Drain Clog Prevention - #1 Grease #2 Watch... LIVE Stream 02-07-2022 Ask the Builder

Hi, I'm Tim Carter. This is the builder and thanks for being here

It's a Monday, February 7th, Holy Moly. Uh, a week of February has already gone by

Hard to believe today in just a few minutes. We're gonna talk about drain clog prevention

Uh, if we have time today, I know this sounds crazy. I wanna share a little bit about fountain pens

Uh, I also want to talk a little bit about water heater and ode rods and of all things

Collar ties. Yes. Collar, not, not, I know what you're thinking. Not

not straight tires or bow ties, but there's different types of collar ties and we might talk about those

It all depends on how much time we have. And I think

I think it's really important for you to realize, you know, what the live stream might

might cover because then you may want to continue to watch it if you're watching it after the fact or even right now live

Uh, I don't have any sponsor today other than myself. Um, I know you can't really see them

I'm wearing my Dickie's, uh, coveralls. I was outside earlier today a little cold and I

I don't know, I just didn't take them off so my, my legs are starting to get a little warm

I think I'll unzip them actually, that may help. But, uh, I

uh, just thought about that, why not unzip these things? Um, anyway

if you've ever, I know it's a little awkward here. Um, if you've not ever worn coveralls and these are insulated by the way

these are in and I've got a column on my, uh, actually let's go find that because it's really pretty important

This is, uh, um, this is, um, this is something you need to know

You might not even need to know this if you live in Florida. Uh

but if you live up cold and you've never worn these, um

uh, you, it, it, it could change your life and what's interesting is they're really affordable and it's all about staying

um, it's all about staying warm, you know, when you're outside because if you start to get cold

um, then you, everything goes downhill. I mean, you just get miserable and it's

it's just horrible. First, I'm gonna share with you, uh, this what we're gonna be talking about in just a minute

the, um, drain clocks. So you're gonna wanna go look at that link right there

But if you're interested in what I'm wearing right now, of course, I am wearing the

the sleeveless ones. In other words, if, if I stand up, you can see you know

they, they don't have sleeves. All right. So, so these make it easier if you're wearing a different type of jacket

And, uh, anyway, um, crutch word. If you wanna know about coveralls

go click that second link. Uh, hi Lee, how are you doing? Um, ah

ok. So, yeah, we're gonna talk about that. That's a great, yes, I have

I absolutely contempt you that you say any suggestion for unclogging the grease in the drain pipe from body lotions

We're gonna talk about that in just a moment. Let's get started

Actually. Let's get started right now. And, um, because I think it's really

um, I think it helps people who tune into the live stream afterwards because they see

they see the title and it shows up in the Google Search and as far as uh youtube Search too

But, um, so drink call prevention. What? Here's what you need to know

to start things out first and foremost. Um, you know, I have been a licensed plumber since 1981

Uh I, I've, I've, I know all about drain clocks and what's really interesting is that when you install

piping as a plumber you have and a lot of people, if you've not done this

meaning if you've never installed piping before and most people haven't. Ok

I get it. In other words, I'm not a computer programmer, so I don't necessarily know how to

to write code, but when you start to install pipes, you start to really understand how easy it is for them to get clogged

And a really good plumber pays a lot of attention to the size of the pipes

And while you don't wanna oversize them too much, that's a bad thing

Um, you most certainly don't want to undersize them and we have standards here in the United States and

and most of the developed world has really good standards as to what size pipes need to be in certain situations

And I happen to draw those drawings all the time. I just did one this morning for a person who's uh putting a

a single bathroom in a room edition. He's in uh New York

Kevin and I sent him his plan this morning. Here's what you need to know the number one problem for

And Lee kind of touched on this. The number one problem that causes clogs is grease and many people they

I think there's a, there's this, um I don't want to say that it's unethical

I really don't. Uh it because I don't think it is. But when I see te television commercials

uh put out by Procter and Gamble about their Dawn Liquid Dish soap

Uh you know, and how that's a grease fighter and, and how it's the best

And I have to tell you it's a really good product. I, I use it here in my own home. Uh

you know, it suds a lot. Um You know, that people think

ok, if I'm using Dawn dish soap and I used to do my dishes

uh, and, and that stuff goes down the drain. It's no big deal because I use Dawn dish up

No, no, no, no. It is a big deal because all that can happen is the

the Dawn may emulsify. And what emulsify means if you reme, what did you

did you attend that day of high school chemistry class or were you scribbling or writing love notes for your sweetheart

And not paying attention? I keep telling you this, that you should have paid attention in physics and chemistry class

Emulsify basically means to surround. So what can happen is that the

the, the soap, it is designed to kind of s uh you know

basically surround a grease globule and, and then it tr you know

because the soap is slippery, it tries to transport it to a location

Well, at some point along the journey, it could be 10 ft 50 ft 100 ft 1000 ft

The, the, the grease becomes un mals it, it doesn't stay emulsified forever

That's when the problems happen because then the grease starts to accumulate and the grease then starts to choke off the pipe and then the

grease has the ability to grab onto because it's not, don't, don't think of the grease deposit in the pipe

Is this perfectly smooth thing? It can be very, it can be very grotesque

I'm I'm trying to think of something what it might look like but um maybe like a

a head of bro uh uh cauliflower in a way. I it's really hard to describe the point is the grease can grab onto and

capture other bigger particles of things. And then that makes the pipe even smaller in diameter

Basically, Greece is bad. All right. How do you deal with that here at the Carter House

Here's what I do my family, although I, I don't use them for this purpose

My, my, I, I'm not gonna name any names. Yeah, but people here they think they like to use paper towels to dry their hands

with and then they just use it and throw it in the garbage can, I don't say anything to them

I wait till they walk out of the kitchen. I go to the garbage can I grab it? I take it out and then I

take it and put it in a box where it can dry out. So I have a collection of basically perfectly clean paper towels

but they've been used and after we cook, uh I let the grease in the pans cool down so it's warm but still liquefied

I use the paper towels to wipe the inside of the pot of the pan

I mean, literally getting it is almost, almost clean enough that you could put it back in the cabinet

But I, I don't um, that's a funny story. By the way, a dear, every story

Uh, hopefully we'll, we'll do that one. We'll talk about that. You can remind me in the chat and then I

I take that paper towel that's saturated with grease and throw it in the garbage can and then I'll do the same for plates and

bowls that, that we've used to eat with. In other words, if, if we've

you know, if I like, if I have chicken wings sometimes for lunch, uh, you know

there, there, I GRE uh, chicken wings can be pretty greasy and I'll wipe that plate with a paper towel before I put the plate

in the dishwasher. In other words, I'm trying to, to stop 95 98% of the grease from getting into my pipes

It's still gonna get in there. Some of there's still gonna be some grease now to leaves

Question, how do we deal with it? Uh, thankfully, uh, yeah, it's a LL bean shirt

by the way. Uh, one, it's one of my favorite. I just got this shirt about 34 months ago

I love llB. In fact, I just ordered another one. I ordered a blue Buchanan flannel shirt

They're on sale right now. Uh, go look at the blue Bu Buchanan

Uh, blue is my favorite color, but this one has all three of my favorite colors. The blue that you see here

it's really hard to do in reverse the red and then the green Hey

Will. Yeah. Yeah, I was, that's exa you missed it. So you got in here late

I was outside working. Um All right. So to Lee's question, how do you get rid of it

If the grease accumulation gets really bad, you, you can try to um use a snake but those are not always effective

Um They just kind of get gummed up the best way is preventative

Uh Now, uh well, you say any suggestion for unclogging the grease

Well, if it's already clogged up, you're gonna have to try to snake through it to get at least a small passageway

Then what you have to do, you have to start putting uh hot water

I mean, water that's probably 100 and 70 100 and 80 100 and 90 degrees

you know, just below boiling, you need to put it in the drain and you need to put a lot of it

You don't need to pour it slowly like out of a glass. The whole point is if you want to dissolve because you

if you've ever did hot water before on solidified grease, for example

like bacon grease or really any other, any cooking grease that's solidified

you'll notice that really hot water dissolves the grease very rapidly, very rapidly

So imagine if you had an opening, you know, this small, I mean

just, you know, actually as small as like a pencil, I'll put this up in front of my head uh very small little opening

And if you took boiling hot water or water, that was just below boiling and you put it in the drain and that water started

to flow through this little tube pretty soon. You know, the little opening

you know, I'm gonna, it's gonna have a hard time. It, it'll start to get wider and wider and wider until eventually you open up

the whole pipe. But as it's getting wider and wider, you have to put more water in the drain faster

So that water has filled the entire opening because you need to be dissolving the grease from not the bottom of the pipe

but the side walls in the top. That's how you unclog it

So it may take you and depending on how far, how, how much of the pipe is clogged with a grease

I mean, it could take you 10 gallons, 20 gallons, 50 gallons could take a lot of hot water plumbers

some plumbers, not all uh drain cleaning, plumbers actually have uh equipment in their in some trucks

They basically can bring with them to the job site like a miniature boiler and maybe 50 or 100 ft of insulated tubing

They can connect it. They have all the fittings to connect it to the branch arm that's sticking out of your wall and they can

turn it on and they can heat up this water and they can inject into your

your drain line. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of gallons of hot water to dissolve the grease

That's how the Pros do it, but it's gonna cost you, I don't know that

that probably would cost you. It's now 2022. Uh, I'm gonna guesstimate

I haven't bid it out here locally, but I would say a plumber is gonna charge you 4 to $500 to do that minimum

I mean, they're gonna be there at least two hours and you know, it's 100 bucks an hour plus the

the fee for the machine. Plus the fuel, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's gonna cost you a lot of money

So it's so much easier just to sop it up with the flipping paper towels

Hello, Steve. Um, no. So Lee says then will hot vinegar. No

it will not do a better job. There's no, there's no chemical reaction that I'm aware of between acetic acid and grease

Hot water will hot water will liquefy the grease. Because remember as much as I hate to say this

if you're on a city sewer system, you're, you're just trying to get the grease out of your drain line and out of your building

and sewer and once it hits the city sewer, you really don't care. I mean

I know you don't care. The city cares and the person who manages the

uh, the sewage treatment facility he cares. But, and, and what they

what they should do, they should actually, I, I don't know. I don't, I, it's been 1314 years since I've gotten a bill for sewage

because, uh, I'm on my, I've got my own septic tank. But if you live in a city

they should be doing an education program, they should be educating. All the citizens do not put grease in the sewer for all kinds of

reasons. For the reason we're talking about. Basically, vinegar is not gonna do anything

You're just gonna spend even more money. You're just gonna waste the money on the vendor. You just wanna use hot water

Let's talk about the next thing I've got it right here in the uh number two

So number one is grease. All right. Um Number two is all of the ok

ladies, all of you ladies watching all of the feminine hygiene products bad

Never, never, never, never put any tampons, napkins. None of that ever

I don't care what they say on the labeling. Do not flush those things down a toilet

Don't, here's what I said in the co I just wrote a column about this

So, you know, today, here's what I said, the opening of the column. Uh I said this

I said first, here's the question, what should be put down plumbing drains

Now, you may find this shocking what I my answer. First and foremost

the only thing that should flow through the plumbing drains in your home is water

human waste, both solid and liquid in very tiny particles of solid food

And when I say tiny, I mean something no bigger than 1/16 of an inch by 1/16 of an inch

Notice I did not say anything about toilet paper. I say here in the column

I say not that I didn't say I didn't say toilet paper is OK

Realize that people who live in other parts of the world think the use of toilet paper is actually somewhat unsanitary and unacceptable

They use water to cleanse their body parts. And then I say I further wanted to say

I find it shocking that major us plumbing fixture manufacturers don't heavily promote Bides

You should watch my flushable wipes video to see how high quality toilet paper doesn't break down much at all as

it travels through your drain pipes. Seriously go watch my flushable wipes um video because in that video

I tested cheap single ply toilet paper. Then I, I tested the more expensive double ply like the best grade toilet paper

you can get here in the United States and, and I, and I folded it exactly the way you're supposed to

I did everything right. I used just the right amount of sheets and you would be stunned

You know, once I flushed it went down the pipe went 70 ft through the pipe

which is the average distance your uh sewer pipe is uh out to the street

Um, you'd be stunned what condition was in, when you see it in that flushable wipes video

you're not gonna believe it. Also. Remember if you watch the Flushable wipes video

I saluted the army men. It was, it was off camera. I saluted him bef and

and gave them a pep talk before I sent them on their mission. So

and they survived. They're really unbelievable, really strong lungs. All right. If you have any questions about anything about your home

it does not have to be about plumbing drains. Put it in the chat. If you have a youtube account

uh you're able to chat if you don't have a youtube account and you're just

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There are millions of people on youtube who have accounts who have never uploaded a video and then by having an account you're able to

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All right, Steve. Uh you should try a four inch soil pipe instead of three

Well, you know what? That's a great, that's a great point. So we're gonna talk about that right now

So, Steve here in the United States. So, you know, I'm a licensed master plumber. I've been one for gosh

over 40 years here in the United States, if, if you're going to

uh, install a toilet in, in any commercial application, hotel, uh, restaurant

Uh, it doesn't matter, office building w whatever, four inch pipe, 44 inch pipe

Yeah, the, um, but in residential, uh, it's only three inch, even though it's the same toilet

Now, why is that? So, the, um, the toilet, the colon in our toilets here and see

I think that's where your toilets are different. That's why I think

um, I, I, I'm, I'm agreeing just so, you know, I think that what you do in the UK is actually better because

and because, and I would love to see the actual toilet because I think the pee trap in your toilet is probably a three inch

pee trap. I could be wrong. But here in America, the colon

which is the part of the trap, you know, the passageway, we call it a colon in our toilets

It's just a little bit over two inches. It might be two and a quarter inches

2.5. And that's by design because the manufacturers don't want the toilet to pass

anything that's three inches in diameter because it would get clogged in our pipes and most human waste

I mean, when you, I don't, I don't mean to be too graphic here, but when you look at a bowel movement for most humans

it's not, I don't know, it's maybe it's an inch and a half in diameter. All right

You know, it's not gonna be a whole lot bigger than that. And so it, so a three

the bottom line is a three inch pipe works. And here's all you need to know, Steve in all my years of all the jobs

I've installed in all my houses, my own personal homes. We have, I've never ever had a toilet clock

ever. Never, never. And, and, and there are literally millions of houses they don't clock

So a three inch pipe works fine. Uh, as you know, they, they do work fine and from a plumber standpoint

they three inch is so much easier to work with in four inch. But I'm telling you the four inch

um, great pipe, great stuff. Uh, uh, ok. So, um

here, let me get caught up, Lee's got another question. What about lint from a washing machine

Will they clog the drain after a year or two's accumulation? Ah, that's a great question

Generally speaking. Um, so my mother, here's what my mother used to do it back when I was a kid

We did not have the fancy, uh, but almost all laundry rooms were in the basement and the lawn and the washing machines had a

hard rubber hose that drained to a old fashioned utility sink. And as we got into the sixties and seventies

people wanted to have the, they wanted to be out of the basement. So they brought the washing machines up into a living space

And so they wanted to hide where the, um, you know, where that pipe went

where, where that hard rubber pipe went. And they had these little boxes in the wall and

and I've got photos of that on my website. My mom used to take some of her

her, her, her, her stockings that she had to wear stockings to

to work. She was a registered pharmacist and she wore the old type of stockings

not pantyhose, but each, each individual leg. I, I used to have to walk by him in the benchmark

So I know all about it when she hung them up to dry. And anyway

ones that had runners in them, she would save those and she would tie that around this black hose

She was, my mom was really smart. And so when the washing machine discharged

um, it would cap, you know, I mean, it would capture the lint and it was kind of surprising it

it, the, the lint would accumulate over time in those stockings and she would change it out

but there wasn't necessarily a lot of lint that was coming out. And I wonder now

uh, with so much polyester clothing, uh, this is a rhetoric question is lint as big a problem as it used to be

you know, before the 19 sixties, because before the 19 sixties, we really didn't have polyester clothing

It was cotton and it was wool. Yeah. But, you know, when I dry clothes and I

you know, I, you know, um, I'm kind of surprised how much lint there is sometimes did

but your question, will it clog? Well, let me tell you something

If you have a grease build up in your drain pipes. Lint is going

is going to accelerate clogging. So, how do we deal with that

I'm about ready to cover that. I'm about ready to jump into that. I'm gonna Steve

I'm gonna look at Dennis, uh, Nielsen. Uh I'm gonna write that down because sometimes that disappears in the chat

Um, drain. Now

I already talked about putting hot water down the drains. Um, we talked about feminine hygiene products

Ok. We talked about grease. Here's how, here's what I do at my home

Well, let's talk about nature. I always think, remember, try to always look at how mother nature deals with things and then relate it back

to your own, your own self and how, how things happen in your world and there's a great example of it

Um, and, and you probably see it in the news just I know it happened a year or so ago in north

in the northern UK, up in Scotland. Um, they had, they had probably 1000 year rain

I think it was Steve. I, I think it was like, not this past, maybe it was last winter

but they had these horrible, horrible flash floods and it was heartbreaking to see the damage caused and how it ruined all

these beautiful historic stone bridges just wiped them out when you have a flash flood

It's one of the, I guess you could say benefits of it from the way Mother Nature looks at it

A flash flood. It completely cleans out the stream bed, the brook

the river, whatever it is. I mean, it just takes all of the debris and then eventually it gets down to the ocean

So it's, it's basically like a spring house cleaning. Well, guess what

You can do the same thing in your drains. Why don't you create a flash flood in your drain

Never thought about that. Have you? It's easy to do. All you need to do is and it really is good if you have a

helper. So, in Steve's case, because he's got a four inch pipe uh in his

in, in their toilets, he needs to bring into the bathroom. 45 gallon buckets filled with about four gallons each

You know, you don't want to fill him up to the brim because you're gonna spill it. And what happens is you and another person

So you've each got this four gallon bucket of water. Somebody flushes the toilet

One person does and then both of you start to pour your buckets of water into the toilet bowl as fast as possible

Getting the water to rise up to just about an inch below the rim of the bowl and keep pouring it in

keep pouring as much water in the toilet as fast as you can to keep that water level up as high as possible without overflowing

What happens is in the pipe? So think about this as soon as you start doing that

the pipe, what used to be in the pipe was air before you flush

Now you've completely filled the entire pipe with water and you have this massive amount of water

Think about this, you've got um, 16 gallons of water flowing into the pipe within uh

I've done it before. I've done it before. I can pour it. I'd say within 10 seconds

you could have all 16 gallons flowing down the pipe. So what does water weigh

So a cubic foot of water weighs 62.4 pounds and a cubic foot of water is 7.5 gallons

So you're putting into the pipe about 100 and 25 pounds of water

Think about that. You've got 100 and 25 pounds, which is, I mean

that's a lot of weight and that is roaring down this pipe

So anything that's in the pipe that might be loose, like maybe a wad of toilet paper that never made it or some other solid

material that slug of water hits it and there it goes, man

it is, it's being pushed all the way down the, the drain line

all the way through the building drain and out to the sewer or into your septic tank

That's how you prevent drain clocks. You create a flash flood inside your drain pipe

All right. Let me get caught up on the comments. Uh, I don't know who Nicola Sturgeon is

so, I, I have to look that up. I, I don't know who that is but, uh, those were some really bad

um, really bad storms. So, anyway, uh, Lee the Lint, uh, can be a problem

Yes. Lint can be a problem. And if you just, and I'm gonna put it in

I've got the, um, uh, ok, I'll answer that in a minute

Steve, let me go back to this. I wanna, I wanna paste in this strain clog prevention

Um URL once more time. So someone who is just kind of tuned in

you really should go read that column. I, everything I talked about is in there and, and there's actually a lot more but it's a

really, it's a preventative thing and most people are too lazy, they don't want to do it

Um, but here, once again, the magic of these bad boys. All right

how cold. I mean, these things are bad, these smartphones, but they're also good because for example

I use them all the time. I set up reminders that repeat

Uh I, I have all kinds of reminders set up. Actually, I should probably write a column about that

Let me write that down. That's a good idea. Um, list of reminders

Um, anyway, you, you just need to set a simple reminder and then do it

then, then be religious about it. And, and what you need to do is this is hard for somebody maybe like Steve who's got a

floating schedule. But if you have somewhat of a routine or if you're retired then what

you already know what, what time of day or what. I don't know what day of the week

you know, you might be up to, to, to doing little chores like this and these aren't hard

None of this is hard. Um, the hardest one to do is the hot water because we have a couple of really big pots

Kathy's got like a three gallon. So I have all these pots on the stove of water heating up and boiling and whatever

I got all this stuff going on, you know, and it takes a while, you know. So I

I try to do something else while the water is heating up. But once you start to pour the water

you're done, it's over with. Uh, and I haven't had it in the

in the 13 years I've lived in this house. I've never had a clog in my kitchen sink

I must be doing something. Right. Uh All right. I'm gonna answer Steve's question here

Uh Your river systems must be less polluted than ours due to septic tanks. Well

um, I would say that's true in any rural area. Um but

but I'll give you an example, Steve right here where I live in central New Hampshire

which is, it's a very non polluted place. And I can tell you a story how I know why

I mean, our, our lakes like the lake, I live on II, I think I shared that video a week or so ago

Two weeks ago when the lake froze over, you saw how clear that water is. It's crystal clear

I can see through to the bottom. I can see the rocks. It's, it's amazing

It's how clear the water is. The um we so we have a river

the main river that flows by my house is the Page Awas River and it starts up north um near um Franconia Notch

Uh You know, which is uh I don't, I don't wanna bother details, but right there by um Mount Lafayette

Cannon Mountain and it gets bigger and bigger as it comes all the way down

you know, 3040 miles. Eventually the Pinger was it uh runs into the um into Franklin

New Hampshire and it meets the Winnipesaukee River and those two rivers combined and they create the Merrimack River which then runs out to the

Atlantic Ocean. So, Crutch Wood, about 10 miles north of where I live is

a small town called Plymouth Plymouth, New Hampshire. And it's also just to the west of it would be Ashland

New Hampshire. But those two towns actually have a sewage system. You know

because the hap, what happens, Steve is, is when you start to get too many people living too close to one another

you can't have septic systems because the septic system requires a leach field and the leach field

like I'm looking at, at my Leach field. Um, this, you'll really appreciate this because of the size

I, when I, when I see sometimes, um, shows about how big a city is or a backyard as in England and people think that's

huge. I just laugh. I go. Are you kidding me? That's the size of my flipping uh, garage where I parked my car

Um, anyway, my Leach field is probably, uh, feet wide by 60 ft long

All right. So think about that. That's, um, at least 1200 square feet

That's a minimum. All right. So you need, you need a little bit of area to be able to have a

and, and that's not counting the septic tank. You can't pull that off in a

in a, in an urban environment. You have to have sewers. The

the point is, here's all I'm driving towards is that there is a sewage treatment plant right next to the Panos River

just south of Plymouth and just west of Ashland. And that I

I think I mentioned this once before. A lot of people don't understand this is this ha this is happening in London

It's happening everywhere. Every place where there's a sewage treatment plant. Yeah

you have to understand. This is so, actually this is so fascinating when you think about it. Imagine how

how many people in London right now? And I know in London you have several sewage treatment plants

You don't have one, you have more than one. Let's just pick out one. So

imagine all of the pipes that are connected to that one sewage treatment facility

How many gallons of water a minute do you think are flowing into that sewage treatment plant

And of course, in the daytime it's more than it is in the middle of the night. All right

Now, I say that, I mean, I don't know if London is like New York, you know, the city that never sleeps

but you know, most of the people are sleeping, I think at night in London, but there's a lot of water

Ok. You need to understand that the sewage treatment plants, they don't have huge storage tanks

It's not like they store the water. The is the water for every gallon or two of water that comes into the sewage treatment plant

A gallon or two of water flows out of it, that's been treated. So that means if there's a million gallons a day of water

coming into the sewage treatment plant, a million gallons of water are going out of the sewage treatment plant

All right. That means this beautiful clean page Wset River is accepting treated sewage

All right now. Is it, is the water perfectly clean. I can tell you I would never drink a glass of water that comes out

of that sewage treatment facility. Never. I mean, even though that, you know

it's been treated, no, I'm not drinking it. So I, that's a very long answer to your question

So, our beautiful clean pristine rivers for a short distance below the sewage treatment outlet plant of the

of the outlet, the, the outlet of the sewage treatment plant, they are polluted

All right, they're polluted and, and I don't think that the towns do a necessarily a really good job of putting signage up to all

these young kids who take kayak trips and canoe trips and canoe through that water

I think they uh personally, I think they should, that should be signed, you know, that, that right before that there should be signs all

longer. Like do not do not drink this water, do not get out of your boat

Don't splash this water in your face, you know, and, and, and maybe those signs stop a mile down river

You know what, whatever the safe distance is. Long answer. Oh, all right here

Let me get caught up on his comments. Scottish National Party, also the first Minister of Scotland

She wants to break up the union. Ah, thank you. All right

Thank you for that. Uh Is there gold in the rivers here in Hampshire

Uh If there, well, the answer is Yes. Yes. There is gold just about in every river

But is there enough gold to make it worth your time to

to, to pan for it? No, there's not. Um, we have, um

it's really kind of interesting. I should take a photo of it when I go out for my walk. I haven't walked in a while

Been so dag on cold. Um You have to understand the, the bedrock of where I live is all granite and the granites got quite

a bit of quartz in it. But every now and then there's a massive vein of courts and generally you

you, when you find gold or when you find courts, you're gonna find gold

So there's a possibility, there's just one giant boulder that I walk by

It's only maybe 600 ft north of my home. Uh It's got a

a vein of quartz in it that wide. I've never gone up to it actually

And, and closely looked at it. I, I'll take my uh Hastings triplet

Do you have one of these? If you don't have one of these, you need to get one. All right

So, um this is my Hastings triplet from um geology from college

I saved it all these years, a lot of sentimental value, but it's a 10 x

10 X multiplier or magnifier. And um they're really amazing for all I know they're made in the UK

Uh So I'm gonna take this with me and I'll look to see if, um

uh, I use this by the way to get splinters out. And anyway

I, I, um, there may be, there may be some gold in that quartz but not enough to

not enough to make you a rich man. I can tell you that, um

we think a goldfish bowl is a little excision. I know. And I know I just

the whole, the whole urban living thing, I just can't, can't do it anymore

Can't do it. I am, I was born and raised in Cincinnati

Ohio. Cincinnati is, um, I think at the time I was there

the actual city limits had 300,000 people. I know that's laughable. I know

You've got, what, what, what's London 8 million, the greater Cincinnati area

uh, had, I think a million two. So it's still, you know

it's still small and I go, when I go back there, I was just back there this past October

Uh I, I've become increasingly intolerant of the, uh, uh, of the congestion and

and I have, and I noticed that the drivers, they're in it

I, I don't, I don't have any hard data. It's just a feeling that, that they're much more aggressive and

uh much less polite than they used to be. That doesn't surprise me

So, so I get, um, I get really, I don't have any trouble

I'm not afraid of driving in traffic. Uh, but here in New Hampshire to put it in perspective

I, I, if there's more than eight cars in a line here

I, where I live, I call that a traffic jam. I mean, if I'm

if I'm leaving the grocery store and there's eight cars between me and the traffic light, I go

what the hell is going on. I know. You may think that's hilarious

Um, uh, yeah, I think you're right, Steve, the, the older I'm trying to see that's just a button

Um, yeah, I, I, um, I agree though. I, I, you know

and I'm, I'm no spring chicken, man. Um, I'm gonna be 70 years old in just

uh, in just six months. Hard to believe. Wow. Hard to believe

We may have to have a birthday party that day of the live stream. If I do one, I don't know

I might be out and about, uh, I might go to the fox and golf that day

Who knows? Um, who knows? Ok. So we talked about the drain clog prevention

It's really simple to do. Just watch what you put in the drains and

and then, um, grease. Uh, you gotta have the grease under control

you gotta have it. All right. Now, here's something I want to talk about. Really, it's kind of a fun thing

Um, I wanna talk about really quickly here. Um, I got into this about a year ago

I, I can't remember how I got into. It. Might have been this ham radio student

I have a student that I'm, that I've taught Morse Code to and he's doing really well but I don't know how we got on

the topic but he, he's, he's done it for years but he must have done it

He must have stimulated my, my reinter in fountain pens. And so I have these fountain pens and I actually have another one

a really, really fancy one, that my daughter gave me. This is a very

uh, that's not it. Yeah, it is. It, yeah, this is a very fancy

uh, fountain pen even got my name on it. Um, anyway, it's really a

lot of fun. You have to understand if you're an older person like me, we used to have fountain pens in grade school and they

were horrible. They, they were notorious for leaking. They were just horrible

But the modern fountain pens, they're pretty amazing. These are, this wasn't the first pen I bought about a year ago

It's a lame L am Y they're very inexpensive. Uh, I think I paid $16 for this online and

you can get, um, the cartridges they have, I just dropped, I'll get one here

I'll get a different B box but they have, um, little ink cartridges

you know, that you put in. And, uh, this one happens to be green ink and I just tried this one out the other day

and it's really a beautiful, like a very dark, very dark green but they come

you know, uh red, blue, different colors of blue, black, orange, green

purple, you can get all different kinds of color ink and it's really a lot of fun

So I also then got really interested in cursive writing and I actually think it's a smart thing that if you don't do cursive writing

you should, uh because you're gonna be able to send coded messages soon

I'm serious. I mean, now, of course, I know somebody's gonna, it's probably already out there

Somebody already has an app that you can scan something and it translates cursive because young people are not being taught

cursive or I don't think they're being taught in public schools here in America. And if you want to write a code

it's just like cars like here in America. It's, it's really hard to find a car with standard shift transmission

a new one. So if you wanna buy a car that young people can't steal

just, just have a, a standard shift transmission, they jump in, they don't even

they don't even know how to make the car go. Same thing with cursive writing

But I like cursive writing. I, I practice it each day and uh maybe I'll

I'll, I'll put together some and give you some examples. Uh The key to cursive writing with a fountain pen is you need to slow

down, you need to really, just slow down, take your time to form the letters

Uh, the because what happens you get into a rush and then everything goes off the rails

Uh, but, uh, I, I just think it's kind of, I just think it's kind of a fun thing to do

So I like, I like doing it. I like it a lot. All right

Here we go. Let's get caught up. Uh, yeah, I don't wanna drive in London, Steve will

will says have, have to add more hot water due to the cold winter temps

Um Well, I don't know what that means. Um I don't know what I have what I'm adding the hot water to

You might be referring to my newsletter to, to um Alan's wife who was not too happy because her shower water turned cold

Uh Here we go. Uh Steve says, have you ever changed the shut off valve when you couldn't shut the water off first

Yeah, I did that. It was, it's, it's a nightmare but now

so, you know, so we now have technology that makes that really simple

Um And III I shared that video. I know back right after Thanksgiving

remember when I shared the video of the press tool. So we have

let me actually get that video for you right now, really important, um really important

Um because I'm gonna show you how it's done and I'll explain it, but you need to see um you need to see this video

and to be able to understand how you would be able to make a repair with w

I mean, imagine a water line that's shooting water out of it

That's, um, um, like a fire hose. I mean, imagine that. Like

how in the world would you do that? Um, I am, I think it's

this is the video right here. I think this is it. I have two columns on the website

Um, I'm trying to pull it up. I'm sorry. It's going slow, blah, blah

Well, this is it, this will be, this shows the tool, at least a photograph of it

I am trying to paste this in for you. I'm trying to click it, but here's how you do it

Steve. So um there it is. OK. Good. The link shows up

We have these new fittings in America. III I have to believe you've got them in the UK as well

So imagine a copper fitting. But inside the copper fitting. In other words

if normally you would take the copper female and the male into the female and you would s solder it

you know, heat it up with a torch, solder it. What if I told you you could slide the tubing into the female and then

the female is an O ring and you slide it in, you take a tool and you

you, you know this tool completely covers the female fitting. You press a trigger and four seconds later it's sealed

That's, that's a press fitting. You can get those press ends, those females on the end of a valve

So imagine if you had a, a copper water line that was severed and it's spewing water like crazy

And you, then all you have to do is just take a valve. That's the same diameter as the pipe

A ball valve. You, you open the valve up, right? You, you want the valve open

then you slide as you slide it into the stream of water. A little bit of water is gonna spray on you big deal

You slide it on the end of the pipe. Now, the water shooting through the valve

shooting through the valve, like a fire hose. You can whistle, take the press tool

press it, uh, done, it's done and then you slowly take the handle of the ball valve

turn it 90 degrees and the water shuts off. You could never do that with a

um, never do that with a, um, um, solder. You cannot solder when there's water in the line

Uh, you could do the same thing if you had a flare fitting on a

uh, but it would be so hard because for you to flare the pipe, um

you can't, you know, you have to put a tool in. That's, that shapes the end of the copper tubing water's gonna go everywhere

Uh, but these press fittings allow you to, to solve that problem. Pretty amazing

Hello, Lorraine. Uh Yes, it's like shark bite. That's exactly right. That's exactly what it is

Uh Yes. Well, I got it. Now, I understand. Uh I understand that you have to

well, it just takes you longer to heat the water. Uh, the water

the, the, the plumbing pipes inside your house are typically gonna be the same temperature all year round

The actual pipe uh temperature unless the pipe happens to be on an outside wall and sometimes kitchen sink

branch arms are on an outside wall. So you're right that, that grease is gonna be colder

So I agree with that. Ok. By Wednesday, you should be back on a regular basis and you've got shorter hair

right? Because you, last week you went to the uh I think you had a hair appointment

Uh Jimmy wants to know, have you worked with oop own or piping? You bet I have

I have oop owner in my own home here. Uh And we put in

oh my gosh, this is gonna blow you away. I put in over 6000 ft of upon or uh uh their

oxygen free um pipe for my daughter's radiant floor heating. And then I put in probably um 2000

ft of uh hot and cold water line upon or at least 2000 ft in her new home up in Bar Harbor

So thousands and it's a great product. Great. I lo I, I

that's the only pecs I would use and they were the inventors of it. Uh So I love

love, love upon or I can't say enough good things about it. Uh You do have shorter hair

Yeah. And it was kind of short on the Zoom call, I thought personally

But, um, all right. Um, so I have a question um, for

you, uh, Steve, how was, um, how was your work week last week or did you have to work this weekend

Was, uh, how, how's work going? Are they, are you working too hard? I hope not. Uh OK

here we go. Jimmy says I'm gonna be using this on the three barn minimum

Uh I don't know what that means. Uh Oh, I'm gonna be doing the plumbing designer

OK. Got it. Um, yeah, upon or good stuff. So you may want me to also draw your waterline drawing

I, I draw those because you got to get those manifolds right? You have to get the manifold system correct

Um And, um, and you have to put those manifolds in, right

Especially if you might have a, what you, there's a lot to think about when you

when you design a water distribution system, especially if you don't know in the future if you're gonna put in a water conditioner or a

water softener because you have to think it through, for example, like you don't

you don't wanna be wasting conditioned water like on your outside hose bibs

So you have to have a, you have to branch that off and have a separate manifold for your

for your husband. I had to do a drawing for that for a person about two months ago

uh, for a pretty big house out in Sedona, Arizona and I had to Sedona Arizona just so

you know, probably the most regulated place to build anything. I, I'm just stunned at what they require

uh, the, the people out there to provide on their plumbing drawings and stuff

It's, it's, I mean, it's overly restrictive, in my opinion. Um But I guess they feel they're protecting the citizens

but there's a fine line there. Real fine line. Uh Anyway. Um All right

So yeah, I got caught up on the comments. Good. I just want to go back real quickly to the fountain pens

I know you think this is nuts. So these very inexpensive LAMAs

$15.16dollars,theywritebeautifullywhenyougetafoifyoudecidetogetafountainpenandjustkindofplaywithit.UhUnderstandthattheNibs

the nib is the tip of the fountain pen. Uh They come in different widths and I can tell you I would always order

a fine nib because you know how clothes run different in size

like one manufacturer's large is the same as somebody else's extra large

Or anyway, there, I don't think there's a really good convention on these Nibs

So always order fine and just start out with an inexpensive pen and then see if you like that nib whip

But I, I think the fine is the way to go because the

you know, like a medium nib, it, it, it produces a pretty wide line of ink

And, um, that means that if you like to write smaller, you have a really hard time creating space in your loops

Right? So I don't want to bore you with all this cursive writing, but I think it's a lot of fun

I actually like it. I like cursive writing about as much as I like doing more

Uh Wow. Ok. So here we go. Wow. Um I'm lucky they can

they can't dismiss because I've been there more than. Ok. Good for you. Great for you. Um All right

So, Jimmy, by the way, I'm a HV AC and Refrigeration Center for 24 years

Good for you, Jimmy. Uh ah, ok. Yeah. Yeah. Uh So, you know

yeah. Do you know all about, um, those four inch vent pipes

You know, in, in the UK? I guarantee you they're standard even though they don't have a worry of

um, frost there. I mean, like Steve. Steve tells us it doesn't get that cold in London now

up north, uh, in northern UK, uh they get freezing weather. I mean

Scotland gets pretty damn cold. Uh But here in the United States in Minnesota

uh, northern Maine, northern New Hampshire here, Northern Vermont, Northern Michigan. You better have a four inch vent pipe

Sticking out of your roof, man or it's gonna clog up with ice. It'll, it'll get choked with frost

I've seen it happen in Cincinnati. Uh Anyway, so good. I'm glad that things are working out for you

Good at work, Steve. Uh and Jimmy, you must be busy as can be

man. HV. AC Refrigeration Tech. I mean, so hard to find people

Uh So good for you. Stuff your pockets with cash while you can. Oh

and by the way, uh there was some pretty big news here in the, in the United States today

I saw um, the whole, um, the whole illness thing. That's, that's what I like to call it the illness

It's, it's starting to break apart. Um, there were two states. Uh I think um

New Jersey and another one that um ended the school, um, face diaper mandate

All right. So that's really, that's a huge, huge. So it's all

it's all gonna start falling apart here soon. Oh, and I just started to read

My wife had gotten it. Um I don't know that, I don't know that they settled on Amazon because Amazon they're haters

But man, if you, if I'm gonna try to find it here real fast

uh oh, here we go. I got, got a tab open, I'm gonna try to find this book. Um I'm

I'm here to tell you um uh if you want to see how bad uh billions of people have been paid and

you might have been one of them. You need to read this very short book. It is going to blow your mind

It is gonna blow your mind. I am trying to uh I my

my whole browser thing is really slow. Um So let's see if I can find this book

It's a, it's a little hard back book. I'm here to, I'm, I'm only about the page 35 36 37

And, um, there's something here in America. Uh, yeah, here it is right here

$19.Getthisthingfor20bucks.Uh,I'mgonnahavethe,uh,I'mgoingtohavethelinkforyouinjustasecond.I

am here to tell you if you, um, if you want to learn what's really going on and I've known

this for two years. Um, you, you need to, you need to read this little book

It's going to blow your flipping mind and if you live here in America

um, you're, you, you are going to want you, it's gonna get you so riled up that you're gonna wanna go to Congress

you're gonna wanna go to Washington DC with a, with a pitchfork is all I can tell you

Um, it's like no wonder Doctor Fauci is worth a $10 million

Right? Huh? You're not gonna believe what's allowed. Um, but anyway, I'm just telling you

um, not at all gonna get, uh, this is gonna bother some people but I'm telling you

you need to get that book. Probably you could probably read the book in three hours

Um It is so revealing and it has not been debunked. In other words

everything that's in the book is true and you know, but what's happened is people would say

oh, it's untrue. Well, ok, if it is, you need to show me the proof that it's not true

but no proof has been put up. So in other words, you need to understand that when somebody says something

you cannot take it at face value, don't do that. All right, even me

even me, I mean, you can check me out from time to time. In other words, I say that three inch pipes

then pipes will clog up with hoar frost. Well, check it out

go, go do some research, see if that's true. Here we go

Um All right, let's see. Yeah. Uh Lorena is right. We always need heat and air conditioning

In the 19 sixties. The River Thames used to freeze. Wow. Yeah

Isn't that? OK. So, so to your point, Steve about that, uh I have a column on my website on ask the build.com about climate

change, just type climate change into my search engine, read that column

So in my geology degree gives me a really interesting perspective about climate change

Guess what? The climate is changing all the time? It's always changed

But, but, but we as man, we've had very little to do with it

Very, very little. And the proof of that don't, don't look at all those scientists

findings don't go there, don't look at their papers. Don't go there

go to the rocks, go look at the flipping rocks because guess what

Rocks don't lie. I mean, the, the, the, the rocks tell you exactly what happened when it happened

uh, et cetera and then, and then you, you go, ok. Well, so how

how did all this happen? I mean, it really happened and you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So it's

it's really simple, read that column. So in other words, back, back when you were younger

yes, the cs would freeze. It was colder in London and now it's gotten a little warmer but it's not because of man

it's just because that's what happens and mother nature is in charge, not us. Uh Oh

ok. Sure. Well, um the name is pandemic here, I'll just type it

The author is Mickey. Uh type it, right. So

there you go. Um It's really, it's gonna blow your mind. So anyway

so here I'll just touch on this. What if I told you that here in America

I gotta make sure you're sitting down and if you're on blood pressure medication

you may wanna get up and walk away. I'm serious. It's gonna aggravate you

What if I told you here in America that government employed scientists

do you understand what I'm saying? And we have a famous one that's been on television a lot here in the

in the last two years, employees of the federal government and also

employees at universities who are doing research. If they get money from the federal government to

do research for new drugs or vaccines, understand this, they're

getting money from taxpayers. Those doctors and professors can

put their name on the patent and they can profit personally, they can get royalties from the patent

of that drug or whatever the patent is. Um, even though they didn't invest one penny of their money in it

and all the time they were working on it, they got paid by us

Do you understand that? That's all in that book? And that is all factual

It's, it's a complete fact. I'm, and I'm not, I'm not, um

I'm not embellishing it. I'm not making it bigger than it is. So

if you were that person who, who was making a lot of money from a patent

um, on, on a vaccine or on a test kit, I imagine if you invented a test kit to test for an illness

and there were hundreds of millions of these being produced. Uh, and you got money from each one of those

I mean, doesn't that, I don't know about you that bothers me a lot. And also it

it automatically creates a conflict of interest, meaning you can't talk about that

I mean, you can't, you can't go on national TV and tell people to do this or that and then not disclose that if you

do deserve that. I might make a million dollars. I'm telling you

you and billions of others have been played for two years. It's horrible

Yeah, he got Red Pill. Yeah. Exactly. All right. That's exactly

right. Yeah. And, and I cover that in my climate change, um, article on my website and then we're gonna move on to Anno rots

Uh, in other words, that was the whole trouble with Judy. Doctor Mikovits

you know, is that they can, you know, took away all grant money to, you know

in other words, if, when you're in the, in academia and they want to crush you

they just take away your grant money and remember what I've talked about here on the live stream

I've talked about doctor's book, influence the Psychology of, of, of persuasion

the, the, the most basic psychological trigger in human beings in you

And in me is reciprocity if I give you a million dollars worth of grant money

if I give you a million dollars worth of grant money, you know

I, I kind of wink, wink, you know. Hey, um, it would really be nice if

um, you gave me something back. Yeah, it's horrible. Horrible

to read that book and share it with all your friends. All right

Let's get on, let's move on here a little bit. Um, I wanna talk just briefly uh

about Jimmy. He knows all about this. Uh, he's, he's kind of brushes up against this

uh, Anno Rods. Uh, Steve, I don't know. Uh, in the UK

you've got, I know you have water heaters. Come on. I know that, uh, I have to believe you have storage tank

water heaters. It's just a tank. There's a fire underneath it or it's got electric elements

it heats the water up well, inside that tank, you might not know it, but it's got an ade rod and a know they're sacrificial

That's what it is. It's a sacrificial because there's a chemical reaction that's going on inside the water

Uh, there's some electrolysis that's happening and, and that electrolysis likes to happen on the Anade Rod and it eats the Anade Rod and when

the Anade Rod is gone, it starts hunting around for something else to eat and it starts to

he, he eat the tank and so it starts to nibble away at it

chip away at it with these tiny, tiny, ultra little tiny sparks or

uh, you know, elec electrical discharge and eventually eats a hole in the tank and that's why your water heater will start to leak

Understand if you change your Anade rod regularly and, and some heaters here in America

you can put in two Anade rods, you can put an extra one in when you put a brand new water heater in

It's a good idea to do it very good idea to have two Anade rods. You might get a water heater to last 2030 4050

years because there's no real moving parts. Think about a water heater

The only moving part is that tiny little part in the gas

Like, especially a gas, water heater is the, is the, the little moving part that starts and stops the flow of gas

That's it. That's a really cheap part to replace. And a lot of people just don't know this

that you can extend the life of water heaters almost indefinitely if you just keep up on the ana rots

Uh Yes. And that's so Loreen. Uh, there's a lot of really good information about that at the water heater manufacturers

depending on the chemical makeup. Water. There are two different types of

uh, amber broads, aluminum and magnesium and, and one will react and cause the sulfur smell

The other one won't. So, it just depends on where you're at. So you have to get the right one

Um, so Steve says there's a really big p pe scandal going on here at the moment being his pounds in the waste tunnel into

black pocket. Yes. Is on the brink. Wow. Yeah. Um, I mean

that's, there's nothing new there. I mean, come on, that happens everywhere and

and all, all countries of the world, it's happened for thousands of years

hundreds of thousands of years. Um, that once you get that, that power intoxicates

you uh, and then people just want more and more money and

and, and, and it's just horrible. It's all horrible. Um. Oh, horrible

Yeah. The co, I love my co, I have a combi boiler here at my own home

I had put it in about three years ago. It's just wonderful

Oh, my gosh. The, and, and the comedy boilers. Just so, you know

that, that's all European. Uh, just so, you know, Steve, um here in the United States we are like so slow on the uptake

Um If I, if I was a young man, here's here here

I'll tell you this if I could go back in time and I was a young man and I had some money behind me

which I, I didn't have, I never had any money. My mom and dad were poor as church mice

Um But, but if knowing what I know now, like, I'm just gonna tell you this

If you're here in America, if you're watching this or even in, in

in the UK, Steve, this goes for any young person, you know

that's got money. Go to the home and garden shows in the UK

I'm serious. Every spring go to the garden home and garden show in the UK or their home builder show

If I gotta believe you have a home builder show, just like we have in America and look at all the new and innovative products

right. Then you got to pick the right ones and then come over here to America and get set up as

as a distributor or copy it over here in America because the combi boilers

these tiny little combi boilers that I have in my house, they've probably been in Europe for 20 years

You know. But, but here in America, like 789 years ago, oh, new combi boilers

new combi boilers because they know Steve most of us uh proud or I

I don't know what the right adjective is, snobbish. I, I'm not using the right word but it's like I

I'm not gonna spend my time caring about what you guys do over there

I mean, that's how most Americans feel like we II, I don't care how you heat your home

II, I don't care that you're really good at making use of space and that your cabinet designers are just brilliant and

and taking small kitchens and making everything work perfectly. Uh You know why

Because here in America, we can have as big as we want. I'm just trying to tell you that we're always like 10 years behind

you, man. 10, maybe 15. Uh So I just think it's hilarious now that I've gotten older

I've, I understand it all. So I, I would like, I would come to the UK in a flipping UK

Germany. Uh Y you guys in Europe, man? You have figured out how to

how to make the most out of small spaces it's flipping. Amazing

All right. Do a great job. All right. All right. Um, so

all right. So I talked about Ann Rods. Um, Marcus, I live in Ireland and when we visit Austria and Germany

it's exactly. There you go. Now you see what I'm talking about, Marcus

Exactly. Uh, the Germans, um, Austrians, uh, great engineers. I mean, I

mean, amazing people and, um, you're exactly right. So that's a very interesting statement that you even feel like you're

behind them. Wow. So, it seems like I need to go to, to Germany first

I go to the German home shows and then see what little business I can open up in the UK

Wouldn't it be great to go back in time? Oh. Oh, my gosh

Here's Lorraine. My friend in the Netherlands gets hot water from the city

Ah, all right. So, um, you know, they do that in Iceland as well too

you know, in Iceland, I don't think anybody. Well, I don't know, they may pay, I'm just making this up

I don't know what it is. Maybe they pay $5 a month for their hot water

You know, all of the hot water up in, in Reykjavik and other parts of Iceland

It's all done by, um, you know, the, the, uh, hot volcanic rock deposits in the ground

I mean, they get their hot water heated for free. No fuel. They don't have to burn any fuel to get hot water

Uh, it's really amazing. I mean, sure they can heat their houses. Um

uh, they have all of this. It's just amazing. Amazing what they do up there. Well

I wish I had that here. Um, I'll probably pay about $4000 this year

Uh, you know, to heat my home here in New Hampshire. Uh

anyway, that's really interesting. All right. Um, last thing that I promised to talk about

uh, collar ties. right? So here's a collar and I know I could put a tie on it and every Sunday I wear a bow

tie, you know, and I tie it myself. I love, I love, love, love bow ties

love everything about them. But in a house, I have to draw a picture for you

Um, I know. Will I know dry erase board? Got it. Uh I'm gonna draw this with my fountain pen with a green ink in

it, but you're not gonna see the green ink. So I'm just gonna draw a couple of simple lines

you know. Um All right. So, you know, so there's a, there's a

a house, you know, with a roof. All right, if you built the roof

that way the roof would collapse. And what would happen is these

the, the, the, the peak of the roof would wanna come down, which would cause the side walls to bow out like that

Each wall here, these two walls would go out like that and the house would collapse

But if you just add one line like that

uh It's not gonna collapse. That horizontal line is what roof framers

what we call in America. They're called different things in different parts of the world. We call it a collar tie

And I actually have a video um I'm gonna show you, I'm gonna paste in this video for you from youtube

Um Cause it, I kind of explained II I uh built a shed

You can't see it from the camera here, but just over, over here up on the hill is a shed

I built about eight years ago, nine years ago. And um and I shot a video when we were framing a roof

I had a really great opportunity to show you collar ties here. Yeah, it's really neat

It's a really flipping neat uh video I think. Um I have it here for you in just a second

All right. I don't want that to play slow down because I don't want you to bother me

Uh I'm gonna tell you something also if you haven't figured it out today. Um So here I want you to um watch this video

Um It explains everything. Um uh See I was supposed to die

I got, I gotta kill this video. I told you to be quiet

Here we go. All right, I'm back again. Collar ties. Um Here's what's interesting

They, they don't have to be at the bottom of the triangle. They can be up a little higher

And then even at the top of the roof, on certain jobs I've put in what we call a gusset plate

uh which is a piece of plywood on each side. Uh And you put a lot of nails in it and it

it will also prevent that from spreading. But that's got to be designed by an engineer

Don't, don't try to guess yourself as to what's gonna work and what's not because you have to use the right plywood

the gusset place have to be big enough. It's got to be a certain thickness, blah, blah, blah

blah, blah, you know, it's, it's gotta be, it's gotta be engineered but regular collar ties

Um As long as you don't, as long as you put in the long enough nail and you put enough of men

they're gonna work just fine. They work really, really great. And you know, this to be the fact because that whole design of a triangle

it's, it's like the simplest, aside from a circle in nature, you know

a triangle is, is really, it's so strong, it's so incredibly strong

And engineers all across the world, you see triangles all the time

you probably haven't given it much thought. But in many of the bridges that you cross

uh you'll see that whole triangle used all the time in, in the trusses and even in just regular roof trusses that we built in

America, you know, they're they're triangles and they got collar ties and there's

they're a combination of triangles and, um, the engineers know all about it

So, if you're an engineer, you know how good those things are. Um

all right. Here we go. Let's see. I'm gonna get caught up. Uh There's some comments here. So

Dollar General Store Tim. Yes, will. Exactly. Um, so Steve said we were supposed to have a deal with Iceland if you is gonna have

a pipe. Really? How can that just blows away to think that they could put an insulated pipe in the North Sea all the way

to the UK. Uh I guess they couldn't give us an excuse to give us cheap heating if they wanted it

Uh Yeah, that's a real, that's really interesting technology that they could do that

Um Wow, here in America, we, the only place we've got a similar situation would be out in Wyoming at the Yellowstone

National Park and there's a couple other places out west uh where we still have some um volcanic rock

some igneous rock that's kind of close to the surface, um, that it probably would be commercial

commercially available. I mean, I know in Colorado, for example, um near the town of Oay

um, Ouray, they have a hot springs there, a natural hot springs and

and we have it in Arkansas. There's places, but we don't have a lot of it

Uh but not like Iceland, Iceland, of course, Iceland if you don't know it

I mean, here's the geology again. I mean, Iceland is sitting right on the flipping center of the Mid Atlantic Ridge

I mean, so Iceland is getting bigger every day. Well, I think it is

I think that Iceland might be growing in size. I, I don't know that the outer edges of the

of Iceland are being eroded by the ocean as fast as new land is being created in Iceland

I, I don't know about that. That'd be kind of an interesting, um, that would be an interesting

um, uh, master's thesis or phd thesis to do. Yes, Steve. Well

exactly. Uh You're right. Um, uh, I'll, I'll answer the question about the drill

but yes, you're right. Well, imagine the payback time to break even for a pipe that long

I, I just can't imagine. Uh, I can't imagine insulating it. I

that's, that's what I can't imagine is how, how they could maintain the temperature of that water that distance

I mean, that's a great distance. I mean, Iceland from the UK

trying to think, you know, when they sunk the, the HMS Hood, it's gotta be 3

400 miles. It's a long way and the sea temperature at that depth

Are you kidding me? It's gotta be like 33 °F, Steve says any recommendations on the best drill driver bits and hex bit

extensions. Um, do you, can you get is, is the DeWalt brand available in the UK II

I gotta believe Bosch is, I mean, Bosch being a German company

so Bosch, in my opinion, uh, they just make incredible stuff, Bosch

you know, makes really, really good stuff, very high quality. I, all I use here are Bosch

Uh And then my number two go to would be Dew. Uh Also Milwaukee here in America makes a really good drill

Uh, but I had a falling out with Milwaukee So I don't like to um I don't like to promote Milwaukee too much because I

I think they um well, here's all that happened is they, if you go back onto my website and you read my review about the

Milwaukee electric nail gun, finish, nail gun, just type finish nail gun

Milwaukee in my search engine. Read that review when Milwaukee saw that

That was it. They kicked me to the curb, man. I mean, it was over. So that tells you all you need to know

In other words, why would they not want me to tell the truth about their product

You know, so they stopped sending me products in order to test uh Yes

you're right. Lorraine. I, that's one of my bucket list items, by the way, I, I want

I like the, the uh volcanic eruption that was in Hawaii a year and a half ago or two years ago

Oh, man. What, I love to see that. What I love to see that

that lava just moving downhill like a river. Oh, my gosh. I don't want to be near the

uh, that you don't want to be near the volcanoes like Mount Saint Helens

Those are bad juju, those, those blow up. They're, they're like nuclear bombs

But, but the ones in Hawaii and the ones in Iceland, those are not nece

usually they're not explosive. Uh There we go. Thank you, Marcus. 850 miles

Wow, that's farther than I thought. Uh, to Milwaukee and Bosch all in the UK

If that's the case, then so Steve, I would start looking at Bosch stuff first

Here's what you have to be careful of be really, really careful of trusting the reviews from both the United States

I, I don't know anything about to review guys in the UK or

and, and, and, you know, at all. Um, I don't know anything about them. I don't know who they are

I'm sure there's some guys doing them, but here in America we have a problem with some of the people that have got these to

review websites and there's quite a few of them, 2030 of them that they've prostituted themselves

not all of them. And I'm not gonna mention any names, but some of them have prostituted themselves to the tool manufacturers and

I have seen, um, reviews of it. There are, and here's, here's what I need to know

You need to. If you go to a tour review website, this is the acid test

Always the first thing to look at is go up on top or at the bottom and find the about page like about us

And if you don't see a picture of the person who's writing the contact content

that should be the first alarm bell going off. Why is there no photograph of the person who's creating the content

The number two thing you need to see is a quick brief description of how many decades I said decades

I didn't say years. How many decades have they been using power tools or hand tools in the field professionally

Do you understand that? In other words, just like um is it Jimmy

Yeah, Jimmy, if Jimmy is still here? So Jimmy is a professional

Jimmy is an HV AC and refrigeration tech. He works 8, 10 hours a day using tools

He knows the good ones from the bad ones you have to understand here in the United States

There are people who are reviewing tools who have never worked one day in their

life professionally in the field using tools. So you need to verify that on their website and you should do the same thing in any

country you live in. Whether it's Ireland the UK, I don't care where it is

Don't just believe what you read or say for God's sake. Um There you go

12 to 18 hours. Yeah. Uh So Bosch generally Steve, you're not gonna go wrong with Bosch

good stuff and the DeWalt bits and stuff that have been coming out

I just got a set to test. Uh, I'm very impressed with them

DeWalt is making a play and they, they've always kind of been there but they're kind of like the

um, uh, I'm not gonna say they're the child. It just seems like the Walt has

um, uh, they, they, they're in this battle. They, they fight this thing where they're

they're trying to show they're as good as Bosch or Milwaukee. And

and, um, anyway, DeWalt, they make some really good stuff. Yeah, I don't

I'm sure of it. I'm sure you see a lot of American reviews, right? But like I said

start going to their, deep into their website and find out how many decades of experience they have like Jimmy has and like

I have, yeah, there you go. Exactly, Jimmy. Exactly. So, Jimmy, what

um, in your work, I'll ask you what, what, um, tell us what you feel

Answer Steve's question, which, um, which power tool drill driver and, and bits are you having the best luck with yourself

I'm very curious. I know there's a 32nd delay. So, while you're typing

I'm gonna get a drink here. So, chime in Jimmy chime in, you know

and Steve, what happens here in America and I think this is by design

Uh Here's what happened because I started going to the press events. I, I used to get invited to all of these uh media events

Um, so that the, this love affair with cordless tools started, I don't know

Well, it started a long time ago. I was still building. I remember the first cordless drill I ever saw

Our drill driver was a Makita little 7.5 volt thing. My heating and air conditioning guy

he loved it. It was very small compact and he had a nut driver on it and he would use it to drive the self

tapping screws. The small half inch long, Jimmy, you know what? They are

The little small, half inch long, what quarter inch self trapping screws to put together

Um, you know, the round pipe. Well, it didn't take long, I mean

think about this, if you're, uh, an executive for the, the tool man

the power tool manufacturers, if you decide to go cordless, you pretty much

um, get the contractors to marry themselves to your brand because all of a sudden you really become a battery company

not a tool company. And that's what's happened. I saw this coming 1215 years ago

I said it at one of the events in the, um, the

uh, the people at the event, I'm not gonna say who they were. They kind of looked at me and they wanted me to shut

up because I wasn't, I was the oldest guy at the event, you know

and a bunch of the young guys there were, they, they, they didn't have enough life experience yet to figure it out

I knew it was going on. They're just, they're getting into the battery business and look how much in a replacement battery makes

They probably have a 2020 x markup in those things. Are you kidding me? And here's what happens if you decide that you're gonna jump

in and become a devault person or a bosch person, you don't wanna be buying twice the amount of batteries for each platform

It's crazy. You're gonna stick with one platform. So they see what Jimmy says

Uh Det Jimmy says, De Walt, ok? You're a DeWalt guy, ok

And you're having great success with them. I've been testing them for, I mean, DeWalt has really done a good job with her quality

I'm really happy with it. Um uh Let's see, Steve says Makita go a gold

got a gold series uh of them and they are quite expensive. Very interesting

He, here's the funny thing about Makita um years ago, the, the

the brand manager, the marketing manager, Makita, he must not have thought I was serious

What happened is he, he looked and ask the builder and he did not realize

I mean, he looked at as the builder and thought, well, you're just about consumers. Well, primarily I am

but so he would never send me one tool. They would, they wouldn't send me a thing

So I've never, you can go to my website, you cannot find him my key to review. Um Yes

quarter and 516 self taps. Exactly. Thank you. Thank you, Jimmy. Um Yeah

my, my friend Richard, he passed away uh about 14 months ago

I've got a, I've got a memorial to Richard on my website. If you go to ask the developer.com and type in Richard and I'll

just do it for you. What the heck. I keep always telling you that, you know, do this, do that, blah

blah, blah. This is where I need that assistant. Remember? Uh So you need to read this

You need to read about Richard if I can type it right

Richard was man, Richard Anderson. I'm telling you what uh you need to read about Richard

He's my best friend in Cincinnati passed away. Uh I'm sure he died of

uh he died of cancer and I'm sure his cancer was caused by Agent Orange

Uh He was a Vietnam vet. Um He volunteered twice. He volunteered

Do you understand what I'm saying? He enlisted and volunteered twice to go to Vietnam guy was a rip

and he never graduated from high school. Hey, brilliant, brilliant man. Flipping

brilliant guy. Uh The stories I can tell you about Richard, uh great guy here

One thing about Richard, I'll tell you this right now and then I'm probably gonna get out of here an hour and a half cannot

believe I've been on that long. I just, I say this often

I, I probably don't say this often enough. It's just like I don't tell Kathy often enough that I love her

All right. Um, I try to tell it to her every day and she just kind of brushes it off

you know, I don't tell you how much I appreciate you being here and how you really make this me

doing this live stream worthwhile. Uh, I've become friends with you and uh it's

I look forward to it. I look forward to doing these live streams. I just wish that they

they, you know, we probably end up having to do more zoom calls or something. Maybe because it's just always so one sided from my

perspective cause I don't get to hear you. I don't get to see you but I

I feel you in the chat and I appreciate you. Uh Anyway

Crutch word. Oh my gosh, crutch words. I don't know what I was gonna say

Now I'm starting to whack sentimental. Um But I, I um I decided last

after last week that each live stream, I'm gonna try to make it a little bit more structured and have

have some topics to talk about and uh you know, in case we run dry on questions

Will's laughing right now. Uh Steve, thank you very much, man. I am

I swear to God, I'm looking, this whole illness thing is almost over

Um they're going to but, but here's what's gonna happen. I'll just say this very quickly

When you read the Plan Demic book, you'll understand that there's been this massive

that's why it's called plan. It was planned. All right, there's

gonna be in the, I'm gonna go on record right now and tell you this

if you haven't already figured this out every two years and they're only gonna be able to pull this off like two or three times

and then everybody's gonna say you and your flipping new illness can go to hell

But you need to understand that, that all these people way up here

you know, and big Pharma here in America, man, they've gotten into the vaccine business

All right, because they don't have any liability, 00 liability and because the bureaucrats and

the research scientists can make money so all of a sudden there's gonna be all these new

oh, the caterpillar virus, the, I'm making it up

the, um, the earthworm virus. Yeah. I, I don't know. Just, you name it

man. I mean, whatever. That's what's, what's in our future because they're gonna keep trying to get people jabbed

All right, because that's how they're making money. I've told you before

It's all the flipping game of Thrones. It's all the Game of Thrones and just read the book one of Game of Thrones

It's just about money. Power and sex. That's it. I think it's

I think it's really in this order. Power, sex, money. All right. So

just, that's, ah, ok. Um

your crutch word. Oh, that's funny. Crutch word. I know. All right

I'm gonna go, I'm gonna get out of here an hour and 32 minutes. Crazy. Thank you for being here today

I'll be here tomorrow. Uh, I'll, yeah, I'll be here tomorrow. I might be a little tired

We got, we got a little pesky will will and I are gonna get dumped on again

A little pesky snow. I don't know. I was lightly snowing before I went

It's dark now, I can't tell what it's doing. Uh, we're gonna get a little snow and

uh, I'll be dealing with that tomorrow late morning. Uh, oh, well

we've only got here. I, I'm only worried, I'm not even worried about it at this point anymore

I'm only slightly concerned about the snow for the next three weeks because it's gonna be March 1st

Are you kidding me? And, um, once here in just, you know

here in central New Hampshire, once we hit March 1st, I don't care if it snows and I don't care if I do a good

job cleaning it up. I really don't care because the sun is getting high enough in the sky and when the temperature is starting to

get up into the forties in the daytime that it, it just melts. But here what I've learned in the 13 years I've been here

and will, will, will back me up on this, um, in December in January

You better be doing a really good job cleaning up because what happens is if you don't do it

it turns to ice and then you're done, it's over. Uh, and you know

you can tear up your snow blower, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So you have to do a really good job for two months

maybe 2.5 months. And then, then you can slack off a little bit

Steve. Good night, buddy. Good night, Lorraine. Good night. Will. Good night

Jimmy. Uh Good night. Um Marcus uh s and if I forgot your name

if you uh way up in the stream, I the chat stream, I apologize

Thanks once again for being here. You make the live stream happen

You really do, you, you make it really, really interesting for me. So thanks for being here

I really appreciate it. I will be here tomorrow. Like I said, uh we'll talk about a bunch of really good things

But remember it's not that you necessarily heard it here first, but the illness starting to fall apart

but here's what it means. I can already tell you this right now. Let's see, what is it

It's um here in America just so, you know, it's 2022. We got a big election happening in November

So it's February. I predict that in April, there's gonna be a new

thing, this new huge scare thing. Like I said, earthworm butterfly, unicorn

unicorn that's it. Flipping unicorn virus. Yeah. Unicorn illness. You watch and

see because they're gonna try to control you, man. But you read the pandemic

It's over. Game over. Yeah, me too, Steve. Oh Jason, I didn't

know you were here. I, I apologize, man. I, if you s chatted before and I missed it

I apologize. Uh Great, great to see you. Um Yeah, I'll bet you can't wait

You and me both buddy and Steve when this illness thing is over

I swear to God. Uh We gotta figure out how to get together. Either either you gotta come over here to Florida or I'm coming

I'm coming to the UK. Uh I, I it's really, I'm serious

I, so, but I'm not coming to the UK. If, if I have, if I have to have a stupid card

not, it's not happening and happening. I mean, it's so unfair because I've got natural immunity

That's better than the stupid fake crap. So they should give me a, a card that says

hey, Tim's ok, man. He's had it all right. Um And that's

I'm gonna say this last thing I, and then I'm gonna go seriously because we need to

this is a long term project to start thinking about. Uh we

I, I used to, I helped start a very secret internet mastermind group

I won't talk about it on here. I'll talk about it with you privately. Um But we used to have what we call parachute drops

That's was our code name that we were gonna do a parachute drop

So think about it in the mi military. What happens like uh like like on D day

you know, when, when we helped save, we help make sure that Steve wouldn't

wasn't talking German right now. You know, there were a bunch of paratroopers that dropped over to France

So, so we we should do a parachute drop. We should takes a lot of planning but all a parachute drop might be would be

planning ahead saying um I would put it up to the to the private group saying

ok, in two months, let's do a parachute drop at such and such a place like a resort

you know, very affordable one on these days. And then everybody kind of parachute drops in

I mean, you just kind of show up and for two or three days we just hang out

it's very unstructured. Uh but you get to meet everybody personally hang around the pool

go play around the golf, whatever. But I, I see an ask the builder parachute drop in our future

I can tell you that right now I'm gonna do one but I don't know, I don't know that it will happen in summer

I don't know that enough of this illness stuff will be over with you to, to

to make it happen. All right. Anyway, Kissimmee Florida. Yeah. Yeah, Steve will wanna go there

He wants to go to Florida. A lot of people from the UK go to Florida and it, it makes perfect sense why

Especially in the winter time. Who great place to get away to

Well, it's Steve. If you've not been to Florida, if Jimmy lives there

if that's where Jimmy's from, he'll tell you that. Um, best time to go to Florida at least is my opinion

Uh, late March, early, late March, all of April or, uh October

November. Um, great time to be in Florida. Oh, my gosh. Really great weather

Would you agree with that, Jimmy? That's, that's really ideal weather in Florida. I mean

it can get a little chilly in that, you know, you have to be in South Florida down at Key West in January or February

Um, but, um, and then in, um, June, July, August going to Orlando

Are you kidding me? I would be a flipping puddle of water on the ground

It's so hot and humid. Oh, horrible. Anyway, crutch word, not cuss word

Crutch word. I'm out of here. Thanks so much for being here today. We'll have fun tomorrow

Yes. Yes. Yes, exactly. Jimmy knows. Thanks for being here. I'll be here tomorrow

I'm Tim Carter. I've been doing the, the builder thing since 1993 and I did it today again here on the live stream

Had a great time. Oh, hopefully you're gonna be seeing some really interesting Ken shoes coming up soon

I just got a press release about it today. Oh, my gosh. Wait till you see these flipping shoes and they're work shoes

But they're so good looking. So, I, I'll tease that right away but that's probably two weeks out

Uh, oh, there you go. You got relatives in Jupiter? All right. There you go. Sounds like we're gonna do a parachute drop in Florida

I'll do it. I'll do it. Even if it's in the hot weather I'll come because they got air conditioning and I'm just gonna be

in the flipping pool. All right. But I will be out on the golf links at, at dawn

I, I'm, I'm gonna be golfing early in the day. Uh All right

Ok. Um, I'm out of here. Thanks for being here. I'll be here tomorrow

I'm Tim Carter. It's been asked the builder and I'm not gonna wear these hot cover all tomorrow

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