Yeah don’t let the builder do the wiring!!! Fault on every circuit.
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Consumer unit change gone horribly wrong!!
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Here's this show off clown again.
What he think he know's about electrics wouldn't fill an egg cup.
Basic electrics for god's sake. Loves himself so much.
Has Chris offended you in the past, Roy? I’ve seen you comment on some of his other videos and can’t understand why you would bother watching if you feel superior to him.
I think Chris is amazing how he brings humour to days work and not so bloody stressful and serious, I’d love to work with him .
Lets see your work Roy.
If you don't love yourself ,you cannot love others .You will not be able to love others . If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able to of developing compassion for others. That's the Delai Lama that is.
Roy went phishing and caught 5 so far
That was really interesting, more like this pls.
Yeas the though process and fault finding is invaluable!
I don't know why this was recommended when im a bin man looking at dustcarts haven't got a clue what your talking about but found it interesting and entertaining im hooked great video stay safe 👍
Board looks perfectly fine to me 🤣
At least these bodge jobs make good video content 👍
I'm a bricklayer so I've really no idea why I watched this? And I not even going to pretend that i understood any of it! 🤣
But I'll watch a few more videos anyway. 😎
"Lucky trowel" the brickie lmao 😅
I'm a spark and I've learned more from these types of videos than I did from my tradesmen! If you watch a few of these you'll get a basic understanding in no time, I always think it's a good thing to get a rough understanding of this electrical stuff
Take a sparky out for a pint...he’ll tell you about ring finals, loops, CPC, mcb’s, RCD’s, different cables, consumer units and.......if you want a laf...landing lights.
I'm a sparky and have watched a fare few bricklaying videos. Find the whole trade quite chilled and satisfying. In fact, trades that impress me most in order, bricklaying, joinery, electrical, plastering, decorating, cleaning, plumbing
Excellent bit of fault finding. Enjoyed that one.
Excellent CJR. The sheer determination to do it right.
Great Video Chris... Just shows that these jobs dont always go smoothly. Always test first, save yourself a lot of grief !! 👍
Well done there mate!
I’m a controls engineer on industrial machinery, fault finding looks a lot more difficult when everything’s buried in the house! And random junction boxes, who ordered those!!
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The best thing this spark and his apprentice do is the making good at the end of the work, a very underestimated art.
I once lived in an apartment complex where there was an old lady who had mild dementia. She got up in the middle of the night and rode her bike around town for reasons no one could understand and she fiddled with the circuit breaker box feeling it had strange powers. The landlord had to get a lock just to keep her out.
I went to a new extention done by old Bob the builder to replace white sockets with brushed chrome. I found the ring circuit wired in 1.5mm on a type b 32a mcb. Told client the good news....she had a complete melt down when I told her it was dangerous and to contact Bob and the gang and her solicitor. Great video btw and to see you know your stuff especially testing the circuits before the board is disconnected and removed 👍
well done fellas...I'm retired now after 48 years, good to see " proper" sparks at work rather than "part P Percy's" as we used to call them. i used to draw a floor plan and note readings on it as i went around the property.....saved repeating tests,
also found an R2 lead invaluable at times, i have subscribed now so keep up the good work and humour, (miss my old mate Keith for that)
Builders are too funny. just running cables here there and everywhere
Top top video really good for young sparks to learn as well. Patience and being methodical these jobs are where you learn the most and this is the kind of experience that you need that will pay off for future jobs, definitely worth spending your time on this job even if it takes longer than you expected.
Great vid as always. Great seeing how you fault find as I've just come into the trade, and how things should be done . 👍
At least your customer can see from the video what you had to go through 👍
Keep up the good work Chris and don’t let the haters get to you, they only hate because they can’t do better.
Builders and electrics what a combination 😩
Wow that was quick
I'm neither.. from watching your videos Any of my DIY takes pride. It seems trades get lazy 😦😦
So do I class myself as both 🤷♂️
Cracking video as usual Chris 👍
From what I’ve seen your more electrician than builder. Normal builders install the consumer unit with a lump hammer.
Makes a change from blaming DIY'ers!!!
How are you guys wearing shorts, I'd be freezing!!! Great video as always!
He's balancing that out with three layers on the top half of the body ;=)
Great fault finding, well done, yes CJR10
And this is why a good trade costs money! Mashed my head watching let alone doing... great video chaps
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Loving the lash ups there.
Consumer unit cover not on properly = back in the van.
Great fault finding yet again, thanks for sharing.
Absolutely love your videos. I'm an automotive electrician, I've done a bit of wiring in the house but my god your videos really give me an idea of how little I actually know lol
I bet you've seen some bodgery yourself in your time
@@luviskol oh like you wouldn't believe.
I loved watching this, well done and thank you.
I'm a 72 year old semi retired American electrician and boxes over here are supposed to be accessible unless the home owner deems that there now a qualified electrician and then creative wiring begins. In my 50 plus years I have made a lot of money on creative wiring. It continues as I speak. One example was the landlord that went into the creative wiring mode and had the neutral and hot on the same side of outlet and couldn't understand why the breaker tripped. Great video.
Glad I watched this now. I sometimes think it's just who gets shite like this.
Vary satisfactorily to finally get there. However, as a very green spark, this makes me very nervous.
How long do you go before you say to customer....
“Sorry, get your chequebook out”
Gotta love builders retro fit shit...lashed in!!
I was absolutely stoked when you got continuity on the cpc!
Finish Hoovering up and them make like the Shepherd and GET THE FLOCK OUT OF THERE!!!
:"losing the will to live on this one"... funny... made me laugh... been there before on projects (not electrical)
Great video guys.... Excellent fault finding
12:27 - It's funny because most sparks I come across think they're "spreads" "chippies" "structural engineers" "architects" "kitchen fitters" "decorators" just about anything, except none of them think they're plumbers hahaha!!!!
Very good work, hope customer appreciates they are a lot safer.
Thanks for sharing.
Yeah buried junction boxes! It’s the worst, found a ton in the new house ended up moving them into new hidden locations so I could install them into single or double gang wall box and cap off. At least I don’t have to deal with rings over here! Good job, sorry James letting us down with the socks!!!!
I spent a few years working plumbing pipe in domestic and chipboard floors still give me a queasy feeling.
I love the improvise using the gas pipe to hold your metre love it
Don’t forget the code next time James, BUNDY10
Was going to say exact same thing!
BUNDY10 is the discount code for Kopex?
Some man Chris, never give up
Sneaky hands free continuity there to prove me wrong Chris 😃😂
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A classic example of "why the rest of the world doesn't use ring final circuits" 😉
Chasing broken earths on radials isn't that much more fun though... still, there's one less chance of screwing up a circuit.
James you're going to have up your socks game 😆😆😆
That hanging dead spider at the beginning really put me on edge 🤣🤣
Chris. Mind your feet on those “Jesus” carpet grippers.😎😂😂👍🏻
Good vid mate straight in no messing about no bs. What we come here too see ! Good content
The Scuderia Ferrari of consumer units
I thought my 1960s built house had bad electrics with only 3 fuses for the whole house but its far neater than that great video i will upgrade mine at some point think it needs it
9:30 that Doll in the corner didn't creep you out ....
This reminds me of some dodgy electrics at my parents old place. When an extension was built they run one set of sockets off an upstairs bedoom! Also the shower pump could've run 5 showers (like the type you have in commercial gyms or swimming pools). Was a total nightmare!
OMG - what a nightmare! Well done on your first set of troubleshooting.
thats correct - my so called step dad who thought was great - put the cooker on the lights RCD ring and wonder why it kept tripping all the time. then the real electricians came and shouted when they needed to do a survey... and shouted HELP!!!! The electrics in this house is SHODDY!!!
Job satisfaction on these types of jobs - hard work but nice when you can find the faults 👍 top video
Once more our intrepid heroes succeed wear others have failed. The sad reality is the cowboys out number the good guys. Still you’ll never be out of work , but it does mean you’ll spend a large part of your life putting other people’s crap right 😂😂😂 can’t wait to see what other crimes have been committed for you to solve. Best wishes as always 👍
Yep, I so sympathise, I'm in the middle of sorting what should have been a simple outdoor light install which has turned into "Guess the circuit" because all the wiring has been done by multiple DIY enthusiasts over many years and theres spurs from spurs, multiple cables going to random MCBs, it's a shambles!
We call them electro-painters!
Bloody hell well done mate. My head still hurts watching that lol
Mate those ferret cams are a life safer, ive only used mine a handful of times, but it has more than paid itself back in those few times
Lotus on the drive mem cu from 1924 priorities 😂😂
Send the customer the bill and a link to this vid! , You earned your money on this one matey!
This is a perfect example of why the ringbus may sound good on paper, but is a terrible idea in the wild. And why almost no other country in the world allows anything like it...
Great video Chris!! Love this kind of content.
can't wait for part 2 !!!!!!
@PETER WILSON looks if it's going that way
With that many spurs it's clearly a cowboy job...
Nice work Chris and James 👍🏻
19:14 are those spiders legs? Euggggh, have you ever had a fear of spiders, because I think subconsciously that may have prevented me from pursuing my interest in an electrician’s career.
I find that at work you're to focused on the task at hand to worry, when I'm at home spiders freak me right out I can't stand them but at work I've had bites and had them crawling on me dangling Infront of my face and it doesnt phase me whatsoever until later on when I remember it and then it creeps me out 😅
A superb job sir well done
Great fault finding lads, bit like this house I'm working on presently, some donkey buried a junction box in the plaster!! Ye gods...why do they do it!!
Bloody heart breaking tracing a open circuit nice fix 😃
Ignore the haters Chris, I think your work and videos are brilliant
Someone really needs to invent a cable radar/xray machine.
We would need you in our house as having same issue...
that is a job from hell! you know if thats the standard they will be more gremilins,
How about no CPC continuity on at least half the lights? Shower isolator burned to a nice crisp maybe? Borrowed neutrals on the lights?
@@Ragnar8504 yes that sounds like a job form hell too. Or a diy special
@@calumclark1719 That was just a bunch of guesses what part 2 might bring.
Simple board change turns into a nightmare
The wiring in that house isn't anything like the Nightmare in the house I've bought a year ago. Apparently it was built before the time electricity was available. The in put is a night mare and looks dangerous as hell, everything is open. (One part looks like a transformer) Had an electrician earth the house; but all the sockets are extension leads going from wall socket to wall socket under the floor and through the walls. All the floors are Laminate, under which is chipboard, under which is floor boards. (Good luck to Electricians that come to my room, starting with the top layer: 5CM thick Foam board, 0.3CM Soundproofing Role (each 10KG) Chipboard with 25 Screws to hold it down and stop the squeaking floorboards, Floorboards, Something I wouldn't want to touch, don't know what it is , but at least it's not asbestos.
Been there!!! I don't start a board after 1pm
What a mare!!! 😱😱😱
Hi Chris i had live in Cornwall and needed a electrician i contacted Hendra Electrices. the guy Adam came and did the job and in conversation with him , i said i watch you on RUclips , he said he met you at electrical fair . , he won some tools from you
Well done. What a job
Man what a nightmare, the best laid plans of mice and men and all that
Thats why there are specialised people out there - plumbers do plumbing, electricians do electrics, and builders just BUILD and stop thinking they are good.... that could cause a health and safety risk or even a fire.... Dumb...
Hidden junction boxes, what could go wrong!
I took the ceiling down in my living room recently, only to find the builders 'extension' new electrics - I really wish I hadn't!
At a neighbours' house over 25 years ago a dining room extension had been added and they'd split the ring to connect to sockets on either side of the extension but had just left it as two 2.5mm² radials on a 30A fuse.
And at a current neighbour's house the cowboys who did the loft conversion ran all the sockets via an RCD FCU on the end of the unused immersion heater cable.
How absolutely maddening that must've been.
Admittedly I knew nothing about your wiring codes before this other than knowing your standard current was 230v so learning about ring circuits was pretty cool. Tell me, is hiding inaccessable boxes in the framing a legit thing to do?
Anyway, thanks for the great content. cheers.
It's frowned upon. Not the done thing on new install although nothing technically wrong,but it can get you out of a pickle on a repair. It can't be a screw terminal joint, has to be a "permanent" connection ie crimp/ soldered / compression. Also if its buried in a wall it has to be horizontal or vertical to an accessory so it would fall into a "zone"
How did you secure the round cutouts back in the holes so that they are solid enough to stand on?
I'm guessing he fixed a nogging under the floorboard and then screwed the cutout to that.
I'd like to know too please.
4 wedges cut flush with the surface and some board dust mixed with Titebond to fill the circle!
Normally a batten screwed underneath I use the Armeg solid board cutter all you do is drop a plastic plug back in when your finished as there’s a rim for the plug to fit in so it’s always accessible and you can write on the plug what’s below the floor
All the gear and no idea 🤷♂️ 😂
Don’t put yourself down mate just have confidence.
Another house wired by Dodgy Bros. They sure get about.
Any reason you don't use a telephone line tone generator connected at the board? You can hear the tone through the wall (assuming the cable isn't MICC or in conduit)... Where the tone stops you find the break. Best £15 I ever spent - saves HOURS.
CJR, Was watching a video a while ago of an LED light on a magnet. Have you got a link to the product?
How do you sort the chipboard holes? Do you sikaflex them in? Cos surely they'd just push through if you put them back.
I was waiting for James to say Bundy10
Chris and James - another day in paradise! Have you tried the 127mm Armeg solid board cutter and plugs for the access in chipboard floors?
are junction boxs hidden in a floor like that allowed by code there? i know in canada its a big no no to have them loose let alone not accesablle like that
James needs to read the company dress code requirements that simply states "That all socks must be of multi-color and / or pattern, per approval of management." 👍🍺
Bundy10??
that's why you were pulling your hair out on Instagram the other day!!! Looked like a nightmare but got there in the end, good video guys
standard day in the office ,fecking diyers the bane of every Sparkys life.
great job mate