What Have I Discovered In This House Rewire
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- What have I discovered under the floorboards in the electrical house rewire, a mysterious metal box that contains...
We look at the next part in the 1st fix electrical rewire...stay tuned to see how I measure out and cut out spotlights so its perfect every time, install my cables so the plasterer will plaster with ease and talk about some of the tools that makes the job much easier to complete
This is PT3 in the Electrical house rewire of my friends house
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I found one of those boxes in my (1957, Cwmbran) house. Mine hadn't been touched since the house was built. The terminals inside were really tight and fixed with some thread-locking varnish. Mine said "The Octopus" on it's lid and also carried a label bearing the 1957 installation date. Since Cwmbran is a post-war "new-town" there must be thousands of them here. The house only had about four mains sockets from new. This made for very neat wiring between The Octopus and the quaint wooden fuse box. That neatness is now gone with three ring finals and several radials post rewire. Thanks for the vids, Jimbo.
@@radiokeith thanks for the comment. As it has it this was next to Cwmbran 😀
It’s called a pancake box, it’s how a lot of lighting circuit were wired, we have somewhat modern day equivalents today whereby a Wagobox is fitted in the loft, a fed goes in and all the switch line cables and light fitting cables spider out of the box.
The old boys that taught me called it a "Spider box" and had all the connections there and only one cable at switch/light. A nightmare when you need to wire new smokes off the lights 😅
@@John_Faultless ahhh I can imagine that’s a nightmare. Hope your good mate 👍🏻
Good to see you back Jimbo. You’ve got a real natural presentation style.
@@thesilverfox135 thanks for the nice words 😀
Mate, use the hole saw dust catcher. Will prevent all the dust falling on you
It's an octopus box mate.
@@matthewbevan7964 thanks Matt 👍🏻
M8, that box. Have a word with them two old geezers at efixx. They probably remember installing them 'back in the day' (?)
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Good to see your content on You Tube again, hope to see more. That Super Rod cable dispenser seems really handy.
@@mikeedwards7173 thank you. Really is
love your content and your energy mate! keep up the good work and post a lot of vids for us!
@@rondo122 appreciate it🤟🏼
Top man.
Keep posting
@@johnsouthcombe4185 cheers john
Keep it coming young man
May i start by saying i love your videos, and I was wondering if you could give me some advice. My son is 19 and starts his second year of college. Have you any tips on getting an apprenticeship as he is struggling thanks.
Appreciate the comment😀. I would suggest the basics like him calling local companies asking if he can hand a CV in. He has to do this not you. Secondly could always offer himself to a company for a couple of days for free labour so he can prove himself to them that he’s a hard worker and wants to learn. Thirdly the hardest but probably the best going to each company and show his face and having a chat with the companies there and then
@jimbotheelectrician3819 thanks bud, keep up the good work my friend.
More content, please.
All these places we had to live in are disgusting. Some black (God knows what they are made of) blocks, low ceilings, rectangular rooms etc. And then people think why they get sick and so on.
Was going to say about knee pads - your better off to have them on all the time otherwise your seriously fuck your knees up! Nice work Welsh Lad 😅