Retired commercial electrician here. Today schooling for an electrician takes five years along with working for at least four years to get your license as a journeyman electrician. At that stage you're ready to start learning how to do real electrical work. It often takes a drafting course or two just to learn how to read blueprints. I've worked on polar cranes inside nuclear reactor domes. I've run bus duct up 73 floors in skyscrapers. I've piped and wired hundreds of buildings over forty years in the trade. Even worked on off shore drilling rigs. It all takes time and dedication to learn the skills needed. It's not something you can learn from watching a few videos. My kids watched me build and wire our first home and even as teens they learned enough to wire a house. Yes it's simple enough for children to do. Not so much commercial work. However home handymen should be aware of the dangers involved in doing electrical work themselves, both to themselves and to their homes if not done properly.
As always a great video. I was a bit surprised you put a wire on top of the rafter in the garage as very often these are used for storage and they could very easily get snagged or damaged. They certainly would in my garage
This content is absolutely fantastic!! That white board is a wonderful idea! Keep the good work up, learning buckets. Especially as a production electrician coming from Live events and temporary installation. 👏🏼👏🏼
Fitted a load of Next light fittings to my sons new build home replacing pendants everywhere 10 or 11 of them, many different types. All well made, well wrapped and easy to install even then ones I had to remove pendant chains from or shorted pendant support cables. All came with push fit connectors so you can wire one side without having to support the light. Very impressed by them. Builder got some cudos by installing largish boards between joists just above plasterboard so firmly and easily attaching a variety of sizes of lights without needing a single plasterboard fixing was amazing. They lost all cudos with too much bare conductor in every ceiling rose and by not terminating any live cable in outside lights terminal boxes just cut cables coiled inside a cheap external box with pull off covers! Not clever. Many in reach of children. So a C2 fail at least I would say maybe a C1?
Totally professional Cory is a natural on camera. When you hear a about NHS doctors workers etc banging on about training for 7 years. People forget how long it takes to achieve your high standards. Well done Jordan you set the standards expected.
Left the trade 12 years ago with 16th edition due to a series of redundancies, is there any advice for getting back into the trade? Great videos, looks like you guys have a good laugh working together.
White board is V good. Otherwise apprentices will not benefit very much. The more detail you show the better on camera and on white board . Thats what apprentices are watching this channel for. Thanks for sharing.
so i really want to become an apprentice, but im worried if i find one, ill have to travel 1.5 hours or so really far out where the boss doesnt mind as hes used to it but if im having to travel far each day to different locations kind of find that daunting
Don't let that daunt you. 90 minutes really isn't that long, and to get experience, it really makes it worth while. Once you're fully qualified, you're able to pick from further options. If the travel is a cost issue, there are (or at least used to be many moons ago) options for help toward the cost.
Wow, looks like an unfinished new build that you’ve come to save the day on. I’ve watched so many of those shocking build standard videos that I’m wondering how many issues there are in that room!
Hey i am an electrician in Pakistan, seen your videos and i am really impressed by your work, tools and standards of your country👍wish i could work with you
Should be pointed out these masonry screws should just be hand tight or “no duggas” 🤣 tight if you’re using an impact driver otherwise the screw will lose its grip in the material
I guess it's in the regs, but could you explain (in a future video?) why you have conduit on the walls, but not in the rafters. My garage was wired around 1990 when the house was built, so no conduit is used. Should I consider getting this changed? Garage consumer unit was replaced around 2005 -2010. I understand that regs do not need to be applied retrospectively, but may where old wiring is modified because of new works.
Yesterday on the 17th of July I commented "Sorry, what's a radial?". Today is the 18th of July and here you are answering the question in this video which was, incidentally, posted tomorrow on the 19th. I always wondered what the future would be like. Now I know. God, I love this timeline. Except I missed the part where you explained what a radial is. Unless it's just a branch circuit, in which case why not just call it that. Or tell me what it's called in Canadian Electrician. I looked it up. It's just a branch circuit.
Thanks for your explanation, i keep meaning to look at my garage lights which we're done by the previous home owner (i think). They turn on and off at each switch but also kill the other switch in the process, so turn them on at the entrance to the garage then off at the garage door then the entrance does not work and vice versa.
So what you’re saying is two switches, the lamp is only on when both switches are in a certain position, and if either switch or both are in the other position it’s off?
@@hfs83 it depends how it’s wired exactly what could be wrong, anything from a completely miswired installation to a single wire that has come loose. So… yeah, troubleshooting ahead.
Would it not be better to have a Mini CU in the Garage to be able to separately isolate all the sockets in the Garage ? Nice to see a Dad and his Son working well together.
It's a 16A RCD protected feed to the garage for the sockets. Adding a fused spur off those sockets for the lights as they have is all that's needed. Adding another board would be total overkill.
Can we guess how much the invoice was for that job? 2 light swap outs, 2 new lights, 2 conduit drops, 2 new sockets. I wanna say parts and labour.... £600.
Hello, I like your job. I’m in UK, I study Electrical Engineering in my country Nigerian, And I have experience on electrical wiring.But I don’t have UK experience,Can you help me out?
Is it right to use a switched connection unit as a light switch per se? A plate switch (MK's spec) is spec'd with 100,000 operations 'mechanical life' as it is designed for multiple switching in its life (they also spec number of operations for electrical life by load current). They don't spec the 'fused spur' with a lifetime for number of operations? Guess you'd not see too much of an issue in a garage as a low-usage area, but.....
I presume a light switch contacts are rated at 6A,a switch spur contacts are at least 13A ,the two lights are rated no more then 0.5A,so working out how many each switch will last on the number of times they will be turned on before they breakdown is completely irrelevant
To add an anecdotal data point, I've got some FCUs in a workshop that are used as light switches. They're operated every single day and haven't had an issue in the 30+ years since they were installed.
@@havoctrousers I like that - don't make them like they used to!! My only point was really that when a manufacturer expects use for multiple operation (rather than just isolation), it is possibly why they do or don't rate number of operations. To be fair, is an 'isolator' the same as a 'switch'? Try getting a manufacturer to answer the question!! It's nice to spark a debate...
Hi you could drop the neutral out of the board for that circuit and you can work on it without tripping the RCD. Also you may not have to earth both ends of the SWA but it’s good practise to terminate it properly with a gland.
Cables just clipped down a brick wall (I can see you are adding coduit now) , thats acceptable in the UK? Seriously, why you you use trusses in such a tiny garage? Might as well have got some height with a collar roof.
2708 (l1) 2365 (l2/l3). However they’ve just brought out 8707(I think that’s the new code?) that has replaced 2365 level 3 as far as I know, if you have never archived a level 3 qual you can get that year for free. 2707 + 2365 l2 are £2700 for one year. Unless on UC. If you want to know more you can contact me
@@shamreazahmed8170 I enrolled through my local college as it was cheaper and better plus it wasn’t a short course. I have highly valued my education and not learning in 5 minutes…
I've just stopped watching this when i realised it was "Artisan Electrics". Reason being that i watched a video in the past, titled why solar panels are bad or something to that effect. It turned out to be click bait. Personaly i think this is dishonest and disrespectful to viewers.
Fitted a load of Next light fittings to my sons new build home replacing pendants everywhere 10 or 11 of them, many different types. All well made, well wrapped and easy to install even then ones I had to remove pendant chains from or shorted pendant support cables. All came with push fit connectors so you can wire one side without having to support the light. Very impressed by them. Builder got some cudos by installing largish boards between joists just above plasterboard so firmly and easily attaching a variety of sizes of lights without needing a single plasterboard fixing was amazing. They lost all cudos with too much bare conductor in every ceiling rose and by not terminating any live cable in outside lights terminal boxes just cut cables coiled inside a cheap external box with pull off covers! Not clever. Many in reach of children. So a C2 fail at least I would say maybe a C1?
Enjoyable video. Could someone explain a little more about the connections in the 3 amp FCU to the lights as regards to the socket cable please. As I understand it goes to the supply side of the FCU and then 1.5mm T&E comes off the load side to the lights. How do the sockets get their power (brain block 😁 unfortunately) Many thanks John
