- Hold tight, guys.
Welcome to this Plumberparts.co.uk video.
My name's James, today we're going to be looking at
fitting this toilet here up against this here--
here's my shadow, hello!
And then we're going to be going through there
and then we have got a four-inch pipe here
got a little bit of a complicating factor,
and I like to show complicating factors
because plumbing isn't an easy job, is it?
The complicating factor is this:
our centre for our toilet is just here
we've just drilled this hole through here, right,
so we know where the centre is.
Now can you see the problem?
At the moment, the centre for our toilet
is about three inches below the centre
for our waste pipe just over here.
So what we've gotta do is,
we've gotta somehow drop down this T.
Fortunately, if you've got the right tools,
it's not that difficult, really,
or at least, it's made a little bit easier
by us having the right tools.
More just like over the shoulder job,
give you a better idea about plumbing,
how difficult it can be.
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That'll do.
Right then, guys, so the first thing we've done
is we know exactly where the centre of the loo is, right,
because what we've done is we've recorded
from here over to here and we've marked
our centre point here.
Then, what we've done, is we've grabbed ourself a tape,
we've measured up from the floor to the centre of this,
and then we know exactly from there
where to drill our centre hole.
And that then allowed us to just basically test
exactly where our four-inch should be going in here.
Now, the thing is, with these sorts of loos,
we don't want to be tucking ourselves up too tight
and we've got a big gap here that we know
we can sort of cut out,
from the floor all the way to the top just here as well.
So what I'm gonna do is measure that gap now
and actually cut this whole hole out on this wall here,
so that's the next job I'm going to do.
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So then now that we've got this bit marked out just here,
don't know if you see that, just got that marked out there.
First things first, get our actual dust sheet down,
make sure it's protected, and then
I'm going to use my little multi-cutter oscillating beast
to get though that wall.
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Right, then, guys, so we've got our hole through there,
there's our lovely hole.
So, what we've got to do is, basically,
marry up this toilet, get this up against the wall here,
and then we're going to get all our screw holes
sorted out and all those bits and pieces.
Top tip for you here, as well, sorry about the light.
What I've done is I've measured
the centre of the loo, okay,
and then measured the distance between
each side of the wall here and here,
and then I've married them up together like that,
so now we know that they're exactly right the whole time.
Now that we've got this piece marked up in here,
we know how high...I've learned to keep my flushers
as high as I can so you get a really great flush,
so what we're going to do, we know now how high that can be,
so I can mark with a pencil exactly where I need my bracket,
and then also I can cut this pipe back
to where it needs to be, so this goes
back in here, back in here, then our flusher's done.
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Right then, guys, because the toilet
that we're fitting, right, is quite deep,
the actual waste pipe is quite deep set into the toilet
sort of the way it was cast,
we can't use standard fittings,
so usually what you do is you would
grab one of these, okay, one of these
McAlpine wc conn 8s, bang that on the back
and then shove that straight onto the stack.
We can't do that here, which means
that we have to use a small adapter to get this fully out.
You've got this kind of rubberized flange on here
with a small lip on it as well
and that is like the seal-causing lip,
what you do, you push that in a few inches or an inch,
tighten that up on this jubilee clip,
and then you've got this flexible connector here
that you can pull out and then we can
get into our waste pipe that way.
Now I know a lot of different people
sometimes they have a bit of an issue
with these waste pipes and that,
with these flexies, especially,
but this is going to be just fine for this job
and it's got the very catchy McAlpine name of
the wc conn 8f btw.
The name of McAlpine's new album.
We're going to pop that onto the back
and then we're going to do the difficult work
of actually cutting the stack back
and getting that in the right position as well.
Not an easy part to do on this particular job,
and it's not something that I'm going to
give you any kind of instruction on how to do,
because this sort of thing is just unusual.
We don't have to do it all the time,
and it's one of those things that's not
a standard sort of a job.
But as apprentices, you guys're gonna learn,
that plumbing's not straightforward,
and also as your average DIYer,
when you ask me the question on YouTube,
"How do I fit a toilet?",
you're gonna hopefully realise
how bloody ridiculous that question is.
'Cause it's...how long is a piece of string, there ya go.
Right, so, let's get this on now, enjoy watching.
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Right then guys, so we've cut out this,
I mean it was seriously probably
the most fun job I've had in ages, thanks, Carl.
So we've got a slip joint in here,
and then obviously we've now dropped down
the height of our T.
If you have a look under here,
you can see, you know, exactly the problem
we've kind of got, the depth of that loo
is right back here, this is right back
against the wall at the moment, this toilet.
So what we're going to do now is,
I mean, I love, I mean flexies are fine, that's great,
but we want to keep as little flexi out as possible,
also, look, have a look down there,
look, look in there, always take out the instructions.
Come here, you.
We going to twist this round so it's the right orientation,
and then, because I don't want to have
too much flexi that's kind of dangling
in the middle of nowhere, we're gonna
cut a little bit more four-inch
and just stick that out, probably about
10 inches worth or a foot's worth of four-inch,
and then we can sort of zigzag
like nice and straight into the actual stack like that.
We've got our waste in here now as you can see,
so we've got all those in there.
We've got our four-inch here,
we've got a really tight jubilee clip on there as well.
As you can see our little flush cone
is directly in there as well,
and we've got all our rubbers and everything done up here.
This is nice and level, too,
and as you can see just over here
we've got our T in, our slip joint,
now some of you are going to say,
"Oh, look, that's a soil there,
and that's grey and then that's black."
You know what? It doesn't matter.
So what we're going to do now
is get our first fix over to here and into our toilet.
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So there we go, we've got our pipe
nicely hidden just back down here now.
And then we can actually fill this loo up
if you want to test for leaks
and make sure that everything's going to be okay.
But that's not what we're going to do right now.
Next thing I'm going to do, you see Carl
lurking in the background there,
trying on a staff shirt, aren't you, Carl?
What we're going to do after that
is we're just going to clean up the floor,
give it a hoover where we want to put our loo,
and then we're going to mark and stick down our toilet,
basically, so we've got two screws
to get through the floor.
So, basically, yeah, clean up the floor,
give it a mop-up, then we can
get this glued down and then you can
also watch us silicone it in as well.
Right, so we cleaned it up in here,
well, as best we can, anyway, loo's out of the way.
And now we need to figure out about
actually fixing these toilets down.
So we've got our two holes just
sticking through here like that underneath the loo,
we need to get our brackets on here
in roughly the right area.
Now, I say roughly, because if you look on here,
there's literally a hundred holes on there, whatever.
And if you're just a little bit out
and you catch one of them holes,
you're still going to be able to tighten this up.
Now I would say once you've got these in,
they aren't the be all and end all
when it comes to fitting, either,
mainly because I'm a firm believer
that the actual main, like, holding,
the main gripping of the toilet
is actually done by the silicone seal that you do with it.
Because that is 100 percent all 'round,
every surface that touches the wall and the floor.
Regardless of that, we've got to put these in anyway,
if you've got, you know, a big fat John, or whatever,
comes and sits on the toilet and it moves out of the way,
big fat John ain't going to be very happy.
Now we're gonna measure this distance here,
we've got another mark as well, just here,
so hoping that everything's nice and square,
and we come out, we can then draw
a centre line out here at 5/8 one mil.
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We know how far out to go, cause
we've just measured our distances out,
so we know what to do there as well,
so now we're going to come out nine centimetres that way,
and then nine centimetres that way,
and then, effectively, what we need to do then
is measure the depth of the holes
coming off the back of this wall here,
trying to make sure, as well, that your wall
isn't out of level, okay, so might want
to bang a bubble on there and just make sure
that wall's reasonably level, as you can see it is.
200 back, so that's there and there.
So now we know that these're in the right place here.
As you can see we've got a centre line,
our width line, and then we measured out from the wall
to get the line across here as well.
And now we can mark our holes, drill,
and plug these two down.
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Well I can say that that was pretty knackering.
When you're done, it should look a little bit like this,
as you can see.
Right, guys, so moment of truth,
all that measuring and that drilling.
So hopefully I should be able to push this back into here.
They're both perfect!
So we've got both our bits back in there,
only the matter of to do now,
is to find screws and caps, let's get them screwed on.
Sometimes I leave the caps on
until you've done your silicone in,
because sometimes when you put the caps on the toilet,
like these stick out the side of the toilet,
and get in the way of your former,
or in the way of your finger as you're smoothing out,
so do the caps last, okay?
Wow, look there, all of a sudden,
a basin appeared, how about that?
We've just cleaned around it,
and we're ready to silicone up.
We've obviously already done videos
on silicone and everything, so I'm not
going to tell you how to do it.
You can just watch us, yet again,
in quick motion while we do it.
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So then guys, quick look at the job,
to explain why we've done what,
'cause sometimes people just don't get it.
As you guys know, we had a problem here with
our height on the four-inch,
Carl over there takes full responsibility for that,
don't you Carl?
- Yep.
- It's all his fault, bit more we've had to sort out
'cause we're plumbers, we're amazing,
and obviously, as well, remember
we said the toilet, the actual outlet for the toilet
is very deep inside the cast,
so we've had to purchase a couple of connectors on here,
and as you can see, we've just done the standard thing here
when it comes to our cistern.
Probably realise that this isn't connected yet,
because Carl's gonna put the button in himself
when they're fully done all the work next door,
like all the decorating.
We had to shove a slip joint on there as well, remember,
because we need to put that up and down,
you saw us struggling with that earlier on
from the comfort of your computer.
We've managed to hide our pipework round behind that.
We will probably box this bit in
at a later date, but remember,
if you're a cheapy and you're watching this,
and you're puttin' to boxin' it in,
make sure we can remove it if there's a problem.
The loo's seat's on, all siliconed in,
and obviously, as you can see,
we've got a lot more extra work to do here,
we've got the shower to put in.
Everything seems to be going a-okay.
Right then, guys, there you go.
You've seen the whole job's done now,
toilets in, silicone sealed, we've tested for leaks
and there's no leaks.
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