Worst Plumbing Fails - Messed Up Repairs

[@flightproductions8088]

Can we all just appreciate that he makes such good videos everytime....

[@jrod98z]

I’ve been on a binge a couple of days watching your material. I got into plumbing at 19, but I was irresponsible, lazy and unmotivated. Now at 23, I’m interested in learning plumbing. Your videos are very entertaining to watch and make me want to try and go into plumbing again.

[@louisel.sinniger2057]

Any job worth doing is worth doing it right! YOUR WORK IS YOUR CALLING CARD Do the RIGHT thing

[@jakobrosenqvist4691]

That hose clamp with piece of rubber is what I would consider a "Friday night leak plumber comes on Monday" kind of fix.

[@throttlebottle5906]

the typical "temporary fix" that becomes permanent, until it leaks again.

[@dominiquefaught5116]

When I see these types of videos, or whenever you have to dig under a home to make the repair, I appreciate how I do not have to do that and just access under the home through crawl space panels in closet floors.

[@Chris_dolmeth]

As a service plumber I get to see all types of crazy plumbing that handymen have done

[@NoL0NGERhumAn]

@tan j maz Is there a particular reason your using pvc because there is multiple fittings to go from PB to pex.

[@NoL0NGERhumAn]

@tan j maz pex crimp tools are cheap on amazon and pex pipe and fitting are also cheaper than shark bites. but to answer your question no you cant glue them together far as i know the only transition fitting from pvc to PB pipe is the specialized shark bite fitting.

[@eyellgeteven9928]

@tan j maz You definitely do not want to use regular PVC pipe for domestic water lines though!!! Use CPVC, or PEX, or copper...regular PVC isn't meant for drinking water. Chemicals can leech from the PVC into the water and cause cancer and other health problems.

[@eyellgeteven9928]

@tan j maz I'm just saying that in my state CPVC is approved for potible water (or at least used to be), same as PEX and copper, but PVC is definitely not approved. I'm actually an old school copper guy and if I were to build a house I would go for type L copper over any plastic line. I don't think ANYONE actually installs CPVC brand new anymore, I'm not even positive you can still get it.

[@chuckley54494]

i once had to ask a plumber to leave. and this weekend had a botched job by an electrician the hvac folks subed out to. this is why i do almost all stuff my self. it is too hard to find a good tradesmans around here

[@MikeWoo35]

The twisted pipe is a real winner. Can't believe someone would really leave it like that.

[@michaelbrennan7148]

Maybe the carpenter who was dressed up like a plumber didn't realize there is a better water restriction device that could be installed at the shower head. Rubbin is racing :)

[@bem121]

I did a temp repair with the rubber and clamp its been 30 years and still holding

[@throttlebottle5906]

prime example of "temporary repair" becoming permanent, until it leaks again, LOL. years ago, they used to pound in and break off pencil lead, then tape overtop to hold it in, yes I've seen exactly such repairs on copper out in an open basement, last for 30+ years

[@randomfastreader]

We do about the same thing on watermain break its just a bit bigger

[@javierdiaz2666]

Hose clamp with rubber i use it on emergency situations. I don’t do a lot of residential mostly hoa./complexes where water can’t be shut off and they can wait till proper shutdown notices are posted then permanently repair pin hole leaks

[@ryandeee4628]

i use them as well for a temporary repair at the hospital i work at as obviously if its on a main line there are procedures and hoops you gotta jump through to turn the water off.

[@clintdavis9511]

I had a copper water line freeze and bust and fixed it temporarily with a rubber hose and hose clamps. It lasted like 10 years.

[@throttlebottle5906]

@@clintdavis9511 exactly the issue with doing so, temporary most always becomes permanent LOL.

[@eyellgeteven9928]

@@ryandeee4628 I work at a hospital too, mine is a mental hospital though, but unscheduled shut downs are REALLY frowned upon for sure. I've had to resort to hackery to keep something going until we can schedule the time to do it....you gotta do what ya gotta do in certain situations and learn to adapt and jerry rig and cheat to patch something together temporarily just to keep things running. Leaving something like that as permanent is unlikely where I work, where everything is documented and tracked, it could come back to haunt you in more ways than one. The only real exception these days is when someone is on call from another trade, and they rig up an abomination at night or on the weekend and forget to tell us about it. We do find crazy stupid stuff in a couple of the older (1930s - '50s) buildings from time to time though...God knows how long some of those shitty repairs have been there.

[@ofon2000]

I know nothing about plumbing, but this dude makes it pretty interesting!

[@P_Rex.]

man rodger. whoever is digging your tunnels really knows what theyre doing!!

[@throttlebottle5906]

4:41 as temporary repair is OK in my books! BUT we all know that "temporary repairs" turn into long term repairs, because nobody want's to pay or just blows the insurance payment

[@NageekNoohac]

Man I kind of envy that you don't have to deal with nasty crawlspaces as often as I do here in Seattle, but I also can't imagine what a big deal it is to have to bore a hole like that every time you guys need to access the lines under a house

[@spasticpanda8933]

Noticed your Ferguson sign, are their plumbing supplies actually decent? I'm a sheet metal worker and their pipe and fittings are absolutely horrible. Nice video btw love them!

[@Cruiser052]

We've always called the clamp and hose a "bandaid" it's not a repair, it's a temporary fix. And I've ran into times where knowing about it has saved my backside. In my service days we had customers who did not want to spend the money for a proper repair and would demand the bandaid fix. Finally went back to repipe one of these homes and there were bandaids every 3 feet on this line and several sharkbite fittings where the pinhole was too close to a fitting for a bandaid.

[@alejandroc7357]

Just had to repipe an entire house because they still had galvanized lines underground. Lines were so rusted that the thickness of the pipe wasn’t even 1/16” . Of course there was fixes all over with pex. But the main line going to the front and back of the house was still galvanized steel. I told them it needs a complete repipe. They still had the nerve to ask me to patch the leak. So I tried to anyways (just to prove my point)for about an hour. Took pictures of everything, even brought the piece of pipe I cut out to show them. They finally agreed to the repipe. Some people man 😂

[@kennithburger7037]

i just watched a past video of you putting in a gas line and found out you are in Dallas. I do wish I knew about you and how you are back when I tried my hand at drain cleaning and plumbing back in my early 20s. that was not a good time in my life and if I had met you first instead of AAA Dependable Rooter could have been a lot better. Your videos have taught me a lot and brought back some good and some bad memories from my past. Ty a bunch. You filled my heart with much needed memories.

[@kelseywhitlatch173]

02:05 automatic like for the jet engine joke 🤔🤷‍♂️😂💯

[@cdtemporal2870]

I have used the rubber hose and stainless clamp before but it was to plug a pinhole for 2 days as there was a full building shutdown secluded to install insulation valves

[@louisel.sinniger2057]

People seem to not notice, If a person is a lazy, no good then they take that into what ever they do in life. I’m in the medical field and I’ve seen a vast array of this type of behavior. Thank you, I appreciate your channel

[@samspry9452]

At 5:00 it's obviously a temporary repair to stop water pissing out until a permanent repair can be made lol

[@laceybarbee5553]

2:46 "she's a crusty one Mr Grinch" -steven lavimonere

[@zacharythebeau163]

So I've redone the plumbing in my house from qust to pex a few years ago and just changed the check valve with a new pressure reducer valve (need to find and remove the original if there is one) and placed it on a valve box so even if it fills in its easy to find next time. Prior to that my grandfather redid the subfloor and he was an electrician not a plumber. Didn't have the tools to do a lot of work he got a piece of braided pvc to reconnect the qust to the other end of the qust pipe for the sink and it held no leaks for like 12 years... Came home one night, it slipped of it out back on other than that never leaked.😂

[@kenbrown2808]

the previous owner of my house was an engineer. any place he made changes to the plumbing, he spliced copper pipe together with rubber hose and stainless pipe bands. growing up, we had an irrigation system coming from a spring. when the 40 year old steel pipe would develop a rust hole, we'd stack two truck tire patches, put them over the hole and clamp them on with those pipe bands - the pressure would mold the unvulcanized rubber into the hole, and seal the pipe well enough to hold the pressure.

[@wyattcook2392]

I just found you in TikTok and staying for this KZbin channel

[@RogerWakefield]

I love that!!! Thank you…

[@keithreichman6331]

A company I used to work for we had a contract for Walmart. I've had to use the rubber and hose clamp on a 2" main before for temporary repair. Until we got a conformation from Walmart to shutdown the water to make the repair

[@marycomiskey530]

Wow, I never realized just how much goes into plumbing! I thought it Qasim just going in under sinks and fixing toilets... kudos to you guys, you don't get enough credit!!

[@DavidsonMott]

The piece of rubber and clamp vs a shark bite fitting for repair? HEHE.

[@jamwheeler]

what would you rather have a licensed plumber that does terrible work, or an unlicensed plumber that does amazing work?

[@jakobrosenqvist4691]

I personally care more about the quality of the work than I do about papers.

[@stls1034]

I’m pretty interested to show you how we repair sewage pipes that are not accessible. Here in the Netherlands most of the sewage pipes in homes are either in or beneath concrete. Even the asbestos/iron to PVC “couplings” that people have made that leak can be repaired. We use woven giberglass sheets and boat resin. My grandfather had been doing that to sewer mains for years and regular household plumbing has only caught up to this way of repairing in the last 4 years. It is pretty expensive tho. 110/125mm pipe repairs run at about €850,00. But it can save people from having the asbestos removed or their house torn apart for a small leak.

[@heavyfeather6682]

Hi sir great video When bringing a pipe through a basement wall from the outside what is the best way to seal around it to keep groundwater from getting into the basement? thankyou

[@squirrellysquirrels1167]

Got some near surface cold lines here in Florida... Hot sugar sand makes the cold tap hotter for around 30 seconds than the hot water. You're thoughts on hot cold water...?

[@conanharris3472]

I did hose clamps and garden hose temporary repair just to get the water on until I could replace the pipe. That was at my house.

[@michaelbrennan7148]

"Back and to the left. Back and to the left. They killed our Prince of Peace down by that book depository in Dallas Tx. The zig zag bullet. " When in doubt tape and dope on threads :)

[@pointedspider]

My bypass tube on my Ford Taurus was cracked. It's was $125 at auto zone. I took 2 3/4 pex tees, some worm clamps and some rubber hose. Costn$14

[@bbest8]

Another great video, my favorite the twisted pipe.

[@Sleepy459]

Who ever thought copper and concrete mix is something special for sure

[@throttlebottle5906]

true, directly encasing it is bad and very bad depending on the mineral composition of the mix!.

[@boredpeep]

When that jet clip started I pulled my headphones out faster than I do when I have to take off a vertical cleanout cap

[@eyellgeteven9928]

Yeah, that's a sound plumbers are VERY familiar with...I remember sitting at my gf's parent's house one night a couple of years ago, and I could barely hear this sound coming form the basement. I asked if they had something running and they said they didn't, so I started down the stairs and it got louder and yep, it was a split in a copper line in an unfinished wall down there. Nobody else could hear it at first, and like a lot of older plumbers, my ears aren't what they used to be, but I KNOW that sound too well, lol.

[@justice4all603]

Years ago under a house I found a radiator hose used as a trap in a bathtub

[@chrismallory3718]

I just repaired a job where a handy man tried gluing pex to a cpvc tee for hot and cold drop legs for washing machine shut offs, I obviously was a failure 😂

[@beerbeforebreakfast]

I love these!

[@brianpite0893]

Look at all the money the homeowner saved on hot water!

[@michaelbrennan7148]

Even saved a few dollars on a install of a water restriction at shower head. My dad installed a water restrictor when we kids growing up. I thought it was pretty cool. He caught a lot of stink eye from my sisters.

[@watomb]

Once had to replace all the copper lines because the water was to pure and pulled the copper out of the pipes. Guessing it was over a 5 year period of time.

[@BrutalMiller1]

Any top products for sink clogs like draino etc? Curious if any of it is actually good to use for a clog.

[@danielparsons8908]

Alot of times we'll temporarily fix pin hole leaks with rubber and hose clamps, for whatever reason.

[@conanharris3472]

Had a handy man replace my water heater in the attic. Worst decision of my life. I bought the home knowing the water heater was a 16 year old Kenmore. He opened the drain valve which broke and leaked 30 gal of water into my bedroom. Ruining the drywall and bed. Tried to tell the handy man what happened he just ignored me and finished installing the new water heater. Couldn't get a hold of him after that.

[@MikeM-tz9bd]

No sleeves on copper line penetrating floor. No wonder it leaked.

[@throttlebottle5906]

you'd really love all the old concrete encased radiant floor heating system then ;)

[@treebender-bl2du]

Cant get a picture but had the main stack broken off and saw that they had made 0 effort to repair or replace in a timely matter based on the 5 foot tall pile of feces and 2 feet of standing sewage and black water.

[@tamtmf]

That bent pipe that was for the hot water to a tub reminds me of a hemmroid, restricting flow.

[@michaelhymer9133]

Do you have a video of how you fill in once you finished a job under a slab? My are is mostly basements and crawl spaces so crawling under a slab is completely foreign for me.

[@GaryGoRound-to7ld]

couldnt pay me enough to crawl under like that

[@wizard3z868]

hose clamp and rubber patch vs sharkbite?

[@rem337]

Ok, Roger, HVAC guy here, I do a lot of soldering of copper lines and I am curious why you wouldn't just take a oxy/acet torch to the leak in 1:49 it may be different in comparison to HVAC and Plumbing but my first instinct with a leak like that is load up the ol' torch and blob some solder onto it, your take on why it would be different?

[@Azaduur]

You arent allowed to have pipe connection underneath a slab (at least in Texas), which is why all that copper was just bent soft copper running up through the concrete, so that the Tee's could be manifolded into the wall, above the slab and ran back down to separate fixtures. As far as i am aware, the only joint an inspector will allow under a slab is a brazed joint, hence his mention of sil-fos. On another note, no inspector in Texas will let a handyman repair such as filling in a pinhole with solder, fly. Theyre charging people first born children to tunnel under a slab like that, the least they can do is do it correctly.

[@rem337]

​@@Azaduur I see, okay, thanks for sharing!!! 👌

[@Revlemmon]

Why are houses in Texas not built on a crawlspace instead of on slab?

[@roberthernandez1985]

Why would you tunnel under a house for a cast iron leak when you can trench above the concrete line and replace

[@codysiegrist3355]

First of all I’m not a plumber I’m a cable technician, but I was wondering if it was hard to find tradesman now? I was talking to a female general contractor in my area and she said when she was in school to go to college and get a degree. She didn’t and now she says they are struggling to get young people to swing a hammer

[@realdarrenparis1476]

Roger, I got an alterego for you. A rapper named doodoo brown 😂 he raps about plumbing

[@ronniewilliz153]

Cast iron is always fun to remove 😉 yeah right worst 4 months of my life when I tried plumbing. How did/do y'all put the dirt back. We would pack it but we couldn't always get it back in an flush like it came out. I heard they have blower's that allows you to blow the sand back up in like it was so the concrete don't have a void ? Tunneling is has nice chunk of change but you definitely have to earn it lol. Killer vids an channel man love the content. 👍👊 An do y'all sell a lot of recirculating pumps an bladder tanks in Texas ? Them 2 where a big hit when I was doing plumbing

[@esemando]

Can we set it for ten am I have to drop a load off at the dump they open at 6 a.m. so I'm still going to try to make it there but expect me between 8 and 10. Is that okay

[@esemando]

Oops

[@Raysplumbing312]

Great video

[@mitchellbaird1628]

Your Reddit link doesn’t work!

[@pointedspider]

That rubber on that pipe wouldn't lasted if they used 3 clamps

[@themandalorian996]

Wish there were before and after pics

[@davidstock2713]

According to mays/billy, plumbers are not a specialty nessesary, brought to you from makers flex seal.

[@jacobarchila7375]

The white cockroach was my favorite I have Dubai roaches and they turn white when they shed their shells and the look white

[@TristanBurgener]

My favorite plumber

[@michaelbrennan7148]

JB weld to the rescue !

[@RLH007]

Guys hate on handyman.. freaking sad. I can plumb, rebuild engines and much more..get with it Roger.

[@anthonylozano9669]

I would love to know if you are ever scared to go under those houses. I know I would be in a plumber from so cal and I could never LOL

[@SeanBaker]

COULD NEVER!!! I have anxiety just watching the video!!

[@FerdinandFake]

Maybe clamping on a piece of rubber isn't great, but replacing the entire pipe for a pinhole? Just braze it shut

[@TheTurpin1234]

Whats the white bug at 4:00? looks like a roach but i've never seen a white one. I live in ohio

[@deadgamer21]

thanks daddy plumb

[@brandensmith7129]

Hay handymen have wonderful abilities I know full coding foe electrical and plumbing so please understand we want it don right

[@impostor51]

Take that Ferguson banner off my man lol ACT is where it's at

[@YoutubeYouTube-hp7mt]

I played Mario once

[@editorgrayson1073]

2nd

[@albertomares1159]

Come on roger why didn't you just repipe the house with uponor run lines in the attic and in the walls stub outs

[@HH-le1vi]

A handyman that doesn't know how to spell plumbing😆

[@Comrade_YG]

I have a pifaf it kills roaches 🪳

[@unforgetablegoose2016]

couldnt find any comments about the "cricket" i think its a roach maybe albino cave dwelling subterranean ( *obviously im not the bug expert)

[@charlesclark2166]

doy who watches this stuffy

[@Kafj302]

I am like 494

[@ronaldchrist2827]

Please say I need your help I don't know if you can help me go into plumbing I just need to learn I don't know what to say more but I know you can help me please just help I am funny Africa and I just really like to learn so I can teach the people right in Africa's l know you can help please

[@kevina4153]

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[@1978oldsmobile]

First

[@gutan6248]

'No one care'

[@almeidasheatingandplumbing]

man you talk too much, there are situations that we need to use some things, for instance the gear clamp with a gasket. We use for emergencies, then we plan a permanent repair. As a plumber you should know that there are different type of situations paaaaaahhhhhhhhhhpe

[@harveyconner2445]

check out kempinger 181. turn on closed captioning, this is from berlin germany, verry skilled old service plumber.