@@thomasnagy Yes, it's great content and very informative. I'm not even a Sparky, however if I wasn't working in IT then it might have been an trade to consider! Any joy with finding someone to audit your highways accreditation? 🤔🤷🏽♂️
A company with existing highways contracts is required to "certify" a new competing company entering the market. Yep, sounds suss and just like how government contracts work.
Have to say.. it's so refreshing to finally have some professional content back on here after all this time. It's certainly been missing whilst Tom has been busy setting up his growing empire. 👍
You spoil us with all these videos Mr Nagy! Seriously we know you have been mega busy of late with all the new company stuff, videos must be time consuming to make and edit, so I gotta say, I for one appreciate all your efforts in getting this content out to us.
get in touch with any shopfitting firm and ask them if they're ripping out one of those ceilings. the amount of times i have to walk past piles of perfectly good kit stacked up at a refit just waiting for the scrap lorry
Great video Tom I start my own electrical course In September I’m looking forward to it but nervous your content has taught me a lot already thanks for the effort you put into your videos and look forward to future stuff
Good to see you back again regularly. The variety of jobs is really interesting. Chevrons are chevrons of alternating colour what goes on the back, Battenberg is the alternating squares of colour which go on the sides of (typically) fire, police and ambulance vehicles (which you don't have). The yellow strips are Conspicuity markings, required for your highways use.
I really enjoy learning about your organization system in the warehouse, as I am headed that way with my remodeling business and inventory also. Thanks for sharing and showing us your learning curve as you go. Keep up the great content, love from the U.S.!
Great video Tom. Although I really enjoy the unit and vehicle update videos it was nice to see a nice chunk of actual on site electrical work in today's video. 👍🙆🙆
Excellent video and commentary as usual. I had many years of dealing with Colas Street Lighting Company, might be worth an enquiry if you have not done so all ready. Keep up the good work and stay safe.
Interesting video and you're clearly getting very busy. I know it may seem impossible right now, but try and make some time for yourself every now and again, away from the business. A mistake I made in my career was thinking, as the boss, I needed to be present all the time. My team actually worked perfectly well without me around, it took me too long to find that out.
I was just thinking the same thing FurBall. Maybe the _Camera Guy_ is a dab hand with the scanner when new stock arrives. At some stage Tom is going to need someone to handle the in/out stock scanning plus service the 20+ vehicles *Nagy Inc* will have in a couple of years. I fear for the man's hair colour changes (but at least the bastard has hair that will change colour 😭).
I don't suppose you can call it *Murphy's Law* like most of the rest of the English speaking world for fear of upsetting the Irish. Also, Murphy, like Sod, was a bloody optimist; the bastard. 🙄
That seems bonkers system, surely there's an implicit incentive to fail more people to keep more out of the market for themselves given you become a competitor on passing.
Great video Tom. You really need to get yourself a warehouse/stock control person. Then you can get home at night for some R&R and come in the next day refreshed. You'll be changing the name of the company next to Thomas Nagy Group Ltd.
Hi Tom, I spent 12 years on the highways as a street lighting electrician so I’ve lots of experience on highways work and I can offer loads of advice on anything from lantern conversions to cutouts and feeder pillars, With regard to the HEA Audit the firm I used to be at had somebody come out from Nottingham council to do our Aslec portfolios. I know a lot of street lighting firms that may possibly do it for you.
if i send you a photo of a street light can you tell me how to disable the fucking thing? it's right outside my window on a private housing estate that got pushed through planning and built a few years ago, the light wasn't on the plans
@@cliveramsbotty6077 contact the developer or Local Authority and tell them it’s causing you light pollution they will fit a baffle or black out part of the shade and solve the problem
Yep having worked on the manchester hospitals changing to LED lights for the last 2 years these are everywhere and and absolute shambles also super sharp
Those ceilings are called Burgess I think. You are supposed to use a special tool to drop them otherwise they can drop on the corners after a while if forced. Supermarkets use then a lot there good for magnetic signage.
Good video, I like how it was a good mix of the work you've done, different clients and jobs. Rather than a video about one job etc. I do think though, you need to hand the 'stock' job to someone else, I know you probably enjoy it!
Would you consider hiring a part-time storeman? Duties to include stock management, leading to ordering etc. Get the right person who enjoys (and has good) organising then you'll have a neat and tidy stock area as a constant. i run a locksmith firm in Stockport, we have a retail shop attached to offices, workshops and stock storage. 2500 sq feet. 4 members of staff, 4 vans and 2 company directors. Much like you, i find myself sorting through orders, putting them away and generally tidying up the place. George
Would Love to see an update on the stock system you were testing before. interested on the changes youve made to fit your needs as you've played with it
I had an N-E fault on my cooker in my house i moved into, every time i turned the cooker isolator on it tripped the RCD, F***ing morons who connected the oven up had connected N to E and E to N.. It onlyshowed up when I realised there was and RCD missing out the dual RCD board lol... fitted a new RCD and connected it up correctly (split the N bus bars) that i discovered it. So some moron connected the cooke wrong, it tripped the RCD and they took it out! so it didnt trip. crazy. Cowboy DIY Dave's do my head in. Great Vid.. I love fault finding. 😁👍
Yep our old office had that stupid ceiling too. We got told off for not using the proper removal tool, but tbf neither did the landlord's maintenance crew...
you should look at hiring a junior or apprentice to work a couple hours in evening to help with inventory. Get them learning the names of components ready for when they start going out on jobs!
Are you sure they are " Battenburg" markings? I always thought Battenburg markings are like the cake (Which they are named after) are the square markings that are on the side of vehicles, not the rear. I believe yours are called "chevron safety markings" (Chapter 8 of the Road Traffic Manual) Love the channel.
I had a feeling it was going to be an issue with the extractor. I did some fault finding at my friend's house as their lighting kept tripping.. It turned out to be the extractor (which apparently stopped working a year before) i took it off and the PCB was black with soot
Drivers fail before LED panels. The drivers integeated in the panels are generally shite, low profile means no cooling they run hot and the capacitors fail.
1:30 Circa 1997 I got lumbered into a network cabling job that had a very similar _false_ ceiling except the panels were about the width of the light hole and were 3 or maybe 4 times as long. It was push one in and two would fall out. It drove us nuts and we were there for bloody hours. Finally got them all right except for one panel that sort of hung down a little and our hope was a sparkie was going to have to run some cables after us. Never got a call back to fix the ceiling and no complaints about the cabling (not that there ever was at any site). Those panels were just the worst *evaaaa!!* 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 5:28 Nagy, Thomas Nagy..... *not* licenced to kill. 😱
that would require a bit of a rewire on the fitting to put the used contacts on the correct side. The you have to realize that there are multiple ways to do that rewire which are incompatible
Great to see more videos frequently Tom! Couple of questions tho.. how come when you've re-branded you haven't included email address, telephone and/or accreditations. Do you not feel asif that's a missed opportunity in terms of branding? Also throughout the day shouldn't your staff members be booking items back in themselves as and when it's required. My point being its your company but it's all left up to you at the end of the day meaning your home very late. Are you happy doing that? Just curious to hear your thoughts?! All the best for the Highways work looking forwards to the upcoming videos.
Be careful if he is shooting seagulls or doves they are protected and carry a heavy fine and yes you will be fined too, they need a pest control licence as well
Have you though of asking Unipart or another company in the same line of work if they can help. Whats the worst that can happen? I worked for Unipart when they took over our Trafic Calming sign company so they must have some form of electrical permits etc.
I can’t believe you don’t find that neutral to earth fault quicker. And I can’t believe you didn’t narrow it down in the fitting. Not knowing the what and why would frustrate the hell out of me. With non-intermittent faults like this, especially when you have an insulation tester/Megger to allow fault tracing with the supply isolated should be fairly straightforward. We use the halves/50% technique. Isolate at the feed/consumer unit. Confirm fault still present. Find the halfway point (or appropriate half way point) between the feed/consumer unit and the end of the circuit. Split the circuit at this point and test both ways. Then in the direction of the fault, split that part of the circuit in half again. Split and retest. Etc. etc…
I'm enjoying all the new content. But now I have to remember all the European electrical terminology I forgot. Lol funny how different things can be from the US
Tom, admire your work ethic, But remember you should get someone else to do the stock control work to save you the extra load, At the end of the day you also need some down time.
Schoolboy error with the ceiling. Should have seen it wasn't a traditional grid. Proper fittings are a PITA to install. Tile removal key needs to come from ceiling suppliers.
as said m8 you cant run the office, re stocking ,go out on site and put stuff back on shelves youll burn out ,make the guys clean n empty there own vans on a friday get a retired gent in to keep stock maintained n enjoy life doing what your supposed to do on site all the best m8
Do you know which type of RCD to use if there is no Neutral, but L1 and L2 on a 220V (60 hz) supply? I see a lot of RCDs marked N and L, but I suppose these should not be used when both wires are Live? (It's in Philippines, a complete cluster **** on electrical, where the power co's cant even agree on which type of system to use....)
Good to see the videos coming more frequent, again 🙂🙂
great to see Regular content back
Appreciate it pal
@@thomasnagy Yes, it's great content and very informative. I'm not even a Sparky, however if I wasn't working in IT then it might have been an trade to consider! Any joy with finding someone to audit your highways accreditation? 🤔🤷🏽♂️
A company with existing highways contracts is required to "certify" a new competing company entering the market. Yep, sounds suss and just like how government contracts work.
Have to say.. it's so refreshing to finally have some professional content back on here after all this time. It's certainly been missing whilst Tom has been busy setting up his growing empire. 👍
Great to see the journey as your business grows. Good on you.
Appreciate it pal :)
This is my favourite spark channel.
Thank the lord for the regular content loving the progress looking forward to seeing you doing the highways work
It's good to see you back on UA-cam Tom. You were the first spark I watched on here.
You spoil us with all these videos Mr Nagy!
Seriously we know you have been mega busy of late with all the new company stuff, videos must be time consuming to make and edit, so I gotta say, I for one appreciate all your efforts in getting this content out to us.
Loving seeing you back with regular vids Tom. We've missed you! ❤
quality video again, loving the regular content, behind the scenes stuff is genuinely interesting!
Cheers pal! much appreciated :)
I loved fault finding miss my sparky days, here in Thailand Electrics is a joke so dangerous compared to the U.K.
Love watching your videos.
get in touch with any shopfitting firm and ask them if they're ripping out one of those ceilings. the amount of times i have to walk past piles of perfectly good kit stacked up at a refit just waiting for the scrap lorry
Love all of the extra content!
Can’t even keep up with your uploads legend
I'm glad you're enjoying the uploads
Good to have you back Tom. Loving the new content and congratulations with the unit and also how your company is growing. Wishing you all the best. 🍺
Great video Tom I start my own electrical course In September I’m looking forward to it but nervous your content has taught me a lot already thanks for the effort you put into your videos and look forward to future stuff
Good to see you back again regularly. The variety of jobs is really interesting. Chevrons are chevrons of alternating colour what goes on the back, Battenberg is the alternating squares of colour which go on the sides of (typically) fire, police and ambulance vehicles (which you don't have). The yellow strips are Conspicuity markings, required for your highways use.
Videos are getting better and better. Great work. 🙂🇮🇪☘️
I really enjoy learning about your organization system in the warehouse, as I am headed that way with my remodeling business and inventory also. Thanks for sharing and showing us your learning curve as you go. Keep up the great content, love from the U.S.!
Legend in the game, mad how far you have come. Also HERS registered 😎
I just found you and loving your straight talking.
Nice to see you again Tom.
Your passion is inspiring you have gone big quite quick but think you got it right this time
I’ve worked with them ceilings before we usually just cut in big flush downlights like 170mm roughly with a hole saw and worked a treat in offices.
Great video Tom. Although I really enjoy the unit and vehicle update videos it was nice to see a nice chunk of actual on site electrical work in today's video. 👍🙆🙆
Excellent video and commentary as usual. I had many years of dealing with Colas Street Lighting Company, might be worth an enquiry if you have not done so all ready. Keep up the good work and stay safe.
6:29 Nice Prelude there Gobob! He always seem to have a cool honda in his unit everytime you're there.
Interesting video and you're clearly getting very busy. I know it may seem impossible right now, but try and make some time for yourself every now and again, away from the business. A mistake I made in my career was thinking, as the boss, I needed to be present all the time. My team actually worked perfectly well without me around, it took me too long to find that out.
Thanks for the advice, much appreciated!
I was just thinking the same thing FurBall. Maybe the _Camera Guy_ is a dab hand with the scanner when new stock arrives. At some stage Tom is going to need someone to handle the in/out stock scanning plus service the 20+ vehicles *Nagy Inc* will have in a couple of years. I fear for the man's hair colour changes (but at least the bastard has hair that will change colour 😭).
"Sod's Law" - I love it!
I don't suppose you can call it *Murphy's Law* like most of the rest of the English speaking world for fear of upsetting the Irish. Also, Murphy, like Sod, was a bloody optimist; the bastard. 🙄
@@josephking6515 It was the first time I (American) had heard that phrase :)
I recommend purchasing a earth leakage meter for consumer unit changes. IR testing as mentioned is a nightmare.
Nice job and video like always
That seems bonkers system, surely there's an implicit incentive to fail more people to keep more out of the market for themselves given you become a competitor on passing.
Great video Tom. You really need to get yourself a warehouse/stock control person. Then you can get home at night for some R&R and come in the next day refreshed. You'll be changing the name of the company next to Thomas Nagy Group Ltd.
Nice to see a bit of the management part of your business also 🙂
Smashing content as always!
Can't wait to see how sortimo rack out a low loader though haha
Don't give yourself a heart attack Tommy lad.
Hey Mr Thomas Nagy like your work from Uganda
SAS-120 ceilings are a pain in the arse if you work in a lot of hospital/medical operating theatres you’ll know the joys of them
Makes sense, Thanks for answering. 😉
Nice one
i have been a viewer for some time but i must say you seem really chipper recently keep up the good work 👍🏻
The signs I use fit on to the cones. Much lighter and take up less space. I have my QS refresher in a few weeks 🙂
Hi Tom, I spent 12 years on the highways as a street lighting electrician so I’ve lots of experience on highways work and I can offer loads of advice on anything from lantern conversions to cutouts and feeder pillars,
With regard to the HEA Audit the firm I used to be at had somebody come out from Nottingham council to do our Aslec portfolios. I know a lot of street lighting firms that may possibly do it for you.
if i send you a photo of a street light can you tell me how to disable the fucking thing? it's right outside my window on a private housing estate that got pushed through planning and built a few years ago, the light wasn't on the plans
@@cliveramsbotty6077 air rifle? Or you can get a column key and just pull the fuse usually a triangle abit bigger than a meterbox key
@@cliveramsbotty6077 Axe?
@@cliveramsbotty6077 contact the developer or Local Authority and tell them it’s causing you light pollution they will fit a baffle or black out part of the shade and solve the problem
I actually used a slingshot years ago to do just that. worked well much better than the neighbours attempts at throwing a vodka bottle at it
Omg ! I remember those ceilings in Crawley Hospital Sussex back in early 90s absolute rubbish to deal with
Yep having worked on the manchester hospitals changing to LED lights for the last 2 years these are everywhere and and absolute shambles also super sharp
Those ceilings are called Burgess I think.
You are supposed to use a special tool to drop them otherwise they can drop on the corners after a while if forced.
Supermarkets use then a lot there good for magnetic signage.
enjoying the more regular content great stuff
Glad you enjoy it!
Good video, I like how it was a good mix of the work you've done, different clients and jobs. Rather than a video about one job etc.
I do think though, you need to hand the 'stock' job to someone else, I know you probably enjoy it!
Cheers pal, I'm glad you enjoyed the video! You are correct, i do enjoy doing it :)
I like that Van
I've stopped fitting fusebox consumer units. Had a few with sticking test button problems.
I stopped fitting them coz you can’t get the bloody stock easily, I just need a brand that my wholesalers stock so I’m contactum now.
Would you consider hiring a part-time storeman? Duties to include stock management, leading to ordering etc. Get the right person who enjoys (and has good) organising then you'll have a neat and tidy stock area as a constant. i run a locksmith firm in Stockport, we have a retail shop attached to offices, workshops and stock storage. 2500 sq feet. 4 members of staff, 4 vans and 2 company directors. Much like you, i find myself sorting through orders, putting them away and generally tidying up the place.
George
Would Love to see an update on the stock system you were testing before. interested on the changes youve made to fit your needs as you've played with it
Great video and details 👍🏼
I had an N-E fault on my cooker in my house i moved into, every time i turned the cooker isolator on it tripped the RCD, F***ing morons who connected the oven up had connected N to E and E to N.. It onlyshowed up when I realised there was and RCD missing out the dual RCD board lol... fitted a new RCD and connected it up correctly (split the N bus bars) that i discovered it. So some moron connected the cooke wrong, it tripped the RCD and they took it out! so it didnt trip. crazy. Cowboy DIY Dave's do my head in. Great Vid.. I love fault finding. 😁👍
Yep our old office had that stupid ceiling too. We got told off for not using the proper removal tool, but tbf neither did the landlord's maintenance crew...
Hello Domus this is Mike from Amsterdam Holland you Got to put the sinj in the bucket of the cherry picker or mount them on it White a Brackett
you should look at hiring a junior or apprentice to work a couple hours in evening to help with inventory. Get them learning the names of components ready for when they start going out on jobs!
You certainly work hard Tom, it's non stop for you 👍
You got that right!
@@thomasnagy tossing it off more like
Regarding your signs for traffic management the first sign out is men at work then road narrow
Ye i have worked on getting new lights in a ceiling like that before bloody nightmare the panels keeping popping out at the corners.
Great videos again. Thought we lost you 😅😅😅
Are you sure they are " Battenburg" markings? I always thought Battenburg markings are like the cake (Which they are named after) are the square markings that are on the side of vehicles, not the rear. I believe yours are called "chevron safety markings" (Chapter 8 of the Road Traffic Manual) Love the channel.
Nagy, friend of the bird kingdom 🐦🦅🦉
I had a feeling it was going to be an issue with the extractor. I did some fault finding at my friend's house as their lighting kept tripping.. It turned out to be the extractor (which apparently stopped working a year before) i took it off and the PCB was black with soot
There's a company called ETL, they do some of our HEA training and I'm sure would be able to help you with the HERS registration.
Electrical Testing Limited
and yeah 1st thing should of been checked is the fitting tell them to check that 1st b4 calling panic again next time lol
Lesson learnt :)
Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm fairly sure the first sign you put out with traffic management is the men at work sign.
Drivers fail before LED panels. The drivers integeated in the panels are generally shite, low profile means no cooling they run hot and the capacitors fail.
Don’t you like the Wiha over wera screwdrivers?
Split the circuit and narrow down where the fault is
1:30 Circa 1997 I got lumbered into a network cabling job that had a very similar _false_ ceiling except the panels were about the width of the light hole and were 3 or maybe 4 times as long. It was push one in and two would fall out. It drove us nuts and we were there for bloody hours. Finally got them all right except for one panel that sort of hung down a little and our hope was a sparkie was going to have to run some cables after us. Never got a call back to fix the ceiling and no complaints about the cabling (not that there ever was at any site). Those panels were just the worst *evaaaa!!* 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
5:28 Nagy, Thomas Nagy..... *not* licenced to kill. 😱
All work and no play makes Tom a dull boy, I get stuck in the same cycle mate. Remember to live as well pal.
Couldn't you have just put LED tubes in the old fluoro trays?
that would require a bit of a rewire on the fitting to put the used contacts on the correct side. The you have to realize that there are multiple ways to do that rewire which are incompatible
Great to see more videos frequently Tom! Couple of questions tho.. how come when you've re-branded you haven't included email address, telephone and/or accreditations. Do you not feel asif that's a missed opportunity in terms of branding?
Also throughout the day shouldn't your staff members be booking items back in themselves as and when it's required. My point being its your company but it's all left up to you at the end of the day meaning your home very late. Are you happy doing that?
Just curious to hear your thoughts?! All the best for the Highways work looking forwards to the upcoming videos.
Go on show us your car collection i seen a cheeky glimpse, now I'm interested.
7:40 built-in LED drivers are becoming more and more common. It came from smaller "civilian" solutions I believe.
I worked Road work in denmark. we only used 1 sign. this is brutal
Be careful if he is shooting seagulls or doves they are protected and carry a heavy fine and yes you will be fined too, they need a pest control licence as well
Looking very busy through the videos Tom, try not to get too stressed lord knows I would. Pig of a fault that light was too.
All the best.
It just so happened that it was the only light we didn't check haha
Have you though of asking Unipart or another company in the same line of work if they can help. Whats the worst that can happen?
I worked for Unipart when they took over our Trafic Calming sign company so they must have some form of electrical permits etc.
Great video, sounds like there is a lot of work on the highways side. 😎
cheers pal! Really appreciate it ;)
Maybe, but if you are not accredited then you don't do any do you. £70k white elephant on the drive not earning.
@@thomasnagy You are living in that unit aren't you?
I can’t believe you don’t find that neutral to earth fault quicker. And I can’t believe you didn’t narrow it down in the fitting. Not knowing the what and why would frustrate the hell out of me.
With non-intermittent faults like this, especially when you have an insulation tester/Megger to allow fault tracing with the supply isolated should be fairly straightforward. We use the halves/50% technique. Isolate at the feed/consumer unit. Confirm fault still present. Find the halfway point (or appropriate half way point) between the feed/consumer unit and the end of the circuit. Split the circuit at this point and test both ways. Then in the direction of the fault, split that part of the circuit in half again. Split and retest. Etc. etc…
Even naggy using fusebox now. Are they the only ones that can supply
Those look like the old British 5 amp plugs. Round pin type.
Brilliant video as usual. How many miles going backwards and forwards did you do ???
You can get flexible signage with collapsible tripods takes up a lot less room have them on my vivaro
Tom, looking forward to seeing you take your seat on Dragons Den as a self-made millionaire in the near future...fair play! 💪
I'm enjoying all the new content. But now I have to remember all the European electrical terminology I forgot. Lol funny how different things can be from the US
I'm glad you're enjoying the content!
Tom, admire your work ethic, But remember you should get someone else to do the stock control work to save you the extra load, At the end of the day you also need some down time.
In the US we're lucky if the electric bucket trucks have a cone or a guy standing in the road waving. Can't imagine needing 12 signs! 😂
How did you get s permanent supply to the emergency lights? Did you say they are powered off the switch line? Isn't that a problem?
Red 415... blue 230 😉👍 also personally i have found drivers fail more than the actual panel.... 😉
Nice day in the life,
Still working hard mate
Poor guy doing them office lights on his own.
Schoolboy error with the ceiling. Should have seen it wasn't a traditional grid. Proper fittings are a PITA to install. Tile removal key needs to come from ceiling suppliers.
When I go fault finding, I usually assume it’s the apprentices fault.
as said m8 you cant run the office, re stocking ,go out on site and put stuff back on shelves youll burn out ,make the guys clean n empty there own vans on a friday get a retired gent in to keep stock maintained n enjoy life doing what your supposed to do on site all the best m8
Do you know which type of RCD to use if there is no Neutral, but L1 and L2 on a 220V (60 hz) supply? I see a lot of RCDs marked N and L, but I suppose these should not be used when both wires are Live? (It's in Philippines, a complete cluster **** on electrical, where the power co's cant even agree on which type of system to use....)
What are the pants that Tom's wearing? Quite like the hi-viz style. Loving the regular content though