You know you are getting old when you find watching plumbing videos very entertaining. This was great.

That cast iron pipe has seen better days. You managed to get him fixed up. Some guys would have looked at that and told the owner I can't do nothing with it, you need all new piping. Your always willing to get someone going again if at all possible. I know your customers appreciate that. Nice job.

This guy is what made me go and take up plumbing. He makes the shit actually look enjoyable! Too bad I waited until my early 40's to get serious about it, but hell....I love it!

I'm just needing to patch a hole in an old sink drain down in the basement on my +100 year old home. Ran across this video and was mesmerized! That was beautiful! Simple, clean, perfect. You are a hero to that old lady.

Oh, how watching that brought back memories. I was 10 years old when I started following my dad on jobs, and that was back before No Hub cast iron, and PVC piping, (around the early 1950's). It was all XH cast iron that we used to cut with a cold chisel. I still have my dad's melting pot, caulking tools, ladles, and lead runners. As I grew older, the NO Hub cast iron came out, followed by PVC and I remember saying, what a joy it was to work with those products compared to the old Xtra Heavy cast iron. As you know, No Hub cast iron pipe is "spun cast iron" so it can only be cut with a chain cutter, or a "snapper" as you affectionately call it. Love watching you work; brings back memories of working with my dad. We had lots of good times on those jobs.

Damn there are more joints in that basements pipework than a drug dealers house.

This terrific helpful video enabled me to replace my own rotted 65-year old cast iron drainpipe. Great tips and instruction Steve, I greatly appreciate you making this video. I was able to replace the pipe in good time with minimal cost and mess. Thank you so much. - Peter B.

Steve. You have been my go to Man for any plumbing or furnace repair issues. You are appreciated and a very knowledgable guide to helping others in new situations. You are Home ownership-do it-yourself Messiah! Joe in Coos Bay OR.

Thanks Steve you helped me out big time with a similar repair at home! I’ve always been able to fix my own vehicles and it will be cool to start doing the same with the house. Be well brother take care!

thank you for the video Steve, To everyone who is going to attempt cutting metal or plastic pipe, always wear the appropriate eye protection. Glasses at the minimum, face shield is a good idea. I have been in this industry for thirty years and have had and have seen some pretty bad injuries, all avoidable, just because of a slight bit of carelessness. protect your eyes always no matter what. Jim the plumber

Great Video !. Yes, I am old and strangely find instructional plumbing videos entertaining. I am proud of it. LOL. Please continue posting great videos. Thank you.

Your Dad taught you well, you know what you need and how to get the job done, no waisted time.

love your stuff!!! been following for years, I small plumbing due to not having a LIC but I am also a helper. you have taught me so much I appreciate it..

Love your videos my family Ben plumbers over 50 years I've been a plumber 23 years and I'm always surprised to see still there are still plumbers like yourself that do that heavy duty work very hard work on cast iron pipes sewers Etc most plumbers now shy away from that kind of work is very hard very expensive you keep doing what you're doing my man and take care of yourself please by the way I highly recommend a respirator when you're messing around with those cast iron and lead pipes... me and my family sent a shout out to Little Miss Molly.mel Lara falcone.

Your steady stream of thought narration is fantastic-what you're thinking and why makes your video so knowledge rich it ranks with any college course I've taken....thanks.

Awesome! I never thought that watching a Master Plumber do his job would be interesting, but it is totally entertaining and educational, too! Take care and what ever you do - don't run out of gloves!

Get 9ML extra thick Nitrile gloves at harbor freight - out last 10 pair of regular 5MIL gloves. Also, get size XL - easier to take off and reuse especially if you get a phone call during while on the job. Thanks for bringing the camera along. Nice to see all the new pieces in place. Those cast iron hubs must cost quite a bit.

Your videos are so cool, my buddies and me watch them and have a few beers and love your side comments.

I really appreciated the, "Why do I wear gloves?" it was a great reminder for a repair I did in my basement. Yeah, gloves are a good idea.

Steve, awesome video. That repair with no hub clamps is the way to go. I just did the same repair basically but used ABS to cast iron. Thank you sir for your videos.👍

12:20. What a tool. I do a fair bit of plumbing in the uk and I’ve never seen one of those cutting tools used like that. In fact I’ve never seen one at all. We usually pull it out to the next joint and replace with plastic. Great repair to what is really a load of old shite that needs replacing. I like these kind of jobs. Customer won’t spend the money so you have to do what ever to get it working again.

I know this is an old video, but want to thank you nontheless. I have the same problem and this is exactly what I needed to see.

Anyone who questions a plumbers salary should just watch videos like this..

I used some *Henry* rubberized roofing cement and fiberglass mesh to seal up the bottom of a rusted out cast iron pipe under my house. It's held up pretty well along the rotted out seam over the years...

I have learned " Why do you wear gloves" quote and apply to all my work now without hesitation. Thanks from the pro's.

Steve. good luck on replacing the 4" cast iron pipe. you are the best plumber,that I know.you will make out ok!!!!MAMA!!!!!

Great repair on that cluster f**k, you are a great plumber, the plumber code hot on the left cold on the right shit don't run up hill and pay days on Friday.

Thanks for showing us how to tackle a mess and turn it into a nice restoration.

Reminds me of my old house ... old cast iron drain pipes, galvanized drain pipes that have rotted and had to be replaced with PVC, Fernco's everywhere tying the old and new pipes together ... I don't miss that. :)

Steve talk about a mess plumbing wise lol , cast and pvc connections all over the place. You r right by telling the guy to save for awhile. Good vid man.

good on you for helping the Ol' lady out without up selling her on upgrades...codes... she prolly on a budget... * lol...I see in the comment section many question the work done....** thumbs up on fixing her problem !! 1FM Lake George, NY

Correction: Think I should have stated ABS (rather than PVC) is code in our area.

These American style sewer repairs do not stop to astonishing me :D

Jeez! You weren't lying about that place. Patch 'n' match, Mama!!

the amount of time you spent patching you could have replaced 80% of the cast iron to pvc. simple job

Awesome... I love it when you talk to yourself.... do you ever win or lose arguments ????

I used to live in a house that had that kind of pipe. Somebody had ran Galvanized Pipe to My Kitchen Sink and Washing Machine. It was in really bad shape. It was running under My foundation and camping out in My Yard. I put New Colas Pipe to that and I connected it back to The Old Lead Pipe. I was still in Good Shape.

I used a grinder just like that with no guard. Needless to say the blade broke and mangled my index finger so bad right through my glove, that my finger had to be amputated. I always make sure the guard is on. For a long time I was hesitant about using power saws and grinders.

Steve I was wondering on some of the jobs where you replace cast iron pipe with cast iron pipe instead of using PVC. What would be the reasoning for not converting the new pieces to PVC??

Steve is getting the job done.

Nice work bro. That black hose connected to the pvc is something special!

You,did it a really good job steve

Looks somewhat simple but I don't have a basement.. only small crawlspace with dirt floor

Look s like my old alley house in Minneapolis. My neighbor retired master plumber looked at my silicone I put over cast and said "good job" now DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING! Since I m a alley house it is 120feet of sewer line. This place could easily be a fricken nightmare. Love your vid, you know your s%!t!

The repair and maintenance is great.

Here in CA we would have replace the entire drainage with ABS pipes.

I love the look of those large cast iron pipes, to bad they rarely build with them anymore.

A vintage kick ass video Steve!!!!!!!! 👍☝💯💥😏

"Ya never got shit on ya before" - LOL - Sooner or later everybody does.

good job i love your work steven god bless you iam learning a lot from you

what an awesome cutter, great job brotha

Good job Steve! At least you had a basement to work in! Crawl spaces under 100 year old houses are never fun!

Dealing with drain pipes is always a shitty task...

The whole time you were cutting that pipe I kept wondering what the smell must have been like!

"Hey! Make sure she dont flush the toilet!"

Reciprocating saw and a good diamond blade is the fastest way to go that grinder got me worry .

i love you videos,not only to learn the steps for do a good job but to buy the right stuff because we have no help on a plumber supply house ,they don"t know nothing nothing about are jobs ,i:m electrician for more than 40 years ,i know the trick on the supply hoses,(0 training )

You make it look so easy. Charles

Steve, Good Job. They need a complete re-pipe. Some of those wood trusses look water damaged

certainly a disaster zone there steve lol. GREAT VIDEO AGAIN. FOR A 8 YEAR OLD VIDEO, im going through all your vids for entainment night.

Great video, thanks for taking the time to post this.

You did what you could with what you were given, but god what a mess!

I am plumber living in Montana. Farmers are the worst customers. They all think they are plumbers and only call you when they have messed things up so bad they have no other alternative than to have a professional come in and take care of things... At three times the cost than if they’d simply called us in the first place. I’ve seen it a hundred times....

6:41 - best line in a youtube video ever.

"Sometimes you just have to make things happen." Yep!

Thank you Steven ! That was fun.

beautiful idea, really can appreciate the couplings though.

That is one cobbled up house, you have to do what the owners want ,the clothes are trashed lol

I love your videos! Thank you for sharing your work!

wow, you can do a lot with couplings and rubber.

Man that's dangerous cutting cast with a grinder. And without a guard 😬 then all them poisons fumes. Use your sawzall with a Deoblo blade. It's not only safer it's faster as well. But after 27 yrs of plumbing I realized no plumber is the same. Good luck to you in your future of professional plumbing

Nice video...but invest 4 bucks in a face shield, with or without the guard

I could feel the point in the video when you said to yourself fuck this shit and got the little drill lol. Good job man.

Hypothetically if you were to tackle repiping the whole thing in the future, which portion of the system would you start with and leave for last? e.g. sewer lateral, main drain line where it branches out, or the branches to each room. (I realize each building is unique, but I figured this one would be a good one to use as an example, since there would be little to save.)

That plumbing looks like Frankenstein's monster.

Steve! You're killing me with the hundred clamp/cast patch! P....V.......C!

nice job but I dont understand why you did not just replace it with sch 40 pvc and just get rid of all that extra cast....Is the cast still code in your area??

That's how's done, ladies and gentlemen. That's how real plumbers work.

Nice Job Steven, I still wanna know why you wear gloves though

Good work why not use pvc?

Steve, I just found your channel recently and I absolutely LOVE your videos!! My father-in-law is an old school plumber like you -53 years and counting! I know this video is old but I’m hoping you still read the comments on your older videos. I have a question: Why didn’t you replace the sections of cast iron with ABS? Keep the videos coming!!

😂 I liked the ending of the video. and the job done.

Angle grinder..a must have tool

based on the accent and the foundations of the houses when you're cutting the pipe, looks like your in Massachusetts somehwhere

Nice job, Steve.What kind if wheel do you use that cuts thru that cast iron so quickly? Thanks

i hate these kind of jobs, fixing drains always sucks bawlz. this one was a proper clusterfuck

Love the videos and very Inspiring also dewalt makes a guard for those size cutting wheels just a heads up keep em coming bro

Grinder? USE A SAWZALL ffs. Do not use a grinder / cutoff wheel. A good sawzall with a cast iron blade can cut through that 4 inch pipe in about 3 minutes. AND you will get a much smoother cut.

One recommendation is to make sure your wheel (you say you like to use larger wheels) can take the rpm's of your Bosch grinder. Another safety consideration. That house appears to have more issues than the plumbing. Did a bomb go off down there?

If it leaked, I don't think it would really matter down there :)

Great job Steve looks great !!!!!

put a studor vent on the tub line. theres a vent on the main stack, it will be fine eh! wise guy!

Great video but you need to use side handle and the guard on your grinder!

That cast iron stuff is evil! If I were there no way would I replace it with more cast iron. It would transition over to PVC in a second

Rotted because the tee is not plumb. It is leaning towards the Y , so there is always water at joint.

Drain pipe replacement in a embalming shop, and i did not wear gloves....I will never do that again! LOL!

Hi there, from Germany. Looks like patchwork. Don't get me wrong, good work! Greetings WolF

Great job Steve that was a tough one.

Nice work!! Is sewer gas explosive-say the trap out to the street is faulty, could the gas migrate back to where you're making your cut? Also, I've worked w/o the guard too but always remember the blade will sometimes (rarely) fail catastrophically and the shrapnel can embed right into your head/hand etc!!

6:35 "Hey, make sure she don't flush that toilet!" 6:41 "Oh, c'mon...you never got chit on you before??" :D