I can't stress enough the idea of having a **Dedicated** watchman when going into confined spaces. Don't have them getting parts or dealing with customers, their only purpose on that job site is to sit next to the entrance and listen for the men coming or going into the hole and asking if they are alright. Because when something goes wrong they will be the first one to get the ball rolling on a response plan or even just calling for help in general. Being trapped in a space is bad, being trapped in a space alone with no one set to at least check up on you or hear you call for help is a new level of hell.
I have been under many houses as an apprentice. I wasn’t allowed to say no or I wouldn’t have a job. Many of the crawl spaces were scary, I can only remember a few that were okay to work in. It made me a stronger more resilient plumber, but it was not worth my son growing up without a father. Just so someone can take a 💩. I have almost life my life a few times. If you are a real tradesman you know what it’s like. Your life is on the line. Great video sir. I hope all the men out there are safe and make it home to their loved ones everyday. Amen.
"If you are a real tradesman you know what it’s like. Your life is on the line.". Everything was 100% up until here. Real accidents can happen but your life will RARELY be on the line as a tradesman if you're performing your job safely outside of those. If it's on the line either you or your employer don't care about your life. I count my blessings my apprenticeship has been under one of the most reputable companies in our region who take safety extremely seriously; as do all my journeymen. I couldn't imagine working for someone who cared so little about me or caring so little about myself that I have to feel unsafe at work. That said, honestly, if my company didn't care about my safety I wouldn't be working for them, and if no companies did I would pick a different career. Life isn't worth risking your life for someone else to make a dollar. You guys need to value yourselves more.
I’m a retired HVAC&R contractor from NE Illinois commercial equipment is on the roof often having to place ladders on snow and ice in a hurry I did not secure the ladder I was at the top when it skidded out I fell about 20’ fortunately I was just badly bruised.
i was working under a house, where the people had died. 9 at night, house empty. i heard footsteps and things dropping onto the floor (above me). that was scary.
Wait what? Tell us more. I have a scary crawlspace story: I went to a job where one of my coworkers had been and he pulled a toilet but never reset it. For some reason there was no flange just a hole in the ground. So i decided to take a look in the crawlspace, the people were very nice but the house was old and in a very sketchy neighborhood in Oakland California. I dont know why but for some reason as i was walking to his crawlspace access I felt scared, im usually not scared of crawlspaces i usually dont think twice before I go in them and matter fact this was the only time in my career where I ever felt I’d be endangered if i went in the crawlspace. But i didnt wanna be a pussy so I went down anyway and found a broken pipe that was going underground so I had to send out a crew to dig up the sewer lateral. Well when they were digging they found human bones. The job was cancelled my guys got out safe and the police arrived. I dont know what happened afterwards
I'm on a job right now South congress in Austin that is not safe at all. I took this safety concern to my manager at Radiant and he said do the job or go home rather than making a safe work environment. I'm so broke that I can't afford to go home and not work. I understand my well being is not worth this job, but I have to eat and feed my family. I don't know what to do.
Report him to OSHA they will take care of him. Last job I worked on we had OSHA training every year. The guy who did the training informed us that any time we thought something they asked us to do was unsafe we had the right to refuse and our jobs could not be threatened in anyway. If they did all we had to do was make the phone call. I refused to do certain jobs on a few occasions such as cleaning out a large industrial furnace that was still hot. The guy who went in there had to be pulled out after he passed out from the heat. His shoes literally melted from the floor still being too hot.
@JordyD54 really hope you make the call we as workers have a job to do but in the same sense managers are responsible for safe working conditions you have employee rights use them this manager sounds like a piece of work that's gonna cost someone their life
We were working in Justin on 114 and the builder got the the concrete guys to backfill the city tie-in, mind you it was after a rainstorm and they literally just dumped everything in there and crushed the double wye connection. it went for final inspection and the camera crew found it. they called us back out to fix it. the entire thing was just mud due to the water/waste just collecting and they didn't care about safety because the house was already sold. It caved in and almost took my partner out. the only thing that saved him was that he was tall so we were able to reach him before he got buried. we told they builder next time, you're on your own. we charged him a pretty penny for them breaking our stuff and doing that dangerous work. he doesn't work there anymore
Not a plumber but I was working for a carpenter as a helper and we found a cistern under one of the floors. It had like a manhole cover set in concrete. When we opened the rusted through lid the inside was huge. It was at least as big as the room we were working on but about 15ft deep and full of water. I think they ended up filling it with sand but idk. I was just there to help with the demo.
I started in small town west Texas. The majority of the houses were old pier and beam. I’ve had been under some that might as well be slabs, you had to tunnel as you go. I’ve seen rattlesnakes and bull snakes. Rattlesnakes are fine as long as they’re away from you but bull snakes will come after you. We’d always take a .22 with rat shot if we had to go in the country. My biggest fear is spiders but it didn’t usually bother me because they’re stationary. The thing I hated most was roaches because they’d run towards you and you had nowhere to go.
Im a plumber and learned from both storys and live experience s. One close call but with our experience we turned a disaster into a learning day with a 14' cube hole for grease tanks. Well never make those mistakes that day again.
I crawled into a very very tight space to fix a burst pipe, literally had to have someone pull me out by my feet because it was too tight to flip around/over. Surrounded by mud and blown in insulation it is easy to panic, but I was calm and even managed to take one of my favorite selfies of all time while I was down there!
This one is a small scare but I was under a house repairing a pinhole copper leak. Problem was the leak was on the opposite side of the house from where the crawl space was and to get to it you had to crawl through a 40 ft section with concrete walls on either side making it pitch black. Did the repair just fine and as I was crawling out I had a weird feeling. My headlamp died just as I got to the end of the tunnel and I could see rhe outside. I had an apprentice with me to help but he was on the outside and I had no cell service in the area and he wouldn't have been able to hear me if I needed help. Always be safe and have a backup plan for your back up plan
When I was in the union a homeless guy snuck onto the jobsite. He climbed up the jobsite crane like 500’ up he was crawling across like monkey bars and slipped. Guy was flat on the concrete the sound was so horrible. We have to be safe of civilians trespassing jobsites as well
A coworker and I were on a job this summer. I was working on replacing the water heater in the home and he was in the crawl space replacing the shut off and prv. This was a house built in the 50-60s. I was outside the crawl space entrance and heard him yell. Long story short, he cut out the prv and grabbed both ends of the copper water line. There was an electrical current running through the pipe and when he grabbed both ends, he completed the circuit. It f*cked him up. We laugh about it now.
I am usually under houses many times unfortunately there have been a few house that are raised foundations that I have freaked out under. One was a electrical issue that could have killed me. One homeowner had put plastic down under their house and their drainage around wasn't working and it flooded the underneath and didn't know it and about drowned under the house. It's definitely very dangerous. I love the job but there are these moments that I ask myself is it worth it. To my family that I love. Is it the community that I help what would they think. I love helping my community but it's not worth my life if things aren't going the way that needs to go. To all the tradesman out there. Hug your loved ones every chance you get.
I just saw a video about a tree trimmer who got caught under a bunch of palm fronds the other day and by the time the firemen extracted his body out, which took a few hours, he had passed. I can't imagine going to work and not coming home to your family.
I haven't yet crawed under houses, I'm in the modular field so I craw under trailers and I tell you, it's pretty cramp and cold under there. Sometimes we find the block stilts are loose and haven't been properly loaded so the trailer is see-sawing on three points due to a high point that wasn't caught or fixed.
I do not tunnel not since I got my license but as a apprentices I did it alot and felt unsafe everytime I seen 2 collapses luckily Noone was hurt in them
I got stuck in a really tight spot in an attic I was on my belly. I inhaled attic insulation and started suffocating. Eventually I started gagging and puked which got the insulation out of me.
work in factories, seen a guy moving a giant metal press (very tall like 23 foot) with a forklift type crane thing and another guy in scissor lift on the other side. forklift lifted, the thing tipped and shot the dude out of the scissor lift. he lived but its shit like that right there....
Safety regs are often written in blood. They aren't there as an inconvenience. Of course, explaining that to the dips*#& manager that cut my LOTO lock off a breaker in a data center and nearly lit my ass up was a total lost cause.
Ive always liked to tune in on your live shows here on saturdays, and i apreciate this video more than you know, i myself have came across many many situations where the guy in the office running the bids and numbers just simply does not understand a safety concern ESPECIALLY ELECTRICAL, and wont take that seriously i have also noticed that also customers will ignore alot more and just want it done as fast and cheap as possible, i hope my fellow trade brothere are reading this and i want you to know that being a badass, full of balls is not worth what you think it is worth it could kill ya, you can still work hard and be completely dediated to your company but if your boss just wont listen MAYBE he should come out and do it instead because he is willing to risk your life on his job
I fell off a wet roof and was getting paid 12 bucks an hour and was not provided safety equipment and was also told i would be terminated from my position if i didnt get it done, the labor board had a hayday with that asshole and i should have well left that job long before that, i just have a bad knee now but it could have been much much worse
You are lucky on the snake part. I'm in Georgia and just about every time I'm under a house, I see either a king snake or copperhead. Talk about 💩 your pants. But I've learned at 16, I'm not superman or immortal. I had to grow up real quick after a broke neck, compressed spine, and 5 rupture disc. And 3 back surgeries later, here we are. I take my time under houses and attics, because I like to go home at the end of the day. And I might be called a sissy for this, but I don't bother doing jobs that require a boom lift bigger than the JLG50 ( 50ft ) because I'm personally not comfortable being higher up on a lift than 35 to 40 ft. That's just me. But there was this one time I was laying on my back in this very small crawl space. Might have been 6 inches of clearance from my chest. But I was putting in a new condensate return line with a new P trap and I looked over and said " its don't remember seeing that black braded looking hose before " and about that time the damn thing twitched a little. I moved so fast, I about knocked myself out on the crawl space door frame. Ended up being a 6ft black king snake.
I'm not a professional plumber. I'm just a guy who has done some work on his own properties. Sometimes I kinda forget to apply for a permit.... actually, I've never applied for a permit. Anyways... I've worked under a few of my houses, but the ones I have, all were those elevated pier and beam style foundations. So no digging required. I did help a friend one who had an issue with a concrete foundation house. He got the house from a foreclosure and the previous owner got upset and flushed quikrete down the plumbing. We ended up buying a giant demo hammer and cut through the foundation. After replacing the pipes, we used an impact drill to drill holes into the foundation, fish in rebar as best we could. We'd cut the rebar in half, half on one side, half on the other, and then weld together in the middle. Then we replace the concrete for the slab. Floor was trashed anyways and needed to be replaced. Until watching Roger, I had never heard of digging under slab houses to reach the pluming.
I read that and said wtf does that have to do with this lol I know what cpvc pipe is thats why I said WTF!! he sold out to them you say ? Explain.. please
you say this stuff about safety then you turn right around and promote cpvc because they are willing to sponsor you just take your paycheck from whoever and stfu your opinion means jacksht after that
@@glennmanchester5696 Cpvc turns brittle and cant work with it after a few cycles of seasons. Anywhere there is "extreme" weather, which is basically everywhere in the US except the bay area. Im guessing all you do is install it goodluck making tight repairs on a multiple year old cpvc line. he talked about it being a good replacement for pex when in reality it isnt and this guy is a master plumber he should be the end all be all of information especially something that has to do with quality of materials. Im annoyed because he has paid sponsorships to make advertisements on cpvc glue and he talks as if its a trustworthy material then he turns around and makes a safety video saying "we need to do anything we can to protect our lives" it's just beyond hypocritical. If water hammer has the possibility of blowing your water line up then I dont think that material is safe to use but I guess thats just the opinion of me and every plumber thats ever had to go out and make a repair on cpvc. It should never be installed in another home again let alone the relief line of a water heater. Cpvc will soon be treated like Polybutylene.
@@burgerstudiosinc I'm in fla so fair weather and no serious extreme changes really happen here and it's been used for a long time here but if it were to freeze your right I would Crack and break like copper pipe does whereas poly is impervious to freezing it can expand and take it at least much better I understand I grew up in new England where I fixed many frozen copper pipes but chose to leave the frozen tundra for sandy beaches and margaritas lol way back in well a long time ago I guess your right poly is the way of the future and that's just life I just am not a giant fan is all but im an old guy lol
You know Roger. That's because back then your company was the lowest bidder and I tell you what if you're not willing to go under there, there's someone else who's now the lowest bidder....Who will
That kind of job really cannot be bid it's usually an insurance job anyway and they may want a about price or something before approval but it's always stipulated that we don't have x ray vision and there's no telling what is going to be in the way or what other issues we may find along the way and this will be at time and material costs above the original price so of course we did not miss even a washer on a hanger they got charges for and it's how it had to be this was a good many yrs back now but I don't expect x ray glasses have been made I didn't hear about lol
Worst time I ever remember was Peking for my uncle, propane leak under a house, me and my cousin got in about 8 feet, heard rattle snakes,we didn’t see any, until we shined along the back wall and there was a dozen or so. Luckily a cold front had blown through and we were able to back out pretty fast
I had a helper once that seemed rather off when he came in that morning he was idk jumpy and eyes wide open etc I was busy and needed his help so I just dismissed it well we get under the house it's a decent size crawlspace w vapor barrier and all it was actually cleaner than most job sites anyway this fucker says snakes I'm like what he said you Don't see the snakes of course I had to make sure I was not missing something which I wasn't I said ok outside right now we got back in the truck and I said wtf kid what are you on he admitted he had been doing meth all night and was spun out like crazy it was then the light bulb. Went off and it all fit the eyes the jumpy and I guess the snakes I said well first of all I need you Today so the snakes gotta go he assured me he would be OK for the day so I Said you better share lol I didn't see no snakes
I can't stress enough the idea of having a **Dedicated** watchman when going into confined spaces. Don't have them getting parts or dealing with customers, their only purpose on that job site is to sit next to the entrance and listen for the men coming or going into the hole and asking if they are alright. Because when something goes wrong they will be the first one to get the ball rolling on a response plan or even just calling for help in general.
Being trapped in a space is bad, being trapped in a space alone with no one set to at least check up on you or hear you call for help is a new level of hell.
I have been under many houses as an apprentice. I wasn’t allowed to say no or I wouldn’t have a job. Many of the crawl spaces were scary, I can only remember a few that were okay to work in. It made me a stronger more resilient plumber, but it was not worth my son growing up without a father. Just so someone can take a 💩. I have almost life my life a few times. If you are a real tradesman you know what it’s like. Your life is on the line. Great video sir. I hope all the men out there are safe and make it home to their loved ones everyday. Amen.
"If you are a real tradesman you know what it’s like. Your life is on the line.".
Everything was 100% up until here. Real accidents can happen but your life will RARELY be on the line as a tradesman if you're performing your job safely outside of those. If it's on the line either you or your employer don't care about your life. I count my blessings my apprenticeship has been under one of the most reputable companies in our region who take safety extremely seriously; as do all my journeymen. I couldn't imagine working for someone who cared so little about me or caring so little about myself that I have to feel unsafe at work. That said, honestly, if my company didn't care about my safety I wouldn't be working for them, and if no companies did I would pick a different career. Life isn't worth risking your life for someone else to make a dollar. You guys need to value yourselves more.
Be careful and safe. My cousin who worked in construction ended up breaking his back when stuff not secure fell on him.
I’m a retired HVAC&R contractor from NE Illinois commercial equipment is on the roof often having to place ladders on snow and ice in a hurry I did not secure the ladder I was at the top when it skidded out I fell about 20’ fortunately I was just badly bruised.
same here. used to do 100% commercial hvac. ladder on ice all the time. I'd back my van up to ladder to hold it, when possible
i was working under a house, where the people had died. 9 at night, house empty. i heard footsteps and things dropping onto the floor (above me). that was scary.
Wait what? Tell us more. I have a scary crawlspace story: I went to a job where one of my coworkers had been and he pulled a toilet but never reset it. For some reason there was no flange just a hole in the ground. So i decided to take a look in the crawlspace, the people were very nice but the house was old and in a very sketchy neighborhood in Oakland California. I dont know why but for some reason as i was walking to his crawlspace access I felt scared, im usually not scared of crawlspaces i usually dont think twice before I go in them and matter fact this was the only time in my career where I ever felt I’d be endangered if i went in the crawlspace. But i didnt wanna be a pussy so I went down anyway and found a broken pipe that was going underground so I had to send out a crew to dig up the sewer lateral. Well when they were digging they found human bones. The job was cancelled my guys got out safe and the police arrived. I dont know what happened afterwards
You can't just say that and not explain the backstory... Not cool man
I don’t believe in ghosts. But I sure am afraid of them. If I met one in a crawlspace, I’d crap myself to death!
I'm on a job right now South congress in Austin that is not safe at all. I took this safety concern to my manager at Radiant and he said do the job or go home rather than making a safe work environment. I'm so broke that I can't afford to go home and not work. I understand my well being is not worth this job, but I have to eat and feed my family. I don't know what to do.
Report him to OSHA they will take care of him. Last job I worked on we had OSHA training every year. The guy who did the training informed us that any time we thought something they asked us to do was unsafe we had the right to refuse and our jobs could not be threatened in anyway. If they did all we had to do was make the phone call. I refused to do certain jobs on a few occasions such as cleaning out a large industrial furnace that was still hot. The guy who went in there had to be pulled out after he passed out from the heat. His shoes literally melted from the floor still being too hot.
@@steveprice-n9bThanks for the info. That’s crazy, I hope he’s doing fine.
@JordyD54 really hope you make the call we as workers have a job to do but in the same sense managers are responsible for safe working conditions you have employee rights use them this manager sounds like a piece of work that's gonna cost someone their life
We were working in Justin on 114 and the builder got the the concrete guys to backfill the city tie-in, mind you it was after a rainstorm and they literally just dumped everything in there and crushed the double wye connection. it went for final inspection and the camera crew found it. they called us back out to fix it. the entire thing was just mud due to the water/waste just collecting and they didn't care about safety because the house was already sold. It caved in and almost took my partner out. the only thing that saved him was that he was tall so we were able to reach him before he got buried. we told they builder next time, you're on your own. we charged him a pretty penny for them breaking our stuff and doing that dangerous work. he doesn't work there anymore
Thanks for the daily safety meeting Roger have a good day
Not a plumber but I was working for a carpenter as a helper and we found a cistern under one of the floors. It had like a manhole cover set in concrete. When we opened the rusted through lid the inside was huge. It was at least as big as the room we were working on but about 15ft deep and full of water. I think they ended up filling it with sand but idk. I was just there to help with the demo.
I started in small town west Texas. The majority of the houses were old pier and beam. I’ve had been under some that might as well be slabs, you had to tunnel as you go. I’ve seen rattlesnakes and bull snakes. Rattlesnakes are fine as long as they’re away from you but bull snakes will come after you. We’d always take a .22 with rat shot if we had to go in the country. My biggest fear is spiders but it didn’t usually bother me because they’re stationary. The thing I hated most was roaches because they’d run towards you and you had nowhere to go.
Im a plumber and learned from both storys and live experience s. One close call but with our experience we turned a disaster into a learning day with a 14' cube hole for grease tanks. Well never make those mistakes that day again.
Going in for an interview tomorrow wish me luck. 20 trying to become an apprentice
Good luck man. I hope you become great in something you love
I crawled into a very very tight space to fix a burst pipe, literally had to have someone pull me out by my feet because it was too tight to flip around/over. Surrounded by mud and blown in insulation it is easy to panic, but I was calm and even managed to take one of my favorite selfies of all time while I was down there!
I'm a plumber. I was younger around 13 two houses down from my grandma's house ditch caved in and crushed a helper on a sewer repair.
This one is a small scare but I was under a house repairing a pinhole copper leak. Problem was the leak was on the opposite side of the house from where the crawl space was and to get to it you had to crawl through a 40 ft section with concrete walls on either side making it pitch black. Did the repair just fine and as I was crawling out I had a weird feeling. My headlamp died just as I got to the end of the tunnel and I could see rhe outside. I had an apprentice with me to help but he was on the outside and I had no cell service in the area and he wouldn't have been able to hear me if I needed help. Always be safe and have a backup plan for your back up plan
When I was in the union a homeless guy snuck onto the jobsite. He climbed up the jobsite crane like 500’ up he was crawling across like monkey bars and slipped. Guy was flat on the concrete the sound was so horrible. We have to be safe of civilians trespassing jobsites as well
A coworker and I were on a job this summer. I was working on replacing the water heater in the home and he was in the crawl space replacing the shut off and prv. This was a house built in the 50-60s.
I was outside the crawl space entrance and heard him yell. Long story short, he cut out the prv and grabbed both ends of the copper water line. There was an electrical current running through the pipe and when he grabbed both ends, he completed the circuit. It f*cked him up. We laugh about it now.
I hate when I am under the house and I need a different tool or fitting
Hire a concrete cutter with an electric or hydraulic saw whenever possible
I am usually under houses many times unfortunately there have been a few house that are raised foundations that I have freaked out under. One was a electrical issue that could have killed me. One homeowner had put plastic down under their house and their drainage around wasn't working and it flooded the underneath and didn't know it and about drowned under the house. It's definitely very dangerous. I love the job but there are these moments that I ask myself is it worth it. To my family that I love. Is it the community that I help what would they think. I love helping my community but it's not worth my life if things aren't going the way that needs to go. To all the tradesman out there. Hug your loved ones every chance you get.
I just saw a video about a tree trimmer who got caught under a bunch of palm fronds the other day and by the time the firemen extracted his body out, which took a few hours, he had passed. I can't imagine going to work and not coming home to your family.
I haven't yet crawed under houses, I'm in the modular field so I craw under trailers and I tell you, it's pretty cramp and cold under there. Sometimes we find the block stilts are loose and haven't been properly loaded so the trailer is see-sawing on three points due to a high point that wasn't caught or fixed.
Very true and wise words good sir!
I do not tunnel not since I got my license but as a apprentices I did it alot and felt unsafe everytime I seen 2 collapses luckily Noone was hurt in them
I got stuck in a really tight spot in an attic I was on my belly. I inhaled attic insulation and started suffocating. Eventually I started gagging and puked which got the insulation out of me.
work in factories, seen a guy moving a giant metal press (very tall like 23 foot) with a forklift type crane thing and another guy in scissor lift on the other side. forklift lifted, the thing tipped and shot the dude out of the scissor lift. he lived but its shit like that right there....
Good advice.
Safety regs are often written in blood. They aren't there as an inconvenience. Of course, explaining that to the dips*#& manager that cut my LOTO lock off a breaker in a data center and nearly lit my ass up was a total lost cause.
Ive always liked to tune in on your live shows here on saturdays, and i apreciate this video more than you know, i myself have came across many many situations where the guy in the office running the bids and numbers just simply does not understand a safety concern ESPECIALLY ELECTRICAL, and wont take that seriously i have also noticed that also customers will ignore alot more and just want it done as fast and cheap as possible, i hope my fellow trade brothere are reading this and i want you to know that being a badass, full of balls is not worth what you think it is worth it could kill ya, you can still work hard and be completely dediated to your company but if your boss just wont listen MAYBE he should come out and do it instead because he is willing to risk your life on his job
I fell off a wet roof and was getting paid 12 bucks an hour and was not provided safety equipment and was also told i would be terminated from my position if i didnt get it done, the labor board had a hayday with that asshole and i should have well left that job long before that, i just have a bad knee now but it could have been much much worse
You are lucky on the snake part. I'm in Georgia and just about every time I'm under a house, I see either a king snake or copperhead. Talk about 💩 your pants. But I've learned at 16, I'm not superman or immortal. I had to grow up real quick after a broke neck, compressed spine, and 5 rupture disc. And 3 back surgeries later, here we are. I take my time under houses and attics, because I like to go home at the end of the day. And I might be called a sissy for this, but I don't bother doing jobs that require a boom lift bigger than the JLG50 ( 50ft ) because I'm personally not comfortable being higher up on a lift than 35 to 40 ft. That's just me. But there was this one time I was laying on my back in this very small crawl space. Might have been 6 inches of clearance from my chest. But I was putting in a new condensate return line with a new P trap and I looked over and said " its don't remember seeing that black braded looking hose before " and about that time the damn thing twitched a little. I moved so fast, I about knocked myself out on the crawl space door frame. Ended up being a 6ft black king snake.
I'm not a professional plumber. I'm just a guy who has done some work on his own properties. Sometimes I kinda forget to apply for a permit.... actually, I've never applied for a permit. Anyways... I've worked under a few of my houses, but the ones I have, all were those elevated pier and beam style foundations. So no digging required. I did help a friend one who had an issue with a concrete foundation house. He got the house from a foreclosure and the previous owner got upset and flushed quikrete down the plumbing. We ended up buying a giant demo hammer and cut through the foundation. After replacing the pipes, we used an impact drill to drill holes into the foundation, fish in rebar as best we could. We'd cut the rebar in half, half on one side, half on the other, and then weld together in the middle. Then we replace the concrete for the slab. Floor was trashed anyways and needed to be replaced. Until watching Roger, I had never heard of digging under slab houses to reach the pluming.
If you’re ever digging more than 5 feet deep never dig alone.
Why would you tunnel under its more money then Trenchless repairs and or just jackhammer and dig from above it’s too dangerous
Depends on where the leak is under the house..
If you install flowguard gold, cave ins will not happen
What's that'? I looked it up and all that pops up is cpvc pipes and glue.
On going joke since Roger sold out to flowguard. Flowguard can’t even support itself let alone a cave in
I read that and said wtf does that have to do with this lol I know what cpvc pipe is thats why I said WTF!! he sold out to them you say ? Explain.. please
@@glennmanchester5696 3 or 4 videos back he did a promo for them
4:20 🧢
where you there?
Firs love the videos.
Man I would quit f that
you say this stuff about safety then you turn right around and promote cpvc because they are willing to sponsor you just take your paycheck from whoever and stfu your opinion means jacksht after that
What did I miss here about cpvc I use it often and have never had any issues w It please enlighten me on what's going on here w Roger and cpvc
@@glennmanchester5696 Cpvc turns brittle and cant work with it after a few cycles of seasons. Anywhere there is "extreme" weather, which is basically everywhere in the US except the bay area. Im guessing all you do is install it goodluck making tight repairs on a multiple year old cpvc line. he talked about it being a good replacement for pex when in reality it isnt and this guy is a master plumber he should be the end all be all of information especially something that has to do with quality of materials. Im annoyed because he has paid sponsorships to make advertisements on cpvc glue and he talks as if its a trustworthy material then he turns around and makes a safety video saying "we need to do anything we can to protect our lives" it's just beyond hypocritical. If water hammer has the possibility of blowing your water line up then I dont think that material is safe to use but I guess thats just the opinion of me and every plumber thats ever had to go out and make a repair on cpvc. It should never be installed in another home again let alone the relief line of a water heater. Cpvc will soon be treated like Polybutylene.
@@burgerstudiosinc I'm in fla so fair weather and no serious extreme changes really happen here and it's been used for a long time here but if it were to freeze your right I would Crack and break like copper pipe does whereas poly is impervious to freezing it can expand and take it at least much better I understand I grew up in new England where I fixed many frozen copper pipes but chose to leave the frozen tundra for sandy beaches and margaritas lol way back in well a long time ago I guess your right poly is the way of the future and that's just life I just am not a giant fan is all but im an old guy lol
You know Roger. That's because back then your company was the lowest bidder and I tell you what if you're not willing to go under there, there's someone else who's now the lowest bidder....Who will
That kind of job really cannot be bid it's usually an insurance job anyway and they may want a about price or something before approval but it's always stipulated that we don't have x ray vision and there's no telling what is going to be in the way or what other issues we may find along the way and this will be at time and material costs above the original price so of course we did not miss even a washer on a hanger they got charges for and it's how it had to be this was a good many yrs back now but I don't expect x ray glasses have been made I didn't hear about lol
Worst time I ever remember was Peking for my uncle, propane leak under a house, me and my cousin got in about 8 feet, heard rattle snakes,we didn’t see any, until we shined along the back wall and there was a dozen or so. Luckily a cold front had blown through and we were able to back out pretty fast
I had a helper once that seemed rather off when he came in that morning he was idk jumpy and eyes wide open etc I was busy and needed his help so I just dismissed it well we get under the house it's a decent size crawlspace w vapor barrier and all it was actually cleaner than most job sites anyway this fucker says snakes I'm like what he said you Don't see the snakes of course I had to make sure I was not missing something which I wasn't I said ok outside right now we got back in the truck and I said wtf kid what are you on he admitted he had been doing meth all night and was spun out like crazy it was then the light bulb. Went off and it all fit the eyes the jumpy and I guess the snakes I said well first of all I need you Today so the snakes gotta go he assured me he would be OK for the day so I Said you better share lol I didn't see no snakes