The reason Reuben made a good job of the install is because you've taught him the importance of having a high work ethic - he's lucky to have you and if he follows your example he can come and rewire my house any time. What a lovely neat board from you as well.
Is there anyone else that watches Electrician vloggers without 0 knowledge/experience in any trade? Honestly just find it really interesting to see other industries
Hey Cory you are doing a fine job with Reuben, letting him do the complete job works everytime his confidence will grow very quickly. When you sign in and out of the videos could we have Reuben say Hi at the beginning and a bye at the end.
So I was an apprentice, and I work with the new apprentices. I did my apprenticeship in technical theatre, I now specialize in electrics and lighting. But one of the best things I always found and Still do is just involving them and giving them a "good job" every now and then. Some people just think, well when I was an apprentice I was forced to sweep up and do the shit jobs so Ill make them do that, but every day is a learning experience, so just talking though what your doing, asking if they know what you're talking about, in a non-condescending way, and just keeping them in the loop and getting them to-do as much stuff as possible. Hands-on is always better than from a book or from just watching. Love the videos btw.
well done to Cory for letting Reuben do his first job on his own and just looking in on him making . from time to time . congratulation to you both good job done . behind every good apprentice is a excellent instructor .
Whenever I had a youngster help me with different jobs I always encouraged him to think it through,ask him how he would go about the task in hand,and generally let him get on with it,while I stayed close to check on his progress. Never talk down to the lad,always make him feel valuable and useful.
Reuben is lucky to be working with you Cory - great to see you taking so much time and effort to give him quality training 👍 Seriously neat board too, lovely job.
Definetly a tip for teaching apprentices, I am almost finished as apprentice now. And I say not to stress all the time, talk clearly, have patience, have fun.
I love you guys. Great sense of humour, great work ethic. Corey's a lucky lad to have that work environment. He'll make a great spark. Personality is a large part of success. Keep up the good work.
I am enjoyed your videos and I am very impressed with you guys. Cory, you made a fuseboard look professional and neat. It looks fantastic 👌. Reuben done brilliant job with cable outside 👏
The 17th Edition doesn't require fire sealant on knockouts. Lots of people do it and it makes sense to, but the regs require non combustible CU or a combustible CU in a non-combustable enclosure.
Corey - regarding mounting an isolator switch horizontally. I am guessing that such switches are designed to break on load, in which case they will have arc chutes above the contacts. These are usually mounted vertically so that the lighter gases in the arc travel upwards into the arc chute so the arc is quenched. In your particular installation, I guess that most often the supply will be interrupted by the main switch in the CU and the isolator opened just to make the CU completely dead, i.e. off load. But in general, vertical is the way to go!
Wiska make a 25mm to 20mm adapter that I’ve used for terminating SWA into if you need a smaller hole for the gland. It works a treat you just need a locknut for it!
You’ll struggle to see three phase residential in the UK. Unless it’s a very large house, they’ll all be single phase. Three phase for commercial / industrial only I’m afraid.
When I used to train the new guys up I would literally make them do everything unless they couldn’t. Also I would let them make mistakes and ask make them re do anything that wasn’t up to standards. First couple of weeks they hate me but the three lads I trained up are all great engineers now and don’t really need much help
After finding this channel I wish I did an electrical apprenticeship rather then ICT! Love the content, very informative and you all seem as though you love what you do!
Why the two main switches? Is there a service fuse you can pull if you needed to work on the consumer unit? Sorry I’m in Australia and while most of our stuff is similar sometimes the terminology is different and the way we do things slightly different. But I’d love to know why.
You know you can move the neutral bar, right? If you moved the earth bar all the way to the left. Then move the neutral bar along. Whilst it won’t be at one end. It’ll give you some flexibility for cable dressing.
So as someone who qualified not long ago, exactly what you said is true. Let him make mistakes as long as it's safe. He will learn allot better from doing with guidance and trial then he will just watching
Sideways mount ...like in a 3phase board :) I think there was a thing about the spring if it failed and gravity been in its favour to fail safe..? Or just natural on off direction?
Nice job on the board it’s so great to see your quality work, Ruban nice work outside it seem your learning loads and your attention to detail is fantastic 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Quick questions lads. How do you guys break out the cat5/6 out of the swa at the board so the cat5/6 splits of to the nwtwork work switch and you still need to terminate another swa gland/connnector to enter the consumer unit .....hope this makes sense. . Andy
padwan reuben is coming along like a star! nicely trained master cory (sorry bn binge watching star wars! i dont think electricians carry lightsabers! 😂😂😂) seriously tho, cory your an ace teacher! and sitting in your hideout beneath the stairs all day (bar breaks!) shows dedication and heavy professionalism imho. job looks awesome too! 😊
Great content guys keep it up. I take issue with you over the 3 amp fused spur protecting the up stream cable. If the 3 amp BS 1362 fuse in the spur blows there is a better than evens chance that the householder will replace it with a 13A BS 1362 fuse, which will carry 21 amps with out blowing and allow the cable to over heat.
Looks like a really tidy install Corey. When you’re stripping out an old board, do you label the wiring circuits? Just wondering how you easily identify them when patching them in to the new board. Cheers!
Personally I tape my L, N, E together and write the circuit number on some white tape on the taped cables. I have a piece of paper next to me which has the number and what that circuit is doing
Hager are the boys mind. Always used them, but we have used the new scholmore consumer units a couple of times lately. They’re alright, but not as user friendly as Hager
Hi Corey & Reuben , really enjoying watching and learning from you , Epic job by the way, New Sparky at college Learning , Huge Thanks Jensen 👊 ( New Sub 👍)
A clean and easy to work with installation saves the poor sod that has to go in there next - which will probably be you! Never skimp on what will come back to bite you. I remember not many videos ago, where Ruben was doing his first marking up, now he's a free apprentice, won't be long until he's signing off EICRs!
What bits did you use in the Hilti cut out tool to cut the trunking? I thought you could only cut plaster board with them? It would be handy to know for myself going forward 👍🏻
It'll be funny when Reuben's fully qualified &knocks on the customer's door they open up,look around,don't see anything &then look down "oh sorry young fella,didn't see you down there,the skateboarding park is down the street!😂😂😂
If Reuben makes any mistakes, then hopefully that’ll help ensure he doesn’t do them too often again. If you make a mistake that means re-doing all the work you spent ages on, there’s a very good chance you won’t repeat it again. Only other thing I can think in training, is maybe ask him how he would plan a layout for cable runs, or if your showing that your doing something in a particular way, ask him why.
You seem to be doing well with how you treat apprentices in my opinion. Showing them a varied amount of work and showing them each part of the process. I always find that some firms just use them as lackeys (chasing and loft work) without showing them testing and terminating which are much more useful skills.
For your first or second year you will always be doing the shit jobs, also i wouldn't really let a first year test since its something its got to be done right and it's easy to not do it right
@@cocoino2307 I’m not talking about letting them test, but you should be showing them the process so they can learn. Obviously they will be doing the shit jobs until they have learned the skills to do more skilled work. What I was saying is some firms use them as cheap Labour then fuck them off. They never show them the proper stuff as they don’t care if they learn
Currently training an apprentice that had zero experience or electrical knowledge before working with me. He's 20 years old, told us he had framing experience but just come to find out he really didn't do anything except keep a job site clean. Eight months now and I'm struggling to get him to learn things, he doesn't remember anything. And he's the slowest moving person I've ever worked with, in any job, ever. I'm at the point where I'm just going to work him part- time, I don't know what to do with him...
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The reason Reuben made a good job of the install is because you've taught him the importance of having a high work ethic - he's lucky to have you and if he follows your example he can come and rewire my house any time. What a lovely neat board from you as well.
The username and profile pic couldn't be better haha
Is there anyone else that watches Electrician vloggers without 0 knowledge/experience in any trade? Honestly just find it really interesting to see other industries
Hey Cory you are doing a fine job with Reuben, letting him do the complete job works everytime his confidence will grow very quickly. When you sign in and out of the videos could we have Reuben say Hi at the beginning and a bye at the end.
Thanks great idea
So I was an apprentice, and I work with the new apprentices. I did my apprenticeship in technical theatre, I now specialize in electrics and lighting. But one of the best things I always found and Still do is just involving them and giving them a "good job" every now and then. Some people just think, well when I was an apprentice I was forced to sweep up and do the shit jobs so Ill make them do that, but every day is a learning experience, so just talking though what your doing, asking if they know what you're talking about, in a non-condescending way, and just keeping them in the loop and getting them to-do as much stuff as possible. Hands-on is always better than from a book or from just watching. Love the videos btw.
I’m taking on my 5th apprentice this month. I enjoy passing on knowledge and being part of their journey in the industry.
Awesome well done
A long time ago I was an apprentice and Cory you are a very good teacher 👍👍
well done to Cory for letting Reuben do his first job on his own and just looking in on him making . from time to time . congratulation to you both good job done . behind every good apprentice is a excellent instructor .
Thanks
Whenever I had a youngster help me with different jobs I always encouraged him to think it through,ask him how he would go about the task in hand,and generally let him get on with it,while I stayed close to check on his progress. Never talk down to the lad,always make him feel valuable and useful.
Reuben is lucky to be working with you Cory - great to see you taking so much time and effort to give him quality training 👍 Seriously neat board too, lovely job.
Thanks
Could watch you all day bro so calm neat and tidy. Really good mate .
Absolutely bang on with letting him do a job and figure it out for himself. The best way to learn is by doing. 👍 Great job
Definetly a tip for teaching apprentices, I am almost finished as apprentice now. And I say not to stress all the time, talk clearly, have patience, have fun.
Thanks
Great vid as always. Next time your near by the job pop back and fit a 25-20 reducer you can get them in galv or brass.
Nice tip
I love you guys. Great sense of humour, great work ethic. Corey's a lucky lad to have that work environment. He'll make a great spark. Personality is a large part of success. Keep up the good work.
Great how Corey is looking up teaching info etc to train Reuben as well as possible 👍👍 Loved how neat the board looked at the end! 🤩
Thanks!
I love seeing a neat board. I have to begrudgingly admit, that is one of the neatest boards I have seen. Great job guys👍 also I love the tips.
Beautiful looking board Cory. Piece of artwork.
Rueban enjoy the straw eating. Get the man a new dustpan please Jordon. Well done guys 😃👍
The Artisan horse has done it again, 1st over the line once again. Great job guys.
Haha
Great position of Doncaster Cables product right at the start! But of course we would say that...
Yeah you are clever branding your cable drums!
Clarksons Farm is the best thing I’ve watched in ages. There better be a second series!
there is
I AGREE
That is work of ART Cory great job
That board is epic
Cory, you are doing a grant job with Reuben. Great job Reuben.
Man I've been binge watching these videos for the last week, can't get enough haha
AWESOME, thanks for watching
Cory trying his best to be friendly to that dog… “never mind” 😂😂👏🏼👏🏼
Yeah, I think you do really well training Reuben he's gonna make a great Sparky.
I am enjoyed your videos and I am very impressed with you guys. Cory, you made a fuseboard look professional and neat. It looks fantastic 👌. Reuben done brilliant job with cable outside 👏
Beautiful job on the consumer board, and Rubin’s job on the charging unit looks superb. Well done all around guys 😃👌👏👏👏❤️
Thank You
The 17th Edition doesn't require fire sealant on knockouts. Lots of people do it and it makes sense to, but the regs require non combustible CU or a combustible CU in a non-combustable enclosure.
Very true
aren't we working to the 18th Edition now?
@@patrickbishop4099 yes, but Cory said that since the 17th Edition, fire sealant has been required on CU knockouts, and it hasn't.
Only required where the consumer unit is mounted onto a stud wall or void to stop the spread of fire into it.
@@heladas90 where is that in the regs please?
Great work chap! another awesome film!
0:13 Doncaster cables 👏 my hometown.
Tidy install, seriously impressed by the waste pipe in the toilet too 😁
Wow nice work, Your work is very nice I really really really like it and i want to learn from you
Prior, Preparation & Planning Prevents..........
Another one - EDIP: Explain, Demonstrate, Imitate & Practice!
Great work and great mentoring.
Nice thanks
Lovely neat board change! I carry 25-20 galv reducing bushes for those oversized knockouts.
Great tip
We use Hellermann sleeves on industrial jobs to cover the crutch where the cable has been stripped for a neat finish.
Pretty awesome work done. I'm amazed by you!
Really neat job on that CU and the EV magic
Corey - regarding mounting an isolator switch horizontally. I am guessing that such switches are designed to break on load, in which case they will have arc chutes above the contacts. These are usually mounted vertically so that the lighter gases in the arc travel upwards into the arc chute so the arc is quenched. In your particular installation, I guess that most often the supply will be interrupted by the main switch in the CU and the isolator opened just to make the CU completely dead, i.e. off load. But in general, vertical is the way to go!
You two make a great team and I like how you layout and execute nice and clean ..awesome...💥
Thanks
Wiska make a 25mm to 20mm adapter that I’ve used for terminating SWA into if you need a smaller hole for the gland. It works a treat you just need a locknut for it!
Well done Cory, & Reuben is doing fine, you are teaching him well Cory.
Thanks
10/10 on the board Corey, while der is always a trade off with neatness/time I'd always lean towards neatness as a priority! Great job lad
Thanks
Very neat job. It would be very nice to see some 3-phase residential consumer unit installation also.
You’ll struggle to see three phase residential in the UK. Unless it’s a very large house, they’ll all be single phase. Three phase for commercial / industrial only I’m afraid.
They have done a 3phase board in a factory
When I used to train the new guys up I would literally make them do everything unless they couldn’t. Also I would let them make mistakes and ask make them re do anything that wasn’t up to standards. First couple of weeks they hate me but the three lads I trained up are all great engineers now and don’t really need much help
Reuben is a very lucky apprentice being taught by you Cory. I'm certain he will do you proud 👍🏼
Thank you
After finding this channel I wish I did an electrical apprenticeship rather then ICT! Love the content, very informative and you all seem as though you love what you do!
Thanks glad you enjoy the videos! We do love what we do!
Stupendous work 🔥🔥🔥
That was a great job, thanks
Why the two main switches? Is there a service fuse you can pull if you needed to work on the consumer unit? Sorry I’m in Australia and while most of our stuff is similar sometimes the terminology is different and the way we do things slightly different. But I’d love to know why.
You know you can move the neutral bar, right?
If you moved the earth bar all the way to the left. Then move the neutral bar along. Whilst it won’t be at one end. It’ll give you some flexibility for cable dressing.
Great tip!
So as someone who qualified not long ago, exactly what you said is true. Let him make mistakes as long as it's safe. He will learn allot better from doing with guidance and trial then he will just watching
Ruben is a very lucky apprentice, I am gutted to be a late edition to the electrical industry..stick with it Ruben 👍
“The Five P’s” 🤣 really enjoyed that.
Sideways mount ...like in a 3phase board :) I think there was a thing about the spring if it failed and gravity been in its favour to fail safe..? Or just natural on off direction?
A really tidy board. Nice.
Nice job on the board it’s so great to see your quality work, Ruban nice work outside it seem your learning loads and your attention to detail is fantastic 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks
Any chance of a link for the black fire putty stuff? Would like to get on board with it
Quick questions lads. How do you guys break out the cat5/6 out of the swa at the board so the cat5/6 splits of to the nwtwork work switch and you still need to terminate another swa gland/connnector to enter the consumer unit .....hope this makes sense. . Andy
Go on, Reuben!
Haveyou tried, a 25mm to20mm conduit reducer bush
Good idea
padwan reuben is coming along like a star! nicely trained master cory (sorry bn binge watching star wars! i dont think electricians carry lightsabers! 😂😂😂)
seriously tho, cory your an ace teacher! and sitting in your hideout beneath the stairs all day (bar breaks!) shows dedication and heavy professionalism imho. job looks awesome too! 😊
Downton Abbey, your the man dood. God I love this channel.
LOL thanks
Excellent video.
Great work chaps
Great stuff. How did you make off the swa at the board end?
Great content guys keep it up.
I take issue with you over the 3 amp fused spur protecting the up stream cable. If the 3 amp BS 1362 fuse in the spur blows there is a better than evens chance that the householder will replace it with a 13A BS 1362 fuse, which will carry 21 amps with out blowing and allow the cable to over heat.
Great vid as always. ANY advice for a 34 year old about to stat the apprenticeship? I am nervous and stoked at the same time.
Looks like a really tidy install Corey. When you’re stripping out an old board, do you label the wiring circuits? Just wondering how you easily identify them when patching them in to the new board. Cheers!
I was wondering about that too. It looked like a bird nest after he removed the old board haha
Personally I tape my L, N, E together and write the circuit number on some white tape on the taped cables. I have a piece of paper next to me which has the number and what that circuit is doing
Great video Cory. Nice job as well Rueben. Cory how do you mark up your final circuit wiring before disconnecting from old MCB's?
19:08
Just noticed, there's a raspberry pi 4 board inside
The tools! Didn't have these sixty years ago! Having said that not much has changed.....
Random question, but what Citizen watch is that... can't find it and i've been after one for a while!
Sideways mounted? SIDEWAYS? The earth is no longer round... (Seriously, nice neat work again Corey and particularly well done to Reuben).
As Dave from EEVBlog would say - strewth, all the electrons will fall out!
Hager are the boys mind. Always used them, but we have used the new scholmore consumer units a couple of times lately. They’re alright, but not as user friendly as Hager
Thanks
Don't think the Scolmore RCBOs are double pole though, and they are recommended for EV charge points, they do look quite nice units though
Cory doing the testing at the end. I’ll just flick these rcbos up and hope they hold in 🤣
In Australia we call it the “bang” test 💥.To be fair, even if you’ve done all your testing, you still can have a circuit trip
Hi Corey & Reuben , really enjoying watching and learning from you , Epic job by the way, New Sparky at college Learning ,
Huge Thanks Jensen 👊 ( New Sub 👍)
Fine jobs !
Hello Corey, how did you identify each circuit during rewire as i didn’t notice any markings on cables before removal ?? A very neat install 👍
A clean and easy to work with installation saves the poor sod that has to go in there next - which will probably be you! Never skimp on what will come back to bite you. I remember not many videos ago, where Ruben was doing his first marking up, now he's a free apprentice, won't be long until he's signing off EICRs!
get yourself a gardening chair for doing boards they are amazing
You should have used a 25-20mm reducer on the gland into the car charger and also a fibre washer to prevent water ingress.
Hey Corey, what's your Top 3 Consumer unit brands? Obviously Hager must be top but the next 2? Loving the good work and videos 👍🏻
Wish my Apprentice was as good as Ruben..
What bits did you use in the Hilti cut out tool to cut the trunking? I thought you could only cut plaster board with them? It would be handy to know for myself going forward 👍🏻
A good apprentice has everything to hand the spark needs before they realise they need it. Ruben.
Great tip
Just wondering what's the reason for switching some power tools to milwaukee now?
Great vids by the way
Another great video
It'll be funny when Reuben's fully qualified &knocks on the customer's door they open up,look around,don't see anything &then look down "oh sorry young fella,didn't see you down there,the skateboarding park is down the street!😂😂😂
LOL
Beautiful job!
What trousers is it that Cory uses? They look good.
Never find! Found them!
Blaklader x1900 craftsman trousers
If Reuben makes any mistakes, then hopefully that’ll help ensure he doesn’t do them too often again. If you make a mistake that means re-doing all the work you spent ages on, there’s a very good chance you won’t repeat it again. Only other thing I can think in training, is maybe ask him how he would plan a layout for cable runs, or if your showing that your doing something in a particular way, ask him why.
Great job guys 😎
Can you do a review on an SBS trade sales or CP fusebox board?
Brilliant
You seem to be doing well with how you treat apprentices in my opinion. Showing them a varied amount of work and showing them each part of the process. I always find that some firms just use them as lackeys (chasing and loft work) without showing them testing and terminating which are much more useful skills.
For your first or second year you will always be doing the shit jobs, also i wouldn't really let a first year test since its something its got to be done right and it's easy to not do it right
@@cocoino2307 I’m not talking about letting them test, but you should be showing them the process so they can learn. Obviously they will be doing the shit jobs until they have learned the skills to do more skilled work. What I was saying is some firms use them as cheap Labour then fuck them off. They never show them the proper stuff as they don’t care if they learn
Currently training an apprentice that had zero experience or electrical knowledge before working with me. He's 20 years old, told us he had framing experience but just come to find out he really didn't do anything except keep a job site clean. Eight months now and I'm struggling to get him to learn things, he doesn't remember anything. And he's the slowest moving person I've ever worked with, in any job, ever. I'm at the point where I'm just going to work him part- time, I don't know what to do with him...
Cory is to trunking what Bundy is to Copex. :0)
Hager do longer lead RCBOS you can order them at your wholesalers 👍🏻
How many yeas are you an apprentice for in the UK. In Norway you are an a apprentice for 2,5 years.