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And welcome to today's echoey Halloween Plumberparts video.
Today we are looking into screening,
I also have to sink pipes into a wall.
Now, this was suggested to us by a lovely man on Twitter,
I think he was called "disco dimmer" or something like that.
His question's appearing in the screen below me right now.
So, anyway, as you can see,
we've got lovely chase here,
it's been chased down lovingly by Gavin.
And if you look closely, we can see,
the more you start, this is basically
coming out with a grinder.
And I'm sure all along, he wore gloves,
and he wore goggles and mask.
And basically, he's ground it out,
ground it out of there.
And then used an SDS router or a chisel,
to just gut all this all out,
and then sweep all that away.
We look at the floor, we can see
that he's made a lovely little screen out just here.
We get down, and have a quick look,
we're gonna see that it's quite deep screen.
So we've got good sort of, 40 or 50 mil there.
And also, if you look here as well,
we've got a pipe in here.
You see, that's nice and deep there as well.
We've got a hell of a lot of room.
Before we continue, you've probably realised
there's loads of screaming kids here again.
It's just that sort of house.
- [Woman] In, boys, in. In, in, in.
- Basically (laughs)
So the thing you've got to think about,
that's really important when it comes to
sinking pipes into the wall,
is obviously the depth of the wall itself,
how you're gonna fix the pipe,
so when someone comes over to render this wall,
or plaster it or anything like that,
that the pipes aren't gonna move.
And also, really, really, importantly,
there how you're going to try to insulate
your copper pipe.
Now, there's kind of two ways you can attack it.
You can either insulate it to stop the heat getting out,
which is obviously a brilliant way,
and also kills two birds with one stone.
This is very important that the concrete,
or any kind of render, doesn't touch the copper itself,
'cause it can rot through it.
So, hopefully, depending on the depth of the screen,
we should be allowed to fit in this nice
15 mil by 30 mil wall.
And it's still got enough depth
to then be able to render over that.
Sometimes you're trying to sink pipe
into a single brace stop wall,
which is only as much as four inches deep sometimes.
When that happens, you're gonna want to
dig out a pipe there,
and then basically gaffer tape up the pipe.
We find that that helps to stop anything
kind of climbing onto the pipe when it's drying out.
Basically, what we're gonna do is,
I've got some double clips.
We're gonna pop a few double clips in down here,
get our pipes laid out in the bottom,
and basically get our pipes up in the thing,
ready for Gavin to come over here
in a few days' time, to render up,
and then we'll be fitting the radiator back on
in a couple of weeks.
We might do a follow up video for that,
in our next Ask the Plumber,
or whenever we come to do it.
So if you guys subscribe, then you'll know that
it's been done perfectly well.
So yeah, let's do that now, and I hope you enjoy it.
And I hope the kids don't make too much noise.
Speak to you soon, onsite!
♫ I've got some red clips going, in this wall
♫ And I know it's not funny, a bit
(drilling)
We'll have just a quick look here,
at the depth that we've got.
See if we can give him enough clearance.
I mean, that is lovely.
So we can get a nice pipe round there,
we're gonna screen over the top of that, absolute treat.
(drilling)
♫ You're simply the best, da, da, da
♫ Better than all the rest
'Cause this is going up through the wall,
and then out at the top, it's gonna elbow
sort of back over up in the loft space.
Just gonna put the elbow there now.
Pop that through on up.
Ah, look at that.
Huge amount of space, there, now.
Brilliant.
Well, it's now just a matter of getting
our lovely insulation on.
So we're gonna get a bit on like that,
now where the clips are, we're not gonna put any on, okay?
Because the width of the insulation,
when there's two next to each other, is quite tight.
Okay? So now we're gonna do that.
♫ Ooh, you did me wrong
(time-lapsed video)
So, then, like I was saying,
there are other ways.
Okay, if you've got an issue with depth,
okay, you haven't got the room.
Now, let's say, the old days what they used to do,
is they'd actually get newspaper
and wrap it around it.
Anything to stop the concrete actually
touching the pipe while it's wet, okay?
And also touching it later on as well,
'cause it does go through pipe.
I've always found a really good way to do that,
is basically, gaffer tape.
Gaffer tape is, you pop it down here like so,
wrap it around.
Then you know now, that nothing's
gonna actually get on your pipe.
And the same goes for the floor.
Now, if I were to wrap as well,
a couple of wraps around,
and make sure there's a couple little ridges as well.
So, it's really sort of free to move as it wants.
And once that's there, and all that,
there's no way that's ever gonna cling on there,
or anything like that.
There's a nice little bit of room in there, as well,
it sort of protects the pipe a little bit,
so that's, I said, the other way.
So, a closer look at that.
You can now see that there's plenty of room as well,
okay, and if we have a look down here,
there is gonna be an issue,
'cause our pipes there are sunk into the wall,
nicely like that.
I mean, as you can see, up here,
we've got this gap here, when we've got our
gaffer tape on there.
But when we go further up, you see
there's not as much of a gap.
So sometimes, you do have to think about that,
obviously, though, it's much better to be able
to insulate your pipes properly, like this.
So, once you've got this bit done here,
we'll just show you how you'll
basically splay that in the floor.
It's exactly the same, pretty much.
I mean, sometimes, you've got to
try and get a reasonable amount of
depth of screen on top of there.
But really, it's what you've got to play with,
in the real world, that matters.
You want to try and get, really, 40 mil of screen
out of the top of one of your pipes.
But depending on how far you can dig down,
obviously, that is really the main factor
that will determine how deep your screen trench can be.
So, we're gonna just basically,
go our two levels out now,
this is gonna be for 700 wide radiator,
so we're gonna measure out 700 from our centres.
And then we're also gonna measure out,
basically, I'd usually leave it about an inch out,
to then cater for your valves.
Then later on, when he's done the floor screen and all that,
basically, there should be a couple little
offsets up into the rad, or maybe,
if you're really lucky, just straight up into the radiator.
But I've never won the lottery,
and I don't think Gavin has either,
so we'll see how that goes.
You know, and I'll supply the video
in a few weeks' time.
So I guess I'm doing this now.
Oh yeah!
(time-lapsed video)
So, there we go.
We've got a lovely, lovely bit there.
Plenty of room for Gav here, to screen over this.
Loads of room there, he's got about 30 or 40 mil
on top of that.
Got loads of room up here,
going up into our loft, ready to be connected
up to our main heating system.
And everything should be absolutely amazing.
I have enjoyed today's Plumberparts.co.uk video,
I hope we've given you a bit more insight
into how to sink pipes into a wall,
make sure that they safely aren't touched
by any of the corrosive properties
of the concrete or the screen.
I have given you an idea, really, of how
to do a little bit of pipe work, as well,
in that stop-motion we did there.
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So, I hope you enjoyed it,
I hope you come back next time.
I'm gonna get another cup of coffee,
let this lot clear up.
And then, I'm probably gonna go
and try and book a round of golf tomorrow,
'cause the weather looks absolutely great.
Also, I've got an absolutely massive bucket
of sweets as well, that I'm not gonna give
to any kids who are trick or treating,
I'm just gonna sit in front of the fire,
and eat them with Big Jim.
I'll see you next week's video, everyone,
and remember, hold tight!
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(singing to himself)