- Hi guys! Welcome to this Plumberparts.co.uk video.
My name's James! Today we're gonna follow the step by step
process of installing a vanity unit from start to finish.
So we'll start off with an area that looks like this,
and end up with a vanity unit installed
that looks brilliant, just like this.
In this video we're gonna be using the
Ideal Standard Concept Air Tap.
Some of their lovely basin, as well. We've got a
lovely basin to instal. A great vanity unit, as well.
All of this stuff's from Ideal Standard,
and I'll leave links to that in the description below.
So if you want any of it you can
find out a bit more about it.
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And let's get on with the video.
Remember everyone, to hold tight!
(Cheerful jazz music)
- So guys lets first have a quick look at
actually what we've got under here,
what connectors we're gonna be working with,
and the general area that we're gonna
be working in before we begin.
We've got an isolator under here,
that's obviously a bit floppy at the moment.
We're gonna to get Sparky in about that,
but that's gonna be set on the back box work
behind and underneath our vanity unit.
If we can't get it all the way through,
what we might have to do is actually put it up on the wall.
And then leave a little cutout on
the back of the vanity unit, so people can get to it.
Also we've got our hot and cold here.
I can't remember which way around they are,
cause I did this absolutely ages ago.
So I'm gonna have to figure that
one out pretty quickly as well.
And we've also got a little bit of a
control centre under here as well.
That is for our little bit of electric underfloor heating
that we've got under our tiles here as well.
I've said "as well" quite a lot, haven't I?
So what I do first is actually get your vanity unit in here,
figure out which way round you want it.
I know that I'm gonna want it sort of this way round,
with my tap kinda here.
So the first thing I say you do is
get the vanity unit in here, do some measuring.
And you can do a lot of the work now
that's gonna make this job a lot easier for you.
So, let's have a look at that. And lets get measured up,
and actually plan the job out properly.
It you plan it properly, they'll be less problems later on.
(slow electronic music)
(groaning)
- It ain't bloody light, is it?
Alright guys, there's a couple of
things you gotta think about,
there's lots of thinking that we need to do, innit?
If we don't think, everything will go bums in the air. Yep.
Right, so. First thing just get the measurements
of your vanity unit that you wanna put in.
So the width of this vanity is, 600.
And I want to go along that ways.
So I'm just gonna draw 600 on the wall,
with a couple of arrows like that.
Its gonna be hidden there you know,
if I write it on a bit of paper
and lose that bit of paper, ugh!
Be a well grumpy gut, wouldn't I?
So this way, four four.
440, so we're gonna pop that on there. Just like so.
Now the reason I'm doing that is because
I've got a bit of skirting board, what I'm gonna have to do,
once I know how far go out each way,
I'm gonna have to get my little fane,
my oscillating tool, my multi cutter.
To just go down there, and then get that little bit
of skirting board out of the way,
otherwise we're gonna be leaving a big gap between
this and the wall if we don't take it out the way.
Now the next thing I'll just say you wanna quickly do,
is just measure up from the floor to the top of
the back of this, and give yourself a bit of room.
So if I come up 18 inches, I know then that
all my pipe work will be sticking up out proud of that.
That's 18 inches, just like that.
Because I'm not a Sparky, I don't want to start playing
around with their wires and all that sort of stuff.
I'll get a Sparky in to sort that bit out later on.
I'm not gonna be pokin my head under there forever,
looking at it, crying. I cry about other things.
Like the bit when they shot Two Socks in Dances With Wolves.
(inhales)
Breath deep. Ugh!
- [Voiceover] Guys if you don't have a
skill saw or a cutter, well I don't actually know
what you're gonna do, I mean just get one.
They're so handy, and you can use it for loads
of other DIY jobs around the house.
- Well then guys, now we've got those bits out of the back,
let's just do a little bit more planning.
Now we're seeing a back view here of, obviously,
where the wall is gonna go up to here,
and our vanity is gonna open out of there.
Now get whatever basin waste you're gonna use,
I suggest what you do, is you just drop it down
into the hole and then pop on the trap
that you're going to use as well.
Right, okay so now we've got that there, like so.
So now we know, within about five mil, what height of our
elbow going out to our trap is going to be from the wall.
What I need to do, is ill just measure up here, like so.
Five, eight, five mil. Okay.
So now I know how far to bring up my pipe extension
where I first fix on the wall at the back here.
So five, eight, five. So I can draw that, five, eight, five.
So what we're saying is there where we want to put
our elbow, we've actually got that now marked on the wall.
Just there, under "Waste Elbow".
So that means now what I can do,
get a bit of waste pipe that I've got here,
its a bit of a dirty piece but
its just been knockin around the van.
And now, I can say right, I know where
I want the bottom of my elbow to go.
Now I've put a straight coupling on there,
we've got our pipe here, and in a minute when
this is all set out nice, I'll be able to clip that up.
And we know exactly that our waste elbow
is gonna come out exactly where we want it,
for the height of our waste here.
(Soft guitar music)
so what we're gonna do, is we're gonna very quickly
get this gorgeous, gorgeous Concept Air.
And I'm gonna give you some nice
close up shots of this in a minute.
Built your Concept Air up if you have to,
they usually come made already.
And the good thing is, is that we can now see as well
how high up we want to bring our actual pipes.
Now Concept's great because they give us a lot of flex,
okay, to use underneath. If you want you can
use the copper flex's that you can buy
but under baths and under sinks,
and one of the rare occasions I'll use a flexy,
you have to use them right. I know I do the
flexy Friday hashtag on our social media,
that's when they're kinked and they're horrible.
We can use these to good effect on jobs like this.
So I can bring this flexy up to here and go,
right I know that I'm gonna get
roughly that far up with my pipe,
now what I'm gonna do is just myself a little bit more.
I've marked that on the side there,
now I'm just gonna make sure that my
far flexy can be able to do that as well.
So now we know, how far up we wanna
bring our copper pipes as well.
So through a little bit of deciphering,
through a little bit of work, a bit of planning,
we're making this job easy for us,
because we don't want to be doing a lot
of work down behind this panel here.
We want to try and keep any compression fittings
or anything like that above this panel as well.
So that if there's any problems,
the engineer who's gonna come after us,
or the plumber, or the home owner,
is gonna be able to get to everything.
That's so important, we don't want
to be leaving people stuck!
I measure again, from the floor up to my mark.
That's 21 and a half inches is the
nearest or five five zero mil.
And now I know I can come back round here,
and go five five zero mil.
Right there.
Okay, now the other thing I wanna do is we need
to know how much cavity space we have to play with.
So the next thing I need to do is get my bends
up and over to the back of the wall,
before we get the bottom of actual unit.
My darling wife, Emily, I love you so much.
She actually originally wanted the fit to go along this way.
Which is why my pipe are flush
to the wall at the back there.
Yeah. She changed her mind. (sighs then growls)
Anyway, so. So we've got a hundred mil there from the floor,
I'm just gonna measure that over there.
And then from the back we've got 70 mil. Okay.
So there you go, we've got a jaggedy section just up there.
And then the top of the pipe, as you can see
that's gonna be our little cavity area.
So I can't put any pipes this side of that line.
I have to do behind that line,
within the squiggly area there,
I don't we know we'll be impinging
outside of our cavity just here.
(funky guitar music)
So one thing I'd like to say is that the Concept Air
from Ideal Standard, and also most of their taps,
when they supply the flexibles,
they supply the imperial to 15 mil adapter.
Which most supplier don't do, and I like that.
Another thing I like to say as well,
when it comes to a brief review of the Concept Air,
is that the adapter they send is not of a poor quality!
It tightens up, it doesn't squeak,
its got proper brass feel to it.
They're not like the cheapy ones,
where you tighten them up, and they squeak
and you know they're gonna leak.
Also you're gonna see that I've built up both of
my valves going onto my pipe bits already.
This just makes things easier,
I don't have to tighten them up now,
do I, when they're under the sink.
Also they've all been joint and compounded as well.
I just highly recommend you do that, alright?
- [Voiceover] Guys remember always put your
pipe clips in first and your pipes should
follow nice and straight afterwards.
It'd an old plumbers tip, that. Yeah.
- [James] Well then guys, so we got our
hot and cold in there now and our waste.
A little bit of jiggity piggity,
or whatever you want to call it down here.
But those two pipes aren't touching,
and they're not rubbing on those tiles.
So they should just be fine,
lets face it, we're never gonna see them.
What I like to see if nice straight stubs going up,
nice easy valves to get to at the top.
Everything should be fine.
What I'm now gonna do is make sure that our vanity unit
goes in this space nicely as well,
gonna make sure that all our wires
can flop into where we need to. And all that sort of stuff,
and then we're gonna fast forward about a day or two.
After the Sparky's come in and put that on.
(quick piano music)
- [Voiceover] Fixing the unit to the wall is easy,
just use the two lugs on the back
and make sure you put plenty on glue and fixent as well.
- Yes!
Right then everyone, the Sparky's been in
and he's done that main plug down the back there,
the under floor heating stuff still isn't done yet but
oh, I've got my plumbers mate here, which!
This is a tip between you and me,
whenever you do any work with plumbers mate,
I see this as better than silcon.
When it comes to doing wastes.
Just make sure its cold, alright?
That's the secret to this stuff.
Right so now all we need to do is get our basin prepared.
Because we can lay the basin on with
our tap attached already and also our waste on.
Its easier to do it now because otherwise
we gotta get under there to do it,
and it just gonna be harder isn't it?
So like I said, all I've wanted to do
in this video make this job easier for you.
Also while I'm getting these unpacked, if we have a
quick look at the unit that we've actually put in,
you'll notice that our walls are a little bit out.
Blame me! Blame ole Mickey Moo!
I mean its one of those things, that's just life really.
Walls can be out.
So with that little bit of filling underneath
that means now when we come back to it later,
we'll be able to run our silicon down there.
And ill show you how to do that last.
Just a quick look at the Concept Air on its own.
What we're gonna have is our little rubber O ring in there,
we've already got our two flexies here.
We've already got our little bit of stud work here.
The basins going to come up like that,
imagine my fingers are the basin.
Underneath we've got our lockin U,
or whatever you wanna call it.
Then we'll have our nut underneath that,
that will do up and that will clamp our tap in place.
(clanking)
Make sure that your rubber is facing down,
just go as tight as you can here,
make sure as well that your spout
on the tap is nice and straight.
Right, so now, all we need to get in is our waste.
Really, really simple we've done
this millions of times before.
First thing I recommend you do,
take off the actual top part of the waste.
Just pop it to one side, make sure you leave
the decorative cap on it, so if you drop anything.
It doesn't get scratched. So just gonna put that over there.
Then what we have is the standard slot type,
for the overflow, try to make that slot face
the overflow outlet just here.
So that can sort of flow in there nice and easily,
should you leave the tap on.
What I'm gonna do is, just do this all in one go.
Got my sausage there, I pop this on here like that.
Make sure its facing roughly the right direction.
These are gonna get in the way a little,
but that's just life.
Then I'm just gonna pop my sausage round the thread,
like so. Just like that. Okay.
And then just push as much onto and in,
just sort of diagonally push it into the thread,
and also into the basin.
I just prefer this method from silconin, I just do.
Just how it is, everyone's got their own way of doing things
Don't hate on me guys, this isn't twitter!
We're on Youtube here, this is all about
constructive criticism, am I right guys?
If you've got another way of doing it,
share it in the comments below.
We pop a little washer on there like so,
now we should be able to just do this up and just get
everything squeezed in there, as hard as possible.
Now one thing I'd say is a really good idea,
is to get a screw driver, try and push it into the slot
from the topside and that'll give you enough sort of
leverage to stop this spinning round while you do this up.
(thumping)
And the good thing, its not a very wasteful product,
plumbers mate. Because it just spews out what
it doesn't want to use, you know? So.
There we go. So just ring that lot of there like so.
We're just gonna leave putting this on for a sec,
lets just quickly get the top of
the actual vanity unit itself ready
to receive our lovely little basin.
Right then guys, what I'm gonna do is
just get a small amount of gripper,
and then just run a small bead down the inside,
if you can, of that little bit of wood.
So look. If you just have a look there,
we're just running that down the inside, just like that.
I said the inside purely because if we do get any splorge
or any squidgin out, hopefully you won't be able to see it.
Oh! And we won't have to do any clearing up in a minute,
that's all.
So you know, I don't tend to do the front.
I just don't, I don't like to see it. That's all.
Alright guys so we're ready to pop
that on now that we've got that there!
Just lay this,
on our top like so.
Oh yeah! Its looking good!
Woohoo!
Loving that!
Right then guys, so there we go.
We got that basin installed, so lets get our
pipe work down here sorted out.
This shouldn't take us two seconds.
(old style piano music)
So firstly, look at how our measurements have worked out.
We've got rubbers on here, we've already
pressure tested these! How neat is that?
That's just gonna pop on there like so, and we done it.
Nice and easy. Boom. There we go, that ones done.
And then this one here.
Nipped. And nipped.
So there we go. Our two water connections are now done.
See guys I hope you recognise that
because we've put those pipes in, we put the valves on,
we did all that before we put the vanity unit in.
It meant we could do one very important thing,
and that's pressure test our pipe work.
Before we put the vanity unit in.
The last we want is to pressure test is now and then go
"oh my god I've got a leak down the back there"
and we've gotta take that whole vanity unit out.
So you know, do things the right way round,
you're making your life easier for yourself.
Alright? Let get on with the waste.
Se we measured the waste, didn't we?
So we could make sure that our outlet would be
just about right, and that looks still pretty good
on there at the moment. So what I'm gonna do,
all I need is to get my elbow on here properly,
so that's glued. Small spigot a pipe on there,
and then whack that on there as well. Let do it!
Make sure you've got a good rubber seal on here,
that can sometimes leak on there.
The rubber seal is gonna be a little bit funny.
And also make sure that you don't cross the thread.
Good way of doing that is to run the nut backwards,
till you hear a little click, once you hear the click run it
forwards again, and you won't be crossin the thread there.
- [Voiceover] Build up and instal the
compression fitting side of your waste
in the way that you normally would do.
I've done loads of videos on it in the past.
- And there we go, the waste is in, that's in.
Lets turn the water on,
and just make sure we haven't got any leaks.
Cool! So here we go!
Cold.
Good. And then hot.
Good. And then both.
(water running)
Nothing there! Oh yeah guys! That's what I'm talkin about!
Right, lets draw it full. Just do a fill up quickly on that.
We got enough in there now,
see how she drains.
(water draining)
this is the true test of your waste system.
Alright now, lets see if that leaks or not, and?
Oh yeah, nothing there!
Well I would say that's pretty successful.
I'm gonna let this set before
I finish this whole little instal off, alright?
(lively funk music)
Right then guys, we've got everything in now.
Just wanna sort of reiterate what we did
to instal the actual cabinet.
You got two lugs at the back,
we just wap two screws through there.
Very, very fortunately I caught the actual stud work.
So I've got a really good anchorage point.
Oh and also glue it. Lets face it, once its in place,
and its all glued in or you've silconed it in,
or used whatever fixer you've got.
That only way that's gonna come out is if
you go into some incandescent rage, over the fact that
you've finally got long nose hair, long ear hair,
and one out here in the middle of your earlobe.
But what I wanna show you now,
is how we get this little piece done here.
Use a good silicon, for a start.
I tend to you use Dow Corning stuff,
I really like their silcones. Oh man,
I gotta get a new one. Oh! Has it landed face down?
Oh no! At last, I've cut one off
and it didn't land face down.
Now looking at the size of that gap there,
everything in there's hard now, it just not going anywhere.
So this is really for decoration.
If I was to give you one tip on silconin,
it would be to get lots of blue roll,
buy some former profiles, and just take your time.
And enjoy the process, somehow!
So guys, there we go! All done! The job is complete.
I'm very, very happy with the finished article.
Id like to quickly talk about Ideal Standard's
tap that we've got in here, cause it is very sexy!
And I did look at a survey about taps
and it seems like a lot of plumbers are more happy to fit
a cheaper type of tap, and then go back to it
and fix it in two or three years time.
Where, I've got a style I prefer to do this way.
Where you pay for quality, british made stuff.
And it works, it lasts for longer.
Its much, much better, just feels solid.
Its really, really good. I'm gonna leave links
to everything that I've installed here today,
down in the description below. So go and check them out.
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Thanks ever so much for watching, and remember,
hold tight! See you soon!
(claps and whoops)
Let's go!
(Gentle electronic music)
- [Voiceover] Also a special message for my man Riley,
down in Southampton, he's just had a bit of an operation.
Get well soon mate, and remember to told tight as well!