A company with existing highways contracts is required to "certify" a new competing company entering the market. Yep, sounds suss and just like how government contracts work.
@@thomasnagy Yes, it's great content and very informative. I'm not even a Sparky, however if I wasn't working in IT then it might have been an trade to consider! Any joy with finding someone to audit your highways accreditation? 🤔🤷🏽♂️
get in touch with any shopfitting firm and ask them if they're ripping out one of those ceilings. the amount of times i have to walk past piles of perfectly good kit stacked up at a refit just waiting for the scrap lorry
Have to say.. it's so refreshing to finally have some professional content back on here after all this time. It's certainly been missing whilst Tom has been busy setting up his growing empire. 👍
Good to see you back again regularly. The variety of jobs is really interesting. Chevrons are chevrons of alternating colour what goes on the back, Battenberg is the alternating squares of colour which go on the sides of (typically) fire, police and ambulance vehicles (which you don't have). The yellow strips are Conspicuity markings, required for your highways use.
You spoil us with all these videos Mr Nagy! Seriously we know you have been mega busy of late with all the new company stuff, videos must be time consuming to make and edit, so I gotta say, I for one appreciate all your efforts in getting this content out to us.
Interesting video and you're clearly getting very busy. I know it may seem impossible right now, but try and make some time for yourself every now and again, away from the business. A mistake I made in my career was thinking, as the boss, I needed to be present all the time. My team actually worked perfectly well without me around, it took me too long to find that out.
I was just thinking the same thing FurBall. Maybe the _Camera Guy_ is a dab hand with the scanner when new stock arrives. At some stage Tom is going to need someone to handle the in/out stock scanning plus service the 20+ vehicles *Nagy Inc* will have in a couple of years. I fear for the man's hair colour changes (but at least the bastard has hair that will change colour 😭).
That seems bonkers system, surely there's an implicit incentive to fail more people to keep more out of the market for themselves given you become a competitor on passing.
Great video Tom I start my own electrical course In September I’m looking forward to it but nervous your content has taught me a lot already thanks for the effort you put into your videos and look forward to future stuff
Great video Tom. You really need to get yourself a warehouse/stock control person. Then you can get home at night for some R&R and come in the next day refreshed. You'll be changing the name of the company next to Thomas Nagy Group Ltd.
Hi Tom, I spent 12 years on the highways as a street lighting electrician so I’ve lots of experience on highways work and I can offer loads of advice on anything from lantern conversions to cutouts and feeder pillars, With regard to the HEA Audit the firm I used to be at had somebody come out from Nottingham council to do our Aslec portfolios. I know a lot of street lighting firms that may possibly do it for you.
if i send you a photo of a street light can you tell me how to disable the fucking thing? it's right outside my window on a private housing estate that got pushed through planning and built a few years ago, the light wasn't on the plans
@@cliveramsbotty6077 contact the developer or Local Authority and tell them it’s causing you light pollution they will fit a baffle or black out part of the shade and solve the problem
Excellent video and commentary as usual. I had many years of dealing with Colas Street Lighting Company, might be worth an enquiry if you have not done so all ready. Keep up the good work and stay safe.
Those ceilings are called Burgess I think. You are supposed to use a special tool to drop them otherwise they can drop on the corners after a while if forced. Supermarkets use then a lot there good for magnetic signage.
Yep our old office had that stupid ceiling too. We got told off for not using the proper removal tool, but tbf neither did the landlord's maintenance crew...
I really enjoy learning about your organization system in the warehouse, as I am headed that way with my remodeling business and inventory also. Thanks for sharing and showing us your learning curve as you go. Keep up the great content, love from the U.S.!
Would you consider hiring a part-time storeman? Duties to include stock management, leading to ordering etc. Get the right person who enjoys (and has good) organising then you'll have a neat and tidy stock area as a constant. i run a locksmith firm in Stockport, we have a retail shop attached to offices, workshops and stock storage. 2500 sq feet. 4 members of staff, 4 vans and 2 company directors. Much like you, i find myself sorting through orders, putting them away and generally tidying up the place. George
Yep having worked on the manchester hospitals changing to LED lights for the last 2 years these are everywhere and and absolute shambles also super sharp
Good video, I like how it was a good mix of the work you've done, different clients and jobs. Rather than a video about one job etc. I do think though, you need to hand the 'stock' job to someone else, I know you probably enjoy it!
Would Love to see an update on the stock system you were testing before. interested on the changes youve made to fit your needs as you've played with it
I had an N-E fault on my cooker in my house i moved into, every time i turned the cooker isolator on it tripped the RCD, F***ing morons who connected the oven up had connected N to E and E to N.. It onlyshowed up when I realised there was and RCD missing out the dual RCD board lol... fitted a new RCD and connected it up correctly (split the N bus bars) that i discovered it. So some moron connected the cooke wrong, it tripped the RCD and they took it out! so it didnt trip. crazy. Cowboy DIY Dave's do my head in. Great Vid.. I love fault finding. 😁👍
you should look at hiring a junior or apprentice to work a couple hours in evening to help with inventory. Get them learning the names of components ready for when they start going out on jobs!
I don't suppose you can call it *Murphy's Law* like most of the rest of the English speaking world for fear of upsetting the Irish. Also, Murphy, like Sod, was a bloody optimist; the bastard. 🙄
Be careful if he is shooting seagulls or doves they are protected and carry a heavy fine and yes you will be fined too, they need a pest control licence as well
Great video Tom. Although I really enjoy the unit and vehicle update videos it was nice to see a nice chunk of actual on site electrical work in today's video. 👍🙆🙆
Are you sure they are " Battenburg" markings? I always thought Battenburg markings are like the cake (Which they are named after) are the square markings that are on the side of vehicles, not the rear. I believe yours are called "chevron safety markings" (Chapter 8 of the Road Traffic Manual) Love the channel.
Drivers fail before LED panels. The drivers integeated in the panels are generally shite, low profile means no cooling they run hot and the capacitors fail.
1:30 Circa 1997 I got lumbered into a network cabling job that had a very similar _false_ ceiling except the panels were about the width of the light hole and were 3 or maybe 4 times as long. It was push one in and two would fall out. It drove us nuts and we were there for bloody hours. Finally got them all right except for one panel that sort of hung down a little and our hope was a sparkie was going to have to run some cables after us. Never got a call back to fix the ceiling and no complaints about the cabling (not that there ever was at any site). Those panels were just the worst *evaaaa!!* 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 5:28 Nagy, Thomas Nagy..... *not* licenced to kill. 😱
I can’t believe you don’t find that neutral to earth fault quicker. And I can’t believe you didn’t narrow it down in the fitting. Not knowing the what and why would frustrate the hell out of me. With non-intermittent faults like this, especially when you have an insulation tester/Megger to allow fault tracing with the supply isolated should be fairly straightforward. We use the halves/50% technique. Isolate at the feed/consumer unit. Confirm fault still present. Find the halfway point (or appropriate half way point) between the feed/consumer unit and the end of the circuit. Split the circuit at this point and test both ways. Then in the direction of the fault, split that part of the circuit in half again. Split and retest. Etc. etc…
that would require a bit of a rewire on the fitting to put the used contacts on the correct side. The you have to realize that there are multiple ways to do that rewire which are incompatible
Tom, admire your work ethic, But remember you should get someone else to do the stock control work to save you the extra load, At the end of the day you also need some down time.
Schoolboy error with the ceiling. Should have seen it wasn't a traditional grid. Proper fittings are a PITA to install. Tile removal key needs to come from ceiling suppliers.
I'm enjoying all the new content. But now I have to remember all the European electrical terminology I forgot. Lol funny how different things can be from the US
Great to see more videos frequently Tom! Couple of questions tho.. how come when you've re-branded you haven't included email address, telephone and/or accreditations. Do you not feel asif that's a missed opportunity in terms of branding? Also throughout the day shouldn't your staff members be booking items back in themselves as and when it's required. My point being its your company but it's all left up to you at the end of the day meaning your home very late. Are you happy doing that? Just curious to hear your thoughts?! All the best for the Highways work looking forwards to the upcoming videos.
I had a feeling it was going to be an issue with the extractor. I did some fault finding at my friend's house as their lighting kept tripping.. It turned out to be the extractor (which apparently stopped working a year before) i took it off and the PCB was black with soot
I'd love you if you threw the fluorescent fitting out on the Nth Circular if I was behind you, LOL On a serious mode, you need a storeman to do your booking in and out to free up your own personal time!
Thought so too, and usually the cheap electrolytic capacitors. It was the same with electronic fluorescent ballasts, at least some of them. I've had one fail on one of those old stick-shaped 8 W work lights and all that was wrong was a failed electrolytic.
Have you though of asking Unipart or another company in the same line of work if they can help. Whats the worst that can happen? I worked for Unipart when they took over our Trafic Calming sign company so they must have some form of electrical permits etc.
