Agreed with you for the 3 core switch wire. The hybrid feed at the fitting & switch, always do this now. Helpful as you say for the provision of a neutral at the switch but also handy to have a perm at the fitting if needed 👍🏻
@@Cablesmith Exactly mate have been asked for extra smokes etc in rooms afterwards and being able to have the perm feed there for a radio base makes it so much easier. Like you say no cons and definitely so much easier when you can pull through for the drops 👌🏻
@@JayTheSparky I agree mate, and for the 2gang switches it means you don’t even have to take a feed to both lights, just one light then 2 x 3 cores for switch wires 👌🏼
Nice work here not easy but you guys look well up for it but what would you cable up a 2 way single gang switch with then? A 3 core plus a 3 core or a 2 core / single?
Nice one Sean. Quality work as well. I am coming back to blighty at end July just 3-week to see mum and dad in Yorkshire and in-laws in London. Not much time but might be back later in the year on my own for a little longer will be good to come down and see you for a visit in Manchester.
Wow! I never imagined the difficulty for some of the cabling routes until I have now seen the video. Looking forward to seeing part 2. Great work and everything has been done above expectations!!! one major tasks down too many more to go 😁
Not a bad job shaun once you get into it I'm sure when you and Ryan finish it will be top notch. don't forget to run an earth to your incoming gas and water 😆😆 I would of tackled them upstairs wardrobe sockets by coming from above leaving some slack and just trunking it inside as for that kitchen I would of drilled from the knockout boxes into the utility room and run the cables across to that socket in the middle and straight up leaving the utility sockets on their own circuit this way the kitchen cabling would still be within the middle utility socket and still within zone then obviously run down to get your cables through the wall and out where the kick boards are, the conservatory sockets I would of just had on the kitchen ring. I still loop in at the ceiling roses but I take two feeds upstairs and stagger the lights between upstairs and downstairs rather than having an upstairs lighting circuit and a downstairs lighting circuit so if one circuit goes faulty you don't loose all your lights on one floor but everyone has there own way of doing stuff. Looking forward to the next video.
We’re all finished on it now, you’ll see the second fix next Saturday. Thankfully the water was plastic incomer and the gas meter was right next to the electric 🙌🏻
Thanks - a very interesting video. I see that, unlike your work, the plumber’s is slovenly - you can see the corrosion where the flux wasn’t cleaned from the soldered joints in the upstairs pipe run!
Ryan also mentioned that when he lifted the boards up. I think when they get rid of the tank and go to combi a lot will be removed or replaced tho, but 🤷🏻♂️ I’ve no real idea that’s just a guess
re single cables into sockets - it was quite common, and normal with concrete floors (especially in bungalows) to run the ring above and drop all sockets as spurs off junction boxes. Is this what you found here?
Really good video. Thanks for the content. A question: where is the best place to move a consumer unit when rewiring? What makes it easier for electrician? To future proof I guess.
Do you find new builds easier to manage than older houses say built before 1940? It may depend where all those fitted wardrobes and previous cabling goes lol.
Good for video for customers to see how much work and struggling electricians have to do to install all the bits they don't see when the job is complete. 4 days to 1st fix and only 2 days to 2nd fix ,they only see the 2 days worth normally.
Hi Sean & Ryan, well done boys, although the house looks relatively new from the outside it may be late 50s to early 60s, we bought a house in the mid 60s, similar wiring with old Wylex Bakelite rewireable fuse board, however the wiring had never been touched by morons, the original spark did a good job, regarding DNO Tony what mode of transport is he using at the moment, is it akin to something out of StarTrek, on a more serious note with the qualifications a modern electrician has, why not let the Electrician legally pull the Main fuse. Regards From Ray the old sod from North Wales..
Thanks for the video - never easy is it? A constructive comment, you spend about 90% of the video telling us what you are going to do (or have done), any chance of showing us more of you actually doing it?
Nice artex on the ceiling and I like that 1970 strip light flourecent tube in tha bathroom
I noticed that light when I went to survey the job and mentioned it was strange 😂
That’s a quality video that is. The first fix stuff is the interesting bit for me. Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks Gary, appreciate you watching 😊
Agreed with you for the 3 core switch wire. The hybrid feed at the fitting & switch, always do this now. Helpful as you say for the provision of a neutral at the switch but also handy to have a perm at the fitting if needed 👍🏻
Yea mate I agree works both ways, 2 pros no cons.
@@Cablesmith Exactly mate have been asked for extra smokes etc in rooms afterwards and being able to have the perm feed there for a radio base makes it so much easier. Like you say no cons and definitely so much easier when you can pull through for the drops 👌🏻
@@JayTheSparky I agree mate, and for the 2gang switches it means you don’t even have to take a feed to both lights, just one light then 2 x 3 cores for switch wires 👌🏼
Nice work here not easy but you guys look well up for it but what would you cable up a 2 way single gang switch with then? A 3 core plus a 3 core or a 2 core / single?
Nice one Sean. Quality work as well. I am coming back to blighty at end July just 3-week to see mum and dad in Yorkshire and in-laws in London. Not much time but might be back later in the year on my own for a little longer will be good to come down and see you for a visit in Manchester.
Sounds good mate, defo hit me up 👌🏼
Wow! I never imagined the difficulty for some of the cabling routes until I have now seen the video. Looking forward to seeing part 2.
Great work and everything has been done above expectations!!! one major tasks down too many more to go 😁
Oh believe me this makes it look easier than it actually was 😂 but it’s done and dusted now and I’m glad your happy with it!
Really good video. Thanks for the content.
Thank you 😊
Really interesting video Sean, great explanation of how you chose your cable routes and why. Longish video but not boring. Keep them coming.
Thanks John 👏🏼
Top work as always brother 👏🏻
Cheers matey 👌🏼
Well done guys for making your workspace entertaining and comical 👍
Thanks matey 👏🏼
Nice big project for you guys ~ you are making good progress ~ looking forward to seeing the finished job, and Ryan’s pony being released 🦄
Haha thanks Ian 🙌🏻
I'm looking forward to the next video.
@@ExtremeShez 👏🏼👏🏼 appreciate you watching them!
Nice job lads
Thank you Andrew
Not a bad job shaun once you get into it I'm sure when you and Ryan finish it will be top notch. don't forget to run an earth to your incoming gas and water 😆😆 I would of tackled them upstairs wardrobe sockets by coming from above leaving some slack and just trunking it inside as for that kitchen I would of drilled from the knockout boxes into the utility room and run the cables across to that socket in the middle and straight up leaving the utility sockets on their own circuit this way the kitchen cabling would still be within the middle utility socket and still within zone then obviously run down to get your cables through the wall and out where the kick boards are, the conservatory sockets I would of just had on the kitchen ring. I still loop in at the ceiling roses but I take two feeds upstairs and stagger the lights between upstairs and downstairs rather than having an upstairs lighting circuit and a downstairs lighting circuit so if one circuit goes faulty you don't loose all your lights on one floor but everyone has there own way of doing stuff. Looking forward to the next video.
We’re all finished on it now, you’ll see the second fix next Saturday. Thankfully the water was plastic incomer and the gas meter was right next to the electric 🙌🏻
Thanks - a very interesting video. I see that, unlike your work, the plumber’s is slovenly - you can see the corrosion where the flux wasn’t cleaned from the soldered joints in the upstairs pipe run!
Ryan also mentioned that when he lifted the boards up. I think when they get rid of the tank and go to combi a lot will be removed or replaced tho, but 🤷🏻♂️ I’ve no real idea that’s just a guess
Great video 👍
Thank you 😊
re single cables into sockets - it was quite common, and normal with concrete floors (especially in bungalows) to run the ring above and drop all sockets as spurs off junction boxes. Is this what you found here?
Yes I think so mate
شكرا thank you
Thanks for watching mate
nice video as always brother , was that the mega super you set you were using there
It was mate, and on this job we snapped 3 rods, the chain attachment AND the cable tongue 😩
thanks for watching dude
Really good video. Thanks for the content. A question: where is the best place to move a consumer unit when rewiring? What makes it easier for electrician? To future proof I guess.
Thank you 😊 and it all depends on the property I think.
Do you find new builds easier to manage than older houses say built before 1940?
It may depend where all those fitted wardrobes and previous cabling goes lol.
@@ExtremeShez after this one id much rather rewire a 1940’s house 😂
Good for video for customers to see how much work and struggling electricians have to do to install all the bits they don't see when the job is complete. 4 days to 1st fix and only 2 days to 2nd fix ,they only see the 2 days worth normally.
That’s so true
In such a small property, why not run conservatory and loft sockets from nearest ring or radial?
it’s an option but with a new installation from scratch I like to try and keep it separate
Obviously NOT a new build with a CU of that age, definitely late 70's early 80's...but agree , from the outside it looked a lot newer
Yea I know it’s not new, but like i said in the video that’s a house I’d call a “new build” with the build style
All I can say is better you lads than me. It looks an awful difficult one.
As always, thanks for watching matey 👏🏼
Hi Sean & Ryan, well done boys, although the house looks relatively new from the outside it may be late 50s to early 60s, we bought a house in the mid 60s, similar wiring with old Wylex Bakelite rewireable fuse board, however the wiring had never been touched by morons, the original spark did a good job, regarding DNO Tony what mode of transport is he using at the moment, is it akin to something out of StarTrek, on a more serious note with the qualifications a modern electrician has, why not let the Electrician legally pull the Main fuse.
Regards From Ray the old sod from North Wales..
Yea it must be an old house but to me it looks like a “new build”
DNO Tony uses a teleportation device I think because we never see him come or go.
The house is a 1980's house. Boiler and electrics are the first step of our modernization 😀
@@lifesabeech5724 Hi, I'm surprised it's a 1980 house with an old Wylex Bakelite rewireable fuse board, I thought they went out in the late 60s..
Thanks for the video - never easy is it? A constructive comment, you spend about 90% of the video telling us what you are going to do (or have done), any chance of showing us more of you actually doing it?
Thank you, and yes I normally try to do that but I didn’t have time on this job unfortunately, it was just taking too long.
Paramount board. A nightmare most of the time.😏
Ah is that the actual name of it ?
I would have considered some eye protection and gloves at the very least... 😎
i did tell him multiple times but he insisted 🤷🏻♂️😂
@@Cablesmith 😆 like any good boss would. 👌 I thought as much dude. Great video as always.
No CAT-6 while you're there?
The customer is doing that himself, thanks for watching 😊
There will be plenty of Cat6 going in the house don't you worry 😉
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