I'm an industrial electronics engineering student. My studies don't have much to do with your videos, but I'm learning a shit ton about practical electrical work from watching them. Thanks a lot mate, I truly enjoy your channel. Cheers from Madrid :)
Just want to say ,i am proud of people like you which taking there job proudly And i am not a Electrition but a handyman for nearly 15 years!!! I have knowledge of wiring but bever had a chance to advance it Shame But will try to finish my electric course soon But again well done and proud of you
Ignore the haters, great job Tom. The jargon police will always be there - jealousy of success. As a maturer guy coming into the industry over the last year or so your videos have been invaluable. So please keep up the good work!
This is the first video of yours I've ever seen and I can't believe that's an acceptable state for a wiring panel to be in. No wonder you're pulling it out. Electrical work looks very different than what I'm used to seeing in America.
The fact Americans seem to loathe any form of regulation and have a lot of very old buildings of their own makes me doubt that every building in your country has tip-top wiring.
Nice video mate! I'm currently doing my second year at college (City & Guilds level 2) and watching videos like this are great for knowledge etc! Keep it up!
Tom and Dave you are both doing a great job. I live across the pond and I'm breaking into the electrical business as a retirement job. I've found the videos informative even though I'm having a little trouble understanding your terminology and humor. I have found that you have too many "Arm Chair Quarterbacks" in your viewing audience, remember if your not part of the solution your part of the problem "Fellow Sparks". It is easy to throw stones when your sitting in the stands. We also have a problem with the younger generation not wanting to work in the "Trades". Some of the major things that causes them to shy away from it is the "Old Crotchety Bastards" (master electricians that are in debt to all there ex-wives and can't retire), the hard work and little pay. I will part by saying keep up the good work Tom I look forward to the next videos when the "Third seat" will be filled.
Go dam it! you're the best sparks in London Town !! "this time next year rodders, your be a millionaire!! " ha Love the work.. Thanks i seem to have an addiction to your channel more than netflix now ..
Sitting here revising for my C&G2391 and adding"No other SOB in the building on a banker's holiday" to my revision notes on safe iso' so that's a PASS sorted. Besides, once I'm out in the wild any BH is a no-traffic day and I'll have another one where the hotels are cheap. Good on yer Tom(s).
Really good videos, keep them coming, i enjoy seeing them, I can relate in a couple of stuff, I'm from Nicaragua and I live in United States (Florida) and some requirements are likely the same some others are different, from your side of the world, but we can all agree on one thing, it's an amazing and beautiful trade to get in to, my tools are Milwaukee as well, my brother got me into them and now I just fell in love with them, let's face it, when you're on your own and you need to finish the job, those are the right tools for it. Greetings Tom.
Thought the technical terms for an eicr were either "it's alright" or "it's f***ed". Who'd of thought ive been doing it wrong and It was ment to be satisfactory or unsatisfactory all this time.
I had to work my Bank Holiday too, but I always think it is nice to work a bank holiday and take it off another weekend when the Motorways are nice and clear, and the beaches are less crowded. Take off a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday break if you can, to make up for losing your bank hols. What a nice neat install.
Dont worry about flickering so much its not that biggy as long content is great. Keep doing what you doing yours work is top notes😎 Have a great day for You and Tom😛
Its bank holiday monday thats safe isolation lol so friday is even safer isolation cause no one wants to do much and shoot off early so im pretty confident no one will want to come and turn a circuit on
Hey I'm a new viewer from Australia, love the content. I run my own electrical company in Aus and its real interesting seeing how similar our systems are!
As a distance learning prospective electrician I have no idea how I’ll ever learn to deal with stuff like this. I couldn’t have managed to plaster without my apprenticeship!
I know you haven't done the snagging yet and will probably do it anyway but I always whack a bit of mastic or painters caulk around the top of the trunking it just finishes it off nicely. Great work keep em coming 👍🏻
I would not worry about replacing the consumer unit, I would be sorting out the rotting, wet, unsupported wall behind it first. Nice work as usual :) Cable management was pornographic!
Hi, you have added a note to state that the EM sign is the wrong one. It isn't so please don't change it. That arrow has a couple of meanings, one is "Progress up from here" and "Progress through and on from here" so the latter meaning is applicable for this so as above it is actually the correct sign for this location. The only meaning of the sign down arrow is "Progress down from here" and is the most misused/incorrectly used sign. Your average corridor as well should have the arrow up sign as well to progress through and on from here but nearly always it's the wrong pointing down one. Keep up the good work, love the high standard and general attention to detail, Its refreshing to see.
I literally lol'ed at bank holiday being an effective means of isolation. I wish I could share the isolation & test certificate I work to. Requires three people to put an isolation on.
Awesome job dudes. :) love the videos and inspired by the work you do. Dave you have a great mentor. Tom you have a great student. :) Keep bashing them out. The videos of course.......
Sorry if this is an excessively basic question, but from where is the power turned off if you want to work on a fuseboard/consumer unit? is it just that isolation switch in front of you or is it done by the energy provider somewhere down the line?
As a tiny baby I had only one dream. The dream was to become a you tube comment. Can I achieve this dream, or will I spend my days endlessly scraping the very fabric of reality with my chisel of uncertainty?
Great finish to the DB change. Be nice to follow behind u on that one mate. Was there a fused spur for the bell transformer? I believe even adjacent to the DB one is required.
And you need to do this why? I've worked with insulated tools for 30 years, if they start getting really rough looking, (like the yellow/white under layer shows through) you get new ones.
I don't use satisfactory or unsatisfactory when talking to other sparkies. I find saying "It is totally fucked up" rolls off the tongue far better lol.
Keep the videos coming. Really like the clean neat work that you do. Wish other electrician did that kind of clean work. Keep up the great work.
Your van is the neatest & tidiest works van I've ever seen.
Good team work, very informative made is so easy to understand for new electrician....Thank you.
Big Clive sent me, and I'm glad he did. Great show lads!
Really enjoyed this video you guys are entertaining to watch. Keep it up!
I'm an industrial electronics engineering student. My studies don't have much to do with your videos, but I'm learning a shit ton about practical electrical work from watching them. Thanks a lot mate, I truly enjoy your channel.
Cheers from Madrid :)
What a pleasure to see units/junction boxes etc labelled up, the time it saves when fault finding !!
Great job on that fuse board! Watching these videos is better than therapy :)
This guy produces better tv than the BBC, I could watch these vids all day. Keep up the good work Thomas.👍🏻
Blimey, what a nice comment! Cheers pal! Wish I had the time to make enough vids so you could watch them all day ;-)
Very neat rewiring of the power board. 😃👌👏👏👏
It was a pig to do, but looked ok i thought.
Nice to see you care so much about cable layout, sweet fuse box
That sandwich wasn’t nice, it was satisfactory.
evilution lmfao
The Emergency light stuff near the consumer unit, it is a battery powered or mains powered?
I'm choosing my gcses options and you are one of two people who have inspired me to choose my options that equate to being a sparky.
What a huge difference the clean-up makes!
Really great job guys!
Just want to say ,i am proud of people like you which taking there job proudly
And i am not a Electrition but a handyman for nearly 15 years!!!
I have knowledge of wiring but bever had a chance to advance it
Shame
But will try to finish my electric course soon
But again well done and proud of you
Always enjoy watching you guys , another great video!
Ignore the haters, great job Tom. The jargon police will always be there - jealousy of success. As a maturer guy coming into the industry over the last year or so your videos have been invaluable. So please keep up the good work!
Great vid guys. Always good to see how other sparks do it. Keep em coming
Now that's worthy of art in my eyes that fuse bored nice double take of the entry systam tom
U both worked your guts out on that job
Very neat fuse board top job
12:52 Was that a glitch in the matrix?
Amazing. I noticed that too lol
Yep that glitch in The Matrix still going to this day
Hey mate ! Absolutely love your channel ! I’m a electrician from Australia. Almost out of my time as a apprentice. Keep up with you YT as its great !
Good job guys! Cheers
Lovely job
This is the first video of yours I've ever seen and I can't believe that's an acceptable state for a wiring panel to be in. No wonder you're pulling it out. Electrical work looks very different than what I'm used to seeing in America.
The fact Americans seem to loathe any form of regulation and have a lot of very old buildings of their own makes me doubt that every building in your country has tip-top wiring.
Great video! Keep on rolling!!
nice finish too. well done Tom and DAVE
How good to see English electricians on TH-cam who talk about things we understand.
6:25 "I've gotta change out a few luminaires today...." LOL!
Nice job lads!
Its seeing set ups like this which make me glad to be an in-house electrician for a commercial company. Scary :o
Great video, thanks Thomas
Nice video mate! I'm currently doing my second year at college (City & Guilds level 2) and watching videos like this are great for knowledge etc! Keep it up!
Good Work Matey, safe isolation quote cracked me up lol
Fair play fellas . Nice job
I'm a new subscriber from Big Clive's site. Thanks to you both for a look at critical infrastructure installation and repair.
Here from Big Clive. Very interesting. Nice to have a recommendation to a channel
Thanks for heading over. enjoy the show !
Nice work on the consumer unit
Tom and Dave you are both doing a great job. I live across the pond and I'm breaking into the electrical business as a retirement job. I've found the videos informative even though I'm having a little trouble understanding your terminology and humor. I have found that you have too many "Arm Chair Quarterbacks" in your viewing audience, remember if your not part of the solution your part of the problem "Fellow Sparks". It is easy to throw stones when your sitting in the stands. We also have a problem with the younger generation not wanting to work in the "Trades". Some of the major things that causes them to shy away from it is the "Old Crotchety Bastards" (master electricians that are in debt to all there ex-wives and can't retire), the hard work and little pay. I will part by saying keep up the good work Tom I look forward to the next videos when the "Third seat" will be filled.
Purely amazing!
The wall behind the boards looks like it’s only held up by your new ply! Very tidy job nice!
As my old tradesman used to say, “lamps glow, bulbs grow”. In fairness though he was an arse.
Instablaster
Your humour is so amusing
Quality install lads!
Very darti work
Go dam it! you're the best sparks in London Town !! "this time next year rodders, your be a millionaire!! " ha Love the work.. Thanks i seem to have an addiction to your channel more than netflix now ..
Sitting here revising for my C&G2391 and adding"No other SOB in the building on a banker's holiday" to my revision notes on safe iso' so that's a PASS sorted. Besides, once I'm out in the wild any BH is a no-traffic day and I'll have another one where the hotels are cheap. Good on yer Tom(s).
Really good videos, keep them coming, i enjoy seeing them, I can relate in a couple of stuff, I'm from Nicaragua and I live in United States (Florida) and some requirements are likely the same some others are different, from your side of the world, but we can all agree on one thing, it's an amazing and beautiful trade to get in to, my tools are Milwaukee as well, my brother got me into them and now I just fell in love with them, let's face it, when you're on your own and you need to finish the job, those are the right tools for it. Greetings Tom.
Thought the technical terms for an eicr were either "it's alright" or "it's f***ed". Who'd of thought ive been doing it wrong and It was ment to be satisfactory or unsatisfactory all this time.
Then there's the "completely and utterly f***ing f***ed"
Mate, it should be: it's alright or change it because you might die.
I had to work my Bank Holiday too, but I always think it is nice to work a bank holiday and take it off another weekend when the Motorways are nice and clear, and the beaches are less crowded. Take off a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday break if you can, to make up for losing your bank hols. What a nice neat install.
Just you d your channel.
Fellow sparky, nice original idea.
It's a good chance to show people what we actually do an it's all I interesting.
Fair play
Dont worry about flickering so much its not that biggy as long content is great. Keep doing what you doing yours work is top notes😎 Have a great day for You and Tom😛
Its bank holiday monday thats safe isolation lol so friday is even safer isolation cause no one wants to do much and shoot off early so im pretty confident no one will want to come and turn a circuit on
Hey I'm a new viewer from Australia, love the content. I run my own electrical company in Aus and its real interesting seeing how similar our systems are!
As a canuck, this is all completely backwards!
love theses rewires
9:18 Big Clive did and interesting tear down of one of their shower units. Interesting robust piece of engineering.
As a distance learning prospective electrician I have no idea how I’ll ever learn to deal with stuff like this. I couldn’t have managed to plaster without my apprenticeship!
I like the inside of your van
What a man. God to see some younger sparks doing a decent job.
We're they your temp site lights by the dis board
12:50 Intercom system was so good they fitted it twice.
He's taking the piss. Lately there have been comments about repeating sentences.
Glitch in the matrix.
That’s it mint for another 50 years 👍
I know your work is good but daaaaamn, that fuseboard cupboard came out cleaner than Jesus's conception 👍
aye, impressive work :)
This comment wins.
Nice job.
very neat.
Great work tom. What a mess who ever did all that work b4 u mate.. task inahalf
I know you haven't done the snagging yet and will probably do it anyway but I always whack a bit of mastic or painters caulk around the top of the trunking it just finishes it off nicely. Great work keep em coming 👍🏻
I would not worry about replacing the consumer unit, I would be sorting out the rotting, wet, unsupported wall behind it first.
Nice work as usual :) Cable management was pornographic!
3:40 "You just have to try to go slowly and as methodical as you can"
[takes out massive cutters and puts it around a bundle]
Fantastic electrician
Great video! Shame not to see a bit more of the fuseboard area being turned around but we understand. Keep it up fellas 👍
Lovely work on that consumer unit. 👍
Just subscribed.
Well done chaps not much making good after you for sparks only a shit load of pointing 😁 keep up the good work loving the channel
10:01 - congratulations on a very neat looking dist board ;)
Absolutely pissing myself to the Bank Holiday safe isolation, loving the videos keep it up
Nice work
top sparks, that was an amazing job you done …. poshest sounding sparks too
Hi, you have added a note to state that the EM sign is the wrong one. It isn't so please don't change it. That arrow has a couple of meanings, one is "Progress up from here" and "Progress through and on from here" so the latter meaning is applicable for this so as above it is actually the correct sign for this location. The only meaning of the sign down arrow is "Progress down from here" and is the most misused/incorrectly used sign. Your average corridor as well should have the arrow up sign as well to progress through and on from here but nearly always it's the wrong pointing down one. Keep up the good work, love the high standard and general attention to detail, Its refreshing to see.
Safe isolation - bank holiday monday. Love it
Thats a propper job, old messed up distribution boards replacing is challanging but verry rewarding.
Ooohhh, deja vu at 12:50 can we now call you Mr Anderson?
I literally lol'ed at bank holiday being an effective means of isolation.
I wish I could share the isolation & test certificate I work to. Requires three people to put an isolation on.
Hey tom love watching the channel. I’m a sparky down in Sussex, and I really would like to know why you don’t fit RCBO consumer units. Cheers Sam
12:49 He forgot he already fitted a intercom system that he fitted it two systems :P
Hah, I noticed that.
I found your video quite satisfactory 😂👏
And if it's not a bank holiday Monday just pull the cut out fuse 👌
ooo what a lovely snakes wedding
That’s how I do cu as well, 50 x 100 trunking ,makes it all neat an tidy, well done Tomas you must have seen I of my installs?
that is spooky , i am watching this bank holiday monday 1 year later . wow .
and now 2 years also spooky
As an American electrician, its interesting to see how you guys do your panels.
Awesome job dudes. :) love the videos and inspired by the work you do. Dave you have a great mentor. Tom you have a great student. :) Keep bashing them out. The videos of course.......
Nice job on the Fuse Box, client will be pleased, noted the building has a Apollo Xpander Wireless Fire Alarm System....
Sorry if this is an excessively basic question, but from where is the power turned off if you want to work on a fuseboard/consumer unit? is it just that isolation switch in front of you or is it done by the energy provider somewhere down the line?
As a tiny baby I had only one dream. The dream was to become a you tube comment. Can I achieve this dream, or will I spend my days endlessly scraping the very fabric of reality with my chisel of uncertainty?
Great finish to the DB change. Be nice to follow behind u on that one mate. Was there a fused spur for the bell transformer? I believe even adjacent to the DB one is required.
Do you ever clean and test your insulated tools?
And you need to do this why?
I've worked with insulated tools for 30 years, if they start getting really rough looking, (like the yellow/white under layer shows through) you get new ones.
I don't use satisfactory or unsatisfactory when talking to other sparkies. I find saying "It is totally fucked up" rolls off the tongue far better lol.
Atta boiz.
Keep up the good work, you "Sparks"
XD
Very nice work. Jealous. Would love to get my teeth into a job like that!
How was the other end of the SWA incomer connected at the other end? I can't think where i'd gland the other end off into.
How many hours did you quote for sorting that mess
You keep calling Tom, Dave!
Dave! The man is name Dave!
Bobby Willie Too bad someone missed the opportunity... I'm sorry Dave. I can not do that.