Total Kitchen Disaster! You Won't Believe What Was In This Pipe!

Added: 2026-05-14

[00:00:00]So from here, put the drain sink in through that way, through that way. Had a bit of threaded rod which I put in, used a bit he cuz it's a bit more flexible and just yeah, just basically just worked it back and forth, back and forth and finally got it clear.

[00:00:16]But yeah, it is uh this is not my forte and I rate the people that do it do this job day in day out, but it's not for me.

[00:00:25]But just going to get it done now.

[00:00:36]Good afternoon everyone. It's where day is it? It's Tuesday the 17th of March and look at the weather.

[00:00:45]This is coming off soon because it's what? It's 14° which is warm enough.

[00:00:52]It's bloody hot in the van I tell you.

[00:00:54]And I'm doing something completely different today. I'm doing a going to try my hand at a bit of plumbing. Going to try my hand a bit of drainage.

[00:01:04]There's a block of flats behind me which is a family members. Not the whole block. There's a flat in the block of flats which is a family members. I fitted a boiler here a few years ago for them. Uh the tenants have moved out.

[00:01:17]They're having some refurb work done and the kitchen sink and the bathroom basin uh is getting blocked. The kitchen sink is actually it's just not draining out whatsoever. And the basin is taking ages to drain out. The bath, however, is fine, but and the toilet flush is fine.

[00:01:39]I don't really deal with drainage, but because it's a family members, I'm going to give it a go. I've got Josh's drain snake, his Milwaukee one. So, I've just got a lucky I've got M12 batteries, so I'm just going to pop that in and see if I can roll it through. I've also got some one shot with me as well, just in case. But before I try one shot, I'm going to see if I can actually somehow clear the drain, find the drainage um or the blockage even um and try and clear it. I've also got a vanity unit here and so yeah, vanity unit basin tap redo the waist. I've got some bits. Got trap here.

[00:02:16]This is probably like so simple for some of you guys, but for me it's it's a project. It's a little mini project. So I don't really like it. I don't get involved in stuff like this. So, I'm going to try and do the best that I can.

[00:02:27]And yeah. Oh, I've got to replace the gas cooker, but I need to order it. So, that's what I'm going to do. The main thing I'm here to do today is to try and clear the blockage in the drains and see if I can get this vanity unit done. I mean, the property is empty, so I've got time on my hands anyway. [snorts] But, let's go in. It's top floor as well, which is great. Luckily, the vanity unit and the basin aren't that heavy. And I haven't got carried too many bits up at the moment, as far as I know. So, I'm going to go up and um get started. I'll show you guys once we get in. I'll show you the boiler that I done with hash.

[00:03:01]And uh yeah, if you haven't already, don't forget to like and subscribe as always if you haven't already.

[00:03:09]and Uni lights trade insurance velocity tool bags tool monster store powered now testo discount codes to everything in the description. So fill your boots. Let's go in and get this done. Right. So this is where I'd fit the boiler a few years ago. So that's all fine. But this is disgusting.

[00:03:38]Now, having had a look under here, that's falling down first of all. So, I'll need to sort that out. But firstly, regardless of whether I mean, it's falling down, but it still shouldn't be causing that much of a blockage in there. So, I'm going to wet back it out first and then I'm going to open up the traps. See what's going on in both traps because I don't think it's a trap issue because unless both of them are are blocked up. So, got that there. Then underneath here, I can't remember. No.

[00:04:12]So, the condens goes straight back there.

[00:04:15]This is actually the cooker that I repaired in one of the other videos, which is getting replaced.

[00:04:22]Um, yeah, that's where the waist all runs behind there. And then behind here there's a compression coupling as well.

[00:04:40]So I'm going to firstly I don't know if I should just take that coupling out straight away and just try and rod it from there.

[00:04:50]Oh, there's another coupling here as well.

[00:04:55]So we've got a couple of couplings.

[00:05:01]Yeah. So, I've got Josh's Milwaukee drain snake.

[00:05:05]Uh, well, firstly, I think I'm going to wet back the dirty water out of there, open up this trap, see what's going on with there, [snorts] and see if I can probably best to start there, I reckon, with the drain snake, and then work my way around and see what happens here. And then I can start taking stuff apart here if I need to.

[00:05:24]Right. So, I've wet backed all that out.

[00:05:27]Now, let's open this up and see what's going on with these traps.

[00:05:49]Okay.

[00:06:16]Okay.

[00:06:20]That's all that right.

[00:06:27]That's ob all the water that's just been sitting in there. Now I think I'm going to try and rod it through from here first and see what happens. Right. So I've disconnected both the traps and I don't actually think there's a blockage in the pipework. I do think it's just because this side is falling down. So, got this little yogurt pot here. Now, if I fill that up, right, so that's pretty much full to the top. Now, if I hold this up so that we do now have a full going as far back as possible there. If I just pour the contents of this carefully.

[00:07:28]Right. So, I've just poured pretty much half a liter of water down there.

[00:07:36]There's a little bit coming back because obviously there's still a for going there. But if I hold that up, it's not backing up.

[00:07:46]So, if there was a blockage somewhere, and this is probably the third or fourth tub I've poured down there, I'd expect that to all come flooding back out of this side, but it's not.

[00:08:01]So, I think the issue is there's not enough water. I mean, there probably is still a bit of a blockage.

[00:08:07]Now, if I let this down, let's see.

[00:08:12]Does it fill it up?

[00:08:29]So, it's about Oh, yeah. It's almost filling it up, but I don't know if that's just because I've poured about three or four of these down there. Yeah, I need to sort the fall out on the waist first, I think, before I can look at try and clear the blockage.

[00:08:49]Okay.

[00:08:51]So, I've removed that section and I've rotted that all through. So, that's all clear. Well, that's that section's clear anyway. [snorts] Just rotted it all the way through and that's clear up to there.

[00:09:04]Now, I had that open and bucket underneath it and I was trying to pour water back down again, but still nothing was flowing out there. So, I thought, you know what? I need to redo this cuz I fall anyway. And I think I found our problem.

[00:09:19]Yeah, that is definitely going to cause an issue with backflow.

[00:09:26]So, first I'm now going to try and clear clear all that out. And then I need to [sighs and snorts] That's what I'm struggling with is how I'm going to get a [snorts] fall on that.

[00:09:41]I might need to get one of those shallow shallow traps because that I need that to be at least like that so that it falls backwards and then back to ideally I want it [snorts] as high as possible because it's fairly long run going back to there and I can't do I can't drop it any lower there.

[00:10:03][snorts] So there's no chance of running a whole new waist. I don't think I need to. I think if I can get a shallow trap on there, clear all that out, then that should sort at least that bit out. That drain snake has gone all in there. [snorts] It's come out here. That's good. So, we know that's clear. [snorts] Now, I'm probably going to just put like one of these elbows on and pour some water down it just to test it and then put um wet back there [snorts] and then see if we get water going through. If we do, then I can obviously start getting bits together to remake these traps and waste and stuff up again.

[00:10:50]Right, I'm back here today.

[00:10:52]>> Gas engineers doing plumbing, mate. um with the uh the master plumber who's going to give me a hand. So, yesterday I got this done. I didn't film it because I hate plumbing and it just took me ages to do, but it's done. Uh new vanity unit, all uh piped up, all fine. No leaks on that.

[00:11:17]And uh I'm not don't consider myself to be a mastic man, but I don't think I've done too bad a job there. But now I am basically got some new basket strainers.

[00:11:30]Uh got a couple of different types of traps. I don't think I'm going to use the waterless trap because obviously it's going into the kitchen sink. So food and stuff because I haven't got much of a fall on there. I'm going to be using two bath traps cuz they're going to be as shallow as I can get it. And then I've got a couple of these Viva Flexi waists. So hopefully that should give me enough food to just basically get onto there. So yeah, let's get this done first. Right, a bit of a cowboy plumbing by uh yours truly. So a couple of flexes onto there. So now I've got enough of a fall on it, but we discovered more of a blockage. So I cut where I cut that pipe back a bit more. There's another solid chunk in there. [snorts] The hamster, he's uh done his uh due diligence and done some stuff which I wouldn't have thought of because I don't really get involved in this sort of stuff. So, we put the wet back on blow on that side after he used a drain snake to break it up a little bit more. Got rubble sack on this side and that's caught quite a lot of crap. And now we've got the drain snake going this way because we [snorts] filled it all up, tried to run it and it was just getting full up again. So Josh reckons he's at the blockage now. I'm going to try and break it down and then keep running water through it until we get a nice clear run of water. But yeah, we need to clear up a bit in there and then we're going to go again with the drain snake. Fun times.

[00:13:18]I reckon that's on the I reckon that's from the distance.

[00:13:21]>> Yeah.

[00:13:30]Yeah, that's definitely gone all the way into the corner there.

[00:13:41]Would you want run water again? Do you want to hold wet back underneath it?

[00:13:53]>> See this guy? He goes raw. No gloves.

[00:13:57]One glove. No glove.

[00:14:00]And >> she's a lucky lady.

[00:14:03]>> And that's why he wonders why he gets ill all the time.

[00:14:08]Rubs his eyes. It's the difference between a plumber and a gas engineer.

[00:14:12]>> No, it's the difference between living and just catching all sorts of bacteria.

[00:14:17]>> I got half a glove on.

[00:14:18]>> He's got half he's got one. Not even just one. Half of one glove on. That wasn't even ripped.

[00:14:24]Stay safe out there, people who don't know what is going on in these drain pipes and what you could catch. All right, let's see if we can uh get this blockage sorted. Do you know what? It's so bad that I've been doing this for so long now as in today. I'm I've become used to the smell. It's not like initially it was. We started getting it cleared and then we realized there's more blockages.

[00:14:50]But you know it's bad or you've been here long enough when you start getting used to the smell.

[00:14:56]Let me show you what we've um Well, Josh has had to go now, which that's fine. He's helped me a lot today. Let me show you what we're up what I've got up to. I've cut that out because we managed to start getting it some water through, but it still wasn't.

[00:15:20]And then Sean Sean Sean Sean whatever put a light down there and you could see where the blockage that there was a blockage somewhere along here. Couldn't figure out exactly where it was. And then uh I just pulled the cooker out and I thought, you know, let me just cut it behind it. And that's what I found, where that elbow is.

[00:15:43]Grim.

[00:15:45]I've now got that clear.

[00:15:48]So now the sink's not backing up anymore because that's what was happening before. It just kept backing up in here and then it was backing up in there cuz it wasn't able to run through. So I've had it filled halfway, dump it, and now got a good flow coming out through here.

[00:16:03]And the rest of it I'm just going to repipe it. I'm I'm going to pull it out, see once I pull it out, we'll see what the condition of it is, but I'm still not going to fuff around with it. I'm just going to repipe it because what's going to happen is even if I we put the snake on it and it was clearing, clearing, clearing, but I just reckon cuz it's going to be a rental, you're going to put stuff down there and it's just going to get blocked up again. So, the easiest thing for me to do is to just put a fresh bit of inch and a half through.

[00:16:32]So, that's what I'm going to do now. And luckily, I can get to all of it. So, it's running there. Even the drawers, they pull out.

[00:16:43]And you can see the pipe again. There's no backboard here, which is good.

[00:16:48]So yeah, I'm going to pull out the old bit of pipe starting to fish some through. So from here, put the drain snake in through that way, through that way. Had a bit of threaded rod, which I put in. Used a bit he cuz it's a bit more flexible, and just yeah, just basically just worked it back and forth, back and forth, and finally got it clear.

[00:17:09]But yeah, it is uh this is not my forte.

[00:17:12]And I rate the people that do it do this job day in day out, but it's not for me.

[00:17:18]But just got to get it done now.

[00:17:25]That's not the worst part. [snorts] This one is pretty bad.

[00:17:41]And then this one as well.

[00:17:49]Lovely. So yeah, B pipe definitely the best option. Right, new waist run [gasps] is all done [snorts] and I've deliberately used compression couplings. So that if this ever gets blocked up in the future, I could take it apart.

[00:18:12]Which one was it? It was that coupling.

[00:18:16]I actually had to cut out the middle part to make it into like a slip coupling because one, two, three, four couplings. It just wasn't going on. Now got a bit of a I've just filled the sink up. I've run it without filling it up and it's all flowing through. I'm [snorts] going to take that in a minute.

[00:18:32]But yeah, [clears throat] I uh got a bit cocky and didn't use the silicon and now that's leaking there. So that's not a major issue. I'm going to silicon that in a minute. But firstly, let's uh [snorts] right, that's already going.

[00:18:59]Nothing's dripping there.

[00:19:02]Nothing's dripping there.

[00:19:07]Nothing's dripping there.

[00:19:10]And nothing's dripping there.

[00:19:15]Boom.

[00:19:18]Oh, drained away. I'm going to do the same. Well, don't think I need to worry about this one, but I'll do the same.

[00:19:25]I'm probably going to just fill up both of them now, actually.

[00:19:29]And then afterwards, I'll take it apart, silicon them both up, and then test it all. But yeah, finally that's done.