Does anybody know if all electrical apprenticeships (domestic, commercial and industrial) cover the same criteria for the 1st year? I cant find the answer to this anywhere and I want to do a domestic and commercial apprenticeship but all I can find where I live is industrial and I dont want to work in industrial for the rest of my life. Can I do year 1 as industrial and then jump ship to a commercial or domestic apprenticeship for the remaining years when I can afford to drive? I live in Ireland but i think it's the same system for UK.
Whats the point of using 2 compartment trunking and bring mains through other compartment should have Conduited it and used t box and angle or designed it differently
Commercial is so much nicer, neater and easier than domestic. I'm in the domestic sector myself. It's hard work. Crawling about loft spaces and under houses 😂
Don’t let a 7 min video deceive you, been doing commercial for a few years and I’ve been through the whole process, from Slavs all the way to the final touches It’s not “easy” kid
@@lastking2925 aye man dont get me wrong! it does have it's tough times. But I find when I was into the commercial sector it was a better kind of hard work. More rewarding I suppose if that makes sense. Regards 'Kid'
I agree I used to do domestic and I hated it 🤣 wiring wise it’s a piece of piss... well so is commercial but you know what I mean. And I find commercial soooo easy! Only difficult thing is doing shit quickly because the stores for kit is always miles away!
Been a industrial and commercial electrician 90% of my working life, and because most of the installations are visible you take more pride on making it look good,better then house bashing👍
I'm currently in in high school going to a career and technical center studying to be an electrician, it's lovely to see how what I'm learning is implemented.
Good to leave loads of slack in boxes, doesn't matter if it looks good, nobodies going to see it apart from the next person working on it, and they'll thank you for the slack. Lol re electricians clearing up - slings it from one place and dumps in the other a few feet away - good sense of humour, great stuff 😀 keep up the good work and vids👍
Does the site agent not go nuts at you for being on your phone on site? I got yellow carded for checking the time on my phone on a bowmer and Kirkland job
In the UK there is no union system like in North America, the government has made the trades into bonded slaves, by legislation and by flooding the market with labour from the eu and the rest of the world, so much so, that in London there are crews from the eu that fly in do the work at a reduced rate, not to regulations / code, then leave, no certificate, then the UK guys have to go in and sort it, historically in the 1980's the trades made alot of money in the south east, London and Greater London, which the rich and powerful then had to do something about, as they wanted to keep the maximum amount of money and so did not want to give anyone decent market rate of pay, so they flooded the south east with polish tradesmen along with others, collapsed the supply, so supply was outstripped by demand, I remember those days, there was a character on a popular TV show called: loads of money, which was a tradesman that made alot of money due to supply and demand, that was 1988, in 1990 the market was saturated, unregulated for non UK, then the law only applied to the UK employers, making it a illegal aka blackmarket and above the table legal system, the politicians move fast when they need to, less so on the ferry system bringing illegal and trafficked people into the UK, on the tax payers expense, I know I was a junior in the 1990's, making real money, £350 a week, going from the west Midlands to the south east, 3 days a week,
What is the deal regards IP rating to those metal clad back boxes mounted on the strut? I’m referring to the holes in the back that are easily accessible.
B.L Electrical The strut doesn’t cover all the holes on the back of the box. It isn’t wide enough. Once in place, you will have holes top and bottom. I know this for certain, but your video also shows it. I’m just wondering if that meets IP requirements? I’m not trying to trip you up.....genuine question. I know about top, sides and front of accessories, CU’s and the like. Not sure about the back of an accessory? Obviously if screwed to a wall, the holes are not exposed. Using the method in the video, they are.
K C I would agree much the same. This is how I’ve been told to do it, if it’s an issue, it’ll be snagged and something will be done to sort it. As yet, nothing has been said. It’s w good point and I’ll bring it up to my supervisor
Really good to see some commercial sparking. Polite suggestion - a bit more detail on the technical side would be interesting. If Mr. Savery is impressed, you're doing it right! Cheers.
@@bwlelectrical I was thinking in terms of things which differentiate your work from domestic. For example, what cables you are running, what they do, what switchgear you are using. Three phase work, motors etc... There is an M&S near me where all the cables serving the floor are visible in basket below the roof, loads of different types, and I wonder what many of them are for, and why they are chosen (definitely no T&E up there!). That sort of thing. There are load of channels of domestic UK work (and some very good too) but not much on the commercial or industrial side. You could have a new opportunity here. Good luck mate, and I've subscribed, look forward to more videos!
Ursus Maritimus no problem mate! I’ll try my best to get what I can and I’ll try and explain more! Thanks for subscribing and thanks for the feedback! I’ll do my best to take it on board! To be honest, on this job that we’re on there isn’t any three phase stuff, as all it is, is just lighting but I’ll bare it in mind for future jobs 👍
@@bwlelectrical I was wondering about the design side of it as well. Does all that stuff come from a design firm / dept and yous get drawings for what cable and fittings to put up, or is it just 'the floor space needs this level of light' and they leave yous to sort out what works best and do the calcs?
tall, dork and hungsome nah mate, jobs this size all the drawings get done first then we as an electrical company price off of the drawings and that’s what’s used throughout the job, there’s changes all the time but then you price for the extras ect so it’s a proper design company that do it and we then as workers just get the drawings and work to fit
Indeed mate, day to day I do commercial and every now and then I do domestic but only really for mates. I do have a video I’ve just cut together of what I was doing the other day on site, that will be out shortly! Stay tuned and share around!
@@bwlelectrical fantastic! So glad I subscribed now! Can't wait to see more. Your the only commercial spark in the uk on here. Everyone else is domestic and occasionally dabbles in commercial stuff. Do you have specific upload days or just as and when you get enough material and time to edit?
Theweescot just as and when to be honest mate, I’m trying to get more content but it can get quite samey because being commercial you don’t dot around normally, but stick in notifications and you’ll see when the next one is up 😉
@@bwlelectrical yeah totally get it mate. If it helps I'd like to see stuff like plant room wires, if you do em commercial kitchen wiring, commercial DB's. That's the kind of stuff I'm interested in. I say it all simply because I'm getting a new office built for my company so its helpful and really interesting to understand what goes on in the commercial trades. Have an epic week mate and I look forward to seeing whatever content you can get whenever you can get it up 🙂
dc 27 I do find it odd.. it has been raised but I don’t think anything came of it? Because pretty much everything else is wired in fp - the cable isn’t red, it’s white but still...
@@bwlelectrical Mains for fire alarm panels does have to be in fp I'm afraid BS5939-PT1 NOTE 1 This supply should be regarded as an integral part of the fire alarm system, particularly for the purpose of certification of the system (see Clause 41), regardless of whether the electrical installation within the building is provided by the organization responsible for the installation of the fire alarm system. "All fire alarm cables should be of a single, common color that is not used for cables of general electrical services in the building, to enable these cables to be distinguished from those of other circuits." NOTE 13 The color red is preferred.
