Rewiring houses (and using chicken sticks) 

"I hate people watching me work, its really offputting" Tom Nagy, 75k subscribers watching him work on his RU-vid channel.

I really do admire your work ethic tom you are a very hard worker

"I need to sort the seat belt buzzer" yeah put your seat belt on

Dear tom, you're not a DICK, we love you. You are the urtext electrician youtuber. Thanks for making this video, without the camera guy! Glad to see someone else just getting footage from just after the new year break out on youtube. I have thought a lot about your comments on recent weekends when i feel like you quite at a loss, because of the tendency of self employment to not switch off. Luckily, though, I go to church which forces me to switch off. But it was my birthday on Sunday and I chose to go on a night call out, ended up crashing the van into someone and then getting stuck in grass/mud and having to jack the van out wheel by wheel putting unistrut and OSB under each wheel. The turf looked like someone'd been doing donuts on it after I drove off, and had to give the VW driver £100 to keep him off my insurance. My birthday too! What an idiot to go out at that time.... all the best for the new year. Hate it when dickheads staple hardboard to floorboards.

Always entertaining and amusing. You make a bleak January feel like a bright July! Thank you

First day back blues, I know the feeling! It’s like you have to brush the rust off!

If you cut the bit shank down you can make the angle drill even better and more compact!

The notching done in those joists by the heating plumber look like a textbook demonstration of where joists should *not* be notched. As well as weakening the floor, it will have made it more bouncy and increased noise transmission to the flat below.

connection for the granny alarm seat belt chime is usually under the seat in a push connector. if ure van has heated seats make sure not cut them. just snip the wire u see coming from seat belt buckle, trace it into the connector

Use a dustbox on amazon for chopping or boxes. You can get them on amazon. Hook it up to a vacuum and no drilling dust comes out. They do a good spotlight driller too. Highly recommended,

I've got the powerbox raidio too. The lack of DAB or even Bluetooth really lets it down. I've just bought a cheap little Dewalt bluetooth adapter and plugged it in inside the media bay and connect to the phone for DAB over the internet. Now it's an absolute beast! Batteries last ages too which is a bonus for sites with no power! Oh and those Armeg cutters are absolutely wank. I've had three shear off on me all had less than 10 boxes cut out in total. And it knackers the chuck on the drill!

People might slate volt sticks but they do have their uses.

I have the same Van. Connector under the seat to disconnect the irritating seat belt buzzer. Its the closest one to you as you look under the seat. And it throws no fault codes up on the dash. Winner

8.40 I thought you were literally talking to the kid face to face but you were actually across the street with a microphone😂😂😂😂

That live cable situation was something I wouldn’t of thought of, thanks !

Loving it Tom. Good to see the warts and all in your videos. Had a chuckle to myself regarding the screwdriver, i do the bloody same. Keep it up!

In Australia, we renamed volt stick to maybe stick. But they are good to check if a line dies when a certain circuit breaker is turned off...

Thomas has the body of a 33 year old and the knees of a 66 year old.. 😁

"Best, Thomas Naharage" Okay that cracked me up

fm quality miles better than the compressed crappie dab. fm till I die

Used the armeg thing before, it didn't have a snowballs hope in hell of getting through the brick I was putting it to. I don't think it's made to go through hard material, just making a quick job when you're sinking a lot of boxes into softer material.

Hi Tom, I never used knee pads until I got housemaids knee at 40, never had it since, use the ones that fit in the trousers and once they find the shape of your legs never noticed they're there.

“Go away stop staring at my fucking camera” haha brother you crack me up! Hello from Alaska!

My 64 plate Volkswagen Caddy. No seatbelt warning alarm. Belter van! 👍

We fitted those IR panel heater thoughout a full office refurb, kept telling the client don't waste your money, never listened. Guess what? They told us the following winter they were useless.

To what you said about people watching you work, as a garage door tech, I absolutely f!king hate that. I'll be trying to replace a garage door motor and the homeowner wants to pull up a lawn chair and try to carry on a conversation while I'm trying to focus on what I'm doing to hurry up and get on to the next job. Or winding the garage door spring and counting the turns in my head and all of a sudden they want to start asking questions. God help me when they tell me they're an engineer. I guess it's just the joy of being a tradesman and having to work in people's homes. At least on commercial jobs I get left the hell alone.

I do that dropping thing at the top of the ladder/steps all the time. Now take a couple of screwdrivers/hammers and a pockets of screws/nails/rawplugs when I go up and tidy up when I get down!!!

Nice video Tom, man after my own heart- kebab and chips, made me hungry just watching Your video. Keep them coming!👍

I find if you work late it effects your performance the following day but some times you have no choice in the matter

I didn't know James McAvoy was moonlighting as a spark.

Tom you can get one of them angle adapters for an impact driver. Makes it easy for getting between joists. Saves buying a dedicated angle driver. DeWalt do one

Mr Fish &Chips, good video 😂

Tom you should buy bosch 18v flexi GSR18V-60F FLEXCLICK DRILL it will be your love for rest of your life as the heads changes to suit your need sds bit its just briliant for wall plugs drilling even into hard concrete you have angle head to go in between joints and loads of more stuff google it you will love it as I do.

Try theses settings to stop the flicker. GoPro update, PAL Setting, 60Hz instead of 50Hz.

Occationally dropping the screwdriver when you need it the most and when you are standing high on the ladder is just standard. Happens all the time

I pack my tools away when it takes more than three attempts to pick a screw up. .

I’ve only ever done New build houses. I’m mainly Commercial spark. I may have an occupied house coming up so any tips are welcome

Radio switchover has been delayed. It'll be years away.

Chicken stick 😂. A good use for them indicators.

Greetings from.... Lewisham! Shocked you want to work this side of the river!

Tom, at 13:27 i notice the sign for the shop next door "London Ladies". Was that what you were referring to when you said you fancied a Kebab???

Enjoy your kebab Tom , double shifts are great , same in the motor trade, I will just stay a big and finish this to give me a heads up in the morning, 4 hours later you wish you had gone home and you always feel shite in the morning

16-17hr working day! Fuck that!

13:27 either it's a different day or the wind took your whiskers off as you did have a goatie at beginning of vid nice vid though 😃😎

seatbelt buzzer, cut a buckle off one at the salvage yard and plug it in :))

Got the thumbs up just from Chicken stick title 👍🏻

good video, more like this ! please.

Where's your helper gone? I have missed something?

Hey Thomas! When you have ripped the old board out Wago all the circuits together and stick a data toner down it, go cutting to your hears content.....

Here in Ireland we don’t have DAB, don’t even have anything that supports it, couldn’t believe FM will be turned off in the uk😱

For your seat belt diner go to a breakers and pick up a belt clip that you can plug in the connector

Shared void thing, Great tip cheers Tom !

Instead of using a cable jack. Put a short piece of conduit across the middle step of a three foot steps, with the cable reel on it. All that stuff is in your Van any way.

😂 the seat belt alarm is as annoying in my van too!

Chicken stick ? oh in Canada we call them VOLTAGE tester, same thing. UK language to Canadian language AEH !

I’ve been a long time sub and admirer of your work and I though of you to wire in my new cooker when it comes on Saturday? Short notice but it only needs a new outlet for the wire as the old one has broken and a new piece of wire to go from the outlet to the new cooker. The house has up to date wiring so it literally needs just the wire and outlet putting on. Would this be something you’d do for a reasonable price? So I know it’s done properly as the old wire fell out from the screws not being tight.

Nice job

FM will not be switched off for the foreseeable future according to the BBC, and the future is probably not DAB as well which is just as well as large areas of Norfolk where I live has no DAB coverage, something better is needed.

HAPPY new year to you and your team. I would like to have a coffee with you as I fully support your ethos

Waiting until 9 before you start sinking boxes? You're a nice chap! In Vienna you can be happy if they start at 8 instead of 7! Those infrared panels are some kind of weird fashion trend but I'm not sure what to make of them. The first people to talk about them were definitely whackos so I mis-trusted them right away but these days more and more people recommend them. My only personal experiences was in a restaurant, which was actually nice and toasty - until they shut off the heaters half an hour before closing or so. It got cold pretty much immediately! The bog didn't have a heater and was freezing too. Obviously they require a clear line of sight between the heater and any people to be warmed, so they aren't ideal for rooms with plenty of large furniture pieces like the book shelves in that store. Economy-wise you need to consider that they need to be on all the time, so if they're half the power but on twice as long they'll use the exact same amount of power as a regular electric radiator. If they're on more than twice as long, they're actually more expensive to run. Who knows? I don't like electric heating in general, electricity has better uses than being turned into heat.

Volt stick wont prove a switch wire when the mains are wired to the switch and the lights off.

If you dont have a cable jack, whack a large flat head or chisel between the boards and your good to go👍

Tom what are the make of them heater's ? As i like the look of them for my office .

12:20 I've done this before, it tends to happen at the most inconvenient times!

Not sad at all working at night , I’d much prefer doing any public space work after hours, I’m not programmed to any particular schedule with my body clock.

Lol... I am also going to great lengths not to piss the neighbours off!

Is it worth doing an apprenticeship in September after my level 3 2365 as i feel like I haven’t learned much .

Put that boarding back! The down stairs flat will notice more noise coming through. My upstairs neighbour removed their boarding and i can hear so much more. Its not nice being deprived of sleep

I still cant wrap my head around the fact that you use rectangular socket boxes in England x)

What make are them heaters and where are they from ??

Just buy a seatbelt buckle from amazon or ebay, will stop that beeping in an instant

Like an air con unit but without the air con 😂

Is Tom (Dave) not around anymore?

Those armeg rotary cutters were only ever designed for soft breezeblock

Hey tom i've just recently completed my domestic installer qualification and want to start getting some equipment so i can start working, but i dont have crazy amounts of money to spend atm, could you do a video suggesting cheaper alternatives?

Makita dab radio with bosch battery in the back works a treat! And much cheaper

How do you deal with asbestos? Do you check a report or get one yourself?

Seatbelt alarm is annoying but when u done the review on the van u praised it 😂

Bonus kudos for the Iain Banks books at 12:01 👍♥️

I filled my seatbelt alarm buzzer up with silicon annoying as that customer who follows you around or keeps appearing out of no where saying ""I was you know in the trade is that a new make of hammer ??"" Lol edit 10 mins in you said it too annoys the fcuk out of me too Tom :)

Am 30 now mate u do a relly good job on RU-vid well done mate hove a good day mate form Greg Bouchard

That live wire detector is like Thomas's lightsaber

Awesome content mate! Aspiring self-employment as a gas engineer/plumber in germany. You always make me wanna get up in the night to get some work done.

New regs say they should be 450mm from floor finish...

5.30 in the morning? It’s daylight. Doesn’t get light til 7.30 ish. Was this video taken during summer? Love the content btw. 👍

Your 33 😂😂😂😂 love it. London has not been kind to you.

AM is going to be switched off in the next 18 months or so, but FM is going to continue for a good few years yet.

Where did you get the phone holder from??? I need one for Viv the vivaro

great vid Thomas / why the dislikes guys hes a great utuber

Why don't you use a multi tool to cut the backer board.............its easy enough

Can report fm radio still going

Where is Dave?

First day back ? It’s nearly feb

33, you must have had a bloody long paper round.

January is like Monday.

33 going on 50

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You got any tips on how to get an apprenticeship

next weeks video will be titled... recovering from an iffy kebab 😜

Iain Banks Walking on Glass :-)