Complete and total respect Tom for showing your mistakes. We all make them mate. By not hiding it, makes your content that more real and gives others an insight as to what real world plumbingvis really like and a chance to learn better.

This brings back a memory when I did the same thing in a customers living room as she was sat on her new cream sofa with new carpets. The horror still hangs over me now. I blame brain fart sometimes 👍

We all make mistakes Tom, that’s how we learn. Mistakes have and will happen

well done tom ! been there and we have all done that !! made me smile as you show whats comin

Been there, done that! Just thankful that my episode did not take place over a new carpet.

Warts and all Tom! That’s why I like this channel, you and Tiff show it how it is👍🏻Things like this stop you getting complacent!

When I saw that black explosion, I thought I was watching MJ TIFF Channel 😱😂😂

I’ve said it before Tom, I appreciate the honesty Because it makes me feel half normal that when under pressure we can all make f##k up’s!! 💩 happens And remember it’s only a mistake if you can’t fix it!! 👍🏼 Cheers bud great video

Total respect Tom fir showing that horrible black water shooting out 🙌 these are the things that happen you are thinking of the next moment or tired as you say

I was a sparky but then took on plumbing as my second trade after people started to ask me if I could fit showers, hand wash units, outside taps, sinks and bathrooms etc. Many people were more frightened of a water leak than they were of electricity, (me included) at first, so they wouldn't mess with water themselves. One of the things I always carried in my tool box was a self cutting washing machine tap that was brilliant if I had to drain a 15mm pipe that I wasn't sure about. I was a bit of a coward unlike you and Tiff who just dive in there. I used that old tap just earlier this year when I was draining the heating system down so I could take out a radiator. I just connected a washing machine hose to it and shoved into the shower cubical and it dripped all day long. I also made a gadget for draining 22 and 28mm pipes that involved drilling a whole in the pipe, just didn't take any chances. Control and containment is my motto in life. Thanks for the great vids mate.

Good solid video Tom, similar happened to me, carpet was jet black so spent 3 hours buying all the products i could to clean it up then customer returns and said all carpets are being replaced tomorrow anyway!! 🤣🤣

That was so funny, thanks for showing it. Done us all good, knowing a Top plumber can mess up. Peace and no worries unto you.

Keep it honest and we will keep watching, good work Tom

We've all been there Tom, in some ways it's good it happens as it keeps us switched on and less complacent. 👍

It's one of those times you know better, but still you carry on and give yourself major Grief!! That's the down side of the job! Chin up and carry on!

Great vid Tom. That system was dirty. I done that when 10mm pvc return loop was blocked on heating system. I removed the lockshield on bathroom radiator which was totally seized so couldn't check return flow at that point in the system and as the other return pipes in the house were totally blocked and i had tried forced air pressure to try and unblock which didn't work, i got complacent with the bathroom return and assumed that would be the same. I removed the valve and got a 1 foot jet of water into my eyes and couldn't see s^^t as a result but managed to locate valve back on with my eyes shut. Love your vids as always. Great stuff mate!

So many of us mate have done that don't feel bad on ya self at all keep up the videos and great work mate 🙏❤️

We all make mistakes tom, as long as we learn from them that's what matters. Those plumb thumbs are brill mate, very handy

Great video mate, it happens to the best off us, chin up, tomorrow's another day, Plumb On.......

Good for you for leaving it in Tom 👍🏻 Again good content 👍🏻

I did the same thing and thank God it was in the bathroom. Keep going and well done 👍

Always appreciate fella. As always.

Nice one Tom , we've all had a few mishaps that we can laugh about later but they aren't funny at the time , keep up the good work mate.... Cheers.... 👍

Great stuff as always Tom. Fortunate that it’s getting redecorated.

That’s a hard way to earn a living, wind blowing in the background, reminds me of the shining, all your life as a tradesman you chase money and never have enough, I know I’ve done it for years.

Hi Tom the trials and tribulations of being a heating engineer . A few years ago a got sent to a leaking rad valve on a 2” mild steel one piper in a old church in the vicars office. I just touched the valve body with my grips and the valves body just fell in bits and started to squirt dirty heating water everywhere ( Black Death ), behind me in the vicars office was he’s white most holy ceremonial robe and several photos of him meeting very important people like the then pope , Desmond Toto and Nelson Mandela, and now these items have been covered with Black Death. You can laugh about it today but at the time it’s a different situation. Keep Spannering

Hi Tom, a great film mate, disasters happen to us all. Even myself with ocd and takes every precaution on occasion gets caught out. Look after yourself and especially your back, life is miserable living with a damaged back. Have a great weekend Tom, hope you can manage some time off work. Take care, 👍👍👍

Respect the honesty geezer

Thanks for sharing this Tom.

Learnt so much from your vids , thanks Tom 👍

Real life Tom thank you for the video, take some rest time over Christmas otherwise it will really get you down 💪

We’ve all been there with rads like that I did it with a freeze kit, of course it was cream carpets. 😅

Get the popcorn out.

Oh that’s a good one mate, I once cut into a cold main in a carehome, boosted. By the time I managed to stick an iso on I was soaked head to toe and my tool bag had atleast 4 inches of water in, luckily it was in a wet room 😂 Great video mate 👊

Great call leave it in, it’s the only way to learn, the plumber that hasn’t been there has never done any plumbing 😂

I’ve been a plumbing and heating engineer for 35 years now, and yes still mess up occasionally, anyone who says they never do is lying, that’s you need public liability insurance, something I never get asked to prove I have from a customer funnily enough, one bad error in our game can be costly. Sounds like Xmas can’t come fast enough for you, I’m booked up now to 16th December, then only doing emergencies up to first week of January, need a break myself😀

And welcome to the world of “The Clickbait Thumbnail”…your KZfaq apprenticeship is over…🤣😉😉.. It’s a cracker Tom. We’ve all done that…. And we’ve all thought “what did I do that for”….

Good stuff c interesting video, i changed an ariston this week with brown water, I believe it was the sacrificial anode that had gone. I didn't know the hyco and was a straight swap ill keep that in mind thanks 👍🏾

Great video, Tom roll and stroll it saves the day 👍

😆 thanks for sharing bud made me laugh but we've all been there mate

Mate, had this in a hotel I was working on when I replaced a section of HWR pipework isolated the return in the plant room but not the flow (end of the day sort of job.) I got lucky, loosened the nut and tried to pull the pipe away from the olive, the pipe was so rigid, it didn't want to budget away from it. 6 bar of pressure behind it and still managed to wind it back in 🤦 Needless to say, could've been horrendous, but managed to blag it... Thank F***! 😬😬

Always going to happen when mentally and physically exhausted. I'm 36 years on my own and I've a few stories as well 😂 Only thing I always try and remember is to remove trv head with a manual head as you never know if it's going to let by. Hopefully you got to have a break over Xmas 👌👌

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt & the mug.

Mate I did the same thing at a really old property with the old half inch female threaded valves, massive house, probably 30litres of shitty water came out, could not for the life of me get the nut back in on the valve, eventually I got it but it was a mess, luckily they were renovating but was exactly what just happened to you and caught me by surprise, I was told the radiators were redundant which 1 was but this one wasn't won't be listening to a customers like that again lol

Similar thing happen to me apart from it being 2½" black iron in a school and the hole filled very quickly, then the dinning hall then the corridor the 2 classrooms 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ just wanted the hole to take me in. Can laugh about it now though and atleast it was on the ground floor. Good work

You stayed calm and collected, could see the small amount of initial panic (which anyone would) bet you edited out the strong words once you got it back under control though Bread and butter jobs can always go wrong just like you said no matter how many times we've done them, I started testing rad vents before isolating for this reason and glad I do tbh, this one could've happened to me, glad you left it in, top work

Great video Tom! Anyone who hasn’t made a mistake hasn’t done anything in the real world. I see your rads just had cobwebs behind, but I’ve often found pencils, toys, magazines and even a (handy) 1” chisel behind old rads. I wonder what is the strangest thing that people have found behind a rad?

Nice and raw video love it.. Real life mate, in game myself around 23 years now, still happens shit sometimes I know it shouldn't but this is Plumbing, sadly our trade is one of the most evil element water.. 🫡 Perfect example 1 month ago I split a copper cylinder luckily on top when change a flange 🫣Propa shit feeling..

My mate ties up ball valve In loft and it broke off . Couldn't turn water off , stop tap jammd Been plumbing since 1960

We all drop a bollock and I’m in 30+ years in this industry.

The nature of the beast

Happens to every plumber at some point.

Did this in a kitchen with them valves with the allen key head, the top bit pinged off and water sprayed everywhere, never touched them lock shields ever again 😂

I’ve Been watching your videos for god knows how long Tom and I can’t understand how you haven’t got at least 10k subs or more by now. How long have you been doing you tube? Keep it up 🎉

Been there myself only I had no carpet protection down (face palm) since then I only service and repair oil boilers

I’m shocked by how professional this makes my work look. I heard the “Hopefully” three times in the first minute, so what happened next was no surprise at all. An electrician who worked this sloppily would be dead in their first week 🤦‍♂️

Hi mate top work make sure you take good care of your back when lifting 👍 that one with a leak you can't find have you tried the exp vessel had this on a job once where it had failed and wasn't big enough hope this helps 👍😎👍😎👍😎👍😎

Hell fire Tom , you get some jobs, nothings ever easy is it ! Nice when something goes right, as my old boss used to say, bag of tools and a bag of miracles , just what you need as a plumber, 👍🚽

Yup done that myself 😄 was not fun after it

Great video Tom thanks we all make mistakes how do you join onto the stainless steel pipe if you have to?

I did exactly the same thing this week in a office but my water was more sludged and black ,!! Gutted

Wow what a thumbnail. Happens to everyone. Hope you get some time off over Christmas mate. You sound like you have been mega busy.

Another top vid Tom, have you tried the liquid PTFE for new tails? Game changer 👍😎

Hello Tom great videos as usual. Just a quick one, what’s the waterproof bags you use for draining into? Cheers. Keep up the great work 👍

yep been there newly decorated room

Respect 🫡

Always ALWAYS drain the system down

Honest vid thanks...does a compression fittings work OK onto steel pipe or is there any extra precautions to take ..thanks

I’ve had that happen to me before 😢

why do you fill me up, butter cup baby just to drain me down

Changing a load of rad valves and one tail out the rad wouldn’t budge…..so applied some heat via my blow lamp…must of been some hydrogen in the rad because their was a “ boom” as black shit water flew out the rad and hit the wall to my left

Tom, isn’t this getting a little bit stressful, it’s gonna make you old real fast mate, I know I’ve done it for years.

With all due respect Tom, why do you use pump pliers instead of spanners? Do you know something that I don't? Pump pliers tend to damage the nut's. I love your videos by the way.

Bloody hell mate I have made a lot more mess than that and got away with it. As always.

is that a call connect van I saw in the background? Are you A fellow Lincs man Tom?

lol welcome to my world oil boilers is all i do

Grants should not be wall hung!! I know they technically can but way too heavy - even if you take burner and baffles out

Why not work in London

Oh that’s nothing Tom, when you flood a block of Flats - that’s when you beat yourself up😂😂😂 Old Low Water Content Thermopanel radiators, fitted a few of them back in the day!! Fitted loads of SS tube too, a right bastard to bend. Recently seen a lot of compression fittings leaking on SS, not too sure why??......We’ve Soft Water, Which can be a bit acidic, maybe that’s why. But hey, it was the late 70’s when we fitted that shit. Yeah, well used to stripping out Truwel, but now SS too. You always make a killing in the Plumbing game 💷💷💷💷💷😂😂😂😂😂 What’s the steel panel rads Tom?? They look half decent👍👍 You slow down a bit fella, if you’re knackered you’ll only make mistakes. Thanks as always for sharing. Yer old mate Dick Puller👍👍