Moving a fuseboard in Chelsea - An Electricians Day in London | Thomas Nagy 

Worst part for me

I do love it when Americans try to use British terms (even better in our accent) When I visit friends in LA, he's always saying "Bloody hell" in a very poor English accent.....Cracks me up so much!

Diefers Dashcam UK Yes, like on Frazier, the poor English accents of Dorothy’s family from Rngland. “Sod off’ is however pretty accurate.

hi adam, where abouts you based?

thomas nagy Derbyshire

Alright mate, enjoying the videos, very informative. I'm currently doing new builds. I've come across a plot where an electrician has installed the consumer unit too close to a boiler housing and it overhangs a door frame. I've got to reposition it onto the other side of the door. Now I've been told by the superiors to crimp everything and extend it including the meter tales, which I won't be doing. I'll be installing new tails back to the meter box. What are your thoughts about crimping tails?

Adam Dalton is it alright? Looking at doing a electrical installation course?

i wish i could mate. Not possible here though because from what i gather they are installing some overhead units etc. In a way it doesnt matter as i have to run in lots of new cabling for upstairs.

thx man for reply, really enjoying your stuff your commentary is awesome pls keep up the great work and make it longer and daily uploads p.s I am also an electrician (a beginner).

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Go work with some man, get some school also, then out on your own, you learn the game by playing first

Trust me mate, parking tickets are just a part of London life! That was the first one i have had for a few weeks so i was doing quite well up til then! i normally find you get one a month on average. stopping in a yellow box is the easiest one to get done for as the traffic moves so quick and you go with it but then suddenly it stops and your half inside a yellow box! buggars! My next video i think is continuing on this job. I already had some footage of the junction box i used but i didnt add the footage on this video as it took too much time up. Once i get going on this job in Chelsea you can gimmee a hand testing it; that'll give you some serious hands on experience!

thomas nagy The fact that the ticket cost more than the job is rediculous! Basically paid £5 to do a job lol. I'd honestly be up for that on a weekend if you're being serious! if I could get a train up or something then I'd defo do it.

hey Nathan, How is the testing going? getting any better yet? ;-)

thomas nagy hey mate, still no good, covered no testing as of yet. Been watching some vids but as you know yourself it's nothing compared to real life scenarios and fault finding. I guess it's a start tho 🙃 Im

Tradespeople here seem to mostly charge parking charges straight through on the bill, as opposed to simply marking up the hourly cost.

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hi bud. have hired in the past but i am on my own at the moment. i will need to hire shortly for work that i have coming up so that person will have to be camera friendly. :-)

tails are essentially the same as T&E. they both have double sheathed cores so i treat them the same. granted meter tails dont have an earth core in the middle though. in the end a stud wall went over the top of these cables and then it was tiled over. the supply cable was a 16mm T&E fed downstairs in the entrance lobby from a 50A breaker. I didnt bother RCD protecting the supply T&E as its all behind studwork with about 4 inches off free space now seeing as it has now been stud walled. I was expecting them to dot and dab but they ended up stud walling it all. As it now happens i may have to move this fuseboard again as i think the design of this room has just changed and the new location of the board is now in the way of the ''new plan''. grrrr If thats the case all their studwork will be coming back off! Im hoping the client has a change of heart.

at the moment im working my way through a batch of Wago ones. They are good but they dont accept stranded cables which is a pain when doing downlights with pre wired flex's. You can get connectors now with the lift up clamps so they accept both solid and stranded cores but they are about double the price so i am working my way through my box of Wago's first. I was going to do a short video on all the different types of connectors but have not got round to it yet. ;-)

thomas nagy yeah that'd be a beneficial video for us sparks!

Great idea 👍