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- COWBOY ELECTRICIAN WAS HERE...
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Cory, you should send photos to the college where this so called sparky will lecture. No way should he be allowed anywhere near an apprentice. It’s borderline criminal!!
Cory lives a very sheltered life, this is actually very good compared to some of the stuff ive seen. Just last week I went to building site with some romanians staying on site, they had a 8.5kW electric shower running off some 1.5mm 3 core flex powered through a 13A plug. I look at it and think, 'how has that not blown the fuse'. Opened the plug and found a PZ2 drill bit wedged in place of the fuse and that was the safest part of the installation.
Sounds like my old school. The hand driers kept blowing their fuses so the caretaker put pieces of 6" nails in them instead. The covers had been lost and you could see the nails heating up.
Goes with my experience to. Generally this would be called DIY. But I mostly see the best and worst with "professionals". and on average, Diy is in the middle ground.
and PS I have seen much worse that that, that was by multiple professionals.
Drama queen
Wow! To think I was worried about using an 8.5kw shower on 6mm......
Finally gave in and got gas central heating with a awesome shower.
@fabianmckenna8197 6mm is powerlines where I'm from
I've said it before but Cory, your presentation style is excellent - engaging, fluent and nice gentle quirky humour.
Agreed 100%.
I'm retired now,I used to do this inspection and testing 80% of the time, I hated it! I did a big massive university village that took 18 months to do! 1000s circuits and faults on every one. Maintained by city council, Mr. Blunders. And I was the one always in trouble? "You switched off the power", they would say. "My computer went off"! Everything held together with pvc tape and connectors. It cost £millions and £millions to re-wire the lot all for nothing. I passed through Manchester and stopped in disbelief. The whole site has been demolished to make way for a new hospital. I still have dreams nowadays of the Elizabeth Gaskell site! Great video, and good luck with your work.
worst thing about EICR's for me is that it becomes a thing where you're just going back on someone elses fuck ups. that pretty much all I would seem to find on most of the jobs.
As an MIET and Chartered Electrical Engineer myself, I can fully sympathise with your views of that mess. The house owner should sue the fool that did the earlier mess and should either get a qualification in knitting or electrical installation, if he has any aptitude for either, which appears doubtful.
As for lecturing electrical installation, one can only hope he's going to have no success and is forced to leave. Better still, if you know him, its your duty to name him to the IET and the college backed up with photographs and a statement about his identity from the house owner.
Basically, he should be prosecuted and all his work remedies before it causes fire or electrocution.
yes, they should all be prosecuted for botch jobs.. should be across theboard..any trader needs prosecuting for shoddy work.. they are hidingbehindd accreditation and fooling ppl into believing they're competent...sad
“I’m too pretty for jail” absolutely hilarious. Cory is such a comedian and so entertaining in these videos. Great work fella 👍
My favourite line of the video. Cory must be such good fun to work with.
So true too 😊.
This guy has improved the channel no end. Useful information without all that 'Better than you' opinion from before.
This comment doesn’t make sense
@@jacktwohig2135 what don't you understand? Cody is what the channel needs. Jordan doesn't connect with Joe public.
@@JasonShowell Agreed the other guy seems like a snob, I don't like his demeanor
Jordan’s the kind of guy you want to wire your house but you wouldn’t want to spend anytime with him. Cody is chill.
@@kryptoniteee 🤣🤣🤣
“Looks like Bob Marley rolled that joint” tho 😂😂😂
ha ha ha
Cory: "I have a feeling it's gonna be a nightmare"
Me: *looks at the title*, *looks at the video length*, "Part 1"
Me: "Oooh yes it will be"
HAHA
Can't wait for part 2. Why bodge a job like this with all the cabling under the units. If it can't be done correctly as to code then don't take the job on in the first place. It looks like a kitchen fitter has taken on the job doing the whole fitting of electrics and cupboards.
Why not just unscrew the cabinet and pull it out to give you full access to the board??
Great content btw Cory! It's only a matter of time before you have your own channel on here 💪💪
That is diabolical. I’ve never seen worse. Don’t know how you remained so calm, I’d have cracked up!!
Cory is such a professional. Great to see his pride in his work 👍
Bob Marley rolled that joint 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mr. Bodge needs to be named and shamed.. no, not shamed... told to make right what he has made wrong.
Feels a bit too cancel culture to me, but I would send photos to his new boss on the QT.
It’s disheartening for customers, they pay a for a “Proper” electrician only to find out that it was a total waste of money. Or done on the cheap only to be bitten further down the line.
I attended a customer for a fault, kitchen had only been in 3 months, Carpenter charged £600 to rewire kitchen and told the customer he had an electrician in turned out he did the wiring himself. Had to have the kitchen taken out to rewire the whole lot. We need laws like they have in Australia covering electrical work.
Even with the laws we have here in Australia there are still plenty of cowboys getting about. I have come across some absolutely appalling electrical work in my 20 years in the trade.
Laws never stop incompetence , we are already highly regulated , i for instance can't work on historical buildings any more because its not on my card (although i hold qualifications that say and prove otherwise but the new regulation systems have decided they won't recognise them ). They forget those with the knowledge , skills and experience often trained under a different regime where college and formal paperwork never really mattered . My main trade is carpentry and joinery , Electrical work was a secondary trade i learned later in life , at 61 now i have no intention of formalising my training done 30 plus years ago.
Fabulous work boys. Great camera work Jordan. Very smooth and easy to watch
If my college tutors are anything to go by, they get into teaching because they can't handle the graft, and this appalling standard of work comes as no surprise.
My last degree was software engineering, some time ago now. But why would you be a tutor in about 27K when as a software engineer you can earn 3 times that? To be fair, most where brilliant, and just want a few quieter years after a successful carrier, before they retired. But a few where utterly useless, and clearly were in teaching because they couldn't do the day job.
This is the real issue with vocational training in the UK. Tutors are mostly paid all the same. so a few years ago, if the wanting to teach catering or beauty, then 27k was a far salary. But for IT, Electrical, plumbing etc. who would give up a well paid job to teach?
Great to see good Sparks still on T&I/Regs!
No Electrician worth his salt would complete an installation like that, don't believe the blokes qualified at all, Check that man's qualifications he never studied a day in his life, How old I wonder is this clown 🤡
This is why this is the best electrical channel by far. This Cody fella is brilliant.
😎👍 Cory
@@artisanelectrics sure thing, steve
The problem with this sort of appalling workmanship is even when you've tested everything in sight you still might not find doggy hidden joints under floors etc. And it begs the question "for the clients safety is now the time to rewire the whole of the property" ?
there will be joints in walls and under floors and all over the place, i would check all cable colours at lighting and socket points
Another great video by Corrie, so interesting and funny too 👍🏼
Got a 3 phase incomer here at home too - on what was a looped service. Caused much shambles when the (single phase) meter was changed to the digital sort years ago (first two installers apparently only had single phase training)
This guy Cory is fantastic his presentation skills and explanation is a wonderfully good.
This is precisely why we do an eicr first before any work like a consumer board change. Cory, I applaud you for taking us through what a good portion of us find as part of our daily routine. I use these examples to show young apprentices how Not To!!
You were actually predicting each stage as I’d guess you’ve probably seen done before, by a none qualified spark.
I found this intriguing but also had a sense of de ja vu....
Great video.
Ive had a bad day on site today and after watching this, Todays not actually been that bad!!! HAHAHAHA!!!
Glad the video helped!
Spider senses tingling were right on this one.
You can get those Enlite downlights with the click connectors on them already from some wholesalers (well used to be able to anyway)
Great video with some nice snippets of knowledge along the way.....! :)
Release the kraken - name the lecturer...! Yes, length of video = proportion of 'nightmare'! Corey, you are hysterical man :)
21:49 Pointing out the 3 phase..
I spotted that earlier when he was talking about the covers are loose..
I was wondering if it was 3 phase, but I have zero expertise. Just CZcams videos...
I given myself a mini pat on the back for working that out myself. (I say working it out, more questing it myself)
I was so pleased when he pointed it out though..
Well done!
We have 3 phase down the block and into the house. But then each house has only one phase in use. First house, first phase and so on. That spreads the loads over all three phases. But when you want 3 phases you can get it without much costs.
@@PeterPetersNL I don't even know where the tails are in my house. My Consumer unit is a floating box on the wall, nothing visible in or out..
I never really paid attention in my last house, it wasn't an interest at the time. And my parents house.... MY GOD... I don't even know how to describe how old the electrics are..
I've never even seen the shape of their consumer unit on any video for a comparison..
When they said "Oh, we will see an old board" .. and they showed ^ that board.. I was very disappointed. It wasn't old enough to identify what my parents have. It still looked modern in comparison.
Though, next time I am around their house (Most likely Tuesday evening to make sure they have everything they need), I might see if I can see if they have a 3 phase tails thing like Mr Bodge had..
What a horrendous find. EICR only way forward to get the full extent of the problems. Problem is with all the finds you saw do you leave it in the way you found it ie do the tape up on those horrible splices in the kitchen? Is there a minimum rule for safety to have to employ even though you were not involved in that installation to leave it safe for the client.
Glad you did not run away from this. Situations like this is where real sparkies are made. It does not have to be pretty if your not doing a full rewire. Making it safe and upto standard is the first order of the day. Looking forward to the next video.
Real world sparking....... well done Artisan and Cory.
C1 Dangerous make safe. Even if it means disconnecting the circuit.
Interesting video, thanks! Beware oven ratings from early 2000’s some were ridiculously high using elements sourced from a commercial environment. a fifty amp supply seems high, but check that data tag to confirm. CPC-circuit protective conductor (sorry ocd)
Wow Oh my god. it was really mixed up wiring someone didn't do a job. I’ve never seen worse. I think the low cabinet box should take off. Great job Cory found it. Let do it video Part 2 I will watch it. Thumb up!! Cheer!
32:00 I bet the lights came with the little flex+connectors pre installed, just had to wire the feed connector.
thanks the info from note 3 has been very useful more please
This guy is teaching others, that's totally bloody scary. Keep up the good work mate, really enjoying your content and commentary style. One suggestion though mate: Buy some overshoes, I wouldn't be wandering around anyone's house without boots on. I did it once and ended up at hospital with a piece of glass in my foot, never again.
God damn Cory, you are so watchable. Rock on dude.
This makes me think I may need an audit on the electrics in my house. Loving the channel. Came across the channel when looking what I need to do to get an EV charger in place. May call you guys
It's one of your best videos yet
I don't see a problem with him retiring from the job to become a college lecturer. Perhaps he's a good chef and can teach cookery...
Basket weaving would suit the guy...
As long as he doesn't wire up the cooker...
Toublle is mate as a past properly trained chef too many clowns decide to "become a chef " and have no clue about food but above all that food safety is a hidden killer much like electricity.
Butcher! I was thinking, friend. lol
@@chrissyboy123456789 Chef Bosses the Kitchen, during Routine Maintenance, friend. no disrespect to fellow tradesmen intended I'm sure mate.
Had a friend who was on the same testing/inspection course as me who years later became a college tutor. His work was always to regs and tidy, but he was very slow. Being an ex-army engineer, he took no crap from anyone, lost his temper with some rude toe rag teenager and pinned him against a wall. Lost the job.
Unusual place, 3 phase cutout. Loving that inaccessible, coverless garage unit behind the cupboard! I swear someone must have put that in to spite the next spark.
38:37 had me hurting 🤣
Im not an electrician and love the videos of all you professionals -- the work you checked was shameful. I have routed in cable etc in my home and ready for final check and connection to any new circuits and take so much time in reseach and then care and trouble to make it look good and workmanlike (much as you chaps) Also totally OTT with quality materials and then all accessible, tagged and labled. How the heck that clown as a "proffessional" is now teaching in a college is beyond me, no wonder he gave up in business.God help his students.
This is an everyday occurrence only time you don’t see it, is when you’ve done the work yourself
Following "A mate done It, cheap like" friend, seen too many.
Haa haaa! Quote of the year so far. "I'm too pretty for jail"
hahaha
Face down they don't care man, being ugly wont save your ass!
No he Isn't! lol
This bloke is now college lecturer what a joke!! Let's start praying for those poor apprentices
That defo needs to be reported. Its bad that a time served sparky did it (and charge good money for it), but for that person to now teach is ridiculous, as his shoddy practices may be the foundation for apprentices who will continue his bad practises. There are a lot of people who don’t understand what constitutes good workmanship and will happily pay for work to be undertaken due to reputation. If the work can be attributed to him, he should be reported to the NICEIC and to his new employer.
Was this their own house? Maybe case of shoemakers children?
Bloody hell, I'm not even a spark and those cable joints scared me. I've always been wary of electricity since I broke one of the old "kettle" leads accidentally and got a belt when my hand bridged live to neutral at 240v.
Shocking... Literally!
Pardon the pun but that installation is absolutely shocking!
Yes, you should release the name of the culprit to the college and whatever organisation governs electricians.
Press 'F' to pay respect. Btw the 'Cory's Classroom' segment was very good. 25:13
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Hi Cory I appreciatie you in this great work . I,m also Electrician work was but i was never had like these
Love the explanations. Like taking a lesson.
Wow. I was curious to find out what ‘ring circuits’ are. Sounds scary to me. I do like you use higher voltage. Here high currents even with bigger copper can have issues with poor connections. I’m always careful on termination as 120v with high wattage, current can be high.
33:41 In Canada, there is no sleeve on the grounding conductors. From what I can see, the CPC is connected to any exposed metal just as we would do over here. Why is it the reasoning behind requiring a sleeve on the CPC in the UK?
Awesome video and ♥️Cory ! I'm not an electrician but enjoy the videos. What is the PCB in the box? For low voltage garden lights??
It's a Wisebox. Off the shelf radio controlled circuits. Tend to get used for garden lights and water features, but you can use them for anything. Standard kit gives you 4x 5A circuits and a keyfob remote
I knew about M-11 from Rumpole of the Bailey, played by Leo McKern. I had jobs I refused
as the job would take way too much time and aggravation. As I heard it, fuse wire is used
in service panels down under or in Australia. . . .
Also seen alot of proximity testers indicate power when a switchboard is all off and solar panels haven't been isolated.
I really like to watch these kind of videos. I have seen an installation that was modified by university students of electrical engineering. Those guys only learn things from a theoritical point of view and don't know anything about regulations and practical stuff. The installation was a complete disaster. Green/yellow earth wire was used for everything, except earth. And there was a junction box containing solid wires which were soldered to glass fuse holders mounted on a DIY wooden frame..
Good job Cory take care.
You should be able to remove the cupboard in front of the "consumer unit" by the cooker, find all the fittings holding it to the next cupboard and remove, check any going up into the worksurface, screw up the adjustable feet to give you room and it should slide out.
That was shocking so shocking, even I am not qualified and even I know that is not right... how do these people sleep at night, that is deffo house fire territory with 2.5m on the 50 amp breaker if the circuit got loaded. Hope the customer is glad you found all these safety issue good work guys 👍👍👍👍
2:29 you mean the m25 corrected plus the A12 😂😂
great video. You moan about it being a bad day and possibly walking away, but its not the customers fault and you have done the best thing, made an installation safe, that should give you a great feeling and job satisfaction, and the customer seems pretty happy that you are sorting it out for them. and you are getting paid. These people needed help and you are giving it to them. If I was an electrician, this would be one of the good days. Stay safe.
I haven't been in the trade for yonks, but one quick look would have told me that the whole thing would be a can of worms. I would have told the customer that a complete rewire was needed, and have left it at that. At least the customer would have saved a fair bit of dosh which could have gone towards a rewire, rather than paying to have a bodge tidied up and made reasonably safe. I have come across installations that looked neat, with a tidy c.u., only to fine a pile of connector blocks buried under plastered walls. And everything can test ok, and still be potentially lethal - cables slotted into joists, diagonal runs chased in, etc. Enjoyed the video....
that is the same reason I avoid domestic installations, beside what is the point to deal with circuits with no bs88-3 fuses and with silly single phase, where current is below 50A...
Also the plug in lights are really smart and I can see why even a half arser would use them it allows for easy change outs at a later date
Here in Germany we have 16 amps 1.5 mm radial socket lines. For 20 amps you need 2.5 mm.
If a high load is to be expected or the cable is very long, thicker cables are required. Plugs have no fuses.
Lamp circuits can be fed from socket circuits or, better still, have their own cables. The fuse is then 16 amps or less.
Ring circuit are prohibited here.
Hi Cory thanks for sharing your video with me and I would like you to make more of your videos please
Great work ethic Cory. I love your style of teaching, and yes you do teach. Hey, i just thought. Want a job as a college lecturer?
Great suggestion! LOL
Those solid green conductors were last compliant on 31 December 1977.
I'm from Wigan and your impression was pretty good tbh 👍
Exactly what I needed to make my day
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Always do an EICR first but never plan the board change the same day. I Don't even book in the board change untill we have the EICR results. For instance, did an EICR last week pre board change and the house ends up needing a rewire.
Old electricians did twist the Earths together. Kept them out the way and ensured a good and fool proof connection.
my preferred method still in the states but i use copper crimps and am starting to use wago's
*curvecurveball... mix of 1.0 and 1.5mm earthed 2.5 can drive you nuts.
Over here in New Zealand a job like that would probably be '"Filed in the too hard basket...."
for a lot of NZ sparky's probably yes you are right I've seen some terrible bodge wiring & others who took real pride in the job & nothing was too hard.
Why? Testing or obviously needs gutting and re-wired, friend? Hi from Scotland, spark, like me, methinks.
In Norway we have many 10-15-16A breakers
I’d take one of those cars instead of the designer milk float!🤣🤣
In Australia, we call volt sticks ' maybe sticks'.
16:50 jesus christ this is absolutely unbelievable. Sometimes I feel like I’m too harsh on myself as a spark, then I come across things like this and realise I’m not so bad. To think a qualified electrician did this! And the cable joint with the cooker using connector blocks and tape??? I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night!
15:30 -- I am lost for words at the sight of this.
Thanks
The only reason the down lighters had clicks and a lovely bit of flex is that’s how those ones come in the box. Then they couldn’t even be bothered to sleeve the earth 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Customer service in old houses is always a surprise. Some pipes here are even still insulated with fabric or the insulation is so brittle that it crumbles between your fingers.
It gets really interesting when one (or more) previous owners of the house have already "improved" something themselves.
What the previous "electrician" did in your video is what I call a botched job.
Is single-phase supply for flats / small houses still common in the UK?
Here in Germany it is common to supply flats / houses three-phase. (With the exception of the "old stock", if nothing is changed in the installation, but only repaired).
Our cable in Australia, the earth conductor is insulated by the manufacturer.
We miss you on artisan channel
Lovely tester! What make is it?....Really love your content, Keep it up
How do you rate the metrel tester ? I cant decide between this and the megger 1741+
I'm only 16 min in and I feel the need to comment. I might only be a Jr Spark but id stop right there and tell the customer it needs a re-wire..... I'm not sure how Cory calls this yet as like I said I'm only 16 min in but that's shocking! I don't think id ever junction a cooker I believe it should be a straight run to the isolation switch. the current going through that cable is high in my eyes and by putting a junction in there let alone how its done just screams fire to me. SHOCKING that's all i got to say
R2 in a 2.5mm twin is 1.67 lager than the 1.5mm cpc because 2.5÷1.5= 1.67.
So therefore if you had a ring (for example reason only) of 6mm twin with a 2.5mm cpc, the cpc should be 2.4 times higher because 6mm÷2.5mm=2.4.
You guys might get sued for slander, that's quality work
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O and here the favorite breakers are 20a and 16a. Love the vids cory😂
Top notch mate 👏👏😎
yea i had a few clients like that last year. where you start off really wrong. and then everything turns out to be fine.
i always see you using 2 leads and have 1 dangling, piggy back the N and PE cable on the metrel it will still work
That unit would have slid out pretty easily i think but still daft. I noticed the "education" magazine on the table. I wonder if this customer got the cowboy a start at the college and is now having second thoughts?
I started watching this channel to learn a little something about electric work since I know nothing, I do concrete,stucco,drywall,carpentry, and long story short, I'm no longer interested in learning electric lmaooo, too complicated