Full Saturday Day in the Life
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Welcome back! It’s been a minute but I’m coming in hot with a Saturday full day in my life. These are what my Saturday looks like when my schedule is jam packed with commercial work on the weekdays, we save residential for Saturdays! 🤟 follow me through 3 different jobs. The day killed me but the paydays coming so it’s worth it! I worked from 9-330ish! Stay tuned for more coming soon.
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Would you please make a video explaining your journey of becoming an electrician? I love your videos!! Also, if a women wants to start a career in the trades how would you start? What advice would you give?
I was wondering the same! I'd love a video like that!
You could probably get hired as an apprentice, otherwise you could try a 2yr trade school. It's really not that difficult to get into, all you need is a little ambition, oh and maybe pretty thick skin because the trades are pretty well dominated by men and well, we can be a bit much at times 🤷🏻♂️ good luck to you
The first she did was apply herself to learning something.
grab tool list and have thick skin. It's a pretty easy job that pays crazy good. Pretty much no heavy lifting if you do residential or pipe bending is a minimum.
Wire is pretty damned heavy, but you can do it.
That bowl-thing on your drill is genius.
Lex your cleanup and clean work habits are impressive. It’s hard to find trades, especially sparkies who clean up after themselves. The guy who taught me required that we scrapped and cleaned as we went so at the end of the day there was almost nothing to do to leave a pristine jobsite.
When I did took up electrical out teacher would deduct marks for an unclean area.
Then I worked for this one company and all that went out the window. Picked up bad habits, now I’m generally a clean person, but working around people that don’t clean up made it annoying.
I had a sparky come in a few years ago to do a few things (me and electricity don't mix) and he left a mess everywhere he went 🤣
Hey 30 yr old dude here. Been flipping through the internet looking at career options and electrician seems to call me a bit. My 10 year old daughter wants me to click on your videos when they pop up. We’ve seen maybe 3 or 4 and I think I’m gonna join an apprenticeship. Thank you for the positive insight into the profession and showing my daughter a hard working woman!
Get yourself a NFPA 70 electrical code book and read that along with an electrician quiz app you'll be good with that starting off. Good luck 👍
@@natalial.5577 that won't do him no good without context
You were raised “right” amazing work ethic!!! I am on the Power Generation side and you’re becoming a legend!!! Way to go Lexi
More videos like this please!!! Loving the long form content 🫶🏻
Salute to you, Lexi. Admire your skills. Way to go . I am a blue collar kid with family and friends that work in the trades. I have huge respect for what you are doing. Work safe and take good care of yourself. Trish
girl i love the vids cant find any good quality videos on electrical work and you do it all! ps if you drop your car off for something like that and need to pick it up after hours ask to put the keys in the gas cap/door. Got new tires on my jeep then had an emergency shut down to pull some 500s after hours. keep up it up very pretty, hardworking and smart!
She said “ someone got clapped” 🤣 love your content I’m a journeyman in TX enjoy watching my comrades contents. Stay safe bro!
Amazing work!!! I love watching her videos. She basically is taking us on a tour of her world
Really cool how your work vibe is but it's amazing how you treat your work like art and you can see when you feel accomplished after you complete a job 100%. Big fan and keep up the bang up work!
I’m a paperhanger and I’m occasionally out doing quick little repair jobs of other people’s work or touch ups on a Saturday. When that guy was like, “ahh you’re just an hour late.” It was giving me angry flashbacks
By the way. I turned my bronco into my work truck and I love that sh**.
Those night lights are the BOMB😊
I use to wear carharts all the time and recently switched to 5.11 pants so much more comfortable and as strong!
I’m really impressed with your videos, keep up the great work!
Great vlog Lexi. Can't wait to see the next adventure, I know it's tough putting a video together and working.
I know you’re not a Saturday person a lot of us aren’t, but I still think you’re doing an awesome job and you get it done that says a lot I wish more women were like you they need to step up and do it
Love this type of video! The editing and subtitles were a plus ❤
I see the drywallers lowered the ceiling on you in the hallway I love the lights though I like how you have a soft light feature to them nice job
You are awesome. Keep up the good work.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa. Wait a minute. Did I notice you sweep at 14:30? Hmmmm.... Must be one of them new Klein brooms they got.
What a great video! Lovely to see all that you accomplish in a day and make life better for those who you help! And those lights with night lights too, how cool 👍🏻
Diablo makes quality tools 👌 Their cutting/grinding discs last a good while too, with barely any chipping.
Deadly post Lex ⚡️⚡️ appreciate you and all the fire content you take the time to make 🤘 merriest christmas to you n your family hope you have an epic holiday season 🎄🎅🎄
It’s a different look and feel watching a learning from a professional woman woman handling electrical work than watching How-To videos of men manhandling their tools. 😅 Your video editing skills too, on point. I feel inspired other than oblivious of what I don’t know of commercial and residential electrical work. 😅 I’m getting there. The wealth of knowledge of these UA-cam videos from your channel makes me feel smart but I just need to put it into practice. 🥴😅😌 Awesome work. It’s like another form of ASMR or something. I don’t know what to make of these but learning from them at most. 🙌🏻👏🏻👍🏻
i recommend getting a fibreglass work platform, a larger more stable surface to stand on.
Love the lights, I'll put them in my home. Don't worry I'm a 44 year industrial Journeyman Electrician.
Gonna look up those led lights with night light! Love those.
Dude I want these jeans so bad. ANYWAYS: Can you do a more in depth explanation about how you got your start in the trades? I’m just about to start in a Women Build Illinois program and I’m itching to hear about how other people got their start.
Looks like my Saturday doing jobs. Great video!
We use Milwaukee packouts and roll it in makes everything go so much faster especially with the packout radio! lol
When doing ceiling lighting jobs do you advise where to put them or the customer(architect)? Probably both, but achieving uniform light turned out to not be that easy with those led pancakes so i wondered how a proffessional alectrician addresses lighting. I found out that it needs thinking the hard way😂
These videos are great, thank you, and keep posting 😊
Besides this giving me work ptsd. I watched your video pal. Haha.
Quite remarkable how similar to buildings and units in MA.
Yall don’t install an outlet under the sink and install a pigtail for the dishwasher? We normally do that making one plug in switched for the garbage disposal. Makes it easier to disconnect for dishwasher maintenance.
Awesome video! I'm thinking in job 1, it's good you didn't have the receptacle circuit on a breaker. Whoever tried to hookup the stove might have tried to work on the outlets next. Lol 😅
I have to install those same kind of recessed lights. About 15 of them. But 4in ones
Damn!!!! where do you get those lights that don't need electrical cabling just drill a hole in celing , pop in a light and flip the switch on the wall ... amazing ..
Lexi, been missing you! Have a wonderful day, love your work ethic! You are a role model to anyone.
I need to install some recessed lights in my house. There is no even lighting. Thanks for the long form vid.
What brand are those recessed lights you installed on the third job? Also keep up the good work, love the channel!!!
Those are Feit electric brand, you can buy them for retro fit into exsiting can lights or you can buy the ones she used that snap into the drywall. I installed some about a month ago in my house. You can also select 5 different color temperatures. I bought mine at menards. Hope that helps.
Ill be doing electrical work soon and I've been on graveyard for more then 15yrs im dreading the morning traffic and day shift to be a electrician
That nightlight feature is dope! Great work, Lexi!
That arc flash looked like someone was trying to drop a bead on the wall at 200amps. Lol
Those leds with the backlight are really cool!
Thats the thing about knowing electrical. You can always use your skills to bargain. 10 toes to the ground and get your hustle. 👏🏽💯
only one hour late is pretty good... even my second customer of the days gets a 3hour arrival window with a text when I'm in route. Its not uncommon for something to take twice as long as expected.
also excellent touch with the out of focus broom clip... as an electrician its never good to get caught cleaning up. It would be a dishonor to your profession
Nice - can you post info (make/model) on those dual-mode pucks?
Those are Feit electric brand, you can buy them for retro fit into exsiting can lights or you can buy the ones she used that snap into the drywall. I installed some about a month ago in my house. You can also select 5 different color temperatures. I bought mine at menards. Hope that helps.
We need more of these longer form vids
Nice work, cool video young lady! Enjoy watching the channel.
I need to know what those recess lights are so I can get them for my house!!!!
Dang Lexi, I was out of town. If we linked up I would have roughed in and trimmed out the Mag-Lock for you. Just buy me lunch for the fam and it would have been squared away. But it's all good.
Love the day in the life video idea! Can you link to those recessed led lights with the night light?
Last job I had. We'd do these mandatory safety tests each month. One was electric basics, featuring GFI's and spark arrestor at the breaker box. I would miss up because I referred to a GFI instead of how the computer wanted it as GFCI! Always laugh at this, because working with old school electricians it Ground Fault Interrupters, not Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters. Also it's normally at the lead receptacle switch box in old installation method. Not at the breaker box!
Love the nightlight feature must install in my house
Gotta do more vlogs like this👌🏼
Can you post the model of the recessed ceiling lights used in the house? The night light feature is cool. Thanks!
Those are Feit electric brand, you can buy them for retro fit into exsiting can lights or you can buy the ones she used that snap into the drywall. I installed some about a month ago in my house. You can also select 5 different color temperatures. I bought mine at menards. Hope that helps.
Thanks!@@andrewgray2245
@@andrewgray2245 ... what is model number of that lights?
@kraca20 I don't know the model number of the exact light fixtures installed in this video, there are different sizes and atleast 2 different styles. I installed the retro fit version MODEL number, LedR56_NL_5CCTCA at my house, the wireing screws into the existing can light scoket and the light slips into the old housing. The light featured in this video is a different model number used for new construction or if you want to add a new recessed light in a location where one is not currently installed.
If you have a menards store local to you, they are all on the shelf so you can get what you need. Hope that helps.
Love seeing a clean work site.
This made me think what a day in the life of a millwright would look like, and there would be too many segments of me walking around saying "what the fuck?!"
Lexi, please help us girls who just came across your videos into getting into this trade.
Ive tried, but been told you need to know someone to get in the unions 😢.
After 3 years of being a sahm, im ready to get back out to work.
Great channel and video btw ❤
best pick up line and how many times has it been "you can jump start my heart"?
Impressive work ethic. Question: In N.Y., dont they require a direct line to a GFI receptacle to be inside the base cabinet and an appliance cord to be run from the Dishwasher to the receptacle? Here in the Philly area, a lot of municipalities require a cord and receptacle.
I could just sit here all day watching these videos.
another great mission completed👊🏽👊🏽
Love these style of videos you seem dope and have a great work process!
No cord and plug on the dishwasher needed? And what’s the deal with that wall plate 7:23 and why do you use an impact to drill holes through wood? 8:29 bushings? Or looking to bash, I just always believe it’s good to have a second set of eyes. Keep up the good work.
How did you get the wiring to the lights on the first floor? Looks like a trick….. nice touch on the 3 over the nook/bar, extra mile sets it off :) I thought u had a Jeep?
🙌🙌🙌 Way to go!!! Really enjoy your contents.
Lexi, Love your videos!!! Do you mind sharing how much you charge for retrofitting recessed lighting like this?
I’m electrician from Russia. Your work is really good 👍🏻
You have a good skills and your tool kit is nice. Good luck! You pretty 😊
I have my test for my local IBEW I can't wait to start
Why Romex? Under the dishwasher, why not
Cord connected to outlet under the sink?
Also also, the latest version of USB power delivery supports 240 watts at 48 volts; I'll bet you a dollar that becomes the standard outlet for everything except major appliances.
@@notalotawata You know what? There's no reason you couldn't have a device in the wall to combine ethernet and USB-PD so you could sit down with your laptop and have all the goodies hooked right up.
You go girl 👏👏👏👏👏
Good morning at work, that's how I work, I have a maintenance guard on Saturday and Sunday.
can you post a link to those pot lights with the night light? those are so cool
What model are those recessed lights?
Sorry if you said it in the video. Working at the same time I'm watching.
What kind of lights are those with the night light setting?
Those are Feit electric brand, you can buy them for retro fit into exsiting can lights or you can buy the ones she used that snap into the drywall. I installed some about a month ago in my house. You can also select 5 different color temperatures. I bought mine at menards. Hope that helps.
I'm not a morning person either. I prefer to sip on my "Java" before I conduct any type of communications, to any other life form.😂
Good stuff foe show!
Said it before and I’ll say it again, one hell of a worker! Then there is the talent!
First awesome video. If you could see the wiring through the wall would that make it easier?
Great video.
What is brand and model number of that lights? You connected on line wire supply profrom switcht ( preinstaled) or have battery & wireless control modul?
I haven't seen them lights yet that light up as a night light those are sweet I need to find those and there flat panels that's sweet
Bet they get real old cycling through their functions. Just like all the dumb ass head lamps...
So I have a floodlight but I don't know how to find out if its controlled by a lightswitch or not. What's the easiest way to trace power?
I was surprised that you didn't evaluate where the framing is before drilling, but using those wafers I guess makes that a moot point. Not a fan of the wafer. Too often customers select them thinking they're as good as recessed lights with the added benefit of being so easy to install. Well, easy to install, yes. But the finished appearance is horrible, with the glare negating the primary purpose of a recessed light.
How come there is so much re-visiting jobs you were at previously to continue work? Seems that increases how much time you spend traveling around to jobsites, but i am guessing I am missing a detail here about how things work!
you're my hero! wish I could have learned from you
Where can I find those recessed light with night light modes
so may i ask why you left the huge gap on the gfi faceplate?
It's cheaper to just buy the breakers that are already gfi the you want have to spend that time to find the hr and the load
What lights are those? I’m looking to switch to something LED like this
You're a good electrician. 👍
I have one niece one god sister and little brother in the trees and they very much you very much and be so thanks for the output that you give
Completely noob here - what is a rough-in guys? Started watching these electrician vids. Comes up alot. Is it putting in a breaker box? Getting wires ran to & from the breaker to various end points?
Rough in is the start of a project, not a full install. Typically on new construction
Her lashes are REAL! 😍😍
Love the longer videos !
Good for porch swings!
Why in the world were the appliances in Job 1 installed before the services were run?
Yes, that new tire smell is addicting.
U know your shit, that's impressive as fk, keep learning, keep making yourself more marketable with your trade skills, I like how u do "everything ",that's how u win 💯
Believe it or not my boss bought them same high hats by mistake we still ended up installing in a bk bathroom.
YOu guys don't put drop cloths down on new surfaces ? IE counters or floors ?