I can't believe how chilled out this is. 5 days to do a rewire. I used to be a QS at a firm where we had 2 squads of 4 sparks that did an occupied rewire each per day. They had job n knock and were in the van to go home by 15:30. They had 10 circuits to install and a full RCBO board. And all the bonding / Main earth. They also knocked out every box with a scutch chisel. To be fair that's all they had done for years and could do it blind folded.
@@Poorlybobsdad nope 3 bed houses. Moving beds etc and pulling carpets back. They had been doing just rewires for the local authority for over 10 years. They literally went round the house like the Tasmanian devil and ate their sandwiches on the go. I couldn’t do it but they could.
Not done loop in way since rcd protection required on lights. I fit a deeper switch box and lever wago neutrals then solid wago cpc’s. This leaves just a t&e to the fitting. If there’s a fault you can just remove the switches and fault find all faults from there without dropping the fitting, handy if you’re installing chandeliers.
Agreed...it's also very rare for pendants to used these days, modern fittings are a nightmare to use as a JB...a combination of three plate and neutral at the switch seems confusing to me. I prefer to feed the switch and run a S/L & N to the fitting.
I always run a smoke alarm feed separate from the lights. However I stick it in with one of lighting breakers. Stops people turning it off like you said, and that way you always got a feed just incase.
Awesome vid as always. I think when you did the bit where Amy passed you tools that looked big on her and small on you was hilarious, I nearly pi**ed myself 🤣
Why do you stop your oval at the top of the ko box then grommet it, when if you squash the sides of the 20 mm oval it will fit perfectly through the ko and into the box making it completely rewireable
My God ! That is an Astraseal pvc front door made from Brugmann Hoffman profile from the early 80’s. Started my career at 17 in 1980 working in factory making their products then became fitter. Now 60 and totally kaput back from years of lifting frames and glass. How time flys.
Interesting to see the sequence other people do things, I always like to do the attic work first on day one, to get it out the way, also I never risk doing all the chasing first, just in case you can't get to a chase you have cut, I always put the cables in, then chase out.
@@mrseanpride6449 you could cut a chase, only to realise when you lift the floor you can't get a cable there, you never what you come across under the floor, personally I don't cut a chase until I have all the cables in.
Just had my house rewired. No conduit used. Some of the chases were so shallow, the depth of the plaster the spirit level was rocking on the cable clips. I was going to run plastic caping strip (not sure what it’s called, strip available in different widths with the edges folded to allow a fixing to be applied) over the wire but the wire is often tight to the edge of the chase. I had Ethernet installed, I asked for Cat 6, Cat 5e was installed. There’s no extra shielding between the electric cable and the Ethernet as can be seen in the cutout of plasterboard used to accommodate the wires and they look to be touching in places. Apparently “it’s safe” and that over rides everything.
lads and lass, i think i love you'se. Watch too many vid's on this subject to mention and you manage to convey more 'good' information in the one vid than all other 10? combined.... #subscribed... 💪💪💪👍👍
Because there were only pvc windows , mostly in Germany at that time Astraseal was sold a a franchise and adverts were placed in the Observer magazine by Hepworth who would then send out tons of leads which were mostly higher social / economic people who may have seen tilt and turn windows or wanted their windows and doors made from this new , expensive wonder material called upvc. In those days because the technology had not transferred over to uk style of windows only tilt and turns were available.
Use an optical alarm or combo alarm (optical + heat) in living areas, or a combo alarm (carbon monoxide + heat) in kitchens to prevent false activations. E.g. Aico Ei3016, Ei3024 or Ei3028.
lovely job Nicholas, I know your not a Dewalt man but you sure do need the cable stapler for metal fixings in lofts etc, so fast ! and it’s amazing for new build stuff rather than clipping
Those windows were the first generation of upvc windows and doors in this country , distributed by Hepworth industrial polymers in Burnley whose M.D. Peter Abbot went on to work as M.D. for Veka ( huge company). Those frames have a sanded and polished finish which was dropped in favour of corner grooving , but with the early extrusions the surface finish was poor and so all the frames had to be sanded all over. I spent months and months sanding with an air DA then polishing with a rotary sisal brush to get an acceptable finish. If I was at that site with you I would have to look along the door frame on the surface those metal gold coloured keeps screw to to point out the brugmann marking which was a small semi circle over a bigger one and two at each side and a date stamp to say when it was made. My guess to get the double glazing anorak of the year award would be 1984-85.
Nice in the USA, that we have battery powered units that use 10 year Lithium batteries that will last the life of the unit, however cities require AC powered units, which still use silly 9V batteries and die as well and have to be changed.
@@michaelcoleman5229 I just got 1 length of all sizes (not curved.) Using 30mm x 30mm wall chaser but all my chases only 22mm deep. I put them 50mm wide for the channeling now change mind I want to use trunking. Will chase deeper this weekend
Just a tip with the old carpet. I find if you roll it you won’t have any creases. All ways come off the lighting circuit as you lot said in the video, always happens.
absolutely love that bit with little Amy hahaha, brilliant I agree 100% with having smokes on lighting circuits as well but I'm pretty sure there's a new reg. which says that new installations have to be on their own circuit? I might be talking carp? Good video Nick, Adam & Amy
Poor old Adam always gets told off for being the noisy one when Nick is recording! Poor kid! Also, does anyone else play innuendo bingo with these videos?! Adam's not drilled anything, Nick's drilling is rock hard, a bag of bondage (bonding!)...the list goes on!
Good idea on the all round band for the oval conduit. I normally use clout nails but they aren't always suitable so will keep this in mind for future. Oval makes a much neater job than capping I reckon. Much narrower chases too!
I use a makita wall chaser and set it for the width of the oval conduit no need to fix the conduit to the wall as it usually fits snug in the chase. I am thinking of getting the metabo chasing disc as it takes out all the chase so need to to use an sds to knock it out but it seems expensive at £99 a disc
I thought we could only drill holes between 25-40% either end of the joists span? I noticed at 1 minute in they were less than this. Does this building reg only apply to new builds?
Never understood why in the UK we go through all this work chasing out etc and don't install a ducting system to pull individual cables around the building! would enable this job to be carried out much easier when the time comes again. T&E is in my opinion is gash.
its neat clipping the cables under floor boards but sometimes for slip ups we used to leave a bit of spare cable to be able to pull some more through, and also why not go behind the coving instead of cutting it?
I’m happy not working residential jobs. I don’t remember last time I had to pull up floor boards or chase out plaster. Plus, I earn a little more over my esteemed colleague Resbian Sparks.
Nick, sounds like there is a market for dual circuit smoke alarms. Dedicated circuit goes down, do some beeps. Lighting circuit goes down, do some beeps. No idea how you would isolate them on the inside of the smoke alarm, but I bet some landlords would like their renters from disabling the smoke alarms
Enjoying watching through these as someone new to the domestic industry! I’m about to start my level 2 at night school at 29yo. I will still be full time at an electrical automation company (cus you know, house/wife/dog...). Need experience on Saturdays in Stoke or there abouts. Anyone got any advice or know anyone who can help? Cheers
If your having the smokes on the same circuit as say the upstairs lights would it be ok to take the feed from the board to the downstairs smokes then a 3core to upstairs smokes then take the upstairs lights off of the smokes. (less wiring as only one cable between floors) thoughts on this anyone
You can film my bungalow floor then :) awesome, looking like end Feb/beginning March, just waiting to exchange contracts then I'll have a moving date ( cambs)
I thought you were in the UK (England to be a bit more precise) but you can't be. I saw blue sky when you went outside and not the usual dirty white one. 🤭
I imagine those windows are in that property , in such a wonderful location because back in the day those earlier customers tended to be of solid financial means . Even though I was just a bod on the factory floor I still got to know about jobs for a reallly Rich jeweler and a huge mansion. Irony was our M.d who did the surveying and steered the ship was shrewd but a nasty greedy idiot who mismeasured loads of frames and if he did not own 1/3rd of the company would have been fired the first week for sucking the company so much it never had a chance to grow and being a total idiot. Such a shame how a bad, selfish leader can do such harm. After the initial purchase of the machines from Germany He spent no money on the workshop. One Monday he presented 3 wood chisels to me he had bought from a market.. these were the days Chinese steel was made from butter. We took it in turn to sand the frames and had to use one respirator that just got washed out for your next 2 week stint on the sanders. There is a lot of bad industry out there with some owners taking all the wealth that the men have grafted to make that’s sadly for sure.
Must confess this guy does an excellent job especially installing and dressing cables in consumer units, I find him a bit of a drama queen and boring. Not like the other videos what shows spark's doing the work. Sorry mate.
Take me hat off to u feller, all that dragging furniture around lifting board crawling on knees fishing cables ect isn’t for me...wtf no camera man yet....ask the Naggy feller he may have one spare...
Hahaha look how may views you got using Amy’s face for previous video and now you used it again for this video. Hate the player love the game, Get that click bait 😝
I can't believe how chilled out this is. 5 days to do a rewire. I used to be a QS at a firm where we had 2 squads of 4 sparks that did an occupied rewire each per day. They had job n knock and were in the van to go home by 15:30. They had 10 circuits to install and a full RCBO board. And all the bonding / Main earth. They also knocked out every box with a scutch chisel. To be fair that's all they had done for years and could do it blind folded.
Occupied? Move furniture, lift carpets, strip out, put back and done by 15.30pm? Maybe a one bed flat?
@@Poorlybobsdad nope 3 bed houses. Moving beds etc and pulling carpets back. They had been doing just rewires for the local authority for over 10 years. They literally went round the house like the Tasmanian devil and ate their sandwiches on the go. I couldn’t do it but they could.
I love Amy. She's absolutely adorable. She's the best.
Amy passing the tools, hilarious.
Cheer mate for the capping tip using top hat and trying to secure bloody nightmare oval tube and strap brilliant easy and neat Thanks
Not done loop in way since rcd protection required on lights. I fit a deeper switch box and lever wago neutrals then solid wago cpc’s. This leaves just a t&e to the fitting. If there’s a fault you can just remove the switches and fault find all faults from there without dropping the fitting, handy if you’re installing chandeliers.
Agreed...it's also very rare for pendants to used these days, modern fittings are a nightmare to use as a JB...a combination of three plate and neutral at the switch seems confusing to me. I prefer to feed the switch and run a S/L & N to the fitting.
Great job by the 3 of you.
So funny when Amy was passing you the tools 😂😂
Buncha comedians. Good job Gina wasn't there too or nothing would get done.
I always run a smoke alarm feed separate from the lights. However I stick it in with one of lighting breakers. Stops people turning it off like you said, and that way you always got a feed just incase.
Awesome vid as always. I think when you did the bit where Amy passed you tools that looked big on her and small on you was hilarious, I nearly pi**ed myself 🤣
15:15 - 16:15 That scene is brilliant, lol 😂😂😀👍
🤣🤣
Why do you stop your oval at the top of the ko box then grommet it, when if you squash the sides of the 20 mm oval it will fit perfectly through the ko and into the box making it completely rewireable
My God ! That is an Astraseal pvc front door made from Brugmann Hoffman profile from the early 80’s. Started my career at 17 in 1980 working in factory making their products then became fitter. Now 60 and totally kaput back from years of lifting frames and glass. How time flys.
hahahahahahahaha the drill bit and level cracked me up!! when you said cutters i was exspecting her to pass the massive garden cutters pmsl
Interesting to see the sequence other people do things, I always like to do the attic work first on day one, to get it out the way, also I never risk doing all the chasing first, just in case you can't get to a chase you have cut, I always put the cables in, then chase out.
That's how I've always done it aswell
What do you mean can’t get to a chase you have cut?
@@mrseanpride6449 you could cut a chase, only to realise when you lift the floor you can't get a cable there, you never what you come across under the floor, personally I don't cut a chase until I have all the cables in.
How'd the angle drilling work out Nick. Didn't show the end result. Did it end up in the sitting room😁😁
You just know there's a cannon ball sized hole lol
That all round band is brilliant. All these years I’ve been using plugs, screws and penny washers 🤦🏻♂️
Good to see your using 3 core and earth for the light switches and future proofing
Just had my house rewired. No conduit used. Some of the chases were so shallow, the depth of the plaster the spirit level was rocking on the cable clips. I was going to run plastic caping strip (not sure what it’s called, strip available in different widths with the edges folded to allow a fixing to be applied) over the wire but the wire is often tight to the edge of the chase. I had Ethernet installed, I asked for Cat 6, Cat 5e was installed. There’s no extra shielding between the electric cable and the Ethernet as can be seen in the cutout of plasterboard used to accommodate the wires and they look to be touching in places. Apparently “it’s safe” and that over rides everything.
lads and lass, i think i love you'se. Watch too many vid's on this subject to mention and you manage to convey more 'good' information in the one vid than all other 10? combined.... #subscribed... 💪💪💪👍👍
Because there were only pvc windows , mostly in Germany at that time Astraseal was sold a a franchise and adverts were placed in the Observer magazine by Hepworth who would then send out tons of leads which were mostly higher social / economic people who may have seen tilt and turn windows or wanted their windows and doors made from this new , expensive wonder material called upvc. In those days because the technology had not transferred over to uk style of windows only tilt and turns were available.
This video is pure gold!
Use an optical alarm or combo alarm (optical + heat) in living areas, or a combo alarm (carbon monoxide + heat) in kitchens to prevent false activations. E.g. Aico Ei3016, Ei3024 or Ei3028.
Brilliant work and thanks for sharing this with us take care
Like it. Standard 12.5mm plasterboard has to be doubled up to give 30 minutes fire resistance. (Building regs)
Great video what width oval conduit are you using in your chases? 20 or 25mm?
lovely job Nicholas, I know your not a Dewalt man but you sure do need the cable stapler for metal fixings in lofts etc, so fast !
and it’s amazing for new build stuff rather than clipping
Those windows were the first generation of upvc windows and doors in this country , distributed by Hepworth industrial polymers in Burnley whose M.D. Peter Abbot went on to work as M.D. for Veka ( huge company). Those frames have a sanded and polished finish which was dropped in favour of corner grooving , but with the early extrusions the surface finish was poor and so all the frames had to be sanded all over. I spent months and months sanding with an air DA then polishing with a rotary sisal brush to get an acceptable finish. If I was at that site with you I would have to look along the door frame on the surface those metal gold coloured keeps screw to to point out the brugmann marking which was a small semi circle over a bigger one and two at each side and a date stamp to say when it was made. My guess to get the double glazing anorak of the year award would be 1984-85.
3:54 No worry Cory felt sorry for you and did the same 😆😆😆
Chasing Amy - Good film!!
4.05 Nice to hear CJR in the background
where do you get those ties from for the oval conduit??
Great video. Calm, educational and real world advice. Picked up loads from this. Thank you
What clips do you use to fix the oval capping ?
Best to use the rechargeable type smokes ,as you say with the battery type when the batteries run down you get the annoying beep 👍
Nice in the USA, that we have battery powered units that use 10 year Lithium batteries that will last the life of the unit, however cities require AC powered units, which still use silly 9V batteries and die as well and have to be changed.
What's a good depth to chase for the oval conduit
nick good job great videos entertaining and informative nuts to the haters
Whats that plastic cable channel trunking stuff called please? I just chased out so wide for conventional channeling! That stuff is way nicer..
25mm oval conduit. Sits in perfectly when using wall chaser 👍🏻
@@michaelcoleman5229 I just got 1 length of all sizes (not curved.) Using 30mm x 30mm wall chaser but all my chases only 22mm deep. I put them 50mm wide for the channeling now change mind I want to use trunking. Will chase deeper this weekend
Conduit should go into the box. pinch with pipe grips and goes straight in
Just a tip with the old carpet. I find if you roll it you won’t have any creases. All ways come off the lighting circuit as you lot said in the video, always happens.
absolutely love that bit with little Amy hahaha, brilliant
I agree 100% with having smokes on lighting circuits as well but I'm pretty sure there's a new reg. which says that new installations have to be on their own circuit? I might be talking carp?
Good video Nick, Adam & Amy
Poor old Adam always gets told off for being the noisy one when Nick is recording! Poor kid!
Also, does anyone else play innuendo bingo with these videos?! Adam's not drilled anything, Nick's drilling is rock hard, a bag of bondage (bonding!)...the list goes on!
And he’s the only one who ever seems to be working
great stuff with the big small
What are them clips for the conduit? They bendy ones. They look dead handy. What would you call them?
also this dropping neutrals to light switches is all new to me im 70 only time id have done that is for an outside light a bit cheeky.
Good idea on the all round band for the oval conduit. I normally use clout nails but they aren't always suitable so will keep this in mind for future. Oval makes a much neater job than capping I reckon. Much narrower chases too!
I use a makita wall chaser and set it for the width of the oval conduit no need to fix the conduit to the wall as it usually fits snug in the chase. I am thinking of getting the metabo chasing disc as it takes out all the chase so need to to use an sds to knock it out but it seems expensive at £99 a disc
And you don't slice your fingers like with capping. Those cuts REALLY hurt and take ages to heal too.
Capping for first fix on block work extensions etc... conduit for rewires all day long...why is this even a talking point??
Does the banding just fold over oval conduit from both sides and not fixed just folded?
totally missed the Amy large/small tools, brilliant!
Do u not strip the wallpaper and stick it back on after the wall chase, or were they not bothered about the wallpaper??
18:38 broken mirror? Those guns gone off Nick? 💪🏻 🤣
amy n adam has a ring to it lol
I thought we could only drill holes between 25-40% either end of the joists span? I noticed at 1 minute in they were less than this. Does this building reg only apply to new builds?
They didn’t care when that house was built. bigger beams than new builds
what clips are they for the oval conduit?
Never understood why in the UK we go through all this work chasing out etc and don't install a ducting system to pull individual cables around the building! would enable this job to be carried out much easier when the time comes again. T&E is in my opinion is gash.
Yes I remember that u drilled through someone’s lounge happens mate it’s happened to me as well
Can you show how you get different flooring up for your rewires please?
its neat clipping the cables under floor boards but sometimes for slip ups we used to leave a bit of spare cable to be able to pull some more through, and also why not go behind the coving instead of cutting it?
I’m happy not working residential jobs.
I don’t remember last time I had to pull up floor boards or chase out plaster.
Plus, I earn a little more over my esteemed colleague Resbian Sparks.
Nice bit of oval conduit work
What screws do you use to put the band behind the conduit ?
ayo semangat terus bos,meski amy datang telat,,,salam dai indonesia 🙏🏻
Adams going to make a good tradesman.
Nick, sounds like there is a market for dual circuit smoke alarms.
Dedicated circuit goes down, do some beeps. Lighting circuit goes down, do some beeps.
No idea how you would isolate them on the inside of the smoke alarm, but I bet some landlords would like their renters from disabling the smoke alarms
If its a rental I put the smokes on with a lighting circuit. Prevents the tenants from turning them off.
Those visual gags are
Enjoying watching through these as someone new to the domestic industry!
I’m about to start my level 2 at night school at 29yo. I will still be full time at an electrical automation company (cus you know, house/wife/dog...). Need experience on Saturdays in Stoke or there abouts.
Anyone got any advice or know anyone who can help? Cheers
Are you going Burslem mate? just done my level 2 and 3 there over the last 2 years.
@@stokiesparky2790 joining Rebus in Tunstall instead, didn’t know burslem did evening courses??? How did you find it?
@@lj6322 it was mostly all good mate, Just with covid we had do some online lessons which wasn't ideal.
If your having the smokes on the same circuit as say the upstairs lights would it be ok to take the feed from the board to the downstairs smokes then a 3core to upstairs smokes then take the upstairs lights off of the smokes. (less wiring as only one cable between floors) thoughts on this anyone
Smokes ‘should’ have a means of isolation without turning the lights off. That being said you could still make it work
Not seen you chase a concrete floor to a kitchen island, will it manage concrete?
Yes mate can do concrete easy 👍
You can film my bungalow floor then :) awesome, looking like end Feb/beginning March, just waiting to exchange contracts then I'll have a moving date ( cambs)
How can a simpler DIY'r figure out whether the place needs a rewire?
16:15 😆😆😆
Nick, best bit to drill through joists?
How did you manage not to cover everything with dust when chasing the walls.
Is it all plaster walls over there?
Good vid as usual, are u using 35mm back boxes on usb sockets or are they 25mm? Just curious 😀
35mm bud
Any asbestos in the old plaster or ceiling plaster (looks to be batten and plastered, really old, ww2 era)
I thought you were in the UK (England to be a bit more precise) but you can't be. I saw blue sky when you went outside and not the usual dirty white one. 🤭
Look at the difference of veiws with the videos with Amy in and the ones without
Looks like Notts
Could you do a vid on your new Ford pick up truck?
I want to employ you to do my house, where abouts are you based?
cool amy
Seriously whens the wedding
but they closed and the battries last for 10yrs for the smoke detecter
I imagine those windows are in that property , in such a wonderful location because back in the day those earlier customers tended to be of solid financial means . Even though I was just a bod on the factory floor I still got to know about jobs for a reallly Rich jeweler and a huge mansion. Irony was our M.d who did the surveying and steered the ship was shrewd but a nasty greedy idiot who mismeasured loads of frames and if he did not own 1/3rd of the company would have been fired the first week for sucking the company so much it never had a chance to grow and being a total idiot. Such a shame how a bad, selfish leader can do such harm. After the initial purchase of the machines from Germany He spent no money on the workshop. One Monday he presented 3 wood chisels to me he had bought from a market.. these were the days Chinese steel was made from butter. We took it in turn to sand the frames and had to use one respirator that just got washed out for your next 2 week stint on the sanders. There is a lot of bad industry out there with some owners taking all the wealth that the men have grafted to make that’s sadly for sure.
2 mins 50 seconds you shout on Adam and a Crow answered you back
15:00. WTF is going on there 🤣 not sure it was worth all the editing 😂
Watch this space......😭
Double ganger 😈😂
@15:08 ROFL
Half a day job
2:39 ❤️😍💪😅💦
Must confess this guy does an excellent job especially installing and dressing cables in consumer units, I find him a bit of a drama queen and boring. Not like the other videos what shows spark's doing the work. Sorry mate.
Take me hat off to u feller, all that dragging furniture around lifting board crawling on knees fishing cables ect isn’t for me...wtf no camera man yet....ask the Naggy feller he may have one spare...
First😜
First what?
Hahaha look how may views you got using Amy’s face for previous video and now you used it again for this video.
Hate the player love the game,
Get that click bait 😝
I still never come across a attractive tradeswomen.😞
😅
Your definitely clouting that
Nick is married with kids. Somehow I doubt it.
@@Rainbowhockey And...
@@immonlystyl3627 He's shown commitment by marrying and having kids. People cheat for sure but I think (hope) Nicholas is one of the good guys.
@@Rainbowhockey only a bit of banter mate you know the score
My definitely clouting that? Doesn’t make sense.
very boring