How I wired my house.
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- This is the long boring version of how I wired my house. I tried to add extra memes to keep you awake hopefully, I was successful. Also that bonding jumper was 1/0 not #3 I know someone will comment lol
Good job. A versatile and serviceable installation.
As always, excellent taste in channels, Clive!
The Clive seal of approval is a mark of honor
Clive!
Clive!!!❤
I love how he has 8 million conduits for power, and 6 ethernet cables
Dude. I'm an industrial electrician, I drooled the whole video.
also. screw you. Now i want to do this to my house.
"The wiring in these panels could totally be a whole lot neater"
My man, this is one of the tidiest residential panels I have ever seen. You don't give yourself enough credit.
As an electrician of 42 years, I have never seen anyone wire a residential, stick built home in all conduit. Very professional and clean. It's obvious that you have done this at least once before, lol. Great job, impressive.
One day, when you are gone and someone else owns this house, their electricians are gonna set up a shrine to you.
LMFAOOOOOOO
“The wiring could be neater”….. am I missing the joke?
I've been a Union Electrician in Local 11 since 2001. This is my dream build! conduit everywhere commercial Panel and gear setup and plenty of future potential. This Looks great and I would be proud to Have your level of quality in my Home and there isn't much I would change. It looks Great.
honestly it just needs expansion fittings lol
As a network/server guy, I would see if you could get a full length 21U or 42U rack since this obviously is going to be there forever. They make trays and such for your current stuff, and the new stuff you can rack mount properly. You could also get a 1U KVM setup for console access for why future servers and computers if you need it. Also run cat6 or Cat6a for any future 10GB Ethernet projects.
Lastly, for “small” installs like this, UniFi is the way to go, and you can control everything from desktop or phone app, and Synology NAS for bulk or video storage.
Enjoyed the video!
Yeah Ubi is the way to go, but im a cheap bitch so ill keep my dummy l2 switches for now
26 year electrician here and this is BY FAR the most well planned, well executed, and truly BEAUTIFULLY INSTALLED residential setup I have EVER seen. Well done...well done indeed! 😁
Similar. 44 years. Electrical contractor, electrical engineer, electronics engineer, controls engineer and technician on top of so much more. I'm humbled here.
The tier surge protection is actually recommended. You usually see it in commercial. Everything you did looks amazing. As a master electrician that came up in the commercial side I’ve always wanted to do exactly this when ever I get the chance to build my own house. It really is such a privilege to be able to have the knowledge to execute a project like this. I’ve always been so happy I chose this field. It’s never boring.
Completely insane and I loved every second of it. Never thought I'd see a residential house with more unistrut in it than mine. I was wrong.
You should add a commercial grade fire alarm system to the house. It seems like you like electrical stuff and it is a fairly easy project if you get the right stuff.
As a commercial sparky who hates doing residential work, you've inspired me sir. Now I just have to cut every single expense ever and save every penny for the next 20 years and maybe I'll have a chance at doing something similar, simply because I can
As an industrial controls electrician, that drawing on the inside of your main distro panel activated some dopamine receptors for me.
I saw that too and was like oh damn, all that done by hand?
First American Household Electric Installation that I have seen on TH-cam that I would not run away from crying and Nightmare hunted from wire nut hell. Good Job :)
I can't put into words how much I envy you. I have a pipe dream (conduit dreams?) of building my own home in day and massively over-engineering the electrical and data infrastructures. This build echoes many of my own ideas. Absolutely beautiful.
Dang. Any contractors that come over would radio their buddy, "Yo, Larry. Come get a load of this!"
Beautiful stuff. Looking forward to the genset install.
Every time I think society is going to shit because people don't care about their work, someone like you proves me wrong.
That’s a cracking job mate. Tubes going everywhere, ideal for maintenance and expansion. As an electrician myself in the UK my home garage has a similar overkill theme. Materials from work and free labour, why not. 😂 you basement looks like a proper plantroom/switchroom. I would be proud of that job. All the best to you.
This is amazing, I have rebuilt my 103 year old farm house, and I have done everything in it, framing, plumbing, electrical, drywall.(starting building the furniture. When I was doing the electrical I did a the same thing with rooms, 20 amp for outlets, 15 amp for lights, every room separate, sub panel upstairs for all the bed rooms to minimize wire runs. Ethernet to ever single room, office, living room, and kitchen have multiple outlet circuits. My entire family was calling me crazy, saying "you don't need to do that. We don't have that, no one does stuff like that ever." But I wanted to so I did. Your house is BEAUTIFUL. You have done an amazing job. I agree with your message, if you love what you do, your going to do the best you can. I cant wait until my daughter gets into school so i can get into the trades and start working on this kind of stuff all day every day.
My dream is to do my home like this. My 50s era house needs Rewired. I've spent hours planning it out, but can't figure out how to retrofit it while still living in it and the time it requires .
I may have to settle for just romex replacement here. waiting till we build our forever home and do it right in that one.
Until then I will live vicariously through you. Great work fella.
You are the true definition of anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
As a NYC Local 3 Electrician with OCD, I give you two thumbs up. You did a great job. Thanks for sharing!
As an automation and security engineer in IT, I must admit your attempt at a data rack was well thought out, I really like it. Instead of a giant rack you essentially made your own version with your electrician skills lol. I love it!
Impressive and labor intensive. I am a retired electrician. The conduit is a nice touch and it looks great. I have used a small amount of EMT in both of my houses and seeing it is a good feeling. Your entire house can be rewired any time with all the EMT. Great Job.
Absolutely crazy and absolutely awesome I love it beauty install.
I-LINE panels in a home is like a Bugatti parked in front of a double wide
I love the 4 lights at the end, a properly rated switch for each size light. Classy.
I'm an HVAC tech, and I ended up with a new system over the summer as we pulled a wrong sized unit that was 4 months old and well it went home with me. I hated my old system and this new one is simply new. And free. I'm replacing it in the spring as my bedrooms still arent comfortable, but this time Im not doing it on a 90deg day and EVERYTHING will get trashed and rebuilt and I'm going with a high end system. Goal is to finally have comfortable bedrooms so all my duct work has to be redone and I'll probably need stuff like a bypass and a nice two stage or modulating furnace.
I've also rewired most of the house as an amateur with my home inspector dad, so that work is FINE I guess...but when I open my kitchen walls for duct work Im definitly adding lots of low voltage runs for a real home net work. And probably high voltage updates. My main two bedrooms already got 20a wall outlets, so I have a mix of 15a on the original circut and 20a updated on the exterior walls. 100 year old houses are fun...
Honestly doing all this insane wiring makes complete sense. You're a crazy sparky, but also everything will still be good enough once the dry wall is finished. The HVAC systems you can upgrade later ;)
Love it!! Thanks for the entertaining walk-thru. Got a buddy in Saskatchewan. The utility there gives a massive discount if you let them current limit you. He opted for that and the utility installed a 30A breaker in their service drop. In several years he's only tripped that breaker once.
The conduit salesman really got you
I'm not sure which I enjoyed more, the wiring itself or the video. I was cracking up the entire time at the added humor. Well done sir.
As an electrician myself, all I can say is fantastic job! I agree with your sentiment about liking what you do, reflecting in your work.
Very satisfying, if I ever won the lottery I’d build a house from the ground up the best way I could those cozy and clean crawl spaces, electric like this, best insulation and everything, do the opposite of cheapest option on every single job
I have a lot of respect for you to run the entire house in emt. This is beautiful work. I will say this is a level of OCD that only a true electrician will have. I wish I could have wired my own home but I do love how my low volt wire job came out. Thank you for sharing.
lol you’re just showing off with all this overkill. Nice job man, it looks great. It’s like an electrical showcase in your home. One can dream!
the ending XD, huge disconnect switch for the tiny bulb. I can relate to you so much with the thought process and decision making. cant wait to see how you do the driveway lights!
22:00 lmao all those switches are perfectly specced for their load
I get the impression he would like all of his work to be of this high a quality, but doesn't get to for sake of time, budget, etc. Interesting for an Australian electrician to see how Americans do things differently. Nice video, thanks for sharing.
$30,000 later you have $10,000 worth of electrical service in your house! Lol. Very nice though I must admit
I'm 62 years old, and without question, that is the most outstanding electrical set up for a house that I have ever seen! I'd like to "scuttle" my house, and build it again, just so I could have electrical like that!
Top notch project..!!
I spent my entire career (43) years as an Electrical Maintenance Technician in large Chemical plant. That’s how I like to do my electrical work at my property Too. One of my buildings has a PLC for lighting loads and basic temperature control using Analog IO .
Stainless steel uni-strut is in many of my applications also.
I was asked about why I went to the trouble of installing things like a Manufacturing Facility…
Pretty much because I like doing it.
Must have been nice to work in that era.
What a beautiful job ! Most houses are real shit shows with miles of spaghetti. We're building a barn home on 40 acres in Wyoming. I'm going to use smurf tubing on all the low voltage to allow for easy upgrades when technology changes. The outside walls will be at least 8" thick due to the post construction so I'll be using as much conduit as possible to allow for changes/additions. You're not crazy, just fastidious. Looking forward to more videos.
It is no wonder you had no money left for your yard lights.
This. How to spend 10 times as much money as you need to. 😂
As a 30 year commercial electrician I highly approve of what you’ve done. I would love to have my house built like that. I was also pleased to see you have fire sprinklers installed too. Not everyone will agree with all of the extra installation cost but it’s your home build it how you want it. Those that know, well they know.
Do you live in a house or a missile silo ?
If I ever build a house I'm having you wiring it
15 amp lighting AND 20 amp circuits for each room is crazy! Can't imagine needing more than 1A for modern LED lighting, but I guess you could run an additional outlet off it too. I'm jealous actually.
I love that the largest disconnect controlled the smallest light.
I got a laugh out of that.😂
Residential 400A service is “320A”, to go bigger, they require CT’s on each hot, ends up being a lot more $$$, nice UFR ground in the footer, I did the same thing.. Conduit everywhere? Why on gods green earth…. Something wrong with romex? You sir, are insane. I love it 😬
1:14 sounds like a job for Home Assistant. Been playing with it a lot. My dryer insults me when done, my door gripes about being left open, and my lights do light type things more fun than I could do by myself. Fun stuff. Fun stuff.
Id love to see the look on a handyman's face if you asked them to come look at an electrical issue in this house. They would lose their marbles. Super cool and definitely one of a kind.
This is 100% my new favorite YT channel
I have absolutely no idea why TH-cam recommended me this and I don't understand even half of it. But man, it looks _NEAT_ !
17:48 Those 8 smurf tubes coming into your data rack are BEGGING to be re-taped in T-568B colors
I'm a bit disgusted that's there's miles of conduit and 3 breaker panels, and only like 6 ethernet cables - wth man?? In my house, I ran 6 ethernets to each room - sure in most rooms only 2 or 3 of them are in use, but in my office, I have 10 in use pretty continually, with a couple extra for temporary stuff
The youtube algorithm gods did not disappoint - this is absolutely amazing! This was all awesome, but my favorite part came at the end, where you had the smallest switch for the biggest light, and vice-versa. Chef's kiss. Perfect.
I’m so happy I found this channel. I believe I have a very similar background to this guy. I’m an electrician that started getting into controls and plc troubleshooting and programming. I work at a water treatment plant (drinking water)
I’m also currently developing a property and building a house and work shop building, and I too went way overboard on them. I put 3 phase into the shop because I anticipate paying the power company to bring it from about 600 feet away.
Very cool channel, I really really enjoy these vids.
Obviously I chose the wrong career path. Is everyone loaded?!
I like and I'm tremendously jealous. Sure, if I was doing it, I would have done a couple of things differently, but that isn't important. The PLC seems interesting (I'm working on an Arduino data logger project for security systems) and it is great when you have the opportunity to play around with creative projects.
An I line panel in your house?!?!? Cracks me up. Is it a single phase I line?(I know the answer)
Only way this could be better is bending your own conduit and running RMC. But this is still awesome overkill. The house could fall down and the elect system will still be there.
Also put your own 1/4” ground bar in, add an isolation transformer, and maybe your own nuclear reactor. Used plutonium is on surplus at any reactor
Yeah, the only thing I didn’t bend was the 2in. If I had all the time and money in the world, I would’ve done RMC lol. I don’t run pipe a lot at work but when I do it’s all RMC and Rob Roy so I definitely know how much it sucks. I like the reactor idea.😅
Brother man I’m so happy you had whatever happen to get you to start broadcasting the content; you are a master of so many skills and make great content thank you for sharing. I didn’t ask for but I’m actually happy to see it as I have 60 acres I’m about to work on. ✊
i understood nothing and was thoroughly entertained
Those surge suppressors are probably MOVs, and they can parallel, just unless they are matched one might carry 2/3 of current while the others split the remaining 1/3. It's not going to be worse than a single one, but it might not be much better.
I'm a 27 year old - non tradesman who knows nothing about electronics and electric stuff, but for some reason I'm hooked to your videos, even if 95% of the jargon's pure gibberish to my ears
NICE JOB! Looks well planned. I didn't see any toxic electrician comments as of now, so you are doing something right. In my area anything over 200-amps requires a CT cabinet, main disconnect and 13 jaw meter mounted to the exterior.
I love everything about this. Also that disconnect panels with the bulbs going in the opposite order A+
Love it! Typical of a over- the-top installation many of us sparkies would do. Cant wait for the plc videos!
_Veeeeeery_ nice work right there. I must admit, I'm quite jealous. I'm in the midst of a 2 year turned 5+ year plan to build a modest but comprehensive private recording studio.
One of the things I'm yet to get to but is of paramount importance will be the electrical for wherever this studio ends up being (I'm not yet sure if I'm going to be renovating my garage or renting/buying a space/small building). Proper electrical infrastructure will be the primary factor in making sure the many tens of thousands of dollars I've already spent in recording equipment is not only protected and operating properly but _sounding good._ Not inundated and essentially ruined with _noise_ from insufficient power, cheap components and shoddy work in the electrical systems and its associated symptoms, like ground loops, "cross talk," buzzing, hum etc.
Thinking about it leads me into deep, sullen, quiet moments of "what the hell have I gotten myself _into???_" as I myself know perhaps just less than the bare minimum about electrical systems. Which dictates that I solicit professional assistance and leaves me open to exploitation by those who can maximize their profits by taking advantage of what I don't know through inflating their prices and installing parts and systems that are far beneath the quality and price that would be necessary and quoted.
I've been through it many a time before. Either directly myself when having my basement finished and my bathroom refitted for a disabled family member whom I care for. Or indirectly when working for people who have been in the same position of having to hire electrical, carpentry, mechanical etc. professionals and then, doingnthe most learning by finding out after the fact just how screwed we got when problems begin arising from the slap-d!ck work that was done.
Or of course, turning a 5+ year endeavor into a 10 year endeavor by saving the - sh*t, I don't know - twenty, _thirty_ thousand dollars or more (probably more, yea?) to hire those companies that are unquestionably the best of the best and make their money by doing the best work for the biggest projects and clients. Albeit knowing that the price of admission for such work is going to make the already expensive endeavor of wiring up the electrical for a modest, mid-level recording studio into an e exceedingly expensive one.
Sorry for the vent. I think I'm working through the stages of grief as I type this out. Realizing that, if I don't want to build and work in a studio that's going to be constantly driving me insane having to chase down and work around a myriad of issues and noises, than I'm likely going to be *50* years old by the time I arm the tape machine and start recording in the studio for which I'm already literally sleeping on top of all the equipment I've spent gobs of money buying for it.
That is some of the best customer wiring i have ever seen. ever. of all time. not even close.
I came 12 times watching this,good stuff man. I soldered my under cabinet lights so the vibration of the stove won’t work them loose
I did something similar for my house, but instead of running lots of 3/4" EMT into the breaker panels, I use 3" rigid Pipe & wireways on top & bottom of panels. I ran a couple of 3" EMT trunk lines to sets of large JCT boxes to tap off for various circuits in the basement. The 3" EMT are terminated in the wireways & then I route the circuits from the wireways into the breaker panels. Much easier & cheaper than running a lot of small diameter EMT. My panel is mounted on plywood with 2" rigid foam board (insulated basement walls). Plywood was painted to it presentable. I also have a whole house 8KW UPS system, with a breaker panel set up for critical loads & a UPS bypass switch. Another difference is my county requires outside disconnect switches (in case of the a fire)
As far a surge suppressors, I have one large from the main inside disconnect. Issue with those residential surge suppressors is they use Cheap MOVs which degrade with each TVS (including inductive spikes from AC motors). Maybe they have a GDT (Gas discharge Tube) which triggers at much higher voltages than MOVs. For all of the outlets & can lights I installed Ferrites (help attenuate line noise & some TVS suppression. The ferrites help with line noise from Dimmer switches, AC Motors, & SMPS). For critical loads (ie computers & electronics) I use Point of load suppressors. I have a collection of Brickwall Surge suppressors for point of load. Some of the Outlets have integrated Surge suppression, for locations its not practical to use a plug in Surge suppressor ( ie Fridge, Dishwasher, wall mount TVs), Levitron & Eaton both sell decor outlets with built in surge protection.
On the outside I ran some 2.5" PVC conduit to a few different locations & terminated in burial boxes. I haven't used any of them yet, but I plan to use them for outdoor lighting & for future sheds.
For breakers I use just the arcfault breakers but all of the outlets are Decor GFC. This way if the GFC is triggered just the one outlet is tripped & not the entire circuit. Not all of the circuits are arcfault since brushed motors can trip them (Brush motors normally create arcs when spinning on the brushes). I put the arcfault breakers for circuits required by Code.
For data. well I have 144 Cat 6a drops terminated in wall mount data rack. For low voltage I probably have another 150 runs (Coax, thermostats, Fire/Alarm systems, intercom, etc). I have a power & data run (Fiber, Cat 6a, Coax) to a 65' telecom towers for internet, antennas & PTZ IP cameras) as well as to another building (Pole barn for Ag equipment & workshop). I only used the Smurf tube marginally because it not possible to pull the heavy Cat 6a cabling through it. In my basement I filled an entire 16" joist bay with low voltage wiring (close to 300 separate cables).
Wow, you must have taken pictures, hopefully? Would love to see them.
Sounds like you certainly outdid me😅
You can get a free 42U rack from many companies who get rid of theirs… a lot of companies are consolidating their servers because newer servers have a ton of cores which makes VMs super easy to run and they don’t need as many racks as they used to.
Your electrical is worth more than my house. Amazing work - it is a testament to how awesome stuff can be done.
As a gen tech. It is a relief to see someone not prep for generac. Kohler and briggs are both pretty good
Loved the last shot. The lights getting dimmer while the switches get larger!
I built that to bring to career day at the local elementary school. They get a kick out of it 😂
Did some electrical work the other day, your work is soooo much more professional than what i did, yours is actually beautiful, good job, easy to follow and easy to troubleshoot.
Tho in my defense the space i had to work with was way smaller than this, and i ran it all in plastic tubing, 240V.
Yours can be grounded and if rats come, yours will last far longer than my plastic.
This video is so awesome man, so much in 22 minutes. Goldmine of experience and technical knowledge for anyone interested in the concept of electrical work. Thank you
This was completely Awesome!!! If I were a Electrician, I would do my house this same way! Having so many circuits gives you so many options, control and safety! Thanks for the video, I subscribed!
Electrical Inspection:
Fun, did your electrical inspector take one look and say your past. Or was he relentless, determined to find one thing that he could b.... about to make himself feel good?
I can testify that sometimes it's worth making a deliberate mistake to satisfy the inspectors ego that's easily corrected.
Most people: "Conduit in residential doesn't make sense!"
Chicagoans: "hold my beer"
Honestly looks great. I don't live in an area that requires residential conduit anymore, but if I can ever afford to build a house from the ground up, I'd really like to have everything run in pipe, especially data. Easier to service, cleaner look, just generally very nice.
Chicago Code is a result of Mrs. O'Leary's cow....but the mostly unions.
This is freakin sick. You are ahead of your time. I’m sure this will be the norm in high end luxury homes in like 5 years
bro TH-cam's going to ban this for being pornographic
I spent a while pausing the video and checking your work out. Conduit looks clean,wire work looks clean. Nice job can't wait for more.
Incredible work. My electrical knowledge is about as deep as it needs to be as a homeowner that doesn't want to have to call someone to replace a cadet heater, so I only understand maybe half of what you showed, but what you showed is absolutely a work of beauty.
I can't decide if he's being honest about thinking the wiring wasn't neat, or just trying to appear self-deprecating because he knows that TH-cam commentors will criticize anything.
As an electrical engineer, picking up my jaw off the floor...! I'm speechless! 😁
this is great!
The end was hilarous! Smallest switch controls the biggest light and then the biggest switch controls the smallest light!
Nice job! I get why you ran conduit. It does have that, "WOW" factor. I am not anywhere as proficient with bending pipe as you are but I did wire my 40x60 metal shop building in conduit mostly to learn but it also looks cool.
This is industrial artistic/autistic beauty, where form trumps function in sublime delight.
This is a crazy build. I cant imagine what this would have cost. And residential none the less
I can't get over how awesome this is. This video is gonna blow up! You are the Michelangelo of Sparkies
This is an electricians wet dream
I’m wet
I've never been so happy to see someone who wires everything in their house like an industrial site, that isn't me....I did welding receptacles in my garage that look like a utility grade feed.
Overkill to a level I absolutely LOVE
This all exemplifies the phrase “Overkill is underrated.”
The whole thing must be sooooo much easier to troubleshoot than my 100+ year old house that some drunkard must have wired while half asleep
Nicely done. It looks great! I always thought that if I ever build a house, that is how I would do it. If you want reliability, a PLC is the way to go with home automation. Nothing in the home automation realm comes close to it. But then again, its big bux.
Great looking installation. I inspired a co-worker to do something similar 20+ years ago, but never had the $$ to do my own house that way. I’ll be following…
Thank you for sharing; wonderful video and nice wire management
This is ... beautiful. It seems overkill in places, but in a great way. My envy has physical weight.
I can't wait for you get a proper data rack..if you ever do. very very satisfying to watch this vid dude
Nah this didn't need extra memes, your commentary is way more interesting and the meme just take away from it, your whole setup is amazing and I'm jealous that you have conduit run throughout your house and I don't. Seriously this would be a dream for someone who does home networking or anything IT on a similar scale, and the future proofing is just the cherry on top, no doubt you'll have a easy time servicing this in the future, well done!