With large kitchens, I tend to run a 16mm2 3C SWA to a Submain CU. The island, I’d do in SWA too. Flexicon (even steel core) or SWA in the floor… would love to find out what the regs nerds would have to say
Being a commercial spark I'd have been tempted to run a couple of lengths of galv conduit in those floor chases. Finish them both in an end box in the floor under the island with a spout and gland on the front. Lovely job.
As an electrician in South Africa all wiring is in conduit using either 20mm,25mm and 32mm.Conduit is chased in walls and floors.This is done to pull new circuits easily and 90%of our houses are brick and mortar
Great work Nick, you certainly put in some long days. Attention to detail still remains awesome, my ocd always makes it hard work but I always love the finished product. Well done great work as always. 👍👍👍
Nick, with the flexible metal conduit the gland pack should have come with the ring collar. You put that on first before screwing the gland in. This would make it easier to insert and remove the gland however many times you needed.
Nick everyones talking about the elephant in the ceiling, i came across one not long ago that had what can only be discribed as natural ducting , a hole for the fan and about 2m away a hole in the wall, gets there eventually 🤣😂🤣😂
Nothing wrong with late nights if other jobs have to stay on track or places to take the family out to Customer is good to you helping with cleaning up.
If I was having a fridge/freezer. I'd much rather have the socket up high makes easier to plug in switch on/off saves having to pull the whole fridge freezer out especially if in a fully integrated kitchen unit. 👍
@nick heres a question, with more and more smart devices becoming normal and reasonable price etc... using standard 25mm pattress is still normal practice where we could go 37mm to accomodate smart switches / dimmer control etc is this down to customer request as the price isnt relevant at this poinbt of the first fix? forgive me if they are 37mm but they looked 25mm :) tidy work on the island wiring though...
@ horizontal where units are planned is probably safest, but I tend to put a 20mm galv conduit in for it, especially if it comes within 50mm of a corner. Regs don’t cover real life where plumbers put pipes in trunking on that front
@ it’s very rare I run cables horizontal. But if it’s more than a few inches I use galvanised conduit. I We all make mistakes and can hit a cable ,but most people don’t expect cables to run sideways. And why should they when for years it’s been drummed into people’s heads that cables should go horizontal..I have had those exact words said to me if I have had to repair a damaged cable run sideways.
Have you not put a combined heat and smoke detector in the Utility room. As they may use the tumble dryer at night and we all know those things are always in the news because they have caught fire. Those extractor fan runs seem very long, what fans are you using going to have to be pretty beefy to push that air that far
As a swedish electrician I keep asking why not flexcon everywhere? Then you'd never have to open up anything for a regular rewire. I know, i know. "Rules and Regulations". But it just seems more logical.
Taking shape nicely Nick. Those extractor fan Flexi need to be the tin foil rigid insulated type or rigid pipe for that length on fan exhaust.
I was questioning the use plastic flex for the cooker exhaust to begin with.
Hi Nick sorry to say you need solid ducting in ceiling with a decline and to meet part f of building control done it myself hope this helps
With large kitchens, I tend to run a 16mm2 3C SWA to a Submain CU. The island, I’d do in SWA too. Flexicon (even steel core) or SWA in the floor… would love to find out what the regs nerds would have to say
Being a commercial spark I'd have been tempted to run a couple of lengths of galv conduit in those floor chases. Finish them both in an end box in the floor under the island with a spout and gland on the front. Lovely job.
Like others have said would 100% use solid ducting for the fans and put a slight decline to the exterior so any moisture can run out
Spot on mate
If rigid extractor pipe is used the extraction will be more efficent.
As an electrician in South Africa all wiring is in conduit using either 20mm,25mm and 32mm.Conduit is chased in walls and floors.This is done to pull new circuits easily and 90%of our houses are brick and mortar
Great work Nick, you certainly put in some long days. Attention to detail still remains awesome, my ocd always makes it hard work but I always love the finished product. Well done great work as always. 👍👍👍
Nick, with the flexible metal conduit the gland pack should have come with the ring collar. You put that on first before screwing the gland in. This would make it easier to insert and remove the gland however many times you needed.
That floor you chased out in kithen looks to have asbestos bitumen adhesive 😮😢
Have a look at 24v LED tape. You can get longer runs with that and seems to last a lot longer.
How many times have you fallen off them steps now 😂😂 still makes for good comedic value 😅
Nick everyones talking about the elephant in the ceiling, i came across one not long ago that had what can only be discribed as natural ducting , a hole for the fan and about 2m away a hole in the wall, gets there eventually 🤣😂🤣😂
Nothing wrong with late nights if other jobs have to stay on track or places to take the family out to
Customer is good to you helping with cleaning up.
If I was having a fridge/freezer. I'd much rather have the socket up high makes easier to plug in switch on/off saves having to pull the whole fridge freezer out especially if in a fully integrated kitchen unit. 👍
They need to be easily accessible in case of a need to Isolate quickly.
Another great video Nick mate
@nick heres a question, with more and more smart devices becoming normal and reasonable price etc... using standard 25mm pattress is still normal practice where we could go 37mm to accomodate smart switches / dimmer control etc is this down to customer request as the price isnt relevant at this poinbt of the first fix? forgive me if they are 37mm but they looked 25mm :) tidy work on the island wiring though...
No pipe in the wall in a kitchen… kitchen fitter catches the cable… welcome to the house of fun lol
Exactly. And cables horizontal. Might be acceptable in the regs but not very professional
@ horizontal where units are planned is probably safest, but I tend to put a 20mm galv conduit in for it, especially if it comes within 50mm of a corner. Regs don’t cover real life where plumbers put pipes in trunking on that front
@ it’s very rare I run cables horizontal. But if it’s more than a few inches I use galvanised conduit.
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We all make mistakes and can hit a cable ,but most people don’t expect cables to run sideways. And why should they when for years it’s been drummed into people’s heads that cables should go horizontal..I have had those exact words said to me if I have had to repair a damaged cable run sideways.
Have you not put a combined heat and smoke detector in the Utility room. As they may use the tumble dryer at night and we all know those things are always in the news because they have caught fire.
Those extractor fan runs seem very long, what fans are you using going to have to be pretty beefy to push that air that far
Is the depth of the steel joist More than 10% of the height of the room for the heat alarm only being at one side?
was the aspestos nice?
Nick why do you use solid plaster, instead of plaster board, like we do in New Zealand and Australia?
In the UK it is a bit of both. New builds are plasterboard and older properties are plaster. In renovation both can some times be used
As a swedish electrician I keep asking why not flexcon everywhere? Then you'd never have to open up anything for a regular rewire. I know, i know. "Rules and Regulations". But it just seems more logical.
No burst pipes in this video 👍🏻🤣
6.0mm for the fridge & frezzer, seem over engineered that circuit ,or is there something else i missed, just curious
Was put in for a cooker but I’ve run in a 10mm on the other side of the kitchen, so used 6mm for this
But did you fess up to the pipe from the last episode?
It's surprising how many tools and equipment you use these days.
proper craftmanship
apart from the long lengths of flexi duct lol
ANy particular reason you didnt used solid steel conduit Nick?
Dont put ladders on the roof without clamping them down, do it straight away or leave the ladders off. That way you will not forget to do it....
Minimise flexible duct and maximise rigid duct. Flexible is awful for airflow.
Missing socket ..concrete ground floor...no choice but to chase out accross floor . spur of ring . swa box to box glanded .
Why on gods earth would you be installing 10mm for a cooker ???
Use some capping for dot n dab walls rather than oval conduit
Exactly, it’s embarrassing, still using 25mm boxes 🙈🙄
@@mrgfromoxford8644what’s embarrassing about using 25mm boxes ?