Repairing Electrical Faults - Electrician Life
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- Repairing Electrical Faults - Electrician Life
Join me as I carry out repair work following a recent EICR which has quite a few faults!
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surely a pair of sidecutters would be easier than wrestling about with them awkward fancy pliers :)
@@Kevin-mp5of yep. That's how I Christen mine !
I've been.out of the industry for many years now, but watching you fixing that fitting up made me chuckle, always great vids,
Thanks!
Love your videos Artisan definitely implemented some of your tactics into my work. Really appreciate the honesty of your last video we all have bad days and takes guts to show that one CZcams.
Glad you like them!
Here in US I would not be able to find a smoke detector to fit old base after 3 years let alone 10. Like how UK devices have screws, here most all that connection is done with "scotch locks". The maintenance free junction boxes seem fragile compared to the norm here, especially at 240V. Love the missing rose! I can't or won't say how many Mic and speaker cables I've soldered up with the shell laying on the table top. Damn pretty soldering, too, the first time... You're a good instructor, clear explanations, great sense of humor, and not afraid to show the little bits that make us all human. Enjoy this channel very much. Good advice and tips even for a Yank to follow.
loved tht pendent light install have done tht and the same with armored cable glands and anti short bushings (N.East Usa)
Hold the light against the ceiling with the hole in a place that if the screw goes through the case it's Hiden by the light when fitted. Great videos 👌
Great job Jorden.
Regarding material shortages, as an Electrician I haven't had any really but I now have 4 rewires awaiting 2nd fix due to the plaster shortage which won't be done until October now so it has affected cashflow a bit
I’ve hard wired them in. when they are all linked together they go off incase your not in that room. you can fit a switch which you can use to locate the alarm that caused it to set it off. Or test an reset it. The switch is only battery operated. Just thought I’d mention it
You should buy an awl, it's the best thing to penetrate the screw fittings if you get a thin pointy one.
Here in Germany you'll mostly find the battery powered ones in domestics, mains powered ones only in commercial or industrial installations.
The other classic is the old MK and Duraplug 13a plugs where you put the cover on the flex first. I've seen quite a few covers with cuts where someone didn't want to rewire the plug...all of two minutes' work.
See that quite a lot in theatres, on duraplug 15A round pin plugs, i think the newer ones have a different moulding to avoid the problem though.
@@TheErador yes, I used to work with 5A rubber plugs in small theatres and saw it there too.
Worse when you have threaded the cover on the flex and when you come to attach it to the plug top body you realise it's wrong way round.
@@iansanderson4664 hahaha yep I've done that once or twice. I never resorted to slicing the plug top to avoid rewiring tho., it's clear other people before me were lazy enough or in enough of a hurry however.
I'd put money on that mess at the light fitting being created by a spark - many DIYers would be too daunted to deal with all those connections!
You're lucky you didn't have more going on - the one I found the other day had feeds to 2 pendants and a shared 3C+E switch cable all hidden above one pendant 🤨 (although I did have access from above)
Had a shortage of RCBO's from Hager, Contactum and Wylex as well as Wago's. Basically anything to do with improving landlords properties post July while people have rushed out in a panic to comply on top of the shortage from Covid. A note about the Aico wireless battery alarms - they're a bastard in any building with concrete floors and metal studwork - blocks the signal.
Great video as always but would still like to have seen a non-combustible non-conductive barrier or the gas meter moved though.
Nice head torche mate. I have that myself but it's on its last legs. The elastic has lost its flexibility plus the back battery pack and the dial were annoying in tight spaces. I'm now thinking of getting the PETZL - IKO CORE - Head torch. Worth a look.
You should invest in the 12v Milwaukee Impact Driver and Combi Drill set. It's Ideal for overhead work such as putting up that light rather than that bulky 18v Makita combi drill
@Luke Heffernan
If you’re reducing the size of your tool for overhead convenience why would you go with Milwaukee the heavier option and not Bosch? With that said why would you go with Milwaukee obviously your favorite, or Bosch my favorite if neither one of them have the ability to support 20700 cells (the future) and support legacy (the past) 18650 cells, so I would lean towards Metabo or Hilti 12v tools if I were making a suggestion to someone not being a fanboy. Just a thought...
Whats the right fire alarm to fit in a loft? I've heard heat but would just like to hear what others think.
Safety glasses you can buy in specsavers. Proper glass one, JCB. Expensive but it is a big difference.
I don't know what it is lately but alot of light replacements jobs I get are 6" pendants must be all the rage👍👍
Yip,the classic pendant minus the base trick,we’ve all been there 😁... great videos mate 👍🏻
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I have a Texecom alarm system so use the Texecom Ricochet smoke detectors. Battery powered but wirelessly linked to the alarm panel.
The uvex glasses if you slightly heat up the nose bridge part in the middle you can bend the arms in slightly to keep them tight to your face👍
Thanks!
Plenty of times - forgetting to feed pendant cord through the rose cover, especially when you're trying to finish early!
I am based in central London, we have a shortage of everything :) also a lot of companies can't do next day deliveries due to covid
Ha! Been there done that with a pendent replacement. Other one is putting a washing machine in but forgetting to turn the switch on at the socket before sliding the machine in 😆
Yep it was me that said lamps glow!! What about the classic r1 r2 on shower unit Head scratch take pull cord switch down wires all pull out wrestle putting wires back in and realize pull cord was off all along
29:30 - literally every spark saying 'you haven't put the plate cover on'!!
Dude, the heat must be getting to you Jordan 😆😆😆
Ade Jupe Do you remember the old mains plugs which had the same problem - you had to slide the cover over the flex before terminating... or cut a slit in it when you forgot 🤣
I see sparks online leaving gaps between mcbs/rcbos for future expansion and leaving spaces between different breaker ratings so you can install new in ratings order but not to keep temp down
I think sparkyninjas new video reinforces your method jordan!I stand corrected🙂
Forget all the hassle putting a screw through the fixing holes I just put my 1/4 bit through and it does the job.
Outdoor socket today nowhere had any in bare a CEF miles away
On a housing association I work for we have been asked just to fit like for like with smoke alarms. I.e battery for battery only as per client's choice where mains arent fitted.
I'll have to look into those Aico interlink battery smoke alarms
It’s interesting to hear the differences in standards between different housing associations. I too work in social housing and the client insists that we always install Aico mains powered alarms with battery back ups. As a minimum standard there must be a heat alarm in kitchen, and smoke alarms in hallways and landings all interlinked. If existing alarms are just battery only, then we have to upgrade to the standard. I thought that would be the case with all housing associations, especially after the Grenfell tower disaster
@@darrenqualters2341 you would of thought so, we were installing mains wired ones then the head inspector for the housing association said not to and they would install them on the rewires and five yearly tests. We can only do what the client asks at the end of the day
Hello there you did a good however did you not consider to put some sort of incloser like 50by50 metal turnking for the T&E coming to The DB I thought it would look more professional #(Cambridge)
Smoke alarm should be mains lowered as well because then you do have a back up I think.
Someone’s done a lovely job of cutting the second tier off of the lamp shade in the dining room so that it leaves those three pieces of metal sticking out. Presumably, they have some nice sharp edges too.
Nice job and video
Thanks!
I appreciate your content as a new electrician myself I learn alot from your videos and I'd love to meet you one day. I always have burning questions I want to ask but don't know who to ask but if I do get the chance I'd love to ask you
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One special thing in Uk must be, that sockets have switches in the same box. We never have that in Switzerland!
Hi Jordan. Is the consumer unit not to close to the gas meter? In the building regs it says in section 2.3 of the onsite guide that the gas
instalation pipework should be at least 150mm away from the electricity supply equipment, main service cut outs, isolation switchesa
and consumer units. Doesn't give a regulation number though.
Thanks for using the enclosure Jordan 😂😉
Always!
Excellent footage considering you don’t have a cameraman ;) Very enjoyable CZcams creator, keep up the good work 👍🏻
In a standard house battery only is fine,any smoke detector is better then none, if doing a rewire then include hard wire in price, I use radio link detectors taking permanent feed from nearest light in some cases, HMO will comply with local building regs ?
Hardwired in the USA for smoke detector required because it’s 2 stage fail safe mechanism. If dc battery fail it’s AC hard wired so detector works if AC mains power goes out DC battery provides backup power to allow smoke alarm to work. If ten year lithium battery fails before year 10 which could happen having a fail safe always helps. Also best practice in US is to have smoke alarm that are interconnected if one goes off they all go off.
Same in Denmark.😎
As far as i know same thing in the UK for tenancy properties . Mains powered and inteconnected.Minimum is one smoke detector for each floor + one heat detctor for kitchen area.
You forgot to mention arc fault breaker‘s or dual function breakers.
The Truth yes if they are on a separate branch circuit. Since 120-volt smoke alarm devices are considered to be outlets/sockets and at least one smoke alarm is required in each bedroom, the branch circuit supplying the smoke alarms must be protected by an AFCI (Arc Fault Circuit Interrupter) device. If a separate circuit were run to the smoke alarms, then an additional arc fault device would be required
I don't think smoke detectors use that much power that a battery will last less than 10 years. And replacing a battery every 10 years probably will cost you less than fitting mains powered smoke detectors. To be fair in my country even smoke detectors are not required in domestic installations, and in practically all houses they are not installed. But I think the reason is that houses in the US/UK are typically made of wood instead of concrete and thus domestic fires are more frequent.
Arc fault breakers are not that useful, at least with 220v that uses lower currents than 120v. And with 220v are more useful RCDs, that are required on every circuit (while in the US they are typically installed in the sockets, in Europe you find them in the consumer unit, so not only the appliance is protected but also the wiring, so if some stupid does some work live on the wiring he doesn't get shocked)
already know it's going to be a good video before I even watch it lol
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Smoke alarms - nest protect seem like a good option for new installs. Can be battery operated but also communicates with phone and all will alarm together. Will also alert on phone if low battery.
New installs require hard wired smoke detectors. Even adding an extra alarm you should be bringing it up to the current standard. Battery detectors should only be used to replace old battery detectors.
Most of the building control people around here (west London) still want mains powered alarms before they sign it off. If their not involved then yes I don’t see why you can’t use the battery only version with the interlink .
Can you give me a link to the bathroom light you fitted please 👍
Is it a new building reg thing re: wired smoke alarms so it's always got power one way or another?
It's part of bs5839. Life safety appliances should have an independent feed preferably with battery back up. So basically their own breaker.
Hey Jordan, great video, what do you use to edit your videos? Also what brand of socket did you fit in place of that single one?
Hi, I have an editor who I pay to do all my editing as I don't have time to do it all myself any more. I fitted an MK socket. Thanks for watching!
All Good
the big issue I see with the battery wireless smoke alarms is will the battery really last 10 years, even with a nuisance alarm and with regular testing, of course once battery dies its new alarm. some alarms have 10 year battery but only 5 year warranty
If its a rented property, it is actually a recommendation in the BS5839-6:2019 fire standards to use only mains powered with tamper-proof battery backup (Grade D1). With an LD2 category of system, which is cover for: Kitchen, Hallways/Landings, Living Rooms, Loft Conversions.
In a privately owned property, grade D2 detectors are recommended (Mains powered with user replaceable battery backup), the same category of LD2. This could apply to existing houses that are having major work done such as extensions/re-wires.
Personally I don't understand why replaceable batteries are still a thing, I have never had a tamper-proof lithium battery backup become faulty.
In HMO's and student accommodation, all you get is students taking the heads off and taping over the green light (sometimes the air vents).
P.S. I always try to convince the client to use radio modules rather than bases. As when it comes to the 10 year change, there is no rewiring or fixing up to be done.
In Scotland, rented accommodation must be fitted with mains powered interlinked alarms.
How do you know if a celling light has earthing or not
A few more classic mistakes which all electricians will probably relate to, forgetting to put the shell on a comando plug, the rubber shell on some of the duraplug plugs/sockets, and the old favourite forgetting the neutral cover in a square d / schneider 3 phase board until after the cover is on!!
Greetings Jordan. I am an electrician in Colorado. I find it strange that in the UK sockets are located behind doors.
They are always fitted in the most inaccessible places because we're British, so why do anything sensible?
Re wireless alarms, I advise caution. If there are concrete walls or ceilings, or if there are steel beams in the structure the signal may be too weak. With safety kit, wired is always safest.
bit of advice chap...
start using a Sauna... you'll get used to heat then...
I hate to see the cardboard on the plugs too, but only because it's lazy but how can they short out when they sit on the isolated parts of the pins?
Every sparky has done that before...but not straight after saying “that’s ready to go back on” 😂
So if there is no Earth on the lights, how does interconnecting it into the smoke alarm rectify this?
another one.. getting the board lids on and leaving the busbar cover off xD
I’d always pilot hole the light fitting first
Good! That’s what I should have done 🤪
You can get hex drive drill bits, so you don't need to remove driver head, as you would with a conventional drill bit. Good for pilot holes.
I fitted 4 smokes and two carbon monoxide detectors wireless in my house and find them good, one went faulty and was replaced. Happy now though.
Good stuff!
Bolle safety glasses are good quality, uvex ones give me migraines 👍
Good to know
In a previous video, you said you weren't happy with the quality of the Ideal junction boxes - and now you appear to be using them???
As I said in the video its because I ran out of Wagoboxes and I had some ideal ones laying around in the van! Not IDEAL but I had to make do... 😁
I had the old classic diy thing today when removing a diy metal light fitting for plasterers to install a new ceiling, I found the connections were from an old pendant with the brass terminal connection blocks just taped up. Well at least they used tape
5:20 all the lights in our house are done in the same way... so doubt it's a DIY (now slowly sorting them out...)
So the Knightsbridge Led light if any of the LEDs go you replace the whole light? Yes material shortages here as well in USA places like city electrical and rexel. Ordering anything from China takes so much longer now
Yes, but the leds will probably outlast the driver pack in the light anyway
@@dj_sparkks You can get the drive packs spare quite often. The only throw-away LED lights currently are Emergency fittings. It's 2 quid more to get a new fitting than the batteries for replacement.
Set them to warm white only. If they fail, flick the switch to cool white
Jordan ---list all the materials ---or at least the major components --were you get ..cheers if your doing its my bad cheers GRAHAM
Save time pilot drilling the fitting by spending 20 minutes trying to screw through it 🤣🤣 I do that sort of thing too
Washing machine and dishwasher on a double socket- recently called out to a melted double, customer could smell burning in the kitchen.Changed to 2 singles. Sorted
Why did the socket melt was it overloaded or wired wrong .
Double sockets ( this one at least) was rated at 13 amps. Dishwasher and washing machine on at the same time repeatedly . I recon 20 amps
Oh wow!
light BULB makes light and a light GLOBE is a cover that goes of the bulb.
I’m surprised you’re allowed to have electrical and gas (consumer unit and gas meter) so close together in the UK. In Australia (and I think the USA as well) the two must be a minimum of 1 meter apart in case of sparks should the gas vent for any reason.
I liked the light but when I search for it it's only shown as IP44. Would IP44 still be okay for a bathroom?
minimum ip rating for bathroom is ip44 yes
the one he fitted is ip65. i got mine from TLC
Could you please send link to the bathroom light?
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The heat must be getting to you, surely if heat rises then upstairs will get hotter as the day goes on,so should of started upstairs first?
Supersparks 🤷♂️
Or perhaps venting the upstairs whilst doing downstairs at least.
Maybe, I always start upstairs and make my way to the front door for the quicker exit.
What Model and make was the Bathroom light fitting please,
knightsbridge
BT14
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Take on a work experience person they can also help with filming
smokes battery only or just mains only no redundancy glad to see in the north american continent a few extra £ for life means something also i do not agree with smokes being on own circuit if there is a problem pple will just shut off circuit and leave it off. i run mine off of a main light kitchen or hallway or the refrigerator(my 1st choice)
@@Kevin-mp5of yup i just find almost no one will live without the fridge lights maybe
I use that light fitting and I cut a 20mm hole in the back of it and have the loop accessible inside. Not sure if there is a living space above but that hole made in the ceiling now fails the fire rating of the ceiling which a plastic fitting does not reinstate once fitted.
Does it have a fire rating? Only if upstairs is a separate dwelling.
@@tobysherring1369 exactly, which is why I said "not sure if there is a living space above". If there isn't then it doesn't matter
It does say in building regs approved document b1
General provisions
1.1 All dwellings should have a fire detection and alarm system, minimum Grade D2 Category LD3 standard, in accordance with the relevant recommendations of BS 5839-6.
A higher standard of protection should be considered where occupants of a proposed dwelling would be at special risk from fire. Further advice on this is also given in BS 5839-6.
1.2 Smoke alarms should be mains operated and conform to BS EN 14604.
1.3 Heat alarms should be mains operated and conform to BS 5446-2.
1.4 Smoke and heat alarms should have a standby power supply, such as a battery (rechargeable or non-rechargeable) or capacitor. More information on power supplies is given in clause 15 of BS 5839-6.
Suprised you didn't snip the copper off the single socket and restripped. I did that once and had to go back to the property when the original stripped wire broke because it was badly scoured. Just a tip otherwise great video.
Thanks
Get a hair dryer and heat the arms of safety goggles then u can them to fit properly hope this will help
Can somebody point me in the direction of the reg or recommendation that mcbs should be spaced out ? Personally I think it’s bollocks.
They're RCBOs.
Rcbo s then mr pedantic
Good practice, nothing wrong with over engineering things when you have the ability to do so for no extra cost or time.
Shall we start installing 20 way boards coz we need 8 blanks for heat dissipation , never heard such codswallop.
@@supersparks9466 Actually here in Germany that's quite the standard having so much space in the board, but I never heard of a regulation that you can't fit MCBs or RCBOs directly next to each other...
In my cellar the board has space for 72 units (6 rows, 12 units each), in the first floor is a sub board with space for 24 units (2 rows, 12 units each). But here you can do such things like installing an outlet into your board, I did that in my sub board. The outlet is a special one that fits on the DIN rail. Or as we call it here: "Hat rail", because from the side it looks like a hat in profile.
This is the main board, was installed by the local certified electrician. I modified it later, because I wasn't happy with several things, and I added another fuse carrier for a sub board in the garage (EV charger). And I was renovating the house at that time, performing a whole rewire of all circuits. That's the reason there's almost nothing connected on the pic. The board is only for the circuits in the cellar and the ground floor. First floor is connected to the sub board, the three D0 fuse carriers you can see here contain the fuses for this board (3x50A).
It's three-phase, which is common here, even in domestics.
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These rental properties all need a serious amount of work doing it seems, bodge after bodge after "never been changed in 30 years and 4 owners". Scooping up £600+ in rent a month but hardly ever spend that much on maintenance. Same people who think 25% APR is a reasonable loan amount. There is nothing wrong with making a profit but they don't half take the piss. This new testing law must have them all seething.
Im a landlord and the properties are very well maintained , £600 pound a month in rent doesnt all go to the landlord , the agency will take 7.5% to 12% depending where your located and how many properties you have , tax man takes 20% minimum , your insurance costs around £200 per property , fess for checking out tenants credit history and re letting and many have a mortgage , each one of my properties are worth around £160K , thats my money i have earned , not free money , how much would you want in a return on that sort of investment , an investment that requires around £1.5k a year in repairs and maintainance over a 10 year cycle , thats before you get non payers and damage I worked on a basis of making around 12% gross per property over the period i own them , that doesnt cover my pension contributions or wage , no other business could survive on a gross margin over cost of 12 % it wouldnt even cover the wages .
Blimey I wish properties were that cheap to rent in my area. A small 1 bed flat where I live is approx £1100 per month ! And no I don’t live in London ! Lol
This property in Cambridge is probably £1400 ish a month in rent at a guess
@@Tomoose1985 probably about right but the actual purchase cost is also considerably higher as well
Was he actually considering going and getting a single socket. 😂. He just wanted to get in the air con van.
We could see your error with your pendant and were waiting to see how long till you noticed 😂😂😂
LOL
Loads of spark’s and plumber must have done that and with swa terminating and the sleeves or olives and seals on pipes to but how many admit it?
I don’t know how you find the time to put out 3 videos a week, I am working 6 days a week just on normal sparky stuff, no way there is any spare time. Whilst I am sure you get a kick from 3 videos per week, ( and the revenue unit brings in) don’t forget you have a family that wants your attention as well
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We call them light globes there. Lamps are freestanding either table or floor.
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@@artisanelectrics Bad typo, I meant to say here in Australia.
Single insulated wiring for high socket. On first sight, the single red insulation looks as if it is cracking -- a definite electrocution hazard!
Plasterers can’t get plaster. That is a problem
At least they can’t fill our boxes up with no plaster.
21:20 "Sorry tenant, you can't have your deposit back because you burned your toast too many times."
😂😂😂
I thought they needed mains in multi occupancy. Not sure tho. I like having mine wired doesn’t mean it’s the best way tho.
Getting those trending subscribers has helped you narrow to gap to Nick Bundy. #raceto20k
HAHA yeah!!!
Pre drill screw hole 🙈
So do electricians work alone?
I work alone, nobody wants me!🤣
32:30 what is that double socket providing power for?
I bet that detector head won’t sit there for 10 years. Mine lasted about two months and I got so fed up with it going off every time I cooked toast or crumpets but it’s now in the bin.
That fitting that needs drilling..... why not drill whilst on the floor? Then if the screw jumps off the screwdriver tool, you will have it at your fingertips, instead of nearly 2 metres below you.
Most councils around London state mains powered smoke alarms so battery only wouldn’t comply
Mate a man of your experience would of pre drilled the holes first........! Great video content :)
those new pliers look tricky to work with
@@Kevin-mp5of thanks 🤣
At the moment there seams to be a shortage of anything that is made in Japan or Germany!