Lovely job mate! It's great when you've got enough slack on the existing cables to make a nice neat job of it. The best part of the video for me as a fellow self employed spark is where you struggled with the lock off kit! I finally realised that it's not just me that ends up struggling with those things! :D Great to see you putting the fire sealant in too! I was hoping you would.
Thanks for the comments Mike. Those lock off kits are a nightmare ;o) Struggles!!!! I almost always seal the back of a board with fire sealant, especially when its mounted on a plasterboard wall which is suppose to provide a fire barrier.
just found your channel, good video, I have my own channel too. Where did you get those seal stickers from? You really need to bin that screwdriver/tester mate, not worth anything! It's difficult filming on your own, if I can give a bit of help it would be, you'll find your feet on TH-cam and your personality will come out in the end, it just takes time! Who's JB Electrical? hahaha, love u JB! Strictly speaking you should re-test after replacing a consumer unit. Good job mate. By regulations you don't need to put in intumescent sealant at the cable entries but it totally makes sense to create a fire barrier.
Nice work sir! Stickers on CUs may not be a requirement, but contact details and retest times are really useful for us derpy customers! Good to see the new build spark left plenty of slack and their board didn't look too shabby and you left it looking fantastic. Labelling in the meter cupboard is always frustrating where plot and property number do not align, we have a building designated B for the past 15years but it was built as G, there are still references kicking about to the old one.. The voice audio on your video is slightly bias to the left channel, I don't know much about such things, but you could try setting the mic to mono to centre it up, music choice was good but using the same piece for each segment can start feeling like being on hold. Talking to camera will get easier with time, getting a good balance between entertainment and explanation isn't something that comes easily to some but I think this video does well at it; I know criticism isn't always easy to take onboard and that youtube is a much lower priority than work that makes you proper money, but hopefully this is helpful!
Thanks for the tips re the audio and music! As you can probably time, I'm new at all this recording and editing. I mainly do it as I enjoy it, but also for prospective clients to see what work I dish out. I'm also out to CONSTRUCTIVE criticism.
Very nice! Is it usual to write Spare on the spare ways? Would make it harder to add a circuit, as you'd need to make a new sticker rather than just carrying on with a sharpie :-)
Opens previous board and say's "Oh yes nice lot of slack there", changes board and cuts off half of the slack.... It looks lovely and I appreciate there is still a bit of slack but there are ways to keep the slack and still look tidy although not quite so Instagram neat at least when the next guy comes along they can say "Well done previous sparky for leaving slack"... We should all strive to make a board as neat as possible but it's primary goal is functionality and part of that functionality is having enough slack so a bigger board can be put in or things moved around.. If you go to now change that board where the earth bar is on the right not the left you have not left enough slack which there is no reason to be cutting off so much of the slack... Sorry it looks lovely but it does annoy me these perfect looking boards but they are then a nightmare to work on..
Thanks for the comments. I don't necessarily agree with them though. The ends of the CPC's were nipped off to tidy them up and then doubled over. Once looped up and then down, there is still 3-4 inches of slack. Hopefully, this board will be in service for a couple of decades which by then, the apartment may need rewiring meaning new cabling anyway. And, if slack is an issue, then mount a new board further to the left as you look from the front. I have the final circuits entering through the left knockout, mounting further left would mean they could come through a right hand side knockout.
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Lovely looking board,excellent work
Thank you! Cheers!
realy like the stickers
Lovely job mate! It's great when you've got enough slack on the existing cables to make a nice neat job of it.
The best part of the video for me as a fellow self employed spark is where you struggled with the lock off kit!
I finally realised that it's not just me that ends up struggling with those things! :D
Great to see you putting the fire sealant in too! I was hoping you would.
Thanks for the comments Mike.
Those lock off kits are a nightmare ;o) Struggles!!!!
I almost always seal the back of a board with fire sealant, especially when its mounted on a plasterboard wall which is suppose to provide a fire barrier.
@@krtelectricalservices Grand job mate. Hope your business goes from strength to strength! 👍
Quality job as usual Kev 👏 👏🤩
Thank you, you lovely man!
just found your channel, good video, I have my own channel too.
Where did you get those seal stickers from?
You really need to bin that screwdriver/tester mate, not worth anything!
It's difficult filming on your own, if I can give a bit of help it would be, you'll find your feet on TH-cam and your personality will come out in the end, it just takes time!
Who's JB Electrical? hahaha, love u JB!
Strictly speaking you should re-test after replacing a consumer unit.
Good job mate.
By regulations you don't need to put in intumescent sealant at the cable entries but it totally makes sense to create a fire barrier.
Thanks for the advice.
Quality job buddy.👊
Thank Martin.
Nice neat job👍.
Nice work sir! Stickers on CUs may not be a requirement, but contact details and retest times are really useful for us derpy customers! Good to see the new build spark left plenty of slack and their board didn't look too shabby and you left it looking fantastic. Labelling in the meter cupboard is always frustrating where plot and property number do not align, we have a building designated B for the past 15years but it was built as G, there are still references kicking about to the old one..
The voice audio on your video is slightly bias to the left channel, I don't know much about such things, but you could try setting the mic to mono to centre it up, music choice was good but using the same piece for each segment can start feeling like being on hold. Talking to camera will get easier with time, getting a good balance between entertainment and explanation isn't something that comes easily to some but I think this video does well at it; I know criticism isn't always easy to take onboard and that youtube is a much lower priority than work that makes you proper money, but hopefully this is helpful!
Thanks for the tips re the audio and music! As you can probably time, I'm new at all this recording and editing. I mainly do it as I enjoy it, but also for prospective clients to see what work I dish out. I'm also out to CONSTRUCTIVE criticism.
Good job, well explained ,thanks
Glad you liked it
Nice job mate tidy 👍
Thanks Gary.
Very nice job 👍
Thanks Ian. Appreciate the support.
Very nice! Is it usual to write Spare on the spare ways? Would make it harder to add a circuit, as you'd need to make a new sticker rather than just carrying on with a sharpie :-)
You have a point. Maybe in future, I'll just leave them blank.
Opens previous board and say's "Oh yes nice lot of slack there", changes board and cuts off half of the slack.... It looks lovely and I appreciate there is still a bit of slack but there are ways to keep the slack and still look tidy although not quite so Instagram neat at least when the next guy comes along they can say "Well done previous sparky for leaving slack"...
We should all strive to make a board as neat as possible but it's primary goal is functionality and part of that functionality is having enough slack so a bigger board can be put in or things moved around.. If you go to now change that board where the earth bar is on the right not the left you have not left enough slack which there is no reason to be cutting off so much of the slack...
Sorry it looks lovely but it does annoy me these perfect looking boards but they are then a nightmare to work on..
Thanks for the comments. I don't necessarily agree with them though. The ends of the CPC's were nipped off to tidy them up and then doubled over. Once looped up and then down, there is still 3-4 inches of slack. Hopefully, this board will be in service for a couple of decades which by then, the apartment may need rewiring meaning new cabling anyway. And, if slack is an issue, then mount a new board further to the left as you look from the front. I have the final circuits entering through the left knockout, mounting further left would mean they could come through a right hand side knockout.