CONFUSING FOREIGN ELECTRICS IN THE UK! 🤔 - Electrician Life
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- CONFUSING FOREIGN ELECTRICS IN THE UK! 🤔 - Electrician Life.
Taking over from another electrician's work is never an easy task, but it's certainly made a lot harder when everything is labelled in a foreign language! Cory's taking to Google Translate for this episode as he tries to work out Polish while wiring up some new Quinetic lighting. What could possibly go wrong?
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⏱️Timestamps
00:00 Hi Guys!
02:44 Control Cables
03:44 Outside
05:03 Take A Guess?
07:01 The Plan
09:25 Reuben Rundown
12:38 Translating
14:35 Dad Jokes
17:08 Quinetic Switches
20:27 Live Wire
22:37 My Best Guess
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I worked on a hospital in Kettering the vast majority of sparks on site were polish and most were decent and hard workers! There was the odd 🛎 end but the same can be said for British sparks! Every rose has its thorns
Polish sparkies rewired our house. They were subcontracted to another subcontractor who we nominated to do the work. We have polish writing on the cables much like in the video.
But they did a good job 8 years ago.
We’ve since had an inspection and a general check of the wiring as we had an English contractor wire our shed 2 years ago.
The house wiring passed with flying colours, yet the shed, garden and hot tub are wired from a new consumer unit in the shed, and loads of issues have needed to be put right.
So much for using a cowboy contractor who is supposed familiar with standards.
Much respect to the polish guys who did our work. Yet a curse the the Birmingham contractor who are no longer in business who mucked up the consumer unit in the shed and the 32A isolator for the hot tub.
That would suck I would be Google translating the heck out of those wires but I live in the u.s. so the chances of polish electricians doing a job here and leaving in the middle of the job and labeling the wires in polish is highly unlikely
That external blockwork where you were putting the armoured cables was absolutely shocking. Your customer may have never employed a competent, worthy tradesman before yourselves...
Not really, its going to be rendered, doesn't need to be as neat as facing bricks or exposed blockwork.
cory is my hero, he wants to make everything perfect, OCD is an electricians best attribute and cory is the pinnacle of it
In certain people, yes but not everyone. You don't want people who are too OCD to the point, they spend 3 hours making sure their area is organized before they start work
I don't want to be woke or anything, but OCD is a disorder, taking over and destroying people's lives.
Being neat, tidy, organised, liking things straight, done properly etc, is quite normal for many people, not a disorder.
wish people would learn that perfectionism has nothing to do with OCD
@@thesteelrodent1796 Exactly this. I had a neighbour who had it and she made my life an absolute misery with her behaviour. It is no joking matter, and I can't think of another health condition where it would be considered appropriate to say someone had it just because it broadly fitted a poor stereotype.
If the CU is done well, as you said, why rip it out for the sake of a shed circuit and possible future expansion? No need for the waste and cost. Fit a 3 way board with RCBO and two blanks.
My house also has walls full of electric stuff, thanks to previous owners. All the lights have push buttons, combined with a switch in the wall receiving the push button signals. Those are not in a central location but just in random places more or less near each light. When one of my lights broke, I spent months trying to find the switch with metal detectors and stuff, but no luck. In the end I managed to find it using a telephone line wire tracker connected to the lamp socket (with the breaker turned off). It was buried in the wall near my ceiling behind 5 cm of plaster. Complete insanity.
I like the editing and camera work in this video. Someone has a very good eye, and no silly sound/video effects.
I'm a Polish electrician and whatever you found in this property is far away from Polish standards in electrical installations. In the past I've found a lot of installations done by British or any other electricians which were terrific but never thought about it as it was the national standard of the nation. Unfortunately the guy wiring the installation was from Poland and was the scruffy one and even maybe not a qualified electrician but used the opportunity.
Whenever I do any installation I'm writing everything in English :) so it's not a standard practise. I know it's easy to say "it's all the foreigners fault" but i think not really fair.
I've seen the opposite thing too - an installation in Poland done with UK Twin & Earth cable, using the bare earth wire for 2-way switching! You can find incompetent hacks in every country of the world, both local and foreign - it really doesn't matter.
@@Ragnar8504
I can only agree with this
Yes Irik, there is good & bad tradesmen in any trade. Whether it be English, Polish, French, German, Italian, Swede, Australian, African, think you've got the gist 😉. When you do come across dodgy workmanship, exain to the customer that what is done is a bodge & not to standard, & quote them to put it right. Most customers want to have jobs done properly. 😁🇬🇧🇬🇧
Apart from that terrible armoured and burying the receivers in the wall it didn't look that bad. I've seen worse from English tradesmen.
Nice vid (and lovely extension!!) - looking forward to part 2. Great neat job by both of you 👍
10:50 Ruben rolls his eyes. _It's was at this point he knew he _*_****_* Bless him!
Great vlog you 2 work so well together with good to see you back.
Cory is on the receiving end of a "Single Pole Breaker" and once again he shines
Outstanding work and video. Well explained and the customer will be very happy, when it's done.
some team love the info on screen (corey cam) 40 yrs a maintenance engineer, I still learn from you lads 😊
It’s the attitude that also makes a great professional. Don’t sell yourself cheap but also take it as the opportunity to create the first best impression you won’t be surprised that it leads to so much more repeat work because that bond of trust has been established between the professional and the homeowner. Chapeau Cory, Reuben and Artisan look forward to the R2 testing good to show that that you have established continuity.
Thank you!
Signal generators are worth their weight in gold makes tracing cables so easy
Forget the make but the telecoms cable tracer with an inductive detector has saved me hours of work. Stick the audio generator on one end and go find!
You just knew it was gonna be a BG board, the choice of builders and cowboy electricians.
Love the videos guys.
Was there a shot of the inside of the board in the end? I didn't see one.
11:55 - the number of people willing go on UA-cam and hold a wrench upside down is astonishing. Even eFixx have been known to do it. The wrench 🔧 only offers camming action assistance in one direction 👍
Just a bit of old school, outside SWA cleating, use a chalk line, tracing cables, "use a bell set", my current one is a fire alarm sounder with a 9volt battery, LED and croc clips, ok you have to be absolutely sure that the cable is dead and that there are no electronics that maybe damaged by the 9 volt DC battery.
1:32 - All of that in the wall?! 😳😳😳🤯🤯
6:36 - Wow, that's a fire hazard as it fully coiled 🔥🔥
Literally every time I watch your videos and see the wire just running free under kitchen cabinets I wince, haha. I know, I know, you have block walls and the expectations are different so it works. I'm sure you see things we take for granted in North America and double wince. Haha
Nice sharp Polished video that one guys 😂👍🏼😬❤️
I watch this channel so much that i instantly knew that the board must have been a bg one and what a surprise haha
More than happy to invite you to any of our installations where you will be able to see an installation done in completely different, much better way and with wiring marked in english.
Definitley need a tone tester for tracing those dead cables.. this has been mentioned before.
Video idea. Can you maybe explain to us non sparks why every spark in the world want to put the sensor for the toilet lights outside the cubicle door and also set it to
Recently bought an Indecit washing machine. It's made in Poland, and the operating pannel and knobs are all in Polish.
The importer supplies the appliance with a poorly translated manual in Hebrew which was almost useless, so I had to read Polish.
I don't know a single word in Polish. Great little washing machine by the way.
Indesit for a start.
Interesting, you bought a washing machine made in Poland...although Indecit does not make washing machines in Poland.
@@kikiv1993 According to Wiki, they have either one or two operation sites in Poland. But maybe you're right.
Most Polish sparkies use Polish standards in the UK and since I am Polish I trusted a Polish Sparky, turned out he was a bellend and put 230v mains on the ground wires
I speak Polish. I live in Poland :D Although I am a Brit, if you need help translating let me know, so far you're not doing so great :D Ogron, is Ogrod = Garden, by the way :)
It's ogród not ogrod hence the incorrect google translation.
Also whats wrogn with you, polish is hard, can be spoken in only one countrty so not really worth learning, and also in poland you get paid 1/4 of what you get in UK meanwhile cost of everything apart from housing and food is priced same as in UK.
@@Arek_R. uuuuoydxzjkik.kdsflluiuuod
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@@Arek_R. haha Some of us need to break the trends - theres allegidly circa 6-7k British living in Poland though I bet theres more unregistered. Learning a second language is always useful sometimes.
I am not sure that the price of food is cheaper any more its going crazy here with inflation :(
Ogród=garden Kuchnia=kitchen lampa=lamp pies=dog kot=Cat Pozdrowienia z Polski, polecam rozpoznać temat: wyłącznik, rozłącznik i odłącznik....
Also „na ogród” suggest direction. This cable runs to the garden or towards it
It goes for every country that occasionally you have some proper plonkers that aren't qualified to do the job they were hired for, but workers from countries that have very relaxed regulations and no proper oversight tend to do a crappier job because they're used to being able to get away with anything, because no one ever checks their work.
As a Polish electrician i am very disappointed but not surprised, have seen worse
Problem two:
Mostly the "not so good worker" works in foreign countries then the very good worker found a job in home country very easy.
Problem three:
If some companies put her own worker with them e.g. housebuilders from poland if the build the house in UK. Same happens here in Federal Republic of Germany and Kingdom of Thailand with foreign companies. In Kingdom of Thailand the British electricians use often British brand and sockets/plugs. Not bad after they use fuse inside plugs. Every how know the thai electrical power systems know that this is not a bad idea.
Specially on military places the German Besatzungstruppen install her own French, Russian, British, or US-system power system with own house builder and electrician. After they leave all must re-create all. It was funny to see the US or UK homes here in Germany.
Problem four:
What is with the Commonwealth electrician how learn in Australia, Canada or Hongkong and work now in UK?
@@OldLordSpeedy Were the military homes in Germany actually done to UK standards? I've seen a few Urbex videos and they all seemed to have German electrics. I do know the US facilities run dedicated 120 V/50 Hz supplies and you can actually buy US sockets from German manufacturers to fit German back boxes.
Michal Worked on a site fairly recently.. Polish guy did all the work there, Lutron etc very complicated.. One of the best sparks I've worked along side for 40 years..
@@Ragnar8504 I do not thinks that people before 1995 make UA-cam videos on military camps how are height secured with military personnel. The border fence to the GDR was nothing in opposite to the British Royal Air Force security in lower saxony. No plain internet. No UA-cam. No cellular phone with camera.
An example: I was a kid as my children bike wheel loose air in front of the British RAF military camp entrance and I have thinking the young soldier was nervous and want kill me. He put the gun into my place and cry english sentence. Good that the British Officer with the gold sign speak German and I can talk him that my bike loose air only. The hole start with a typical gun shot sound ...
Again: As they go back home they put all own things with them, they let us as present only munitions in the earth. They clean the buildings before they goes away. They clashed the RAF market. Possible do you should learn more history in your school!
@@OldLordSpeedy If you'd bothered to read my post properly, you'd see that I was merely asking a question and adding some info from much more recent videos on abandoned(!) military bases built back in the 1960s.
On a side note, I have a university degree in history and I'm certainly familiar with the German-German border, both from my education and from having relatives on either side of the wall. Besides, I had history lessons during seven out of eight years of secondary school, certainly covering recent European history. Please stop making unwarranted assumptions!
16:35 would have worked better with a Belgium waffle 😂
23:05 if the circuit is radial just connect neutral and line on the consumer end and use multimeter to confirm electric connection. that way u dont need a long lead
Absolutely shockin! As many others have said - the nationality of the workman has nothing to do with the quality, just a bad choice by the builder; on the upside - they left enough slack in the lighting cabling for you to remediate the poor choices they made.
Shed running off a 13A socket, with a fully rolled up 30-40m rolled up extension lead? If the load in the shed sustains over 10A it's going to start cooking that extension, let alone the issue of the flex running externally!
Recessing the box for the switch receivers would have made a better look, but if I know Cory - he would have gone that way if he possibly could, so I'm sure there are good reasons for going surface mount.
Excellent work 🤓👍 greeting from Orange City Florida 🤓👋
What voltage stick did you use to check live wires ??
only saw twins in the control box,does that mean the loo vent in the toilet will go off when you turn the switch off and not have a permanent live for the overrun 👍
The fans are wired in 3 core and earth 😁
8:12 it says on the outside, garden
I see your ground wires are naked, like in the USA. Or rather, American ground is naked wire, like in the UK.
Ground wire is always sleeved in green+yellow here in France.
I didn't know these Quinetic kinetic controllers, the secondary electric panel is indeed a much better location than behind the wallboards. They are quite cheap and save on labor and cables too, but 11 lights with multiple switches sounds a bit too much.
This electrical installation was not made by an electrician from Poland. It was a construction worker who thought he could do everything.
Polish electricians in the UK know the regulations and have permissions.
How do you know?
@@paulbrady5772 It shows. In Poland, electricians do not do such things, while construction workers often make mistakes because they have no knowledge. In Poland, in order to become an electrician, you must complete a vocational school in which you study for 3 or 5 years, and additionally you have to pass exams authorizing you to practice. Qualifications to practice the profession must be renewed every 5 years by passing an examination of regulations and professional knowledge. In Poland, the vocational education system has been very similar to the German system for 100 years, therefore German companies willingly employ graduates of Polish vocational and technical schools with various specializations. In addition to vocational subjects, school education includes general subjects, e.g. in mathematics, physics, chemistry, history, biology, Polish and one or two foreign languages. After graduation, you have the option of continuing your education at a higher level. Depending on your exam results, you can study at a university or polytechnic.
Therefore, construction workers very often take part in the implementation of electrical installations, because their work is cheaper.
Gotta ask an odd question 🙈😂, what brand of coat is Ruban wearing in this video ?,
And Thermalite block as external walk o. Extension, hope the home owner gets that rendered sharpish 🤔, brilliant informative videos though 👌🏻👌🏻👍🏻
Probably no coincidence the Quinetic controllers were all grouped together behind that cupboard. They were probably meant to end up IN the cupboard. That's what I would like to think, anyway.
It was all going swimmingly, until the electrician said 'plug socket'.
Our house power circuits and lights labeled "upstairs" and "downstairs" as you might expect but the house is actually wired left half and right half both floors together in each half, ask me how I found out.... ( Subby to developer , not a re-wire)
15:49 Boah, that burn!
Guy from country bordering with Poland here. Why are UK earth wires stripped and then you put green / yellow sleeves on them? In our country sleeves are on all three wires from factory.
that's one good thing a bout wireless switching you can have a switch in the bathroom (zone 1) instead of horrible Pull Cord Switch that get Raaly Manky cords! 😀
Top 👊 job gents. Cheeky Huel Cory. 😄👍
13 amp socket for the shed, luxury!
If using Google Translate then use the app, then you just need to hold the camera over the writing and it translates in real-time.
Perhaps a little unjustified to emphasise that the installer was Polish . I trained as a mature student and was alarmed by the 'quality' gaps apparent amongst a wide range of 'Good ole boy' Electricians. Several of the 'foreigners' I trained alongside had graduate qualifications.
And I wonder if the writing says.. 'na Zennatrz ' ("to the OUTSIDE") and.. is the other one.. 'ogrop' ("GARDEN") or 'ogrod'
[Plus.. is that 'POGO' music I hear being sampled in the background..?]
cory memang tukang listrik terbaik,selain keamanan kerapihan juga harus terlihat baik
Aren't those Quinetic switches really loud when you use them? I knew a guy who had one in his bathroom and said it was like a gunshot going off when someone went for a piss in the middle of the night 😬
Great video as always, just one suggestion: Buy a tone and trace kit, you can get a cheap kit that would save you a lot of hassle and guess work.
Yes, I'm an ex BT tech, turned sparks, one of the best bits of equipment tracing cables. 🤔 But ensure that the cae are disconnected at cu😎, as the tone set doesn't like 230v AC running through it😞😎🤣🤣🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@stephenwilliams6103 : Could possibly cause a bit of an explosive finale, especially with the cheaper units😮.
@@stephenwilliams6103 Mine's a cheapo off of Amazon and claims to work fine on up to 400 V but I did find some accounts of that specific model failing when used on live wires when I searched online.
@@Ragnar8504 : I'd never knowingly use a normal tracer anywhere near a known live line to be fair, especially a cheap unit.
Mate, why not have that control panel recessed into the wall?🤩 It would look almost invisible with white cover and all
Soil pipe was literally right at the board edge there. Couldn't recess anything.
@@paulteasdale7112 oh i see☺️
Can you show me how to link janson box and how to separate insulator in one Jonson box
Hope they don't have any water leakage with the soil pipe behind your control panel!
Didn't you once bury a load of relievers in an external wall to control some lighting?
How come the BG boards get so much stick? They aren't that bad really - an RCBO/SPD board is fairly cheap, and replacement MCB's/RCBO's are always available same day at nearest Screwfix which is nice.
Full RCBO all the way (split is pure annoying if there is a fault on one of the 8-6 mcbs)
I had a similar job , luckily my wife is polish so I was sending her photos of stuff to translate 😂
Marrying a polish woman to get your house rewired is a bit drastic, hopefully she is a good kisser 😂😂😂😂Happy Christmas, God bless you 🤔🙉🙈🙊🕊️🕊️
If I work in the uk I have to write or Label in english and work after their Standards in the country. Maybe the second language is polish, german etc. if the owner isn' t from the uk.
He had to Czech the labelling! Corey you're too funny!
Given the problems you have uncovered with single insulated wires with no grommets etc., can you legally finally sign off the installation when at least most of the actual wiring was installed by someone else, in a way you cannot see or check without removing the fabric of the building?
As soon as they touch it they are liable for any rectification for 5 years l. All they can do is an EICR on it not an installation cert
We all do some mistakes.. but not all the house installation.. maczy pozdrowienia od babcia z więzienia 😁
also corey great musician was listening to your songs on Spotify ❤
Thanks John!
Why are the electrical distribution panels in England put in such inaccessible spaces?
Guessing BG Consumer unit 🙈
😱 & that shed/office is plugged in to a rolled up extension lead, total No No fire risk if they had a heater in the shed on full wack they be able to fry their eggs on the real 😱🤯 till the breaker blew
Nice control panel Cory
Haha, that sounds very similar to me. I've had that situation here in Germany too. Polish workers (maybe electricians) only half-finished a construction site and then disappeared. All the lines were labelled in Polish, 80% of the work done was not according to German standards.
Good jokes Cory!!! 😂
5:12 I suspect Wylex
"As you can see, I am dripped out" - Ruben May 2022
Absolute embarrassment to my country those muppets. 🇵🇱
It is just beacaus of who they are, not that they are Polish. All the Polish people I know are first class. The garage I take my car to is Polish and I couldn't ask for better service.
There is also muppet British sparks that do bodge jobs & also makes one think 🤔, what the fuck is going on here😬🤣🤣🇬🇧🇬🇧
I have one observation having lived with various Poles in HMOs here before I got my own place....
Those who take the effort to learn English while they are over here are generally the nicest people you could meet. Those who don't are the complete opposite!
The same can be said for Brits living abroad.... The little englanders who retire to Spain yet refuse to learn a word of Spanish are a large part of what is wrong with society.... Those who make the effort to learn generally case no problems at all
what a mission!
not "na lenator" - na zewnątrz - outside :D
not ogrom, odgrom - grom means lighting - it's prop. PEN maybe?
Hello guys from polish sparky in London 😊
👋
23:47 is that a painted steel rsj visible???
It is indeed! It looked awesome 🤩
I am polish and this does not suprise me, they start a job do a very bad job and sometimes quit before finishing.
It still amuses me how insulated DBs are now frowned upon but an insulated enclosure housing all those driver units is perfectly acceptable.
Lighting, low current use. Consumer unit has entire load of house, more chance of thermal effects.
@@daves8003 Lights in the UK use 230 Volt normally. Low current are less 48 Volt (and fun fact 60 Volt analogue phone line too).
Current, not voltage!
@@OldLordSpeedy You are confusing current and voltage, lighting circuit is protected by B6 (you can see it in DB shot), so it can only draw continuously 1.4kW, while entire DB can be subjected to currents up to main cutout fuse, which can go up to 100A (23kW).
I did actually pause and I assume it’s a BG board
😂Bas fish is taste so good for fish n chip 😊
Excellent 👌
Schneider or Hager consumer unit
Probably find the Polish Spark went home to Poland. Yes some Polish builders are very good so i have been informed but in this instance he took the money and ran.
Why? You do know there are translate apps where you can take a picture and it will translate the words!
There are some that will even display old words along with the new words.
The cheapest price is not always the cheapest . 😂
How many buttons do you want on your trousers?
Yes
I think Cory is trying to get sponsorship from Huel if he hasn't got it already 😅
Basically I should say that very clearly the engineering and electrical wiring system of European countries some of them like Germany Poland. There are many many many many many times better than British rail and you can see that in Jordans videos as well. He admitted it
One glove? Probably thinks he is Alvin Stardust 🤣🤣
Why install Quinetic switches in a brand new extension when you have access to everything before the boarding and plastering is done?? Mental!
because you can move the switches or add new ones after the plastering is done?
Argh! Toothpaste cap connectors! I didn't even know you could actually get hold of them outside the US! I still shudder when I catch sight of them on some US home improvement channel, people start thinking they're acceptable practice.
They are perfectly acceptable when installed properly. Only problem is that they are easier to miss faulty connection on than wagos, though the result is just as disastrous regardless what got installed the wrong way.
This ogron is in actuality ogród, which means garden.
ogrod means garden btw
I can see why it is a little bit hard to do when you dont know the language but good job guys you got this polish is a hard language to learn and understand aswell i had difficulty with it even though i am polish
The switches work because they are all purchased from the same factory in China, who's supplying both brands as OEM or ODM.
Reuben is so cute 😊.
This guy what make this, it not was a electrician😂
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