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Welcome to today's Plumberparts.co.uk video.
Ever thought there was an easier way to do the pipework
underneath your kitchen sink?
Well, today I'm gonna be showing you a new way to do it.
Look at it.
Most of the pipework, we're not gonna have to do
down on our knees with a bent-over back.
So watch all of this video to find out
how I piped up underneath this kitchen sink.
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Let's get going.
(James whistles)
(upbeat music)
So guys, what is the problem here?
Why am I trying to figure out
another way of doing this particular task?
Well, it's because I often find
that when you go to the pipework
underneath the kitchen sink, it's been done quickly
without any regard for the people
who are gonna use it in the future,
without any regard of how
they're gonna turn the water off.
And also there's a cupboard under here
that they should be allowed to use.
And if you're whacking up pipes straight through the middle,
then that really annoys those people.
The other reason that I'm gonna do this
is because I actually want to make
this side of the job easier.
It's not a lot of fun
getting under one of these worktops here
with your blowtorch.
The thing is you can get the old sink here,
this beautiful sink that I've got,
which is probably worth about a tenner
and is flibbety-flobbety.
You can burn them.
You can warp them.
You can do loads of stuff
with that hot, hot heat underneath.
And also I want to make it,
so you're not bent over all the time.
I mean, look, there is gonna be a part of this job
where you're bent over doing this sort of work,
but that's just how it is.
So look, without further ado,
the first thing you're gonna do is this.
You're going to measure out from the back
leaving a couple of inches from there to the back.
You're gonna measure it from a little bit off the bottom
up to a little bit off the top,
and you're gonna get yourself a nice bit of plywood.
That's the first thing you're gonna do.
The second thing you're gonna want to do is,
when you've got this carcass and everything here
or when it's out, try and make sure
that the cold feed in, the cold mains in,
comes in at the front to one side of that carcass.
If that means you've got to do a little bit of pipework
underneath the kickboard here, then do it, okay?
Don't say, "Oh, I'm not gonna do it,
"because I can't be bothered."
That's not the attitude, is it?
You're gonna wanna make it easier for your customer,
or if it's in your own home,
you're gonna wanna make it easier for yourself.
So take 20 minutes, half an hour,
just to make sure that,
I mean, it's probably gonna be a 25 mm MDPE or whatever.
If it's in copper, do it in hard copper.
Get it over to the right place.
If it's coming up in the middle,
then it's pointless, this job.
So make sure it comes up at the front
to one side or the other,
because we can do this on this side.
We can do it on that side,
but we're gonna use that side panel to start off with.
It's important that we do that,
and you'll find out why in a minute.
So I'm just gonna cut my bit of wood up.
We're gonna take these two out here,
and we're gonna have a look at getting this installed now.
By the way, guys,
all the tools I use in this video,
including this very snazzy workbench,
are available in my Amazon store.
Links are below.
(upbeat music)
(saw screeches)
All right, so there we go, got a bit of wood.
Let's get on with the job.
(James sneezes)
Gesundheit.
There's our bit of wood now.
That fits in nicely in there.
So now we can pop that to the back, like so.
How about that?
That's looking really good.
We can mark that hole there, the centre of that hole,
the centre of this hole, and the centre of this hole.
So now I know that that's gonna be my cold mains water in.
That's gonna be my softened cold out to the house.
And that's also gonna be my hot supply back in
from the house.
And that's kind of the standard sort of thing
you're gonna have going on here.
There might be a few other little pipes, bits and pieces,
like, I dunno, a pipe to an outdoor tap,
that sort of thing.
But now, you see, you've got the template here.
You know straight away already.
And you can write down on this, if you want.
How about you write down on it,
"Cold water main in."
(sped up talking)
And then you've got them there already.
Next you just wanna take note of, as well,
if we put a clip on here.
So that's gonna bring our pipe out
just a little bit further than that.
So what we might have to do,
when we do our pipework in a minute,
is just pop a little set on there.
And then we know that our pipes and everything go in okay.
Now I know, for instance,
that sometimes you're gonna have a pipe
sticking up here already.
That means that maybe you're gonna have to
put your clip a little bit further up.
So you've got room to put a little set in
before that clip.
pipeworks, pipework.
Practise.
So now I can go up on my work top
and design this system out.
First thing I'm gonna do on this one here
is just measure out 6.2.
Say about that there.
Now I can put a nice line in
all the way up.
Now, then our pipe's gonna be coming out there.
So I hope you're already realising the beauty
of doing the job this way.
Not only can you do everything on a bench,
not bent down with your back hurting
and all the rest of it, banging your head
or the customer's dog salivating all over you
and wanting to bite your head off,
but also you can lay out the system, design it nicely,
make your pipework nice and straight.
Plus you can make changes
to the pipework layout after you've planned it out,
which you'll see later on in this video.
So, let's lay out what I actually want,
because we're gonna do a fairly complicated instal here,
because what we're gonna have
is a water softener on this system.
So we're gonna make this,
and we've got our water softener manifold on here as well.
Usually this pipework would be fairly dirty,
but we're gonna make it so it's nice and clean.
So let's do that now.
I want my stop tap fairly close to that front door.
Straight after that, we can have my drain off.
And then what I tend to do
is just leave quite a lot of pipe here.
The reason for that is because, you know,
afterwards someone might want to add something
and then that gives them a nice area there to cut into it.
That's the simple reason.
So now let's plan out my manifold.
I know that I'm gonna want a T here,
and an elbow there.
I know I'm definitely gonna
want an elbow here in a minute,
and an elbow here.
So the key considerations
when installing a softened water manifold
is to firstly have an unsoftened water supply
going up to your kitchen tap.
But also we need to make sure that if anything goes wrong
with the water softener or it needs to be serviced,
then we have a manifold for the water softener
that we've built for that purpose.
So here it is all planned out.
We've got our cold water main in.
We've got our drain off.
We've got a clip.
Then we've got a nice area here.
If anyone wants to add anything to this,
then they'll be able to.
Our cold water then can go up
and just go straight into our tap unsoftened.
Or it can come through into our water softener,
back out again,
and then off to our cold water system.
If our water softener goes wrong,
we can turn that valve off, that valve off,
and open that valve,
and still supply the rest of the house.
And then simply, we've got our hot water up here.
So now all I've got to do is build it.
And you guys know how much fun that's gonna be,
because it is gonna be fun.
Much more fun building up here on a proper piece of wood
than it is building it under there.
Already you're seeing that we can now do this all
in front of us and get this done properly.
So let's get on with it.
(happy music)
So as you can see,
we've got the essentials on the table there,
a fluctuator, absolutely fantastic tool,
some wire wool, and all the little bits and pieces
that you need to do this job.
Oh, I do love doing that soldering.
All right then, so I've got to put another,
put a lovely couple of little sets in here,
and then we're done.
I mean that whole manifold is done all above ground,
if you know what I mean?
Let's make a little mark on there.
Pop that on the side of the former here.
Hell yeah, missy.
Like so.
And then we're gonna put ourselves in a little
and some there.
♪ And then I go and spoil it all ♪
♪ By saying somethin' stupid ♪
♪ Like I love you ♪
In the words of Zowie Bowie,
"Yowsers.
"That was a whizz."
(radio plays in the background)
(energetic music)
By the way, guys,
the podcast I'm listening to
is the Cine-Files Podcast.
It's amazing.
So if you ever get a chance,
listen to it.
The Cine-Files Podcast.
They just review a whole film,
and today's episode is that hilarious comedy "Deliverance."
Anyway, this is going really, really well.
I'm just gonna get my last bent set done.
Get my last bit of elbow up,
get my valves tightened on and popped in,
and then we're ready to pop it up inside.
It's gonna look wicked.
(upbeat music)
Oh guys, look at this.
Looking really, really good.
I love my tote bag.
I'll do a little lineup at the end of this video
of all the stuff that I've used in it.
I couldn't find my usual blue roll,
so I've got to use a bit of toilet roll.
But now, of course,
the creme de menthe, a bit of Brasso.
Make it look beautiful.
That's what it's all about.
And the good thing is
is because I haven't closed my clips yet,
I can just lift out each piece, just like this.
Give it a good old clean.
(upbeat music)
All right then, guys, it's done.
So let's see what it looks like when it's in there.
So look at that all built-up in one piece.
We've got our manifold for our water softener there.
It's all here.
Now there's another little thing about this
that's really, really handy.
If we need to take any of this pipework out to work on it.
All we need to do is turn that off, that off,
that off, that off, and then turn the mains off outside,
and you can pull this whole manifold out.
I mean, how easy is that?
(James laughs)
Right.
So now I've just got to guide it into there,
guide it into that first hole.
Look at that.
How neat is that?
Nick, just pop a screw up here.
Obviously you're gonna have to reach
underneath the carcass to do your final connections.
And that's probably the hardest bit of doing this job.
Often you'll find there's gonna be a bit
of pushback under there
or you're gonna have to do one solder
or it's gonna be a compression fitting,
but that little bit of work
you're gonna have to still do some time or another,
with or without my method.
On there a bit of hot feed coming back
from the tank or the boiler or wherever it may be.
So I'm really, really pleased with that.
I like this way of doing it.
As you get older that sort of way
is a lot more preferable.
I had my radio on.
I was listening to my podcast about "Deliverance,"
and you know, everything was in front of me.
I could clean the pipework nicely.
I could make sure that it all works okay.
Also, now I know that when someone comes here,
I mean, I know that this is all getting knocked down
but when someone comes to the house,
they'll be able to drain down the system easily from there,
they'll be able to shut it down easily as well from there,
that's not hidden at the back or anything like that.
I mean, I could, if there was enough room to the door,
I'd actually twist that round facing this way,
you know, and it's easy to do.
Just slacking into off and bring it around and do it.
But that's the way I'm gonna do all these from now on.
Get that last one shut.
Come on, Jimmy.
(Jimmy grunts)
Like that.
It's just really, really good, really rigid.
So I hope you've enjoyed this little video.
It's not an instructional video.
I know I do,
all the videos that we do on Plumberparts.
There's so many different types,
and this one is more just an appraisal for yourself, maybe.
Have a little think about how you do something
and improve it.
And I'll tell you what,
if you've got something out there
that you do every day or you do often,
and you've thought of a different way
of doing it, a way to improve it,
then comment below.
It would be really, really good to see.
And I am going to now go and have a beer.
I feel like I've earned a beer.
It's gone six o'clock now in the studio.
So I think that's beer time, don't you?
Thanks ever so much for watching today, guys.
I hope you've enjoyed watching today's video.
I hope you've learned something.
I hope you've enjoyed the music,
'cause there's gonna be some great music in a minute.
That I always record little song-song, don't I?
And remember,
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if it's not subscribe,
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I think we know what it is,
that's to hold tight.
See you soon.
Can I do my best hold tight?
Hold tight.
Hold tight for the bad boy.
(James vocalises)
♪ Don't do your back in, baby ♪
♪ No ♪
♪ You don't wanna do your back in, bruv ♪
♪ Don't do your back in ♪
♪ That's like my last thing on the list, innit ♪
♪ Baby ♪
♪ So feel me now, guys ♪
♪ Feel me ♪
♪ It's time to get this right on right now ♪
♪ It's time to get it that out the front now ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ We don't wanna do our backaches right now ♪
♪ So let's do some pipework, baby ♪
♪ Oh yeah ♪
♪ I'm just wondering now what I'm doing this for ♪
♪ I'm always on my knees down on the floor ♪
♪ Getting slapped and dunked by the customer's Rottweiler ♪
♪ Gotta change my pipework, baby ♪
♪ Gotta up my pipework, baby ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ It's simple when you think about it, baby ♪
♪ If you do did this all your life ♪
♪ then you'll have fucked knees ♪
♪ You'll have fucked knees ♪
♪ And the apprentices that please will try to disagree ♪
♪ No no ♪
♪ It's never much fun when it's stuck halfsies ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ So try to do the pipework the best way that you can ♪
♪ Oh, you know what feels good, baby ♪
♪ Oh when you're sitting back ♪
♪ And now when there's problems ♪
♪ Everything can be reached ♪
♪ That's the thing that I wanna teach ♪
♪ Yes, you wanna teach it, baby ♪
♪ So when the customer gets home from a hard day ♪
♪ They're gonna look under the sink ♪
♪ Then they're gonna say ♪
♪ Oh my god, brother, what you've done there ♪
♪ Looks proper nice ♪
♪ Looks proper shiny ♪
♪ The pipework proves that you've had a prophecy ♪
♪ Because I can turn the water off in emergency ♪
♪ Shit, that is like ♪
♪ Blowing my brains, bruv ♪
♪ This song was selected by my friends at the Ale Army ♪
♪ They did it on a Thursday night ♪
♪ Because they were there for the livestream ♪
♪ I drank a beer and they got some video sneak peek ♪
♪ So click on that link and make sure to subscribe ♪
♪ Because it's like an orgasm on your finger ♪
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Bye bye!