Update: Just to let people know - I’m not trying to put electricians out of a job here. I’m just helping people that have the patience and ability to do it themselves to do so without having to spend as long as I did researching. If you find this video a threat then there is a bigger problem here, because I’m sure your learnt a lot more in 4 years training to become a qualifying electrician than I could in a week on google and chatting to a couple of electricians.
@@jayevans2467 no that's correct but 99% are not willing or able to connected up the work carried out by someone else so if you do this be aware of all electricians will test the work you did as he can't prove its correct or safe even by means of testing
I think the electricians who have replied appreciate that this is not about putting them out of work, we are expressing our concerns about what other people may do with the information you provide. The key message you should be getting across are: Engage with a qualified and competent electrician Agree what needs to be done and how Agree what you can achieve yourself by doing some of the labour for the electrician Agree what parts of the installation need to be left exposed for the electrician to complete a correct installation inspection Agree what must be done at the final stages and what the electrician will do Finally, agree the cost and then weigh up what savings can be made. Hope it helps
Thank you Matt! I appreciate you going to the efforts of learning how to do this yourself and sharing that with others. You're an inspiration to the stingy control freak DIYer in all of us.
Glad you liked it mate. It would me a lot to me if you’d be happy to subscribe. I’ve got another video on how to do house electrics and loads more DIY videos :)
Good show, mate. I am an apprenticed American Electrician and I have to hand it to you and your presentation. You have a good basic understanding of your system. Of course, nothing beats formal education and supervised practice but you did well. Our systems are quite different as we always 'spur' but never do a 'ring' circuit. In every case, fuses (or breakers) are there to protect the WIRE, not the end device or the person. Do not worry about putting electricians out of work. We have/need specialty equipment that most people cannot justify the cost because we use these tools all the time. In short, it's cheaper to hire the guy with the equipment for a short time. - Dave
Nice one mate! In a country where cowboys pluck a figure out of the thin air ( seems like a vulture culture that no one cares to regulate) based on the size of you house or what they believe you should afford, you really sent a spark with this tips.
Please ignore all the middle aged alcoholic electricians who feel threatened by this. They know that with some research and planning this CAN be done and can be done SAFELY too. I wired my own shed (more like an office building) and had my spark mate check it all out. Most electricians apply “danger” to everything so you have to pay them to do it. £70 to change a lightbulb with some of them and I’m not joking 😂 Great job and great video 👏
They aren't threatened. We've just seen stuff go massively wrong with diyers trying to save a few pence. Also with the middle aged alcoholic comment I can tell you are one of those arseholes who want everything for free 🤣
@@mick2132 thanks for the comment. I understand where your coming from. Some DIYer may do the wiring wrong however you can also refuse to sign off the job or refuse to work with them. Or alternatively, ask for photos of the entire installation prior to working on it further. It’s your choice if you want to take on those jobs or not. In addition if someone wants to do their own wiring for a job that doesn’t require signing off this video will help them to get their head around it along with their own research. I still don’t believe this video to be unsafe, and throughout the video I say that I am not qualified electrician and if you’re not confidence with electrical work get a qualified electrician to do the work for you. If you can provide me with a specific reason why this video is unsafe I consider taking it down. It’s my belief that if someone wants to do it themselves they’ll do it themselves anyway and they’re not your customer. This video it’s just saving people time researching. Best regards, Matt
Hey Peter :) I agree with you minus the alcoholic part ha ha. I do believe that some electricians use fear to sell which I don’t believe in. There needs to be added value for a service to be provided. And the added value I paid for in this job is having a consumer unit fitted and the job signed off after it was checked by qualified electrician. So that’s what I paid for. And in addition I agree with you I think that this fear factor is used to charge price that is higher than the actual value of the service. What I would say is that if people are planning on running cables themselves then they should make sure that they’re taking pictures with the whole process, Or alternatively make sure that all of the cables are accessible and invite your electrician around to see that before all the cables are covered over then as complete transparency about me how the installation is has been done. Thanks for your comment Peter :-)
@@mick2132 absolutely not. I paid about 12k in work the last year from plumbers and electricians 🤣🤣. From your comment I can tell you’re one of those arseholes who charges an old granny £200 for a call out fee and spends all his money on his kids because they are his wooooorldddd after the wife left him 😂😂
Well I've found this pretty helpful as I'm going to rewire a four storey house. I will be working with a qualified electrician for alot of the works. But it'll be myself what will be putting in the graft. Thanks Matt
Great video I do all my own electrics and plumbing and building and the quality is 100 times better than I would get from any trades because it my house or families houses so I take pride and I've also have friends that are qualified builders that have wanted me to work for them. I'm sure any electrician had problems with there car they would be straight on UA-cam for advice and maybe tackle it themselves. 😁👌👍🇬🇧
Thank you. This video is a million dollar video and should have a million views at least. You covered all areas in one video. One suggestion would be to divide this into multiple videos and keep the original as well, hopefully that will increase the views.
Thank you for your research/patience and sharing this useful video Matt. I’m about to rewire my house and this has saved me time on researching myself! 👍👍👍
Interesting to see how its done in Britain, here in Norway we use conduit pipes for everything (except if the cable is on the outside of the wall) and they are plugged directly into the backboxes, so its usually easy to replace the entire wiring in a house if its necessary in a rehabiltation. Like on a concrete aparment I worked on (which was being rehabilitated) where the old wiring from the 60s had solderd joints (which by todays standards is illegal) we had to replace every single wire, which thanks to conduit pipes was pretty easy.
That sounds like a great idea. We mainly used conduit pipe outside in the uk to stop vermin from eating the cables and sun damage of the pvc cable casing.
I renovated my house 1n 1993. I piped all installation which is not mandatory here in germany. In all those years were some alterations becomes neccescary. It was quite easy to drag some addional wires into the conduits. Also with the internet wiring. I replaced the old telephone wiring against network cables and replaced the sockets. The only room was left is the kitchen. In ´93 the kitchen was only few years old. In 2020 I got a complete new kitchen, the same here, cable trunking with conduits. Only the fat 5 core cable for the stove goes through a hole in the floor into the cellar and than into the fuse box. After all the efforts into the installation I´m lucky to done it in this way.
Hi Matt. Thanks for the very informative video. Although I'm a South African 'diyer' where I have got to the point of not only running the wires but also nowadays wiring the db, lites, switches, geyser for sign off, I will be coming over to London to wire x2 of my own new builds. Do you know if code allows you to run round pvc conduit in boxes? I want to chase into block work and hard plaster over. I am also interested to know how I go about finding a certified third party nic electrician to sign off in Chiswick area? Any feedback will be appreciated.
Thanks for the info Matt. Not sure why this video has so many dislikes. You clearly state throughout the video that you are not a qualified electrician. You was wise enough to have it signed off by an electrician.
I keep going back to your Vlog, you make it sound so clear, my electrical engineer in the Philippines doesn't seem to grasp the earthing system we have here, we have sent consumer box, 2.5 twin earth , 1.5 twin earth, 4 core cable, everything you need to wire a house, the only thing we couldn't sent was earthing rod. We go out there in 4 weeks , that's if Philippine airlines don't cancel our flight, But I want to see what the electrician is doing...and making sure he has a ring circuit in the kitchen. Its a new build, so we have the opportunity to get the electrics right.. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Regards Tim
Great video! I'm not planning any big wiring job, just some simple socket/switch maintenance and installation, and I found this video a great source of information. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and research, I found it very helpful! ;)
Hi Matt, great video 👍 I’ve just started my own rewire and I’ve set the power sockets at 30cm from the floor which is higher than previous old position and recently discovered that the new regs require them to be 45cm. Is this just for new builds?? I live in a old Victorian property.
What’s powering the thermostat? 3c and earth from the back box next to the boiler switch to the thermostat by the front door? Unless I missed something!
@@MattHutton so what powers it then mate? Is there another short bit of 3c and earth between switch and back box? Or running power to the thermostat then out of that?
There is no problem with how you wired the supply to the light switches first, I completed the electrical AM2 assesment a few months ago and this is exactly how we were told to wire the lights during the assesment. The reason being that a lot of the electronic switches coming out require a neutral connection at the switch and when you wire the supply to light first, you do not get a neutral to the switch. Although your switches are not electronic, this will save a lot of future work if you decide to install electronic switches.
Looks to be good, you basically did all the grunt work (the labouring) after spending some time learning as well as getting advice and inspection from qualified tradies. Don't mind some of the rather silly comments (the ones who obviously haven't watched the full vid). Out of all the trades, sparkies are the biggest bunch of divas who can barely agree amongst themselves on their interpretations of the regs never mind tolerating joe public have a go.
Depends on the method ( how it’s mounted and how many cables are run together) and how long a cable run you are doing. If you are running a long run of cable and it’s going through insulation with several other cables then it’s sure as hell not taking 32 amps, but if it’s clipped to a wall on open air and it’s only a few meters long then 4mm is fine for 32 amp.
Matt, This is fantastic. We are almost ready for first fix for our self-build and you explained everything perfectly. Can't thank you enough, we will get everything checked by a qualified electrician but now have the confidence to do a lot of the hard physical work ourselves.
Nice 👍 make sure you let the electrician know in advance that you want to do all the cable running. And take pictures as you go along. I hope everything goes well with your self build. I’m glad you found the video useful :)
Great video Matt, watching this in 2021! I'm not going to do the job myself, but it's great info if you just want to know that the electricians know their stuff. There's a lot of dodgy tradesmen out there these days, and quite a few people get screwed because they don't have basic knowledge.
Awesome video mate. Very clear and informative. Will be a real help as i’m building a 1 bed flat on top of my shop. Will get further help from my electrician. But many many thanks 🙏
Your electrician was right about taking power to the switch that is how it's done in the industry now because it's a more accessible point than the 3 plate loop in method, also you can use 1mm cable for lighting very rarely would you need to use 1.5mm
Not really , I and thousands of other sparks still use the loop in and single switch wire down to the switch method and I prefer not having a neutral in the back box , both methods are perfectly ok but each to their own I suppose........👍
@@yensabi yeah depends on the situation too most new builds are to the switch as its easier to test and also install as a lot of sites now require permits for step ladders but yeah we do both really
It’s as easy as laying pipe...cable* glad you liked the video. Got another video on how to do central heating :) would mean a lot if you’d be happy to subscribe to the channel :)
Thank you very much for the video mate! One question if you don't mind. How did you send power to the mirror light from the switch, without the switch having any control on the 'turning on and off' of the mirror light?
Hey no problem, you need to connect it to the “constant live” cable in the wall light switch. Then it will always be ON. And then your switch in the mirror will control whether the mirror light will be on or off. Hope that helps :)
So, to question further. You said from the bathroom light switch which is twin and earth you run a 3 core and earth to the mirror, how are these connected as you need a constant and switchable live?
As a qualified and practcing electrician, I strongly advise to have the full install carried out by somebody who knows what they're doing! You did the right thing in having the install checked, tested and signed off by an electrician, however please nobody forget - electricity can kill! The amount of times where I have been to a job to have the customer say 'I installed it all myself' and there to be so many issues with the installation - Ive had times where the main water pipe has been live, and times where there has been a fire due to bad connections. Moreover, electricians like myself went through a grueling 4 year course, being paid less than the minimum wage (i was on £3 an hour for 3 years before going up to £4) theres no chance that you can spend some time on the internet and learn what a spark has learnt over 4 years. You wouldn't work on a gas line.
Ben Freeland I understand you points and would be I interested to know if there are any safety issues is this video that could have be improved on. Or cause a safety risk to the viewer watching other than the fact that they would feel more confident to attempt to do the work themselves.
He seems very knowledgeable about electrics... Plus never claims to be an electrician. If he gets it all tested and signed off by an electrician then what's the problem?
@@MattHutton well done mate, haters are going to hate but this is what alot of people we are coming across are doing coming from a construction background, its simple if followed correctly.
Good work Matt! I'm presently rewiring a house I inherited (lots of spurs and old rubber stuff) and everything going great. You just have to do everything RIGHT - as you have.
Matt - I have been quoted an extortionate amount to re-wire my newly purchased house so have been thinking of doing fiirst fix myself. How did you run the cables under the floor? ie did you put them through the joists with min hole size or clip them with metal fireproof fasteners? Also as per my understanding for each circuit (1 RCBO/RCD) in the consumer unit = 1 circuit, so I imagine you have 1 circuit for sockets, 1 circuit for lights, 1 for cooker etc? For the 2.5mm TE you have one length of cable coming from your CU to your first socket (IN) then wired from the next section in the same socket going to the next socket (OUT) - this assumes a double gang socket.. Thanks
Hey, squibworth, I can’t provide advise on exactly how to wire as I’m not a qualified electrician. However I would guess that if you had to do it through the floor and your floor consisted of floorboards and joists then you will pull up the floor boards and tack the wires to the joist as you go along or drill through with around a 10mm hole depending on the direction you want to go. And you probably want to keep the wires at least 50-100mm away from the floor level in case anyone in the future needs to screw/nail down into them. Generally each circuit should need a need a separate RCD to simplify things. But it depends on how much load is going down them. If you follow the general idea of the circuits in this video and have it check by abs electrician before plasterboarding over it, you should be okay. I hope that helps. It would mean a lot if you’d be happy to subscribe :) Best regards, Matt
Thanks Matt I am so happy to find your Vlog. I am building a house in the Philippines and am trying to explaine about earth cable and uk connections. And especialy about looping electric sockets in the kitchen. I have sent out uk electric twin earth cables and every electrical item they should need. But they are not going to connect the electric until we go out there in March 2020. I have even bought a consumer unit from screwfix. We got all our sockets from screwfix and some universal sockets from ebay.. But thanks buddy...I will show your video to the electrician. As they do things differently out there..
@@davidbrooks4395 yes David. We are installing 2.5 mm 3 core cable in the wall sockets, and 1.5mm cable 3/4 core cable for lights and switches. Plus ground rod to be fitted . Where are you from!!
@@davidbrooks4395 hi again David. We are sending consumer box and all sockets and cables from UK.. Plus we have universal sockets that take any plug ..
@@timmytimers9511 Hi time. I am from Buckinghamshire now living Lipa City. I'm a civil / structural / mechanical man now need to understand something about electrics to check on what my electricial will be doing. I would hope to be using 2mm for lighting, 3.5mm for convenience outlets and 5mm for cooker points and other similar. / kitchen. can I therefore use 2mm earth wire to go with the 3.5mm and 5mm live and neutral? Yourself?
So for theboiler cable is that run from a fuse directly to the boiler Also the boiler thermosat switch is that daisy chained from the boiler switch for the power or does that come straight from the consumer unit
Hi great vid .Links are not showing. Did you use conduit or capping to bury cables in walls? how much cable should you leave in backboxes to wire the sockets? Many thanks
Hi arfan jhangir thank you very much for the comment. I uploaded yesterday so just haven’t got round to putting all the links up yet. Will do tonight. So check back ;) While running the cables I left 1.5m spare just in case you want to move it, because it’s a nightmare to take the wall down otherwise. When wiring the socket you can cut down and leave between 150-200mm that’s pretty easy to work with and push back into the back box after. This is a new build so my cables are behind 100mm of celotex insulation and plasterboard. Hope that helps, best regards Matt :)
This is what I'd do as well. Regulations have scope for sign off if you haven't installed it yourself and naturally the qualified person shouldn't sign it off without total satisfaction of the install being to specification. I have also come across some being defensive and saying they would never sign it off but a true professional with an open mind will have no problem. This kind of work can be learnt with enough reading providing you know when to ask for advice. A lot of the installation is relatively low skilled work and paying a professionals rate for unskilled labour doesn't make sense, regardless of industry. Keep it up.
It’s definitely not unskilled labour. You couldn’t just put a labourer in and hope for the best. When it comes to regulations and doing things to BS7671, you need to be skilled and know what you’re doing. Every rewire is different, you need to know what you can and can’t do.
And the thing about signing off someone else’s work is that you don’t know what they’ve done. They could have done anything, if you sign it off you are legally liable. If there’s a fire or someone is electrocuted, you go to jail. Not the person who actually made the mistake.
Please find the attached video on how to install central heating: ua-cam.com/video/MsF8zAwFw28/v-deo.html I had the combi-boiler installed by a gas safe engineer and I run the pipes myself. Just like I run the cables for the electrics in this video and had the consumer unit wired up and signed off by a qualified electrician. I hope that help :)
Great video. Gives us diyers real confidence to have a go ourselves. Can you do a video on how to move a gas pipe mate? I’m looking to relocate my boiler.
Thanks for watching :) I’ve got a video on how to position central heating pipes but not gas pipes, I got someone in for that ua-cam.com/video/MsF8zAwFw28/v-deo.html
@@ashmanelectricalservices4318 innit! And you wonder why there are so many electrical issues in people's houses. Always domestic😂 "how to electrical video.. jeez"
A typical 3 bed house would have..... Ring downstairs Ring upstairs Ring kitchen Cooker Shower Boiler Smoke alarms Down lights Up lights Also run a Ring to the grid switches in the kitchen to control the appliances is good practice
richard wilson Thats all good until an approved electrician comes along and conducts an EICR on your property and points out the dozens of things you’ve done wrong...
Nice video. Would you be able to share any links about the regulation and what needs to be corret in order to get the job signed off by a certified electrician?
No properly qualified electrician worth their salt would sign off any work done by a DIYer unless that person had been under their instruction and supervision throughout the project.
They wouldn't know if the cables are run correctly, if the connections are tight etc. Trevor is right no decent electrician would sign of someone else's work
In Germany ring circuits are not used, if not forbidden. I learned that brand new kitchen stoves can pull 20 A on all three phases at 230 V in maximum, while most German households still operate on 16 A ratings in maximum, even when it comes to the kitchen stove which gets three phases mostly. In 2023 they changed the code book from 16 A to 20 A and 2,5 mm² cross section for those appliances. So 16 A is the maximum rating for fuses in most German homes giving us ca. 3,6 kW at a socket in maximum, what the heck do you do with 40 A at 240 V in Great Britain from a ring line? Lights are based more and more on LEDs, so they save up to 80-90% of their current.
Hi with the electric coming in where is the switch between it and either your meter or consumer unit? Like if you wanted to work on your consumer unit how would you do that safely without isolating the incoming electric?
Ryan Dennell we have a Henley block at the main house and isolator switch before it goes into the ground in armoured cable. But I got the electrician to do all that :)
As a Spark I would always say powering the switches is always best as it is more accessible for testing and it makes it a lot easier to install various (metal) light fittings.
Not a bad run through from a DIYer, at least you tried to understand the safety implications and you had some professional advice. Shame you opted for ring mains and weren't advised about all the problems they cause. Although still allowed in the regs, their use is rapidly dying out with less that 50% electricians still installing ( mainly old school stuck in their ways) Once ark fault detectors start being installed , rings will die completely. I would assume also with the cheap price quoted for the consumer unit was they palmed you off with a dual RCD board rather than advise RCBO. Dual RCD boards fitted with type "ac" RCD will soon be an issue with "blinding" from the dc element of modern electronics from washing machines, tv's etc, so half the house will be at risk, rather than just 1 circuit ( which would be ok anyway as it would have a type " a" RCBO which can cope with DC residue). I would also query why the bathroom switch is outside the bathroom, or is the room so small the only space is in zone 1or 2?. Normally these days it would be inside as long as it's positioned "outside the zone" Look forward to the next instalment
Hey harry, I haven’t done spotlights but I would imagine it would be the same as normal pendant lights, wired up in parallel. So if one blows the rest still work. The lights in my video are also wired up in parallel. :)
A great video, funny how the electricians hate you showing how somethings can be done with some research and common sense (which is a declining trait I'm sad to say) same with double glazing...window fitters are literally having people's pants down. If you go to where the trade buy them you can replace an whole average house for about £800 where normally it would cost 3 to 4 grand! I know cos I did what you did with the electrics, did my research and then did it myself. Anyway great vid. 👍
This is exactly what’s wrong with the electrical industry. You have too many people who think they know what they’re doing but really don’t. There’s more to electrics than knowing the right cable size and knowing how to wire things. I’ve been to at least 50 “rewires” done by your standard person which are terrible quality
True it does cost about 800 quid the rest of the money is for labour and the cost of running a business lol your expecting someone to rewire a house for 800 quid lol crazy
No worries mate, if I can save one person the time it took me to figure it all out, it would all be worth it :) if you doing a project yourself.... I’m posting a video from start to finish explaining how to convert a garage into an apartment. If you like to watch it please do subscribe an you’ll get a notification when it’s uploaded. Thanks 🙏🏻 for watching James :)
If you've got plastic gas and water incoming supply you shouldn't connect an earth bond. By doing that you could actually liven the pipes up in a fault condition. Disconnect them if you have plastic incoming.
On your final ring circuit hope you are using socket outlets with duel earth terminals and connecting your incoming cpc to one of the earth terminals and the outgoing cpc connected to the other earth terminal, what this does if for some reason one of your cpc cables comes loose and pops out of its terminal it means connecting the cpcs as I have told it means you will still have all the socket outlets covered by a cpc and if an earth fault occurs it will still trip the rcbo or mcb back at the board, because obviously you had put both cpcs in the same earth terminal and it came loose and they both popped out it would mean the socket outlet that this happens to has now no earth and a fault could occur and if an appliance which was plugged into the said socket say a washing machine had an dead short down to earth then the fault path would be your body if you touched the casing of that washing machine so it's a good tip to use those modern sockets with duel earth terminals but it only works if you put the cpcs in separate terminals
Nice video! However it will be nice to add some drawings instead of showing sockets so people with little or no knowledge will have better idea what you are taking about.
Hi dhillon555 thanks for your comment :) Front the Part P supporting documents on the government website and the electrician that wired up the consumer unit :)
Cheers mate well done for being proactive after your incident with first Electrican. Not only that you took the time out to find out how to do this the correct way but you shared the information for others. I don’t know if you have heard of a software called sketchup (use made it’s the free version, there is also a web version but made is better in my opinion) it’s very handy for kitchen installs for measurements also if you like building things. Thanks again. God bless
Thanks for the upload. Will be added to my archive of useful vids when extending my house and full rewire. Please look up John Ward's vids for useful wiring schemes. Planning to flood my house with smart tech with Alexa. Did you run any cat6 for poe CCTV and WAP? What about speaker cables for flush mounted speakers?
Asad Ali awesome!! Yeah he’s got some very useful videos! I find schematics a little confusing which is why I like to talk through what you need to do in practice, but I have check out some of johns stuff in the past and has been very helpful:) I have and outdoor underground cat 5 cable coming from the router in our main house and it runs under the ground and into this sub building / apartment and I have another router acting as a copy of our other router. So it just uses the same internet. Seems to work fine :) and helps to run our new Nest Thermostat. Which you can see the wiring for in my newest vid ;) Thanks for watching, best regards Matt
@@ReecePowell Hi Reece.. Thanks for asking.. None done yet so far. Hopefully building a cabin in the future and will install the electrics.. If you are planning to do some electrical work this video is a great place to start. I am very impressed with this young man and his approach.. and of course as we have to get an electrician to certify the work, all will be Ok..
@@sergeantcrow when are you planning on building? That will be a nice little project by the sounds of it. I'm actually currently vlogging my house renovation; I'm a sparky by trade so have rewired the house already. It's great making a place your own by doing the work yourself! Loved it
@@ReecePowell Reece! I'm delighted for you.. Well done.. I come from Carpentry and Joinery background...and 30+ years on sites. 2nd Fixing. . etc., I would like to see what you have accomplished... if you want to share a link. Hopefully soon.. IIt is only 25sq M and the Missus has designed it.. It's an easy one really.. Stud walls, cladding, T & G.
@@ReecePowell You chose a great trade.. I had chosen that at first but somehow ended up in Carpentry.. I still love wires and I often think I made a mistake not becoming a Sparky..
Excellent video - thanks. Out of interest did you find it difficult to find an electrician willing to effectively sign off the 'complete' installation for building controls etc? I'm planning a large extension & would much prefer to do all the cable running /donkey work myself, & just get an electrician in at the end to test it all & issue the certificate, but i've heard electricians often get funny about doing this. Not sure why as it's not like basic domestic circuits are very complicated!
asdreww they do get funny about it unless you involve the from the beginning and tell them you want to do all the donkey work and they can inspect as its being installed (before it’s all covered up) and take pictures as you go along. Then they can do the hard bit at the end and be confident that they’re signing off something done properly:)
Hi matt great video, looking to update the electrics as we have old wiring missing earth and 70's consumer unit, if i have understood correctly to upgrade the wiring would it be a case of chasing out all the wall sockets, switches etc and feeding the new wiring back to the consumer unit?
Fair play to this guys he did well BUT Even something as simple as cable clips have to be a certain distance apart for example, otherwise the wiring is not up to regs meaning in a fault or fire the house insurance is invalid. Trust me the first thing insurance companies look for is faults so they can void your insurance even if the fault has nothing to do with the claim. Torque tolerances etc..... but Great risk for great reward I guess.
Update: Just to let people know - I’m not trying to put electricians out of a job here. I’m just helping people that have the patience and ability to do it themselves to do so without having to spend as long as I did researching.
If you find this video a threat then there is a bigger problem here, because I’m sure your learnt a lot more in 4 years training to become a qualifying electrician than I could in a week on google and chatting to a couple of electricians.
Matt Hutton why???
Never be sorry Let the haters hate No laws of doing first fix
@@jayevans2467 no that's correct but 99% are not willing or able to connected up the work carried out by someone else so if you do this be aware of all electricians will test the work you did as he can't prove its correct or safe even by means of testing
What you did is what i learned during my 3 years course ! You have a very good knowledge for 5 days googeling. Well done & good luck
I think the electricians who have replied appreciate that this is not about putting them out of work, we are expressing our concerns about what other people may do with the information you provide.
The key message you should be getting across are:
Engage with a qualified and competent electrician
Agree what needs to be done and how
Agree what you can achieve yourself by doing some of the labour for the electrician
Agree what parts of the installation need to be left exposed for the electrician to complete a correct installation inspection
Agree what must be done at the final stages and what the electrician will do
Finally, agree the cost and then weigh up what savings can be made.
Hope it helps
The best video explanation I’ve found on UA-cam for wiring a house!! Great work mate thank you for simplifying and giving practical examples!
Thank you Matt! I appreciate you going to the efforts of learning how to do this yourself and sharing that with others. You're an inspiration to the stingy control freak DIYer in all of us.
Glad you liked it mate. It would me a lot to me if you’d be happy to subscribe. I’ve got another video on how to do house electrics and loads more DIY videos :)
Good show, mate. I am an apprenticed American Electrician and I have to hand it to you and your presentation. You have a good basic understanding of your system. Of course, nothing beats formal education and supervised practice but you did well. Our systems are quite different as we always 'spur' but never do a 'ring' circuit. In every case, fuses (or breakers) are there to protect the WIRE, not the end device or the person.
Do not worry about putting electricians out of work. We have/need specialty equipment that most people cannot justify the cost because we use these tools all the time. In short, it's cheaper to hire the guy with the equipment for a short time. - Dave
Good work. I love all the electricians in these comments having a hissy fit.
Nice one mate! In a country where cowboys pluck a figure out of the thin air ( seems like a vulture culture that no one cares to regulate) based on the size of you house or what they believe you should afford, you really sent a spark with this tips.
One of the better instructional/explanation videos I’ve seen, 10/10, subscribed!
Awesome :)
Please ignore all the middle aged alcoholic electricians who feel threatened by this. They know that with some research and planning this CAN be done and can be done SAFELY too. I wired my own shed (more like an office building) and had my spark mate check it all out.
Most electricians apply “danger” to everything so you have to pay them to do it. £70 to change a lightbulb with some of them and I’m not joking 😂
Great job and great video 👏
They aren't threatened. We've just seen stuff go massively wrong with diyers trying to save a few pence. Also with the middle aged alcoholic comment I can tell you are one of those arseholes who want everything for free 🤣
@@mick2132 thanks for the comment. I understand where your coming from. Some DIYer may do the wiring wrong however you can also refuse to sign off the job or refuse to work with them. Or alternatively, ask for photos of the entire installation prior to working on it further. It’s your choice if you want to take on those jobs or not.
In addition if someone wants to do their own wiring for a job that doesn’t require signing off this video will help them to get their head around it along with their own research.
I still don’t believe this video to be unsafe, and throughout the video I say that I am not qualified electrician and if you’re not confidence with electrical work get a qualified electrician to do the work for you.
If you can provide me with a specific reason why this video is unsafe I consider taking it down.
It’s my belief that if someone wants to do it themselves they’ll do it themselves anyway and they’re not your customer. This video it’s just saving people time researching.
Best regards, Matt
Hey Peter :) I agree with you minus the alcoholic part ha ha. I do believe that some electricians use fear to sell which I don’t believe in. There needs to be added value for a service to be provided. And the added value I paid for in this job is having a consumer unit fitted and the job signed off after it was checked by qualified electrician. So that’s what I paid for. And in addition I agree with you I think that this fear factor is used to charge price that is higher than the actual value of the service.
What I would say is that if people are planning on running cables themselves then they should make sure that they’re taking pictures with the whole process, Or alternatively make sure that all of the cables are accessible and invite your electrician around to see that before all the cables are covered over then as complete transparency about me how the installation is has been done.
Thanks for your comment Peter :-)
@@mick2132 absolutely not. I paid about 12k in work the last year from plumbers and electricians 🤣🤣.
From your comment I can tell you’re one of those arseholes who charges an old granny £200 for a call out fee and spends all his money on his kids because they are his wooooorldddd after the wife left him 😂😂
@@mick2132 you’re probably on all them diy pages telling people they’re going to kill their families if they change a socket or switch 🤣🤣🤣
Well I've found this pretty helpful as I'm going to rewire a four storey house. I will be working with a qualified electrician for alot of the works. But it'll be myself what will be putting in the graft.
Thanks Matt
Awesome! Just seen this :) glad it was helpful
Hi
I have learnt alot from this video, i fully understand the position you we're in at the time. But you did very well. Congrats
Great video I do all my own electrics and plumbing and building and the quality is 100 times better than I would get from any trades because it my house or families houses so I take pride and I've also have friends that are qualified builders that have wanted me to work for them. I'm sure any electrician had problems with there car they would be straight on UA-cam for advice and maybe tackle it themselves. 😁👌👍🇬🇧
Thank you. This video is a million dollar video and should have a million views at least. You covered all areas in one video. One suggestion would be to divide this into multiple videos and keep the original as well, hopefully that will increase the views.
Thank you for your research/patience and sharing this useful video Matt.
I’m about to rewire my house and this has saved me time on researching myself!
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How did your rewire go in the end?
@@ReecePowell he's dead
@@matc21 😂😂😂😂😂
how do you intend to sign the work off with building control@@jamescb1883
Wow ive learned so much from this video more than any electrician ive tried to learn from great vid man👍
Glad to hear it :)
Interesting to see how its done in Britain, here in Norway we use conduit pipes for everything (except if the cable is on the outside of the wall) and they are plugged directly into the backboxes, so its usually easy to replace the entire wiring in a house if its necessary in a rehabiltation. Like on a concrete aparment I worked on (which was being rehabilitated) where the old wiring from the 60s had solderd joints (which by todays standards is illegal) we had to replace every single wire, which thanks to conduit pipes was pretty easy.
I like that idea. So much easier for upgrading. I wish they had that reg in the UK !
That sounds like a great idea. We mainly used conduit pipe outside in the uk to stop vermin from eating the cables and sun damage of the pvc cable casing.
I renovated my house 1n 1993. I piped all installation which is not mandatory here in germany. In all those years were some alterations becomes neccescary. It was quite easy to drag some addional wires into the conduits. Also with the internet wiring. I replaced the old telephone wiring against network cables and replaced the sockets.
The only room was left is the kitchen. In ´93 the kitchen was only few years old. In 2020 I got a complete new kitchen, the same here, cable trunking with conduits. Only the fat 5 core cable for the stove goes through a hole in the floor into the cellar and than into the fuse box.
After all the efforts into the installation I´m lucky to done it in this way.
Hi Matt. Thanks for the very informative video. Although I'm a South African 'diyer' where I have got to the point of not only running the wires but also nowadays wiring the db, lites, switches, geyser for sign off, I will be coming over to London to wire x2 of my own new builds. Do you know if code allows you to run round pvc conduit in boxes? I want to chase into block work and hard plaster over. I am also interested to know how I go about finding a certified third party nic electrician to sign off in Chiswick area? Any feedback will be appreciated.
Thanks for the info Matt. Not sure why this video has so many dislikes. You clearly state throughout the video that you are not a qualified electrician. You was wise enough to have it signed off by an electrician.
Thanks for the message :) glad you found it useful. I think quite a few electricians got offended. But hey can’t please everyone. Best regards, Matt
I keep going back to your Vlog, you make it sound so clear, my electrical engineer in the Philippines doesn't seem to grasp the earthing system we have here, we have sent consumer box, 2.5 twin earth , 1.5 twin earth,
4 core cable, everything you need to wire a house, the only thing we couldn't sent was earthing rod.
We go out there in 4 weeks , that's if Philippine airlines don't cancel our flight,
But I want to see what the electrician is doing...and making sure he has a ring circuit in the kitchen.
Its a new build, so we have the opportunity to get the electrics right..
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Regards Tim
Tim Chapman that’s awesome! I’m glad the video has been helpful :)
I presume they work to BS7671 then. I thought they were aligned to US standards.
@markrainford1219 hi Mark..they fitted all single spurs..no circuit
But hey ho..its typical Philippines 🇵🇭
Hey Matt, thanks for the video. How long did it take you to do the rewire on the one bed apartment?
Great video! I'm not planning any big wiring job, just some simple socket/switch maintenance and installation, and I found this video a great source of information. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and research, I found it very helpful! ;)
Great 👍 I’m glad you found it useful:)
Hi Matt, great video 👍
I’ve just started my own rewire and I’ve set the power sockets at 30cm from the floor which is higher than previous old position and recently discovered that the new regs require them to be 45cm.
Is this just for new builds??
I live in a old Victorian property.
You only have to do that for new builds extensions or loft conversions
What’s powering the thermostat? 3c and earth from the back box next to the boiler switch to the thermostat by the front door? Unless I missed something!
Yeah
@@MattHutton so what powers it then mate? Is there another short bit of 3c and earth between switch and back box? Or running power to the thermostat then out of that?
There is no problem with how you wired the supply to the light switches first, I completed the electrical AM2 assesment a few months ago and this is exactly how we were told to wire the lights during the assesment. The reason being that a lot of the electronic switches coming out require a neutral connection at the switch and when you wire the supply to light first, you do not get a neutral to the switch. Although your switches are not electronic, this will save a lot of future work if you decide to install electronic switches.
Looks to be good, you basically did all the grunt work (the labouring) after spending some time learning as well as getting advice and inspection from qualified tradies. Don't mind some of the rather silly comments (the ones who obviously haven't watched the full vid). Out of all the trades, sparkies are the biggest bunch of divas who can barely agree amongst themselves on their interpretations of the regs never mind tolerating joe public have a go.
Cheers mate ;)
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Most of the regulations are a load of bollocks, common sense trumps them
Painters are the divas mate😂😂😂
thanks for the video, i did learn something
Thanks matt! Do u also lay pipe?
I certainly do ;) Hardeep
@@MattHutton 🤣🤣🤣
You can do a 32a socket radial circuit, but you need to use a 4mm cable. You only get 20a max on a 2.5m cable.
Depends on the method ( how it’s mounted and how many cables are run together) and how long a cable run you are doing. If you are running a long run of cable and it’s going through insulation with several other cables then it’s sure as hell not taking 32 amps, but if it’s clipped to a wall on open air and it’s only a few meters long then 4mm is fine for 32 amp.
So how do you register the work carried out with the building control? To comply with the regulations
Matt, This is fantastic. We are almost ready for first fix for our self-build and you explained everything perfectly. Can't thank you enough, we will get everything checked by a qualified electrician but now have the confidence to do a lot of the hard physical work ourselves.
Nice 👍 make sure you let the electrician know in advance that you want to do all the cable running. And take pictures as you go along. I hope everything goes well with your self build. I’m glad you found the video useful :)
Great video Matt, watching this in 2021! I'm not going to do the job myself, but it's great info if you just want to know that the electricians know their stuff. There's a lot of dodgy tradesmen out there these days, and quite a few people get screwed because they don't have basic knowledge.
Awesome, I’m glad it served it’s purpose for you :)
Awesome video mate. Very clear and informative. Will be a real help as i’m building a 1 bed flat on top of my shop. Will get further help from my electrician. But many many thanks 🙏
How did the build go dude?
Your electrician was right about taking power to the switch that is how it's done in the industry now because it's a more accessible point than the 3 plate loop in method, also you can use 1mm cable for lighting very rarely would you need to use 1.5mm
Michael Boyes sexy!! Thanks for the comment ;)
Not really , I and thousands of other sparks still use the loop in and single switch wire down to the switch method and I prefer not having a neutral in the back box , both methods are perfectly ok but each to their own I suppose........👍
yensabi thanks for the comment ;)
@@yensabi yeah depends on the situation too most new builds are to the switch as its easier to test and also install as a lot of sites now require permits for step ladders but yeah we do both really
@yensabi,why would you not want a neutral in the back box ?
Great video mate. I am doing a similar project and this helped me immensely. I'm also getting it signed off by an electrician for safety.
That’s awesome :)
LISTEN yo momma
Very informative! I have just begun the process of a re wire of the house, starting in the first bedroom. Some graft
Cool, go careful :)
Great Video. I have learnt a lot from this. Well done and thanks for the effort.
Glad you found it useful mate :)
Nice one a lad with a lot of common sense.
Cheers mate, glad you enjoyed the video :)
Great vid mate really helped explain things in lay mans terms
It’s as easy as laying pipe...cable* glad you liked the video. Got another video on how to do central heating :) would mean a lot if you’d be happy to subscribe to the channel :)
Are you doing the boiler and heating next ?
Thank you very much for the video mate! One question if you don't mind. How did you send power to the mirror light from the switch, without the switch having any control on the 'turning on and off' of the mirror light?
Hey no problem, you need to connect it to the “constant live” cable in the wall light switch. Then it will always be ON. And then your switch in the mirror will control whether the mirror light will be on or off. Hope that helps :)
So, to question further. You said from the bathroom light switch which is twin and earth you run a 3 core and earth to the mirror, how are these connected as you need a constant and switchable live?
Well done Matt, I found this very helpful, thank you.
Brilliant thank you nice refresher! 👍
As a qualified and practcing electrician, I strongly advise to have the full install carried out by somebody who knows what they're doing!
You did the right thing in having the install checked, tested and signed off by an electrician, however please nobody forget - electricity can kill!
The amount of times where I have been to a job to have the customer say 'I installed it all myself' and there to be so many issues with the installation - Ive had times where the main water pipe has been live, and times where there has been a fire due to bad connections.
Moreover, electricians like myself went through a grueling 4 year course, being paid less than the minimum wage (i was on £3 an hour for 3 years before going up to £4) theres no chance that you can spend some time on the internet and learn what a spark has learnt over 4 years.
You wouldn't work on a gas line.
Ben Freeland thanks for the info :)
You're 100% right mate. Makes a complete mockery if the industry.
Ben Freeland I understand you points and would be I interested to know if there are any safety issues is this video that could have be improved on. Or cause a safety risk to the viewer watching other than the fact that they would feel more confident to attempt to do the work themselves.
He seems very knowledgeable about electrics... Plus never claims to be an electrician. If he gets it all tested and signed off by an electrician then what's the problem?
@@MattHutton well done mate, haters are going to hate but this is what alot of people we are coming across are doing coming from a construction background, its simple if followed correctly.
Fantastic video Matt!
Many thanks.
Good work Matt! I'm presently rewiring a house I inherited (lots of spurs and old rubber stuff) and everything going great. You just have to do everything RIGHT - as you have.
Jackbox awesome mate :)
Matt - I have been quoted an extortionate amount to re-wire my newly purchased house so have been thinking of doing fiirst fix myself.
How did you run the cables under the floor? ie did you put them through the joists with min hole size or clip them with metal fireproof fasteners?
Also as per my understanding for each circuit (1 RCBO/RCD) in the consumer unit = 1 circuit, so I imagine you have 1 circuit for sockets, 1 circuit for lights, 1 for cooker etc?
For the 2.5mm TE you have one length of cable coming from your CU to your first socket (IN) then wired from the next section in the same socket going to the next socket (OUT) - this assumes a double gang socket..
Thanks
Hey, squibworth, I can’t provide advise on exactly how to wire as I’m not a qualified electrician.
However I would guess that if you had to do it through the floor and your floor consisted of floorboards and joists then you will pull up the floor boards and tack the wires to the joist as you go along or drill through with around a 10mm hole depending on the direction you want to go. And you probably want to keep the wires at least 50-100mm away from the floor level in case anyone in the future needs to screw/nail down into them.
Generally each circuit should need a need a separate RCD to simplify things.
But it depends on how much load is going down them. If you follow the general idea of the circuits in this video and have it check by abs electrician before plasterboarding over it, you should be okay.
I hope that helps.
It would mean a lot if you’d be happy to subscribe :)
Best regards, Matt
@@MattHutton already subbed. I was going to tack them
@@squibworth awesome :) should work fine then
Thanks Matt
I am so happy to find your Vlog.
I am building a house in the Philippines and am trying to explaine about earth cable and uk connections.
And especialy about looping electric sockets in the kitchen.
I have sent out uk electric twin earth cables and every electrical item they should need.
But they are not going to connect the electric until we go out there in March 2020.
I have even bought a consumer unit from screwfix.
We got all our sockets from screwfix and some universal sockets from ebay..
But thanks buddy...I will show your video to the electrician. As they do things differently out there..
Hi Tim, I'm also building in the Phils. Are you installing a 3 wire system / smart switching?
@@davidbrooks4395 yes David.
We are installing 2.5 mm 3 core cable in the wall sockets, and 1.5mm cable 3/4 core cable for lights and switches.
Plus ground rod to be fitted .
Where are you from!!
@@davidbrooks4395 hi again David.
We are sending consumer box and all sockets and cables from UK..
Plus we have universal sockets that take any plug ..
@@timmytimers9511 Hi time. I am from Buckinghamshire now living Lipa City. I'm a civil / structural / mechanical man now need to understand something about electrics to check on what my electricial will be doing. I would hope to be using 2mm for lighting, 3.5mm for convenience outlets and 5mm for cooker points and other similar. / kitchen. can I therefore use 2mm earth wire to go with the 3.5mm and 5mm live and neutral? Yourself?
@@timmytimers9511 billy_bunter(at)yahoo(dot)com
Great video. Really helpful. Your a legend mate. 👏
So for theboiler cable is that run from a fuse directly to the boiler
Also the boiler thermosat switch is that daisy chained from the boiler switch for the power or does that come straight from the consumer unit
Cracking video mate
Thanks
Hi great vid .Links are not showing. Did you use conduit or capping to bury cables in walls? how much cable should you leave in backboxes to wire the sockets? Many thanks
Hi arfan jhangir thank you very much for the comment. I uploaded yesterday so just haven’t got round to putting all the links up yet. Will do tonight. So check back ;)
While running the cables I left 1.5m spare just in case you want to move it, because it’s a nightmare to take the wall down otherwise. When wiring the socket you can cut down and leave between 150-200mm that’s pretty easy to work with and push back into the back box after.
This is a new build so my cables are behind 100mm of celotex insulation and plasterboard.
Hope that helps, best regards Matt :)
thanks for the quick response. also have you done a vid on door casings?
Sorry no videos on arfan jhangir door casings
This is what I'd do as well. Regulations have scope for sign off if you haven't installed it yourself and naturally the qualified person shouldn't sign it off without total satisfaction of the install being to specification. I have also come across some being defensive and saying they would never sign it off but a true professional with an open mind will have no problem. This kind of work can be learnt with enough reading providing you know when to ask for advice. A lot of the installation is relatively low skilled work and paying a professionals rate for unskilled labour doesn't make sense, regardless of industry. Keep it up.
Cheers mate, like I said in the video I got the electrician to connect it up to the mains check it all and sign it off
It’s definitely not unskilled labour. You couldn’t just put a labourer in and hope for the best. When it comes to regulations and doing things to BS7671, you need to be skilled and know what you’re doing. Every rewire is different, you need to know what you can and can’t do.
And the thing about signing off someone else’s work is that you don’t know what they’ve done. They could have done anything, if you sign it off you are legally liable. If there’s a fire or someone is electrocuted, you go to jail. Not the person who actually made the mistake.
Great Video brother..
Glad you liked it sir
Can you do a boiler installation video now please? What could possibly go wrong 😆
Please find the attached video on how to install central heating: ua-cam.com/video/MsF8zAwFw28/v-deo.html
I had the combi-boiler installed by a gas safe engineer and I run the pipes myself. Just like I run the cables for the electrics in this video and had the consumer unit wired up and signed off by a qualified electrician.
I hope that help :)
Great video. Gives us diyers real confidence to have a go ourselves. Can you do a video on how to move a gas pipe mate? I’m looking to relocate my boiler.
Thanks for watching :) I’ve got a video on how to position central heating pipes but not gas pipes, I got someone in for that ua-cam.com/video/MsF8zAwFw28/v-deo.html
Electrical installation work isn't something you just "have a go" at, you need to know what you're doing and leave nothing to chance.
Lol
@@ashmanelectricalservices4318 innit! And you wonder why there are so many electrical issues in people's houses. Always domestic😂 "how to electrical video.. jeez"
Top video well done mate 👏 👍.
This was brilliant. Thank you
Nice of you to share this information with others. Useful for the ones who want to save time and money when building themselves.
Zumrud Jalilova thanks ;)
A typical 3 bed house would have.....
Ring downstairs
Ring upstairs
Ring kitchen
Cooker
Shower
Boiler
Smoke alarms
Down lights
Up lights
Also run a Ring to the grid switches in the kitchen to control the appliances is good practice
Hi Paul that’s awesome, thanks for your contribution :)
Is this the first time you have done it ?and you have done a top job there well done mate 👍🏻
Good video cheers mate
Cheers mate
Well done. Ever thought about becoming an electrician.
Not really :) electricians do a great job, but I just wanted to do the donkey work myself and save some cash on my project. Hope this helps :)
And bye the bye I always do my own electrics. Save a ton of money.
richard wilson nice 👍
richard wilson Thats all good until an approved electrician comes along and conducts an EICR on your property and points out the dozens of things you’ve done wrong...
uplightUK What specifically did I get wrong in this this video? All the work was approved.
Nice video. Would you be able to share any links about the regulation and what needs to be corret in order to get the job signed off by a certified electrician?
No properly qualified electrician worth their salt would sign off any work done by a DIYer unless that person had been under their instruction and supervision throughout the project.
@@trevorord6871 of course they would sign it off. Once they do their testing with the equipment, they'll know if it's safe or not
@@trevorord6871 with some testing you can easy check it’s safe so what would be the problem in not being there well it’s done 🤷♂️
They wouldn't know if the cables are run correctly, if the connections are tight etc. Trevor is right no decent electrician would sign of someone else's work
In Germany ring circuits are not used, if not forbidden. I learned that brand new kitchen stoves can pull 20 A on all three phases at 230 V in maximum, while most German households still operate on 16 A ratings in maximum, even when it comes to the kitchen stove which gets three phases mostly. In 2023 they changed the code book from 16 A to 20 A and 2,5 mm² cross section for those appliances.
So 16 A is the maximum rating for fuses in most German homes giving us ca. 3,6 kW at a socket in maximum, what the heck do you do with 40 A at 240 V in Great Britain from a ring line? Lights are based more and more on LEDs, so they save up to 80-90% of their current.
Hi with the electric coming in where is the switch between it and either your meter or consumer unit? Like if you wanted to work on your consumer unit how would you do that safely without isolating the incoming electric?
Ryan Dennell we have a Henley block at the main house and isolator switch before it goes into the ground in armoured cable. But I got the electrician to do all that :)
As a Spark I would always say powering the switches is always best as it is more accessible for testing and it makes it a lot easier to install various (metal) light fittings.
Lkylon mr awesome thanks for the comment;)
You know that. I always loop the switches too. Never really understood feeding lights only. Better to have a feed and natural at each position imo
I just run a 3 core and earth from the light to the switch for the switch wire to have a neutral at the switch
Thanks....youve really helped me.....regards
Great job. Well done.
Great video, thanks.
thanks dude this is super jelpful!
Good man welldone very impressed
very good video mate
Glad you enjoyed it :)
Thank you very much. Very helpful video..
No problem :) only attempt on non live electrics and consult an electrician for advice and monitoring your install if you want to get it approved.
Really useful video. Cheers!
Yes was saying u got a floating floor so where’s the 2.5mm wire for ring should be in safe zones
Not a bad run through from a DIYer, at least you tried to understand the safety implications and you had some professional advice. Shame you opted for ring mains and weren't advised about all the problems they cause. Although still allowed in the regs, their use is rapidly dying out with less that 50% electricians still installing ( mainly old school stuck in their ways) Once ark fault detectors start being installed , rings will die completely. I would assume also with the cheap price quoted for the consumer unit was they palmed you off with a dual RCD board rather than advise RCBO. Dual RCD boards fitted with type "ac" RCD will soon be an issue with "blinding" from the dc element of modern electronics from washing machines, tv's etc, so half the house will be at risk, rather than just 1 circuit ( which would be ok anyway as it would have a type " a" RCBO which can cope with DC residue). I would also query why the bathroom switch is outside the bathroom, or is the room so small the only space is in zone 1or 2?. Normally these days it would be inside as long as it's positioned "outside the zone"
Look forward to the next instalment
electricery cool thanks for all the info :)
Nice Vid mate. have you done spotlights, would be cool to see a video showing how to wire them up?
Hey harry, I haven’t done spotlights but I would imagine it would be the same as normal pendant lights, wired up in parallel. So if one blows the rest still work. The lights in my video are also wired up in parallel. :)
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A great video, funny how the electricians hate you showing how somethings can be done with some research and common sense (which is a declining trait I'm sad to say) same with double glazing...window fitters are literally having people's pants down. If you go to where the trade buy them you can replace an whole average house for about £800 where normally it would cost 3 to 4 grand! I know cos I did what you did with the electrics, did my research and then did it myself. Anyway great vid. 👍
This is exactly what’s wrong with the electrical industry. You have too many people who think they know what they’re doing but really don’t. There’s more to electrics than knowing the right cable size and knowing how to wire things. I’ve been to at least 50 “rewires” done by your standard person which are terrible quality
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True it does cost about 800 quid the rest of the money is for labour and the cost of running a business lol your expecting someone to rewire a house for 800 quid lol crazy
@@thereal1006 I was talking about fitting double glazed windows with regards the £800.
@@mrmaker9355 trades on average want to earn around 250 a day
Very helpful video 👍🏾
I guess we don't need Sparky's anymore?
Thanks so much for your comment. You’re the best
Good Video Chap , Thank you
No worries mate, if I can save one person the time it took me to figure it all out, it would all be worth it :) if you doing a project yourself.... I’m posting a video from start to finish explaining how to convert a garage into an apartment. If you like to watch it please do subscribe an you’ll get a notification when it’s uploaded. Thanks 🙏🏻 for watching James :)
Very helpfull matt. 👍
Glad you found it useful
If you've got plastic gas and water incoming supply you shouldn't connect an earth bond. By doing that you could actually liven the pipes up in a fault condition. Disconnect them if you have plastic incoming.
Legend this is so useful
On your final ring circuit hope you are using socket outlets with duel earth terminals and connecting your incoming cpc to one of the earth terminals and the outgoing cpc connected to the other earth terminal, what this does if for some reason one of your cpc cables comes loose and pops out of its terminal it means connecting the cpcs as I have told it means you will still have all the socket outlets covered by a cpc and if an earth fault occurs it will still trip the rcbo or mcb back at the board, because obviously you had put both cpcs in the same earth terminal and it came loose and they both popped out it would mean the socket outlet that this happens to has now no earth and a fault could occur and if an appliance which was plugged into the said socket say a washing machine had an dead short down to earth then the fault path would be your body if you touched the casing of that washing machine so it's a good tip to use those modern sockets with duel earth terminals but it only works if you put the cpcs in separate terminals
Nice video! However it will be nice to add some drawings instead of showing sockets so people with little or no knowledge will have better idea what you are taking about.
Fair enough
People with no or little knowledge have no business being inside the socket.
Can you pls fix our internet? Thanks!
thanks for all the hard work you put into this video. Where did you get the building regs from?
Hi dhillon555 thanks for your comment :)
Front the Part P supporting documents on the government website and the electrician that wired up the consumer unit :)
Cheers mate well done for being proactive after your incident with first Electrican. Not only that you took the time out to find out how to do this the correct way but you shared the information for others. I don’t know if you have heard of a software called sketchup (use made it’s the free version, there is also a web version but made is better in my opinion) it’s very handy for kitchen installs for measurements also if you like building things. Thanks again. God bless
dhillon555 thanks for the advice, I’ll check it out :)
Great video mate. Absolute star you are. Thanks for your efforts and sharing your knowledge. Tc
Thanks for the upload. Will be added to my archive of useful vids when extending my house and full rewire.
Please look up John Ward's vids for useful wiring schemes.
Planning to flood my house with smart tech with Alexa.
Did you run any cat6 for poe CCTV and WAP? What about speaker cables for flush mounted speakers?
Asad Ali awesome!! Yeah he’s got some very useful videos! I find schematics a little confusing which is why I like to talk through what you need to do in practice, but I have check out some of johns stuff in the past and has been very helpful:) I have and outdoor underground cat 5 cable coming from the router in our main house and it runs under the ground and into this sub building / apartment and I have another router acting as a copy of our other router. So it just uses the same internet. Seems to work fine :) and helps to run our new Nest Thermostat. Which you can see the wiring for in my newest vid ;)
Thanks for watching, best regards Matt
Earth bond has got to go before the first 90 bend on the pipe to water
Hi Matt good work mate 👍🏼👍🏼
Thanks mate, glad you liked the video :)
Loved it. Thanks a millo!
Thank you very much... Good job,
How did your rewire go?
@@ReecePowell Hi Reece.. Thanks for asking.. None done yet so far. Hopefully building a cabin in the future and will install the electrics.. If you are planning to do some electrical work this video is a great place to start. I am very impressed with this young man and his approach.. and of course as we have to get an electrician to certify the work, all will be Ok..
@@sergeantcrow when are you planning on building? That will be a nice little project by the sounds of it. I'm actually currently vlogging my house renovation; I'm a sparky by trade so have rewired the house already. It's great making a place your own by doing the work yourself! Loved it
@@ReecePowell Reece! I'm delighted for you.. Well done.. I come from Carpentry and Joinery background...and 30+ years on sites. 2nd Fixing. . etc., I would like to see what you have accomplished... if you want to share a link. Hopefully soon.. IIt is only 25sq M and the Missus has designed it.. It's an easy one really.. Stud walls, cladding, T & G.
@@ReecePowell You chose a great trade.. I had chosen that at first but somehow ended up in Carpentry.. I still love wires and I often think I made a mistake not becoming a Sparky..
Excellent video - thanks. Out of interest did you find it difficult to find an electrician willing to effectively sign off the 'complete' installation for building controls etc? I'm planning a large extension & would much prefer to do all the cable running /donkey work myself, & just get an electrician in at the end to test it all & issue the certificate, but i've heard electricians often get funny about doing this. Not sure why as it's not like basic domestic circuits are very complicated!
asdreww they do get funny about it unless you involve the from the beginning and tell them you want to do all the donkey work and they can inspect as its being installed (before it’s all covered up) and take pictures as you go along. Then they can do the hard bit at the end and be confident that they’re signing off something done properly:)
Might be worth calling up a few NIC approved electricians on check a trade and telling them exactly that.
My electrician would rather I do the cabling laying 😂
Hi matt great video, looking to update the electrics as we have old wiring missing earth and 70's consumer unit, if i have understood correctly to upgrade the wiring would it be a case of chasing out all the wall sockets, switches etc and feeding the new wiring back to the consumer unit?
You trying to give me vertigo mate? Feeling ill watching you spin round like that.
Yes
Hager are good for sound systems ? 😂😂😂
Thank you for this, appreciate your efforts
William Refurbish no worries :)
Nice video;)
Michael Hutton thanks
Fair play to this guys he did well BUT Even something as simple as cable clips have to be a certain distance apart for example, otherwise the wiring is not up to regs meaning in a fault or fire the house insurance is invalid. Trust me the first thing insurance companies look for is faults so they can void your insurance even if the fault has nothing to do with the claim. Torque tolerances etc..... but Great risk for great reward I guess.
Ring final circuit not ring main, circuit protective conductor not earth.