Butchered Fuseboard 🤦🏿‍♂️AND No Main Earth For 40 Years!!! | Fault Find and Repair 

I'm not an electrician or needing electrical work and no idea how i ended up on this video but I've just watched the whole thing with great interest. Subbed lol 👍✊

I used to be a cable jointer, to fit an earth wire to the cable, the best way is to strip back both steel tape armours, clean off the bituminous impregnated paper off the lead sheath. You then tie the earth wire to the sheath and using a blow torch and D metal you plumb the earth wire to the lead sheath and the other end goes into an earth block. Another method was to change the iron clad cut out for a new plastic modern one and the earth wire then went into the earth block connector on the new cut out. We used to strip these cables live by cutting off the lead sheath and then getting to the cores that were only covered in paper tape.

The gods were shining on you that day del. I certainly wouldn't be hacking away at a pilc cable. Should have put in a temp earth electrode. Well done on sorting the customer out.

Man you've got some patience....confirms why I ditched domestic sparkying a long time ago ...fair play to you for taking the job on. 👍

Del your braver than me I would have ran for the hills with that one 😂

Got to be doing ZS @ DB or ZE on the first visit especially if ZS at socket is to high

Crazy del your a brave man fitting that clamp to the sheath. Certainly one for the DNO. If u you out work live I would have had CAT rated arc gear on, like we do in the USA. With double insulated rates gloves, face shield and fire rated clothing. No simple jobs for you Del. Get yourself a metabo chaser well worth the investment.

Gotta love del talking about getting clips on a 12 inch crawl space when the job is already a nightmare without the clips! 🙈

As a former elektricien in the Netherlands i am looking at this with amazement!What a mess under the floor!That would not be in the most off the houses in the Netherlands!Just a few cables here and there and under the floor and that is it really! In our houses there is already so long ago decided to use metallic pipes first and later on plastic pipes to get the wires through.Because its tidy and better for the wires.And if some idiote goes mess up with the wires they are easy to find,unless when they are disappearing in the wall. So if there is a trouble with the wiring you can relatively put the new wires on the old ones and it just a matter off puling the wires through until you see the connection with the new wire.And then its correctly again and reliable too. So if there is something above the cellar not right you know you dont really have to check under the floor.

Great work Del, but why didn’t you get that lady from your last job around , she would have talk you through fixing the problems in no time 🤣

18:33 I started sweating and had a panic attack !!! Old TT system obviously and the earth, as you suspected, must have been an incoming water or to a stake somewhere.

You could ring that through to the DNO(distribution) as an emergency job, they would attend on the day to fix the earthing problem

Last extension i was called out to was wired in twin bell wire. Several two gang 13a sockets. Then found connected to the lighting circuit. I just powered down and advised the owner to contact the builder who installed it. No earth obviously.

Well done Del, you've got a nice way about you.

God bless your patience mate you litrally don't know what you're walking into

Brave man fitting a bonding clamp onto PILC! could you get the DNO to PME it ?

If there is rcd protection then a loop reading of 36 ohm's is not a reason to disconnect the power

Always amazing what you find! At least it's safer now!

Not a spark but enjoy the vids so apologies if this is a daft question...If the earth was non existent originally, was the remedial work on all the sockets truly necessary? Sort the earthing, kitchen and living room in turn sorted? I may be missing something not explained but that's how I took the video after all that.

Not a spark, but I'd have thought you'd have had to call the DNO on that one - That main incomer is ancient!

Great video delroy big fan of yours keep up the good work 👍

As a retired sparks of 50 years I have the exact same consumer unit in my house ,its a split board and the 2 rcds and mcbs come with the board ,the problem comes when An mcb develops an earth fault it will trip the rcd therefor disconnecting everything else covered by that rcd .so that sparks swapped the mcbs to rcbs so an earth fault on an individual circuit will only trip that circuit and not multiple circuits but he should have spotted that there was no main earth cable

That Cowboy Sparky who did all that should be in jail for such a crime of a job in the sparky world! Good job on the fix Delroy!

I always try to make a point of checking the earthing & supply arrangements first, otherwise you just end up chasing your tail. Once I know that the earth is satisfactory at the supply end I will move on & do the fault finding at circuit level, it never ceases to amaze me how often I come across a bad main earth!

Great video Del,not sure if your supposed to clamp on to the sheath like that,shouldn’t the DNO be called to install an earth?and the chase going across to your high level tv socket is not in a zone,did you find where all them cables went to in the kitchen?3 cables in each socket and most of them down crazy,the last Electrician wants putting in prison before he kills someone.

How are you sooo relaxed... that was a nightmare!

The DNO won’t provide an earth as it’s a Pilc service and are not required to provide one. The only options would be an earth stake or request a new a PME service.

Del didn't hear you ask her "have you done anything to your house before this started" 9x10 they did and that's the problem very strange to get that many faults for no reason over night

My last neighbour called me around after they had a kitchen refit. MCB would not turn on for kitchen ring. All sockets in kitchen were dripping wet after tiling. So I pulled them all out to dry out. Next day when they were tidy and dry I put the sockets back in. MCB happy again. Noticed new mini strip lighting under wall units...wondered where they were powered...no plugs. Bell wire from the back of the cooker. Neighbour said leave it...they were professional kitchen fitters...they must know what they are doing. Absolutely flabbergasted.

Looking at the quality of the work there id guess there's a toasty junction box under the floor somewhere

Nice sharing...

Poor woman had to pay twice but at least you sussed it ,good job

Did my 2391 as part of my training. Was surprised that there was sparks out there without it. Plus there fault finding was 💩 because of it. No wonder that we have installs like this.

did the rcb trip when hitting the test button?

Either originally a TT system or they used the water mains as the main earth .

Appreciate the videos. What a lad!

Still think it's a terrible system putting the wires in the wall like that. Over here everything is put in 16 or 19 mm PVC pipe. So if there is any fault you can replace the wiring. I do like the switched and seperately fused outlets.

I like the old metalclad ISCO cut out.

This doesn’t surprise me , I meet one Romanian electrician who did 500V DC insulation resistant test without disconnecting the load and was keep asking why he had low IR test results . He blowed up fridge and microwave 🤫

I suppose one saving grace about these old houses is you can get underneath everything to work on it.

Man as a sparky in the Netherlands i'm crying right now!! we only use PVC pipes put into the wall so that the wires can always be accesed or removed. The owner having to fuck all the walls up must have been so painful and costly. Is this UK standard?

I am so surprised how often you come across the cables failing, I have never come across cables/wires failing. unless it is due to mechanical damage. most of the time a faulty on the usage end.

Installed by a part p kitchen fitter no doubt..

If you were getting the same readings on the old cables does that mean the lack of main earth was the problem all along or did I miss something?

That amount of damaged cable sounds like either crushed cables, or seriously dodgey junction box

Nice job so far delroy. Interested to see how you get the cables to the kitchen sockets without wrecking the tiles

John wayne must have wired that lot up 😂😂😂

Nice job Del 1thing the tv socket cable when it goes over the top of tv bracket it’s not with in the zone if you had gone left out of low level socket and the straight up to tv you would have been ok

Great work Del, and fantastic, chilled attitude and approach.

Call the DNO to provide a proper earth. Of the lead sheath, not the armour :-)

Spirit orbs.

I'm not an electrician, so have no idea what you said. But, from how it looked in the consumer unit I guess it was really really bad.

He who dares, wins. Eh, Del?

Contact DNO to provide an earth 0.85 is still to high Hessian and 2 x tape armours need to be removed before the correct eli reading can be achieved

3:12 LOOK AT THE BUS BAR!!

What on earth is going on with that left hand RCD being used as as a connector block? It looked like there was a neutral joined to the phase of the 32a breaker next to it...

0.8 max tns system Surly that supply authority issue I wouldn’t have left it like that

why can you see the buss bar -any reason Del ?

The idiot put in RCBOs but left a socket circuit(!) with only an MCB??? Why would you put the lounge on a ring? Surely a 20 amp radial would be more than adequate for such a room?

As well as no earth I'd bet that head has DP fusing ...definitely one for the DNO...

Hehehe, i had a bad earth, 2 light sockets, 3 feet apart, 11 megaohms resistance between the patress box..

Aggghh - ring circuit faults 😩

Very nice video`s!

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Hi delroy I never saw a split load with rccbos madnesses crazy

1 is likely being used as a 20 amp fuse

A fire hazards, l can't believe this, they left a fire hazards. 😳

millions of houses in the uk have no earth . most have had mdpe fitted old lead replaced! and the dno i was told .no oblagtion to supply one £160 to solder to sheath. cannot wait for elec cars most need a very good earth am told. i am not a spark.

😂could be a different standard electrician 😊

Those rcds arnt evan connected 🤭🤔😲

I'd like to see what happened next

Solid work as always Del. Hope you're keeping well mate.

Mate, Are there that many flex's run all over the floor?

I feel so sorry for clients like that, none the wiser to what these ‘electricians’ get up to. Not much you can do in that instants

Swerve that job

HELLO WHAT IS THE NAME OF YOUR CAMERA

15:20 great use of cable zones 🙄

Should ve changed rcbos to mcbs first then you should ve checked rest of the installation.coz there are must be some combine neutral and rcbos would trip no matter what.

Hi all! What qualifications you need to be a sparky?

Could you not have put the link in from the neutral and then you'd have had tncs?

Axiom..... Cheapest brand from toolstation. You know there's gona be dogs hit when the cover comes off

Hiyya Delroy just how do those cowboys get away with doing jobs like that??

Domestic jobs are such a pain in the arse, no worth the hassle....

Looks like a right can of worms

That Florey light fitting wiring is terrible whoever done that wants shoting

an earth fault wtf dangerous and this electrician that this done before him omg momemt

40 years, all this proves is that you don't really need earth :p

Because he wasn’t an electrician

wtf, pointless setup

Nice job mate but they are asians so bin it any run away

Still safer than installations i seen in some Asian countries .Thank God we got guys like you to keep us safe

What a job.... well done to sort that. Perhaps a TT earth system or old earth that used incoming metal water or gas 😳

Wow. That violation is as seriouse as they come. Diagnostic is half the solution, well done Del !!

That's why we use tubing inside the walls all the time (it's mandatory), so you can always change, modify or repair any wiring if necessary. It's anyway really strange to see the differences in wiring between different countries. We never use rings and all our houses and flats are always three phase (3x400 Volts, so 230V per Phase)

Is the Cooker hood ok? I was just thinking as it was close to the faulty sockets. Also if you had 36.5 ohms at the sockets on Zs is the Main earthing arrangement a TT system? I've had it at a property where the main earth was wired to the cutout MET terminal as TNC-S but it wasnt connected inside the cutout on the Dno side.

Mate you always get these crazy jobs hahaha

Up until the 1950's, many electric systems here in Canada were unearthed; there wasn't even an earth wire.

As it stands the DNO duse not have to provide an earth if there is no earth ,they will maintain an existing if one's is there

Actually sh** myself watching this one!

It probably was TT before.