Working around a fault unfound
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- The smut is strong in this one, what with bending springs, couplers, talk of ‘length’ and even a badly packed kebab all showing up in the kind of fnarr-fnarr way that would have Sid James vigorously rubbing his flared trousers. But seriously folks, electrical fault finding is no laughing matter as this poorly presented vlog proves.
Yes, sometimes one simply cannot find the electrical fault, even if one knows where said fault may be lurking. Here, it seems to be a recent failure of a cable buried in the wall when the property was built back around 2007, but why that failure has come about now one cannot say without knocking out the brickwork. Instead, some idiot has to figure out how to get a new supply around some comical plumbing in order to get the garage back on the grid.
So, bring in a bloke who seemingly doesn’t know one end of a bending spring from his own dick-spring and maybe do yourself a favour by saving eighteen minutes of your life not watching this.
After all, and spoiler alert, the fault doesn’t actually get found!
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3 minutes in and already you present us with this wonderful water pipe install.... bravo! excellent content sir
A beautifully lagged thing of beauty. Much like the wife.
I especially liked the gaps in the insulation every 50cm!@@dsesuk
We need the exciting conclusion to the Hager AFDD reaming; with the amount they cost Hager should have taken you by Learjet to their highly efficient German engineering laboratory to "correct the record"
I can honestly say I have never laughed that hard in my life. I salute you sir. I had tears in my eyes. Hell even the wife laughed
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Loved it. Nice to see you out and not ranting nice and light 👍🏻❤️
Lovely bit of clarinet playing David it brought a little tear to my eye such a beautiful piece 😢
Feck me I have never laughed so much at this time of night I was actually crying, 😭 thank you so much for an absolutely brilliant video David 👍
On a serious note that’s a lovely bit of conduit work, better than I could have done. And I am glad to see you had the Robin out to play.
Cheers Sean - proper conduit work would have seen it go in without the cheat of inspection bends. Nige would have managed it I'm sure. The smartarse.
@@dsesukit looks good to me to be fair there’s nothing to say we can’t use inspection elbows. At least it looks better than if you had used two angle boxes
Nearly choked on my cereal laughing during the coffee shouts. Always good to see a new video posted in the DSES channel.
Cracking! 🤣👍 That conduit forming had me in hysterics. I do wonder what could have damaged the cable in the wall though 🧐 I once had a switch wire break just as it left a back box, in the wall.. Took me a while to find it, had boards up above it.. Lol.. Always good when you find faults. Happy New year Dave. Good to see you back..
Luv the videos dave, miss Nigel's input too. Had similar fault a few years ago but somehow an upstair spur had been tapped off the garage supply, jb burried in the building somewhere & ended up at the job 2 days trying to locate fault and rewire said ccts. Keep 'em coming bud.👍
LMAO with the rubbing of the conduit trying to get it warm, this weather 😂.
And the toilet noises, 🤣😂 OMG I was helpless, thanks David for an entertaining night 👍👍👍👍
You may thank my good lady wife for the noises. And yes, I am a very lucky man indeed.
Kudos for accurate video title - no clickbait nonsense on your channel.
If I didn't know better I'd almost think it was titled with half-arsed effort, and not in a well thought out and concise use of words.
watching you snap that conduit was the funniest thing I've seen, keep up the good work
Most generous once again old top. As for the conduit, always make sure your dingus spring is properly rammed up the shaft if you want to avoid an unpleasant kink.
That end credit was hilarious. You have a wonderful mind all of your own you little beauty! Always enjoy your style of Youtubage!
Love the sound effect on the conduit kinking... Classic
Great work. Pissed myself laughing at the end
Happy new year David...
We have all had those kind of faults thinking its something easy .
And found to be not .next task how are we going to fix it .
So trying to allocate time is a tuff one .
Conduit install ok ..need to pick up a new bending spring ..
Bring back Nigel .👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
It's been a while since youv done one that had me laughing so badly that the Mrs came to investigate what's so funny... nice video fella.
Excellent work Sir
years ago i went to a job where the team had been trying to find out why the lights were not working in an office , they checked the breakers they checked the switches they checked the power to the lights , everything good
i changed the lamps
When I was a kid (about 8 I think) we rewired an entire room, my dad's workshop, because the ceiling light didn't work. The rewire was badly needed, ancient VIR wiring extended and altered about a dozen times, but when we were done the light still didn't work. Blown incandescent lamp. 30 years later I rewired my own rewire because we turned the workshop back into a kitchen and figured the layout was less than ideal, starting over would be easier than modifying what was there. Spoiler: it still isn't ideal because the kitchen planning was a never-ending work in progress.
@4:00 my guess is there is a pipe bracket installed by the plumber that drilled through the cable…
The turd section made me spray a mouthful of tea over the cat. Excellent schoolboy start to the new year. Good luck Dave.
Did you get a slosh with all the claws out..? 😵💫😸
This is an instance where the wirering regulations in Norway would have made this a quick and easy job. Here, you're not allowed to install hidden cables directly. Any cables running in the walls have be installed in conduit, usually as individual PN wires. So fixing the break would have been as easy as pulling new cables through. Usually it's a pain in neck, though.
Not if somebody has put a screw straight through the conduit
All cables in walls are also in conduits in my house in Finland (built in the 70's). I can easily replace cables by pulling the new cables through. On the other hand we do not have RCBO's here but ELCB's covering many circuits - things being somewhat complicated by all detached houses and newer flats having three phase supply.
Kinell. That plumber ought to be thoroughly ashamed of himself for running that pipe like that. Minging.
You can't beat the sound of the trouser flute....
I really like the compact nature of the robin tester.
There's something about the form-factor of that thang that floats my boat too.
I just keep a large, nice foldable table in my van. Fits nice right next to the shelving unit. Far better than that small workbench. I just love it since i have planty of room to work comfortably on a large panel or have my testing gear laid out within reach. How about an inspection camera? You couldve had a peek and see what was going on in that wall gap. I'm thinking it might have been a cable joint or something similar that failed due to fibration, the conductors working themselves loose from a screw terminal connector.
Loving the muzak 👍👍👍
Blimey David, you're really cranking out the content 😎
It's like being constipated Dickie, then all of a sudden you've had a kebab and got the squits.
Fuck me your missus has a deep voice what she's system goes I bet . Wouldn't fancy a ham shank off her .
Laughing out loud at this video.....Great work!!
Well done David 👏👏👏
Long time viewer … 1st comment.
Your content is refreshing… we all know you’re a clever clogs but you never appear condescending.
The comedy stuff is off the chart - exactly my daft humour!!! 😂
PS…. Your bending spring looked f*cked before you started - I also tried to bend 25mm conduit with a 20mm spring - mine looks the same.
Take care mate!
Darren.
Good on you Dave!! Bending conduit!!!
Maybe Jordan has expanded into Artisan Plumbing?
Ouch! Steve! Retract those claws!
I really enjoyed the fault finding video⚡️as well as the toilet humour at the end! 💩🚽🤣
I was told by one the lecturers, during my 2360, that you only came across three problems on site: Plumbers, Plumber's Mates and Plumber's Gaffers.
That said the one we had on our evening class was a dab hand at the conduit. F'ing useless at the rest of the job. Happy to say he didn't pass part 1. "Blinding result,or, blinding flash in Mr.C's case" (Mr.C was the Plumber)" as the lecturer used to say when we were powering up our competences on completion!
I like these videos mate, brilliant when you was bending that pipe and it broke lol oh bollocks to it lol, always happens to me that dose😂😂
Like the bosch hoody👍
Thanks for making us laugh
Great vid dave I couldn't stop laughing when you were in the kasi
The smell though Allan - I dunno what the hell she's been eating.
That pipe must be the work of a 5 day plumber
Aside from anything else, mounting it directly above an electrical socket is all kinds of special.
Between yourself and jointech , the two best electricians on you tube 🫡
My first thought - Was the wire in the garage breaker the one going to the outside box? Would have done continuity tests to check if any of the 3 cores were still intact, wander lead or looping in pairs. Also last major change, disconnection of wet socket box - did someone swap some cables about?
(comment made when I have only watched to 5:00 where the conduit fettling starts)
Good video nice work around with the cable i'm not a plumber and even I know that's a half baked idea with that tap install
Technically I suppose it isn't that bad as long as there's an internal stopcock that allows you to drain the whole outside bit, which you should do anyway because even the tap itself could freeze and burst. Of course it looks utterly horrible and while technically legal, putting an outside tap right above a socket isn't a great idea. An outside tap is much more likely to be used for all kinds of mischief than, say, a washing machine connection inside. On the other hand, the socket looks like it's at least IP44, possibly IP55, so it should have survived the water blast.
as a plumber.... that tap is horrendously installed
Excellent content but I do miss Nigel!
The wife is absolutely incredible! Giving birth to a cylinder! 😂
Evening Dave…..Last that time I had similar….my garage nearly burnt down, , not due to dodgy wiring, but a domestic upright fridge freezer, that failed in minus temps , and I think the pump over heated, thus is went 🔥. Only saving Grace was it tripped, and the heat had melted the solder on the pipes, and the resulting Freon gas escape…put the fire out…still made my arse clench at 6.50am in the morning , when I walked in and was confronted by a wall of black acrid smoke…😳😐👍🇮🇲
Bloody hell, you were unlucky and then very lucky!
I hope you didn't lose too many turkey twizzlers when that packed up Andy?
Why I highly recommend spending some money on wireless interconnected smoke detectors.
Hilarious the Rick Mail of the sparky world 😂😂
Just had a new 3 phase CU installed as we had an unloop because of the heat pump, we installed 4mm 3phase SWA ready for a car charger, should do the job!
Also Dave you been taking music lessons from Rich Rebuilds?
Great Vid Mr Savery and what is that behind your head in the Van?
Oh, a custom controller for some lighting I'd fitted to the van. It's not in use anymore.
Where did they get that “Plumber” shockingly bad pun intended.
You had a little tear in your eye when you mentioned Nigel, how's he doing?
07:00 There's hope for us with the old penny whistle yet 🎵😵💫
As for the shouts, we laughed so hard the tears were running down our legs 🤣
You didn't have to wipe down the mirror.
@@dsesuk You couldn't have paid enough for us to do that 😋
I was wondering if there was a switched fused spur or D.P. switch in the hallway and it had been turned off?
Yeah, my assumption was it would take five minutes and be something like that. I suppose the original builder figured there wasn't much point in having a switch/spur seeing as it had a dedicated circuit that could be clocked off at the CU or double-pole isolated at the far end.
Coffee for you my man from across the pond just saw Nigel - catching up but sorry to see the brain go😢
Most kind old sport, I shall spend it unwisely on beer rather than coffee!
That plumbing 😂
Curious about the upward angle from inside to out you drilled through the wall when considering water ingress?
It's not upward. You can assume I'm not a complete moron.
@@dsesuk thought not, I wondered if it was camera angle that made it look so 👍🙂
A good old conduit w@nk sir, and wtf had the wife been eating 😂 keep it up !
Nice surprise for this evening
Spoiler: I don't find the fault!
Yo bigman where did you get the double toothbrush charger?
CEF old fruit.
What started as a the usual DSES video turned into an absolute banger! The toilet humour on the coffee shout outs, never laughed so hard..... On a different note, what is that device behind your driver's seat
For a brief time in 2022 I had illuminated van signs. That contraption controlled when they came on and regulated the power they used. It also controls the beacon lights on the roof. Sadly, the signs were a bit of a disaster and had to be scrapped, but the gubbins is all still there.
Rodents in cavity?
A colleague has just had the feed to the detached garage of his brand new house changed from a 2.5mm to support a car charger. It didn’t occur to him that they wouldn’t have installed a 7kw feed as standard.
It's madness. A 4mm 32A would give you a fighting chance, but it's either a 16A 2.5mm or a 13A spur off a kitchen socket circuit half the time.
It’s a great replacement for Nigel that bench thing 👍
That pipe is stupid and crazy. They probably just needed a longer garden hose.
Exactly. That's what I have - a tap at the front and a hose reel long enough to dispense up the side and around to the back.
Just wondering how you ran the PVC conduit through the wall to the back of the DB to avoid floating singles through the block work and cavity?
See this earlier video of mine for maintaining the integrity of the containment (link leads to the correct timestamp): ua-cam.com/video/pH8Yjq3ebIs/v-deo.htmlsi=s238jmdU6tSU90Tn&t=3767
@@dsesuk ah thank you for the reply, nice work 👍
Nice to see some new content and not the usual instagram cack!!
You did well with the screws, I’dve brushed em up sling em in customers black bin and bought new to be fair. 😂😂😂
Sounded pretty aggressive when I read that back😂 Not saying you usually do instagram cack 🤔🤔
@@Bazza-tn5ck I gave up on Insta. It is cack, it contains cack and anyting I ever put on there was cack!
@@dsesuk 😂👍🤣
Forgive a possibly stupid question but what would have happened to the original (non-functioning) feed cable? Would it have been removed somehow? Or would it have been left in the wall? (Great videos btw - incredibly fascinating for a wannabe spark like myself)
The original cable's still in the wall, I'm just not sure why it failed between the CU and the SWA termination outside. Perhaps it had been drilled through or something?
Another delight to watch Mr S, and I admire you for leaving in the errant spring disaster, which we've all experienced. It must have been because it was so funny to watch - well I had a damp patch in my undies with a hint of ammonia in the air after seeing it, but that might just be my age!
I am keen to here what you say to the customer, if anything, about the lack of RCD protection, like on those 8 circuits, most look like lighting but theres a 32A and a 40A on that side of the board. I often feel as though they'll think I'm just trying to make work/ money out of them but if we don't point out improvements no-one else will.
Are there any guest appearances from Nige planned for the near future, he must be missing you/ us a little?
I did speak with the homeowner about the CU and the apparent lack of inspection since 2007. He's asked me to price up an EICR and possible upgrade. I also always remark on the certificate under Comments On Existing Installation when the last inspection apparently was and if an EICR is now recommended.
@@dsesuk Thanks for getting back to me Old Bean
Silly question.... If the old cable was so short and nearby, is there any way to use it to pull a new cable down the cavity without having to run conduit outside? I'm guessing that wouldn't be doable for some reason. Keep up the good show!
There was very little meat to the cable on the outside to grab or tie onto and I doubt there would be a free and easy pull to use it as a draw for a replacement. It wasn't directly inline with the CU, so didn't just drop down the wall. I suspect it went up from the CU, across the top of the wall and then came down either clipped or capped behind the plasterboard.
Never run cables in cavity walls , can be damaged by various types wall insulation, rodents, drilled into etc etc, see BS 7671 ☘️
Saw you last night David checking into the travelodge Swansea services. Was gonna come and say hello but you looked knackered. Took a picture by your van though.
Ha! Good spot! Yes, an evening of drinking cider and wanking in a motorway services Travelodge did beckon! We're you just passing through?
No I stopped in to take a piss. I live around there.
At 1:43 what is that accessory to the RHS of the shoe rack? I wouldn't be supprised if there was an accessory more or less in line with that box on the outside to create a permitted route on the inside, and while we might just leave the cable long and drill out the back of the box and fit a blank plate, some folk have been known to fit spurs or double pole switches
That's a phone socket - you can see the comms cables going into it in shots on the outside wall.
You are a FW, warning up the conduit, I laughed so hard when you broke the conduit. Not saying that I have not done that myself.
🤣🤣🤣Ah the thousand screw pick up game, how many times have i said to myself dont put that full box on top of ladders as................Oh shit not again
I recon that water pipe was put in by ‘Do yourself Dave’
That 1st bend 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Not sure if it's the camera angle but that external drill hole looks worryingly angled inwards ?
Yeah I was thinking that...
Oh my flipping gawd. The tears are running from that end excrement. Pure gold nuggets. Sorry, can't polish a turd..... I needed a laugh today. And nice to see the Robin
Thanks for the booze Jim. I'm sorry the missus was flushing over your shout-out.
Flushed with success or shite. Lol@@dsesuk
A sparks who lives a few doors away from me was telling me abut a pre Christmas f up he had, drilled through from outside to inside very close to main incoming supply but it had been looped inside the cavity so the entrance and the exit hole didn't line up and he drilled right through it, large bang and £1400 to UK power networks to replace it.
Did you do any IR or continuity tests on the cable from the CU down to the junction box. Just curious really.
How much to replace the brown trousers and underwear..? 😵💫 💩
@@TestGearJunkie. He seemed all very relaxed about it, the cost and the fact it melted the end off a 20mm SDS drill bit.
Scheduling is the hardest thing I’m trying to get my head around as a new spark currently. I’m an optimist, which appears to royally fuck me every time I try to schedule things in, so that I end up working in the evenings after all my other jobs to catch up.
If anything I under-plan my day which sometimes leaves me short, but then I don't mind that too much. I also don't book out my whole week so I have some wiggle-room for anything that overruns or that comes in unexpectedly. But yeah, scheduling's tricky. When people want to know what time I'll arrive, I always say the only time I can guarantee is 9AM - after that, all bets are off as the day could go anywhere. It bugs me when I tell someone I can be there "sometime in the afternoon" only for them to press me on exactly when. If I knew exactly when, I'd say it!
Disappointed you did use some resistance test and contactless pen to locate the open circuit! Then cut an fcu at the exact point of failure 😊. Standards are slipping. I guess it was a short run so just got on with it
It's a Friday job Andy. Fault tracing? Nah, get it fixed and get down the pub!
What’s holding the water pipe to the wall
It is clipped in between the gaps in the insulation.
Keep a speaker magnet in the van, helps pickup run aways
The magnet on the end of my torch came in handy that morning!
That plumbing would of gone in my scrap bag
Only 4 minutes in I’m going to guess the crappy plumber has drilled through the mortar into the cable drop for one of his pipe supports?
Also congrats to SWMBO for getting that turd out without a helping hand from her hairy husband! Finally congrats to your daughter for the thumbnail - what a talented family.
BTW, as you like gadgets why not get a TDR so you can locate faults like this?
Is that a twin toothbrush charger without any brushes ?
The toothbrushes must have been charged that day Andy
I wonder if at any point the plumber, as he dutifully shoved on his 20th piece of insulation, contemplated the existence of an existing pipe closer to the desired location from which to tee-off?
Did you have a quick squiz for one? (I bet you did!)
1:42 point in the video, is that a switch hidden by the shoes?
Well spotted.
A phone socket I'm afraid. You can see where the comms wiring for it enters on the outside at 0:52.
She’s dropped off a UBoat 😂
Was it not the fuse spur behind the shoes feeding the outside box. Fuse might of just gone
There's no spur - it's on its own radial circuit. The accessory seen on the wall isn't related.
Geez fkg , that is just ridiculous!
Dave you knob you had me searching for a makita workbench 😂 "ma keter" ffs.
Haha! When editing it I had to listen back myself because I thought I'd said Makita!
I own one of those benches (fantastic) and even I though, I don’t remember it being made by Makita! 😂
@@mattWallJsy😂
@@dsesukI told the Mrs you made me buy it........Toolstation had it in stock so it fell in the boot whilst out shopping Haha
I wonder what Mrs DSE would say if she saw this :)
Was that Nigel on the bog?
filming with your phone and not a 40 year old camcorder? This is a dangerous path, next you'll be filming on an 4k gopro, drinking monsters and wearing batman hats.
Its hard sometimes not to think "that'll do" when working on a house where the customer clearly doesn't worry about what tradesmen do to their house. That waterpipe jeezus
The customer did say that the plumbing was done in his absence and he wasn't best pleased to see the end result.
I'd guess rats or mice in cavity munching cables.
I'll say it again...I love this shyte. That plumbing is also shyte. What were they thinkin?
That tap atop a socket! It almost deserves a round of applause.
The "Plumber"? yeah right,I changed a washer once,I was a "Plumber" that day too!
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Will Nigel ever make a comeback?
Dave. It’s a foot away from the meter. What you messing about at. 😂.
Perhaps I should have gone for those insulation piercing taps and run the thing straight off the tails!
Are you sure that plumber wasn't responsible for damaging the cable somehow (eg with a careless exploratory pilot hole or such like)?
I did enquire, but the plumbing wasn't recent enough.
Scare bleu! A Chauvin Arnoux tester! Don't often see those. Could the cable have been damaged by rodents?