I once told a client his electrics were dangerous because he had no earth bond to his water…he disagreed and said, him having to parachute into France, on D-day worried him more 😂😂😂
But it's true sometimes, what with plastic pipework, having a bonded pipe at the cylinder when the cylinder itself is bonded, doesn't make any logical sence, to co-bond the metal piping connected by metal piping to the cylinder, when the water system to the client's end of pipe taps are all done in plastic pipes. See maybe his parachute hung up in a tree - which as far as I am concerned would have scared him more (but he survived the war - so he will probably survive the non-bonded pipework.
Always a pleasure to watch quality workmanship and customer care by all you guys. The problem is that I expect the same from people working in my home, but few of them deliver.
The 'you don't know what you don't know' point is the best philosophy in this case. Given the nature of kitchen wiring, there's good reason it should be left to someone with a ticket and annual assessment. Great video as always.
I've been saying that there will be more and more of this after "the Great British lockdown refurb" - as reputable firms were booked up, all the good and complex work filtered down to the cowboys and I reckon we'll be fixing this stuff for years to come
I don't know how these cowboys sleep at night, just guessing what to do with electrics and potentially burning someone's house down or worse, mind boggles
Cory does awesome work ! The Cheeky Girls are now both working in car dealerships in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, in case you were wondering. The pair, who are actually called Monica Taylor and Gabriela Irimia are twin sisters who shot to fame in the early 2000s on Popstars: The Rivals. Despite being described by judge Pete Waterman as 'the worst act I've ever seen' they became inexplicably popular, even achieving two top ten singles. One of those was called 'Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)', which - for the uninitiated - gives you a decent flavour of what they were like.
Made a decision about a year ago that once I finished school (I will be done school july 2022) that I want to be an electrician… came across your channel today and it’s just solidified that drive even more I cannot wait
+Artisan Electrics Cory should learn a trick!!! You can test that garage rcd with upstream rcd safely, by connecting your MFT to the neutral and line outputs of the Garage RCD as normal, but connecting the ''earth'' probe to the incoming-neutral connection. I worked this out myself and then John Ward pointed this out in an RCD-testing video as well. In this way, the line-"earth" test-current will travel back through upstream rcd (via neutral) fine, guaranteed to stay in balance there, but this RCD can still be tested without risk of upstream-tripping. This will not, however, tell you that the Earth is correctly connected from house MET to the Garage board (but theres' plenty of ways of checking that with flying-leads or whatever).
I’m a retired plumber and have always re-connected any earth wires I have had to disconnect. Remember reading in one of our trade mags where a plumber was given a prison sentence for not re-connecting an earth wire to a metal sink top and the customer died as a result of an electric shock from the sink. It always pays to get professional advice from the relevant people.
Really ? He did the right thing disconnecting it - A metal sink is a not an extraneous conductive part. Should never have been bonded in the first place. And how could anyone receive a shock from a non bonded sink ? If was because the water pipes somehow became live and made the sink live then the fault would have been lack of bonding on the water supply. Smacks of an apocryphal story to me .
@@redcitadel8354 Really ? Are you suggesting that an electrician decided that a metal sink was the best point to connect main bonding to the incoming water service rather than the cold water pipe that would be supplying the taps to said sink ?
I swapped my Metrel to AA alkalines pretty soon, they last reasonably long. Funny story behind the reason for the swap... I couldn't find the charger for months, until I found it - in the carrying case, just in a different compartment. By the time I found the charger again I'd lost one of the six NiMHs and decided to stick with alkalines.
Saw this at my late father in law's kitchen upgrade. He called me in as he was concerned over what he saw. What I saw was a disaster of electrical bodging. All old sockets had been extended via 15a connector blocks buried in the walls. The ring main had been split. Lighting was full of connector blocks ready to be plastered over. I left my report and they got a professional electrician in. Was all rewired back to the consumer unit properly avoiding all these bodged joints.
At 15.00 you said it “ Not Competent”. There is no more to be said about people who just wing it, and attempt to carry out the work of other skilled trades without the proper training or time served experience. People need to know that they shouldn’t attempt work for which they are not competent, but where is the regulatory control to stop this insanity, so that customers know that they are employing competent trades people?
Worse, 50% of Sparkies should NEVER do self certification as, it they created the problem the first time around when doing the initial installation work, then when they do the testing, (later) they will NOT be able to find any problem, knowing they did it their way (thinking it to be the correct way) the first time around. Sadly, here in New Zealand, several years ago, Electrical Inspectors were bypassed in regs changes - so that electricians on the jobs could self-certify their own work (to avoid delaying the client's sign off on getting the property livened, or re-livened) and now, I spotted in more recent regs changes, that all work done that is to be certified by an electrician can ONLY be their own work that they then self-certify, being that they cannot certify anyone else's work, if they didn't directly supervise that person's work - at the time. Which to me, begs the question, how many jobs are installed incorrectly, to be certified as tested correctly, by the people who installed the installation incorrectly? And how many DIY clients (after having done a far better job than some electricians) who ask their electrician to check the DIY work they did, to get it certified, can't - when the electrician is NOT allowed to certify any work they didn't directly oversight when it was done? Yet - it's true even in the UK, as Jordon even said as much in a recent video, that he can't certify a client's DIY as he didn't supervise the person doing the work. at the time. Oh sure, it speeds up the client's end-use sign-off time, if the installing electrician can at the end of the install, inspect and sign-off the installation (as if they were the inspector of old) to allow the lines company to re-liven the property, from the replacing of the incoming pole fuses, but does it really give a reliable certification standard.?
As others have commented, the cooking load is no more than an old-fashioned stand-alone cooker, which, with diversity, is perfectly acceptable on a 32A breaker. Where there is a consumer unit on the end of a 13A fused spur, it is pointless, as there is no discrimination.
Australia uses a different electrical set up. Which is why Australia doesn't need fused plugs. UK is ring main, because after the war they were short of copper and it uses less.
You will never stop those horrible cretins from posting toxic comments. So you must do everything in your power to keep posting your videos just to give them something to do in their sad lives.
Awesome video as always. Regarding the ovens there is no need for a separate circuit for the ovens as onsite guide states your allowed up to 15kw on a 30/32amp supply due to diversity (appendix H, H4 pg190). As you allow for the first 10amps then 30% of the remaining full load current in excess of 10amps + an additional 5amps if there is a socket on the cooker control unit (table A2 pg123). Therefore 12.5kw will actually draw approximately 28.5amps due to them being thermostatically controlled
@@travoltasbiplane1551 this is true seen so many 16 amp ovens on 13 amp fuse and its melted it to bits. And when you read the manufacturers instructions it says protect by a 16 amp fuse and only have 32 amp supply with a electric hob lol nightmare 😆
@@travoltasbiplane1551 ² Only thing dont like with the garage board is can be a lot of joints in front of the garage board like cooker switch and then maby cooker plate then garage board then another 16 amp switch. I have done one before when I removed cooker switch jointed the cables then into a 2 way board with a 32 amp mcb for hob and 16 amp mcb for oven with a 32 amp rcbo back at main fuse box
Very interesting. Best tip is when fitting a new kitchen replan refit electrics. We got an electrician in when doing ours. Frankly it was cheap. He did a great job ( apart from one loose wire which I later found). Now I would get one in everytime. I dont enjoy fiddly stuff anymore.
Always enjoy watching Cory, cracking engineer and his outlook is exactly the same as everyone of our engineers. A credit to the industry and Artisan. This must have been filmed just before the Daily Mail this week stated they're both working for Hyundai in York, not sure if they're singing to sell the cars though.
Amazing how many people want to be a professional engineer but don't have the necessary qualifications. I did and was for 40 years, oh and please don't start talking about the university of life.
@@terryhutchinson6503 You're the classic TH-cam engineer I recon. Sure sounds like one. And if you're not, probably about time to stop feeling insecure after 40+ years with the title.
@@terryhutchinson6503 Your comment has no bearing on comparing Cory to my own staff whom are all qualified engineers in multiple fields. Not to mention the qualification itself is recognized by C&G as engineering. Honestly you're coming across as someone who's pride is hurt by a 23 year old enjoying the industry and wanting to excel at it so has obviously 1; had a great instructor/mentor and 2; puts the effort in.
Bing chat says: The Cheeky Girls are twin sisters Monica Taylor and Gabriela Irimia who rose to fame with their hit song “Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)” following their appearance on Popstars: The Rivals. They have since reinvented themselves as salespeople working for local car dealerships in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Both sisters are performing well in their new careers, with Monica being a best-performing sales executive on her team.
Bonding,,,, yes well, I am retired but I still do that very boring job of PAT (Testing). In a Chip Shop Kitchen, I came across a 4 way extension cleverly lifted off the metal shelving to stop it getting wet. Great job on someone's part. However, on close inspection (outside of the remit on Pat (Testing), I spotted a Bonding cable had come adrift of its clamp and was hanging. This bonding joined Two prep area tables (stainless Steel). I informed the very friendly Manager who took a picture of it to report it to maintenance to fix. There is a very small chance that I may have saved someone from shock in the workplace. in addition, I was testing the appliances in a caravan, I tried to unplug the Kettle, but the plug was stuck in the socket, due to it not being plugged in properly, so the plastic on the pin and possibly the socket had melted. I failed the Kettle and made a reccommendation the owner replace the now faulty socket as well as the Kettle. I received a complaint that I was not supposed to be testing the sockets....!!
The people running the channel have absolutely zero influence on the ads. They can’t say how many ads, which ads, or even whether there are ads. If they don’t monetize a video, that video still gets ads, just with no money to the channel. You’re complaining to the wrong people.
The crazy thing is in Scotland they are pushing to license electricians yet its Kenny the Kitchen fitter and Billy the Bathroom fitter who mess up in the first place Why not police the Kitchen and Bathroom companies instead of punishing electrician for their cock ups
Great video, thanks and YES, I'd certainly be up for the suggested 'comment' one. As the comments are in the public domain, there should be no problem naming the comment-poster.
@@Lewdacris916 if you look on the table on page 370 of the 18th edition (type B bs60898 mcbs) it says 52 amps (or whatever the hob oven load was without diversity) will never trip a 32amp breaker
I’ve had one of those breakers do exactly that to me. It’s normally the crappy cheap ones that do it, a spring slips out of place inside. Suppose it can just happen when they get old as well.
Eneloop pro batteries all the way, the black ones. My meter came with the white ones which didn’t last very long. I’ve used the black ones for years in my photography, sound and video equipment and they’ve never let me down and go on forever. Tried them in my MFT and the difference is considerable.
I like how through you are .I wish the standard was more like this here in the states.our inspectors are a joke here and most guys in the trades do some pretty substandard work .your standards are the same it sounds like as ours but ours aren’t as enforced .is a panel board allowed in a cabinet ? It’s illegal to do so here .Has to be accessible.36 inches of clearance for 120/240 and 42 for 277/480
Metrel testers are awesome. Maybe the battery just needs renewing. My 3155 lasts a week without recharging. btw you’re becoming the 2nd best spark to watch after Tom 👍😂
Why was the new circuit installed for the EV Charger when bonding wasn’t connected at the time of install? This should have been checked/rectified at the time of installation.
The customer knew you were comming to do the testing, so why is he so surprised that the electrics go off periodically during the day. You would have thought he would have told his office he would not be working that day as he had the electrician in??
I’m only 3 star electrical but even I advise the customer that there will be power outages throughout the EICR. ..and arrange a date/time to suit. That way I don’t do a really thorough test /inspect of most of it and then decide that the other bits a quick glance will be ok because mr corporate is upstairs on a reeeeealy important zoom call and heaven Forbid his wifi drops for 10 minutes - heard of 4G hotspot ?
Depends on the ref method, but 2.5mm can usually handle 20 and 27A. So 40A for a ring should be okay in theory, unless you have to apply a derating factor for the potential for unbalanced load share between the legs of the ring.
On increased safety. I asked both spark and plumbers about fitting a solenoid isolator attached to the cooker isolator switch. Both of them looked at me funny and said, "why bother?" I figured it would be nice that if I shut the cooker off at the wall, that it actually shut the whole cooker off, gas included. I mean the number one priority of a cooker switch is often FIRE. Step one, remove the heat. Turn it OFF, using a wet oven mit if you have to. Now... I would like that to include isolating the gas supply as well. Fitting that myself AND getting it gas safe cert'd AND electrically cert'd though would be a fools task. Maybe I should just find a better tamed spark and ... well, can you tame plumbers?
As you said, there are crap electricians too, each to their own trade IMHO, but now electrical work is mandated, i'm not sure the work is any better but the cost has definately gone through the roof, no wonder many Kitchen fitters choose to do their own electrics.
Yeah! like how not to repair an acrylic bath, it's not about the accidents, it's about how you cover it up and hope you get paid before it gets noticed. I think I heard the splitting of floor boards too, typical sparks ;))) there's a thing called a saw but I know you guys prefer a blunt bolster and fire wood.
Great video, I love kitchen fitters hahaha. I no longer work with them as we always fall out with them! Yes please do an episode on the keyboard warriors so that I can compare them with mine!
We had one, it was so bad the units had to come out and a complete rewire of the kitchen. Kitchen fitter had priced for an electrician but decided to do the wiring himself.
Regarding the putty, British Gas used to use Denso Mastc Putty or as we called it "Monkey Shit" 😀😁😂 probably had different name's in different parts of the country.
Dunno if anyone’s already commented, but the Cheeky Girls both work selling cars at some Hyundai dealer up north. No really. I read it online the other day!
Check out E5’s podcasts on Earthing and Bonding, where they recommend current clamping the main earth on any TNC-S or TNS supply because of the possibility of unsuspected PEN conductor faults, and their latest on Regulation within the electrical industry.
@@ajc7166 I've always known it by its slang name 'donkey dick' in reference to the preformed rolls it comes in. Always gets a rise from members of public when they over hear it used.
I'd definitely be up for the artisan team going through some of the comments, both good and bad!
Please!!!
I once told a client his electrics were dangerous because he had no earth bond to his water…he disagreed and said, him having to parachute into France, on D-day worried him more 😂😂😂
But it's true sometimes, what with plastic pipework, having a bonded pipe at the cylinder when the cylinder itself is bonded, doesn't make any logical sence, to co-bond the metal piping connected by metal piping to the cylinder, when the water system to the client's end of pipe taps are all done in plastic pipes.
See maybe his parachute hung up in a tree - which as far as I am concerned would have scared him more (but he survived the war - so he will probably survive the non-bonded pipework.
Always a pleasure to watch quality workmanship and customer care by all you guys. The problem is that I expect the same from people working in my home, but few of them deliver.
The 'you don't know what you don't know' point is the best philosophy in this case. Given the nature of kitchen wiring, there's good reason it should be left to someone with a ticket and annual assessment. Great video as always.
It's always that case of DaMn - but I wish I knew more than I did, when in reality you've forgotten more than you will ever learn
please do a vid with cory and jordan reading the comments, would be hillarious
I've been saying that there will be more and more of this after "the Great British lockdown refurb" - as reputable firms were booked up, all the good and complex work filtered down to the cowboys and I reckon we'll be fixing this stuff for years to come
Yes, a good supply of work guaranteed for us though
👍
I don't know how these cowboys sleep at night, just guessing what to do with electrics and potentially burning someone's house down or worse, mind boggles
Cory does awesome work !
The Cheeky Girls are now both working in car dealerships in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, in case you were wondering.
The pair, who are actually called Monica Taylor and Gabriela Irimia are twin sisters who shot to fame in the early 2000s on Popstars: The Rivals.
Despite being described by judge Pete Waterman as 'the worst act I've ever seen' they became inexplicably popular, even achieving two top ten singles.
One of those was called 'Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)', which - for the uninitiated - gives you a decent flavour of what they were like.
YES, a reading comments video with Jordan & Cory would be fantastic!!!
Disconnect the neutral on whatever circuit you're testing to prevent any nuisance tripping
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Made a decision about a year ago that once I finished school (I will be done school july 2022) that I want to be an electrician… came across your channel today and it’s just solidified that drive even more I cannot wait
How’s it going for you
+Artisan Electrics
Cory should learn a trick!!! You can test that garage rcd with upstream rcd safely, by connecting your MFT to the neutral and line outputs of the Garage RCD as normal, but connecting the ''earth'' probe to the incoming-neutral connection. I worked this out myself and then John Ward pointed this out in an RCD-testing video as well.
In this way, the line-"earth" test-current will travel back through upstream rcd (via neutral) fine, guaranteed to stay in balance there, but this RCD can still be tested without risk of upstream-tripping.
This will not, however, tell you that the Earth is correctly connected from house MET to the Garage board (but theres' plenty of ways of checking that with flying-leads or whatever).
I’m a retired plumber and have always re-connected any earth wires I have had to disconnect. Remember reading in one of our trade mags where a plumber was given a prison sentence for not re-connecting an earth wire to a metal sink top and the customer died as a result of an electric shock from the sink. It always pays to get professional advice from the relevant people.
Really ? He did the right thing disconnecting it - A metal sink is a not an extraneous conductive part. Should never have been bonded in the first place. And how could anyone receive a shock from a non bonded sink ? If was because the water pipes somehow became live and made the sink live then the fault would have been lack of bonding on the water supply. Smacks of an apocryphal story to me .
@@Marco-mg9tv The bonding for the water lines was probably a the sink as it was an easy to access place. So the plumber removed the water bonding.
@@redcitadel8354 Really ? Are you suggesting that an electrician decided that a metal sink was the best point to connect main bonding to the incoming water service rather than the cold water pipe that would be supplying the taps to said sink ?
Great vid 👍. The cheeky girls are now working in car sales I believe 🤣
I had a Metrel first. NiMH batteries that lasted less than a day. Changed to a Fluke and I have to change the alkaline batteries once or twice a year
I swapped my Metrel to AA alkalines pretty soon, they last reasonably long. Funny story behind the reason for the swap... I couldn't find the charger for months, until I found it - in the carrying case, just in a different compartment. By the time I found the charger again I'd lost one of the six NiMHs and decided to stick with alkalines.
Saw this at my late father in law's kitchen upgrade. He called me in as he was concerned over what he saw. What I saw was a disaster of electrical bodging. All old sockets had been extended via 15a connector blocks buried in the walls. The ring main had been split. Lighting was full of connector blocks ready to be plastered over. I left my report and they got a professional electrician in. Was all rewired back to the consumer unit properly avoiding all these bodged joints.
At 15.00 you said it “ Not Competent”.
There is no more to be said about people who just wing it, and attempt to carry out the work of other skilled trades without the proper training or time served experience.
People need to know that they shouldn’t attempt work for which they are not competent, but where is the regulatory control to stop this insanity, so that customers know that they are employing competent trades people?
Wearing your overshoes outside 🤣 lost count if the amount of times I've done that lol
Hope that breaker was saved to send off to Big Clive :)
My thoughts also.
Absolutely love your attention to detail while doing testing, 90% of sparks have no interest and couldn't be bothered testing properly!
Worse, 50% of Sparkies should NEVER do self certification as, it they created the problem the first time around when doing the initial installation work, then when they do the testing, (later) they will NOT be able to find any problem, knowing they did it their way (thinking it to be the correct way) the first time around.
Sadly, here in New Zealand, several years ago, Electrical Inspectors were bypassed in regs changes - so that electricians on the jobs could self-certify their own work (to avoid delaying the client's sign off on getting the property livened, or re-livened) and now, I spotted in more recent regs changes, that all work done that is to be certified by an electrician can ONLY be their own work that they then self-certify, being that they cannot certify anyone else's work, if they didn't directly supervise that person's work - at the time.
Which to me, begs the question, how many jobs are installed incorrectly, to be certified as tested correctly, by the people who installed the installation incorrectly?
And how many DIY clients (after having done a far better job than some electricians) who ask their electrician to check the DIY work they did, to get it certified, can't - when the electrician is NOT allowed to certify any work they didn't directly oversight when it was done?
Yet - it's true even in the UK, as Jordon even said as much in a recent video, that he can't certify a client's DIY as he didn't supervise the person doing the work.
at the time.
Oh sure, it speeds up the client's end-use sign-off time, if the installing electrician can at the end of the install, inspect and sign-off the installation (as if they were the inspector of old) to allow the lines company to re-liven the property, from the replacing of the incoming pole fuses, but does it really give a reliable certification standard.?
Kitchen fitters look upon cooker circuits as sub mains for all kitchen electrics.
"I'm not in Vietnam, I'm in Chelmsford" - back in the day closing time at Dukes nightclub made Chelmsford a warzone..
Take the bond cable off the clamp and test for continuity and not just visually check,you never know if it was cut like the water bond. 👍
As others have commented, the cooking load is no more than an old-fashioned stand-alone cooker, which, with diversity, is perfectly acceptable on a 32A breaker.
Where there is a consumer unit on the end of a 13A fused spur, it is pointless, as there is no discrimination.
Been waiting for this all evening 😊
Hi from Australia 🇦🇺 I’m an electrician and honestly I’m learning lots of things from you guys better than what I learned in school
Australia uses a different electrical set up.
Which is why Australia doesn't need fused plugs.
UK is ring main, because after the war they were short of copper and it uses less.
You will never stop those horrible cretins from posting toxic comments. So you must do everything in your power to keep posting your videos just to give them something to do in their sad lives.
Cory’s a fantastic electrician, absolutely fantastic 👌🏼
Is that your Cory. He's a know it all
@@conorjordan9029 what?
Nice to see a Cory video. The Jordan-a-thon this week went on a bit. No offence, but Cory is a more entertaining presenter!.
Try using the Panasonic ENELOOP Pro batteries, they last forever. Even in winter.
Agree.. Great batteries 👍
Get the IKEA white rechargeable batteries there better then eneloop and cheaper , check out big Clive's battery review and testing video
"I don't know what I don't know!!" im so using that. Its close to "I've forgotten more than you know"
That is absolutely shocking! Even the hob isn't fitted and sealed around the edges.
I'd love to see Rueben and eFix get together for an apprentice special.
Your welcome bud 👍 any time
Where’s mine Nick?! 😭 Jordan
@@artisanelectrics there’s not enough room in your unit for 2 mate 😅😅
@@NBundyElectrical 🤣🤣🤣
@@NBundyElectrical hope you and your family are well Nick great to see banter between you both. Let’s hope we see a collaboration soon.
I think I could listen to Cory recite the alphabet. Charisma incarnate. My wife thinks I have a bromance.
The cheeky girls are living with me as my cleaners😆
Yes yes yes for a video going through the funny & salty comments.
Awesome video as always.
Regarding the ovens there is no need for a separate circuit for the ovens as onsite guide states your allowed up to 15kw on a 30/32amp supply due to diversity (appendix H, H4 pg190). As you allow for the first 10amps then 30% of the remaining full load current in excess of 10amps + an additional 5amps if there is a socket on the cooker control unit (table A2 pg123). Therefore 12.5kw will actually draw approximately 28.5amps due to them being thermostatically controlled
Just as I was about to wire in another circuit, thanks
Some require 16a fuse protection though. 😉
@@travoltasbiplane1551 this is true seen so many 16 amp ovens on 13 amp fuse and its melted it to bits. And when you read the manufacturers instructions it says protect by a 16 amp fuse and only have 32 amp supply with a electric hob lol nightmare 😆
@@gd-bq7em garage board in the adjacent cupboard. 🤣
@@travoltasbiplane1551 ²
Only thing dont like with the garage board is can be a lot of joints in front of the garage board like cooker switch and then maby cooker plate then garage board then another 16 amp switch.
I have done one before when I removed cooker switch jointed the cables then into a 2 way board with a 32 amp mcb for hob and 16 amp mcb for oven with a 32 amp rcbo back at main fuse box
I just looked up the "cheeky girls" and now Im scarred for life.
Very interesting. Best tip is when fitting a new kitchen replan refit electrics. We got an electrician in when doing ours. Frankly it was cheap. He did a great job ( apart from one loose wire which I later found). Now I would get one in everytime. I dont enjoy fiddly stuff anymore.
Please can you guys do a video on the comments. It would be so funny. Cory would in tears of laughter so fast 🤣
Always enjoy watching Cory, cracking engineer and his outlook is exactly the same as everyone of our engineers. A credit to the industry and Artisan.
This must have been filmed just before the Daily Mail this week stated they're both working for Hyundai in York, not sure if they're singing to sell the cars though.
Cory is not a qualified engineer.
@Maxwell Boyne Terry Hutchinson Msc Bsc MIEE MIEEE HND (Mech Elec). No he isn't!
Amazing how many people want to be a professional engineer but don't have the necessary qualifications. I did and was for 40 years, oh and please don't start talking about the university of life.
@@terryhutchinson6503 You're the classic TH-cam engineer I recon. Sure sounds like one. And if you're not, probably about time to stop feeling insecure after 40+ years with the title.
@@terryhutchinson6503 Your comment has no bearing on comparing Cory to my own staff whom are all qualified engineers in multiple fields. Not to mention the qualification itself is recognized by C&G as engineering. Honestly you're coming across as someone who's pride is hurt by a 23 year old enjoying the industry and wanting to excel at it so has obviously 1; had a great instructor/mentor and 2; puts the effort in.
Bing chat says: The Cheeky Girls are twin sisters Monica Taylor and Gabriela Irimia who rose to fame with their hit song “Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)” following their appearance on Popstars: The Rivals. They have since reinvented themselves as salespeople working for local car dealerships in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Both sisters are performing well in their new careers, with Monica being a best-performing sales executive on her team.
I love your wit, makes a day that little brighter.
Bonding,,,, yes well, I am retired but I still do that very boring job of PAT (Testing). In a Chip Shop Kitchen, I came across a 4 way extension cleverly lifted off the metal shelving to stop it getting wet.
Great job on someone's part. However, on close inspection (outside of the remit on Pat (Testing), I spotted a Bonding cable had come adrift of its clamp and was hanging. This bonding joined Two prep area tables (stainless Steel). I informed the very friendly Manager who took a picture of it to report it to maintenance to fix.
There is a very small chance that I may have saved someone from shock in the workplace.
in addition, I was testing the appliances in a caravan, I tried to unplug the Kettle, but the plug was stuck in the socket, due to it not being plugged in properly, so the plastic on the pin and possibly the socket had melted. I failed the Kettle and made a reccommendation the owner replace the now faulty socket as well as the Kettle. I received a complaint that I was not supposed to be testing the sockets....!!
Easy on the ads, same ad 5 times in 19mins!. Love your content, Cory is a great character.
Use a vpn to relocate yourself outside of the rich zone. I get no ads apart from the start from where I live in Uganda.
I too am getting tired of the millions of ads in every video! Great content 👍 spoiled by constant interruptions 😭
TH-cam premium
@@Robert-cu9bm money making off the backs of the poor for nothing
The people running the channel have absolutely zero influence on the ads. They can’t say how many ads, which ads, or even whether there are ads. If they don’t monetize a video, that video still gets ads, just with no money to the channel.
You’re complaining to the wrong people.
the cheeky girls are now apparently working in hyundai car dealerships in yorkshire and lincolnshire.
Love your videos look forward to many more x
The crazy thing is in Scotland they are pushing to license electricians yet its Kenny the Kitchen fitter and Billy the Bathroom fitter who mess up in the first place Why not police the Kitchen and Bathroom companies instead of punishing electrician for their cock ups
Insulating compound. I first saw it and used it when I worked in a shipyard.
The cheeky girls are now working in different Hyundai dealerships in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire 🤣
Great video, thanks and YES, I'd certainly be up for the suggested 'comment' one. As the comments are in the public domain, there should be no problem naming the comment-poster.
overshoes outside , like the new fashion statement Cory. haha
As you say, the diversity calculations are fine for 32a supply. I think it comes to 24a or so required for the circuit. [10a + 30% of the remainder].
what if they are on at the same time though, wont that blow a 30Amp
@@Lewdacris916 if you look on the table on page 370 of the 18th edition (type B bs60898 mcbs) it says 52 amps (or whatever the hob oven load was without diversity) will never trip a 32amp breaker
I would love to see a video of Artisan electrics doing a project with Nick Bundy
I would like that video you and Jordan reading out the good and bad comments also I love watching your videos keep up the fantastic videos
the yellow and green wire on the copper pipe is there to stop the house from floating away. very important.
I’ve had one of those breakers do exactly that to me. It’s normally the crappy cheap ones that do it, a spring slips out of place inside. Suppose it can just happen when they get old as well.
Fairly sure the on site guide suggests 15kw of cooking appliances in a domestic setting is good on a 32a MCB. I tend to agree 👍
Looks good from my bedroom window
Seen all this before ,a friend asked me to snag a kitchen fitters " electrics " 2 A4 sheets later I was finished ! Kitchen fitters answer its
Ps working!
Electrical detective work. Welcome to my world.
Eneloop pro batteries all the way, the black ones. My meter came with the white ones which didn’t last very long. I’ve used the black ones for years in my photography, sound and video equipment and they’ve never let me down and go on forever. Tried them in my MFT and the difference is considerable.
Love the banter thrown at nick bundy haha, as always great videos...
I like how through you are .I wish the standard was more like this here in the states.our inspectors are a joke here and most guys in the trades do some pretty substandard work .your standards are the same it sounds like as ours but ours aren’t as enforced .is a panel board allowed in a cabinet ? It’s illegal to do so here .Has to be accessible.36 inches of clearance for 120/240 and 42 for 277/480
Metrel testers are awesome. Maybe the battery just needs renewing. My 3155 lasts a week without recharging. btw you’re becoming the 2nd best spark to watch after Tom 👍😂
Thank you and the team for the awesome videos. May the business prosper and looking forward to more great videos.
Why was the new circuit installed for the EV Charger when bonding wasn’t connected at the time of install? This should have been checked/rectified at the time of installation.
“5 stars” for observation
There are fewer sights more distressing than that of an Englishman in a baseball cap
Libertines👍🏼
The customer knew you were comming to do the testing, so why is he so surprised that the electrics go off periodically during the day. You would have thought he would have told his office he would not be working that day as he had the electrician in??
I’m only 3 star electrical but even I advise the customer that there will be power outages throughout the EICR. ..and arrange a date/time to suit. That way I don’t do a really thorough test /inspect of most of it and then decide that the other bits a quick glance will be ok because mr corporate is upstairs on a reeeeealy important zoom call and heaven Forbid his wifi drops for 10 minutes - heard of 4G hotspot ?
Depends on the ref method, but 2.5mm can usually handle 20 and 27A. So 40A for a ring should be okay in theory, unless you have to apply a derating factor for the potential for unbalanced load share between the legs of the ring.
Yes a light hearted vid of you reading comments is a big thumbs up.
The cheeky girls are car sales people in Yorkshire and Staffordshire lol
On increased safety. I asked both spark and plumbers about fitting a solenoid isolator attached to the cooker isolator switch. Both of them looked at me funny and said, "why bother?" I figured it would be nice that if I shut the cooker off at the wall, that it actually shut the whole cooker off, gas included. I mean the number one priority of a cooker switch is often FIRE. Step one, remove the heat. Turn it OFF, using a wet oven mit if you have to. Now... I would like that to include isolating the gas supply as well. Fitting that myself AND getting it gas safe cert'd AND electrically cert'd though would be a fools task. Maybe I should just find a better tamed spark and ... well, can you tame plumbers?
Really enjoyed this video.
As you said, there are crap electricians too, each to their own trade IMHO, but now electrical work is mandated, i'm not sure the work is any better but the cost has definately gone through the roof, no wonder many Kitchen fitters choose to do their own electrics.
Yeah! like how not to repair an acrylic bath, it's not about the accidents, it's about how you cover it up and hope you get paid before it gets noticed. I think I heard the splitting of floor boards too, typical sparks ;))) there's a thing called a saw but I know you guys prefer a blunt bolster and fire wood.
Thanks for the video guys I just had a kitchen fitted so I will be looking under my cupboards tomorrow for damn sure.
I've just seen the Cheeky Girls getting out of Jordan's Tesla!! OMG
Great video, I love kitchen fitters hahaha.
I no longer work with them as we always fall out with them!
Yes please do an episode on the keyboard warriors so that I can compare them with mine!
Ha kitchen fitters the bane of qualified tradesman everywhere
We had one, it was so bad the units had to come out and a complete rewire of the kitchen. Kitchen fitter had priced for an electrician but decided to do the wiring himself.
I thought that the regs didn't allow for unqualified people to do electrics in kitchens and bathrooms.
Regarding the putty, British Gas used to use Denso Mastc Putty or as we called it "Monkey Shit" 😀😁😂 probably had different name's in different parts of the country.
Nice Job Cory! Very clear and methodical. Which velocity bag are you using for testing by the way? Looks awesome 😁
Love your videos....Top Bloke.... Keep up the great work fella...😁😎👻🎃👍👊✌️🍻🏍️
I really hope when he finds out what the cheeky girls are up to now is captured on video. Thats gonna be a beautiful moment.
Yes, read the comments! Hahahah
Only just stumbled upon this channel and I love it hahah.
Non setting flue jointing compound is used to fill the gap between the gas pipework to the sleeve that goes out the rear of the gas box
Dunno if anyone’s already commented, but the Cheeky Girls both work selling cars at some Hyundai dealer up north. No really. I read it online the other day!
Similar stuff used on the gas spigot but not the same - it's called Denso Mastic. I know because I've got them both on the van 👍
Check out E5’s podcasts on Earthing and Bonding, where they recommend current clamping the main earth on any TNC-S or TNS supply because of the possibility of unsuspected PEN conductor faults, and their latest on Regulation within the electrical industry.
9:27 Have some kitchen salt too haha
Never throw out a good winter coat. Quote of the year! 😂😂😂
the feeling you walk outside and you have your over shoes on doh
densyl mastic is the putty used by gas engineers in the meter box.
Yep (or maybe Denso) I was using this when I was laying mains and services over 30years ago.
@@ajc7166 I've always known it by its slang name 'donkey dick' in reference to the preformed rolls it comes in. Always gets a rise from members of public when they over hear it used.
The Cheeky Girl who was with LibDem MP Lembit Opik was in the papers last week as she's selling cars at a dealership in York.
This Guy is really good.
At this moment in time 13 kitchen fitters have watched this video
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Great watching your attention to every detail .
I understand what u was saying about the cooker and hob both being on full Christmas
Great vid as always. Cory what model velocity bag is that? An organised bag to fit all my test gear in is what I’m after & that look perfect.
i just want a tester that runs on drill batteries