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Best trick for removing water out of pipework without a wet vac for me is I use the spray part of a kitchen cleaning disinfectant bottle as you can Push the small tube down the copper and spray the water out always worked for me nice video as always james keep up the good work 👍

Don’t take a trap off and empty it down the sink your working on.

I am a retired plumber (heating engineer) and just seen your very good video. However a few comments, ptfe tape, says on the reel " thread sealing tape" and that is exactly what it is NOT olive sealing tape. The conex manual states ideally no compound should be required although boss white etc may be used. The idea is to present a smooth even surface to the seal, PTFE tape makes a very uneven surface and in time will bed in and cause a leak. Incidentally Conex also say " hand tight plus 3/4 of a turn". Oh yes as you say clean the pipe ! ! Thanks, Bob.

Good stuff, I am 56 years old and I have learned quite a bit of things here now

I've been watching your videos for about 5 years now. Since then I've learned loads about plumbing, DIY etc. I'm a plumber by trade and you've shown me lots of great tips over the years. I've even had a go at tiling and boarding. Your a legend James. Thank you 🤟

The gentle unscrew-until-click trick also works for reinserting woodscrews and helps to avoid stripping the thread in the wood.

I have just completed a successful diy basin installation thanks to your videos. Woo!

That was a great video... Very helpful and entertaining at the same time. Thank you so much

An ESSENTIAL video. A click must. Water leaks can be so damaging, so got to get it right. Thank you for presenting these so well as always.

Superb little video, as always. Lovely stuff. The man who has made no mistakes has made nothing.

Your videos are gold dust for DIYers. Been able to do so many jobs around the house thanks to them! Might even have a go at soldering next time I need to do some pipe work. Thanks for making this possible.

Thank you for your time to explain this, it really helped me today

Great no nonsense video because we have all done those things in this video in the past 😀

When i got married at 19 my father in law wanted me to have a trade so he took me to work with him at weekends and some evenings to learn the trade unfornately he was a painter!!! i wanted to be a plumber!! great tips

Top man, always useful advice and fun to watch !

Always good to see the simple stuff. 👏👏👍

Very Useful for an amateur - and a professional - Thank you

Excellent James well done👍

Very useful thank you especially about compression fittings.

A clever man learns from other peoples mistakes. It is bad practice to use jointing compound on compression fittings ( that method is for plumbers in a hurry ) If a compression fitting is cleaned and unmarked it will not leak when tightened, If jointing compound is used it is a pain in the ass when you come to undo the fitting at a later date, also some of the compound can get inside the pipe and clog up any partially open rad valves further down the pipe, it can also get on the faces of ceramic discs in water taps causing taps to drip. Just one of the common faults found in new build houses where the plumbing has been done in a hurry.

Cheers for this! Started as a plumber last week with a friend! Hes taught me some.of these already but good reinforcement

Beautiful 😍 thanks

found this video very informative and useful.

Good fun and very informative, thank you!

Just to say big thank you for all your great videos 📹 👍

Great advice. Thanks

Brilliant, thank you 👍👍

Top lad james keep the good work up👍👍

Good sound advice - thanks.

Thank you I will tell my dad how to improve his plumbing now hahaha

Thanks so much this helped ❤

I'm learning a lot from you sir you are a genius

This video was a lot of fun. It lifted me out of DIY plumbing despair.

Good knowledge and helpful for house wife

@plumberparts - thanks for this - i'm a DIY'er and wanted my downstairs loo refurb to be a personal project - was connecting a new compression tap valve to 1960's pipework and kept getting a drip - yep i put ptfe on the thread!!! It's now on the olive - THANK YOU!

Thanks, good advice for a joiner👍

Thanks for the tips. Some I wasn't aware of. But making mistakes don't teach you unless you know you've made a mistake ;-) but next DIY plumbing job I hope I'll recall enough to be better informed.

Great advice

I was taught at college (many, many years ago) that a new compression fitting does not need PTFE tape or jointing compound adding to make a water tight seal. I stick with that to this day and very rarely get a problem.

Love it! What's do you call the drill attachment to clean the pipe? Thanks!

The best advice given is about making mistakes 👍

Brilliant content

Not young, not an apprentice but still I've learnt heaps, brill video, cheers my friend.

Click bait??? Never. Great videos. Thanks for sharing.

great tips thanks.

Great stuff

Since following advice on You Tube on using jointing compound and not over tightening compression fittings the number of water features in our house has dropped to zero in past years. Thanks mainly to James!

Hi mate Great videos keep them coming. After 22yrs military service I’m now retraining tiling / bathroom installations. Definitely going to make loads of mistakes along the way. Remember to FAIL is just the FIRST ATTEMPT IN LEARNING (FAIL).

Great video from a great personality.

Great vid thanks very much 👍🏻

Brilliant !

Very informative! Can you tell me again what is the material you used to tank the floor of your bathroom? It stuck to the 9mm ply sheet you put down? I had a shower put in and we’ll things were not done how they should have. So the more I can do to stop leaks or water coming through my ceiling the better. Thank you again! Just got to work out how to drain the hot water down so I can put an isolation valve in. 🖖

Discovering Jet Blue jointing compound was my biggest DIY plumbing improvement. Handy brush built into the lid too.

Great video. Im just starting out and it’s great to know the common mistakes. 👍

Great videos… just wondering about compression fittings on Jg speed fit? I don’t feel like jointing compound would be right.. but they do they leak a bit without tape,..I don’t think I’m over tightening 🤔

Good Saturday morning to you sir and your family

Very good hints however I have a question. Should we use PTFE tape everytime on threads when we are using jointing compound as well? Can we use one of these or should we use both at one time?

Great info vid', for diyers and pros' alike. I must admit I got 9/10 😇 but have been doing diy for over 50yrs. Great vids, keep them up 👍

Is the jointing compound used on compression fittings the same stuff that's used for making threaded connections with linen/flax/hemp? Mine says "sealing compound" on the box, so I'm unsure if that's the same thing...

Nice work . I wrap ptfe onto a pencil and then roll the pencil around the fitting, great in those hard to get to spots. Put your pencil in a drill if you want to spool a lot of tape on. Reversing threads for the "click" is one of the first mechanical tricks I learned, probably fixing me Chopper or Grifter in the 70s 🙂

I use a couple of turns of ptfe tape on olives, I seen that manufactures of compression fittings say it's not necessary to use pipe putty, I use it on threaded joints with hemp, still the best combo.

I've been taught by a Plumber with 27 years experience, and he told me (and showed me) how to put PTFE onto the thread of fittings. Never again!

What was the tool you used to clean the end of the pipe before soldiering and where did you buy it

I must admit I did not know about the jointing compound on compression joints, thanks for that one, cheers

Top video!

Currently gutting and redoing the bathroom. Did all rhe plumbing turned the water on on had few weeps tightend them up then others started weeping. Turned water off had a smoke had a think back to what my dad used to do found some ptfe tape in 1 of my tool boxes n taped up all joints all sound now. Prob should of had the smoke n watched this vid 1st thing this mornin rather than at 9.30 at night. I did watch your mixer shower install vid this morning as that was my 1st task. U dint mention the jointing compound on there I don't think

Any chance of some info on where you get that powered pipe cleaner you used on your drill please. Struggling to find one. ta

Excellent video,you are too good 👍

Some great tips, 👍 👍

Oh! As an old-time cable jointer, I'f never contaminate any surface I was going to tin lol. No greasy fingers on the prepared pipe mate :-)

Where do you get the de-burrer attachment from for the drill? Not in Screwfix or B&Q or Wickes etc

Thanks

Many years ago I elanred that PTFE should be on the olive and it made perfect sense, however I was today years old when I learned that compound could be used instead. My experience with compound has always been that of an observer trying to fix something and it seems to have appeared in places where the manufacturer has supplied a substantial rubber washer and used the words "do not use compound" in the instructions. A fiver for a little tub is fine and it can sit in my plumbing odds and sods box. Thanks!

Do you have a link the the drill pump you mention in the video please? I can search on amazon of course but I assume anything you are using is reasonable quality and worth buying.. I'd love your recommendation.. I have been to your web store on amazon but I cant see a search option, within your store...

excellent

Hi James Happy New Year. Love the bathroom especially the funky tiles. Don’t get hammered and look at that pattern! Anyway just a long ish one to pick your brain. Mate of mine calls me up/ he’s pilot holed the very waffer top of an old thick CH pipe with a drill bit. Hole is tiny with a fine counter sink around the rim of hole. Almost like a volcano. Anyways the plonkers only gone and done it on the most complex bend I’ve ever seen. Two sharp off sets with a kick. I’d have tried to replicate but I was on another planet with worst brain fog after two weeks of COVID. I basically cleaned up the area until I could see myself in it, fluxed the hole and blobbed a lovely bit of leaded solder on, It worked great. What’s your opinion on the strength of this, unpressurised system. Long term.

All good tips... some pro's dont even do some of them. Re PTFE on compression fittings, I always put a couple of turns on the threads - not to seal them but to assist in reducing the brass to brass squeeky friction when tightening.

What's that pipe polishing bit you've got in the Bosh drill? I can't find a link for it, but maybe I haven't looked hard enough.

Hi thanks for the video it's great. Should you deburr a pipe i.e. on the inside too? And if yes what tool should you use. Or isn't it necessary? There's some videos knocking around saying it's important to do that too. Thanks.

Thanks.

You forgot to mention not putting inserts inside the plastic pipes and soft copper pipes. May be in part two if there is enough suggestions. 😉 Thank for the video!

thanks

I know several plumbers who do put pipe dope on compression threads. It’s not to seal but is used as a lubricant. I don’t know if it changes anything except you don’t hear that creaking noise but I guess it doesn’t hurt. As for overtightening, my philosophy for the most part is to smug it up. You can always tighten it a little more if it leaks. Of course this doesn’t apply to iron pipe threads. They can handle overtightening and if you just snug things then you may have to take quite a few fittings apart to fix a leak. There’s a trick I have related to water messing with solder. It’s not super clever and it may be aimed at Americans more than UK. With check valves on almost every fixture in a house it’s hard to drain the water down. I’ve had to fix copper water yard lines and you can’t open a hose Bibb to break the vacuum. I guess you could blow on it or run a cord and use a compressor. I carry a pair of vise grips and I put them on the plastic plumber of hose Bibb vacuum breakers and let them hang. They’ll hold it open so it will slow air in the break the vacuum. It’s especially nice when your muddy and can’t go inside to use something there. Lastly there’s a trick for threaded pipe I learned from my first boss. If you have an old threaded connection that you just can’t seem to break loose, reverse your wrenches and tighten it. Why you can tighten it easier than loosen it is beyond me but it breaks the hardened dope and then you can unthread it much easier. It seems completely counter intuitive but it sure works

Here in Ireland historically for a long long time we kept with the Imperial cooper pipework and fittings ... For the likes of retro fitting Boiler's folks here use adapter's maybe in a similar way to Blighty... Steel pipe fittings can be a real mess as the American Imported products use National Pipe Thread ... NPT... Where as the British use British Pipe Thread ... B S.P. ... Things get Sketchy when some D.I.Y. folk try to Push On or Click Fit metric pipe Fittings onto old Imperial pipe.... Great Upload....

Where do you get your minimum of 6 turns from ? It seems excessive to me.

Mate I am total Newbie, leccy stuff I'm okay with and chippy stuff but anything around water not to good, so any advice you give is great, meaning less ear bashing from the trouble and strife when when I don't flood the bathroom 🤣🤣

Something else came to mind Don’t forget to deburr the inner part of the copper pipe,where the cut is made. keep a nice clean flow of water. Nice video always handy info,👍🏻

Please please please can you tell me where you got the pipe cleaning thing on the drill please? Thanks

Excellent teach in the video,i just wondered does anybody actually still uses hemp, and boswhite , anymore,i still have a pack in my garage and would still swear by it for most threaded joints,thanks again.

Is hawk white (non-potable) OK for rad valve fittings on a combi boiler system?

Whats the name of the pipe cleaner bit ? And where can i buy it ? Thx

No it wasn't click-batey, some very useful tips thank you.

I have fitted a flexi in a gentle U shape, seemed fine. :)

Hi. Where can I buy a drill attachment for a drill to clean the pipes? Is showing in fix7 part, but I can found on Internet anything like that.

NOT click bait at all... GOOD VID.

That's a good call, you put the PTFE tape on the correct side of the olive. Unlike most plumbers

What is that pipe cleaning tool on the drill called?

I've done a few plumbing jobs around our new house, and I've gotta say, over tightening is my biggest bug bear. I haven't come across one fitting so far which required me to almost sacrifice my hand, fingers, wrist and elbow to undo. I've had to use a 300mm spanner along with a deep socket and ratchet wrench to get a tap valve out. It just makes everything harder.

Yes, I have been there many years ago. I am an amateur but have done a lot of plumbing in the four houses that I have owned. Never plunged an urinal but have broken a shower base by vigorously plunging it. Had to renew the shower , it was plastic but I would not do that again.