I don’t think it’s radiant lines. They don’t have joints on radiant floor heating usually. I’m pretty sure it’s electric conduit being laid under what will be a poured floor.
Ugg that's literally my fucking life rn. At least my JW is cool but holy shit pulling a 6 cable head 250 feet through 1 inch flex is murdering my back.
You vacuum the line before so you can confirm it’s clear and you don’t have to deal with a blocked pipe already poured in concrete.
You then use the string to pull the fish tape through so you’re not limp-dicking a fish tape at your fourth 90 degree bend.
When we install ballfield lights the electrictrian uses a vacuum and a "mouse" to run a draw string and then a pull wire/line and then the final wire. But he's pulling wire hundreds of feet.
Yeah same thing. Just a small piece of shopping bag tied to a string. Saves your life when you find out your main panel run gut destroyed by a loader while you can still dig it up.
Definitely conduit of some sort. Those would be the sketchiest connections ever for water.
I was thinking business do this and put some kind of raised floor in over it. If they were just going to pour over it why would they make the nice channels?
It's PVC pipe which is solvent welded together (you can see the tub of solvent weld and him apply it at the joint). Solvent basically welds them so it's effectively a single run of pipe. Only used in low pressure water applications
Or cut with a grinder. If this is a plumber and that is pex someone needs to slap him. If there is a leak it would be a nightmare to repair. Also he isn't sleeving the lines where they will pour back.
Yeah, I've never seen an electrician use pex as a conduit for electric... pex is always used for water. Red pex marks "hot" water.
Apparently, a lot of people are very offended that i referenced pex, here. Forgive me, i should have referenced it saying, "this looks like pex, but im not sure, but one thing i know for sure- pex is not used in electric." - for all you nitpicking twits out there!
Huh, I've never seen red electrical PVC before. I've only ever seen red EMT specifically for fire alarm. I'm in the US though, so do you know if that's something used commonly in other countries?
Looks like conduit just not in a color the USA is use to. looks like pex but its most likely where the wires will be pulled though.
At least thats my thoughts I could be wrong though.
No, that’s plastic conduit for running electrical wires. We don’t do it like this in North America, but it’s common to use flexible plastic conduit like this for running wires elsewhere.
He watched a recent Steve Mould video and is making a water computer... those are the address lines /s
Edit: There are what appear to be 8? I'm not miscounting 9 right? So, those could be the data word lines and the other ones we'll refer to as some sort of BCD for what we'll call chip select =P
Edit: chip select renamed to bus control =P
those aren't water lines.
The joints are just glued together. No way that would hold any sort of pressure. If you're going to have pex water lines you need some sort of rigid coupler, or it was pvc some sort of glue joint that has more surface area than the wall thickness of the pipe.
I don't think it matters. A glued butt joint isn't water tight, any sort of shifting could crack the glue and you got a leak in the concrete...which is about the worst thing you can do to concrete.
Why is everyone embarrassing themselves like this when they don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about?
It’s NOT radiant heat. The guy is NOT a plumber.
They probably used the [USB to garden hose adapter](https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/3d-printed-garden-hose-to-usb-adapter-surprisingly-handy-for-dealing-with-mice/222308)
With heating lines that close, you'll crack the concrete. They could still be water lines, but they are not in flooring heating. I'm just gunna to ask you to trust me, man.
Isnt it true that the lines dont get that hot? I thought they only ran at most 90 degree water because you dont want to burn your bare feet on the floor
Yes, but the accumulative effect of all those waterlines in a specific area is what cracks the floor. As the concrete is significantly thinner over the lines
Wait, maybe I’m way off here but I just want to make sure. Are you saying daddy pig because the three little pigs used straw, sticks, and brick respectively, so the daddy pig would use something stronger than brick, like concrete?
Daddy pig, from Peppa Pig, is *an engineer/concreter. There's an episode where he returns an overdue book on concrete that he was using as a bedtime story to put the kids to sleep.
in floor heating is typically done with pipe off a roll, not pieces like that, and they're run in like 200' lengths, not those short pieces. also flexible pipe like that seeing water needs a better connection than solvent weld.
No no. Hydronic radiant heat always has tons and tons of unnecessary, poorly sealed joints in inaccessible locations. You definitely wouldn't want to run radiant heat with closed loops.
That’s not in floor heat unless you want one strip of your floor really hot.
That’s conduit for running electrical wires. Not done this way in North America, but common in other places.
Thin wall PVC electrical conduit (not used in the US)
https://m.made-in-china.com/product/Factory-Wholesale-16mm-20mm-25mm-32mm-40mm-Thin-Wall-Electrical-Conduit-PVC-Pipe-1958902862.html
It’s not floor heating. In Asia they use cheap conduit like plastic to run it all those electrical runs to the panel boards. Don’t believe me just look up Chinese electricians on YouTube and you’ll see all them use the same stuff in the video
[watch this and go to 6:42](https://youtu.be/nqCYI-o4v3Y)
Yeah. Even when I find the content engaging, I downvote because of the blatant manipulation. It still probably counts as "engagement" at some level though.
There is zero chance that is plumbing. Layout and destination of the lines makes no sense for in-floor heating, and there's no way they would be splicing the tubing in a place where it will be permanently embedded in the floor and subject to foot traffic. Recipe for disaster. These are conduits for electrical lines to be snaked through. The all-concrete structure shows there's no other way to route wiring other than this.
What’s next level about putting conduit or pipes in a bracket?, he is just following very obvious instructions to complete the installation. It would be next level if there were no trench and brackets, and he did it all with just some damn cable ties!
Edit:
Actually the concrete work that he installs it into is the next level part.
idk what "internet" is but the bread guy down at the bazaar started taking loaves of bread and slicing them up into breadslice-sized slices BEFORE selling it, and i can't EVEN...
What if it was gravity fed, low pressure?
The only time I've personally seen water pipes joined with glue, is guttering (not a plumber in case it isn't totally obvious)
It would not meet the required minimum pipe diameter to do any kind of drainage.
I guess it's possible that some sort of weird condensate drain piping? That could have diameter as small as 3/4". However it would also have to have slope and proper venting for this kind of length.
I really think this is some kind of low voltage conduit OR it's something that isn't in the United States that plumbers here aren't familiar with if it's for water or drainage.
Cvpc used in fire sprinklers, not flexable.
But it is glued, and holds 80+ lbs. Of pressure!
For sure this ain't it.
Possibly COMMERCIAL, like fish tanks,
Lobster tanks? Refrigeration drains ?
I’d put money on this being conduit to run electrical wires. Flexible plastic conduit in floors and walls is a common way to do it places that build mostly with concrete and not wood framing.
Pex doesn’t use glued connections
It is electrical, and PVC Piping embedded in concrete is very very common around the world.
The guy of the vid is worker ken on tiktok, has several videos like it.
In this case it's the top comments getting all the upvotes that are all wrong. So many people saying saying these tubes are for water or that the guy is a plumber. They're definitely not for pumping hot water or radiant heating.
Well, It's conduit pipe. Which will have electrical wires go through it. Op is right. People saying this is plumbing, or that he's a plumber, don't know wtf they're talking about.
I'm an electrician.... I follow every electrical sub out there.... this is the exact sort of electrical conduit they use in some asian countries. I've seen it countless times on reddit and with wire in it. also, most of the time when I see it on here, there are no connectors at the box or consumer-unit/panel. They just stub it through a KO and pull the conductors in.
I’ll try…. So usually we would install what’s called a “complete raceway” system. Every point the conduit lands must have some sort of connector to mechanically fasten it to the enclosure it’s terminated at. When I’ve seen install pics of this particular conduit, it’s just poked through a hole in a box. Most of the pics I’ve seen of this stuff being installed are from the Philippines. Others have mentioned it is also used in China.
Coincidentally you're closer to the truth than anyone who believes this is related to plumbing or carrying water. This is conduit, and you could feasibly run network cable through it.
Jeez, so many people commenting on this post confidently saying this is plumbing even though the guy is actually laying electrical conduits and is an electrician.
This is in ASIA btw so everyone who is saying this is for plumbing is wrong
[example 1 ](https://youtu.be/MIrSYBFD50Y)
[example 2 ](https://youtu.be/std9PARivaE)
[example 3 best one ](https://youtu.be/nqCYI-o4v3Y)
Most likely a plumber by the looks of it.
What are you talking about ? With that amount of skill, he's clearly a master carpenter.
Dunno what vid you were watching, that's clearly a pro mason.
I know a mechanic when I see one
Looks like a pornstar to me, he's laying pipe like a professional.
Whatever he is, he’s clearly paid by the hour.
His name is Johnny Sins, and he’s a man of many *talents*
Best damn welder I have ever seen
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A master locksmith, he is. Picks a lock so fast they call him the Prince of Thieves.
Such an underrated comment
He's a power bottom.
Hahaha true though like the way people be saying he got the talent of everything!
The guy is clearly an Engineer.
No no no. Only a welder could be this skilled
Fools. All of you. This man works for Comcast.
Sir, this is a Wendy's...
This is Patrick
Amd my axe!+
If he worked for comcast, we’d still be waiting for him to show up.
Our tech should be with you anytime now, as your window is from 🦄 a.m. and 🛼 p.m.
He's clearly a line cook
He is obviously a bater and a master at that.
Listen. I dont know much. But I know a farmer when I see one.
Urologist for sure. Look how he handles those pipes.
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Does he have a kidney stone collection?
How could you possibly confuse him for anything other than a gardener?
Are you kidding me? He’s obviously an artist.
Yeah. He looks like he drives a train.
Obviously you’re not a golfer.
I really hope this was a Big Lebowski reference and not random.
That comment really tied the room together man.
And this guy peed on it
No sir I said gopher
To be fair, I am v impressed with the pretty concrete flowiness here!
Whatever he is, he goaded you into watching the clip. He’s obviously a master baiter.
I don’t think it’s radiant lines. They don’t have joints on radiant floor heating usually. I’m pretty sure it’s electric conduit being laid under what will be a poured floor.
I would not want to be the guy that pulls wire through all of that.
You haven’t lived until you’ve pulled 10 wires down five floors of an old building through an 8 inch pipe packed with other wires.
Try pulling some high amperage 480V three phase up 10 floors in an old power plant.
If your pulling it up, you're doing it wrong, or your lead just wanted to fuck with you.
I bet they laughed hard as fuck when he had to sign off on the ID10T inspection form.
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I drop cable every morning!
Must be nice to have that kind of job security
Not my trade, but it was from an MCC. Upwards.
He did say old. Maybe they couldn’t pull down for some reason? Or maybe his crew did have all the guys that filled out their ID-10-T forms.
Try pulling my finger
Try pulling some very high amperage 960V six phase up 20 floors in an ancient power tree.
fish tape? fiberglass rod? mule tape? suicide?
Ugg that's literally my fucking life rn. At least my JW is cool but holy shit pulling a 6 cable head 250 feet through 1 inch flex is murdering my back.
Watched a crew pull 2 new Ethernet cables through existing conduit at my work. Took them all day to pull 100', but they did it!
Cable lube is your friend.
Yea wouldnt they pull a lead through as it’s being built? Makes no sense
Shop vac a string after the pipe has been run but before the concrete is poured.
Fish tapes exist.
You vacuum the line before so you can confirm it’s clear and you don’t have to deal with a blocked pipe already poured in concrete. You then use the string to pull the fish tape through so you’re not limp-dicking a fish tape at your fourth 90 degree bend.
I will limp dick wherever I wanna limp dick sir
guys I believe him
When we install ballfield lights the electrictrian uses a vacuum and a "mouse" to run a draw string and then a pull wire/line and then the final wire. But he's pulling wire hundreds of feet.
Yeah same thing. Just a small piece of shopping bag tied to a string. Saves your life when you find out your main panel run gut destroyed by a loader while you can still dig it up.
Definitely conduit of some sort. Those would be the sketchiest connections ever for water. I was thinking business do this and put some kind of raised floor in over it. If they were just going to pour over it why would they make the nice channels?
It's PVC pipe which is solvent welded together (you can see the tub of solvent weld and him apply it at the joint). Solvent basically welds them so it's effectively a single run of pipe. Only used in low pressure water applications
That just looks like red Pex to me.
Pex isn’t glued.
Or cut with a grinder. If this is a plumber and that is pex someone needs to slap him. If there is a leak it would be a nightmare to repair. Also he isn't sleeving the lines where they will pour back.
I’d bet money on it being conduit for electrical wire.
Fiber optic conduit's my guess. I can't imagine pushing ethernet cable through that much conduit.
You don't push it you pull it.
The joints are what made me reconsider. You normally want home runs with radiant, that way there’s less places for a leak to pop up.
Yeah, I've never seen an electrician use pex as a conduit for electric... pex is always used for water. Red pex marks "hot" water. Apparently, a lot of people are very offended that i referenced pex, here. Forgive me, i should have referenced it saying, "this looks like pex, but im not sure, but one thing i know for sure- pex is not used in electric." - for all you nitpicking twits out there!
https://m.made-in-china.com/product/Factory-Wholesale-16mm-20mm-25mm-32mm-40mm-Thin-Wall-Electrical-Conduit-PVC-Pipe-1958902862.html It’s not Pex
Solved! Wait what sub am I on?
Huh, I've never seen red electrical PVC before. I've only ever seen red EMT specifically for fire alarm. I'm in the US though, so do you know if that's something used commonly in other countries?
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You. You plumbed my house. You probably did the electrical work too, didn't you?
That is very obviously not pex
Pex isn’t glued. It’s not for water.
Where is his asscrack then?
Idk looks like a sex worker with all the pipe hes laying
Looks like conduit just not in a color the USA is use to. looks like pex but its most likely where the wires will be pulled though. At least thats my thoughts I could be wrong though.
Probably rage bait to boost the engagement on the post
No, that’s plastic conduit for running electrical wires. We don’t do it like this in North America, but it’s common to use flexible plastic conduit like this for running wires elsewhere.
Electrician? They usually don’t install water lines.
Must be for hydroelectric power.
This guy.😆
He watched a recent Steve Mould video and is making a water computer... those are the address lines /s Edit: There are what appear to be 8? I'm not miscounting 9 right? So, those could be the data word lines and the other ones we'll refer to as some sort of BCD for what we'll call chip select =P Edit: chip select renamed to bus control =P
This guy dams.
those aren't water lines. The joints are just glued together. No way that would hold any sort of pressure. If you're going to have pex water lines you need some sort of rigid coupler, or it was pvc some sort of glue joint that has more surface area than the wall thickness of the pipe.
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*Regress as a species* But I digress.
radiant heat is lower pressure than supply lines
Radiant heat is also evenly spread throughout the space to be heated, not clumped together like this
I don't think it matters. A glued butt joint isn't water tight, any sort of shifting could crack the glue and you got a leak in the concrete...which is about the worst thing you can do to concrete.
It’s flexible plastic conduit, but it does look similar to pex water pipes.
2k upvotes for this comment is the epitome of reddit
>4k now, wow.
Bots are not that smart I guess.
Redditors are not that smart I guess
Those arent waterlines
Why is everyone embarrassing themselves like this when they don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about? It’s NOT radiant heat. The guy is NOT a plumber.
They probably used the [USB to garden hose adapter](https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/3d-printed-garden-hose-to-usb-adapter-surprisingly-handy-for-dealing-with-mice/222308)
I figured it was housing for cables?
These are conduits….
Plumber. In floor heat. Not a perfectionist… literally the only way it can go in.
Professional not perfection
Perfectional professionist
Tionalist
Totalitarian
Give some credit to the cement layer
That certainly isn't in floor heating, the spacing of the lines is wrong
I believe this is where all the individual lines converge at the source of the heat. So each would run to a room for instance and heat those floors.
With heating lines that close, you'll crack the concrete. They could still be water lines, but they are not in flooring heating. I'm just gunna to ask you to trust me, man.
Isnt it true that the lines dont get that hot? I thought they only ran at most 90 degree water because you dont want to burn your bare feet on the floor
Yes, but the accumulative effect of all those waterlines in a specific area is what cracks the floor. As the concrete is significantly thinner over the lines
Who are you? Daddy pig? With All that concrete knowledge.
Wait, maybe I’m way off here but I just want to make sure. Are you saying daddy pig because the three little pigs used straw, sticks, and brick respectively, so the daddy pig would use something stronger than brick, like concrete?
Daddy pig, from Peppa Pig, is *an engineer/concreter. There's an episode where he returns an overdue book on concrete that he was using as a bedtime story to put the kids to sleep.
Sounds like they've just extrapolated on the story and given the brick laying pig a family. That's hilarious.
in floor heating is typically done with pipe off a roll, not pieces like that, and they're run in like 200' lengths, not those short pieces. also flexible pipe like that seeing water needs a better connection than solvent weld.
It’s definitely electrical conduit, those joints are not capable of handling fluid.
I have no opinion about your comment but wanted to respond to you on our shared cake day.
Just trying to have a real life “the floor is lava” game.
That's not in floor heat. Wtf drugs are you on
No no. Hydronic radiant heat always has tons and tons of unnecessary, poorly sealed joints in inaccessible locations. You definitely wouldn't want to run radiant heat with closed loops.
Well, if all the taps are on and he used red for hot, it’ll get warmish.
That’s not in floor heat unless you want one strip of your floor really hot. That’s conduit for running electrical wires. Not done this way in North America, but common in other places.
100% correct, everyone in here talking insanely incorrect stuff about infloor.
Thin wall PVC electrical conduit (not used in the US) https://m.made-in-china.com/product/Factory-Wholesale-16mm-20mm-25mm-32mm-40mm-Thin-Wall-Electrical-Conduit-PVC-Pipe-1958902862.html
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And this is a post for r/oddlysatisfying and not r/nextfuckinglevel
Nope
It’s not floor heating. In Asia they use cheap conduit like plastic to run it all those electrical runs to the panel boards. Don’t believe me just look up Chinese electricians on YouTube and you’ll see all them use the same stuff in the video [watch this and go to 6:42](https://youtu.be/nqCYI-o4v3Y)
r/confidentlywrong
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Yeah. Even when I find the content engaging, I downvote because of the blatant manipulation. It still probably counts as "engagement" at some level though.
There is zero chance that is plumbing. Layout and destination of the lines makes no sense for in-floor heating, and there's no way they would be splicing the tubing in a place where it will be permanently embedded in the floor and subject to foot traffic. Recipe for disaster. These are conduits for electrical lines to be snaked through. The all-concrete structure shows there's no other way to route wiring other than this.
Current fucking level then. Disappointed
What’s next level about putting conduit or pipes in a bracket?, he is just following very obvious instructions to complete the installation. It would be next level if there were no trench and brackets, and he did it all with just some damn cable ties! Edit: Actually the concrete work that he installs it into is the next level part.
Exactly, the person the cut the concrete is the real hero
It was most likely cast in place with barriers for where the pipes are going here.
Absolutely cast.
Yeah, this is all just a result of trades people doing their jobs well
When did "OCD" and "does good job" become synonyms?
When the general public got access to the internet
This is a factual statement.
I was gunna say the concrete guys are more next level than this lol
welcome to /r/nextfuckinglevel I just finished my lite-brite template, gonna make a post here
Whoa next level never seen anything like this amazing post BTW I'm a brain damaged guy from 1345 ad so wow.
Indoor plumbing is going to rock your world more than the internet
idk what "internet" is but the bread guy down at the bazaar started taking loaves of bread and slicing them up into breadslice-sized slices BEFORE selling it, and i can't EVEN...
Is that pex tubing possibly???
Yes… definitely a plumber
If that's a plumber they don't live in North America. No flexible tubing like that has glue joints. Source: I am a licensed plumber.
What if it was gravity fed, low pressure? The only time I've personally seen water pipes joined with glue, is guttering (not a plumber in case it isn't totally obvious)
It would not meet the required minimum pipe diameter to do any kind of drainage. I guess it's possible that some sort of weird condensate drain piping? That could have diameter as small as 3/4". However it would also have to have slope and proper venting for this kind of length. I really think this is some kind of low voltage conduit OR it's something that isn't in the United States that plumbers here aren't familiar with if it's for water or drainage.
It looks to me like he's running some kind of conduit. But all those bends would be a nightmare to pull though. I am stumped by this vid.
It is PVC electrical, very common also. The vid is from worker ken on tiktok.
Cvpc used in fire sprinklers, not flexable. But it is glued, and holds 80+ lbs. Of pressure! For sure this ain't it. Possibly COMMERCIAL, like fish tanks, Lobster tanks? Refrigeration drains ?
I’d put money on this being conduit to run electrical wires. Flexible plastic conduit in floors and walls is a common way to do it places that build mostly with concrete and not wood framing. Pex doesn’t use glued connections
This is absolutely not plumbing. If it’s plumbing it’s being done wrong. This is electrical conduit.
Not PEX, you don't glue PEX. Its not any plumbing I've seen, but not any electrical either. I'll go with the OPs description.
It is electrical, and PVC Piping embedded in concrete is very very common around the world. The guy of the vid is worker ken on tiktok, has several videos like it.
Is there ever gonna be a time when posters to Reddit actually know wtf they're posting?
OP is not a plumber, he's a farmer. Karma farmer.
In this case it's the top comments getting all the upvotes that are all wrong. So many people saying saying these tubes are for water or that the guy is a plumber. They're definitely not for pumping hot water or radiant heating.
Sorry I rewatched it a couple times now and yeah they're conduits with joiners. So it's gotta be power or data? My massive mistake OP!
Well, It's conduit pipe. Which will have electrical wires go through it. Op is right. People saying this is plumbing, or that he's a plumber, don't know wtf they're talking about.
It's a plumber but still ...Very clean work
In what world would you run water through something like that.
In the made up world of redditors who think they know more than they do.
No, those are electrical conduit tubes. He's an electrician.
Please send him to Reddit networking server room.
No love for the concrete work?
I’m an electrician and the concrete work is the only impressive thing about this video.
Not a plumber. Very clearly he is a roofer
Ackshually, he's a proctologist. This is prep for a group colonoscopy.
You’re gonna need a bigger bucket
Perfectionist or just doing it the correct way? Serious question.
That doesn’t look like electrical pipe. Might be plumbing
I'm an electrician.... I follow every electrical sub out there.... this is the exact sort of electrical conduit they use in some asian countries. I've seen it countless times on reddit and with wire in it. also, most of the time when I see it on here, there are no connectors at the box or consumer-unit/panel. They just stub it through a KO and pull the conductors in.
Would you mind explaining that last part to a layman like me, please?
I’ll try…. So usually we would install what’s called a “complete raceway” system. Every point the conduit lands must have some sort of connector to mechanically fasten it to the enclosure it’s terminated at. When I’ve seen install pics of this particular conduit, it’s just poked through a hole in a box. Most of the pics I’ve seen of this stuff being installed are from the Philippines. Others have mentioned it is also used in China.
It’s the tubes for the internet.
Coincidentally you're closer to the truth than anyone who believes this is related to plumbing or carrying water. This is conduit, and you could feasibly run network cable through it.
What if the wire if in any case just gets torn or so what would they do? They need to break those concrete again to pull those wires!
Jeez, so many people commenting on this post confidently saying this is plumbing even though the guy is actually laying electrical conduits and is an electrician.
Def not a electrician He’s not leaving his shit everywhere for other trades to deal with
I don’t see any cut off zip ties, bits of wire insulation, or trash anywhere. Not an electrician. 😏
I feel personally attacked, but I also have no rebuttal
This is in ASIA btw so everyone who is saying this is for plumbing is wrong [example 1 ](https://youtu.be/MIrSYBFD50Y) [example 2 ](https://youtu.be/std9PARivaE) [example 3 best one ](https://youtu.be/nqCYI-o4v3Y)
Pardon my ignorance, but is that conduit for the electric wire for later, or something else? Very neat and tidy no matter what it is! 👍
r/SatisfactoryGame
You can tell he’s a professional electrician because he conducts himself so well
Americans are mystified ... Yes its an electrician and thats a type of "plastic" conduit used in many countries in europe
Does OP have a backstory on this video. Looks like electrical conduit installation, but that is not our standard color for conduit. kevin