Cory, had that today even! kneeling in a puddle of water, cutting main tails (the isolator on the meter was off, one of those nice meters with a screwdriver operated isolator built in)... snipped through the neutral, and as the cutters went snip... big flash and bang. Lightning almost right overhead... I ran for the van LOL
I had phoned (landline) a mate to ask if he was watching the lightning during a thunderstorm. Talking for about a minute and a half he said it was intense at his end, then there was a distinctive crack and nothing!😲 Ten minutes later the phone rang and a voice said, "You killed the phone!"
Back when I was a kid my Dad was working on a milk cooling system on a farm, lightning stuck nearby and he got a shock off the machine he was working on, involuntarily threw the gas bottle he was holding across the yard, burnt his feet which where red raw for a week or two after.
Hi Cory As regards a lighting strike, let’s just say I have been called out to a property that had a major lightning strike . Most of the sockets had been blown out of the wall including the metal back boxes , cables had fused together which resulted in a total rewire . So I suppose working on an installation when that happens would not be a good outcome. I think it would be a case of all they found was his boots 🤣👍👍👍
Dear Jordan, I was staying at the Travelodge and had the misfortune of being in the room nextdoor to your electrical engineers. I was kept awake by guitar playing and singing, later this progressed to raukass farting. I demand compensation
Electrical Engineers don't stay in Travelodge's my man, they are highly qualified people not people joining Brown and Blue cables together in connector blocks.
@@Steveuploads There are fields of electrical engineering that spend a lot of time on site. I am a controls engineer and I spend 25% on site and there are controls engineers that do much more than that... I might not be staying at travel lodges when im traveling though... so still not wrong lol
Au contraire, Dear Sir, You should be paying the electrical engineers for being serenaded by their guitar playing, and basking in the glory (and the smell) of their raucous and vicious farting...
Cory I echo your feeling about some domestic work, in particular rectifying diy bodgery, grovelling under cupboards and floors to access stupidly located switchgear or those horrid non maintainable bakerlite junction boxes, and most hated of all, LOFTS! But, I will say that my trusty Progressive Electronics KP200EP, inductive detector together with its partner, the warbling tone generator, saved me a lot of grief locating cables hidden by plaster, plasterboard, and floorboards. Well done both of you. Loved the commentary.
You guys are fun to work with. I agree that working in an occupied home is very hard. I love the little bridge to cover the wires. Thank you for sharing
I had the same Lightning worries this week as i was stood outside on the metal ladder doing lights. Eventually got so wet I didn't care about lightning and just went home.
Well I lived in a basement apartment that when it would get hit by lightning we could watch lightning come out of the sockets and run around the living room floor. If my feet had been on the floor I don't think I would be making this or any other comments
Hey Cory, I don't remember you being so against domestic work. I thought you were super professional and did a really good job, quickly and cleanly for me!.
Another stonkingly good vid- good work👍! Loved the optimism early in the day (3:30)then desends into a looooong day. This is literally every job I do recently!!! Great work guys
Is there an electrical workers union within the UK? I know it's a big change but taking an adventure in industrial and commercial work through a union could be interesting. I'm a US sparky working with IBEW and from everything I've heard and seen the nature of commercial vs residential is completely different. Wishing you the best!
I can make that all disappear easy enough except the whole ceiling would need repainting. Stick a piece of wood in the hole to span the hole, drywall screw it into place, then screw the plug from the hole saw up to that wood - tape, mud, paint.
1:38 Nice. Considering the guys that came to do work at the theatres where I was doing IT just did the same, without the metal strip so let the cable swing in the wind.
I had smokies pop during a lighting storm property empty only thing on qnd connected were the smokes heard a huge crack then the smokies started going off
Not lightning but HV switching. Working in a 132kv substation, we were getting zaps from unterminated equipment we were installing whenever network operators operated the 132kv air break switches. Turns out design engineers had forgotten a lifetime of knowledge and had installed unshielded control and instrumentation cabling. The HV was causing switching induction on the cables in the cable pits.
Should try the Dewalt Core Drill, about £200 done about 70 x 4” holes with it and I also use it for all my Joist drilling etc , works a treat and just keep going.
8:04 - My Brother used to own a company doing fire and security alarm installations (for Earl's Court, etc.) He was once working up a 20ft ladder on an alarm panel which was down in a London Underground station. The alarm was a wireless system, so it had an antenna mast at street level. Lightning struck close to the antenna up top (or maybe even a direct hit), my Brother saw arcing in the panel, and assumed the backup battery in the panel was shorting out or something. So he quickly went to yank the spade connectors off the battery, the lightning went into his wrist and out of his elbow to the panel chassis, and threw him off the ladder. lol He had a quick visit to the hospital, but survived with a few cuts and bruises.
Oh, and his arm was quite numb for about three weeks, but recovered. So yeah, it does happen, but I think that was probably a unique scenario. lol It can and does happen in houses sometimes, of course. There are plenty of known deaths, from people being in contact with taps or on a landline phone when lightning strikes.
impedance of high voltage dc would come on touching wires when lighting strikes. ...I have learned it from the lectures of Mike holt neck. california....lighting strike time every metal part is energised with high volt dc on finding a path to the source earth. ....something comes in between gets with some resistance energised. ...
Hi, l tend to agree with you about domestic electrical installation work especially in occupied properties but as you have found that the people invariably go out of their way to make the job just that little bit more acceptable not always case. Keep up the good work and stay safe.
I'm not an electrician, I'm a joiner but I've had the unfortunate experience of being struck by lightning twice.Once when i was an apprentice back in 1987 in Manchester and then again when i was working in Harrow in 2011, luckily no burns just shaking like a shiting dog.
Old House I Lived at with parents was struck by lighting, blew up VCR, Alarm Panel. Mum was on landline at the time & god knows how she survived. Bonding was probs 6mm no Supp bonding to bathroom, old BS3036 fuses aswell.
Two GREAT NATIONS... separated by a common language... by "domestic" do you mean RESIDENTIAL? here in merikuh, Residential is homes, sometimes apartments and motels, etc. COMMERCIAL is just about everything else.. LOL even if its NOT commercial such as church or school. course we dont use torches neither cuz OF electricity
Should’ve started at the top and worked your way down, lofts are shit. It’s such a short run for cables on the tray, I’d either spray it to match the downpipes or what about bit of unistrut less in your face and still leaves a bit of space for future. The catenary wires are rubbish makes it look like a train station.
An electrician myself. My parents has a wodden board with all of thair fuses mounted to. (Very old system and not used any more) When the weather is sparky and you hold your hand about 30cm from the fuses, you can feel your hand start to tingle and within 10cm it gets so intence that it becomes painfull. Definently not touching thair wireing in sparky weather...
How can someone understand that you love your job???!!!!You made coffee with your tools in your belt!!!Greetings from a Greek electrician!!Never forget that -we -the technicians know that four walls can’t keep our big dreams.
Bosch (and some other companies) have quite a good tool called D-tect to find where cables are running, even in concrete walls. You might want to use that (or a cable tracer!) next time you go on looking where the maintenance free box is? :-)
I wouldnt reccomend it. Too much bullshit and responsibilty compared to other trades. Also we get no price work on commercial/industrial jobs like other trades do. Its not worth the money anymore
He's right about house bashing, its crap. Industrial is best, so long as the company or agency you work for are not trying to rip you off. There are plenty of them!
Cory ….. the sky and tv cables are the problems can blast off the rendering outside and full on blow internal plaster off walls if not capped ….seen it 3 times in 21 years
Why didn’t you just take the floor board up above the ceiling rather than drilling a load of holes? Not sure how I feel about making off an armoured with a grinder lol not sure if I’m scared or impressed 😂 fair play
Dudes and dudettes. Buy a wire tracer, fox and hound, what evar. You can waggle it around with less guess work. You can find out where old cables made the runs too. They cost about 2 starbucks "coffees"
I'm always seeing you guys cutting holes in ceilings. Is it just coincidence that you are unable to lift the floor above? Or do you guys just choose to not lift floors?
I wonder how you lot would have got on in the sixties without any of those power tools. I believe I was one of the first in the UK to try out a Skil sds hammer drill, imported by Troughton & Young, around 1967 in London.
I've been to the UK on many occasions so can generally pick up on the slang. Then I heard more spiders than a "bushtucker trial". WTF? is a bushtucker trial? I assumed at first it was Bushtucker Trail - like some sort of Australian slang, but then googled Bushtucker Trial and went down a rabbit-hole of celebrities eating a horror-show of bugs and goo.
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This is The Best so far🤣🤣🤣
And several holes later the roof was goone
Cory, had that today even! kneeling in a puddle of water, cutting main tails (the isolator on the meter was off, one of those nice meters with a screwdriver operated isolator built in)... snipped through the neutral, and as the cutters went snip... big flash and bang. Lightning almost right overhead... I ran for the van LOL
Sorry, I have to comment again: I've been watching from 12:44 to 13:38 on loop, it's flipping hysterical !!!
Great video guys 🙌🙌
Cory showing his commercial roots with that tray work 😂. Looks good tho!
Making that armored cable off with an angle grinder! Skills that is
I thought that. haha
The camera man/editor is the unsung hero of these videos - superb job. Oh, and Corey is fantastic!
John is the unsung hero!
I had phoned (landline) a mate to ask if he was watching the lightning during a thunderstorm. Talking for about a minute and a half he said it was intense at his end, then there was a distinctive crack and nothing!😲
Ten minutes later the phone rang and a voice said, "You killed the phone!"
Back when I was a kid my Dad was working on a milk cooling system on a farm, lightning stuck nearby and he got a shock off the machine he was working on, involuntarily threw the gas bottle he was holding across the yard, burnt his feet which where red raw for a week or two after.
Oucheeeee!
Quick tip corey. Remove the centre guide drill bit out of the core cutter once you have got it started. Makes it twice as easy.
really? does it stay in place well without the guide?
Once you get 1cm/half inch in, the it's all how steady you hold the drill.
Hi Cory As regards a lighting strike, let’s just say I have been called out to a property that had a major lightning strike . Most of the sockets had been blown out of the wall including the metal back boxes , cables had fused together which resulted in a total rewire . So I suppose working on an installation when that happens would not be a good outcome. I think it would be a case of all they found was his boots 🤣👍👍👍
well that is a first for me, i have never seen SWA stripped with an angle grinder haha. good work
Super common in mining.
Dear Jordan, I was staying at the Travelodge and had the misfortune of being in the room nextdoor to your electrical engineers. I was kept awake by guitar playing and singing, later this progressed to raukass farting. I demand compensation
Oh my God! I almost wet me self on that one.
Electrical Engineers don't stay in Travelodge's my man, they are highly qualified people not people joining Brown and Blue cables together in connector blocks.
@@Steveuploads Why? What happens if you do that?
@@Steveuploads There are fields of electrical engineering that spend a lot of time on site. I am a controls engineer and I spend 25% on site and there are controls engineers that do much more than that... I might not be staying at travel lodges when im traveling though... so still not wrong lol
Au contraire, Dear Sir, You should be paying the electrical engineers for being serenaded by their guitar playing, and basking in the glory (and the smell) of their raucous and vicious farting...
Cory I echo your feeling about some domestic work, in particular rectifying diy bodgery, grovelling under cupboards and floors to access stupidly located switchgear or those horrid non maintainable bakerlite junction boxes, and most hated of all, LOFTS!
But, I will say that my trusty Progressive Electronics KP200EP, inductive detector together with its partner, the warbling tone generator, saved me a lot of grief locating cables hidden by plaster, plasterboard, and floorboards.
Well done both of you. Loved the commentary.
Agreed I have one of those and it have save me no end of time
You guys are fun to work with. I agree that working in an occupied home is very hard. I love the little bridge to cover the wires. Thank you for sharing
I had the same Lightning worries this week as i was stood outside on the metal ladder doing lights. Eventually got so wet I didn't care about lightning and just went home.
Well I lived in a basement apartment that when it would get hit by lightning we could watch lightning come out of the sockets and run around the living room floor. If my feet had been on the floor I don't think I would be making this or any other comments
Good job Cory and John keep up the good work.
Hey Cory, I don't remember you being so against domestic work. I thought you were super professional and did a really good job, quickly and cleanly for me!.
Another stonkingly good vid- good work👍! Loved the optimism early in the day (3:30)then desends into a looooong day. This is literally every job I do recently!!! Great work guys
I changed to industrial, it was all trunking cable trays and real conduit. At the end of the day, we all went home, or down the pub. Great life.
Is there an electrical workers union within the UK? I know it's a big change but taking an adventure in industrial and commercial work through a union could be interesting. I'm a US sparky working with IBEW and from everything I've heard and seen the nature of commercial vs residential is completely different. Wishing you the best!
I want to see that kitchen roof once it's done..
How are you patching up that Swiss cheese?
I can make that all disappear easy enough except the whole ceiling would need repainting. Stick a piece of wood in the hole to span the hole, drywall screw it into place, then screw the plug from the hole saw up to that wood - tape, mud, paint.
I work in telecoms outdoors and we are not allowed to work on any part of our network when thunderstorms are overhead.
1:38 Nice. Considering the guys that came to do work at the theatres where I was doing IT just did the same, without the metal strip so let the cable swing in the wind.
I don't see why anyone would travel for this kind of work.
8:10 I think if you get zapped whilst holding cables as lighting strikes you'll be sent right back to 1955 😉
If anybody can save the clock tower, it's Cory........
you have to connect a flux capacitor across two prefamulated amulite base plates, and bypass the unilateral phase detractors before thats possible.
I had smokies pop during a lighting storm property empty only thing on qnd connected were the smokes heard a huge crack then the smokies started going off
Not lightning but HV switching. Working in a 132kv substation, we were getting zaps from unterminated equipment we were installing whenever network operators operated the 132kv air break switches. Turns out design engineers had forgotten a lifetime of knowledge and had installed unshielded control and instrumentation cabling. The HV was causing switching induction on the cables in the cable pits.
I’m going to have to try stripping SWA off cuts with a grinder now. Thanks a lot, that’s my evening gone
Should try the Dewalt Core Drill, about £200 done about 70 x 4” holes with it and I also use it for all my Joist drilling etc , works a treat and just keep going.
8:04 - My Brother used to own a company doing fire and security alarm installations (for Earl's Court, etc.)
He was once working up a 20ft ladder on an alarm panel which was down in a London Underground station.
The alarm was a wireless system, so it had an antenna mast at street level.
Lightning struck close to the antenna up top (or maybe even a direct hit), my Brother saw arcing in the panel, and assumed the backup battery in the panel was shorting out or something.
So he quickly went to yank the spade connectors off the battery, the lightning went into his wrist and out of his elbow to the panel chassis, and threw him off the ladder. lol
He had a quick visit to the hospital, but survived with a few cuts and bruises.
Oh, and his arm was quite numb for about three weeks, but recovered.
So yeah, it does happen, but I think that was probably a unique scenario. lol
It can and does happen in houses sometimes, of course. There are plenty of known deaths, from people being in contact with taps or on a landline phone when lightning strikes.
impedance of high voltage dc would come on touching wires when lighting strikes. ...I have learned it from the lectures of Mike holt neck. california....lighting strike time every metal part is energised with high volt dc on finding a path to the source earth. ....something comes in between gets with some resistance energised. ...
Nice guitar skills dude👊
Hi, l tend to agree with you about domestic electrical installation work especially in occupied properties but as you have found that the people invariably go out of their way to make the job just that little bit more acceptable not always case. Keep up the good work and stay safe.
Re electric strikes, I'm a Telco and if there is thunder then we are off the network until half an hour after it stopped
tell Corry if the lightning hits the house at time when your holding the cable he wont be hear to to tell the tail .
I'm not an electrician, I'm a joiner but I've had the unfortunate experience of being struck by lightning twice.Once when i was an apprentice back in 1987 in Manchester and then again when i was working in Harrow in 2011, luckily no burns just shaking like a shiting dog.
Old House I Lived at with parents was struck by lighting, blew up VCR, Alarm Panel. Mum was on landline at the time & god knows how she survived. Bonding was probs 6mm no Supp bonding to bathroom, old BS3036 fuses aswell.
John does all the work!
Those Bahco spanner’s are one of the best! Narrow heads perfect for glands!
Iv got 160 remedial observations to complete just down the road from artisan electrics HQ if you fancy it 😩.
100k
4:44 what a useful tool to avoid dust.
once came on the job site where we plasterd the wires in the wal the day before and lightning struck at night all the wires where back out the wal :p
looks like my house wiring, the house was built in the '60s and I decided to lay floorboards in the loft, a right bodgers job,
Aah, Cory **melts** talented in music, electrical work, making us laugh, being really cute and much more!
ikr, that's sound really good sounding guitar playing Cory, I think we could do with more of that!
I enjoyed that👊
Jordon I'd give Cory all the Domestic jobs now since he really (loves) them 😁
Excellent level of expertise and knowledge. Well done,
Worth the watch for the one flew over the cookoos nest moment at 13 mins 🤣
Cant lie boys I had to order some new uniforms and look at getting a new van after seeing your videos. proper tradesman
Wow great stuff thanks!
You need a Bosch Vacuum attachment when core drilling. Saves so much mess!!!
Was thinking this. Nick bundy has one
Domestic work is your bread and butter now Cory.
Yeah 😂. He realises this after the 3 month trial with Jordan
Bahco wide mouths are the best, they also do a slim jaw version for really restricted places.
we build with wood and Sheetrock in the USA. your 3 day job in the USA would take maybe 1 day.
But your houses blow away in a storm...
@@AllanO808 no they do not
Two GREAT NATIONS... separated by a common language... by "domestic" do you mean RESIDENTIAL? here in merikuh, Residential is homes, sometimes apartments and motels, etc. COMMERCIAL is just about everything else.. LOL even if its NOT commercial such as church or school. course we dont use torches neither cuz OF electricity
i am an electrnic enigneer and i respect electricans alot
Why not make your fold up the way on your cable tray looks better from the ground when you look up
Looping the recessed lighting wiring is not allowed here in Curaçao.
Should’ve started at the top and worked your way down, lofts are shit.
It’s such a short run for cables on the tray, I’d either spray it to match the downpipes or what about bit of unistrut less in your face and still leaves a bit of space for future. The catenary wires are rubbish makes it look like a train station.
Glanding SWA with a grinder, naughty. But I like it 😎😎
An electrician myself.
My parents has a wodden board with all of thair fuses mounted to. (Very old system and not used any more)
When the weather is sparky and you hold your hand about 30cm from the fuses, you can feel your hand start to tingle and within 10cm it gets so intence that it becomes painfull.
Definently not touching thair wireing in sparky weather...
This is just epic. You guys need a TV Series
Managed to avoid domestic work most of my working life , hats off to those who do it.
Bahco invented adjustable spanner!!
Thank god for this channel
Interesting that you dont like domestic work but you still crack on and work very hard and smart.
How can someone understand that you love your job???!!!!You made coffee with your tools in your belt!!!Greetings from a Greek electrician!!Never forget that -we -the technicians know that four walls can’t keep our big dreams.
If the RCD wasn't tripping was it really necessary to dig out those cables? Can't of been much of a fault across the conductors?
Bosch (and some other companies) have quite a good tool called D-tect to find where cables are running, even in concrete walls. You might want to use that (or a cable tracer!) next time you go on looking where the maintenance free box is? :-)
The building should act as a Faraday’s cage and disperse any lightening strikes I would hope!
I have never seen armour cable done with an angle grinder
Yes regular....
Colleague does that... LOL
All day everyday.. i basically wear my battery grinder on my belt..
Same here. Done my time in industrial (steelworks etc) and I’ve never ever seen someone use a grinder. Hack/junior.
It’s ruff as hell let alone dangerous cutting in the air without any PPE like that.
D'ou use cable finder, or reflectometer units for rewire? If yes, what units would that be? Would that limit your time effort?
it happened to my friend. The lightening hitting the building etc.
God rest his sole🙄
I think the lesson is, don't become an electrician 🤣🤣
Why not? Its beautiful, except the bad jobs. Also I dont recommend domestic work😄
Go for industrial or commercial electrician work.
Did it for 50yrs industrial not house bashing wouldn't recommend it to anyone just a bag of shite now
I wouldnt reccomend it. Too much bullshit and responsibilty compared to other trades. Also we get no price work on commercial/industrial jobs like other trades do. Its not worth the money anymore
The lesson is, don’t do house bashing
He's right about house bashing, its crap. Industrial is best, so long as the company or agency you work for are not trying to rip you off. There are plenty of them!
Cory ….. the sky and tv cables are the problems can blast off the rendering outside and full on blow internal plaster off walls if not capped ….seen it 3 times in 21 years
Why didn’t you just take the floor board up above the ceiling rather than drilling a load of holes? Not sure how I feel about making off an armoured with a grinder lol not sure if I’m scared or impressed 😂 fair play
Kool video, get a core gun will save time in the long run.
I did it too and spent whole day on a fan.
After crawling under a bungalow sorting out prehistoric junction boxes wearing spider webs I know your pain😊🤣
When terminating armoured into a metallic enclosure do you run a fly lead?
Dudes and dudettes. Buy a wire tracer, fox and hound, what evar. You can waggle it around with less guess work. You can find out where old cables made the runs too. They cost about 2 starbucks "coffees"
I'm always seeing you guys cutting holes in ceilings. Is it just coincidence that you are unable to lift the floor above? Or do you guys just choose to not lift floors?
Electrical installation work is so low down the ladder it is baffling how these videos are so watched.
That is a great sales pitch for domestic work !
How do people have all these electrical problems and not even know?
I wonder how you lot would have got on in the sixties without any of those power tools. I believe I was one of the first in the UK to try out a Skil sds hammer drill, imported by Troughton & Young, around 1967 in London.
yes John!!
what boots is he wearing look comfortable and light weight like a runner
the rubber cup he uses to catch dust with which brand it is
The condense from the boiler will rot the cable tray 😂😂😂
Where does Corry get his work trousers from?
"What happens if lightening strikes the building at the exact moment I'm holding the cable?" The magic smoke goes out of you.
Domestic electrics in a nutshell! I bet Jordan hasn't got loft wool in his crack?
Your humor has been missed when you posting next missed the JBE specials.
😂
@@mathman0101 Hey Man I miss them too. I'm sure I'll fire something out soon enough.
8 inch adjustable , just beautiful😩
Cory, holding a cable, while a lightning strikes.
A real zzzzzzzzzappie 😁
7:35 must be the same person who did the chasing on Cablesmith Electrical's job 😆😆😆
LOL 😀😂
Did you zinc spray that cable tray? It's going to get rusty and ugly if not
I've been to the UK on many occasions so can generally pick up on the slang. Then I heard more spiders than a "bushtucker trial". WTF? is a bushtucker trial? I assumed at first it was Bushtucker Trail - like some sort of Australian slang, but then googled Bushtucker Trial and went down a rabbit-hole of celebrities eating a horror-show of bugs and goo.