Hi Thomas, Im thinking of changing careers to become an electrician and your videos are helping me decide. I used to live in Hammersmith and the broadway was a nightmare ! Keep up the greats videos :)
It amazes me how many people see a bulb go out and think, "oh no, better call an electrician". What happened to all the folks who would change their own bulbs?
minimalistinlife Looks kinda lika a communal stairway. In that case the council might require a ”trusted trader” to do repair jobs. Also puts the liability and responsability on them rather than having the tenants falling off ladders electrocuting themselves. And pretty much everyone rents anyways so its the landlords who pay, so it doesnt matter to the tenants.
iPelaaja1 that, plus when they are living London, paying twice what my mortgage is on a 4 bed house, for a 2 bed flat, you kinda would be like, fuck the landlord, he can pay for the bulb etc
Still light at 8pm! Jo'burg is never light at 8pm. But then Jo'burg is never pitch dark at 5pm either. It's also winter and today was 21°C down to 6°C tonight with no rain in sight 😊
Image-i-Nation Photography £50 a point. Any appliance I touch I charge a standard £50 big or small. Although I don't always get paid that much. If it's changing a bulb and nothing extra behind it, that can be free depending on the people your working for. If they're nice you can let em off.
Whenever I say lamp in front of a customer they get confused and they think I'm talking about the whole fitting. Me: yeah I can change those lamps for you. Customer: No, could you just change the bulbs? Me: yeah, yeah I can change the "bulbs" 🙄
This sort of confusion is inevitable when a trade body tries to change the English language. My house has always had ring mains,they're my ring mains in my house but now some busybody wants to call them ring final circuits. Much of the electrical terminology seems to be unnecessarily verbose. It's ok when electricians are chatting amongst themselves but they need to realise that Joe Public doesn't speak the same language.
number 33 seems to happen in every profession that lends it's self to becoming a part of a person's personality instead of a job. It becomes a club with secret passwords and weird words set by regulatory bodies on a whim.
dont residents ever give you visitor scratchcards? i always give tradesmen visitor scratchcards which give them 6 hours parking, i buy them from my council for £12 for 10 cards. so works out £1.20 each, peanuts and i never ask for them to pay me back for them.
So he made ~£200 for this day? I read that most self employed electritian outside London make £30-40k pa and London sparky £40-60k that about right? I don't mean top 5% making big bucks just the other 90%...... your average One
If that's how you deal with traffic at 3:23 i must be the single most aggressive idiot on the road. Frankly, i don't know why the hell they gave me a driving license. I lose my shit at even the smallest queue of cars lol.
“Traffic Warren, I’ve got two hours on my van, so you can get f*cked!” Got to put that on a T-Shirt
Hi Thomas, Im thinking of changing careers to become an electrician and your videos are helping me decide. I used to live in Hammersmith and the broadway was a nightmare ! Keep up the greats videos :)
0:17 basically another way of saying "I need to work"
It amazes me how many people see a bulb go out and think, "oh no, better call an electrician". What happened to all the folks who would change their own bulbs?
Mr.Mister yeah I'm 15 and I have replaced sockets switches and whole light fittings replacing a bulb is really easy.
If you want a bulb change phone a Gardner. Lamps need replaced
@@ScottMcD91 😂😂
on ya mate *thumbs up* keep up the good videos
-from a sparkie down-under
good to hear from ya matey, watch out for them roo's!
Your "traffic wardens" are our "meter maids" across the pond in the US.
3:21 - me when I wake up and think it's Saturday but find out it's Friday. 😂
Lmao
3:21 I do the same thing when I can't go as fast as I would like :D
Excellent ,
Calling an electrician for a change of lightbulb. That would cost loads where I live.
minimalistinlife Looks kinda lika a communal stairway. In that case the council might require a ”trusted trader” to do repair jobs. Also puts the liability and responsability on them rather than having the tenants falling off ladders electrocuting themselves. And pretty much everyone rents anyways so its the landlords who pay, so it doesnt matter to the tenants.
iPelaaja1 that, plus when they are living London, paying twice what my mortgage is on a 4 bed house, for a 2 bed flat, you kinda would be like, fuck the landlord, he can pay for the bulb etc
Still light at 8pm!
Jo'burg is never light at 8pm.
But then Jo'burg is never pitch dark at 5pm either.
It's also winter and today was 21°C down to 6°C tonight with no rain in sight 😊
It’s still light at 10pm in the summer. And it’s just as hot here haha. In the winter then it’s dark by 6pm
Thomas, do you ever carry tools around your waist ? or is it all in a carry bag ? thanks!
Have you considered a move to Leeds, its busy traffic wise but you won't get those London traffic jams
What is that song you use? In this clip it was when you changed a light bulb around 8am
And around 1PM
I have got 2 hours on my van go be fxxked 😂😂😂😂😂
Very entertaining
How much do you charge to replace a lightbulb? :-/
Image-i-Nation Photography £50 a point. Any appliance I touch I charge a standard £50 big or small. Although I don't always get paid that much. If it's changing a bulb and nothing extra behind it, that can be free depending on the people your working for. If they're nice you can let em off.
I'll be honest i didnt think anyone would pay to have their lightbulbs changed
Yeah, nothing seems more normal in my mind than an image of the queen atop a 40 metre ladder with a bag of 80 energy saving bulbs for her chandelier.
Who is filming, it is so nice
People call out an electrical contractor.. to fit a light bulb? 🤷♂️
Woah dont let sparks see you calling it a lightbulb on TH-cam they'll have you, ITS A LAMP
Mr Grumpy day then?
3:47 rolls royce
What's the song (in most if your videos) called from 1:10? Thanks
Sam Armstrong you can find this song in audio library on youtube
How do you get your client!?
Light Bulb? Don't you mean Lamp?. I'd get my balls busted for calling it that lol
I shouldn't call them that either but when you work for yourself no-one
Stops you when you say it! Lol
Whenever I say lamp in front of a customer they get confused and they think I'm talking about the whole fitting.
Me: yeah I can change those lamps for you.
Customer: No, could you just change the bulbs?
Me: yeah, yeah I can change the "bulbs" 🙄
headnod to that!
This sort of confusion is inevitable when a trade body tries to change the English language. My house has always had ring mains,they're my ring mains in my house but now some busybody wants to call them ring final circuits. Much of the electrical terminology seems to be unnecessarily verbose. It's ok when electricians are chatting amongst themselves but they need to realise that Joe Public doesn't speak the same language.
number 33 seems to happen in every profession that lends it's self to becoming a part of a person's personality instead of a job. It becomes a club with secret passwords and weird words set by regulatory bodies on a whim.
You are a good electrician my dad an electrician and I'm an apprentice give me tips
in my other comment mate!
They call an electrician out to change a bulb....Really!!! These ppl must have money to burn!!!
Have you considered switching to an electric car, like the Renault Kangoo, since you are only doing city work?
dont residents ever give you visitor scratchcards? i always give tradesmen visitor scratchcards which give them 6 hours parking, i buy them from my council for £12 for 10 cards. so works out £1.20 each, peanuts and i never ask for them to pay me back for them.
That moment when you wish you had the powers of Magneto to push the other vehicles away.
So he made ~£200 for this day? I read that most self employed electritian outside London make £30-40k pa and London sparky £40-60k that about right? I don't mean top 5% making big bucks just the other 90%...... your average
One
whats your call out charge pal
Let's ask on a video nearly a year old instead of messaging the company directly. Genius!
For all intentional purposes, I could have been an electrician this day
"intentional purposes" lol
Intents and purposes is what I think you meant
I think most could do a nagy day tbh
If that's how you deal with traffic at 3:23 i must be the single most aggressive idiot on the road. Frankly, i don't know why the hell they gave me a driving license. I lose my shit at even the smallest queue of cars lol.
Didnt have a fused spur on the van, u should be ashamed of yourself mr nagy