Day in the life of a commercial electrician 

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'

Which one pays better?

None

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!

Update we got smokes and a frequency toner hope those boys can handle a hammer drill

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 🙂

There’s a few in the pipeline, I dare say I’m filming bits today 👀

@@bwlelectrical nice one

Not the supply - were just following spec

@@bwlelectrical always amazes me when specs deviate from regs! Hey ho, not your problem tho i guess

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.

David Reason that’s brilliant! I’ll bring it up to my supervisor and see what they want us to do with it!

Fraser Reid always aware of my surroundings 🤣

I’ve wondered this aswell. I’ve wanted to do this but would be killed for spending time on the phone. Maybe different for him though.

England mate

I am referring to the manufactured holes visible at 1:50

Top right & bottom centre

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.

To be honest, I would say IP ratings to the back of an accessory should be the same as the front if the back is exposed.

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

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,

@@smartchip Sorry to hear that you guys have to deal with those working situations