Anyone seen this series on You Tube?
He seems a decent enough electrician working in London, fairly entertaining series.
He seems a decent enough electrician working in London, fairly entertaining series.
An Electrician's Day (You Tube video series)
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Not watched any yet - are they better than that one from donkeys years ago about the franchise guy who gets to replace a CU in half a day including travel?
I'm subscribed to his channel and watched most of his videos, generally all good but have noticed a bit of corner cutting. Flex to lights in flowerbeds buried under the soil just in copex in one video and in his latest talks about joining the armour of armoured cable inside wiska boxes 
In the one mainly about changing a fuse board he totally bolllocks up fitting a single fast fix box.
In another he has to seriously convince himself that hi-tuff cable is fine in a flower bed.
In another he has to seriously convince himself that hi-tuff cable is fine in a flower bed.
I wasnt to convinced of his experience, when he had that blown up FCU and blamed it likely on an interrnal fault, the switch welded shut would too me indicate a fault loadside of the circuit, nice tidy van yet he didnt have a spare FCU to hand resulting in a second visit, he then appeared to struggle fitting a linear skeleton lamp, a bit more experience needed as he appears to have potential.
Electrical wise he is better than the one recently on here that semi flushed a masterseal socket in the front wall of his house, the camera work and production appears good though, not sure how he does that.
And if anyone off here ever visits kensington to work , his experiment of paying a 40 pound parking ticket rather than 50 pound on meters, is fine, but kensington is number 1 in the clamping table, so a clamp will be a lot more costly
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I wonder if he hit a joist with the left clip as he then shunted the whole box to the right
In Fault Finding and Stupid Mistakes, he doesn't seem to want to touch that light fitting he accidently drops down the toilet.
In the comments below, apparently he did hit an upright.
But since you'd find a stud with the padsaw, only the clip could hit the stud. What I do in this situation is to cut the 'flange' off the clip so it's flush with the box. Fit box. Then drive a screw through the clip into the stud. And it's all firmly in place.
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He is on a hiding to nothing making his work public, must love the exposure. I was asked if I could be filmed terminating a SWA for a firm I worked for....not a chance
Guess we have all done it sometime, but its how you deal with it that matters.
I tend to make a smaller hole and poke about my finger inside and then you can readjust if needbe, rather than crash in with a padsaw
Still not watched any.
In summary, is he another one of these deluded fools who genuinely doesn't know how to do things properly, and genuinely doesn't know how bad he is?
In summary, is he another one of these deluded fools who genuinely doesn't know how to do things properly, and genuinely doesn't know how bad he is?
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