Why do People Think It's OK to Wire up Their own Garage or Shed? 

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Because people are sick of being ripped off by so called tradesmen. They just don’t trust them anymore. Then good tradesman loose out.

I'm a DIY'er, I'd be offended at the pejorative use of the term, but it's entertaining watching crap work rants, and it educates viewers what not to do! I also think it has to be understood that those doing their own work vary from perfectly competent people to the downright stupid. The DIY work produced will span that range. The same as electricians will span the range from the conscientious to those cutting corners to make a profit or get to the pub. I'm sure many a cowboy spark has his/her work dismissed as that of a DIYer, and I'm sure many a decent DIYer is never identified as such because the work is of decent quality. Keep on ranting, as it's entertaining

Do you use the square compression glands specifically for twin and earth or just the normal standard glands?

Hi It would have been nice to actually see you testing the Breakers to confirm your statement that they were fine. I was under the impression that accessories installed within a Garage had to be installed within Metal Clad Accessories and ALL Cables likely to be pulled had to be clipped direct so as to form a protection by using a lot more clips than just support centres or all cables encased in conduits or pvc Trunking. Cables Dangling likely to be pulled deliberately or Accidentally would surely be represented a Danger to All inc Children and pets Mr Spence Eng

In Australia it’s illegal to do any electrical or plumbing work unless qualified. Can’t even move a switch. Even if it’s your own house. Probably how it should be. Too many people have died by dodgy work. Unfortunately, some tradesmen do a rubbish job also, but less likely to happen. Unless I’m mistaken, the training and licensing is pretty strict in Australia.

Would you be tempted to use a shroud as well on outside stuffing glands to. As looks quite neat and just adds a bit more ingress protection to cable entry point. 😇.

how you Peel the cables. Please Show us and what tool do you use to peel the cables. specially 1.5 or 2.5 twin and earth flat cable.

1)it ain't rocket science.... 2)cant stand being ripped off by some artisan type electrician with artisan type prices.

I wouldn't count on that being a DIY'er. Funnily enough I'm doing more of my own work as a DIY'er due to multiple jobs being bodged by my local "qualified" electricians. much worse than in your video.

As it is legal to do so that's why people do it, as long as you are compedent and are of sound mind you are aloud to do you owm electrics. That's what I have heard from friend in england

Last video: ‘I charge 90 odd quid an hour’ This video: ‘I can’t understand why people do their own electrics’ Not trolling, just thought it was funny.

I wired my Dad's garage when I was 18. Ten years on it still works perfectly and has passed inspection. This video should be titled "Why do incompetent people think it's ok to wire up a garage or shed?"

Had to laugh that Jordan put a compression gland on the outside socket and left the T&E exposed to sunlight rather than extending the conduit Next time he turns up at the same property he will look at that socket and ask why DIYers think it’s ok not to protect all the cable from the elements

For every bad DIY'er there is a bad trades person. I love your vids but trust me not every DIY'er is bad. I have done a lot of remedial work in my house, plus wiring up my workshop. Trust me, it is nothing like what you have found. I have even invested in an IR tester, know how to use a multi-meter for testing and have even invested in the Napit on site solutions book and have studied what I need to know to do the work correctly. Why don't I get an electrician out? First the cost, but actually more importantly I make it my business to know how stuff works in my house, and I set high standards for work that I only really trust myself to do. My day job (IT consultant) requires this and is in my nature. You have also got to realise that electricians putting out videos on RU-vid also encourages people to try for themselves. In the main this is good because you set a high standard, but some people wont or can't translate that into the work they do.

Why constantly bash the DIY'ers, i've seen a lot of "professional" installations done worse than that!

I avoid having ANY tradesmen in my house. I have learned how to do things for myself over the years. Unfortunately there are too many tradesmen who treat customers like cash cows.

Another DIY bashing video. I suppose you get contractors in to do all your non-electrical work. Instead of having a dig all the time what about providing some education. You have an opportunity here to guide the future DIYs down the right path.

I guess I did mine because I watch lots of these videos and enjoyed doing it. Learned new skills, saved some money and did the job exactly the way I wanted, I put a larger consumer unit thanI needed, I put a ring circuit in and some loops for additional sockets to easily expand. I ran cat 6a in as well for WiFi AP and security cameras. DIY doesn't mean a dodgy job anymore. Plenty of vids online, pocket handbook from amazon. Finally it's MY fuking shed and I take pride in my space. THAT's why it's OK!

This video feels like it was put up to hate on DIYers. Shoddy workmanship is not the sole domain of DIYers and implying it is is disingenuous in my onion. I usually like your vids Jordan but this one is disappointing.

Not all electricians are as scrupulous as you. I had to rectify THEIR work.

It was not so long ago you did some plumbing are you a qualified plumber

Don’t assume that all people who DIY electrics don’t know what they are doing. I have worked as an electrical engineer for 40 years. I am not qualified to do domestic electrics. But I know my stuff. Don’t pigeon hole everybody. I have found many examples of dodgy electrics carried out by ‘Qualified Electricians’ in my own home than I care to think about.

The arrogance is staggering. You're an Electrician buddy, not a rocket scientist.

Your having a mare jord love your content mate but you slagging the back of diy then using a non pvc back box just going to crack again time after time 🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈

Am I alone in being slightly bemused that within seconds of hating on DIYers, you knock out the entry ports to the back box with pliers and do absolutely nothing e.g. with a file, to dress up the really jagged edges that result?

I like how your sticking up for your staff by blaming the tools. I have a fluke and Kewtech and they are both great test meters. It’s ok to say “human error” Jordan.

Same reason they fix their own car, cut their own logs or own a ladder. There are trade lobbyists wanting to ban those things too. The conflict between making people responsible for their own wealth and then banning them from living without it is unsustainable. As wealth inequality grows, laws must be relaxed and the poor must take risks, because they will anyway when they run out of choices.

If people aren't expected to do their own electrics why can you walk into B&Q / Screwfix / Wilko and buy all the sockets, cables, MCB, and everything else they all sell ? Because nobody is going to pay you to come over and change a single light switch or fit a bulb in the loft unless they have money to burn.

Taking some licks on this one lad.

There's people out there that aren't what you call qualified electricians but know a damn sight more about electricity and electronics than what you do!!!!!!

Because people are sick of being ripped off by cowboy

Got a bit of mixed feelings on the “ridiculous gland and silicone” bodge on the switch and then seeing you installing that brittle shite box with the cables through the knockouts only.. 🥴

Do you know why people think it’s ok to wire their garages or outbuildings , electricians are to expensive plus it’s a piece of piss

People might be less inclined to do their own electrics if they didn't get extorted £96.00 an hour , try that for size

You need to accept that the job you do isn't rocket science, you don't need years of school or experience to be a professional spark. It's quite easy for the person off the street to do a few sockets and lights properly. I've seen shocking work in my own home done by registered professionals. Still no excuse for shoddy work but let's not make blanket statements!

Well Jord, I dunno how oumch of this youve read but that video certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons!!! You've offeended all the DIYers who watch your channel!

To be honest I think charging 90 quid an hour to people who only earn 9 quid or less an hour before the taxman has his slice has a bit to do with it. And then there are the element in the trade who insist on being paid cash to rub salt in the wound.. That is if you can get anyone to actually pitch up to quote for minor works in the first place round our way. This is why we DIYers are on youtube watching electricians moaning about DIYers because we can't all afford 90 quid an hour, plus VAT..... 😬

One very good reason for the DIY approach is the serious dearth of tradesmen actually willing to do 'small' jobs. I have a small unit it my garage, 1 x 16a + 1 x 6a MCB, supposedly installed by a qualified electrician. It dangles from the armoured cable and randomly trips out when I use the mitre saw or table saw and the cabling is an absolute disgrace. I couldn't even get an electrician to come out and quote . Different matter when it came to needing a new consumer unit and some major rewiring for the house. While they were out to look at that I had them look at the garage and asked for a quote to include installing the main unit, the rewiring and additional sockets associated with a new kitchen installation AND improving the garage set up. I was given a price, which I double-checked included all the above which they said it did. Received a call saying they had some capacity the following morning and out they came to install the new mains unit. That was all they did, no rewiring, no additional sockets and, beyond a refresher of what needed doing, nothing in the garage, which they said they would do when they came to wire up the kitchen but could I pay them now for the job? In cash? With such short notice, I didn't have the full amount readily available but emptied my wallet to pay them something 'on account'. Few weeks later, another call with notice of sudden availability and back they came. Despite detailed print outs of the proposed kitchen layout taped to the walls of an otherwise empty room, they cut an ugly channel in the wrong place that required so much plaster that it took three weeks to dry out, they've installed some sockets so high that they'll end up behind the wall cabinets and they left with sockets hanging off the wall, no lights and the garage still to be looked at. They were due back nearly four weeks ago to 'finish off' but still haven't shown up. Qualified and Professional are NOT the same thing by any means.

No need to stereotype. Some DIY people do it properly and check what needs to be done and how. I guess you rarely see/notice the good DIY jobs as they're indistinguishable from an electricians work (in appropriate cases ofc). What is inexcusable is DIY done wrong, or fitters etc (who the owner implicitly trusts) doing a bad job

I personally would quickly run a small file around the back box holes to reduce the sharp edges. An extra minute for a more professional job.

I agree with Neil Roberts review, it cost me £390 to have a 30amp Commando socket on the back wall of my house so I could run a welder and plasma cutter, the cable from the fuse box was no more than 10 foot and he wasn’t here more than 2 hours, as Neil said in your last video you told us you earned £90 an hour and then in this video you say you can’t understand why people think it’s ok to install there own power to there sheds and here’s me thinking your clever, one last thought, if I called you tomorrow and asked you to come and change a light switch would you turn up, I don’t think so because it obviously wouldn’t be worth it to you hence the reason why there will always be DIYers.

Cost is part of the answer, availability is also part of the answer. Obviously the counter argument is always safety etc. A lot of these things are organic, adding one spurred socket in a garage and then another one a couple of years later and so on. Trying to find tradespeople to do little jobs is hard, often near impossible, and the ones who will turn up for a £50 job are often either freshly qualified (nothing wrong with that!) or shoddy - often people would be safer finding a competent mate to do it!

Generally, I would say that most tradesmen are on the whole not that much better than your competent D.I.Y bod. The prices they charge rarely justify the quality of work. They may have experience and knowledge but rarely put the two into practice. Those like yourself who take a pride in their work will want compensating handsomely for your diligence and nice work, sadly, in today's world most of the people who need jobs doing can rarely afford that luxury.

Not hating I promise like your work, but some DIYers are better certainly neater than some electricians also did you not do some plumbing recently? also do you get a decorator/plumber/car service / decking at every opportunity it comes to money my advice if your out of your depth hand over to a professional but a single socket new light sorry I am more than capable btw not hating you just asked the question 😀😀

Why constantly bash the DIY'ers, there are good ones, I've seen a lot of installations done better then many professional ones. Mostly DIYers with an electrical background but not being an licensed one (for the UK). The ones done by amateur DIYers are mostly bad and not up to code I agree. And then you've got the middle group of DIY'ers who learn from YT from people like you. :)

It's perfectly OK to wire your own garage or shed if you are not a qualified electrician. People just need to educate themselves and do a proper job, following regulations. At least in countries where it's legal to do so because your installation is controlled by a qualified electrician or certification authority afterward. There are many resources online such as your channel to help do it right, there are books, trainings, explanations of the regulations, etc. I was out of France for a dozen years, and when I came back, I had some serious catching up with NF C 15-100 regulation to do, although its latest (fifth) amendment is quite old now, 2015. But yeah, this garage setup is horrible. In France, you'd have to use PVC-like rigid tubing for such external cables for extra protection. Cables with just the sleeve protection are not allowed, and cables with a flexible sheath are allowed only behind wallboards or in ceilings, for instance. I made my own consumer unit with cement and fiberglass so I could insert it into an internal wall, 2 hinges for the door, 1 x 1-meter long slotted DIN rail (€1.96) cut in 4 rails of 14 modules each fixed with a few screws and insulating washers, 1 x 15-connector green ground terminal block (€5.52), 2 x 7-connector blue and grey neutral and live terminal blocks (2x€3.00) that clip on a DIN rail, and a 2mm thick sheet of polycarbonate (€7.70) to let only the used modules accessible. Total cost: *€21* instead of €90 or €84 for a 4-row x 13-module Schneider or Legrand (I already had cement, screws, hinges, etc.). I used 2 other DIN rails for the communications panel, 1 for the clipsable RJ45 inputs from the television antenna and internet box, one below for the clipsable RJ45 outputs that go to the different room sockets. I did install a surge protector (Legrand, €84.55), as power outages are rather frequent here, although the local surge level does not make it mandatory. I plan on adding a battery and trickle charger to serve lighting, the computer, the Internet box, the NAS, USB chargers and the alarm system in case of a power outage, but I am not there yet.

most eletricians want a week pay for a days work thats why people do it themselfs, And other so called tradesman are all the same,

Wrong question. WHY, when people wire up their own garage or shed, don't they do it properly?

My experience when trying to employ “professional” tradesmen is that they don’t answer emails or return phone calls. I prefer to construct an email with a summary of what needs done along with photos of the relevant areas and as much relevant info as possible and invite a visit. But if I send the same email to 3 tradesmen I’m lucky if I get a single response never mind a decent quote. Maybe they can tell from my email that I know what I’m talking about (I’m an electronics engineer), and prefer to deal with people who are more naive, but the net result is that I tend to just do most things myself. I’ve been maintaining and repairing my own vehicles for 35 years and honestly don’t see why competent DIY car maintenance is okay but competent DIY electrical work isn’t. Is a 2 ton car travelling at 70MPH less dangerous than 230V mains? Speaking of which - on one of the few times that I got a “proper” garage to change a clutch for me, the mechanic didn’t tighten the bolts holding the brake calipers to the hub and handed the car over to my wife to drive home with our 3 young kids. When I got home that night my wife told me the car was making a funny clunking noise and when I looked at it I found the brake caliper hanging by a few threads of a single bolt, the other bolt having already fallen out. I actually went to the garage owner’s house that night and read him the riot act but I’ve never trusted anyone to work on a car of mine since. Any trade can be done so badly that it becomes a threat to life and in my view the person(s) with the greatest incentive to avoid such an outcome is the person(s) who live every day with that risk. Of course, you need to have the education and the equipment but assuming you have that, and you aren’t running against the clock trying to make a profit or get to your next client, isn’t it at least possible that a competent DIY’er can do a good job? A commercial electrician needs to be able to handle anything they might come across in domestic or commercial electrics but a DIY’er only needs so know their own house. Anyway, I know you can’t encourage DIY electrical work but I’m sure you also know that there are plenty of DIY’ers out there who can do a better job than many professional electricians. That said I have no doubt that the best time-served electrician will always be better than the best DIY electrician but it all depends on whether they can be bothered replying to your quote request!

Why do you think it was a DIY’er

We think it is OK because is just isn't that hard. The key is knowing the codes, and following the rules.

I called out a ‘qualified professional’ to wire up my garden pond distribution board via a junction box terminating the SWA direct burial cable and to install the other end on the main distribution board. I watched him try and squeeze everything into a junction box that was clearly too small, he then terminated the distribution end onto another breaker. Advised me to go and buy my own 15A breaker and swap the cable over myself after I fitted the new breaker into the distribution board! Took the money and left. I was just glad to see the back of him. I fitted the breaker myself. Checked it! Went to the pond end opened the junction box he had fitted to test the earth and surprise surprise the earth was loose. Then you want to know why amateurs feel they can wire their own stuff up. Well I agree, botching the job is not acceptable, but this amateur did a far better job than the professional who took my money. I used all the correct glands for SWA, earthed everything, put it on it’s own circuit and tested everything. I now have peace of mind that the job is safe, unlike when the professional left it with a loose earth. Please, don’t tar every amateur with the same brush. Some of us are very safety conscious.

I think what leads amateurs into doing small wiring works in sheds/garages is occasionally the frustration of trying to get a professional to quote/turn up to do what’s of a small low cost job. While there’s a scarcity of skilled tradesmen I can’t see this changing anytime soon.

3:20 Or your tester isn’t working correctly? Need to get all four of you guys together and have your testers make a majority vote :-)

Qualified = competant. I'm qualified to set up traffic lights and redirect traffic, how many times have i needed to for my job in 2 years? Not once. Being qualified means nothing next to being expeirenced.

I’ve seen worse from electricians. I do not think your solution of a plastic back box for the SFU and feeding the cables through knock outs was overly impressive either.

It's very easy to criticize other people work,yet I find that I sleep better at night if i walk away from a job believing that it is safe. So what if it's not in the remit? So I've tested it,I know the faults and is it gong to cost me any time and money to spend those extra 10 15 minutes on a job to salve my conscience that what I've left is safe? I'd rather give away 2 saddles,2 rawl pugs and 2 screws than sit at home at night worry about the people in a house

No tail gromet in consumer unit

My dad told me that Electrician’s were failed ballet dancers ! But love the videos ! Brian

£90 a hour to fit a crap brittle surface box like that in a shed. And also to put a stuffing gland in a outside socket.

Jordan I hate to say it , but a lot of workmanship we s.ee in videos is done by presumably qualified electricians.

The flip side of the coin is when I needed an EICR the spark insisted on changing the CU and moving the light fittings. After all that messing around I had to fix his bodge ups myself and he'd somehow missed the one serious fault, a cable joint that you could hear arcing under the floorboards. So although I'll acknowledge when I'm out of my depth I'll do whatever I can by myself.

To be honest, while 90% of DIY electrics isn’t up to scratch and the people undertaking it it probably should not be doing it. There is also a small percentage of people who are competent and qualified who are quite capable and still not allowed because they don’t belong to one of the money making schemes...which prohibit them from doing odd job here and there within their own home and getting it signed off properly.

Nothing wrong with a bit of DIY done correctly. If its your own premises and your confident then why the hell not. To be fair wiring up a few sockets or a light isnt exactly rocket science. But yes if your not confident then forget about it. To be honest around my area you couldnt get a qualified sparky out to even look at a job that small. They would have zero interest. I have been on some multi million euro jobs that the electrical contractor has just let a dozen of his apprentices loose without any supervision. Theyd have brown=live blue=neutral written on the back of theyre hands. But thats fine apparently ? 🙂 Same goes for other areas aswell. Im a carpenter by trade, but can turn my hand to most things if i have the interest and desire to learn. I havent brought any of my vehicles to a mechanic in over 20 years. I do it all myself even though its not my actual trade. Its not about saving money as such. The satisfaction of figuring something out and doing it yourself is awesome.

Why do tradies think it's OK to rip people off? I do my own electrics and do a damn sight better job than any tradie.

Sadly just because you're paying a "professional" doesn't mean it's done right. Do your research, plenty of it, take your time and most things can be done by yourself. I've seen motorbike mechanics work on my bike and let me ride it away with major structural bolts (holding the front forks on) all finger loose. I've seen them forgot to put new oil in after servicing and blowing up motors. Now I do every bit of work on my bikes by myself. Because no one spends the time and puts the effort in as much as the owner will.

the way that junction box is wired, it's wired exactly how a "qualified electrician" would do it. And after you spoke trash, you still used the same old mashed cables and you let an unprotected cable on some loose nails. How about pvc pipes with wall plugs? Gimme a break. And don't say "silicone is ridiculous" while it doesn't even have any cracks. If it was me, I'd use a lot more silicone. Of course he should've used a gland, but... did it crack the silicone? Don't just say "oh it's ridiculous" for 9 minutes and show no arguments. Also your twin and earth cables are cheap low quality garbage, so spare me. Pull a new proper good quality cable before you talk trash about other people's work. Stop reusing old cables, especially white english twin n earth.

People wire up their own garages and sheds because they don't want to pay sky high prices for a sparky, that's IF you can actually get anyone to turn up and do the job in the first place. "Yeah mate, I'll be there Tuesday morning" only never to be heard of again. Unless it's a full house rewire, most electricians aren't interested. A skilled DIY'er can do just as good a job in most cases.

I've had three different so called qualified electricians in my house to carry out work and each time i've asked for a full, not sampled, E.I.C.R to be completed. Each electrician criticised the previous electricians work and stated that an E.I.C.R could not have been completed correctly on the previous occasion. To make matters worse post all 3 visits i found loose cables in sockets, incorrect gauge wiring being used, earth wires in the lighting circuit disconnected or cut off, incorrect mcb used in the cooker circuit (when taking into account diversity) wires stretched diagonally across walls, without shielding, faulty 30mA RCD, socket cable tails cut too short, live bare copper protruding from the back of socket cable grips, no grommets used in metal back boxes. Heck the qualified electrician fitted a second consumer unit into the back of the first consumer unit, no Henley blocks used to split the feed etc. etc. A fool is a fool, so called qualified or not. Similarly I had a (notifiable change to building in the uk) new roof fitted by a master roofer, brilliant job completed. The man from the council turned up just as the job was completed, stood on the pavement (didn't even speak to the roofer) and said to me, as I was about to get in my car, "that looks okay" he then got into his car and drove off. I later received a £235 bill from the council for his inspection. All in all this competent person business is a scam, as are building control visits, neither guarantee good or competent workmanship. No I'm not an electrician, just a heck of a lot more competent than the so called qualifed certified ones that I've had the misfortuneto use, at least I bother to read the regulations.

Super. Here it is totally legal to wire your own house, shed, pool, garage, outhouse, silo, and barn as long as you get a permit and have it inspected. 💙 T.E.N.

So... I'm not qualified, I'm pure DIY. I do my own electrics and plumbing. Things I don't touch - Consumer Unit, I got a spark in to do that - but someone I know and trust, he had no issues with me installing a new circuit for my garage (20A radial) with the tails left for him to terminate in the new CU. He also understood my logic for leaving the old redundant Immersion circuit in place (I had already converted it to a socket) to allow expansion if we wanted a loft conversion in the future. On the plumbing side I don't touch Gas. Again I got a guy in that I know and trust to swap my boiler. So whilst being a DIY'er I label myself as a competent amateur. I've seen shoddy electrical work completed by professionals - next door had their garden landscaped the professional spark that came in to do the outside lights ran T&E along the TOP of the fence clipped direct. The professional spark that the bathroom fitters at my nans got in obviously saw the neat and tidy rewireable - original to the house, didn't have the required RCD protection for the replacement shower circuit and bathroom lighting circuit, so instead of splitting the supply and putting a sub board in he ripped out the old and installed a Denmans monstrosity with a knife and fork. No paperwork, no test certificate and a 32A breaker labeled as (?)..... It's ok though because he registered it with building regs under his CPS....

I wired my shed with light and power around 15 years ago. No problems

I’m no pro, but uuuurgh- knockouts on back boxes, I use a dremel for nice round and smooth entries.

not all diy installs look like that. just the same as if you've ever had a an easy fix on your car or van i hope you got a qualified mechanic seen as your a spark not a diy mechanic

Don't tar us all with the same brush. I've had to self wire stuff before as has other family but we've got FAR FAR higher standards than I'm seeing in this video. NOTHING is permitted to be able to have childrens fingers touch live wires etc. Conduit underground must be orange and buried for 240vAC (grey is fine for data/telecoms). Cables are stripped and terminated properly. When outside like that last box it has conduit ALL THE WAY to the box unless it can be appropriately secured to the wall. Our stuff later gets signed off by a sparkie we know and has never been an issue. So again like I said don't tar all with the same brush aye. As for why should some do their own wiring .... pricing for one. But also self sustainability and self accomplishment type thing too, should we also not grow vegies in the backyard as a farmer can do all that and usually knows better so it should not be attempted, same with building an extension on the house and/or renos and so many other subjects.

With that back box in the garage that’s a bit rough just breaking out those knock outs. To make a neat job always pre cut with a junior hacksaw then break them out . Much neater and you can cut it the exact size of the cable

*There's many different reasons why people do their own electrical work...* - It can be difficult to find a reputable electrician who will actually do a decent job - Homeowners are tired of been ripped off by so called tradesman - And more importantly most electricians don't care how they leave a job. I've never encountered one tradesman that hasn't ccarrying *You should be questioning why incompetent people carry out electrical work. I understand your point of view, but labelling all DIYers as incompetent when there's tradesmen who have no idea what they're doing isn't fair. You don't even know if it was a DIYer who did that job!*

Answer: because homeowners will take the time to do a good presentable job after careful research. No more crappy tradesmen, no more blaring radios.

People do it themselves because they can't afford to get an electrician to do it. Pretty obvious I'd have thought.

Wiring is easy Red to Red Black to Black Blue to F**k 💥 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

I'm a diyer, I can't afford for a qualified electrician to come out and do work , so I watch qualified people and do it to standard !

All I would say is that there is many so called professionals out there that are more dangerous than a decent DIYer. I nearly had my house burnt down by a consumer unit fitted by a “professional”. Looking at the way these RU-vid guys do a CU I can hand on heart say that the “professional” that done my CU was a complete bodger, I am gonna say this with complete confidence and say I could definitely do a better job than that guy that fitted my CU but nowhere near as good a job as the guys that really know what they are doing. How can there be so much difference between 2 professionals in the same industry with the same accreditation???

£90.00 an hour...Is that really correct? Is that just Labour...nice. :)

Many DIY ers are very professional most of them probably, be more specific and condem bad Jobs not all DIY ers in general

I always used a junior hacksaw and a file on those surface mount pattress boxes, even the MK and Crabtree ones. Found that usually saved a trip back to the van.

Why do people think it's OK to do their own PR, videography and editing?

they think it's okay because the parts are dirt cheap but labour costs are absolutely outrageous.

People there's two categories of DIY. 1# General DIY with some idea what they want to accomplish. Lacking tools, know-how and not using proper materials. 2# DIY enthusiast who will do planning, research of tools/materials/knowhow... before starting any work and realising when to call in professional help. Same goes for trades: #1 comes in and slaps everything together leaving the mess behind. tries to charge for something that's not broken and doesn't need replacing. Sadly had to deal with some car mechanics, plumbers and gas engineers in this category. #2 is honest and does tidy work, makes suggestions and doesn't write off stuff (be it a CU or boiler) Yet to meet one like that. Hopefully that will be soon and won't let go of that person/company 😅

I've done my own (and will continue to do so) because the quality of your average sparky is pretty terrible and doesn't represent value for money. I've lost count of the amount of work I've re-done for them, not the other way around!

My interpretation of a professional is "I charge a lot and ain't too good." I've always done all my own electrics, plumbing AND gas. My friend called me recently to help a qualified electrician who couldn't find several faults that had been introduced by him. An inability to think in logical steps to find faults meant he couldn't track down the problems. I also have to help a plumber friend to sort out boiler problems. I find many "qualified" people are actually incompetent and downright dangerous. I'll continue to do my own stuff as it's cheaper and I know I can trust it. My young friend who I've been mentoring in mechanical repairs, build a shed with his dad. The lad wired up all the electrics and installed the 6mm armoured cabling. He got a qualified electrician to inspect it and the electrician said it was some of the best work he'd seen. The lad had never done it before but common sense prevailed. WHY do people think it's OK to wire up their own garage or shed?! Because we're not all as stupid as you imply!

just as well, they looked like 30A slugs tom me, they had no business being on a 1.5mm2 cable

there is a very good reason why people do there own wiring.. it's the cost of an election plus decorators and most people with a bit of knowledge can do it safely...you have someone who needs a diagram to wire a plug

That type of exterior socket cover is very similar to what's called a "weatherproof while in use" cover in the US. That type of cover is required on new exterior sockets, either in newly-built houses or in retrofits for existing houses. Ones labeled "extra duty" have an extra-large bubble cover to handle transformers or loops of thick power cables.

lmao, talkig like hes skilled at anything, bro sparky is the easiest job , ive had nodge jobs off professionals and mint free wire ups off pals

because it's electrics not deep maths. the question you meant to ask was 'why does anyone think it's okay to do dodgy electrical work'

Trainee electrician hear i noticed where the tails enter the consumer unit there is no gland and there appears to be a large gap is that allowed? Im asking as to gain knowledge.

Guys like this one would like to see a situation that a law is passed whereby someone must pay an electrician to wire a plug.

Rcbo's faulty, classic way of ramping up the bill!

Yeah....no power in my shed....I ran the cable myself...too many cables in one conduit....10 years later no power in shed :((( Now calling a pro :) $$$$$$ :(((((((.