I'm a second semester industrial electrician student and your panel wiring looks better than my instructors example. I learned a lot during this vid as I recently purchased some land with the goal of building and wiring my own home. Thank you and looking forward to the next vid.
I am an electrician from Sweden. It’s great to see someone take pride in his work. Awesome job with the panel. I just started watching your channel and really enjoy it
Fellow professional electrician here, always nice to see professional electrical work (there are so many DIY hacks on TH-cam). Your panel looks great, just goes to show that with a few cable ties a skilled professional can do a very neat job very quickly. Like many pro's I agree with your comment on AFCI's. Love your videos, you guys are great.
Never really knew a breaker setup before. You have a way of explaining things that makes it easy to understand. Such a great job both you guys do. Progress you are making is great! Video editing is phenomenal!
Great work; but I had to check out what you meant at the beginning with A and B Phase. I must say I am in the UK where the description would not make sense; but I now understand the US connection. For any other curious Brits that may be watching, the input at 240V is all the same phase (as in the sinusoidal A.C. from the public utility transformer). In the US this supply has a transformer (I guess in the breaker box?) whose output is centre tapped to ground and whose extreme ends are ungrounded therefore at 120V each. It is these two separate 120V supplies that Josh takes care to balance - one is supply A the other supply B.
They don't make em like you anymore bro, I have been watching your videos since the beginning, and the amount of knowledge you have is unreal. Thanks for the lessons every video. I have learned a lot! Thanks very much for that, I can't wait to see the completed house.
You will be so amazed and thankful when you are done. My wife and I have done similar projects several times and if we were younger would still tackle more of them. Love to see young people who aren't afraid of hard work.
Hi guys. I came from Myself Reliance Channel which is great. But I never saw no one with skills like Josh. He has a very active mind and he sees like five steps ahead or more. You guys are a beautiful family and your wife is a hardworking girl and so gorgeous. Josh you are the Man! Congratulations all!
Arc faults interrupters/breakers were originally to protect against electric blankets, mattress pads, water bed heaters, and other devices that could arc internally and cause a fire. As with most ideas, once it is used for the intended purpose, they expand the purpose. Josh, You need a T Post pounder. It can work for a ground rod. You will probably have a good use for one on your farm/homestead.
As soon as I saw him cutting the 10/2 wire for the generator I came to the comments to see if any of the Safety Sallies commented on him cutting the sheathing with a razor knife across his hand(every day occurrence in our world)... does not appear so! Good work guys! Enjoying the build!
@@jonathanperry3792 Only bad if you are making a deep cut, he is scoring the casing. He could run the blade across his hand and only receive what would amount to a paper cut. Granted, it might be safer to show him with a cut resistant glove or not doing the pass over. Clearly this is not his first time making the score marks.
Wow!! I've been watching you guys for so long that the gibberish that usually meets my ears when Josh is speaking about the electrical just turned into English. Lol
Always looking for more information, so please just keep instructing. Another thing is that electrical box looks amazing! Always wanted to know how that is done. Thanks for making it look so easy.
Very clean and tidy wiring in that panel. Looks good. I could easily work with Josh; easy going and down to earth. My man is rocking the plaid shirt. I love plaid shirts myself
Very good job wiring the main breaker panel. Very neat and professional looking. You should give "Pure Living for Life" some pointers. You must have wired panel boxes mucho times before. Thanks for all your explanations. You made it look simple. I doubt if it is. I think really building houses and installing all the infrastructure materials is really like working a gigantic jigsaw puzzle. There are so many resources on youtube today. Taking it nice and slow and thinking through all the procedures makes it appear less complicated. I think it can be overwhelming if you try to take on too much at one time. I have enjoyed all your videos so far. Keep up the good work. Your family are all amazing.
Excellent video. This is how a panel should look when it's wired ! Great to see someone doing things the right way. Yes, please show the generator hook up.
Definitely a full day's work. Wiring a box or a panel is a thing of beauty...... Please do take the time to video wiring the generator and I would love to see how you're going to do that, thank you in advance
I know some trades are easier when it comes to making your work look good, but, as a chippy myself, I would be more than happy to work with you. Methodical, neat and efficient. It's a yes from me. Excellent. Glad I stumbled onto you.
Electrical often makes me nervous, but I’ve done light and fan installs. You make this look effortless. I hope people out there watching take this seriously and educate themselves to do it right Thanks for sharing
Terrific, straight forward 'Show-n-Tell'!👏👍 I empathize with you and your ground rod effort. After a 2011 tornado dropped a 140 yr.old tree on half of my home and the power main box torn off and away from the side of my house, I did away with the old and started from scratch from installing a power pole (secured to house overhang) and ground rod to adding second power main breaker box inside. Originally my grandparents home built in early 1954, you can imagine the type of wiring, old black clothe wrapped ... scary, especially seeing how the electrician wired into the old wiring when my grandparents had new kitchen/den addition built on in 1968. I don't know what kept our house from burning down!! Needless to say, I went overboard with insuring I was putting in the safest, everything new, exceeding codes where possible, electrical system I could. Passed with flying colors. Located in SE. OK. honeycombed with now buried coal mine shafts, the end of one which, come to find out, runs next to my home as does the very thick-many feet long and wide sheets of solid stone setting from 1'-2' below ground surface right where one of my new 8' ground rods had to go. I broke off two sledge hammer heads trying to break through the stone plate. Finally dug out a large area, found a crack in the stone plate and with my trusty little hand sledge type hammer and a crow bar spent near two days driving down the new rod. The second rod set away was much easier to get further down before hitting the top stone of the shaft causing the rod to feel as though it curved the last foot to 1-1/2'.
Here in Canada we have a ground bar in the panel for bond wires and a separate isolated bar for neutrals, the 2 do get connected in a service entrance panel so effectively the same thing. House looks awesome!!
Josh i do all my own electrical work very impressive job on the 150 panel for sure well explained and very well installed it is obvious you have many skills and are proud of your work you guys rock in the house building world. I have my shed wired for solar and generator as well as the house if need be. As always you guys knocked it out of the park every time .
Great job on the panel. Too many times I've opened up those panels and seen a bird nest of wire. Finally seeing someone on TH-cam that knows what they're doing. great job.
What a beautiful job. Love to see how you tie that generator plug into your system. I enjoy watching someone who is good at what they do. Great job‼️👍👍 Thanks for sharing, Vinny 🇺🇸
Another great video, its nice to see all the progress you two are making. I like seeing the pride you take in your work and what a neat and organized wiring job on the panel. Look forward to the next video!
Omg, I'm not the only one with OCD wiring a panel. Great job sir. I just stumbled upon your build a few days back, and trying to play catch up. Thank you both.
Nice work on the panel. Building computers, I like to do nice cable management. It's good to see someone take pride and do the same on their electrical box, even if it's never seen.
I've seen a many boxes wired in my day. And only a handful were ever done to my liking. You paid great attention to detail and kept everything neat and tidy. Tie straps should always be used to bundle wires. Inspectors love to see that. Good job.
Man your one neat worker, that is one very neat power box. Keep up the sweet work, its so informative. Cable ties are the best, just like ratchet straps.
It's great to see debt free projects like this. your home is going to serve your family well. It would be great if you could go with spray foam insulation. We recently upgraded some of our home to foam in some areas. It amazed me how much difference it made even in a home that was already well insulated.
Good job Josh! I definitely learned something watching your video! I'm a plumber but it's always good to learn some other trades! Yes please make the video showing how to hookup generater and transfer switch!Adorable family as well!!😉👍🇺🇸
I've been watching your video's and I'd just like to say, Good Job! It's also really nice to see a family working together. May God Bless your family & your home. :)
I have never seen this done before, it was very interesting. I love how nice and neat it all looks. It is refreshing to watch a video of someone who knows what they are doing and gets the job done expertly! Thanks.
Wow, you two are moving right along. Thank you for explained stuff so well, you pointed out many things that first time builders do not know. If you both don't feel like your at pro status yet, you should by time your done. Hope you had an amazing Christmas. Many blessing for all or you in the new year!
Yes and please! Regarding generator box and how to wire it! Thank you guys for these videos! So so helpful and also thanks for the security video and update on how it works. God bless!
Always nice to see a "greenie" (naval expression for an electrician) that knows what he is doing, neat terminations and nesting by the way, aren't cable ties wonderful !!.
Jon Zucco are you not worried about excessive heat buildup when you zip tie all of the hot wires together? There are reasons you are limited to how many cables and wires you are allowed to bundle up together
First and foremost great channel. I have been watching your project all week, love it. That was a great tutorial on basic electric box. Good luck with your project and thanks for sharing. Happy New Year
Pretty box very neat layout neutral and grounds power leads I was thinking it could be higher placement of the breaker box but its in...thanks look forward to the rest of the built...
I have been following you guys for a while now . super impressed at what you are doing and it has inspired me to make my next move ,,,, seasons greetings from New Zealand and may your new year be the best ever I am certainly looking forward to it Peace
I'm a second semester industrial electrician student and your panel wiring looks better than my instructors example. I learned a lot during this vid as I recently purchased some land with the goal of building and wiring my own home. Thank you and looking forward to the next vid.
I am an electrician from Sweden. It’s great to see someone take pride in his work. Awesome job with the panel. I just started watching your channel and really enjoy it
In all my viewings on TH-cam, I have not seen a pro electrician do their job, it is a thing of beauty and good to know you will be safe.
Fellow professional electrician here, always nice to see professional electrical work (there are so many DIY hacks on TH-cam). Your panel looks great, just goes to show that with a few cable ties a skilled professional can do a very neat job very quickly. Like many pro's I agree with your comment on AFCI's. Love your videos, you guys are great.
So if you are so highly skilled why did you not see the code violation ?
You are a excellent Electrician, nice neat work and following all best practices. Love to watch competent professionals.
It's worth mentioning that you're balancing the load between A and B, Nice work!
Never really knew a breaker setup before. You have a way of explaining things that makes it easy to understand. Such a great job both you guys do. Progress you are making is great! Video editing is phenomenal!
Great work; but I had to check out what you meant at the beginning with A and B Phase. I must say I am in the UK where the description would not make sense; but I now understand the US connection. For any other curious Brits that may be watching, the input at 240V is all the same phase (as in the sinusoidal A.C. from the public utility transformer). In the US this supply has a transformer (I guess in the breaker box?) whose output is centre tapped to ground and whose extreme ends are ungrounded therefore at 120V each. It is these two separate 120V supplies that Josh takes care to balance - one is supply A the other supply B.
Great video !! Man !! Is there anything Josh can't do ? That's about as neat & tidy as you can get !! I'm impressed !! Mad skills !!
They don't make em like you anymore bro, I have been watching your videos since the beginning, and the amount of knowledge you have is unreal. Thanks for the lessons every video. I have learned a lot! Thanks very much for that, I can't wait to see the completed house.
You will be so amazed and thankful when you are done. My wife and I have done similar projects several times and if we were younger would still tackle more of them. Love to see young people who aren't afraid of hard work.
Hi guys. I came from Myself Reliance Channel which is great. But I never saw no one with skills like Josh. He has a very active mind and he sees like five steps ahead or more. You guys are a beautiful family and your wife is a hardworking girl and so gorgeous. Josh you are the Man! Congratulations all!
There is an art to wiring up an electrical panel. Nice job.
The night and day skill of a sparky! Them who take their craft with pride, so neat and tidy
Arc faults interrupters/breakers were originally to protect against electric blankets, mattress pads, water bed heaters, and other devices that could arc internally and cause a fire. As with most ideas, once it is used for the intended purpose, they expand the purpose.
Josh, You need a T Post pounder. It can work for a ground rod. You will probably have a good use for one on your farm/homestead.
That is by far the cleanest electrical box install I have ever seen in all my life, Great job!
Easy for me, who has no experience, to follow along and not get lost. Thanks
As soon as I saw him cutting the 10/2 wire for the generator I came to the comments to see if any of the Safety Sallies commented on him cutting the sheathing with a razor knife across his hand(every day occurrence in our world)... does not appear so! Good work guys! Enjoying the build!
cutting the sheathing with a razor knife across his hand(every day occurrence in our world).You agree bad practice then.
@@jonathanperry3792 Only bad if you are making a deep cut, he is scoring the casing. He could run the blade across his hand and only receive what would amount to a paper cut. Granted, it might be safer to show him with a cut resistant glove or not doing the pass over. Clearly this is not his first time making the score marks.
I would say he knows why he is doing
Wow!! I've been watching you guys for so long that the gibberish that usually meets my ears when Josh is speaking about the electrical just turned into English. Lol
You are a good teacher, and make it look so easy! . A very unique home for a unique family!
Man, I can feel the energy coming off this guy
You do really good electrical work. When I saw you wire your first switch box, I knew you were probably an electrician. So quick and tidy.
Josh much respect to you. After being an electrician all day and then continuing once you get home must feel like Groundhog Day.
Always looking for more information, so please just keep instructing. Another thing is that electrical box looks amazing! Always wanted to know how that is done. Thanks for making it look so easy.
Very clean and tidy wiring in that panel. Looks good. I could easily work with Josh; easy going and down to earth. My man is rocking the plaid shirt. I love plaid shirts myself
Very good job wiring the main breaker panel. Very neat and professional looking. You should give "Pure Living for Life" some pointers. You must have wired panel boxes mucho times before. Thanks for all your explanations. You made it look simple. I doubt if it is. I think really building houses and installing all the infrastructure materials is really like working a gigantic jigsaw puzzle. There are so many resources on youtube today. Taking it nice and slow and thinking through all the procedures makes it appear less complicated. I think it can be overwhelming if you try to take on too much at one time. I have enjoyed all your videos so far. Keep up the good work. Your family are all amazing.
I'm impressed with the panel wiring. Very neat. That is either your trade or you have worked in that trade. Good job
In previous vids they mention that he is an electrician by trade. I think it was #19 when they wired up the house initially.
Excellent video. This is how a panel should look when it's wired ! Great to see someone doing things the right way. Yes, please show the generator hook up.
Yes, hoping they did it and that I'll see it as I work my way up the vids...
your electrical panel is a thing of beauty!
Yeah I'd like to see that generator receptacle wired as well. This was a great video so thanks for sharing it.
Have been in the building trade for many years, and know that a neat workplace is a good safe workplace. Congratulations.
Definitely a full day's work. Wiring a box or a panel is a thing of beauty......
Please do take the time to video wiring the generator and I would love to see how you're going to do that, thank you in advance
Craftsman at work doing a craftsmanship job!
Josh you dressed that panel like a boss, nice job.
This man is an electrician by trade. You can see the craftsmanship and passion! Nice work man!
That is absolutely the most organized wiring job I have ever seen! This totally works with my level of organizational OCD!!!
I know some trades are easier when it comes to making your work look good, but, as a chippy myself, I would be more than happy to work with you. Methodical, neat and efficient. It's a yes from me. Excellent. Glad I stumbled onto you.
Electrical often makes me nervous, but I’ve done light and fan installs. You make this look effortless.
I hope people out there watching take this seriously and educate themselves to do it right
Thanks for sharing
Terrific, straight forward 'Show-n-Tell'!👏👍
I empathize with you and your ground rod effort.
After a 2011 tornado dropped a 140 yr.old tree on half of my home and the power main box torn off and away from the side of my house, I did away with the old and started from scratch from installing a power pole (secured to house overhang) and ground rod to adding second power main breaker box inside. Originally my grandparents home built in early 1954, you can imagine the type of wiring, old black clothe wrapped ... scary, especially seeing how the electrician wired into the old wiring when my grandparents had new kitchen/den addition built on in 1968. I don't know what kept our house from burning down!!
Needless to say, I went overboard with insuring I was putting in the safest, everything new, exceeding codes where possible, electrical system I could. Passed with flying colors.
Located in SE. OK. honeycombed with now buried coal mine shafts, the end of one which, come to find out, runs next to my home as does the very thick-many feet long and wide sheets of solid stone setting from 1'-2' below ground surface right where one of my new 8' ground rods had to go. I broke off two sledge hammer heads trying to break through the stone plate. Finally dug out a large area, found a crack in the stone plate and with my trusty little hand sledge type hammer and a crow bar spent near two days driving down the new rod. The second rod set away was much easier to get further down before hitting the top stone of the shaft causing the rod to feel as though it curved the last foot to 1-1/2'.
Have don't a lot of my own wiring, but you can always learn from watching a professional. Always look forward to your next video.
Better than any movie, I`ve watched all the series in one day)) Thanks guys, Wish you success in your business!
20:36 best panel install on TH-cam. Hands down. If you were in the Philadelphia area I’d try to hire you.
Heck yes show the hook up. Thank you for the update and taking us along on yalls Journey...
Hello y’all. What a lovely couple. What beauty in your installation.
Yes please show wiring up the generator outlet and energizing the panel!!
Great update and a nice neat looking panel.
Does a very nice job wiring clearly he knows his shit
Also great job with the camera Erin love those close ups
I can't like this video enough! Super informative. Thank you.
Here in Canada we have a ground bar in the panel for bond wires and a separate isolated bar for neutrals, the 2 do get connected in a service entrance panel so effectively the same thing. House looks awesome!!
Also who has time for burying ground rods, just throw some plates down and kick some snow over them! lol jk
Josh i do all my own electrical work very impressive job on the 150 panel for sure well explained and very well installed it is obvious you have many skills and are proud of your work you guys rock in the house building world. I have my shed wired for solar and generator as well as the house if need be. As always you guys knocked it out of the park every time .
Great job on the panel. Too many times I've opened up those panels and seen a bird nest of wire. Finally seeing someone on TH-cam that knows what they're doing. great job.
Didn't understand a lot about the 10, 12 and 14 wire but I learnt a lot. Thx
That is some beautiful wiring. A masterpiece. I’m serious it looks so nice and neat. 👏👏👏👏👏👏
just watched all 20 vids, and man bro, very inspiring. can't wait to see the finished product and the cost of everything.
What a beautiful job. Love to see how you tie that generator plug into your system. I enjoy watching someone who is good at what they do. Great job‼️👍👍 Thanks for sharing, Vinny 🇺🇸
Another great video, its nice to see all the progress you two are making. I like seeing the pride you take in your work and what a neat and organized wiring job on the panel. Look forward to the next video!
Omg, I'm not the only one with OCD wiring a panel. Great job sir.
I just stumbled upon your build a few days back, and trying to play catch up.
Thank you both.
Nice, neat and organized panel. I learned a lot this morning, thank you. Great video. Yes, please show a video on the generator plug.
Awesome professional wiring work, left a very clean and professional fuse box. Wow!
Yes, please show how you wire the generator receptacle.
Nice work on the panel. Building computers, I like to do nice cable management. It's good to see someone take pride and do the same on their electrical box, even if it's never seen.
Great job! You guys are really taking the mystery out of building a home. I hope to follow your lead one day.
Yeah show us that generator plug hookup
I've seen a many boxes wired in my day. And only a handful were ever done to my liking. You paid great attention to detail and kept everything neat and tidy. Tie straps should always be used to bundle wires. Inspectors love to see that. Good job.
Can't wait to see how much you two got done since this video. Yes, please show how you hooked up the generator box. Thanks!
Great video. Love how concise you make it while still adding a ton of good information.
Man your one neat worker, that is one very neat power box. Keep up the sweet work, its so informative. Cable ties are the best, just like ratchet straps.
It's great to see debt free projects like this. your home is going to serve your family well. It would be great if you could go with spray foam insulation. We recently upgraded some of our home to foam in some areas. It amazed me how much difference it made even in a home that was already well insulated.
We would to do spray foam but it's out of our budget.
This guy has some serious skills, impressed the hell out me.Looking forward to the next video.
Watching a pro making it looking so simple, bang on Josh
Good job Josh! I definitely learned something watching your video! I'm a plumber but it's always good to learn some other trades! Yes please make the video showing how to hookup generater and transfer switch!Adorable family as well!!😉👍🇺🇸
True blue collar art. I really enjoy your channel.
I think every skillfull electrician all over the world hold somethins by teeths))) Represent his passion and adddiction to process)
Enjoying your videos.. My homestead and cabin build is in its infancy, just started it.. Keep it up and thanks for some tips.
I used to tie in panels in apartments. Wish I had the time to make them this neat
Nice job Josh, keep safe and keep warm.
its a true pleasure to watch you and erin -great job josh-looking forward to more videos
Great to watch a professional do the panel. My ground rod was into shale, ruined two rods trying.
Great work! Like everything else in your build, you make it look simple. Gonna be a fine house!👍🏻
I've been watching your video's and I'd just like to say, Good Job!
It's also really nice to see a family working together.
May God Bless your family & your home.
:)
I have never seen this done before, it was very interesting. I love how nice and neat it all looks. It is refreshing to watch a video of someone who knows what they are doing and gets the job done expertly! Thanks.
Dear Josh, I can tell you are a very good electrician as was my trade. Great work. John
Wow, you two are moving right along. Thank you for explained stuff so well, you pointed out many things that first time builders do not know. If you both don't feel like your at pro status yet, you should by time your done. Hope you had an amazing Christmas. Many blessing for all or you in the new year!
Yes and please! Regarding generator box and how to wire it! Thank you guys for these videos! So so helpful and also thanks for the security video and update on how it works. God bless!
Great video! Yes, please show generator wiring and outlet. Love your channel and thanks for sharing with us.
That was a very nice job Josh. 👍👍👍.
🌸Just awesome. I so appreciate you taking the time to share this. You’re a power couple.🌸
Yes like to see every thing you do . all doing a great job
Looking good, looking good. I admire the patience you both pur into building your home. Love the music. God Bless.
A neat and clean wiring job on that electrical panel.
Nice job thanks for sharing. I like the care and pride you both take in all the jobs you are doing
Looking really good guys, keep this train rollin!
Boy-O-Boy........this guy I have to salute!
Always nice to see a "greenie" (naval expression for an electrician) that knows what he is doing, neat terminations and nesting by the way, aren't cable ties wonderful !!.
rudolf peter udo cable ties should not be used in an electrical panel.
@@Techguyz1 Why not?
Jon Zucco are you not worried about excessive heat buildup when you zip tie all of the hot wires together? There are reasons you are limited to how many cables and wires you are allowed to bundle up together
Jon Zucco they cut your hands up and some places it’s against code.
First and foremost great channel. I have been watching your project all week, love it. That was a great tutorial on basic electric box.
Good luck with your project and thanks for sharing. Happy New Year
Pretty box very neat layout neutral and grounds power leads I was thinking it could be higher placement of the breaker box but its in...thanks look forward to the rest of the built...
I've seen a lot of people do that, your doing a great job, nice and organized and clean!
So methodical and Neat super job Josh 👏🏼
Nicely dressed panel. That's the way to do it. Great video,
I have been following you guys for a while now . super impressed at what you are doing and it has inspired me to make my next move ,,,, seasons greetings from New Zealand and may your new year be the best ever I am certainly looking forward to it Peace
Generator plug video please. Been watching all the videos getting ready to build cabin you guys are awesome!