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I know it's a bit echoey,
just try and bear with us a little bit,
'cause the sound is gonna be pretty mental.
As you can see today, we're changing over
a little basin waste which has got
a slightly flip plug basin waste in here.
We've actually got about 10 or 15 of these to do.
And we actually put up on out Twitter and our Facebook.
And we popped out Plumber's Mate
which is a tool that you're gonna have to use soon.
It's a putty that you can actually use
and we popped that in the fridge earlier
just to make that cooler
because it's about 30 degrees outside today.
It's pretty warm.
That stuff can be an absolute nightmare
when it comes to, gets warm.
It sticks to your hands
and dribbles about.
Be like Slimer in Ghostbusters.
In a minute I'll go into why I'm using Plumber's Mate
and not some of the other variations
that there are for actually
doing this particular type of job.
So let's have a quick look now.
We've got our little one eye lens camera in there
so we can get you right underneath the sink as well.
And you can get really good views to what to do.
I hope this video helps you.
Remember everybody, to hold tight.
And I'll see thee very soon.
First things first, is obviously making sure
there's not water running into here,
anything like that.
Take it, oh my God, what is?
This is the kind of thing you have to deal with
when you see this sort of thing,
it's horrible isn't it?
I take this out the hole right there,
in a minute we might need to stop this
from twisting around and to do that you just
sort of stuff a big screwdriver in there like that.
And you can hold the screwdriver like so
and then don't have much of a problem
with that moving around.
If we go underneath, really it's quick a simple
job this is not a very difficult one.
First thing we've got to do is just
undo the two nuts that are holding our trap on.
You might have a different sort
of spin type of trap on here.
Undo that now, obviously we've got
lovely installed in here we've got this
nice bit of things.
What we're going to do is just
twist this out.
This is where it might bet a big manky this job.
Usually you've got, yeah, look at that.
Isn't that beautiful?
Usually at this point you can see,
I'm just gonna get this.
Look at that, beautiful, come with me darling.
Oh my God, that is manky.
So I'm sure you can see how manky it is under there,
not nice at all.
So anyway now we've got all that horrible stuff out.
It's making me really _.
The next thing you'll wanna do is
just get your trap and just pour into,
if you've got a toilet nearby,
pour
whatever you've got out of there.
And if you so want to now, get that nice clean,
just look at that in that dirty _.
Right, so now we've got the trap emptied out like that.
We've got the trap out and everything.
We've dependent on what sort of plug guys you've got,
you might just be removing the plug,
really easy to do, it's not a big deal.
Let's get under there with a pair of grips,
what you've gonna find under there is a nut,
a big black nut that just looks just like that
under there.
And what we need to do is we're just
gonna grab our grips and slacken that off.
And then we might need to grab the little screwdriver
we've got on the top to stop the actual
body of the basin waste from spinning round.
There you guys can see
that slacken it off there.
Just a little bit.
One more to do is to grab that.
And then basically we can just take this whole nut off.
Now we've got that out we should be able
to just lift this out, just like so.
Now we're onto pretty much the next stage of the job.
So it's really important that everything's dry
when you're doing this.
So what we need to do, we go up here,
we got to clean this down.
It makes a good idea to give this a good clear off
so when you've got your new basin hole in there
it looks nice and clean.
But also, while you're getting ready for the next bit,
it's really important to get all this nice and dried out.
Just stuff that up there.
Stuff it under there.
Make sure that all that's nice and dry.
So the next thing you're gonna want to think
about doing is actually getting your
new basin plug prepared and ready to go in.
And this is also where I'm gonna come round
to the different ways you can seal up new basin plug holes.
Because there are quite a few different ways
and everyone's got their own kind of way of doing it.
Number one, a lot of the time, you're gonna
have a little nut and screw like that.
That is to cover up the old chain hole
so if you're taking out a basin waste
that's got a chain in it, that'll cover that up
and make that good.
You want to try and keep this clean
because if you get _ on this,
if it's wet, it's impossible to get off.
You need to wait for it to dry out
and then you can rub it off quite easily.
Often, if you're lucky, you have a big washer like this one
here that's underneath the old thing
and you can reuse that.
We're gonna drop in our basin waste like this
so the porcelain of the base will be right there.
As you can see, we've got two slots here.
Now what they do is they allow water
to come down from the overflow.
So it's a good idea you can make a mental note
of where them slots are
and try and point them as best you can
to where the overflow comes in.
So if there is ever an overflow problem,
like a kid leaves the tap running
or something like that,
then you know it's gonna drain away right
and not flood the room.
Now the next thing, you've got this stuff here,
Plumber's Mate.
Now a lot of you guys probably aren't
gonna have this because you're DIYers
and you're not gonna have a specialist plumber's
thing like this.
Personally,
I just absolutely love the smell of it for some reason.
The more you put on, the better.
Now the reason I put mine in the fridge
if I've got a load of these to do coming up.
Say I've got, you know,
second fix on a house, second fix on a few houses
and I've got a few coming up
then I'll put it in the fridge
and make it easier to work with.
What we do is we put it into sort
of like a centimeter round sausage.
We'll wrap that around the actual thread
once we've got our new basin waste popped in.
And then we push that up
and punker up as well as we can.
And what that does, that seals up the thread
as it goes up through into the porcelain basin.
Then the overflow and that won't leak,
won't get any water come out.
Now there are a few other ways.
You've got Basin Mate.
In fact the Basin Mate will work on this particular system
but if you've got a pop up waste,
Basin Mate is usually a bit too deep
for you to actually be able to get
on the end of the thread of the pop up waste,
so that sometimes can be a bit of a problem.
Obviously a lot of you are gonna use silicon as well.
The reason I don't like using silicon
is purely if I'm on a job
and this is the last bit of the day,
I can't test whether the silicon is actually sealed up
straight away until sort of 10 or 15 hours later
when it's cured.
Whereas with Plumber's Mate, I can test straight away
and make sure that the installations are right.
I can move on to the next job
or _ or whatever.
The other reason I don't want using silicon is
just thinking about the next guy
who's gonna come in.
If it's all siliconed up, it's a nightmare to get off.
Sometimes it can be welded in.
And it's just not, you know,
it's not the done if you're a proper plumber.
I hate to say it,
or maybe a bit old fashioned.
But if you are,
you're gonna use a bit of Plumber's Mate.
So anyway, let's pop on to now.
You've got a good idea about what we're gonna do.
You can just watch this as we go along.
That will give you a great idea
about how to complete this task yourself.
We're gonna pop this in like that.
And if we actually look right down in here.
I don't know if you can see very well,
but there's our slot there.
There's our other slot there.
There's the slot inside the basin.
We just put this down
like so.
I've got a good idea now which way that slot is pointing
and that should drain nice and easily.
We go underneath,
get our Plumber's Mate.
Roll our Plumber's Mate into a sausage like that.
Then I'm just gonna
pop it round on here, just like so, like that.
I've got a little gap there to fill in
so I'll just get a little bit more.
There, now that we've got it in,
you can put your screwdriver in there again.
Just be careful you don't score
or damage the top side of the
basin waste, you're gonna get that wrong.
Then I just use my fingers just to push
this up for now.
Get this in sort of the right kind of position.
Get it so it's nicely on the thread itself.
Now very importantly,
in the knowing enough, they don't seem to supply it with
these new sort of wastes,
go into the plumber's shop
and get yourself some of these washers.
If you know you're gonna do this job
or you're thinking about doing it.
You want to figure out how
grab yourself some of these washers.
They will save your bacon when it comes
to using Plumber's Mate.
So then what we do,
we slip the
the plastic on here like so.
And then we really put a bit of force on that now.
Push this up around like so, like that.
Really get that in.
The good thing is about Plumber's Mate as well
is it just pushes out what it doesn't want to use.
So it's not really wasteful product.
It's not like,
not like silicon.
There you go.
Then whatever you've got around this bit of thread here,
just try and pull that out of the way.
Because in a minute, we're gonna be putting
on obviously our plastic nut, our new nut.
And that as much Plumber's Mate,
if it's in the way, it's gonna sort of impede that nut
tightening up.
We've got our nut to go on.
Just gonna pop that on here.
You will see now why that plastic is so important.
Because it stops the nut from chewing up
all the Plumber's Mate that we've put underneath.
Let me get this as hand tight as possible
and then use
what leverage you've got at the top
to keep it in the position that you want it to be in.
Then get your set of grips.
As you can see there, it's pushing out what it doesn't need.
Get this pretty tight now to be honest.
Right, once you've got that tightened up,
run your finger around.
Pull off all the Plumber's Mate
that's been splurged out.
Pop that back in your tub for use next time around.
So now this is sometimes the problem
you've got when you're changing over basin wastes
is the actual depths are a bit different.
Now this is great actually that this
happened on this job
because I can show you the complications you can have.
What you think's quite a simple job
now we're gonna have to make a bit
of a moderation to this piece here.
Maybe even take this shelf out
and just speak to the customer
and see if they're happy with us doing that.
If they are, we're just gonna remove the shelf.
So, I've got the go-ahead, thank God,
otherwise I'd have to be
doing quite a lot of butchering,
wood butchering at the moment.
That's plumbers never really want to do.
We're not fans of that.
So now I'm ready to put this back in.
As you can see, lovely, hairy bits there.
As you pop that in like so
and then look, if you see how the,
it's very important that you make sure
that that gets a good seed, that's the first thing.
If it doesn't, you're never going to seal it.
That needs to go perfectly.
The fittings, the compression fittings are this.
Really they only need to be hand tight,
don't go completely crazy.
Now all we need to do is,
moment of truth really.
Just start running some water in here
and then just test for any leaks.
So there we go, we've now finished the job off.
We've tested for leaks and everything's okay.
And now there's a lovely new shiny basin waste in here.
I can close up my Plumber's Mate
'cause I know that everything's okay.
You see how easy it is to use that product
and I don't know why people think
it's a bit archaic.
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how to change 'em over, how easy it is to do.
It's the sort of thing you can do yourself if you need to.
Please come back and watch us in next week's video.
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See ya soon.
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home of find your plumber.