A meter photo before every leak job: Roger Wakefield's fifteen shorts
The Texas master plumber spent his week on forever chemicals, GFCI cords and city water reports, and a microplastics short posted a day ago is already his busiest.
Roger Wakefield Plumbing EducationStory of Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Plumbers: meter photo in, meter photo out, every leak job #shorts
"Plumbers: meter photo in, meter photo out, every leak job" is about as Roger Wakefield as a title gets. The Texas master plumber, who calls his channel the biggest voice in plumbing, boils a whole argument down to one habit: photograph the water meter before you touch anything, photograph it again when you're done, and that picture becomes your proof, your invoice and your defense.
It was one of fifteen shorts this week, nearly all of them talking to tradespeople rather than homeowners. One squeezes the federal PFAS limit into an image, four drops in twenty Olympic pools. Another warns that in a crawlspace the leak won't hurt you, but the cord lying in the water will, so the GFCI has to trip when you press Test. A third tells plumbers not to sell a filter at all: read the customer's own city water report with them and test the water in front of them.
The most watched of the week was the opener, "Every trade has one skill that pays more," Roger's case that diagnosis is what separates a specialist from a parts-swapper. The comments filled up with mechanics, electricians and HVAC techs telling their own versions, one of them a small-engine tech for twenty years before switching trades. And one viewer noticed the setup looked ready for someone to drop a beat.
The freshest uploads are moving fastest. A short on microplastics joining the EPA's drinking water watch list, careful to call it a watch list and not a rule, and one on spotting a leak in a winter water bill are both picking up views quickly a day after going up. Views overall ran a little above the channel's usual pace, with about a thousand new subscribers on the week.
Among the DIY and home channels near his size, Tia Weston had the big week, and most of the rest ran below their usual pace. Roger's corner of the group is a smaller, steadier one, and this week it held.
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What viewers say
The comments under "Every trade has one skill that pays more #shorts"
I thought you were about to drop a beat with that setup
@bigfishboss2103See it on YouTubeLiterally the difference between a technician and a master mechanic for automotive
@Asdeer101See it on YouTubeLol the broom 😂
I get it though, electrician work is all diagnostics, & there is a lot of tools to just make that diagnostic easy@Asdeer101See it on YouTube
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The videos drawing views on Roger Wakefield Plumbing Education right now
Every trade has one skill that pays more #shorts10,757 views · 2026-09-30
4 drops in 20 Olympic pools: the federal PFAS limit #shorts8,252 views · 2026-10-01
Don't sell the filter. Pull up their own city's water report #shorts5,157 views · 2026-10-03
You wouldn't guess where a leak is. Stop guessing about your website.…5,071 views · 2026-10-04
The leak won't hurt you. The cord will. #shorts5,012 views · 2026-10-03
Microplastics just made the EPA drinking water watch list #shorts3,433 views
Your winter water bill can tell you if you have a leak #shorts1,609 views
- Subscribers
- 732,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 432,585
- Videos published this week
- 15
- Video published
- October 4, 2026
- Video views so far
- 7,981
- Views on its first day
- 5,949
The numbers
Here is how Roger Wakefield's channel moved over the past week.
💡 Test your knowledge
PFAS are often called by which nickname, used in Roger's short on the federal limit?
PFAS break down extremely slowly in the environment and the body, which earned them the name forever chemicals.
