Home Electric Hook Up Point For A Motorhome, Caravan Or Campervan
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- I employed my friend Glyn Beckwith who is a qualified electrician, to fit an home electric hook up (EHU) to the outside of my garage,
For more details or for any enquiries on electrical work please contact Glyn Beckwith on sales@buryelectrician.com
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With respect to Bob's comment about electricians not wanting small jobs such as this, E.U regulations now mandate such work is carried out by qualified tradesmen. The fact that Glyn wired the extension into the consumer unit also made the job E.U aware.
Yes, that and safety considerations mean this isn't a DIY job.
@Joe Blogs what does competent mean?...."He/She was okay upto his/her last job". 💥🤪
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Photolsca, Wrong, nowt to do with the EU at all. Part P of the building regs states must be approved by either Building Control or suitable competent person scheme. Legally anyone can wire it still. and "qualifications" are not mentioned in any electrical legislation, just "competent".
Glad to see you have got the same opinion as me about electrics. I leave them well alone and get an expert to do the task. It may seem expensive at the time but imagine how much it would cost if it caused a fire or worse. I got our barn rewired as we inherited a system where there was one socket in the first room then there was a trailing socket to the next room and so on round the other 6. The electrician said it was a death trap waiting to happen. He even used armoured cable as vermin could nibble the wire with it being an outbuilding. So well done for your sensible approach to what seems a simple task. Guy.
Thanks Guy
Its.great when you have a brother who's a qualified spark he does our cabbles and things
This is a fantastic idea and I'm sure there will be others out there wanting to do the same thing, may even give it a go as it's quite straight forward. However, would be nice to have some explanation on the earthing arrangement from your electric supply. If you are on TNCS and this has been carried through to the garage, which most newer houses are, this method could be quite dangerous if there was a fault with the neutral on the supply side: the chassis and metal body of your van will rise to 230v relative to the true ground. There's a whole section within the regs dedicated to supplying caravans for this very reason.
That's why I had it done by a qualified electrician.
Didn’t realise Glyn was a electrician, found this interesting many thanks to you both. 👍🏴🏴🏴👍🏴🏴🏴🏴👍
It is sensible to get someone who knows what they are doing to perform that work. Nice video ! A very sensible addition for anyone with a leisure vehicle in their driveway 😀😀
Thanks, yes, useful to know a qualified electrician. .
Good install there by Glyn, testing correctly and getting a certificate for your own insurance purposes. Wrong rated fuses or MCB's can either nuisance trip / blow or worst case scenario cause a fire. So Glyn was spot on with the install and observations from start to finish. :-)
Thank you very much for saying so.
Great team work Guys. Would never have known Glyn was a Sparky. 👌👌
My dad was an electronics engineer(and within that job he had dealings with radiation)and his mantra was "just because you can't see it doesn't mean it won't kill you".In other words be very careful around electrics and radiation!!Something I adhere to this very day.
Very interesting installation which I'm sure will pay for itself tenfold in time and energy(and no crawling under garage doors).
If it was mine Bob I would replace the socket mounting screws with the Flat headed type! not the taper type used. Cheers Bill
Smashing video, enjoyed watching Glyn, superb electrician. Will make things easier for you to hook up. Great ring tone love a bit of Shakey
Great job by Glyn, very professional 👍
Makes it so much easier to use.
Thanks for posting , great video and good info 👍
Thank you
Hi Bob and Jenny 👏 just us 2 Saying hi and thanks again 👍 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Love your phone ringtone... loved Shakin Stevens as a child. Merry Christmas to you all 🎅🎄
Thanks, that's Glyn's ring tone.
It's a good idea to put a proper socket on the wall won't hav to worry about the weather and it safer well worth it .kev
Thank s, easier to plug in too!
Grate Video Bob, Hope you are all keeping safe x
Good idea Bob, it will be much easier for you x
You just need a bracket to hang a set of steps on the fence so Jenny can use the plug also 😂😂😂😂
Nice video, thanks for posting 👍👍👍
Excellent topic and don't forget, to comply with the house insurance policies, it's recommended that you get the appropriate certification.
I have Glyn's certificate thanks.
Interesting vlog with some great advice.
Excellent job guys. This would have been great when we were able to store our caravan at home. Our newer caravan is to big to get up our driveway unfortunately. Ian...
The reason we choose the house was the long driveway!
Glynn’ s a handy lad !😉
He certainly is!
A good insight into why you shouldn't do it yourself especially with a £70k piece of kit potentially sat at the receiving end....
Most interesting. Thank you x
Thanks for sharing
It looks great
I just figured out that the overhead door is your only entrance into your garage. That is something that I have never seen before.
You may want to invest in a garage door opener too.
I did think of getting a side door put in, but I can still manage to open a garage door myself!
@@BobEarnshawMoHo I'm spoiled I guess. I've always had a garage door opener.
Looks interesting Bob
great vid, any DIYer doing electrical works could invalidate their house hold insurance, any tradesman carrying out electrical work must have 18th Edition Wiring Regulations BS 7671 and also be Part P of the building regulations registered
Good to see a tradesman at work. It’s a long time ago since I got my City & Guilds 😉 Fond memories 👍🏻 Trev
Yes Bob much cheaper than a new folding sectional electric garage door :-)
Great idea!
I would have used armoured cable when it's going outside.
There is armoured cable from the house to the garage, but that's in case someone puts a spade through it. No one is going to put a spade through it in the garage loft!
Great idea👍🙂
Hi Mr E ... good video , but do you need too shorten, .your main cable .??? Do just what your guy says , & buy a 10 meter cable . & then keep the big cable , for the site . ??
Glyn didn't know have two cables, so I've shortened one of them, so I now have a 10m and a 25m cable.
Be careful shorting the lead, regs state it must be 25 m +/- 2 m
Well I confess I've never seen that before. I've been using a 10m lead for around 10 years and no one has ever mentioned that! I do have a 25m length as well.
@@BobEarnshawMoHo electrical.theiet.org/media/1187/electrical-installations-in-caravan-camping-parks-caravans-and-motor-caravans.pdf
Yes I saw that after you said.
I bet as glyn was explaining you kept saying thats easy,he was seething.nothing worse than a layman behind you saying that lol.what a friend coming and doing that.well done glyn
Yes, thank you Glyn.
The circuit for your RV is really small. The dedicated RV hookup for our coach is 240V 50A.
Yes and your RVs are 10ft longer, 2ft wider and 5 tons heavier than our Motorhomes, but our roads are 20ft narrower, and built by Romans. And your fuel costs a third of our price. On average. 😁
@@BobEarnshawMoHo There is that. Thinking about it my A/C units probably use 30A of that.
👍🤗 thanks for the insight Bob 🐧🐧
Interesting and informative video, thank you. Do you need to keep the electric hook up on all winter if you have a solar panel?
The Solar panel won't power our electric heating, which runs on 240v mains and I leave on low throughout the winter. Solar panels are connected to the 12v system for keeping the batteries charged they're not directly producing 240v mains, unless you have an 12v/240v invertor and a large solar panel array. If you don't need heating, then a good size solar panel will keep the batteries topped up. Bear in mind also, how little solar energy we receive this time of year!
@@BobEarnshawMoHo Thank you Bob, very helpful. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you Jenny and Poppy. X.
Good idea. Nice when you know a qualified electrician who would do it for you. Don't know what you would do if you if you couldn't get an electrician to do a small job though. How are you supposed to safely get it done!
Yes, same problem with finding good plumbers and other trades people.
What gland did you have to get .as the plug doesn't come with one
I don't know, Glyn bought it, thought it came with it.
Jeez! Did you put in enough ‘warnings’ about not doing a simple extension socket.🙄
Probably not. Jeez.
Hi Bob. Just one question, why do you leave your motorhome plugged in to the mains? Is it just to keep the batteries topped up or are you running something in the van?
I leave it plugged in at home. Keeps the batteries topped up and I can leave the heating on low during the winter. Keeps the damp away.
@@BobEarnshawMoHo I take it then Bob that you don't drain down your water / heater systems.
I drain my water down, it's an Alde system and the heater runs with a seperate fluid for the radiators. No need for water in the tank.
@@BobEarnshawMoHo Hi Bob Sorry to play 20 questions. But what would you suggest if you had Truma Combi heating. Heard that some people drain it down and then run it on mains with just hot air blower.
Do you have any experience?
Cheers Tim
Same applies, just turn off the water heater. The Truma heats air not water.
Thought Bob had lost his hair there.
I am new to motor homing. Do you keep yours charging all the time? I haven’t been doing so during this lockdown but wondered if I should be?
Yes I leave it plugged in and heating on low. Keeps the batteries topped up and the cold away. You can leave the heating on even when the water is drained out, just switch the water heater off. I'll be covering this in a bit more detail in Sunday's video.
Thanks so much for that, I was thinking I would have to have the water tank filled for the heating to be kept on. I appreciate your advice.
Nice job Glyn, but you are giving us a bad name. That's definitely a 3 cuppa job LOL
Yep, he had three coffees!
@@BobEarnshawMoHo 🤣
First one before I picked up my tools.🤣
Can Jenny reach that socket? Both of you are quite tall, and it was well above your heads.
I can reach it easily, don't think Jenny will need to.
How many amperage?
16 amps.
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