Full Wylex Consumer Unit Upgrade With Testing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- In this video install a Wylex RCBO consumer unit.
I carried out the work in a property in east London. The landlord had an EICR carried out by another electrician. He found that one of the RCDs weren’t working. I was called in to do the remedial work. Looking at the make of the existing consumer unit, I gave the landlord the option of replacing the RCD or installing a new consumer unit with RCBOs. The landlord opted for a new consumer unit so this job documents me installing the brand new Wylex consumer unit with RCBOs.
Changing the consumer unit was a bit tricky due to the location, the unit is right at the bottom of the property’s staircase which made it awkward to set-up my ladder. There was also a light right in front of the consumer unit that created an obstruction.
In this video you will see how I complete the full consumer unit change; which includes removing the old unit, preparing the new one, organising the circuits for the transfer over to the new unit and much more.
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Nice video. Personally I’d like to see more of the dressing the cables into the consumer unit and connecting in the RCBO’s.
Little tip I got from the Artisan boys, might be worth investing in to save you running leads out to keep the customers WiFi going, its the Jackery portable power station just plug their WiFi and its will keep the WiFi going until you finish the board change. Loving your work as always.
Nice to see ya uploading again del, I was getting worried about ya mate haha
Good work Delroy, another nightmare in London
Hello Delroy ,that Funny-Head-Screw is called 8 Star or simply Torx ! Keep it up Del ! 👍
Love Delroy the spark always look forward to another installment.
Nice to see you uploading again. Always enjoy your videos.
Thanks for sharing.
Great stuff delroy
thanks so much for the videos Delroy! i'm thinking about switching trades to be a sparky, it's super helpful and interesting to see what days in the life look like.
Great, he finally pealed off the plastic from the Megger display! :D
neat work delroy
Love it Del - keep em coming. Very interesting mate.
Nice work delroy, much appreciated.
personally dealing with a lot of old bodge jobs it is better just to replace the crap and make it comply with current safety regs because if you leave as is you might be liable for an electrical fire as you will likely be the last sparky to work on the system
welcome back delroy
Should be different fuse types the service side fuse is generally a HRC type. Good video man
Should the bus bar have a sleeve or shortened if not ?good work enjoying your videos the fuses can be the same and be different types altering failure times
Some twin sockets you get now are such poor quality that one side not working is common. I’ve taken to testing both sides as a matter of corse.
Didn’t go for an SPD board?
Great video Delroy! Do London guys not fit surge devices?
How come the din rail only has a top rail and not a bottom for the transformer to fully click in to?
Delroy, have you spotted that twin and earth cable that is folded over at the back of where those cable come out of the wall..?
Delroy The Spark we don't use fuses in-home wiring in the USA we use breakers
Why are the different circuits connected on the the top of the circuit breaker? In switzerland they do it this way too but in most countries the input is always on the top and output always on the bottom, just like an electrical schematic.
Has to do with ring and radial circuit design. England decided that ring circuits were the thing to do after ww2. As such you have only a few breakers for all the sockets in the house. Where as in most of Europe and USA they use radial design where commonly rooms are protected by single breakers.
CANT believe you removed the met when other circuits where still energised 😬 never ever ever remove if you can’t turn the whole installation off
Just take a reading with parallel paths and put limitation note on the records
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@Exploring With Dark Dreamz when ya know what your talking about mate... look again
Meter is on met removed
Other parts of the installation still on
No look again yes he isolated the consumer unit he was working on but and this is the big one.
THE OTHER TWO FLATS WHERE STILL ENERGISED WHEN HE REMOVED THE MET
If a fault occurred while he was conducting the test and someone was to touch said fault the protective device would not operate in the specified time as that person is now the least path of least resistance, the high current that would have gone down the met is what causes the mcb or rcd or rcbo to operate and that’s why you do the Ze to ensure it can handle the current and that is why you have max Ze to ensure the system is safe for use.
@@gavinhoulston7910 was looking for this comment. Thank fuck someone noticed it.
I didn't see any fire sealant to prevent fire spreading from the box in to the walls. Is that not required?
Where have you been🤔
Hi long time no see my friend
Well,it is surely much different from the continent. No earth leak switch.
Same as the CPN brand boards
We call it distribution board
16 mil bonding to the pipes, I think it should be 10
@@Woodkin007 thanks for your feedback
I've seen Harok consumer units on Ebay, they are pretty cheap and nasty.
Not turn off the supplies to the other properties when you disconnected the main earth for all the building. Canny dangerous
Artisan electrics charge £800 per day. What on earth?!
Whats that bout $1000usd, how many employees… most of the time you dont hear about a day rate lol