Electricians day installing outside power and lighting. 

I have been using grips on SWA for 25 years and now from this video and some comments i find out i have been doing it all wrong all this time, seems i might scratch or dent the soft brass or get a splinter. Doh

I like your vids, very well explained with lots of detail, I use them as a reference at times thanks for sharing and keep them coming. 👍

I like putting the silicone on the back of the box on the top and sides to avoid the silicone marks on the walls. As always good job 👍.

Another great video Chris. Thanks

Second year apprentice in the us and I admire your workmanship and knowledge of the trade. Very enjoyable watching and learning even if your methods are a little different than my commercial experience

That burst- out brick caused by the masonry drill would do my head in. It's attention to (avoiding) such calamities that makes for a quality job.

Great channel came across your channel and I really enjoy it I'm a plumber by trade and nice to see a electrician at work 😊😊

Good job mate done the same today for a garage with the metal clad and conduit 👍

Love your craft sheesh. amazing work

Your armoured cable increased the structural strength of the decking, planters & shed by at least 50%

Nice video mate. Clean install!

Nice job Chris, keep up the good work 👍

Great video! !!!☺👍👍👍

When I started out I bought a set of grips especially for swa, never met anyone that dosent use them. I personally use one set grips and a large adjustable (or correct spanner if doing several). No one has ever complained. If people are dogging them up enough to splinter they are doing it wrong. Grips to hold, spanner to tighten. That's my way If I had 2 sets of grips in front of me and the spanner was all the way in the van with one gland to make off would I use them. I think you can guess the answer to that 😉

Good install as always CJR 👍

Very nicely shown keep up the good work👍

I'm a sparky working a lot in street lighting and I've always been taught to use two sets of grips to tighten a gland up, how else would you do it? And a little handy tip I've found if you get a decent steel conduit cutter I got a rothenburger one like plumbers use to cut copper pipe ( just make sure it can cut steel) and use it to score the armoured strands on the swa takes half the time and a perfectly square cut every time 🤙. Great vlog as always, really enjoy your content keep it up

Those wiska earth lock nuts are the dogs bollocks ! Expensive but worth it !

Excellent informative video, lovely and neat job. Well done has helped me out a lot for my outside lighting.

Enjoying the vids mate. Subbed 👍

The lock nut goes on teeth down if you attach the gland to the box first, teeth up if you fit to the swa first. It's in the instructions on the packet. Also I was always taught to banjo at the start not at the end.

As a Yankee from across the big pond,I find your post very interesting. As a very junior sparky, enough to do a socket/recital or simple light.We use 110 volt 60 hz. and big fuse boxes. My house has 220 volts,60 hz. 200 amp.coming in with 40 circuits.I try and figure out what and how you do things.Please keep sharing. If I can get a picture to load I will send it.Thanks,Carl Tullahoma, Tennessee.

I love your videos. I studie for being a electrician too.

I’m with you on glanding the armoured with adjustable’s, I was always taught that way in my apprenticeship, but the argument people make is that you should use spanner’s as the adjustable’s can damage the heads of the nuts on the glands etc 🤔

Bang on mate!!! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

"Fuse Spur" = sub panel in USA/CA. The concept of the dual ring main system is mind blowing to me here across the pond. I guess at least you have RCDs on everything, here now they need AFCI/AFDD s in all habitabile areas, in canada at least.

Brilliant video thank helped me a lot I have a question tho..... I want to put up an outdoor spot light for my drive but there is no existing light on the out side or any power on the out side What should I do in side I have a plug socket and a light switch could I connect to that ?

Nice clean install mate

Great video,one of the best i have watched on youtube,short but very instructive.What would your cable size be coming initially from the inside socket,2.5 , I am in the process of doing some landscaping in my garden with lighting, I was going to take the SWA from a new consumer unit, which someone was doing for me,but this seems to be a lot easier and i can do this on my own, i was scared the socket the cable is coming from inside the kitched would be overloaded, There would also be ground lighting scattered around with other cables,take it i would use more spurs from other sockets from ground lights to protect any shorting.??

I’ve learned a lot from your videos, it’s just the little comments that really stick with you and pop up whilst on a job

A most superb job sir well done.

What stuffing glands did you use for the Schneider boxes? I find a 20mm leaves a gap?

Great vid. What cable did u use to the outside light ? Can normal flex be used or something like pond cable ??

another great video Chris, love the explanation's ( i get great enjoyment when you have a dig back at the 'know all's) :)

The conduit adaptors you use to connect the outdoor socket to the FCU would these not compromise the IP rating of the boxes as they do not have rubber seals?. I have used the same adaptors for indoor connections ( garage ), but wondered if ok for outdoor use.

What size grey cable did you use exactly. Would it be possible to also tell me the size of the conduit

Nice video, subscribed, I was told to use cable cleats the other way round tho. Swings and roundabouts. 👍

Hi would the pvc link pipe between the two box’s on the house wall leak water ? Or is there a washer in there somewhere? Cheers

Do those Schneider joint boxes need a tool to open them? Only ever tried the larger ones that had screws. I'd have earthed the armour at its source for reliability. Two parallel earth conductors wouldn't be my aim but wouldn't do any harm, it would have lowered the Zs slightly. Lots of the time it's impractical to test the rcd on a split load board, you just don't know if they have an iMac upstairs that's permanently on or the burglar alarm they've left off for the day is going to get upset.

Grips are no problem. But for pyro I prefer spanners, to get the olive to make a perfect connection. Nice job!

Hasn't lithium hand tools revolutionised service/repair industries 🛠️👍. Great video and some good comments too.

Hi CJR great video can I ask what SWA you used? Not seen with blue brown g/y before could you advise where to purchase?

Spend more on electrics than the cost of shed?

On some high spec jobs data centres, civils projects like tunnels, You use gland spanners and it's just so the brass doesn't get scored by the grips.

What conduit are you using to connect the fuse box to outside socket? Im looking to do this exact setup but cant seam to find the right tube for the wires to pass through

For the past 5 years as a domestic spark I’ve used grips but the past year I’ve ventured into heavy industrial work and any scratches to a gland will not pass quality control so I’ve been using adjustable spanner’s and flat jaw grips

Very helpful, thanks for sharing

Was interested in the conduit between the spur and the socket - and the stuff you pasted on the pipe - but you didn't say a word when you did it. Unusual for you as you normally explain everything very well.

Hi mate, I'm a trainee spark who has just completed his level 2 at college. I've been asked to do a similar outside socket for someone. Can you tell me which drill bit you used to make that hole. Also, am I right to say you actually drilled through the socket back box and through the wall?

This is the type of work I love doing as an electrician, domestic work I love, commercial and industrial is more physically demanding but it's ok. Just the appreciation of going into someones home and making it better and just getting offered a cuppa tea or coffee by the client is nice!

I haven’t got a shed, I want a outdoor light with a switch indoors because there’s no adequate place for a switch outside. I know i’ll have to spur off a socket but can’t really find one where it’s just a simple drilling through a wall job - more of a chasing job. What is your thought process when finding like an existing source to come off? Thank you, I’m aiming to be an electrician in the future so just trying to get advice. Any recommendations?

Thanks for the vid, do you use self tapping screws to mount the waterproof boxes to the wall if so would you recommend any that work?

Anyone know who makes that transparent and flexible switch box cover he used? I have never seen that used in the states but like it!

How much would somthing like this cost but on my side enterance pathway ? I have mains sockets behind the wall so access to power should not be an issue? Cheers

Wow. That’s the old Ni-MH Makita. SDS spit on drill. Unfortunately I had to sell mine.

How is seal on the outside twin socket where 20mm adaptor enters

Most industrial sites these day specify not to fit cable shrouds as they tend to trap moisture in glands. The gland should have suitable IP rating for the application without.

I take it you fitted a conduit through the wall to protect the T+E cable?

Grips on armoured all day mate did it for 20 years used grips 95%of the time on the 38mm glands they are a good send lol

Tbh I use a set of bahco adjustables and gland pliers for doing glands, always find you need the plyers as the depth of the flats on the top section of the gland are too thin to use two pairs of adjustables and that's why you end up damaging them. Is it just me that earth's the armouring at both load and supply ends though? Could also put a banjo on the gland inside the plastic outdoor socket with a flying earth to the earth terminal?

Great video

Brill useful video many thanks. Any chance you could give info on pricing jobs mate. Appreciate if you don’t want to. Cheers

What are those white tubes between the boxes called? Can't seem to find them anywhere!

Great video, a question if I may, the schneider box for the outside light, dose this box have to be accessible! or can it be enclosed in a loft space, I take it the black wire is from the outside light in your video! in my case because the schneider box will be enclosed in a loft space (inaccessible) I need to link to the future outside light (undecided) would a twin and earth cable be suitable for the outside light/schneider box link or if not allowable what is the correct cable to connect to the light fixture to the schneider box.... Thank you Mark

what gauge armored did you run to the shed?

What size SWA did you use on this job?

Now that you've made alterations to the circuit do you inspect ten percent of that circuit or just what you've done?

@CJR ELECTRICAL Hello can you bring 2 ceiling lights off one 3amp fused spur. Both lights have their own switches. Also what amp fuse did you use on your first switched spur Thanks

My mentor told me not to use grips as it marks up the gland so we always use adjustable wrenches, we do alot of Ex glands and they have to be perfect no marking at all

what in the hell did i just watch? Im from Cincinnati, OH, USA. incredibly different, every single aspect of the material, styling, etc. i like how your WP material looks so much more that here. I gather we do the exact same thing for a living but the only similarity I think was the silicone. We use that here too!! At least now i know why i get light fixtures sometimes that have a bare/blue/brown cable instead of bare/black/white.

I have watched a few of your video's but this ones made me subscribe. I have OCD when it comes to waterproofing outside electrical equipment (over a decade working with submersibles). First video I've seen with the IP rated sockets/spurs fitted correctly with a chance of not letting water in . I say chance as there designed to allow some water in. I've seen water ingress through the factory fitted knock outs on the top surface so your fighting a losing battle. A question I would like to ask is it common practice in a domestic setting to do top entry on outside fittings as I see a lot of these but in the water industry and other industrial environments top entry is a big no no due to it increasing the chance of water ingress? Also something that may help others is that I have experienced over time that sockets, junction boxes etc outside resist condensation better if they can be placed so they see the sun at one point of the day. Sorry to waffle top vid and look forward to more.

What's that brush-on adhesive/sealant you're using?

Hi fella. I’ve got a fused spur used for the outside light. I’ve seen fused spur plates that have timers on them. Would that be a straight swap

Great video! How long did it take you to do this whole job? Thanks.

Great informative video, question how far from out tap or rainwater downpipe can I place a Wessex IP66 13A DP switched 2 gang?

What size or armour is that you have used mate ? Looks like a 4mm ?

Putting SWA cleats in boiling water - that’s a new one on me 😃

Just a quick question hopefully someone can answer. You’ve come off the socket inside and installed a switched fuse spur. Then you installed one in the shed. Is this allowed?

Nice, in Malta we always put 75% of the box inside the wall. I see it too rough as a surface box.

Another great video:), really learning a lot from your videos. Also not used them Schneider boxes, mosty wiska ones. They look good tho might have to give them a try

Good video mate I’m getting taught SWA using grips. Can you do a video of any handy tricks of the trade. Be good to see from an apprentice point of view 👍

I always keep those ‘knockouts’. The amount of outside sockets I’ve seen with them missing is considerable. I just replace if I see any missing.

Any tips for how to mount a flood light to a rectangular box?

Hello, do you silicone the hole in the wall? Thanks

Question... are those plastic couplers ip rated? Did this before and the outdoor switch I installed filled with water and got rotten with rust... ended up installing a new switch but used a PG gland instead of the plastic coupler.

Good job 👍

What diameter was the sds drill bit?

I have been told off using pair of grips tighten up 10mm bolt for the ladder rack containment 20 years ago,( tommy clarcke )

Should that SWA not be earthed from suply end?

I’ve been an electrician in the US since 1989 and I subscribed because your work ethic is awesome and I’m always amazed how different our wiring methods and equipment differ. 👍

Another good video Chris. Always enjoy watching them. It's good that you take the time for filming and editing for us to watch. 👍

Great if I want to know how to put boxes up but no good if I want to see how the wirings done just take a photo when you’ve done the job and I would learn as much as I did here.

Good job

Good video but was that shed panel you drilled through made from asbestos ?

Just moved into a property , has outside sockets in garden in a ip65 junction box , the only problem is they’ve drilled holes in the junction box & not used waterproof glands ! Full of water & tripping 🙈

"She's on a different circuit ", is that a metaphor? :-)

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I think I would have put the spur indoors. Do the swa up with whatever you have,I use a spanner for lower half and grips for top.

hi what was the cost for that job, and what's the max double sockets you could of added in the shed

On the outside socket side was the wiska lock nut fitted there also so same each end then a flying earth ?? Is that correct