Toilet Wax Ring Tips and Sewer Gas Story - FLASH LIve Stream 11-23-2021 AsktheBuilder.com

Hi, how you doing? Good morning. Actually, it is, well, it depends on where you're at

I'm Tim Carter. This is Ask the Builder, and I'm doing a quick little experiment. I decided to do a flash go-live experience where it's not announced to anybody

And I just wanted to see how quickly we could pick somebody up. So there, that's very interesting

Boom, two people. Good morning. How you doing? It's morning here in the United States and I don't know where you're at

And I'm just doing a quick test. I wanted to see what would happen if I just went live without telling anybody

But obviously it works. So good morning. Tell me where you're at

Tell me where you're watching from. It would really be helpful if you could do that. If you could type that in the chat, just let me know where you are

And I would really appreciate that. You don't have to tell me the city

Just tell me the country. So anyway, I want to talk a little bit real quickly here

Because I had just uploaded a brand new column to my website I actually wrote the column yesterday Oklahoma very nice Nancy Good morning Great to have you here How did Mike I got a quick question because this is all new to me So how did you know I was

live? I mean, could you, did you just happen to be on the homepage of YouTube and hit the

live button and see that I was there? I'm just curious. This is all new. I just don't know how

All right. So, and I have no trouble admitting that kind of thing. So I just loaded a brand new column

Hi, how you doing, New York? Great to have you here. O'Cams. Awesome. You must make razors

I didn't use one today. So got a little bit of stubble going on. Anyway, toilet wet rings, the gasket under your toilet. Very important. If you don't put it in right, that, you know, it

You get all kinds of sewer gas problems and you can have water leaks. It's very, very, very important

YouTube pop, we're interesting. Okay, we're very interesting, Nancy. Thank you for that

I really appreciate it. If you are interested in more things like this I starting to do live streams every day I only today I going to do one at 4 o you know in the afternoon Eastern time So I just doing a short one here

Nice. Very, very, thank you for that information. Roisms. So I just wanted, like I said, I just wanted to do a really quick test to see what would

happen if I went live and I didn't tell anybody. It's just like how many people might show up

So now let's talk just really quickly, just about. Everybody uses a toilet

I can't imagine not using one. Although I say that I'm not trying to be gross here, but as a contractor, you learn

and this is really true for a lot of people who are outdoors a lot, hikers, whatever

You learn to get by without a toilet. You really don't need them. They just make it easier

Yes, Jeff, I am. I've been a master plumber since 1981. So I love doing plumbing work

I'm a master carpenter. I also built custom homes and did a lot of custom remodeling

But I did all the plumbing on all my jobs. And if you have any kind of plumbing questions whatsoever

this is a good time to ask them. I'm happy to answer them for you

One of the things I also do, and we going to talk about toilet gaskets in just a minute one of the things I do I one of the few people that do it evidently is if you are going to put the plumbing in your own home like a new home

or maybe a remodeling job, and you need to pull a plumbing permit, typically you have to draw

a plumbing isometric drawing. And most people have no clue how to do that. And if you try to do it

yourself, probably a 99% chance you're going to get it wrong, because you have to show the

correct pipe sizes and you also have to show all the correct connections and you have to show the

correct bent pipe sizes. Most people have no clue how to size those things. I happen to enjoy doing it

and I offer that service to people. So anyway, if you know people who need a plumbing

isometric or drawn, I do that. So anyway, let's talk a little bit about the gasket that's

underneath a toilet. So when you set a toilet on a finished floor, you have to make a very good

connection between the toilet and the drain pipe system. And it's really not much different than

you know, a lot of things that are sealed. For example, in car and truck engines, there are a lot of

gaskets because the engines are operating under it high pressures, like there's a head, the cylinder head