I have literally only just begun learning about electrical stuff. Wired my first light switch and plug socket last week! Even with my very limited knowledge my jaw hit the floor when you started showing us round the house.
Great video mate, its videos like this that highlight exactly what electricians go through (especially self employed sole traders) on a daily basis. This place is a rewire all day, some of those faults are the worst I've ever seen. Very nice job and it's always good to see an honest person trying to make a living.
Nice work mate , love the idea of not chasing all the way down to the back box for decoraters\plasterers purpose, although they don't normally consider us when we arrive to 2nd fix and back box is full of plaster or wallpaperd over 😂
Hi so nice to see a decent spark for once.Who knows what is what and up against,from other cowboys on day one !!!. My better half is also a spark,trained while within the Royal Navy,Doing both types of electric's AC-DC gaining his City and Guilds in both fields.Civic life and Marine Life on board a ship is completely different kettle of fish so to speak.The old school now 73 years of age. Once out the service what he discover blow his mind just apart Working with the old Seeboard and LEB,broke away and stated up on his own. I have shown your video's and admired your workmanship a true trade man's as a spark.If he did a complete rewire he would always do two ring mains 2.5 and 1.5 upper lower levels,spare ring main for the kitchen only, single run for the cooker.So everything could be checked out and become isolated areas without any affect to any other parts of the house etc.Left a large consumer unit with RCB's for any new future runs,sheds,garage,outside lighting.lofts etc if ever they were required. Ok he may have charged more in costs and labour but he gained a peace of mind knowing its a 100% job well done and gained more leads to other jobs via the client's that he had done work for.Yes he did train a few up over time sent them to collage once a week to gain their own tickets. Just had to place on a word and make a comment.He even showed myself how to change a plug without blowing myself up. All the very best from the both of us,keep up the good work its very rare to see a good spark who knows what he is doing these's days who takes pride in their work...Carol--Barry
Very neat work mate. I've seen some bad DIY electrical attempts, you've stumbled across the worst I've seen! You've got some good techniques, I like the idea of stopping chases short of boxes.
I’ve seen some diabolical stuff, but what you found in there beats everything. I was thinking that they couldn’t have used the shower without burning the place down, until it turned out that the supply only had to run a small pump! They’ll certainly have a pukka installation once you’re done.
Just bought a place and I'm no electrician, but after seeing the sockets and consumer unit, I had to bite the bullet and get quotes for a rewire. The cost will be essential, but hadn't budgeted for it. It's good to see what's going on during a rewire. I was only going to flick through, but ended up watching the whole thing.
Blooming heck. I've just moved into an old cottage in the country which will need a total rewire but it least it was compliant(ish) when it went in (late 50s).
Seeing this reminded me of when I bought my current house. There was a 2KW radiant bar heater above the bath that was nearly falling off the wall and was wired into the ceiling rose in the hallway. No idea if it actually worked as it was removed the day I moved in. Then when we had the first heavy rain the downstairs lights kept tripping. After a lot of checking I found that an outside light was fed from the understairs light, as the cable ran under a window sill (outside) it went into a connector bloack, changed from 2.5 T&E to bell wire and then to 1.5 T&E via another connector block at the far end of the sill. No attempt to even try and water proof the connector blocks. Disconnected from the understairs light and guess what? The lights didn't trip off any more. To be fair, the plumbing was absolutely shit too, the outside tap came off the hot water supply.....
I’m looking to buy what it likely to buy (an older property) in the next few months that’s in need of modernisation. I’ll remember to keep an eye out for loose wires or junction boxes in odd locations as a warning sign or opportunity to negotiate the price down!
@@zaks8285 Plasterer and painter don't need to remove the accessory to plaster/paint, which they would need to if the chase went all the way. The small gap around the edge of the box will get covered by the faceplate
Have a look at the option of omitting the shower isolator. The regs state that isolation is possible at the MCB. We've all seen how unreliable they are, and that screw terminals can fail at the best of times. Some customers operate them daily and I don't think they're designed for that. You can feel how clunky the switch mechanism is because of the size of the contacts. What happens when the switch starts emitting smoke? You need another isolator next to it so you can quickly make it safe. I've read through Guidance Notes 2 and it looks to me like isolators are only necessary for jobs like hotels where you don't have individual breakers for each shower. Another exception is in a house with TT supply where isolation must be both L and N. The MCB doesn't cut the neutral. In a TN supply that doesn't matter.
The shower isolators in the houses I've lived in have all been hidden away in inaccessible locations, presumably because the previous owner didn't want them visible. I feel like they shouldn't have bothered with them in the first place
@@thereal1006 If we are thinking about complying with BS7671, we need to classify 'knocking off in case of a fault' as either functional switching, emergency switching, switching for cleaning/maintenance, or as isolation. We can then look in Chapter 53 of BS7671, or Guidance Note 2. Would you say a pull-switch is for emergency switching?
I hired an electrician to wire my house. He talked a good game, however, when he started wiring I could see he had very little knowledge of house wiring. He had a casual labourer straight from his local pub to chase the walls and lift the floorboards, he did more damage than enough. When I saw how the so-called electrician was fitting the wiring I had to stop him from going any further. It was dangerous, he was using lighting cable for some sockets. I was horrified, he was wrapping the cable around hot water pipes and running cables over the joists without properly cutting the joists out first. I couldn't let him go on and told him to stop work or I was getting Trading Standards to look at his work. He was very annoyed and said he had just finished 6 months at a skill center. He cost me a fortune getting things put right by a proper tradesman because of the damage he did. There are a great many people being trained at skill centers starting building work with only limited knowledge doing second class and sometimes dangerous work. The only thing they are good at is asking to be paid in cash and conning people.
If you came across a Consumer unit that had an empty slot (no blanking plate/dummy) where (if you were foolish enough to) you could put your finger in and possibly touch the busbar - what failure code would you give the installation. C1 /C2 / F ?
Love the trunking idea behind the consumer unit 👍, do you use any cuplings to space it off the wall and hide the screws or just screw it without anything ?
I like the idea of leaving a small section between the chase and the back box but, correct me if I'm wrong, It looked to me like you put your cable into conduit @18:14 Nothing wrong with that, in fact it's my preferred method also, but does it mean, there is a small section between your conduit and the back box with the cable in the wall without mechanical protection? I was also intrigued when you said you use your multitool when chasing. I have only ever cut timber with my multitool, a bit of a waste af a versatile tool on my part, I know. It would be great if you made a video using the multi-tool on a wall😁👍
Very well done. I was wondering what did you use as a grommet when you drilled the back of the consumer unit. I am learning and got another year in college. These videos are helpful.
OMG that’s some of the worst dodgy wiring that I have seen in a long time!!! Amazed the place hasn’t gone up in flames long ago?, talk about living in a death trap!! Would love to see a more in depth walk through of you chase and drill method 👍
what brand of multi tool diamond blade do u use man ? I bought one the other day and it worked really well until i came across some hard render on a couple of my chases, which melted the blade. I know the multi tool blade should only be used to cut through the plaster and soft brick before chiseling but just wondered if mine was just a shit brand or something ?
Nope. Reg height are only statutory on new builds. Old building it's optional. However.. you cannot make make things worse. Ie, install sockets lower then the existing heights.
The only reason I ask is, you didn't set them at the original height and thought you'd set them to the regs. Having said that, all the sockets were at different heights in one room. Just good practice to keep everything uniform that why I asked if they are to the regs.
I’m American and currently about 700 hours away from being able to apply to become a licensed residential wireman. I’ve been doing electrical work for some time now and I was curious as to how other countries and parts of the world work, for example here in the states this would be a typical house layout; let me know how this is similar to your countries or areas, 4 combo breakers (AFCI/GFCI) • Kitchen countertop/island 20 amp • Washer Machine 20 amp • Dishwasher/Disposal 20 amp AFCI Breakers: • stove/fridge 20 amp • furnace 20 amp • hood 20 amp • all bedrooms, inhabitable living spaces, garage lighting, loft and porch areas, bathroom lighting, attic lighting, etc. 15 amp Regular Breakers: • garage GFCI circuit 20 amp • outside GFCI receptacles 20 amp • Bath GFCI 20 amp • Dryer 25-40 amp • A/C units 25-50 amp This all differs in what’s needed in houses. Let me know fellow electricians
32a ring to kitchen 32a ring to grid switches for kitchen appliances 32a cooker circuit depends on the rating of cooker though 32a downstairs Ring 32a upstairs Ring 6a radial for boiler circuit 6a radial circuit for smoke alarms 6a radial for downstairs lights 6a radial for upstairs lights 40a shower circuit That's a standard house rewire in the uk
if you are doing a total rewire of a house in England you do not have to apply the new heights for sockets and switches, here in Ireland I have ask my RECI inspector about that because I have rewired several old houses lately and he says you do which in Ireland in 1200mm maximum height to the top of switch and 400mm minimum to bottom of socket, also I have never seen kopaks in a attic space in a domestic house is that a new IEE reg, another good reg I see on British electricians videos is that you can put the isolation switches for hidden sockets in kitchens in cupboards, here you have to put them above the worktop and the client is often not to pleased to see a load of isolators that are as far as the client is concerned not needed and soiling the tiles or granite backsplash.
Your RECI Inspector is correct - ET101 (the ETCI Wiring Rules) clearly states that all new work must comply with the current Rules - this includes accessory heights. BS7671 (IEE Wiring Regulations) is different in that accessory heights are specified within the Building Regulations and not the Wiring Regulations so that is why there is the difference. (I am a RECI Registered Electrical Contractor and an NICEIC Approved Contractor.)
See you terminate into the DB 1 core at a time, very neat. Do you number the outer sheaths 1-10 etc to make it easier? Don't you just love cable pulling by yourself!
I see that my db wiring gets more hits then everything else. I may try and dedicate a whole video to a board change. I label each circuit as to their purpose. I then write (usually on the cardboard box that contains the new db 😅) where I wish to dedicate the citcuits within the new db. Because they now have circuit numbers I will strip and label the 'line/live/phase' conductors using tally marks. I like to mark them in groups of five lines so its easy to read. Example 11 would be - 5 lines, gap, 5 lines, gap, 1 line. I will twist the cpcs and neutrals around the ends of the live wires a couple of times. You will see by the order that I yerm my cables that the very last cables to be terminated are the lives. I hope that all makes sense 😅
Ffs, that takes some beating in the poor quality wiring record book. So each time the shower was used the under floor heating started. Good initiative that, I like the way they designed it. Nice warm feet when you step out the shower. Don't spend too long in the shower or your floor will catch fire from the overloaded flex. I would have like to seen a vid done by JW on that one, that one would have been his annual fete. 😀 That's the standard of work I used to find from kitchen fitters oddly enough.
At 14:20 are you allowed have the chase going across the wall for the mirror lights. I'm Irish and regulation changes in the last year say we can't do horizontal chases
Good question. In the UK we're allowed to run chases as long as they're verticle/horizontal from a switch/socket/fixture. This allows everyone to know where 'not' to drill holes. The regulations go deeper then this but this is the simplified version.
This is exactly why wholesalers should work like they do in oz. trade card or no goods. And no diy shops selling electrical gear. It’s a miracle this place hasn’t burnt down
Used to do Alarm systems then I was in the UK I saw a lot of work done by " Electricians" even some claiming to have done 4 years of "apprenticeship" i.e Tea boys I wouldn't trust them to wire a kettle let alone a house .. Great work Chasing is a thankless task in a old house you never know how much plaster will come off
If you watch the video before upload, you'll catch the low volume of the recordings versus the loud 'happy timelapse melody' inserted. Almost threw my headphones off
Brand = whatever the supplier has on the shelf. Preferred brand is MT. Size = you need at least 40% spare space within the trunking and so it's not always a generic size to go behind. 👍
@@MyTrustedElectrician According to the On-Site Guide 2018,Table E6, the maximum space to be occupied by cables is 45% of the Internal cross sectional area of the trunking. This means that you have to leave at least 55% space.
@@MyTrustedElectrician Does grouping factor come in to play with the circuits in the trunking around the C.U? I work in marine so it's abit different. Enjoy your vids, keep them coming.
Drives me insane “well it’s been fine for all these years and I haven’t had a problem”. 🤦🏻♂️. People go to the hair dressers cause they’re too scared to cut their hair, but save a bit of money on doing my on electrics that can kill me, hell yea I’ll try that!! I little bit of knowledge is dangerous. .
I agree electrics should be left to sparks however sparks complain about builders doing a bit of everything however I've seen all the top UA-cam sparks doing plumbing jobs chippies jobs etc all should just do what there trained for and ppl without training should leave alone completely
If you can manage electrics.. making up some stud work or bit of self explanatory plumbing isnt going to do much harm. You can see when a pipe isnt connected cause you get wet.. when a cable isnt installed correctly its silent, doesn't smell and can rarely hear it. There's a reason you get sparks in. Not a handyman😂
Wow! I thought my Victorian semi with a single piece of breaker wire for a fuse (for everything) and flex joining approximately 500 junction boxes together (spaced every 1-2meters) was scary. That place is next level horror.
Great video, can’t beat a empty rewire. Never seen the lighting wired in flexible conduit though in the loft? I’ve always just drilled joists and clipped direct. Also everyone always seems to use 1.5mm, any reason for that when calcs always come out that 1mm is more then sufficient. Especially on a small domestic like that one 🤷♂️
I think there are 2 main reasons why for 1.5. One is convenience and not poncing about with lots of different sizes. Do the calc for the light in the loft of an average 3 bed semi and you'll find you're fairly close to the limit of 1mm, 5 bed and you will need the 1.5 anyway. Being close brings us to the second point. Someone chucks another 100mm of insulation over it and you'll be over the limit again with 1mm. I was always taught the savings just aren't worth the effort, run the 1.5 and you know everything is covered.
Constructive Suggestion:- Fill-in music and horns -- are currently way too loud compared with the voice volume. Should be same or slightly quieter than "average perceived volume", otherwise you have listeners going for the volume controls.
Presumably you can't use plastic trunking behind a metal box as there is no fire protection at the knock-outs where the cables enter thus exposing plastic trunking to flames and therefore propagating fire??
Where I live you can’t do anything apart change a light globe if you need a socket moved you need a licensed electrician to do it for you. Or your house insurance won’t pay out
Hi. why you don't leave a spare length of wires in distribution board? I'm on my way to become an electrician, doing level 2 recently so I keep asking questions 🙂cheers
Nice vid, if you dont mind me asking, I would like know if its safe to run cables above the ceiling, using twin and earth pvc for downlights, there are no joists in the way because its a flat property, so is it safe just to rest the twin and earth on the ceiling without using conduits? Cheers 😃
I lived in a house that that had a shower put in by previous owner. We decided to up grade. When sparks cato do the wiring he said we were lucky to be alive. As the shower had been wired with Bell wire.
Does anyone have an average price for a full house rewire? 3 bed 1 sockets in each room, kitchen lounge and hall. My dad said the wiring in my nans house (his mum) is dangerous but never got it sorted for her now I'm here with my son and step son...worrying about it.
Awful. I've never seen soo many connector blocks and junction boxes in a house. Suprised it didn't go up in flames. I doo love a good Wall Chase, wall Chaser machine in cinder block is hard work.
I've been watching a lot of electoral videos from the UK and just wondering why all of the switchboards are in some absolute outrageous locations? Is it because the houses are very old and regs were not so strict?
Main reason is where the supply mains wire comes into the house. Yes, the UK is a very old nation, and some properties are many centuries old. A switchboard in the UK is a Consumer Unit.
Had to be a rewire without question. It's a miracle it hadn't already gone up in smoke.
You know that mate!
What a shocker. Nice work mate nice to see a great sparks in action.
Thanks mate. Love your vids!
Yes I agree, both you guys are a credit to the industry, very high standard of workmanship and professionalism.
Big up to the sparkies on youtube🙏👌
Two years since last comment from someone, mate and your video is still being watched thumbs up, nice one and good job....well professional.
Yeah man. You know
I have literally only just begun learning about electrical stuff. Wired my first light switch and plug socket last week! Even with my very limited knowledge my jaw hit the floor when you started showing us round the house.
Me too!
Really good video as always great to see ! Ps editing skills are well above tier mate great job !
Top Job mate. Keep the uploads coming buddy. Great workmanship!
Nice video, Well presented. 30 years in the trade myself. No better feeling when you Make good job.
You're only as good as your last job
Great video mate, its videos like this that highlight exactly what electricians go through (especially self employed sole traders) on a daily basis. This place is a rewire all day, some of those faults are the worst I've ever seen. Very nice job and it's always good to see an honest person trying to make a living.
Cheers mate
@@MyTrustedElectricianisn't that shower wire the wrong gauge it looks like wire for lights 🤔
I am truly amazing that house didn't burn down with the previous wiring!!! top vid btw, a very enjoyable watch!!!
This is a brilliant insight into the day to day sparks job.. very informative thanks 👍🏻
Nice work mate , love the idea of not chasing all the way down to the back box for decoraters\plasterers purpose, although they don't normally consider us when we arrive to 2nd fix and back box is full of plaster or wallpaperd over 😂
😅v true
Its when you turn up and you cant even see where the socket positions are anymore😅👍
Great work. Nice neat board 🔥
Great video and nicely explained as well 👍🏼
Hi so nice to see a decent spark for once.Who knows what is what and up against,from other cowboys on day one !!!. My better half is also a spark,trained while within the Royal Navy,Doing both types of electric's AC-DC gaining his City and Guilds in both fields.Civic life and Marine Life on board a ship is completely different kettle of fish so to speak.The old school now 73 years of age. Once out the service what he discover blow his mind just apart Working with the old Seeboard and LEB,broke away and stated up on his own. I have shown your video's and admired your workmanship a true trade man's as a spark.If he did a complete rewire he would always do two ring mains 2.5 and 1.5 upper lower levels,spare ring main for the kitchen only, single run for the cooker.So everything could be checked out and become isolated areas without any affect to any other parts of the house etc.Left a large consumer unit with RCB's for any new future runs,sheds,garage,outside lighting.lofts etc if ever they were required. Ok he may have charged more in costs and labour but he gained a peace of mind knowing its a 100% job well done and gained more leads to other jobs via the client's that he had done work for.Yes he did train a few up over time sent them to collage once a week to gain their own tickets. Just had to place on a word and make a comment.He even showed myself how to change a plug without blowing myself up. All the very best from the both of us,keep up the good work its very rare to see a good spark who knows what he is doing these's days who takes pride in their work...Carol--Barry
Love the vid, great explanation.👍
Seems like a place waiting to catch fire!😲
For sure🙈⚡
Very neat work mate. I've seen some bad DIY electrical attempts, you've stumbled across the worst I've seen! You've got some good techniques, I like the idea of stopping chases short of boxes.
Thanks Paul
There shouldn't be such thing as DIY electrical work😂🙈
@@ReecePowell well technically your need a permit and your progress is supposed to be inspected. So it's diy but inspect by a pro.
good work mate , lovely board install
Cant beat a neat board!
Love how you refer to each accessory as ‘he/him’ etc😂
I bet he picks up a tin of beans in Tesco and as he's doing it he's muttering "I definitely need him"lol
Hahahaha 100%😂👌
Great job on that ccu very tidy professional 👍
I’ve seen some diabolical stuff, but what you found in there beats everything. I was thinking that they couldn’t have used the shower without burning the place down, until it turned out that the supply only had to run a small pump! They’ll certainly have a pukka installation once you’re done.
Clean job mate well done.
Just bought a place and I'm no electrician, but after seeing the sockets and consumer unit, I had to bite the bullet and get quotes for a rewire. The cost will be essential, but hadn't budgeted for it. It's good to see what's going on during a rewire. I was only going to flick through, but ended up watching the whole thing.
Best thing you'll do getting a sparks in
Awesome job matey 👍. Thanks for sharing
Your braver than me , first thing is knee pads for me 😂 also loving the grommet strip behind the board 💪🏻😂
Look after those knees lad!
Nice work, can't believe how people would try diy their own electrical work at home. Stay safe....greetings from Aus
You know that! Madness
Blooming heck. I've just moved into an old cottage in the country which will need a total rewire but it least it was compliant(ish) when it went in (late 50s).
How did the rewire go bud?
Love the party hat. Good video showing the dirty dusty side of the trade.
😅😅
Seeing this reminded me of when I bought my current house. There was a 2KW radiant bar heater above the bath that was nearly falling off the wall and was wired into the ceiling rose in the hallway. No idea if it actually worked as it was removed the day I moved in. Then when we had the first heavy rain the downstairs lights kept tripping. After a lot of checking I found that an outside light was fed from the understairs light, as the cable ran under a window sill (outside) it went into a connector bloack, changed from 2.5 T&E to bell wire and then to 1.5 T&E via another connector block at the far end of the sill. No attempt to even try and water proof the connector blocks. Disconnected from the understairs light and guess what? The lights didn't trip off any more. To be fair, the plumbing was absolutely shit too, the outside tap came off the hot water supply.....
I think we may have had the same builder mate! Haha.
I’m looking to buy what it likely to buy (an older property) in the next few months that’s in need of modernisation. I’ll remember to keep an eye out for loose wires or junction boxes in odd locations as a warning sign or opportunity to negotiate the price down!
Please to hear that you and Ben bonded on Thursday. Working partnerships can be tricky.
But when you get the right partner, you're onto a winner!
Amazing Video! Please keep it going, suggestion maybe get head camera holder much easier to maneuver! 👍
Dude you should get yourself a wall chaser! The Metabo one also removes the middle bit, real time saver.
Great idea with leaving the chase short, can you show how you drill down, if the plaster is crap wont it just split off? Thanks
Why does he do this? Must have missed his explanation for it in the vid?
@@zaks8285 Plasterer and painter don't need to remove the accessory to plaster/paint, which they would need to if the chase went all the way. The small gap around the edge of the box will get covered by the faceplate
I liked the trunking idea with the C/U on top of the trunking, what did you fix for the bottom to stop it wobbling ?
Have a look at the option of omitting the shower isolator. The regs state that isolation is possible at the MCB. We've all seen how unreliable they are, and that screw terminals can fail at the best of times. Some customers operate them daily and I don't think they're designed for that. You can feel how clunky the switch mechanism is because of the size of the contacts. What happens when the switch starts emitting smoke? You need another isolator next to it so you can quickly make it safe. I've read through Guidance Notes 2 and it looks to me like isolators are only necessary for jobs like hotels where you don't have individual breakers for each shower. Another exception is in a house with TT supply where isolation must be both L and N. The MCB doesn't cut the neutral. In a TN supply that doesn't matter.
It was running on flex on connector blocks on another cuircit, least it could of had was an isolator 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The shower isolators in the houses I've lived in have all been hidden away in inaccessible locations, presumably because the previous owner didn't want them visible. I feel like they shouldn't have bothered with them in the first place
@@rik061119 At least the wires weren't just twisted together
You need the shower iso close to shower to be able to knock it off incase of a fault while in the shower
@@thereal1006 If we are thinking about complying with BS7671, we need to classify 'knocking off in case of a fault' as either functional switching, emergency switching, switching for cleaning/maintenance, or as isolation. We can then look in Chapter 53 of BS7671, or Guidance Note 2.
Would you say a pull-switch is for emergency switching?
I hired an electrician to wire my house. He talked a good game, however, when he started wiring I could see he had very little knowledge of house wiring. He had a casual labourer straight from his local pub to chase the walls and lift the floorboards, he did more damage than enough. When I saw how the so-called electrician was fitting the wiring I had to stop him from going any further. It was dangerous, he was using lighting cable for some sockets. I was horrified, he was wrapping the cable around hot water pipes and running cables over the joists without properly cutting the joists out first. I couldn't let him go on and told him to stop work or I was getting Trading Standards to look at his work. He was very annoyed and said he had just finished 6 months at a skill center. He cost me a fortune getting things put right by a proper tradesman because of the damage he did. There are a great many people being trained at skill centers starting building work with only limited knowledge doing second class and sometimes dangerous work. The only thing they are good at is asking to be paid in cash and conning people.
What size back boxes do install as standard 25/35 ? It'b be at least 35's for me - both sockets and switches.
25s usually
If you came across a Consumer unit that had an empty slot (no blanking plate/dummy) where (if you were foolish enough to) you could put your finger in and possibly touch the busbar - what failure code would you give the installation. C1 /C2 / F ?
Thanks for the video
Great video mate.. could you do a video on how you sink your boxes in the wall so neat?
I'll try mate. Brief video on my other rewire vid.
You do a full video on the way you do the trunking for c.u rear entry and how you make your cables longer if needed
Love the trunking idea behind the consumer unit 👍, do you use any cuplings to space it off the wall and hide the screws or just screw it without anything ?
My bad seen it again and you use some conduit 👍 will be using this on my next consumer unit install
What did you use to hold the c/u to the wall over the trunking?
I like the way he refers to sockets as people lol
Hahaha😂🙈
"Now my mouth stinks of sharpie"🤣🤣
Hahahaha brilliant😂
How do you know which live cable go to which circuit breaker ?
I like the idea of leaving a small section between the chase and the back box but, correct me if I'm wrong, It looked to me like you put your cable into conduit @18:14 Nothing wrong with that, in fact it's my preferred method also, but does it mean, there is a small section between your conduit and the back box with the cable in the wall without mechanical protection?
I was also intrigued when you said you use your multitool when chasing. I have only ever cut timber with my multitool, a bit of a waste af a versatile tool on my part, I know. It would be great if you made a video using the multi-tool on a wall😁👍
Very well done. I was wondering what did you use as a grommet when you drilled the back of the consumer unit. I am learning and got another year in college. These videos are helpful.
Grommet strip
Thanks for the video! Are you able to give a rough estimate of how much it was to rewire the house please? Cheers
When you were doing the board and stripped of the sheath of all the cables how do you know what was for either the ring or radial socket circuits?
The lines were marked with tally marks
You are very pro at what you do. Where did you learn these things?
Great work, really enjoyed this one! Just about to commission a similar job on a vacant property, any idea what kind of price a job like this costs?
Depends on where you live m8 buy an average house would be around 4 grand depending on what you have installed
OMG that’s some of the worst dodgy wiring that I have seen in a long time!!! Amazed the place hasn’t gone up in flames long ago?, talk about living in a death trap!!
Would love to see a more in depth walk through of you chase and drill method 👍
You know that mate! Crazy
Love the video. Please, share a little more about your favorite tools and why you like them.
Nice you made that look easy lol
It's all in the editing
what brand of multi tool diamond blade do u use man ? I bought one the other day and it worked really well until i came across some hard render on a couple of my chases, which melted the blade. I know the multi tool blade should only be used to cut through the plaster and soft brick before chiseling but just wondered if mine was just a shit brand or something ?
I bulk buy cheap and cheerful on Amazon mate. Only use it on soft walls. Angle grind the rest
Ok cool. Damb i was hoping there was some monster diamond blade that would avoid all that grinder mess.
Big fan if ur videos mate :) cheers
Am I correct in saying, when you rewire an old building you use the heights of sockets and switches as per the regs??
Nope. Reg height are only statutory on new builds. Old building it's optional.
However.. you cannot make make things worse. Ie, install sockets lower then the existing heights.
The only reason I ask is, you didn't set them at the original height and thought you'd set them to the regs. Having said that, all the sockets were at different heights in one room. Just good practice to keep everything uniform that why I asked if they are to the regs.
@@craigemmott4976 haha yes this building had many different heights 😅
19:08 very satisfying to watch.
Maybe the volume of the music while you do the work is so loud, other than that, u r a legend! Woord!
Smashing it
I’m American and currently about 700 hours away from being able to apply to become a licensed residential wireman. I’ve been doing electrical work for some time now and I was curious as to how other countries and parts of the world work, for example here in the states this would be a typical house layout; let me know how this is similar to your countries or areas,
4 combo breakers (AFCI/GFCI)
• Kitchen countertop/island 20 amp
• Washer Machine 20 amp
• Dishwasher/Disposal 20 amp
AFCI Breakers:
• stove/fridge 20 amp
• furnace 20 amp
• hood 20 amp
• all bedrooms, inhabitable living spaces, garage lighting, loft and porch areas, bathroom lighting, attic lighting, etc. 15 amp
Regular Breakers:
• garage GFCI circuit 20 amp
• outside GFCI receptacles 20 amp
• Bath GFCI 20 amp
• Dryer 25-40 amp
• A/C units 25-50 amp
This all differs in what’s needed in houses. Let me know fellow electricians
32a ring to kitchen
32a ring to grid switches for kitchen appliances
32a cooker circuit depends on the rating of cooker though
32a downstairs Ring
32a upstairs Ring
6a radial for boiler circuit
6a radial circuit for smoke alarms
6a radial for downstairs lights
6a radial for upstairs lights
40a shower circuit
That's a standard house rewire in the uk
if you are doing a total rewire of a house in England you do not have to apply the new heights for sockets and switches, here in Ireland I have ask my RECI inspector about that because I have rewired several old houses lately and he says you do which in Ireland in 1200mm maximum height to the top of switch and 400mm minimum to bottom of socket, also I have never seen kopaks in a attic space in a domestic house is that a new IEE reg, another good reg I see on British electricians videos is that you can put the isolation switches for hidden sockets in kitchens in cupboards, here you have to put them above the worktop and the client is often not to pleased to see a load of isolators that are as far as the client is concerned not needed and soiling the tiles or granite backsplash.
paul brown it’s not a reg to put kopex in a loft space, just good workmanship stops and rodents eating the cables and adds extra protection.
Your RECI Inspector is correct - ET101 (the ETCI Wiring Rules) clearly states that all new work must comply with the current Rules - this includes accessory heights. BS7671 (IEE Wiring Regulations) is different in that accessory heights are specified within the Building Regulations and not the Wiring Regulations so that is why there is the difference. (I am a RECI Registered Electrical Contractor and an NICEIC Approved Contractor.)
Use a grid switch to isolate the appliances in the kitchen instead of a load of fused spurs looks much better
What wire do you use
How did that shower not burn the flex!
Nice work. I too like the chases short of destination. Not thought of that. You need some knee pads bud!!
Madness!
See you terminate into the DB 1 core at a time, very neat. Do you number the outer sheaths 1-10 etc to make it easier? Don't you just love cable pulling by yourself!
I see that my db wiring gets more hits then everything else. I may try and dedicate a whole video to a board change.
I label each circuit as to their purpose.
I then write (usually on the cardboard box that contains the new db 😅) where I wish to dedicate the citcuits within the new db.
Because they now have circuit numbers I will strip and label the 'line/live/phase' conductors using tally marks. I like to mark them in groups of five lines so its easy to read. Example 11 would be - 5 lines, gap, 5 lines, gap, 1 line.
I will twist the cpcs and neutrals around the ends of the live wires a couple of times.
You will see by the order that I yerm my cables that the very last cables to be terminated are the lives.
I hope that all makes sense 😅
How long did it take
What's the issue with flex?
Ffs, that takes some beating in the poor quality wiring record book. So each time the shower was used the under floor heating started. Good initiative that, I like the way they designed it. Nice warm feet when you step out the shower. Don't spend too long in the shower or your floor will catch fire from the overloaded flex.
I would have like to seen a vid done by JW on that one, that one would have been his annual fete. 😀
That's the standard of work I used to find from kitchen fitters oddly enough.
That has to be the best use of the word kerfuffle ever!
At 14:20 are you allowed have the chase going across the wall for the mirror lights. I'm Irish and regulation changes in the last year say we can't do horizontal chases
Good question. In the UK we're allowed to run chases as long as they're verticle/horizontal from a switch/socket/fixture. This allows everyone to know where 'not' to drill holes.
The regulations go deeper then this but this is the simplified version.
Just keep within the width of the accessory. Easy.
I see. Thanks for the reply
Which Rule is that then?
This is exactly why wholesalers should work like they do in oz. trade card or no goods. And no diy shops selling electrical gear. It’s a miracle this place hasn’t burnt down
You willing to come down to Essex for a rewire?
Hello mate what do you use to make the holes for extractor fan?
Hole saw or core drill usually.. or mark and padsaw
Used to do Alarm systems then I was in the UK I saw a lot of work done by " Electricians" even some claiming to have done 4 years of "apprenticeship" i.e Tea boys I wouldn't trust them to wire a kettle let alone a house .. Great work Chasing is a thankless task in a old house you never know how much plaster will come off
If you watch the video before upload, you'll catch the low volume of the recordings versus the loud 'happy timelapse melody' inserted. Almost threw my headphones off
I thought you were going to say the shower was wired off the lights or something hahahaha
Hahaha could you imagine
What size/brand of trunking is that behind the CU?
Great video mate 👍🏻👍🏻
Brand = whatever the supplier has on the shelf. Preferred brand is MT.
Size = you need at least 40% spare space within the trunking and so it's not always a generic size to go behind.
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@@MyTrustedElectrician According to the On-Site Guide 2018,Table E6, the maximum space to be occupied by cables is 45% of the Internal cross sectional area of the trunking. This means that you have to leave at least 55% space.
@@MyTrustedElectrician Does grouping factor come in to play with the circuits in the trunking around the C.U? I work in marine so it's abit different. Enjoy your vids, keep them coming.
@@aaronwoods8625 grouping factors need to be taken into account throughout the entire installation.
Drives me insane “well it’s been fine for all these years and I haven’t had a problem”. 🤦🏻♂️.
People go to the hair dressers cause they’re too scared to cut their hair, but save a bit of money on doing my on electrics that can kill me, hell yea I’ll try that!!
I little bit of knowledge is dangerous. .
I agree electrics should be left to sparks however sparks complain about builders doing a bit of everything however I've seen all the top UA-cam sparks doing plumbing jobs chippies jobs etc all should just do what there trained for and ppl without training should leave alone completely
If you can manage electrics.. making up some stud work or bit of self explanatory plumbing isnt going to do much harm. You can see when a pipe isnt connected cause you get wet.. when a cable isnt installed correctly its silent, doesn't smell and can rarely hear it. There's a reason you get sparks in. Not a handyman😂
Why do you assume this wasn’t a spark who did this job?
What does Flex mean?
how much did you charge the owners for that rewire out of interest?
Wow! I thought my Victorian semi with a single piece of breaker wire for a fuse (for everything) and flex joining approximately 500 junction boxes together (spaced every 1-2meters) was scary. That place is next level horror.
That sounds pretty bad to be fair!
@@JohnSmith-ws7fq Quite common sadly. A lot of the elder generations haven't done any maintenance since the 70s.
Great video, can’t beat a empty rewire. Never seen the lighting wired in flexible conduit though in the loft? I’ve always just drilled joists and clipped direct.
Also everyone always seems to use 1.5mm, any reason for that when calcs always come out that 1mm is more then sufficient. Especially on a small domestic like that one 🤷♂️
I think there are 2 main reasons why for 1.5. One is convenience and not poncing about with lots of different sizes. Do the calc for the light in the loft of an average 3 bed semi and you'll find you're fairly close to the limit of 1mm, 5 bed and you will need the 1.5 anyway.
Being close brings us to the second point. Someone chucks another 100mm of insulation over it and you'll be over the limit again with 1mm.
I was always taught the savings just aren't worth the effort, run the 1.5 and you know everything is covered.
1mm is very fragile.
Constructive Suggestion:- Fill-in music and horns -- are currently way too loud compared with the voice volume. Should be same or slightly quieter than "average perceived volume", otherwise you have listeners going for the volume controls.
Presumably you can't use plastic trunking behind a metal box as there is no fire protection at the knock-outs where the cables enter thus exposing plastic trunking to flames and therefore propagating fire??
I was wondering that? I thought all wires had to go through glands? No? Please advise
What about if it's a whole house.
looks like you found the electricians equivalent of a Plumberparts "Flexi Friday".
Where I live you can’t do anything apart change a light globe if you need a socket moved you need a licensed electrician to do it for you. Or your house insurance won’t pay out
Good old flex.... if I'll had done that years ago my boss would have tied me to his van bumper and drove home.. tidy wrk mate.
is it not easier to install individual RCBO's? your neutrals will now be short if you ever decide to do this.
Yeah I always try to leave as much length on my tails as possible!
He left slack on the cables I seen him push the excess back into the wall behind the consumer unit
Hi. why you don't leave a spare length of wires in distribution board? I'm on my way to become an electrician, doing level 2 recently so I keep asking questions 🙂cheers
He did m8 but pushed it back into the entry at the back of the consumer unit
Nice vid, if you dont mind me asking, I would like know if its safe to run cables above the ceiling, using twin and earth pvc for downlights, there are no joists in the way because its a flat property, so is it safe just to rest the twin and earth on the ceiling without using conduits? Cheers 😃
I lived in a house that that had a shower put in by previous owner. We decided to up grade. When sparks cato do the wiring he said we were lucky to be alive. As the shower had been wired with Bell wire.
Fackkkkk off! No chance that held and didnt burn out😂😂😂😂
Does anyone have an average price for a full house rewire? 3 bed 1 sockets in each room, kitchen lounge and hall. My dad said the wiring in my nans house (his mum) is dangerous but never got it sorted for her now I'm here with my son and step son...worrying about it.
No point in putting 1 socket in each room you won't have enough points to use
It's 450mm to bottom of the sockets and 1200mm to top of the switches
can someone explain to a newb, like myself, the issue with flex?
It's all about cable sizes and ratings of the cables
Btw, I love the safety chucks!
Awful. I've never seen soo many connector blocks and junction boxes in a house. Suprised it didn't go up in flames.
I doo love a good Wall Chase, wall Chaser machine in cinder block is hard work.
Nice work. But why don't you dead test and put the board away at the same time?
Always test at the end of the job when the installation is complete
Troll me down there hahaha 👍
great videos, you need to normalise your audio track to keep the levels similar.
I've been watching a lot of electoral videos from the UK and just wondering why all of the switchboards are in some absolute outrageous locations? Is it because the houses are very old and regs were not so strict?
Main reason is where the supply mains wire comes into the house. Yes, the UK is a very old nation, and some properties are many centuries old.
A switchboard in the UK is a Consumer Unit.