18TH Edition Consumer Unit Upgrade, Fusebox SPD, second fix kitchen,Exotic life of an electrician 

Look good in the DSS clobber big man! 🙌🏻

Great video, that fuse box doesn’t look half bad!

Just because we don't buy fuseboards the same as you Nick don't mean we're not listening to you! I'm just not organised enough to actually order stuff on line, if I were I'd be ordering on the CEF website too. I tend to go in and collect stuff as I know it's in stock having said that 3 phase stuff often isn't and I order that in advance, which just wears me out and loses me the will to live. As does second fixing sockets and downlights, completely agree with Adam about f.... cable clamps on those things, such a FAG. Thanks I loved this video, the music as ever was excellently found and I know how difficult it can be to find appropriate stuff that's not just hateful. I never succeed and give up mostly on that score. You've got so much energy... good luck with the mega job on those three care homes. As long as they're stripping them, I just had an EICR of a lovely house that was once a care home, I assumed it d be lovely, as the house was, but they'd done nothing with the electrics and there was 400mA of earth leakage and the RCD was burnt out and stuck closed - so when I changed it.... not a chance of it staying on. It still has a main switch module installed in its place two weeks later. I dunno what to do with it!

Nice vid.. Here’s my tip. I’ve found that on the brother printer, all the standard templates run out of line. Set the units up for 18.1 mm for mcbs/ RCBOs etc and 36.2 for main switches etc. That will keep everything perfectly in line right through the board.

Great video again Nick. Love the content. It's fantastic to see Adams progress too. I've trained apprentices before and it's very rewarding to see them grow in confidence and ability, and I can see Adam has a great teacher!

Love those new mats - very very good products indeed by the looks of it. Clearly you have a good eye for marketing, and that’s so important these days for a successful business

Just bought a 14way fusebox board and all the gubbins using your discount code - cheers 👍

Thanks for link for fuse box.... just ordered board now, see what service is like . Cheers

Great vid, the fuse box turned out great considering all the obstacles, great job all round 👍

Superb video Nick. Very informative to trainee sparkies like me.

26:54 - Well I think that is pretty neat all things cosidered. Fortune favours the brave.

Great video, nightmare when your pushed for time and things are going against you! At least you got around it and considering you never jointed the cables through it looks neat in the board! 👍🏼

Bloody hell Nick, the board still looked super neat despite whatever you said 😂😂👍👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Most wholesalers stock the flat 3.5 50mm screws! Picked a bag up the other day!

Didn’t know if you know about the screw extenders you can get for normal metal back boxes? That way you could extend the size of the 3.5mm screw whilst keeping the flat head finish.

Great video mate. I don’t see any issues using wago in the trunking. Decently dressed board given that you didn’t extend the cables. Not every board can be super neat, although we do our best 👍. Looking forward to the next lot of vids.

Nice board mate, nice and tidy. Loving the new work clothes! We all send stickers and the Boss Dan just sends the shirt off his back 😉👌

I like the work Matts, I also like how you place the DB down on the wooden worktop without the matt in place lol

Good vid and board in the end. Will try the fuse box on my next board change £10 a rcbo good value for money and defo need to upgrade the p touch I’ve got to be able to select and just print a strip way more easier

Great vid again fella. Just looking at the hole converter plates for the hybrid9, £27!!!!!

We like to use T&E to connect in cookers and ovens, etc (as permitted by 521.9.3), but given they were new units with presumably the manufacturers installation instructions available, what did they say should be used (typically, they say e.g. HO5... a flex, which may or may not be heat resistant, as required). Also, re accessibility for disabled persons, perhaps it's good practice to put switches in cupboards near the front of the cupboard to enable access; which helps comply with building regs, where required.

Great vid Nick 👍

Great vid like the printer

No way am I starting a dB change at 1.30, oh too be young again.

Hey Nick got all the stuff we needed from expert electrical-- cheers GREAT VIDEO --the fusebox --18 edition looks marvellous..THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP-- use your discount code.. THANKYOU.

you can get those fusebox boards on ebay £200 for a fully loaded rcbo board cant beat it. Good vid also

Just ordered a CP Fusebox for the next board change used your discount code. Cheers 👍

Great Video again Nick! 👌

I saw on a video that cheap LED lights will cause flicker on a camera. In fact one way to test this is to use a mobile. I tried this and found that the cheap ones do cause flicker and the more expensive ones don't. A bit more research revealed that the more expensive ones raise the frequency before rectifying, much the same principle as high frequency florys. Maybe those light fittings aren't as good as you thought.

@N Bundy Electrical I know I'm a bit late commenting on this. For the "earths cut short by the last guy" problem.. "Ideal SpliceLine In-Line Wire Connectors" are a fantastic thing to have in your kit along with all your Wago connectors.

According to JCC today, they've stopped making the Hybrid9 and they're pushing the V50 instead.

For the tails I was thinking open up one of the 20mm knockouts, expand it to 32mm with step bit, then fit tails gland with 32mm adaptor.

Oh the kitchen with the 2.5mm radial (like most of your installs 😂)

Change your camera FPS to 50 (or multiples of 50) should stop the flickering

Hi nick thanks for sharing your video with me and I would love to see a lot more of your videos and also for of tips and ideas can I have the old consumer unit please

Plastering the walls like that is actually easier for the kitchen fitter the wall is totally flat then. also much easier to tile

Great job and great video. Thanks.

Think it may have been easier to have put the board higher and replaced the tails. Used those down lights recently, must say very good and the price is excellent to. I have used one of those boards, and for the money they are ok, I just wonder if they are going to stick around, because at the price they are I wonder how they can make any real money, but time will tell.

Just ordered a 14 way Fusebox board with 10 rcbos and some bits.. £200 with the discount sweet!! 🤙

Good job

You can buy long flat head 3.5 screws

well young man I thought you had protection for the oiled oak work top and then you use then as a platform for the CU, otherwise very good work.

Great video mate!

I would have met on the board higher on the next shelf up and then all you'd have to do is change your main lines in from your meter to your breaker box

Just pre doing my cp fuse box. I used the 10% code off, cheers nick

Good install!

Top vid mate.

I keep track of my pot light measurements the exact same way. I take a video of myself talking about it while the rest of the workers onsite laugh at me....

If the screws are not long enough use the extension screw studs

With the light switches, they can be perfectly level however because they are at an angle to each other induces parallax error which makes them look off :/

We use the v50 epic lights

I would of just cut those shelf supports down,no need to space off then.

3 houses into 18 flats. Sounds lovely. 🙄

13:23 - Proteus CU - changed mine for an MK with 16 ways and 10 RCBOs

TLC do 3.5mm x 50mm flat head screws.

A good job

If Fusebox can make/sell CU's and RCBO's it begs the question as to why the likes of Hagar / Wylex charge so much for their offerings. Fusebox with RCBO's seems like its going to win a lot of business. Good bit of improvisation with the CU cabling.

Come on Nick wheres your new mats 😂 33 mins in, fusebox on the nice ladies worktops😂

Nothing wrong with using penny washers as a spacer or 8 mm / 10 mm nuts or even stubs of pvc conduit as long as you don’t compromise the fixing

Good problem solving could have been a nightmare

Can’t you make your own label directly on the printer itself to what ever length you want ?

E5 have reminded you about safe isolation too have they. You have some spare seals too. Cool 😳

Why is everybody so obsessed with wagos? Have we all forgotten crimps exist???

Why didn't you just notch the shelf support with a multi tool?

Do you do a full inspection and test on all circuits (new and existing ) when changing a board ? Normally takes me a full day doing a board upgrade with all the testing and cert

Good vid dude! Don't bother with the brother app for board stickers its completely garbage! Use the advanced settings on the printer itself it's much easier. And top tip if you measure the width of the breakers you can alter the brother printer for the exact size in the advanced settings. once you do it a few times you will find it super easy and they will fit perfect everytime. =) If you need a pointer on how to do it i'll email them over to you.

Nice

Excellent video thanks. Wouldn’t have thought the dno should fit the main switch upside down as something could fall onto it and turn it on. But then again they don’t give a fuck.

Hi, I been having issues when making patch panel style labels directly on the printer without the app. If I do a block size of 18.1mm the sizing is out after a few blocks, via the app its correct. (the blocks line up with multiples of 18.1mm) I logged this issue with brother which was passed onto their development team and state its "working to spec". (I am waiting for an email confirming what the mean) However the support person said someone else has reported this issue, and stated it worked fine on older firmware (2018ish), which the development team say is not correct. I am running version 1.25, I was wondering if you had an old version you could test with? Thank you for the great content as always 👍 Thanks, Tom

I'd be worried about the ingress of moisture from that soup and chutney above the board

15:57 - Do you not measure up for a replacement when you survey the job before givig a price?

How do you edit your videos? I have a tip on how to remove the flickering but depends how you're editing you vids

Beaut 👌

27:17 Since the last video, I'm now selling sofas for a company called DFS 😂😂😂

quick one, why do RCBO's have a neutral terminal and you do not terminate it to the neutral terminal of the CU?

When you am installing c.u now do you fit type A rcds now or a.c type. There is quite a big price difference at the moment

What sort of contract/terms and conditions etc would you use for those 18 flats in terms of payment? Bit of a gamble if you don't have anything I reckon.

nick i say as a customer could not stand them lights flickering ,drive me nuts is there a neutral fault?

Alright mate just wondering were do u get your wago’s from

Do they have these with mains and SPD on the left? Trying to match en existing db layout

just started wathing you videos , find them great im pretty new in the game and i do all my downlight in stges , i strip them all first then i bang them all up at once . do you think thats a long winded way , i would appriciate your feedback cheers KR Steve

Put your camera into PAL

They wee connection units are brilliant...so quick....do u sleeve the cpc ??

Couldn't you use 25mm stuffing glands for Tails?

What work trousers do you use?

What's the name of the printer App?

Disconnect the tails for isolation ...really!

@9:45 those leds are trash, probably a dirt cheap driver ruining them.

What is the obsession with surge protection it is not exactly necessary in most installs

10mm on a 32A breaker! waste of money could have done that on 4mm or 6mm max depending on the run length

fucking hate fuse boards 8am start not at 2pm :')

All the outlets on one breaker stupid

Couldn't you just crimp the cables together( if it wasnt a rcbo), save a lot of space in the trunking. Neat enough anyways