Kopex (flexi conduit) wiring a summer house/shed, exotic life of an electrician 

Glad it’s not just me who has trouble with flexi. I feel your pain! Great vid as always. Keep going mate.

Another quality video Mr Bundy. Nice video and easy to understand! 👌🏻

Doesn't matter how much you are 'taught'... Lateral thinking is the key to a jobbing Spark. Good effort Nick :)

Another nice and informative video well explained, the job looks good too. That's a good Zs reading considering you're way out in the garden.

You are great and brave keep them coming

Looks brilliant

Thanks for the video - just found your channel via Artisan Electrics - great shout - keep up the good work and appreciate you sharing your knowledge - CHEERS!!!

Another top video Nick. Conduit can be a pain. I think someone already said to get it straight As possible first but even then it can be a pain. Looking forward to the tool reviews. Keep them coming lad 👍

Good work mate 👍

A little tip for u bud.from an old git spark.strip back about 4 to 6 inch.cut of line and neutral legs.pass the cpc through hole,fold the leg back over the hole. And twist it around itself. Does the job brill.no tape in sight.and cuts off clean.

Good vid Nick.. another way..you could install 2 inch pvc trunking at high level then socket and switch drops down in pvc conduit. 👍🏻

Same as a few others I use the nylon fish tape that’s generally used for conduit. Alternatively use Nyy hi tuff flex.

Great video mate 👍

nice vid mate

Nice job mate!

I’ve fitted miles of flexi conduit down the sides of ice cream vans and trailer kiosks! Both 20mm and 25mm. Mainly single DC control wires for relays and contactors. Never thought of using Saddles though so thanks for that. I just use P clips. Loving your channel btw.

You can get 4 and 6 way wagos theyre the twist out type though but only roughly the same size as a 5a connector block

Just a tip for ya if ya don't have fish tape try using some Rg 59 coax cable it works great I used it on a few cctv jobs nice vid 👍

I always use a thin nylon fish tape for flexicon, with a little wiggly end. It's sort of the size of a 2.5mm single cable but really rigid when you're pushing forwards. Straighten the conduit as best you can first

Personally, I find it best to secure one end of the Koplex to something whilst holding it taught at the other end before feeding the cable through. Folding the end of the cable over to make it smoother so it glides over the inner bumps also helps.

Flexi con friends 👍 great stuff mate.

Wago does do a 4-way and a 8 way push-in connector (2273). They're very, very common over here. A lot smaller than the 221's, which I personally only use when changing from solid cores to flex.

I was having the same problem other day for a pillar light brick layers put the kopex for me it was hard even the rods wouldnt go through mabey need a tiny rolling ball atachment for the rods like the dyson hover ball

What do you think of the WIHA speedE which was lurking in the background?

Cordless vacuum, string/para cord with a small offcut of sponge tired on end!

Great job , your intro music makes me clap my hands 👏🏻🥴 haha luv it.... I personally would have went high level and down too the sockets as being on floor client might give the flexi conduit good bashing over time.

Subscribed purely for the blood blister banter!

Hi, great videos by the way. On this video you bought an armoured to a fuse spur in the summer house. Then you sent power to sockets and lights from the same spur. I wasnt aware you could do this. Sorry if I'm being stupid (newly qualified sparky).

Where did you get your clips for the conduit mate, can’t find them on Screwfix?

Hi Nick, Was wondering if some 2 x 3 plastic trunking around at high level and drop down might have been better ? Nice video. Tony

u can either get 4 way push fit wagos 773 or 2273 screwfix got em. Top workmanship. A few suggestions if u dont mind ;) y not use solid conduit on the long runs and the flex in the corners or bends just use couplings. That flexi on the floor is just waiting to be squashed ;) I know someone already commented about the 3 pipes into the switch, looks terrible and I'm not so sure about the metal-clad stuff in this kind of environment (condensation?) maybe. Like I said only suggestions

Between yourself and my trusted electrician think I need to buy shares in flexi conduit..... 🤣 Personally I would use fibreglass fish rods/tape (4mm) and conduit cable with any type of conduit as its easier to work with and by putting a jb/conduit box in the right place you could use less conduit but provide more circuits at same time if required. I'll probably cause an argument by suggesting it but I would be tempted to use plastic switches and sockets even the ip55 ish ones inside as from my experience the metal clad in those environments (unless its heated 24/7) tend to attract condesation and rust prematurely. But that aside if I was the client I would be very happy with the finished installation. My comments are suggestions not criticism your work is top notch and you always put good thought into your work and I look forward to the next video

Get some nylon cord / string. Tie small bit of cloth on the end. Get a vacuum cleaner, stick it at one end of the flexi conduit. Switch the vacuum on at one end, feed the bit of cloth with the string around it into the other. Watch the string get sucked through the flexi conduit. When the string gets to the other end, use it to drag through any type of cable you want. If you're using smaller conduit like 12mm for something like the sensor for underfloor heating, you can just tie a knot in the cord and it will be dragged through without any probs. :-)

Hi, I wonder what your charge was for all that work, labour?

Nylon draw tape £2.99 in toolstation you’re welcome 😉😂👍💪

For short runs I use rod or flat metal fish tape with a plastic pilot tip, and pull a bundle of single cores through, rather than push. It's the simplest way I've found. For really long runs I'll vacuum some fiber optic pull ribbon through the flex tube and attach my single cores. I yank the pull ribbon while an assistant or an in animate object with some rigging holds the flexi. Again pulling in, rather than pushing. That said, I've had to shove wire into existing flexi, so I use solid single cores for that instead of stranded. In the end, go with whatever gives you less of a fight.

Nice job, Zs for earth fault loop impedance measurement on final circuits! (Not Ze 😉)

Hi mate u do a good job on RU-vid well done mate hove a good day mate form Greg Bouchard

Can you put sockets and lights in summer house & just run them from an outdoor extension - sockets on the house - to save all hassle of having sll new cables from house etc

Nice enough job but why 3 pipes too switch looks bad. Wiska up above and one pipe down all the way

Such a stud 😘

Easy way to pull cables through flexi conduit. Get a reel of string, make a ball with the string (just smaller than the conduit.) Put the ball of string in one end of the conduit, then get your hoover and put it on the other end of the conduit. Suck the string through, then tie your cable to the string and pull it through. You can use masking tape to seal the hoover to the conduit. Used to do this all the time with cat5 cables and long lengths of flexi.

Twin from the switched spur to the first whisker box and three core to the switch - saves running multiple cables 🤓

Where did you get your small Stanley level mate ? I've got the others but couldn't find the smaller one anywhere 600 was the smallest ?

Why did you not use 20mm ridgid conduit ? With tee angle thro boxes etc think it would have been qui kerb

When you can't get the cable down the flexi it's a sign, telling you... ...to use solid pipe. :)

Whenever i dod lights or switches i use the wago push in ones, they do a 2,3,4,5,6 and a 8 way. Plus they take up less space. Tidy video!

if the height of the summerhouse internally is greater than 2m you can clip your cables along the woodwork for the light

Just use black pvc conduit just as quick and wire it in singles. Failing that NY cable clipped direct

Sorry it’s an old video but I work on boats and I’ve got a reel of 2.5mm2 flexi that goes nicely down flexi conduit as a draw wire, for me it’s always a reel of black as I go through loads of it

Lot of armchair sparks telling you how to do the job, every install is different and you end up with your own prefered way of doing things after enough installs. Keep the videos coming.

Or as the other chap says below.a 10m nylon draw cable 3 to 4 pound toolstn.

Anyone else watching this purely for the eye candy 😋

Are the outside lights IP RATED?

Have you tried the fish tape?

Can you export the PME or did you use a rod?

Cant you use hituff cable in sheds? saves messing about with flexy conduit

Ha I’m the same about cutting long lengths... what’s wrong with us.. I think it’s the old adage more is less.... nothing worse than being too short...

Exporting a pme supply isn’t always a good idea . Make sure there’s no extraneous parts in outbuildings

T & e clipped direct at ceiling height. Bring drops down in plastic conduit or mini trunking. That kopex looks like a dogs breakfast.

CK Spiraflex is superb for conduit work and is much better than those silly nylon draw-tapes Why not use solid conduit or hi-tuf as they both look neater than flexi?

Great video as always. I’d not have run the conduit at that low level by the floor, particularly flexi/copex. Far to risky for getting impact damage.

Kopex.

flexi conduit in sheds no no

Why not bury the SWA along the fence line??

You do get split flexi conduit, makes life easier

whats KOPLEX ? I believe you meant KOPEX

Vacuum cleaner and para cord

Can’t understand why you didn’t you PVC conduit. Much neater and far easier.

Just use pipe and singles, kopex run over that distance is just creating work, if twin doesn’t fit surely that tells you something? It must cost a fortune in trade packs, get yourself a bending spring!

Use these with flexi conduit to pull cable through www.toolstation.com/draw-tape-nylon/p35379 www.screwfix.com/p/cable-flex-draw-tape/75807

No reason at all to earth a back box if there is a fixed lug.

Or just use heavy gauge conduit. Unsure of why people use kopex on jobs like this. It’s grief with twin and earth.

I like your stuff on here but not the best choice of installation method and routing on this one!

If you are replacing any consumer units would you be able to send them on to me please Nick I will give you my address on Instagram because I collect the old CU because everything is updating 18th edition

Dude get some string and put a vac on the other end. Attach string to cable and pull, easy.

Did you say 2mm 3 core!!!!. White fp200, would be better. Low level pvc kopex libel to be hit.

The amount of comments telling you how to do the job in a better way I don’t know why you bother putting these vids up if you’re works that bad 🤔

Wire snake

Use FP200, flexi copex in such abundance just looks crap.

It's a man cave.

The terminations on the flexi Screwfix sells are disgracefully poor and just not fit for purpose and should be taken off the market.

It doesn’t look good