Nice to have you back Mike and doing electrical for a change 😜. I use oval conduit sometimes on a job by job basis, more so if I’m thinking I will be back at some point to change things and can easily get cables pulled in and out 🤷🏼♂️
The thing that impresses me most on jobs like this is that people have actually managed to empty the garage. I don’t think I could ever do that with mine!
Metal capping dates back to mechanical protection but the later reason for capping 1970s onwards was to prevent the plaster reacting with the insulation. Think the plasticizer reacting with the copper in cables between 1965-1972 it's the same principle. I mostly use all round back and oval conduit now as I get fed up of change orders causing a massive headache if I don't pre-empt them.
Great video, what are they doing with the gas pipe I do the same idea with the socket you can get thick plated metal capping to comply with the regs for the tails
In Ireland we have to use plastic conduit and chase them into the walls along with our backboxes or put conduit and backboxes onto wall direct if its being dry lined, but it is not acceptable to clip direct to walls. Takes a lot longer and people still drill into cables but the only advantage Id say we have of not being allowed to clip direct is it makes the property future proof allowing to pull the cables back up the conduit if needs be or add more cable down.
Nice to have you back Mike and doing electrical for a change 😜. I use oval conduit sometimes on a job by job basis, more so if I’m thinking I will be back at some point to change things and can easily get cables pulled in and out 🤷🏼♂️
The thing that impresses me most on jobs like this is that people have actually managed to empty the garage. I don’t think I could ever do that with mine!
Exactly why I haven’t don’t my loft conversion yet 😔
Soo true😂
@@mattundercoat yep it’s crazy when you go to quote and it’s rammed and walk into an empty space
Cap the tails with unistrut, and bond the unistrut back to the MET. 2 gang skt to form a safe zone is a good idea🫡 Excellent job as always Sir 👍
@@peterc3228 best way to indicate that there was danger hidden I thought
I never use capping , agree pointless extra cost & time
That camera is sick. It follows you wherever you move or summing?
Metal capping dates back to mechanical protection but the later reason for capping 1970s onwards was to prevent the plaster reacting with the insulation. Think the plasticizer reacting with the copper in cables between 1965-1972 it's the same principle. I mostly use all round back and oval conduit now as I get fed up of change orders causing a massive headache if I don't pre-empt them.
Great video, what are they doing with the gas pipe I do the same idea with the socket you can get thick plated metal capping to comply with the regs for the tails
metal capping is good for helping cable finders find cables though as the metal will flag up very quickly before someone hammers a nail in
When you had to calculate the lumens formula in college goes out the window in the real world 😂
capping was used , because the lime in the old plaster would eat into the cable and cause it to degrade.
Could you take the tails under new subfloor
is that just one layer of plasterboard above a semi integral garage?
@@over-engineered yep 👍
👋☝️ 🕰️ 👀 at ur channel I’m in the process doing my electrical training only got 4 months to go be4 qualifying so 🙏 to show us all how it 👍 ❤❤
In Ireland we have to use plastic conduit and chase them into the walls along with our backboxes or put conduit and backboxes onto wall direct if its being dry lined, but it is not acceptable to clip direct to walls. Takes a lot longer and people still drill into cables but the only advantage Id say we have of not being allowed to clip direct is it makes the property future proof allowing to pull the cables back up the conduit if needs be or add more cable down.