The Sunday Plumbing Curse! Close Coupled Toilet Repair
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- Опубліковано 21 лют 2024
- A DIY plumbing odyssey that began with good intentions but quickly turned into a comedy of errors. In this video, I set out to repair a leak on a close coupled toilet, but as you'll soon see, things didn't go as planned. From failed attempts to source the right parts to unexpected complications, this repair job became a cautionary tale for DIY enthusiasts. I'll share the challenges I faced, including a perished seal and a leaking isolation valve, and how I navigated through them. This video serves as a reminder of the importance of patience and persistence in DIY projects, especially when it comes to plumbing. Whether you're a seasoned DIYer or a novice, this video will provide valuable insights and lessons learned. Join me as I turn a plumbing disaster into a learning opportunity and share my experience with you.
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I learnt how amusing it is when these things happen to someone else.
😂🤣😂🤣
Dont do plumbing on a Sunday is the best diy advice I have ever heard.
This is the story of every diy repair I do. One simple jobs leads to about 6/7 arsehole jobs
It's always the way 😩
When I've done this in the past I've mopped out the cistern with a cloth to get rid of any residual water left after flushing. Just helps avoid extra spillage.
Yeah that's an idea...or a titan wet and dry vac is good for it also 😆
Last comment, sorry! My toilet much the same as this one is located on a solid outside wall so in the winter it basically runs with condensation so I have space it out from the wall about 8mm to provide an air gap to hopefully dry out most of the damp, otherwise the wall behind the cistern is black with mould.
Comment as much as you want 😉 oh that's a nightmare but good solution 🙌 our one in the lodge gets condensation on it in the winter because the cold water feed cools the toilet down so much that it's an issue when the warm air hits it 😬
The way you ended the video is exactly the way I would have as well. Job well done.
Few hints for you, get a mcalpine close couple kit if your new bog is 1.5" they're plates are bolts are stainless and the best quality on the market.
Use a pegler butterfly valve they're decent quality and tool free in an emergency.
Don't use liquid ptfe on a compression fitting its meant for sealing threads and sets into a solid plastic. If you want to use a sealing compound on the olive use a paste like jet blue or laco slic tite.
Good vid and thoroughly entertaining 😂
Oh them pegler ones are full bore right? I've seen on forums that full bore ones are better for not leaking?
Done this job a few times and theres always something that goes wrong, tip with the valve clean the paint off with an emery cloth etc to get back to copper and then use some potable jointing compound on the olives 👍
Well, your one saving grace is, you didn't end up with every single tool you own scattered all over the floor, which always happens when I have to do the simplest of jobs!
Well I only had a small box of tools with me 😆
Well done on producing an amusing video yet again on the trials and tribulations of helping others. The only DIY I do on a Sunday is watching it on YT.😉👍
I learnt that my leaking shower was very much like your toilet saga. Three fucking journeys to the Home Depot in one day.
😂🤣 that's plumbing for you
You have the patience of a saint my friend but also very funny
Thanks dude 😎
What did I learn? I learnt that liquid PTFE exists, which I had never heard of.
Very entertaining Aiden. Thanks.
I learnt you’re one of the funniest blokes on YT. Thanks Aiden for brightening my day. And not even on a Sunday.
😁
I learnt not to try and fix a toilet on a Sunday!!!! 😂
Also it’s probably easier just to fit a brand new toilet 👍🏻
Great video though
😂
well done for having a go and not making it a serious vid on how to install a toilet
😆 it should have been a serious how to video if it wouldn't have gone tits up
Could you sand the cranked fitting to get rid of most of the rust and paint it with hammerite or something like that?
That was my first thought but the rust was too deep, almost nothing left in a couple of spots 😬
Should've changed the flexi whilst at it 😂.
Fair play. I hope she sorted you a few quid and a good roast for that!
Haha I didn't want any more trouble 😂 for family I help for a bottle of wine, or maybe a new tool if it's a big job 😁
@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT Chateau Lafitte 1964 it is 😅. Just want to say, really appreciate your channel, banter, fuck ups and all the rest of it.
Legend. Keep going, buddy. Soon enough, you'll be on 100'k followers with your good humour. Top man. 👍
Thanks dude 😎
I learnt that it's possible to be phlegmatic when things don't go to plan and just get on with it. In my case, I usually shout at stuff. And at anyone who comes near me. Especially the wife - it's usually her fault after all.
Haha the frustration boiling over 😝
I'm constantly amazed at the poor stock selection these big stores have.
It's crazy why they don't have the foam doughnuts
At least when these things happen, you know you’re gunna get a good UA-cam video out of it!
Haha it could have been a better video though, or at least a proper how to that would get thousands of views over time rather than hundreds over a few days and then falls flat on its face 😆
I learned two things:
a) Don't do favours
2) There are literally no 5 minutes jobs
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5min job. done!
😂 it really should have been quick
One day it will be a simple fix.......on Fantasy Island!!!!
That sounds like a nice place 🌴
I would have cleaned the original metal plate back to bare metal with a grinder flap (sanding) disk and sprayed with cold galvanising paint.
I did consider that but it wasn't just surface rust, some bits on that plate were almost rusted through 😬
@@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT if it was that bad, then not recoverable
That looks like the Wickes special toilet I installed over a period of days, hitting problem after problem. The main problem was the floor wasn’t level, or even close to square at the back of the cistern. Plumbers Mait and silicone got the thing fitted and working. I don’t mind a bit of plumbing when I’m doing the install. Fixing previous crap trade work is a pain. Well done.
Yeah that's tough when the floor is off, I tend to use packers underneath to get it close and then silicone round the base. I'm surprised it went so smoothly considering how cheap it was but the pan and cistern are slightly off line but I knew that would be the case from the one in the lodge
My project started with my better (but uninformed) half deciding to spend Sunday afternoon painting the tiny, mostly unused, toilet room. That’s the long version of a Sunday project that goes wrong over days and weeks.
When will you learn ... 😂
Got to say... loving your comedy sketches, saves having to watch the poxy TV. 🤣🤣🤣
UA-cam is better than TV these days 😁
It’s always amusing to watch someone unfuck someone else’s shit work… what the hell was the original builder was thinking when he installed that toilet flexi!! Another job well done pal 👍🏻
Christ that Flexi was the weirdest install I've ever seen 😆 had a full tube of silicone on the original keeping it from leaking as well 😬 I would have preferred to have sorted it out with solid pipe but I just didn't have time 🫣
What I learned: Sunday is for watching youtube, not DIY
Very true 🤣
Lmfao. Thats like every single day job I've done! Well done for editing out all the blue language and tantrums
What's supposed to be an hour job that ends up with 3 separate visits to the suppliers and split over 2 days 🤦🤣 craziness
Another hilarious video! Yeah, and it’s funny how it’s easier to just replace the whole thing instead of trying to repair it
😁 it would have been an easy fix had it not been for the illusive cranked plate that doesn't seem to exist 😂
@@THE-AIDEN-PROJECT only available with new toilets!
Great vid...as above, amuzing when it's not your turn for shit jobs... Well done for carrying on filming....
At least there were no rats involved this time!! What happened with the valve in the loft????
Thank god for that! The valve didn't drip when I turned it back on, I checked it and hour later after I done a couple of other bits and it was fine 😅 got away with that
This is genuinely why I hate plumbing, seems to be no rhyme or reason to what should be universal sizes.
😆 maybe one day they everything will be universal, we can only live in hope 🙏
☀️ 'Promosm'
Why the hell didn’t you just fit a new flush valve, fluid master do one that fits both sizes🤣🤣
🤣😂 ah no way! My brain was telling me a smaller flush valve wouldn't cover the hole in the cistern 😅
The fluid master has a larger rubber that seals through the hole then just use your clamp plate as normal.
@@paulsmith2931 damn it, I should have tried it. Now I know 😁
Why is nothing the same size in plumbing? Absolute jokers
Yeah, it was absolutely crazy how odd this size was 😅