When I started my apprenticeship, in 1972, cast iron was still common and, this brought back so many memories for me. We regularly did cast soil stacks with, lead caulked joints as, we did a lot of work on military sites and, high street banks where, cast was specified and, plastic was frowned upon. Thanks for a brilliant vlog, you done a great job guys !!
Well done on the 10k mate. Fully deserved. Similar job I have today, 5m run of drainage, going to have to pull up brick paving, concrete, bog and clay. Goes under a wall and massive conifer set with roots the size of Heathrow's runways. No Bobcat either! Love it.
good man well done lads ive had a cast iron pipe splinter in my eye before and its no joke but i was really lucky No permanent damge. Loving these videos
Nice one Luke...The satisfaction on the completion of the job must be immense. Out of your comfort zone but throughly enjoyable. Reminds me of my 1st water mains renewal to the incoming service valve. Lots of graft digging to expose the lead mains ( thinking I found it only to realise it was the incoming electrical supply😬😬).. right through to asphating back the pavement and making it look like new... Ahh the joys of our trade eh😂😂😂
Best bkade are the milwaukee diablo ones cut through cast no probs £30.00 yanks use them all the time on cast . Ive done loads of cast drainage in my career . Back in the late 80'd we were doing suspended lead caulked drainage upto 12" Ask alot of installers what an invert level is and most wont have a clue !!! I would of put an access pipe in the cupboard should at any pount it may get blocked
Hi Luke Fabulous job Couple of tips I used to do commercial work and worked on Heating Pipes that were Cast Iron I've no idea if you can still hire cutter but the firm had one. It had about 3/4 cutting wheels and basically rolled backwards and forwards gently tightening Re capping old drain wonder whether you may have simply cement up in drain junction pit! Concrete block cutter would have cut through clay pipe Stihl
Yeah just a load of concrete would of been alright looking back, going to look at some different cutting blades for my recip couple of people have recommended the Milwaukee one👍
Clay cap = cement? They used it to joint it back in the day so why not lol. I dunno I'd use a band clamp and a cap too. Unavoidable but customers gonna need some grass seed now 😂 Top job 👌
When I started my apprenticeship, in 1972, cast iron was still common and, this brought back so many memories for me. We regularly did cast soil stacks with, lead caulked joints as, we did a lot of work on military sites and, high street banks where, cast was specified and, plastic was frowned upon.
Thanks for a brilliant vlog, you done a great job guys !!
Thanks mate much appreciated 👍👍
Great video 😂 big wipes needed. very funny rain didn't stop play.
Thanks mate, yeah the rain was a bit of a dampener but had to muggle through 😅
Use a slip coupler on that fitting it slips back on the pipe then push it onto the pipe from house.
Would of been easier
Those Milwaukee blades are great. I've used them on 3" steel pipework no problems.
Will have to look at getting some 👍
Please keep doing these sort of drains repairs 👍🏻
Will do 👍
Diablo recip saw blades are supposed to be the best blades you can buy
The rain make everything look like a dog’s dinner 😂😂
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It did 😂
Well done on the 10k mate. Fully deserved. Similar job I have today, 5m run of drainage, going to have to pull up brick paving, concrete, bog and clay. Goes under a wall and massive conifer set with roots the size of Heathrow's runways. No Bobcat either! Love it.
Thanks mate much appreciated 👍 yours sound fun and a lot of hard work!!
good man
well done lads
ive had a cast iron pipe splinter in my eye before and its no joke but i was really lucky No permanent damge.
Loving these videos
Thanks for support mate much appreciated 👍 sounds like a lucky escape with the splinter!
great vid only done repairs on cracked drain so great to see someone do something bigger most plumbers dont do this well done
Thanks mate much appreciated
No drainage job is ever complete without it pissin down with rain…….they go hand in hand😆😆👊🏼
Too true 😂👍
You can get Recip blades that cut cast iron bruva, there’s Milwaukee or Bosch to choose from.
Yeah I’m going to look at getting some 👍👍
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Nice one Luke...The satisfaction on the completion of the job must be immense.
Out of your comfort zone but throughly enjoyable.
Reminds me of my 1st water mains renewal to the incoming service valve.
Lots of graft digging to expose the lead mains ( thinking I found it only to realise it was the incoming electrical supply😬😬).. right through to asphating back the pavement and making it look like new...
Ahh the joys of our trade eh😂😂😂
Yes mate anything out my comfort zone looking back I always have massive job satisfaction 👍👍
Nice job as always. Fernco do a range of push fit blanks for cast / clay etc but normally need to order in
Thanks for advice mate 👍
Best bkade are the milwaukee diablo ones cut through cast no probs £30.00 yanks use them all the time on cast . Ive done loads of cast drainage in my career . Back in the late 80'd we were doing suspended lead caulked drainage upto 12"
Ask alot of installers what an invert level is and most wont have a clue !!!
I would of put an access pipe in the cupboard should at any pount it may get blocked
Will have a look at getting some, I did think about it but with the access chamber and it being a straight can unblock from there if needed 👍
Hi Luke
Fabulous job
Couple of tips
I used to do commercial work and worked on Heating Pipes that were Cast Iron
I've no idea if you can still hire cutter but the firm had one.
It had about 3/4 cutting wheels and basically rolled backwards and forwards gently tightening
Re capping old drain wonder whether you may have simply cement up in drain junction pit!
Concrete block cutter would have cut through clay pipe Stihl
Yeah just a load of concrete would of been alright looking back, going to look at some different cutting blades for my recip couple of people have recommended the Milwaukee one👍
Oh I didn't realise you can get a blade for cast iron
Good choice to buy a reciprocating saw
I have one too
Brilliant
Clay cap = cement? They used it to joint it back in the day so why not lol. I dunno I'd use a band clamp and a cap too. Unavoidable but customers gonna need some grass seed now 😂 Top job 👌
Cement next time mate would of worked 👍 overthinking my end on this one 😅
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Great vids mate, I really enjoy em!
I think you’re in a BG chat group with my pal Andy!
Doug in Surrey! 👌💪🍺🍺🍺🍺
Thanks mate, and yeah I am in the what’s app group with him 👍👍