 👍

[@paulstanyer8604]

You made a silk purse out of a pigs ear nice job considering the circumstances.A Japanese saw would have helped cut through that silicone. Nice one Luke

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Thinking of getting some PVC wire pipe cutters for future 🙌👍

[@deakgolf20]

It looks like pink grip to me mate. Solid stuff

[@oldbootneck]

That's what I thought too, Everbuild pink grip adhesive. I'm only a diyer watching the video and having the luxury of thinking time which is easy, although having done that, one option that springs to mind might be a wire rope saw to allow it to go behind the sink and be flexible; still an arse ache and I'm only a diyer though.

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Was rock solid, did the job holding it onto wall

[@TheSparkysdog]

As a diy'er I recently used one of those basin mates, great bit of kit, only thing I did was I used a brass nut as I was afraid the plastic nut would strip. Great video, thanks.

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Good kit them Dudley basin mates, so far the nuts supplied have been sound 👍

[@ashleymapes3926]

When you drill through, go through the back where you marked till your pilot comes through then go through the front from your pilot. Clean cut both sides that way mate.

[@glynstorer3269]

You got there in the end❤

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Yes mate, longer than expected but job done 👍

[@stephenharris5519]

Top job as usual. #yamyam.

[@bluebulldog_uk]

#yownodowya 😂👍👍

[@paulmcgeoch2603]

Cheese wire for those situations with the silicone 😀

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Yes mate thinking of getting some wire PVC cutters 👍

[@liveloud9894]

All turned out good in the end 👍

[@bluebulldog_uk]

🙌👍

[@glynstorer3269]

Yes if fitted those in the day

[@jamestonks3042]

I use that pink expanding foam mate its like concrete when its set . Nice job

[@bluebulldog_uk]

This stuff was stupid strong…done the job anyway 😅

[@stevesunderland3943]

I had one like that a few years ago, I used a thin bread knife borrowed from the customer. 👍

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Thinking of getting a wire PVC cutter for next one 👍

[@stevesunderland3943]

@@bluebulldog_uk Good idea.👍

[@philgornall]

You’re using the silicone tool the wrong way round mate. It’s massively counter intuitive but the flat side pushes towards the silicone you’re removing. Tapered side towards the back. Don’t take my word for it watch a few Fugi tool vids etc. It did make a difference for me when I switched it round

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Didn’t even realise till I watched video back 😂👍👍

[@Heatking]

Looked decent in the end!🎉

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Thanks mate 👍

[@jonathanphillips3257]

Great video mate, that sink you removed though not everyone's taste I admit might actually be worth selling on. It's a quirky design people like that sort of design. Nice workmanship on the new unit, like you work ethics there too.

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Thanks mate, never thought of selling it, sure the customer has smashed it and skipped it now 😳😅

[@martinkiely3147]

Great video I bet that basin was a heavy old lump.i had a similar situation the end of last year the person who had previously fitted the basin had siliconed it to the wall with so much of the stuff the wall was moving I managed to loosen it a bit then got a saw down the back and cut it away from the wall.👍

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Thinking of getting a wire PVC cutter for future, absolute pain when they are siliconed to wall

[@6565tigga]

Well done mate

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Thanks mate 👍

[@nor3141]

I've had the same situation. In the end I used a senior hacksaw blade and squeezed between the sink and wall cut along the back😰

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Tried my hacksaw blade just couldn’t get in would of took till next year I think 😅 thinking of getting a wire PVC cutter for next time

[@TomChapman-wv9iq]

Sh1t happens as they say.Good to see you work round it!

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Thanks mate 👍

[@NindyBahia]

Top Save Luke 👍🏾

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Thanks mate 👍

[@rossnolan2883]

Great stuff 😊😊😊😊😊

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Thanks mate 👍

[@moodogtizer5884]

Always keep a fine tooth wood saw in the van for things like this

[@tirvplumbing]

Looked good considering the state of the walls. Customer aint ever gonna sort that😂

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Yep…go back in 12 months that silicone will still be there on show 😂👍👍

[@petewmids]

As a DIYer who has done plumbing round the house I really enjoy watching your videos, especially how you overcome the difficulties you face. I would just ask that you do something to improve the audio, which I find very muffled and difficult to follow.

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Thanks mate…yeah audio is a let down it’s my phone, microphone goes muffled as well…good news I will be upgrading my phone soon so should improve mate 👍👍

[@petewmids]

@bluebulldog_uk That would be great, thanks!

[@mdocko2285]

Made good out of a shit situation mate... fair play 👊🏼

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Thanks mate 👍

[@Stefan_Kawalec]

"Posh" can't go along with state of this plumbing. Especially that missing part of turbo encabulator under the radiator. Given the circumstances, you did an excellent job. I'd refuse doing this job.

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Always find the better off areas the plumbing is a state 😂 for there in the end thou 👍

[@christophergarrett8455]

Could you not have raised the unit slightly

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Looking back yeah maybe 5mm but gap Underneath gets bigger…then again who is going to be on floor looking 😅 when I spoke to customer and he said he will add a bead that was it in my head it was, ok let’s crack on with job, in hindsight and after thought and peoples comments you look back on a job sometimes and think, yeah maybe I could of done this or that

[@christophergarrett8455]

Don’t think I was criticising,it was an observation.I think you do great work,as a ex gas engineer I’ve been there and there’s always different ways to get the same result,I think the customer would be over the moon with the end result.

[@89Hargy]

I would of used a wood saw to get behind the sink to get the silicone off

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Tried woodsaw and hacksaw just couldn’t get in thinking of getting a wire pvc cutter for next time

[@russellsmith6476]

Just boilers and breakdowns nowadays for me bathroom are a pain in the back side

[@bluebulldog_uk]

I’ve sacked off full bathrooms now used to do them but not anymore too much hassle

[@Purebeltersteve]

You need a cheese wire lol. God send for siliconed sinks

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Was thinking of getting a PVC pipe cutter the wire ones

[@rjp666]

Full marks for pulling it back out of the bag well done. As for the dudly basin mate, I've been using them for years and never let me until recently, but what made it worse was me telling the customer how good they are and that they will never leak only for the customer to say is that a leak I can see ? On further investigation, I discovered that the basin waste hole was badly formed, and a tiny gap was visible. I managed to overcome it by tightening it up with my big boy spanner to within an inch of its life 🤏🤞

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Have to look out for that must of been a bad batch, always the way when you say this won’t leak, was half expecting it once i said it on this one 😂

[@killerbean9911]

Get some multisolve down the back of there! (I'm only 5 min in)

[@killerbean9911]

Oh jesus, yeah that's not good Those bracets I throw in the bin and get some L brackets out the van

[@bluebulldog_uk]

I think I needed some sulphuric acid to get that kit out 😂 yeah them brackets rubbish didn’t like them, taking L brackets next time lot easier

[@killerbean9911]

@@bluebulldog_uk more like a sledgehammer 🤣🤣 Yeah defo stock L brackets mate saves the headache of trying to line those ugly things up

[@glynstorer3269]

Murphy’s law mate

[@jacquelinestanyer8533]

🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵above and beyond🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵

[@connorevans6914]

could you not of got a hand saw behind the basin to cut the silicone?

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Tried hacksaw and woodsaw it was solid thinking of getting a wire pvc cutter for next time

[@pallsmortion4750]

Nice work, you could have raised the unit 5 mil to lessen the gap

[@andrewhoughton2617]

Vanity units sit on the floor so you don’t have that flexibility 👍

[@pallsmortion4750]

@@andrewhoughton2617 it does, but you can add little rubber feet to raise it by that amount

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Yeah could of packed the feet out

[@accesszero4803]

Theres a classic polishing a turd 😂

[@bluebulldog_uk]

With added glitter 👍

[@jasonoliver9549]

You saving the sink? Why not smash it and save tiles

[@bluebulldog_uk]

I was thinking of getting a lump hammer and breaking it, size of it big piece falls off or not careful might of damaged floor or toilet next to it, small chance but when I spoke to customer he would rather risk a tile…small chance of damaging something breaking it up I agree

[@mergen5218]

promo sm 😻

[@chiron6699]

Do ur best n silicone the rest

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Love that saying 😂

[@tonymurff5234]

👍👍🤜🤠

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Thanks mate 👍

[@chester6343]

Cheese wire or a saw..

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Thinking of getting a wire PVC cutter

[@chester6343]

@@bluebulldog_uk good idea, I've had to use it for toilets that have been siliconed to the wall really unnecessarily. The struggles.

[@bluebulldog_uk]

@@chester6343 toilets…never understood why people silicone them to wall, they expecting customer to be dancing on toilet 😂👍👍

[@prakkari]

This wasn’t Supposed…not suppose

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Na mate, from the midlands..we Dow say nuffin write

[@prakkari]

@@bluebulldog_uk And write nuffin write either I suppose.

[@MrSTUPIDBRICK]

I have the tool windscreen fitters use to remove a car windscreen. essentially a thin wire with two handles that cuts right through silicone. really handy removing shower screens, basins, cisterns, whatever's siliconed to a wall in seconds

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Yes mate been looking at getting a wire PVC cutter as would of been loads better 👍

[@thatcornishcockney]

I use a saw when they do this... so annoying still

[@bluebulldog_uk]

Tried my hacksaw and woodsaw I’m thinking of getting a PVC wire pipe cutter for next time 👍