- Hey guys, welcome to today's Plumberparts.co.uk video
from the studio.
Like pretty much the first video I think I've ever done
from this little studio.
As you can see, we're right in the middle
of building everything up at the moment.
Got the heatin' goin',
we've got our soundstage set up
and our little stage area that we can move 'round,
make into different rooms and things like that.
Super excited.
Can even fit the beast in there.
Let's have fun.
We're gonna be looking at soil pipe today
'cause that's what I'm fittin' here.
Thought it'd be a great opportunity to tell you
a little bit about falls and bits and bobs like that.
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So in here just behind us we've got (mumbles)
So we've got 4 inch comin' out of there.
Just over there we've got a kitchen sink
and also a little sort of kitchenette bit,
and then also a little basin as well
so you can wash your hands after you've done a wee wee
or a poo poo ah.
And what that's gonna do is we're gonna run that
all the way
through down here
and just outta shot down there by about another 3 metres.
We've got our main drop pipe going in.
So what we're gonna be looking at
and where we're gonna be workin' at most in this video
is gonna be just along here,
around there,
that's oh,
oh it's gonna be great.
Thing is, right?
There's a lotta chit chat about drops,
bits and bobs like that.
Often the drop,
you might be havin' to figure it out
or work it out or anything
because you haven't really got much of a choice,
and let's talk about why now.
So often the fall for a waste pipe or a soil pipe
isn't really gonna be anything
you can define yourself properly.
If we get out this lovely bit of 9 mm MDF,
I think it's 9 mil, I don't know.
Let's have a quick look at what most jobs are.
So most jobs you're gonna have a house
like this.
Okay?
And you're gonna have two floors.
There's gonna be a waste pipe that sticks out like that,
and maybe the dropdown stack is here.
You've already got a T-bar in there,
and you are just gonna be running that down
into your old branch.
When you're doing new jobs, okay,
a lot of the time we sort of work
between two areas of drop and fall.
I mean you may have heard someone say,
It needs a drop of 1 and 40,
or it needs a drop of 1 in 110.
And that's like the lowest,
so 1 in 40 is really quite steep,
and 1 in 10 is much more shallow,
and that's kinda the spectrum.
If you're anywhere between there
your drop is gonna be probably just about right.
But let's figure out what that actually means.
1 in 40, so for every 40 cm across you're going,
you want to drop by 1 cm, easy.
And for every 110 cm you go across
you wanna drop by 1 cm.
Now often what you'll be doin',
if you're workin' out falls and drops,
is often like soil drainage.
It'll be in the ground,
and it's not something that you're
gonna have to do along the wall,
because that's often predefined.
So what I'm tryin' to say is,
for ground workers they are predetermining their own drops
because they're diggin' the trench,
and sometimes they'll need like little break tanks
and things like that
if they're goin' down a hill
to make sure that they haven't got too much
or too little drop.
That's fine.
But for what we're looking at,
which is often grey soil pipe
that you're gonna be putting up outside a wall
or somethin' like that,
you're often already predefined
by the branch that's there already
or the toilet hole that's comin' out of the wall.
You can't be changing the toilet height much can you?
Let's face it.
I mean there are things you can do behind a toilet
like elbow it down,
so you know you're outlet hole is a different height,
that sort of thing,
but most of the time we're going to be
going straight out the back.
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So the job that we're doing today,
as you saw, we're gonna be coming out the back of the toilet
with a standard toilet pan connector,
like a McAlpine Multikwik,
then we're gonna be going into a 4-inch elbow,
and then we're gonna have two lengths of pipe.
So that means we've got a 6 metre run.
Now that's important
because the first thing we've done there
is we now know one of the dimensions that
we need to figure out to know what our gradient is
and also whether it's okay.
So if we go on the rule of thumb
that the shallowest possible drop
that you're allowed and is permissible
is for every 110,
all right, to make it easier I do for every metre
you want a minimum drop of a centimetre, okay?
So we're gonna want a drop from our outlet here,
and what we do for drops is
we don't measure from the centre of the pipe,
we actually measure from the bottom of the pipe.
That's what I usually do.
Everyone's got their own way of doin' it.
So we've got a little bit of bottom pipe here,
we're gonna want a difference
between the bottom of this pipe here
and when it goes into our T-branch,
we're gonna want a difference of
roughly 6 cm across this whole lot here.
That is a rule of thumb.
It's not something you have to stick by 100%.
To be honest, I'd much prefer
to be able to maybe be able to do it
so we've got 1.5 cm for every 1 metre
that we're going in our travel across here.
Those parameters there are just there for guidance.
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna stick our pipe in.
Matt the plasterer was 'round here earlier on,
so I gotta kinda be careful with
the inside bit of the toilet
'cause there's quite a lot of wet muck up there
and he's gonna get the goddamn up
if I mess up his plaster.
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- We've got a master of his trade here today,
Matt's here.
Look (mumbles)
Studio's comin' along pretty well.
Ted, Ted.
What's this?
This is my pencil mate.
No, no it's not yours.
It's mine.
Git.
Things like that, if you're interested.
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and also there's a link below as well.
So anyway, let's go over and actually have a look
at where we're gonna be doing this
and how I'm gonna get this job done.
Another funny thing is about having a little doggy onsite,
I was bending over doing some prep work for this,
which is why there's a little puddle over there
out of shot,
but we'll see that in a minute,
was Ted started lovingly nuzzling my bum crack,
which I thought was really quite funny,
and also strangely arousing.
Why have I drilled a hole here?
Let's firstly just cover that quickly.
Well, it's quite simple.
I know that my toilet is gonna be sat on this floor here,
therefore, I knew exactly where
my height of my toilet outlet was
just by measuring up from where it sat
on the floor to halfway up the toilet outlet,
and then I knew exactly where the centre was
to drill my hole.
How did I know how far to drill out my hole on here?
Well obviously it's very important,
and I try to run on the theme that
for every 3 m length of pipe you want at least two clips,
and that's why our clip (mumbles) is gonna hold our pipe out
so it's this far off the wall.
Very easy for us to figure out.
We just pop our clip on the wall here,
and as you can see,
that's bang on right for getting that in there.
Very quick tip about clips.
A lot of people make this mistake.
There are two type of clip,
and don't get this the wrong way 'round,
'cause if you do you're gonna go absolutely mental.
One is for the actual pipe run,
but one also will take the width of a socket,
so it's bigger, all right?
And that means that the pipe's gonna sort of
rattle about on it.
It's very rare that you really want a clip socket.
You're more likely to be getting clips
that's gonna actually fit the pipe itself.
So I gonna have it up here like that.
If I can,
I'm gonna sort of put my finger under here.
So the bottom of our pipe is about 14 cm.
And now, really important for us to do,
is to pop over right over to here
and see what we've actually gotta go into.
Let's have a look at that now.
So we are gonna be going all the way down
to the darkest depth.
We're gonna put a T-branch in here
because I'm gonna be wanting to maybe
put a toilet in there to film it,
and I wanna show you guys exactly how
all the waste pipe works for that.
I'm just thinkin' of you.
Remember that, all I'm thinkin' of is you.
So we're gonna be running all the way down to here,
and as you can see we're just gettin' into a wet bit
because I got my plasterer to
pour his water down there earlier.
So look, I think we can see already
that if we were gonna measure
from the bottom of the pipe where it goes in here,
this is our kind of no way back sort of area,
we're gonna measure from there down.
That's gonna be about 10 mil, okay?
So we know that that's our depth there.
So guys, are we within our parameters?
We've got a hole going of 6000 mm
at one end we've got 140 mm,
and at the bottom end we've got 10 mm,
so the difference between the bottom of the top end
and the bottom of the bottom end is,
guess what, 130 mm.
So firstly, let's figure out the maximum amount
of steepness we're allowed going along
with the rule of 1 in 40.
The best way to do this is to divide our going,
so that's 6000 by 40.
That leaves us with 150.
Equate that to either 150 mm or 15 cm,
and that's the maximum amount of drop
we're allowed between the top
and the bottom of this run,
and as you can see at the moment,
we're well within that tolerance.
So let's have a quick look and see
the minimum amount of fall we're allowed.
So we get our 6000 and divide that by 110.
That comes out at 54.54, which is 54 mm.
So to be safe the minimum amount of drop
you want along the whole of the going of this
is gonna be 6 cm, really.
Now I know that I'm well within the parameters
that I've set myself for this job.
I'm happy to carry on and start
installing the soil pipe on the wall.
Just a couple of little (mumbles) tips,
if you're onsite as well,
if you wanna do any cutting,
I always go out to the chippy,
see if you can get any V pieces,
and you can just sit that in there.
And you wouldn't believe, actually,
how well that holds here for you to cut the pipe,
'cause this can be a bit annoying to cut
and roll about quite a bit.
Also you are going to want, whatever cut you do,
to get a rasp or get a file
or if you're really lucky you can actually get a proper
deburring machine, to put a chamfer on this,
because you are pushing it into a fitting
that is exactly the right size.
And also, you've got a really thick
kinda rubber insert there that makes up our watertight seal.
Along with that as well,
you're gonna want to get some sort of lubricant for this.
You can get a silicon spray lubricant,
you can use Fairy Liquid,
you could even spit on it and just rub that 'round there
as if you're on porn set,
and then that'll get it going really easily.
I'm gonna do the old porn set one
'cause I don't know where any of my stuff is.
I'm building this.
I've got like two jobs on elsewhere.
I've got work on at the house,
and I've got tools all over the country at the moment.
It's drivin' me nuts.
Now what we're gonna do now is we wanna make sure
that our fall is nice and straight,
that these two are nice and perpendicular.
We're gonna put a cap in this,
so we don't have to worry about that later
and up that and I'm gonna put like a metre stub on
and a durgo as well.
A durgo is an air admittance valve.
But anyway, the reason we're not
putting these together just yet is obviously
we want to get our clips hung.
We wanna make sure that everything's perpendicular
and straight all the way down as well.
A good way that I like to do this is
to think about my centre clip first,
and divide everything from that in half.
So we know that we've got a run of 6 metres,
so if I measure 3 metres down we're roughly gonna be here.
We know we've got our 14 cm there and 1 cm there.
So we've got a difference of 13 cm.
We divide that by 2, that's 6.5.
So we know then that roughly here our clip,
the bottom of the trough, our clip,
wants to be 6.5 mm off the ground.
And obviously all that comes into bearing
as to whether our floor is level
and our wall is nice and level and things like that.
So think about that.
Similarly what I'm then gonna do is,
I know now that the bottom of the trough clip is here,
is 6.5 going up to 14
I can then measure up here,
make that difference there as well.
But a lot of guys aren't gonna do that
because there's not much flex in this pipe,
and once you've got your one clip here,
you can almost just pop the clip on there,
mark the holes, and then whip everything outta the way
and drill your holes and get it
plugged and clipped like that.
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(drilling)
So we've got a good fixin' on here now,
we've got a nice washer, good screw,
and that's not going anywhere at all.
(upbeat music)
Right then guys,
we've got it all in.
We've got our pipe running down here.
We've got a little T-branch just coming up,
ready for some work that we're gonna be doing
on the other side of the studio,
if you wanna just have a quick look at that as well.
Where that is.
Let's see, that's the state of the studio at the moment.
But as you can see, we've got a really good
adequate drop in that all the way.
Nice little gradient on that.
And there we're going 'round to our T-branch just down here,
and I've got my durgo and my little stub ready to go.
We did have to go over to putting our last clip on the floor
because the first fixed pipe work that had been done
by the ground workers like months ago
was a little bit too far out of the wall
for our clips to actually reach.
I could have got 'round that another way
by like cutting small stubs of copper
to sort of stick out the clip a bit more
or maybe mounting it on a little bit of batten wood.
There's loads of ways around it guys,
work whatever is best for you.
There's no hard and fast rule to any of this,
that's the thing.
The good thing is, right,
we haven't put our cap I here yet,
and obviously if we go down to here,
I haven't put my cap here yet either.
So what I'm gonna do,
I don't know if this is gonna work very well,
'cause I'm on my own today,
I'm gonna pour some water out of the kettle
down the 4-inch stub pipe that we've got.
Let's see if we can chase it.
Gotta be quick.
So 4-inch stub pipe's just here,
kettle's just here,
be real quick here, right?
There's water goin' in there now.
Uh.
Should better go if we're gonna see water runnin' down.
There ya go, water.
Then we should be able to go to here.
There ya go.
You can just see a little bead of water just there.
There ya go, a little bit of water, hey hey.
So that tells me that our pipe drop is absolutely fine.
We've got no problems there at all.
We've got it nice and sturdily fixed.
There's no problems there.
And we now know that whatever we put down there,
and believe me on a Friday I've got a little,
well I'll show you quickly.
Hey hey, I've got a little fridge area
that I'm building up as well.
This is all sort of outside of normal work hours.
So yeah I'm gonna have a few beers in there,
and obviously on a Friday crack open a couple of beers,
maybe if we're gonna do a late night Friday filming,
get a curry pot down here
or maybe get a Chinese takeaway dropped off.
And then that soil pipe's gonna have to deal with it.
It's gonna have to deal with all of it.
Yeah.
So there we go guys.
All done.
We've got a waste pipe here,
and we tested it.
We've got no leaks.
We know our drop's okay.
We know we perfectly fixed it across here,
but we've also recognised about the fact
that there's no real hard and fast rules to how to do this.
You've quite a lot of scope for how much drop you want,
and also when it comes to fixing stuff
there's so many ways of doing it.
Obviously make sure that whatever you're fixin'
you're using the right equipment to do it in the right way.
I've probably missed something out in this video
because there are so many different things to do.
I will show you that we're gonna be bossing into this pipe,
so I'm gonna show you how to do some bossing.
I'm also gonna show you exactly how
we're gonna run a cold feed across here,
so we'll be clippin' it up and doing that soon as well.
So we got lots to do in the couple of weeks ahead,
oh yes.
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Bye bye.
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(funky music)
Matt I'd like to pay and I wanna owe you one.
- Owe me one?
- [James] You'll ring me up at shit times
and ask me to do shit jobs.
- I've wanted, I've wanted something like this for ages.
(laughing)
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