How To Solder Copper Pipes Like A Pro

Few tips, make sure the pipes are super clean, when soldering any fitting start on the easiest joint first as the heat will travel tovthe harder to reach joint, dont over heat, if the flame turns green you have over heated the joint and it will leak ive been a plumber for 45 years and trust me follow these simple rules and you will be an expert in no time

I love you showed "how to" and "how not to" and showed what it looks like. You can learn quite a bit by both. Thank you.

Love that tip about bending the solder into portions.

Someone like me has to watch this over and over before I try it. lol Hello, good teacher, Skill Builder.

Tempted to give this a thumbs up before I've even seen the end as Roger is a great tradesman and I know this will be a great video. Really enjoy the channel mate

Honestly seen a lot of soldering videos but for the first time I understand flux .... excellent video

Yep, you pronounce soldering correctly. We Americans don't. Lol. Great video, I have a lot of copper pipes in the basement and our plumbers where I moved are dreadful. I need to know how to solder so I am on the hunt for good videos. This vid was great. Thank you.

Roger is an excellent presenter – just the right blend of knowledgeable, skilled, and engaging. As a jeweller, I'm new to this specific kind of soldering, so I feel lucky to have stumbled upon your video before wading through a lot of other inferior content on YouTube – thank you!

We has self cleanin' fluxes, my precious.

Clearly explained and demonstrated, good job!

Rodger is such a great teacher.

What an absolute masterclass. As usual.

Beautiful soldering

Thank you for this masterclass. You are a Jedi master of pipework!

This came about just at the right time for me. Replacing an outside tap very soon and the new tap I bought has a Yorkshire fitting. I was going to look up a tutorial because, whilst it seemed obvious how to use it, I'm always keen to sanity check (especially as my soldering experience is all with electrics). You've saved me a search, and also stopped me from unnecessarily buying a specific soldering torch for pipework, as I now realise the gas torch I have will do the job 👍 Cheers. 👍

Pro Tips: When soldering a wet water supply pipe (for repair) ball up some loaf bread and stuff it into the pipe. Also, after sweating the pipe and while it is still nice and hot (right after applying the solder), brush on more flux to clean up the solder joint if you have made a mess of it. Not emphasized on this video: in order for the capillary action to work ideally, the heat from the torch should be applied to the fitting opposite of where the solder is applied (and well into the center of the fitting). This is to draw the solder into the joint effectively. Avoid contacting the flame with the solder!

Excellent advice and tutorial as usual Roger.

Excellent training video thanks

cheers - this video was very helpful. don't need to call a plumber anymore. sorted it out myself without any issues

Thanks Roger this vlog you did in plain english if you get me, simple and well explained great job