4 ways to chase a socket 

I tend to mark it out first then use a multitool to cut the shape out the plaster board then SDS chisel for the brick. So many people have their own ways. I used to work with an old fella that still did it all by hand. Hammer and bolster chisel. He was very quick at it too!

I wish these existed when I was younger. We did all of our cuts using lump hammer & feather splitter. We did council house rewires where we had to rewire an occupied house in a day. Killer stuff. Can't emphasise enough how important PPE is now I'm almost 60. Knees & back are knackered. Hands are full of scar tissue, and almost constantly blocked sinuses from years of dust being breathed in. I would also urge wearing at least bump caps if not hard hats. I have given myself some nasty bangs on the head over the years Great to see you passing skills on though. The industry needs more folks with a well-rounded knowledge.

Don’t forget step 4 😂Scutch hammer or scutch chisel I was taught on, works a treat on old listed buildings with soft crumbley bricks

Brilliant! Just what I needed!

On the Metabo ,only go to the edge of the blade and take the final edge out with the SDS , you can get a near perfect cut out. The Metabo MFE chaser and extractor have literally been the best investment I have ever made!

You’re far from a cowboy & it’s nice to see people taking a bit of pride in their work…. However, I do have a few tips for improvement. 1. It’s the finest particles that cause silicosis so, no dust mask when cutting is going to screw your lungs up far worse than smoking & also the lungs of your customers & employees. We use framed enclosures with extraction to cut boxes/chases. 2. Drilling into single/hollow brick… do it at an angle so it doesn’t crack the plaster on the opposite side. 3. At 35mm depth & greater than 100mm chase on the horizontal, you damage the structural integrity of the wall. A bricky/plasterer would need to cut & insert to comply with building regs. Bonding compound doesn’t have the structural strength to replace brick. 4. Bosch have a dust shroud for grinders gde125eat. 5. Armeg ebs.tcinst.set + Debris collector modified with dust extraction is how we roll.

method no. 5: Mark your square , get a core drill of 82mm go the depth you want and finish it up with the chisel sds on corners.

Top work and cheers for the vid take care

I like number 1 best.never did it but have to this week. Not massive job but I don't want dust . cheers buddy

Thanks great video

good guidance

What's your best way for extending a single socket into a double? One clown who did one for me broke through the internal wall then expanding foamed the box in, and neglected to own up. The other side was covered by a headboard, so we didn't find out until finding the broken plaster, dust, hole and ripped wallpaper when moving the bed

you should look at the dust arrester for the grinder mighty job

Great vidz on Chasing out sockets . And Could you Cover Internet, data cable Connection ⚡️👊

Have you anything on dealing with sockets in skirts? Patching etc

Think stitch drilling works best imo. However I’ve used a multi tool a few times which cuts through the plaster and leaves a very clean edge. Then stitch drill the brick. Proper knackers your multi tool blades though

Which way is easiest for a concrete house ie wimpey nofines concrete. Thanks

there is arrows on the side of the metabo which indicate the edge of the blade, use the metabo and knock the corners out with hammer and chisel.

Nick you look even younger without your hat on 😄

Very nice. Although I'm not an electrician and only need to chase out a few sockets and some very short grooves in my own home ... nevertheless I *** WANT *** a Metabo with a triple diamond wheel! (but will settle for an SDS of course, sigh). Incidentally, it occurs to me, re the question of dust once you've chased your first channel with the Metabo: mightn't the best way be to leave a very narrow gap (i.e. untouched wall) between each Metabo channel, say a few mm... then if you can do that accurately you'd be able to finish that off with your SDS or even a chisel ... but the extractor would be able to do its job...

The cat in the background 😂 8:21

Hammer and Scutch chisel. That soon got tiring 😂

club hammer and bolster

Try a mini grinder with diamond blade gets the job done in jig time and very neatly too without racking the surrounding brickwork but you spend the next 3 weeks cleaning up the stoor and redecorating as everything in the house gets a liberal one inch coat of black dust and you end up looking like Al Jolson , the dust even got inside me jocks mate.

Class video

Stitch drill for me 👍

Very neat Workmanship Nick 💪. Any one know , what Joules SDS "minimum" should i go for ? is 2.5 or 3.5 J . 🤔

Which do you use nick

Metabo wall chaser always! On an other note, any updates on that little transit connect? 😜

Great Video NIck

As newest chase wall video, do wall chasers manage to go through flint? Where I am I got a metre or so of flint wall to chase before get to normal wall

Wasn't that a metal cut off wheel in the grinder?

We use 18v dewalt grinder with dust arrest shroud fitted connected to dust extraction unit

Nine times out of 10 I use a Grinder with a shadow hoovering. You look a lot younger with out the cap. Good look keep up the good work.

Nick, whats youre process when you're wiring up a room that's back to brick. Do you still sink your backboxes in or are they flush mounted? Cheers

Don't Bosch drills come with depth gauge?

Mr B, well over a year ago you said you had ordered a bosch dust guard for a small angle grinder, poss' 125 mm, that you could attach a hoover to, so just to remind you, you never did show it. So did you get one or not and if you did why not use it for chasing in the box.

So who bares the cost of cutting disc, client or spark?

18v milwaukee sds chaser i can literally get them bang on everytime within a few minutes

I've only ever done stitch drill of the box but I wouldn't of drilled the middle of the box area just the outside that way the centre of the brick will stay and not fall out for a good fixing the chaser is massive no no waste of time it's not neat,

Glad we have round boxes here in the Netherlands.

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In modern electrical Installations you would just use Circular Backboxes, Saves Time,Effort and Money :) But we all now the British electrical gear isnt the smartest really and not up to modern standards. Great video regardless

Not a job I enjoy doing. How about that single brick wall separating from next door, wooden floors too. Sound insulation must be very poor.

I tried with a wall chaser, it made a HUGE mess So I ended up stitch drilling the outside with a 5mm and then a few hours in the middle with a much larger bit, 25mm, before chipping away the brick inside But where I had walls that were block I used that armeg box cutter spinning contraption, great for blocks, absolutely useless for bricks

I was shown another way very similar to the grinder method but causes far less mess and creates a fairly neat finish. Use a multi tool with a blunt blade to cut the plaster. Then SDS the brick. It’s neater and more accurate than the angle grinder and less mess. Great vid Nic

Run around haha

5 ways actually, get the apprentice to do it !

1 and 3 are how I do it in the states the last one with the grinder if you use a chisel or vibrating cutter it wld be cleaner. overcuts like 2 and 4 are very hacky and amateurish glad your a spark not a carpenter your staircases wld fall thru lol

All four complete suck compared to just using round boxes. 82mm hollow core drill, dust-free and done.

if you ever use an angle grinder on concrete block wall ..you,ll only do it once,,,,,,,,and never again...!

No Armeg 😭😭😭

Could you let a plumber know about this 😁😁🤬🤬

Never a good idea to run cables under ground floors, risk of rodent damage