Roger Wakefield I did laugh when Mario shouted "Oh fuck!" The rest was mostly horrified crying, especially when the guy opened the pipe to the raw sewage
We've had that worst case happen 3 times where we live. We're on the bottom floor of a 3 story apartment building. So each time the main line gets plugged up, It comes out of the bathtub and toilet at warp speed. The first time it was caused by an idiot that got evicted...He decided to empty his cat litter box into the toilet and kept flushing until it wasn't visible... We're on the bottom of the system, so guess where it all collected... Another neighbor got screamed at by the maintenance manager, he told everyone on our side of the building NOT to use the showers and NOT to flush the john's until the line was fully snaked out. This ditzbag gave her kids full baths that evening (plumber was scheduled first thing in the AM).. When asked why she would do such a stupid thing, (as it flooded our bathroom out) She had the nerve to say "My kids always take a bath before going to bed, It's not backing up for us-So it's not our problem) (She got evicted a few months later) The other issue that caused the back ups twice more? FLUSH WIPES ARE NOT FLUSHABLE!!!!! Those nasty wipes contrary to advertising are NOT safe for septic or sewer lines!! The last two times we had the pipe snaked (think main sewer trunk line....Big Boy!!) The company pulled out massive handfulls of those nasty wipes. It was like a rock hard stoppage in the pipes!! If you're worried about getting your rear end 100% squeaky clean: Get a Bidet- Your 'exit ramp' will thank you for it!
Ugh I live on bottom floor apartment right now and we expect about 2-4 times a year for the main line to get clogged and stuff to completely run up in our toilet and through the bathtub... The maintenance men that come are obviously not fully knowledgeable and we are always left with a huuuuge mess to clean. The owner isn't seeming to even try to get it fixed over all these years, but claims it happens from roots from trees. I just don't know but everything just always feels like it's held together with glue and everything always feels dirty to me now :( I want to move so bad.
@@ThatOddGarage Honestly, a proper bidet toilet is leagues better and more workable than a toilet seat bidet. Also, you need an electrical outlet nearby to power the thing. Edit: (you need an outlet for either one, afaik.)
Backflow sewage getting into a home from the cities main can be easily avoided by a backflow preventer device their not required code in most states areas of the usa but it should be considered as a requirement for all new home construction and a requirement in home already built most installers recommend two of them and also recommend a 5 inch sewage pipe with a minimum sidewall thickness of 1/4 of a inch staring from the city main line right up to your house and space them 8 feet apart.
Stupid plumbing mistakes, and I've made my share, are an amazing learning experience. Flooding a house or taking a turd shower will get your attention and make you examine your methods. I sure wish I could have video'd the situations I encountered in the 1980s.
8:00 this exactly happened in our store in germany. On a strong rainstorm the sewage would come back out one toilet at night. I was glad I wasn't the one opening up the store that day xD I only saw the pictures.
Went to a slab home with a backed up sewer, the old lady that lived there ran her washing machine and flooded her bathroom with raw sewage, no clean out anywhere. Showed up after another guy from our company walked off, I cleaned the drain through the toilet and quit my job the next day lol
"You should know how to turn off the water line encase of an emergency." You should tell my parents strata who seem to know nothing. A line burst in the middle of the night and they had no clue where the main shutoff was. =P
Major oof. Anyone who owns a home needs to know several key things about their own house. At the very top spots on that list are where your water and electrical shutoff points are. Knowing where those are could save you literally thousands in damages in the event something goes wrong with certain pipes, fixtures, or appliances in your home. A single fried outlet or a wet patch of floor is better than a charred shell or a black mold infestation by a long shot.
@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 Even if you pay rent, you should know those things in case of emergency. It could literally save your (and others!) lives. It really pisses me off that some people absolutely refuse to know ANYTHING because of their stupidity, laziness and entitlement.
I live with my parents in an apartment and it would really help to know if we could even do that for just our unit. One night there was water pouring out of a pipe under the sink and no way to stop it until the morning when the maintenance men came. I need to remember to get them to ask that.
I had to fix a clogged soil line at my grandmothers house and there was poop coming out of the toilet and bathtub, we cut it open we’re we found the clog and an absolute meatloaf came plopping out into my bucket, we fixed it, but holy cow was it gross
I had a homeowner try to help me out a job by going into the basement and opening the clean out in the basement. I told him not to but he did. The cap on the clean out popped off with so much force it broke his nose
To be fair, having been on a water main break, you have to have at least 1 or 2 people on top to call for help in case of emergency. However, two of them should've been running for the valves to turn off the main when it more or less exploded. Also, the main should've been off in the first place
In a previous apartment complex I lived in I lived on the first floor at the end of the line as it were. I had decided to move out as my lease was ending. In that last week my toilet and bathtub overflowed with raw sewage three times including the day of my move. On that day I once again notified the building and moved my unsoiled things out. Those that were soiled I left and thankfully was partially reimbursed for. A similar thing happened at my current building when I lived on the first floor. Long story short. Pay the extra rent to not be on the first floor of an apartment complex
Saw sewage flowing backwards into the toilets in my college dorm multiple times last year. They never overflowed but seeing almost black water all the way to the brims of the toilet bowls was disgusting.
Omg I’m an apprentice at a plumbing company and one day like a month ago we were doing a water jet job and we were jetting a sewer line. I was controlling the hose like feeding it into the line. Well when time came to pull the hose back I pulled it back a little bit to far with the water still on and the pressure shooting out of the end of the nozzle shot sewage in the main plumbers face 😂😂😂
My Dad told me the story of how one time he was assisting his dad with a totally blocked sewer line that they just couldn’t clear. So his dad found where in the pipe the block was and had to cut the line. My dad said he watched as a volcano of sewage water spray all over his dad and up into the air. A shower of sadness
I have a story about failed plumbing. I was sleeping, it was 5:30 AM. I heard dripping noises in my bedroom, which is about 4 meters away from the bathroom. Turns out, they were renovating the apartment upstairs and the plumbers closed all the valves except one which was connected to a washing machine faucet. Given that the pressure is highest around 5-6AM because nobody is using the building (it's a 19 story building so it has its own pump), the faucet flew away and our apartment was pretty much flooded. It was funny and terrifying to see a waterfall coming down my living room window. The worst part is that due to the bathroom upstairs being renovated, the workers didn't bother cleaning the mess made by destroying the walls and all of that ceramic crap ended up in the drain, which led to more floods, albeit only limited to the bathroom and the distribution box. Luckily, there were no blown fuses nor electrocutions. I guess you've seen all sorts of stuff...
Once as a kid at my friend's house I had something similar happen when everything was pushing out sewer water i felt terrible bc it happened after I used the bathroom. They had to leave the house while a plumber came and fixed it cost a bunch of money but I remember how it was literally coming out of the drain in the tub and everywhere else.
One time when I lived at my parents house I was using the restroom, did a courtesy flush and moments later i hear a gurgle in the toilet that you never want to hear. My bathroom was the closest to the septic tank, well needless to say WE HAD A BLOCKAGE. All the sudden i feel cold water splash up on me. I tried to jump up before it hit me, but it was far too late. Me and my Dad (both plumbers) spent our friday night unclogging our septic tank. Also, when we went to take one of the concrete caps off the first tank the pressure that came loose from the tank was crazy! The house was only 5 years old, and somehow our septic tank was slam full. It sounded like someone took a cap off a soda bottle. Anyone ever experienced that?
Back in '91 I had just moved into a ground floor apartment. A couple months after moving in there was a huge rain storm overnight and I woke up to the entire apartment full of raw sewage 2 in deep. Toilet and tub overflowing. I fought them to get my lease nullified and was out of there asap. Come to find out from a neighbor that this happened all the time and they wouldn't fix it, they just changed the carpet and re-leased it. I never lived in a ground floor apartment again! LOL
Lordy you plumbers must have guts of steel to handle this stuff, certainly an admirable trait. Still an interesting watch, so many bits and bobs to look at.
Learning to turn off the water was one of the first things I learned as a new home owner. The main water valve and the electrical box. From there, everything is fixable. Don't do that...many more problems are going to come your way.
Holy shit I did not expect to see cow chop at 10:00 during my guilty pleasures of watching pluming vids at 4am during quarantine. Love your vids Also rip cow chop gone but never forgotten
Yeah that water main one was very dangerous back when I was a hydrovac operator I saw a 20T excavator hit one and get lifted like 4ft in the air. There’s stop valves to stop water in sections and hydrants to release pressure safely so nobody gets killed
I lived in Jacksonville Florida for a while in an apartment with *so* many problems. The plumbing was probably the worst though. In the 6 months I lived in that apartment, I think I came home probably 7-10 times to find the sink, toilet, bathtub, and even *dishwasher* flooded with grey-brown water. This would happen whenever it rained heavily which.... it was Florida.... during the summer... I remember you could tell it had happened again every time you walked in the door because it smelled like a sewer because... well.... there was sewer water EVERYWHERE. Disgusting. Literally had black and brown "mystery sludge" covering any dishes in the sink/bottom rack in the dishwasher, multiple times. Ultimately had to just move because the apartment maintenance couldn't figure it out. *Edit* Interestingly enough I had a friend who was a plumber there. He said he got called to a small house with 5-6 girls sharing rent. They had backed up the (only) toilet a week earlier, and hadn't called. They simply kept using it and would occasionally try and re-flush, which obviously failed. They only called when the feces/urine/water was literally at the rim and they couldn't go any more. He walked out and told them to call back when they'd finished shoveling out their toilet, but that it wasn't his job to literally clean out over a weeks worth of negligence.
I like the water pouring out of light socket. If there's a shut off more important than the water it would be the electrical. I think I would go to the breaker box shut off all power, then shut off the water and finally call an electrician so he can make it safe for the plumber to come in.
I had a flexible gas line running from one side of my attic to the other, when I had a new roof installed they drove a nail into the gas line. This happened to be above a spare bedroom that we never go into. The bad part is, we have LP, which we all know is heavier than air, it took about two days of leaking LP for us to finally smell the gas. I don’t know how our house is still on it’s foundation. All is well, no more flexible gas lines in an attic for me, ever!
In 2013 there was extreme flooding in southern Alberta, Canada. If you didn’t have flood waters in your basement, you surely had sewer backup. My basement had about a foot of raw sewage covering the entire basement floor. It was BAD.
what I saw was the main water line braking at the and of my small street, the water was above the sidewalk. I walked there to have a look, giant water spout. then the fire department came and was like GTFU later I found out why. the water knocked away all that sand and made a GIANT explosion crater in the floor. where I was standing the stones were holding themself up
I like your channel cuz it's not like the typical, plumber reacts and that's it. I like that you give tips after the fail, and that can be helpfull to the people that are studing that.
Best story I have is one night around 2:00am I got up to use the toilet. Sitting there doing what you do I can hear water running in the pipes. I knew it was going to be a bad night. Checked all the plumbing in the house, all looked fine. I grabbed a torch and took a look under the house. Water as far as I could see. I shut off the water and went to bed, that’s a daylight problem. Turns out the slab from my driveway had settled on the main water pipe into the house and crushed it. It cost me 2K to get the line reroute into the house. It was over a decade ago so it was a lot of money. But not expensive for the work they did.👍
6:40 this happened to my aunt TWICE they live in the bottom floor of a apartment building and everybody else's sewage came out of every drain while they were on a holiday.
About 5 years ago I had to unclog my kitchen sink drain. when I opened up the cleanout I got sprayed with black colored water. Luckily it was in my basement.
I agree 100% people should know where their stop cork is. Really, whoever you buy or rent from should make sure you know before you move in. When I first moved into my flat, one of the taps on my bath got stuck on at full blast and I had no idea where the stop cork was. I eventually found it (inside a small hole in the very back of a kitchen corner cupboard) but by that time, the bathroom and hallway were flooded, I had put a hole in my kitchen lino (moving my washing machine to check behind it) and I had removed a section of wood from under my kitchen cupboards as well as the side panel of my bath. I thought stop corks were always under the kitchen sink but mine isn't for some reason. It was a nightmare. This was literally the same week I moved in.
I live in Wichita Falls, Tx, just a couple hours north of you. I woke up one morning to the sound of gushing water, and when I went to investigate I saw that my toilet was shooting out clear sewage about 2ft high. It lasted for about 30 seconds before I ran outside to see what was happening... the great city of Wichita Falls decided to pressurize the sewer lines to blow out a clog, and well I got stuck cleaning up their mess since they disappeared when I told them what happened. I would have at least liked a warning beforehand.
It really says things about things I have seen, that I can Watch this video while eating mu dinner and not even gag, At some point you just stop being affected by things like that. :P
DID YOU LAUGH? 😂😂
Roger Wakefield 100%
Show more video and less of your face
@@adelanig8107 no u
Roger Wakefield I did laugh when Mario shouted "Oh fuck!" The rest was mostly horrified crying, especially when the guy opened the pipe to the raw sewage
I gagged then I laughed cause that crap was nasty
5:50
Person: **films it all**
Me: **calls plumber** Yeah hi, Satan is trying to take over my house with blackened water
We've had that worst case happen 3 times where we live. We're on the bottom floor of a 3 story apartment building. So each time the main line gets plugged up, It comes out of the bathtub and toilet at warp speed. The first time it was caused by an idiot that got evicted...He decided to empty his cat litter box into the toilet and kept flushing until it wasn't visible... We're on the bottom of the system, so guess where it all collected... Another neighbor got screamed at by the maintenance manager, he told everyone on our side of the building NOT to use the showers and NOT to flush the john's until the line was fully snaked out. This ditzbag gave her kids full baths that evening (plumber was scheduled first thing in the AM).. When asked why she would do such a stupid thing, (as it flooded our bathroom out) She had the nerve to say "My kids always take a bath before going to bed, It's not backing up for us-So it's not our problem) (She got evicted a few months later)
The other issue that caused the back ups twice more? FLUSH WIPES ARE NOT FLUSHABLE!!!!! Those nasty wipes contrary to advertising are NOT safe for septic or sewer lines!! The last two times we had the pipe snaked (think main sewer trunk line....Big Boy!!) The company pulled out massive handfulls of those nasty wipes. It was like a rock hard stoppage in the pipes!! If you're worried about getting your rear end 100% squeaky clean: Get a Bidet- Your 'exit ramp' will thank you for it!
I love my bidet toilet seat....
Roger Wakefield I am looking to buy one. Do you recommend any particular seat?
Ugh I live on bottom floor apartment right now and we expect about 2-4 times a year for the main line to get clogged and stuff to completely run up in our toilet and through the bathtub... The maintenance men that come are obviously not fully knowledgeable and we are always left with a huuuuge mess to clean. The owner isn't seeming to even try to get it fixed over all these years, but claims it happens from roots from trees. I just don't know but everything just always feels like it's held together with glue and everything always feels dirty to me now :( I want to move so bad.
@@ThatOddGarage Honestly, a proper bidet toilet is leagues better and more workable than a toilet seat bidet.
Also, you need an electrical outlet nearby to power the thing.
Edit: (you need an outlet for either one, afaik.)
@@u.s.s.chucklefucker1657 ah, thank you for the input, good stuff to know!
That backflow is my idea of hell I would spontaneously combust if I came home and saw something like that.
"Guess we have to burn the entire house down!"
@@hippopajamas just knock it down and start over elsewhere.
Backflow sewage getting into a home from the cities main can be easily avoided by a backflow preventer device their not required code in most states areas of the usa but it should be considered as a requirement for all new home construction and a requirement in home already built most installers recommend two of them and also recommend a 5 inch sewage pipe with a minimum sidewall thickness of 1/4 of a inch staring from the city main line right up to your house and space them 8 feet apart.
I miss Cowchop. Seeing their clip at 10:00 hit me right in the feels
Yeah, back when the boys were younger... and still together 😢
That was so cool when I saw that, so unexpected! This guy is the realest.
Wooo cowchop
I need that flipping Mario video for sure that is amazing
Honestly, I thought it was a porno at first
Stupid plumbing mistakes, and I've made my share, are an amazing learning experience. Flooding a house or taking a turd shower will get your attention and make you examine your methods. I sure wish I could have video'd the situations I encountered in the 1980s.
I bet those would have been amazing to save on tape.
I hate the term "raw sewage" as if there's "cooked sewage"
well cooked meat is basically processed meat, and raw sewage is just unprocessed sewage soooo
It is nothing else than RAW sewage. Sewage is processed at plants so it’s nowhere near as harmful as dumping raw sewage
Y'all heard of a joke?
@@falxie_ I don't think they get the joke Lol
Bobby Rare You never know these days
8:00 this exactly happened in our store in germany.
On a strong rainstorm the sewage would come back out one toilet at night.
I was glad I wasn't the one opening up the store that day xD
I only saw the pictures.
Went to a slab home with a backed up sewer, the old lady that lived there ran her washing machine and flooded her bathroom with raw sewage, no clean out anywhere. Showed up after another guy from our company walked off, I cleaned the drain through the toilet and quit my job the next day lol
This man, is a Bob Ross, and Dr. Phil combo
Hilarious. The guy knocking the cap off the side of the pipe for max poop flow was my favorite. Have a great day Roger. Keep Killin it and be well 😎.
"You should know how to turn off the water line encase of an emergency." You should tell my parents strata who seem to know nothing. A line burst in the middle of the night and they had no clue where the main shutoff was. =P
"bUtT dAts dE pLUmbErs jOb!!!!"
Strata? What's that?
Major oof. Anyone who owns a home needs to know several key things about their own house. At the very top spots on that list are where your water and electrical shutoff points are. Knowing where those are could save you literally thousands in damages in the event something goes wrong with certain pipes, fixtures, or appliances in your home. A single fried outlet or a wet patch of floor is better than a charred shell or a black mold infestation by a long shot.
@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 Even if you pay rent, you should know those things in case of emergency. It could literally save your (and others!) lives. It really pisses me off that some people absolutely refuse to know ANYTHING because of their stupidity, laziness and entitlement.
I live with my parents in an apartment and it would really help to know if we could even do that for just our unit. One night there was water pouring out of a pipe under the sink and no way to stop it until the morning when the maintenance men came. I need to remember to get them to ask that.
the condom on the floor got me going pretty good LOL LOL LOL
When you said a balloon came out of the sewer 🤣🤣🤣 subscribed
At first I thought he was ina prison jumpsuit
Lmao
I had to fix a clogged soil line at my grandmothers house and there was poop coming out of the toilet and bathtub, we cut it open we’re we found the clog and an absolute meatloaf came plopping out into my bucket, we fixed it, but holy cow was it gross
This content is gold!! Love your vids Roger!
Keep up the great content Roger!! Your channel is very informative and entertaining brother!!
I had a homeowner try to help me out a job by going into the basement and opening the clean out in the basement. I told him not to but he did. The cap on the clean out popped off with so much force it broke his nose
😳
Omg I cried when when super Mario arrived.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Is it really that funny?
4 guys standing around 1 in the hole. The definition of a city crew
Might be a union job...
To be fair, having been on a water main break, you have to have at least 1 or 2 people on top to call for help in case of emergency. However, two of them should've been running for the valves to turn off the main when it more or less exploded. Also, the main should've been off in the first place
5... The guy filming.
Roger Wakefield
Is it possible that I could’ve gotten hurt in that hole that’s a lot of water
One person has to watch the ditch. Otherwise agree lol
the cowchop clip LMAO
In a previous apartment complex I lived in I lived on the first floor at the end of the line as it were. I had decided to move out as my lease was ending. In that last week my toilet and bathtub overflowed with raw sewage three times including the day of my move. On that day I once again notified the building and moved my unsoiled things out. Those that were soiled I left and thankfully was partially reimbursed for. A similar thing happened at my current building when I lived on the first floor. Long story short. Pay the extra rent to not be on the first floor of an apartment complex
Me, a student nurse watching plumbing videos: "The Super Mario needs some serious i.v. antibiotics as soon as possible or he will die of sepsis." 😏
That Mario video was the best part. X'D
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍🏻
Saw sewage flowing backwards into the toilets in my college dorm multiple times last year. They never overflowed but seeing almost black water all the way to the brims of the toilet bowls was disgusting.
I guess you could say things were
*shitty*
Rex Jolles yeah it was *SHITTY*
HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH Profanity
@@skler123 _watch your profanity_
@@somethingtrulyhorrifying Your face is very stinky
@@skler123 At least I'm wanted by my parents. Your birth certificate is an apology letter from the condom factory. :/
Omg I’m an apprentice at a plumbing company and one day like a month ago we were doing a water jet job and we were jetting a sewer line. I was controlling the hose like feeding it into the line. Well when time came to pull the hose back I pulled it back a little bit to far with the water still on and the pressure shooting out of the end of the nozzle shot sewage in the main plumbers face 😂😂😂
"If you ever see this in your house, get out now."... That comment made me burst out laughing
My Dad told me the story of how one time he was assisting his dad with a totally blocked sewer line that they just couldn’t clear. So his dad found where in the pipe the block was and had to cut the line. My dad said he watched as a volcano of sewage water spray all over his dad and up into the air. A shower of sadness
I have a story about failed plumbing. I was sleeping, it was 5:30 AM. I heard dripping noises in my bedroom, which is about 4 meters away from the bathroom. Turns out, they were renovating the apartment upstairs and the plumbers closed all the valves except one which was connected to a washing machine faucet. Given that the pressure is highest around 5-6AM because nobody is using the building (it's a 19 story building so it has its own pump), the faucet flew away and our apartment was pretty much flooded. It was funny and terrifying to see a waterfall coming down my living room window.
The worst part is that due to the bathroom upstairs being renovated, the workers didn't bother cleaning the mess made by destroying the walls and all of that ceramic crap ended up in the drain, which led to more floods, albeit only limited to the bathroom and the distribution box. Luckily, there were no blown fuses nor electrocutions. I guess you've seen all sorts of stuff...
oh god. and this, ladies and gentleman, is why i don't do anything past applying draino or digging a bent hangar down the drain to unclog it.
Once as a kid at my friend's house I had something similar happen when everything was pushing out sewer water i felt terrible bc it happened after I used the bathroom. They had to leave the house while a plumber came and fixed it cost a bunch of money but I remember how it was literally coming out of the drain in the tub and everywhere else.
The quality of these videos are amazing keep up the good work roger👍
cowchop was the last thing i expected to see here lol 10:10
I love watching this while I eat.
I love knowing you are watching while you eat... Just sayin’....
Happy holidays Roger and to all your employee's too and Families.
this was a very bad time for me to be eating brownies but when i go on a weird youtube recommendation binge, i can't stop myself from watching
28 years in the business myself, and damn... some of those I was thinking "What the HELL are they doing???!!" Good video!
I wonder why this was being filmed?
In case things got
*Shitty*
@@rexjolles how many times are you gonna make that joke
One time when I lived at my parents house I was using the restroom, did a courtesy flush and moments later i hear a gurgle in the toilet that you never want to hear. My bathroom was the closest to the septic tank, well needless to say WE HAD A BLOCKAGE. All the sudden i feel cold water splash up on me. I tried to jump up before it hit me, but it was far too late. Me and my Dad (both plumbers) spent our friday night unclogging our septic tank. Also, when we went to take one of the concrete caps off the first tank the pressure that came loose from the tank was crazy! The house was only 5 years old, and somehow our septic tank was slam full. It sounded like someone took a cap off a soda bottle. Anyone ever experienced that?
Back in '91 I had just moved into a ground floor apartment. A couple months after moving in there was a huge rain storm overnight and I woke up to the entire apartment full of raw sewage 2 in deep. Toilet and tub overflowing. I fought them to get my lease nullified and was out of there asap. Come to find out from a neighbor that this happened all the time and they wouldn't fix it, they just changed the carpet and re-leased it. I never lived in a ground floor apartment again! LOL
Lordy you plumbers must have guts of steel to handle this stuff, certainly an admirable trait. Still an interesting watch, so many bits and bobs to look at.
0:06: Well well well, Roger, the most ghastly plumbing fails ARE like halloween --- did you ever think of that?
Learning to turn off the water was one of the first things I learned as a new home owner. The main water valve and the electrical box. From there, everything is fixable. Don't do that...many more problems are going to come your way.
Holy shit I did not expect to see cow chop at 10:00 during my guilty pleasures of watching pluming vids at 4am during quarantine. Love your vids
Also rip cow chop gone but never forgotten
Like the videos, but could you make the fails larger on the screen?
2:07: The ghosts and the goblins have paid you a visit, wa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
I started watching this guy yesterday and I already can’t stop watching him
I started watching him an hour ago and I'm already like 5 vids in. 😣
I need sleep, but it's funny..
water from the outlet lol...tell me you were not thinking three stooges....niagara falls from the tv lol lol
Very good video. Loved it
Yeah that water main one was very dangerous back when I was a hydrovac operator I saw a 20T excavator hit one and get lifted like 4ft in the air. There’s stop valves to stop water in sections and hydrants to release pressure safely so nobody gets killed
I lived in Jacksonville Florida for a while in an apartment with *so* many problems. The plumbing was probably the worst though. In the 6 months I lived in that apartment, I think I came home probably 7-10 times to find the sink, toilet, bathtub, and even *dishwasher* flooded with grey-brown water. This would happen whenever it rained heavily which.... it was Florida.... during the summer...
I remember you could tell it had happened again every time you walked in the door because it smelled like a sewer because... well.... there was sewer water EVERYWHERE.
Disgusting.
Literally had black and brown "mystery sludge" covering any dishes in the sink/bottom rack in the dishwasher, multiple times.
Ultimately had to just move because the apartment maintenance couldn't figure it out.
*Edit*
Interestingly enough I had a friend who was a plumber there. He said he got called to a small house with 5-6 girls sharing rent. They had backed up the (only) toilet a week earlier, and hadn't called. They simply kept using it and would occasionally try and re-flush, which obviously failed. They only called when the feces/urine/water was literally at the rim and they couldn't go any more.
He walked out and told them to call back when they'd finished shoveling out their toilet, but that it wasn't his job to literally clean out over a weeks worth of negligence.
3:23 someone's company just got shut down by the city, good thing this is your Halloween video, because that made me think of Ghostbusters II!
Customer said "it should be pretty easy" 🤣🤣🤣
Puts a large hole in a water main, screams in joy as if he strikes oil 🤣
I like the water pouring out of light socket. If there's a shut off more important than the water it would be the electrical. I think I would go to the breaker box shut off all power, then shut off the water and finally call an electrician so he can make it safe for the plumber to come in.
Didn't expect to see Cowchop in this compilation. That's a subscribe from me, sir. Love the content.
I love the Halloween vibe at the beginning of the video
I had a flexible gas line running from one side of my attic to the other, when I had a new roof installed they drove a nail into the gas line. This happened to be above a spare bedroom that we never go into. The bad part is, we have LP, which we all know is heavier than air, it took about two days of leaking LP for us to finally smell the gas. I don’t know how our house is still on it’s foundation. All is well, no more flexible gas lines in an attic for me, ever!
watching all of these confirms i need to stay in commercial plumbing lmao
That mustache. Just look at that damn thing! It's f***ing glorious.
realizing i've been watching these vids for a week now... and just now subscribed. Well at least I will get to watch more. :)
The one with the two day old feces, this is a reason for installing a back flow valve at the city main sewer
In 2013 there was extreme flooding in southern Alberta, Canada. If you didn’t have flood waters in your basement, you surely had sewer backup. My basement had about a foot of raw sewage covering the entire basement floor. It was BAD.
what I saw was the main water line braking at the and of my small street, the water was above the sidewalk. I walked there to have a look, giant water spout.
then the fire department came and was like GTFU later I found out why. the water knocked away all that sand and made a GIANT explosion crater in the floor. where I was standing the stones were holding themself up
I can't believe you reacted to a cow chop video! I now love you even more
Never thought I’d see cowchop on this channel. Awesome meeting of the worlds.
I have an interview for a plumbing apprentice job tomorrow morning. I was wondering what you suggest I wear?
So one time I was constipated for two weeks. 1:07 this is an accurate recreation of when my body finally decided it had gone on long enough.
I like your channel cuz it's not like the typical, plumber reacts and that's it. I like that you give tips after the fail, and that can be helpfull to the people that are studing that.
Best story I have is one night around 2:00am I got up to use the toilet. Sitting there doing what you do I can hear water running in the pipes.
I knew it was going to be a bad night. Checked all the plumbing in the house, all looked fine. I grabbed a torch and took a look under the house. Water as far as I could see.
I shut off the water and went to bed, that’s a daylight problem.
Turns out the slab from my driveway had settled on the main water pipe into the house and crushed it.
It cost me 2K to get the line reroute into the house. It was over a decade ago so it was a lot of money. But not expensive for the work they did.👍
I was gonna watch this and funnyest thing i get a plumbing add LOL
6:40 this happened to my aunt TWICE they live in the bottom floor of a apartment building and everybody else's sewage came out of every drain while they were on a holiday.
3:23: Happy halloween, wa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, the claws are coming to drag you to hell!
thank you for re-affirming why I don't want to be a plumber - Apprentice Sparkie
wasnt expecting to see an old cow chop video here lol
About 5 years ago I had to unclog my kitchen sink drain. when I opened up the cleanout I got sprayed with black colored water. Luckily it was in my basement.
Theres too much chit!! Its taking over! Glubgorgleachhhglug
I agree 100% people should know where their stop cork is. Really, whoever you buy or rent from should make sure you know before you move in. When I first moved into my flat, one of the taps on my bath got stuck on at full blast and I had no idea where the stop cork was. I eventually found it (inside a small hole in the very back of a kitchen corner cupboard) but by that time, the bathroom and hallway were flooded, I had put a hole in my kitchen lino (moving my washing machine to check behind it) and I had removed a section of wood from under my kitchen cupboards as well as the side panel of my bath. I thought stop corks were always under the kitchen sink but mine isn't for some reason. It was a nightmare. This was literally the same week I moved in.
I always carry a sharpie so marking the joint after soldering/crimping is a sure win.
I live in Wichita Falls, Tx, just a couple hours north of you. I woke up one morning to the sound of gushing water, and when I went to investigate I saw that my toilet was shooting out clear sewage about 2ft high. It lasted for about 30 seconds before I ran outside to see what was happening... the great city of Wichita Falls decided to pressurize the sewer lines to blow out a clog, and well I got stuck cleaning up their mess since they disappeared when I told them what happened. I would have at least liked a warning beforehand.
whoever does your editing is top notch.
1:07: Happy halloween, wa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
12:01 It was at this moment that Mario knew- he f**ked up.
I do water mitigation so I’ve rarely seen these things happen in person, but I’ve definitely been on the receiving end of cleaning these up
10:13 Ah, yes, raw sewage. As opposed to cooked sewage.
"Yes i would like one cooked Sewage, hold the Mayo"
I remeber when I had a choice between plumbing and hvac...I chose hvac because of friends of mine in these situations..God bless you plumbers
They found a balloon hahaha
09:59 thank you for never being pushy about subscribing or the bell. I rang the bell.
10:18: Chills and bloodcurdling screams.
That toilet takes me back to one of my first weeks plumbing when are boss told use to bring post hole diggers, buckets, and lots of trash bags
It really says things about things I have seen, that I can Watch this video while eating mu dinner and not even gag, At some point you just stop being affected by things like that. :P
Needed that. Had a shitty day and the Mario skit did the trick.
4:13 Roger thats polish accent. I love your movies.
That last one got me
Isn't that black water at 5:48 iron and manganese? Water well plumbing systems get that problem sometimes.
I know this is an old video of yours but i love your content it got me through the severe flu that i had :D.
Glad I could help you out while under the weather. Stay strong brother 💪
did not expect to see cowchop in this lol