The Sketchiest Project I Ever Attempted. (No Water or Sewer for 4 Days)

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]I have to change my main water pipe and my main sewer pipe that runs into my house.  And I'm obviously not doing this for fun. There is quite a long story. Show  them what happened like 6 months ago.

[00:00:17]Oh my god, you have to come in the basement.  I'm so sorry to wake you up like this, but there's a flood in the basement. Flood in  the basement. Flood. Flood. Flood. Flood. Flood.

[00:00:30]And that's me, Matteo. And I don't know it yet,  but I'm in serious [ __ ] See, the thing about plumbing is that it's all fun and games until the  water starts coming back up the drain. I tried to fix it myself the best I could, but as soon as I  realized the water was coming back up the toilet and from the drain in the garage, that's when I  decided to call a plumber. He got here in under an hour and got straight to work from the garage  drain box. He used his camera and his cutter, which is a very long rotating thing that has  a cutting head on one end. At this point, I'm starting to get a little worried because  if he can't find the issue from here, there's only one other way into this pipe,  and it's right under here, somewhere under my brand new white oak flooring. But you're  probably wondering like, Matteo, how do you even know it's right there under you? Well, you  see, I installed the flooring like 5 years ago, and when I removed the old carpet, I found this  little access door. So, I took a few pictures of it with measurements from the walls just in  case I might need it in the future. Oh, I got the measurements. So, while he's busy trying to fix  it from the garage, I'm over here trying to make the most stressful cut of my life. I don't own a  track saw or a plunge saw, so I had to figure out a way DIY to make a perfect cut. I taped down  a piece of wood as a guide and went deeper and deeper until I could see concrete without actually  touching it. I also put masking tape down just so the blade made the best cut possible. Everything  was going great until I got to the corners. I grabbed the jigsaw and dug a massive hole right  into the floor. While I was mourning my floor, the plumber finally found the problem. Oh, nice  and spy. Look at that massive ball of paper. And you know, the big brown spot. But paper doesn't  just get stuck for no reason. In older houses, one of the most common issues is tree roots finding  their way into the pipe. And once that happens, anything that doesn't break up easily just  starts piling up. So, if Fiona started flushing scot towels or napkins in the toilet this week,  this sort of thing can happen. What did you say?

[00:02:24]Not that I'm blaming my wife for anything, and I  definitely don't have any proof. I finally got the floor open and the cleanout exposed. That's when I  realized the plumber had been sitting there for 20 minutes just watching me be OCD with my floor, and  he was just taking a break, but he was definitely charging me by the minute. So, now with the floor  open, he could finally use his bigger 3.5 in cutter, and it worked like a charm. The roots were  completely gone. Sewer was clear. And I thought we were finally done. But then he pushed his camera  a little bit further and we saw something I wish wasn't real life. That's not the sewer water.  That's fresh like pressurized water spraying into the sewer. And it's not raining outside. So now I  don't just have a broken sewer pipe. I also have a busted main water line under my front yard or my  house. And the real nightmare is just beginning.

[00:03:12]Suddenly everything clicked. Our drinking water  pipe had been hissing for years. I always had this like gut feeling we were creating a massive  sinkhole under the house. Let's crawl down under the stairs so I could show you guys exactly  what I'm talking about. Can you guys hear that?

[00:03:32]Okay, so I just shut it off. You still hear it?  There is no water running into the house. And that's why I think there's a leak literally right  around here. But on a more positive note, I think I did a really nice job with the cuts. Am I right?  I used some Play-Doh here temporarily to get this flush, but I replaced that with 3D printed spacers  later on. I really only messed up with the jigsaw on the first try right here because I didn't  think of the blade length. It bounced off the concrete and destroyed it right here. But then I  cut the blade in half and it cut it perfectly. Now the big question is, is it my problem or is it  the city's problem? because if it's on my side, then I have to pay. But if it's on their side,  it's all their problem. But if I were to tell the city now, they would probably force me to fix  this immediately. And I had too much going on. So, I did the responsible thing and I didn't tell  them. And for those of you that are wondering, the plumber worked for 2 and 1/2 hours  and charged me $790 to use his camera, all of his tools, his transport, and everything.  They do make good money, but they do [ __ ] work.

[00:04:39]Oh my god, this project is going to be very  expensive. June, July, August, September, October. We're officially in November today.  I think it's been 6 months since the plumber came. I got a plumbing camera here today so  we could inspect the pipes. I want to see if the tree roots came back and if the water  leaking into the pipe got any worse. Hey, look. It's like a Seven Up cap. Another reason why  I'm doing this is because I have to send pictures to the city of the broken pipes and the distance  of the brake. It's serious business. Hello.

[00:05:17]And after a little fooling around, I put the  camera in the pipe, zeroed out the distance, and started pushing it deeper and deeper. And to  my surprise, there's roots right there. Oh man, there's more roots here. Okay, so I do have roots.  Then I pushed through a little bit further to go check out the water. This is the picture I sent  the city. And I also sent them another one a little further down just to make sure that if  there was one side at least that was broken and was on their side. That pipe is broken here too. I  would ideally want them to be responsible for all of this. All right. So I guess the next step is  to uh wait until Monday morning. Speak with the guy from the city. We'll see if we have to start  excavating or if they have to start excavating.

[00:06:01]So, I figured I might as well show you guys what  my pipe is versus the city pipe. I'm going to stick this right at the valve. And that is right  here. In French, they call it banan. That's where the valve is. So, everything on this side towards  the house is my responsibility. It's my pipe. And everything from this point to the road is the city  property and city responsibility. So, right now, these pipes don't look very deep, but because I  live in Canada, right here, it should be about 8 ft. So, yeah, kind of scary. Now, we know there's  a leak. We just don't know where. But we'll find out in just a second. If the city shuts off the  water and the hissing stops, that means the leak is on my side. But if it doesn't, then it's the  city's problem. So, I guess we'll have to wait till Monday to find out. Oh, look at that. So,  there's my excavator I'll be using. It's a 3.5 ton. Hopefully, has the reach that we need. That's  my brother that brought me the machine. What's up, bro? I was hoping it had the cab. Nope. No  cab. Freeze your ass up. Let's get it down.

[00:07:08]All right, we got the excavator.  We are ready for excavation.

[00:07:16]Finally, Monday morning came around.  The city worker unscrewed the cap, tried to get his tool to close the  valve, and wouldn't you know it, he runs into a problem. He could not reach the  valve. You see, this isn't the valve. This is actually a hollow pipe that goes all the way down  where he needs to reach to close the valve. So, to be able to close the water, he needs his  tool to go all the way down to this metal piece, which then closes the valve. But he can't even get  his tool through because apparently the pipe is bent. Amazing. Isn't that just fantastic? Then he  takes out this humongous stethoscope looking thing that is made to check the noises underground.  and he walked along the pipe towards the house.

[00:07:58]And then as soon as he reached under the porch,  just another fabulous news. Remember my water pipe that was busted? Well, it's busted literally  right next to the foundation wall. Oh my god.

[00:08:17]Good morning. I couldn't sleep. And the thing  that stresses me out right now the most is doing this with a running live water pipe. I think  I'm going to do like the city worker said, I'm gonna excavate three, four feet here at the  water valve. Call up the city worker to come cut it and try and close it again. We're  going to start excavating right now. So, I got straight to digging. I know some of you are  going to say I need to get my utilities marked, but I know my city doesn't have any gas lines  underground and our electricity passes above ground, but I was still being very careful.  Already busted the sprinkler. Thank goodness the sprinkler line is the only thing that broke.  I just hope nothing else breaks from now on.

[00:09:04]Oh [ __ ] I just said I didn't want  to do that and I just did that. [ __ ] I hit that bunam with the bucket and I really  thought I broke it or I made things way worse because I had no idea what I was about to find  underground. This pipe is practically loose and it's embedded in concrete. I don't think  it's supposed to be embedded in concrete.

[00:09:27]It's definitely not supposed to have any concrete  around it. But I guess this is just one of those things that you only discover after starting a  project. I was just happy I didn't break it. No, no, no. This thing just cracked off. This isn't  good. It's not good at all. By this point, I didn't want anything else bad happening. So,  I started alternating between hand digging and using the excavator to stay careful and not  make things worse. I also put some tape over the pipe so no dirt or rocks could fall inside  it. I think I excavated about 4 1/2 ft deep. So, hopefully now the city worker can cut the pipe  here and close the valve. So, I called him over and first he tried using like this long  hand augur, but he still couldn't get it. So, he cut the pipe and then he tried again, but first  he filled it up with water. He still couldn't get it. So then he put a very thin hose in there. Kind  of like hydro excavation inside the pipe. Then he was finally able to close the valve. Nice. You  guys have no idea how happy I am right now. We closed the water. But that comfort came at a  cost. We basically lost an entire morning. Now the real excavation starts. And so does my wife  already asking me when we're getting water back and how long this project's going to take. What?  Yeah. Go. Don't flush if it's pee. Then the city guy came back and installed this temporary  benum that I could then cut to height so I could keep working without filling up the valve.  And you'll notice that I'm actually back filling into that hole we just excavated. And that's  because my plan with the excavation was to make one straight trench. And first I need to start at  the foundation of the house and work my way back.

[00:11:04]And I don't know if I mentioned this, but  I took 4 days paid vacation off work to complete this project because I know I could do  this in under 4 days if everything goes smooth.

[00:11:18]Okay, so we got some bad news. My brother's  excavator is leaking diesel. So now my brother's excavator has a huge diesel leak. Now I got  to act like I'm Chris Fix and I know what I'm doing. Hey guys. Bye, babe. What? Another problem,  babe. What does that mean? It doesn't work. Yeah, just leaking pissing diesel. Okay, that's not so  bad. Well, it actually was pretty bad. But after playing mechanic for about an hour, I finally  got the excavator working again. Amazing.

[00:11:55]Unfortunately, my next problem was sitting  right in front of me, my concrete porch. Now I'm starting to get scared. This is really not  good. I really thought I'd be at the freaking pipe by now. And I'm not at the pipe cuz I was  thinking of going to of coming with the excavator, creating like a ramp to come here and excavate  all of this. You see, if I want to excavate underneath it, I have to rotate the bucket the  other way around. And just that was a challenge.

[00:12:24]There we go. But once I finally rotated  the bucket, I immediately ran into another problem I hadn't thought about. The controls  were now completely backwards. Every movement was reversed. And since I'm definitely not  an excavator operator, it completely messed with my coordination. The machine had  suddenly become 10 times harder to use.

[00:13:02]All right, I got another diesel leak.  If the little hose just broke again, then I have a serious problem. I also  think I need to remove about half these pavers. I think I need to do a step to be a bit  safer. Right now, I'm just struggling with with everything. I wish it was a little bit easier.  Just just a little bit. Let's just keep going.

[00:13:27]So, I drove to Canadian Tire, grabbed  the right coupler, a better hose, and fixed it properly. But, of course, that  wasted another hour or two out of my day. And then an Amazon guy showed up. Don't fall.  I bought a new camera I wanted to test out for some cool angles. Then, my buddy helped  me cut the bunam so I could pass over it.

[00:13:51]By this point, I was so tired. I'd been  dealing with problem after problem all day long. Running on stress, dirt, diesel fumes, and no water in the house. I genuinely started  feeling like I was losing my mind a little bit.

[00:14:10]Would you like some cherries? And then I got a  visitor. What the hell did you do? What's up, man? This is Matt, my neighbor who's helped me  with a bunch of projects. But if you saw my garage concrete floor video, then you already met him.  He owns a business in Montreal called Salaj Salid that does concrete repair work, foundation work,  and also the sewer and water pipe replacements.

[00:14:33]Before I even started this project, he basically  told me it was a super sketchy job to do, like really dangerous. But at the time, I wasn't  sure if he was trying to scare me or if he just wanted me to film him and his crew doing the  job. instead. But I really wanted to do the job and to film it and most importantly to prove  him wrong. Prove him that I could do it myself.

[00:14:55]Just for context. Today was a show. It's not that  bad. Doesn't look bad. A little bit more than we typically would excavate for these. How would you  do under here? Yeah, you got to take your time.

[00:15:07]Flip the bucket around. There's going to be some  hand digging to do. There's no doubt. I'm not too worried about hole safety here because you're nice  and wide. It's not It's not super dangerous here, but pole safety is definitely something you  should be thinking about. Yeah, last night I couldn't sleep because of it. I was trying to  scare myself by watching some terrifying YouTube videos of trenches collapsing. Now, the safest  shoring you'll see is on big commercial jobs, and those are massive steel trench boxes. The  workers stay protected inside the box while they work. But yeah, there was no chance I was  getting one of these for my project. On Matt's residential job sites, he uses plywood held  in place with hydraulic braces that prevent them from collapsing inwards. I technically could  have done something similar with plywood and 4x4s, but plywood is expensive and it would have cost me  around 700 bucks, but luckily there's other ways of trenching without the use of anything. It's  called benching. Basically, you excavate steps.

[00:15:59]So, if the trench is 8 ft deep, you might do a  4ft step that is 4 ft wide. That way, the dirt has less chance of collapsing straight into the  trench. And don't forget that this also applies to the big pile you have on top. So, try and move  it away. Another common method is called sloping, where you angle the walls back roughly 45° all the  way up from the bottom. Obviously, the downside of these is that you end up excavating a lot more  dirt. Again, I'm no expert, just a DIYer that found some information online, so please don't do  this at home. You don't have water for the night.

[00:16:34]But I mean, if that doesn't bother you too much,  then uh you're doing fine. Maybe you'll make a call to the cavalry in the morning. See what I can  dispatch. You'll you'll come save the day. Yeah.

[00:16:52]Good morning. I guess I'll start off by saying  I'm slow as hell. Today definitely proved to be more challenging than I thought. I wasted a lot  of time with fixing the excavator, with fixing the the the valve and not having the experience on  the excavator that I wish I had. I hope today goes better than yesterday. I think uh what I need  most is uh wishing me luck. Let's do this. I just rotated the bucket. I think that just took me  like 10 minutes, but I was off to the races. The morning started off with a lot of rotating buckets  because I had to break up the dirt under there, rotate the bucket, and get the pile out of the  way. But even though I had rotated it like two or three times already, it was still taking me  about 10 minutes every single time. The plan today is to complete the excavation, or else  we won't have water for a second day. I know the wife won't be happy, and just the idea of this  project taking two times longer than I estimated, not having water for a week started to stress me  out. I'm going to switch out the bucket sides one more time. People are probably going to look at  me like, "What the is this guy wearing?" A dildo on his forehead. Looks like a unicorn. Wasn't  supposed to be raining until in the afternoon.

[00:18:20]Heat. Heat. Heat.

[00:18:53]I found the sewer. And I'm assuming the water  pipe should be right around there. This is it. Oh, no. Look, the water pipe runs right along  it. Right along the side of it. There it is.

[00:19:05]That's the water pipe. That's the sewer.  Okay. I'm actually way off on this side.

[00:19:22]Heat.

[00:19:26]Heat.

[00:19:47]Unreal. I just noticed something.  Look at that. So, this pipe might have been replaced. That right there  looks like a compression fitting, but we'll never know if the leak came  from there or from somewhere else.

[00:20:15]It looks like the pipe is right under the  concrete. So, I might have to break up this whole concrete pad. My water mane, I'm pretty  sure, is lined up around here cuz it's about 1 2 ft away from the sewer inside the house. Why,  Matteo? Why do you take on these projects? I like tackling these projects because they get me out  of my comfort zone. I don't know if it's just with with this channel, but in life in general, I like  to believe that everyone could DIY everything. I think you could do it yourself. I don't think you  need to pay $10,000 to a company to do this job.

[00:20:51]But then again, I know a lot of you are probably  going to say, "Well, I would happily write a check to someone for $10,000 to get this over with." But  I'm going to go the extra mile. Hit that subscribe button if you enjoy this kind of content. I  can't believe I thought I was going to be done all excavation yesterday. That's hilarious.  Let's go have lunch. Screw this lunch break.

[00:21:13]Say hi to the camera. The new 360 camera. Do you  like not having water? I don't understand why you don't just get Matt to do and do it. Do what? The  rest of the job. And then we have water tomorrow.

[00:21:31]I get it. We don't have water. We  can't use anything. It's ridiculous.

[00:21:36]It's okay. No, but like it's it's becoming  ridiculous. Like 24 hours fine, but like Okay, babe. It'll be fixed. Okay, but you  better have the water back on by Thursday.

[00:21:56]That's tomorrow. Can't believe I'm still not done.  I thought I'd be done in one max two days. Do you feel like it was worth it? If I knew that the  water line would be like lower than the sewer, which would protect it so I would never hit  it. I literally just broke it. I just broke it. Could have saved it. We could have had water  the whole time, right? Mhm. Could have had water until right now. I know. Amazing. I know.  I think Matt was supposed to come tomorrow for the plumbing stuff to help me out and just  make sure that I'm not doing anything wrong. I don't think I'll I'll I'll be ready for that. If  you're still not there tomorrow when Matt comes, you should just tell him to do the rest  of the job. What do you mean? Tell his guys just do it. Come on. At least you tried.  They do it in half a day, don't they? They do it in half a day. They do it in half a day.  They do it in half a day. Don't even do that.

[00:23:29]I don't recommend this. It's raining.  I don't have the proper shoring.

[00:23:37]What the Why is all of this sewer pipe full?  So, the reason is because my driveway is lower than the street. Oh, I know why. Yuck.  Disgusting. I have a linear drain box here, and that goes to the sewer, which is now my  trench. Breaking that pipe was necessary, but maybe a bit too early. I'm going to  get out of this. It's almost 300 p.m.

[00:24:04]It's probably going to be pitch black in an  hour, an hour and a half. Pouring rain. I'm feeling a lot more sketchy than this morning.  Tomorrow, for sure, we're going to have the plumbing in. Matt and his crew are going to  come by. I asked him if he could come Friday, but he said no. He has another job. So, tomorrow  tomorrow is the day. Yeah, that's my shitty update for shitty day number two. Let's uh let's  go inside. 28 in. So, two almost 2t 6. So, it really is on the edge of the wall where  it's going to be landing. So, right there.

[00:24:50]The cavalry has arrived. You show up when  I'm about to finish. Okay, good. Hey, this looks great. Yeah, dude. I got there. I have  a feeling from here there, it's probably going to be uh deep. 8 9 ft there. Over there. My goal is  to break the concrete inside and get the my hand through. That's all you need right there. But you  see right there on the right. That's beautiful.

[00:25:10]Break the concrete there. You're right there.  The little Yeah. Yeah. All we have to pass is the 3/4 line. Right. Right up. That K copper is  flexible like so we we'll pass it up and then we can push it in nice and gently and we get it  in its spot. I would break all around here.

[00:25:31]Oh Jesus.

[00:25:41]So Matt actually told me to make a very big  hole, like 1 ft by 1 ft. And obviously I did the complete opposite. I broke 10 in by like 5  6 in. I guess I just wanted to have the smallest area to repair, but really I just made my  job a bit more difficult to pass the pipe.

[00:26:06]One or two feet. Oh [ __ ] Yeah,  I got a long way to go. Oh [ __ ] That's a root. That looks like a piece of  concrete. I'm not going to stop. Let's not stop.

[00:26:41]Anyways, I'm exhausted. I'm going to go shower  the mother-in-law's house. I'm going to go eat cuz I'm starving. And we'll be back here 600 7  a.m. Anyways, I will talk to you guys tomorrow.

[00:27:00]Good morning. Today is day three for this  [ __ ] pipe and clean water pipe project.

[00:27:08]I like to believe that by today I would have been  done this project or at least pipes installed, running water turned on on day three if it wasn't  for the [ __ ] weather and [ __ ] events that happened on day one and day two. Matt really  wanted to come and finish the project on day three because I think he wants to prove to  me that I couldn't do it myself. And I think he's right cuz Fiona would have tripped  balls if by Friday we still didn't have running water. Yesterday I was not even able  to complete that hole. Uh sadly. So today I'm hoping to get at least the hole finished  all the way to the inside of the house.

[00:27:58]Yes. I knew this would happen. I should have kept  going last night. Yes, we made it. Marvelous.

[00:28:08]Absolutely marvelous. What's up, guys? How you  doing? Good. Yeah. You know, day in paradise?

[00:28:15]Yeah. I just made it through. Big job, huh? Yeah,  man. What's up, boss? What's up, man? How are you?

[00:28:21]No way. Did Matt get you new hats and stuff for  the the video? And these three guys got right to work. And me? Well, I just stood there watching  and filming. So, let's enjoy it while it lasts.

[00:28:56]It was quite an amazing experience  working alongside them. Now, before you say I didn't do anything,  that right there is my arm. So, I did help out. It's really amazing to see how  quick things were moving with three people on the job. Tony was on the excavator while Kyle  and Justin were on the ground setting up the plywood shores with the hydraulic braces. And  here you can see they removed the section of the concrete sewer pipe that I left behind.  and they pride it right off the plastic sewer pipe that comes right out of the house. Making  sure not to damage it because they're going to slip the new 6-in pipe over it the same way and  attaching it with a Fernco coupling. And here I was once again just staring at them wondering how  much this was all going to cost me. Or honestly, maybe I was just nervous watching how  dangerous this part actually was getting.

[00:29:47]Once you get close to the valve, one wrong move  with the excavator and you can destroy everything in seconds. So, they constantly alternated  between the excavator and hand digging, slowly exposing the pipes while guiding each other  with hand signals the entire time. Watching them work made me realize that if I had tried doing  this completely alone, there's a very high chance that I would have probably smashed  the city valve and flooded my entire house.

[00:30:14]Hello. All right, I'm in the trench  here. We're still excavating.

[00:30:23]No, not in the next hour or two. While Kyle was  trying to remove the bunam off of the valve, I noticed Justin found my copper pipe roll  and was already starting to unroll it. So, I decided to help him out. You want  me to go inside and pull it up? Sure.

[00:30:39]There she is. Oh, boy. And at this point, I  realized I still wasn't done breaking up the concrete inside. So, I had to do this before  installing the water pipe. I thought this copper pipe would be super flexible and easy  to bend, but it was surprisingly harder than I thought it'd be. I also picked up some  of this insulation stuff because it was like a dollar a piece. The roll of copper,  on the other hand, was like 700 bucks. So, I figured this would hopefully add some extra  protection for only 20 bucks because ideally, I never want to have to deal with  this pipe ever again in my lifetime.

[00:31:18]What? Now, we finally had the water pipe in  the house. On the other side of the trench, Kyle was taking off the old rusted bunam. So,  what's holding it there? It's just a bolt holding a hole. Oh, it's rusted up. Oh, yeah. It's not  uh I'm taking this thing right off right now.

[00:31:39]Good l.

[00:31:44]With the benum removed, we could finally see  the metal stem that's attached to the valve, which meant we were officially one step closer to  having running water again. So apparently not all valves use the same connection, which meant he  first needed to expose it properly so he could identify exactly what fitting we needed to  connect the new water line. He said the city valve was using flare or something like that. So,  usually the water line also I think he used a 3/4 corporation to 3/4 compression coupler, something  like that. All you really need to know is that if you do this DIY, you'll probably have to  run out with a piece of the old pipe to the specialized plumbing shop. Hey, that's mine.  20 bucks. 20 bucks. Then we got a delivery of 6 tons of 3/4 net gravel, which we're going to  need when it's time to back fill. and we loaded six tons of dirt into that truck to haul away.  After that, he made a clean cut into the old concrete sewer pipe. And as I was filming it,  the other guys started yelling at me, saying, "As bestas, as best." So, I immediately got out  of there. Thank you. As best is mixing concrete.

[00:32:50]Yep. You learn something new every day. Now  that all of that was done, it was finally time to head back inside and finish plumbing in the  new water line. Practice makes perfect, buddy.

[00:33:04]We spent a bit of time carefully bending  the new pipe to match the old setup, but actually wanted the new line to come  a bit further up into the house. Since I now have a full 3/4 in pipe coming all the  way in, maybe one day I can ask my city to upgrade my water meter to a new 3/4 in meter.  Sweet. Are you ready for uh water live? Yeah, let's turn it on. If you want to go turn  it on uh I'll call you. Yep. Call me.

[00:33:35]Wait. Wait. Soon. You cannot use it. The sewer is  not connected. If this connection is good and it doesn't leak, yes, we are done in the house.  Can we go in? I lead by example. I take them off and I say, "Please, let's try and keep  things clean." And that's when the city guy showed up to bring us the new banum and the new  stem sal. and to tell us that he needed to take pictures before we backfilled. Like our cat,  right? Show me when. When? When when? Good.

[00:34:09]Okay, it's done. Okay, we're good.

[00:34:14]Perfect. Rock and roll.

[00:34:20]There it is. I think that's the hot water tank  filling up. Well, it's filling up the meter as well. Yeah. Everything. It's filling up all the  to All the toilets are empty. It's probably going to take a good minute. All right. There we go.  Now we're talking. Yeah. Leave it. Leave it on so everything stays uh pressurized. Yeah. We're  not turning it off anymore. Okay. Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet. I was honestly very excited at  this point until I decided to run around the house and do a quick inspection. Turns  out I accidentally left this hose on.

[00:34:54]And when I got to the backyard, I discovered  yet another problem. Oh, [ __ ] sake. Sick.

[00:35:01]This broke. I'm still not exactly sure how  the backyard faucet broke, but I'm guessing the pressure hit it while the valve was open  and blew out the gasket or something like that, but at this point, things breaking had  basically become part of the project. So, whatever. The guys noticed that there  was water coming out of the sewer. So, naturally, I went over and apologized. Sorry,  it's my driveway linear drain that uh Oh, [ __ ] It's not that much. I am Canadian after  all. Hey, they were now installing the new sewer pipe. They used this special kind of penetrating  lube called detergent. And they used a very clever installation method called the kick the  pipe with dirty ass sewer boots from the sewer runoff. And Kyle stayed right there and he ate it  all. There it is. It was kind of funny seeing how they installed the sewer. I'm not sure how I would  have done it all by myself, but as you can see, they needed to put weight on the pipe while the  other person pried the pipe into the other one.

[00:36:06]They kind of looked like they were on a roller  coaster. I guess you can call it the the [ __ ] pipe roller coaster. Would you look at that?  Would you just look at it? Just look at it.

[00:36:22]Nice. Hey babe, you can go take a [ __ ] Back over there. Ooh, that just splashed my  eyes. Oh, yeah. We're going to put this on top of this guy. Sweet. I guess we wait for  gravel. Yeah. Thanks, guys. You're actually superstars. done. Oh, while they were  making sure the bunam was perfectly plum, I sent the inspector pictures of all the pipe  connections. He said it was all good to go so we could finally backfill. But I called him  anyways just to triple check that everything was good before backfilling because I think they would  probably make me dig it all up again if we didn't.

[00:37:07]And while I was busy dealing with that, the guys started entertaining themselves the  way construction guys usually do on a job site.

[00:37:14]Pull up 7 in. We were doing a  plan. I saw this game. Yeah.

[00:37:23]Right there. Yeah. Go for it, buddy.  [ __ ] yeah. You're putting in your thing.

[00:37:29]I'm used to doing projects alone, but this was  actually really fun working with these guys. Now, it's time to back fill everything. So, let's  get started with the gravel first. And you'll notice that it's almost the exact same process  as excavating, just in reverse. We start furthest away from the house, then work our way back in.  First, the gravel goes around the pipes, making sure there's also gravel underneath them for  proper support and to make sure that they don't get damaged. And then the dirt goes back in slowly  getting closer and closer back towards the house.

[00:38:32]So Matt said that 1 in of this rigid  foam equals about 1 ft of soil. So, we got two inches of rigid foam insulation in  this shallow part because what happened, I think, is because there was so little soil here, it  probably burst the pipe at some point. So, as you can see here, there was only about 3 ft of  soil beside the foundation wall. And because this was all hidden under the concrete slab, nobody  really knew there was a slope here. This is just my theory, but I think that could have contributed  to the pipe freezing or bursting over time. So, just to be safe, I added 2 in of foam  insulation here for extra protection. Oh, and don't worry about this pipe here. It looks  like a French drain, but I know for a fact it doesn't connect to the house or to any drainage  system. So, I'm really not worried about this.

[00:39:42]What a long ass freaking day. And I didn't  even work that much. Sometimes you could DIY some things, but I think this one should  be left to the pros. You guys think you would have done this in uh one day like your  other ones? Yeah, for sure. $#*T But I mean, hey, listen, it's something that  we do on a daily basis. Yeah. Yeah, I know. Enjoy your new $#*T Pipe. Yeah,  thank you, man. I actually just took a $#*T There you go.

[00:40:06]Now I got to deal with this. I left this like  this because I want to go with the shovel and make sure that all the dirt is under  that concrete slab. I don't want to find myself in a year from now the pipe burst  again because there wasn't enough soil.

[00:40:22]I swear to God, I never had so much pressure. The  fridge and the shower is what I noticed first.

[00:40:30]We're going to start the day by going  downstairs, mixing one bag of concrete, and then we're going to go outside. I'm going to  finish my ridiculous workout of shoveling by hand all of that dirt under that concrete pad. So, we  have it full all the way up to the top with dirt.

[00:40:51]Got to love me a sunny day.

[00:40:59]So, I just rotated the clamp upside down. So, I'm  going to use this to push that pipe into place.

[00:41:22]That is my concrete job. We'll reinstall the  uh the wire onto the copper. I'm going to go buy a new bracket for that. So, now our job  is to go outside and finish with that pile of dirt. Let's go do that. It's 10:00 a.m. Let's  see how much I can get done in 30 minutes.

[00:41:53]Look at all that. I'm not done yet,  but I'm taking a little break. It's exactly 11:00 a.m. I've now been  at this for exactly an hour. What a good 1 hour workout. I'm ready for  a nap. Oh boy, look at this. Jesus.

[00:42:30]It's freezing today. Day 5. It's 10:00  a.m. Sunday. Yesterday at around 400 p.m. I had to hit the road. I went to go  buy winter tires because as you can see, or maybe you can't see, it's starting  to snow. Maybe some of you will get to experience the Canadian winters in November.  I think this is what I'm going to start with.

[00:43:10]And I cut it later again. Let's do that.

[00:43:16]Matt said to leave everything high  because it's all going to sink in and settle throughout the winter. So, I need  to bring some of this dirt here and make a pile here. Same thing over there.  And then bring the gravel and put it over there next to the steps so we're not  always muddy. Feels like - 7. It's 20° F.

[00:43:34]It is freezing.

[00:43:59]Hey.

[00:44:21]Freezing.

[00:44:23]Yeah, it is freezing today.  We're done with the gravel.

[00:44:27]Am I Steph Curry's cousin? Yes.

[00:44:33]Good morning.

[00:44:35]Today is day six and we're going to  go outside and do some landscaping.

[00:44:42]Oh my god.

[00:44:49]I guess no landscaping today.

[00:44:51]Damn, the timing on this project  was limit with the weather.

[00:44:55]Okay, I guess uh landscaping  will be in the springtime.

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