Dear Adam! It's nice to see you doing a job all alone. I hope you let me share my experience with you about drilling holes like that one. I don't know if you are using your SDS in drilling or drilling+hammering mode, but I'm using it in d+h mode only if I find a very hard brick wall. Otherwise I'm drilling only. By time I learnt the SDS behaves differently in brick and plaster. You can feel the difference in resistance of materials. So when I reach the plaster, I immediately stop the pushing of SDS and let it going on "its own", with a very slight push. Then usually will not fall off a larger piece of plaster. There will be a nice hole only. You can also use a piece of isolation tape on the drill bit. You can measure the thickness of the wall, and mark that lenght on the drill bit. I hope you can use this hint, or at least i hope you knew it before.
This is how my Electrician connected my electric towel rails, FCU/ timer controller unit outside the bathroom connection plate next to the rail. Could you have you gone back to back between the double socket/FCU then run a 1.5 from the FCU to a connection plate in the bathroom? This would then allow the possibility to put in a timer control unit on the Towel rail higher up on the wall above the FCU. Timers are well worth while in my opinion with electric heated towel rails.
Well done dude. Great video thinking on the fly which is what it is all about sometimes. It's never nice to have to hack into a finished wall but you did what was needed. Great effort dude. Maybe a flex outlet bathroom side for the rad flex but more chasing and holes etc... I probably would have taken your chosen route. Neato. Oh and get some chisels bro.... Seriously, I probably have some shitters in the workshop I can send your way if Nick is too busy spending money on trousers...... 🤣
You could always keep the fused spur the same height as the sockets but where the flex comes out lower, clip it up the chase to box rather than dropping the box lower to get the flex in rear entry. X
We had a similar one on a bathroom refit once. Full rip out and refit. On the last day the mirror is going up and my boss says "oi this is a fucking LED mirror" and the customer's like "yeah, it lights up all pretty, you can fit that can't you" and the boss was like "you could've mentioned that on day 1 when all the walls were down and we could've easily put a feed in" 😅 luckily it was a big mirror so we could hurt the tiles behind it a little bit and tap off the upstairs lights but that towel rail was a tough one and you did well kidda 👍👍
Great video Adam and like you said it's a lot different on your own to working with someone else (practice makes perfect). My only comment is that my mrs would kill me if I didn't laser level and line up the sockets with the spur. 😛
@@AdamDunlopElectrical personally I’d have kept it a straight radial rather than branching off with the joint under the floor. Testing would make a lot more sense to the next spark to follow on.
Could you have out the fuse spur bathroom side, then done an artisan drill bathroom side down the wall and come out under the floor from the finished wall side ?
@AdamTheElectricalApprentice these kinds of jobs are a good chance to learn. I can guarantee now you're doing more jobs on your own your skill level will increase dramatically! When I finished my apprenticeship with a DNO, it wasn't till I went on my own that I really learnt alot. Your doing great my man, keep up the good work !
@@AdamDunlopElectrical investing in you, giving you a fully kitted out van to do your own jobs will help you grow as a electrician and ultimately help Nick grow as a company. Instead your doing jobs in your car with limited tools and materials. To be fair Nick seems to be doing well, so what do I know 🫣
Well done,doing very good to be fair.
Better you than me, mate. What a prickly job.
Cheers
Well done Adam, it's just a shame you couldn't get insured on Nicks van a fully stocked van would have helped you out
Yep cheers
Dear Adam! It's nice to see you doing a job all alone. I hope you let me share my experience with you about drilling holes like that one. I don't know if you are using your SDS in drilling or drilling+hammering mode, but I'm using it in d+h mode only if I find a very hard brick wall. Otherwise I'm drilling only. By time I learnt the SDS behaves differently in brick and plaster. You can feel the difference in resistance of materials. So when I reach the plaster, I immediately stop the pushing of SDS and let it going on "its own", with a very slight push. Then usually will not fall off a larger piece of plaster. There will be a nice hole only. You can also use a piece of isolation tape on the drill bit. You can measure the thickness of the wall, and mark that lenght on the drill bit. I hope you can use this hint, or at least i hope you knew it before.
Cheers I’ll try
Just a thought but a 20amp connection plate underneath would make a better final connection for the towel rail if ever needs to be replaced.
This is how my Electrician connected my electric towel rails, FCU/ timer controller unit outside the bathroom connection plate next to the rail. Could you have you gone back to back between the double socket/FCU then run a 1.5 from the FCU to a connection plate in the bathroom? This would then allow the possibility to put in a timer control unit on the Towel rail higher up on the wall above the FCU. Timers are well worth while in my opinion with electric heated towel rails.
Awesome stuff Ad. Nick must be so proud of you. Cheers
Cheers
Good man Adam. Solve those problems and on to the next job.
Yeah 👌🏻
well played dude
Cracking job Adam 👌
Great video, good workmanship,just as a reference the towel rail it should have been on a time clock, keep up the good work 👍🏽
Thanks 👍
Amazing video Adam, well done, it was a great job and very well documented buddy !!!! Looking forward to more of your solo content.
Glad you enjoyed it
Great job Adam
Cheers
Good work fella
Thank you! Cheers!
Maybe put a blank plate with flex outlet hole in bathroom.
I remember my first days on my own... Keep up the good work my mate 👍
Ohhhh and nick better grow a beard like Santa with all this messing around 😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks
Well done dude. Great video thinking on the fly which is what it is all about sometimes. It's never nice to have to hack into a finished wall but you did what was needed. Great effort dude. Maybe a flex outlet bathroom side for the rad flex but more chasing and holes etc... I probably would have taken your chosen route. Neato. Oh and get some chisels bro.... Seriously, I probably have some shitters in the workshop I can send your way if Nick is too busy spending money on trousers...... 🤣
Nicely explained. Keep up the content
Thanks, will do!
It does hurt 😢
Ahah I bet
Speedy recovery Nick 👍
Classic case of self inflicted!!
Just like a hangover 😵
😂😂
Speedy recovery 👍🏼
@@brettcotter3459 cheers bud
@@paulthompson5416 lol cheers bud
You could always keep the fused spur the same height as the sockets but where the flex comes out lower, clip it up the chase to box rather than dropping the box lower to get the flex in rear entry. X
True
But the towel rail can be easily replaced as the flex isn’t fixed to the wall 😊
Making a mountain out of mole comes to mind😳
Why not a flex outlet plate in the bathroom, and the fused spur next to the socket as you initially thought?
Bathroom floor is tiled and couldn’t get a good angle into the floor space as radiator was mounted also zones 👍🏻
If that switch is behind the bed, how are they going to turn it on and off?
I just installed it where customer wanted it going most of the time them electric towel rails get left on all the time as they don’t do a lot
🤣😂 I thought the beard transplant was a wind up!
No real
We had a similar one on a bathroom refit once. Full rip out and refit. On the last day the mirror is going up and my boss says "oi this is a fucking LED mirror" and the customer's like "yeah, it lights up all pretty, you can fit that can't you" and the boss was like "you could've mentioned that on day 1 when all the walls were down and we could've easily put a feed in" 😅 luckily it was a big mirror so we could hurt the tiles behind it a little bit and tap off the upstairs lights but that towel rail was a tough one and you did well kidda 👍👍
Ahah always the way
is the fused spur not in the middle of where a bed would go? Does the towel rail have controls on it itself? how would you turn on/off?
Great video Adam and like you said it's a lot different on your own to working with someone else (practice makes perfect). My only comment is that my mrs would kill me if I didn't laser level and line up the sockets with the spur. 😛
Yea ahah
Good job! Nothing worse than trying to make a job like that with minimal damage. Curious to know why there is no oval tubing on the 2.5mm up to spur?
Just didn’t have any oval
Great video Adam! Was just wondering what snickers trousers they are?
Mmhhh I’m not too sure they are the stretchy ones around the crotch not fully stretchy ones
@@AdamDunlopElectrical lovely mate cheers keep up the nice videos
Done the best you could with the chase, but you should have kept it as ring when doing a maintenance free joint under the floor.
It was radial mate
@@AdamDunlopElectrical personally I’d have kept it a straight radial rather than branching off with the joint under the floor. Testing would make a lot more sense to the next spark to follow on.
@@ljtr2112 personally who gives a fuck lol its a fuse spure i think its pretty obviouse where its being fed from
Adam what was that comment "hope it dosent hurt too much" with a cheeky little grin after saying it? 😂😂
Ahah
Could you have out the fuse spur bathroom side, then done an artisan drill bathroom side down the wall and come out under the floor from the finished wall side ?
Potentially but more chance for error
@AdamTheElectricalApprentice these kinds of jobs are a good chance to learn. I can guarantee now you're doing more jobs on your own your skill level will increase dramatically! When I finished my apprenticeship with a DNO, it wasn't till I went on my own that I really learnt alot. Your doing great my man, keep up the good work !
Why cant you drive the little van Nick brought and done up? Or has he sold it lol?
Nah he’s still got it just planning something
@@AdamDunlopElectrical investing in you, giving you a fully kitted out van to do your own jobs will help you grow as a electrician and ultimately help Nick grow as a company. Instead your doing jobs in your car with limited tools and materials. To be fair Nick seems to be doing well, so what do I know 🫣
Normally you put the fcu in the bathroom, but I guess there would be no safe zone in bedroom then
Yeah some people drill through and put a timer on the bathroom side however customer just wanted a fcu in bedroom
Beard.. well.. boss is lame.. you are not..
Thanks for the loverly comment
Not
Should have asked if they can sort you a discount out if you had a beard transplant at the same time
Ahah nah