Cjrelectrical Shocking electrical work

[@pistolpete5189]

@48 seconds a useful guide to what brands of mcb line up with each other in a Hager board, I’ll print that out for a reference 😂

[@BryanStearn]

Sorry if it sound like I'm correcting you but that neutral burnout is actually alive cable (3.52) only know that as it has 2 neutrals to the left of the picture. love the video. :)

[@AGRElectrics]

Its nice to see all my work in one nice easy to watch video XD

[@oldskoolscool1158]

o today i get into Napit, and coulnt of done it without you Dave and Nick all three of you have inspired me to push harder great videos great guys thankyou

[@MN11619]

You’re never sure where the earth is going. Maybe the gas? Maybe the water main? Maybe the Black n Decker work bench 😂

[@petertallowin6406]

Wowzers. Some nice installs there dude. :) In that cooker/shower switch it looked like the line conductor that had fried, the neutrals looked ok. Scary stuff.

[@amarcy5369]

Hi Chris It’s amazing that we still see images like this , regardless of all the regulations to prevent it . For as you say not all this work can be blamed on amateurs . You could spend your entire career just putting other people’s work right , never mind trying to do new installations . Ha ho it was ever thus .😃. Best wishes Mike. 👍

[@jussikuusela7345]

I've been on a job where the original meter box was in a little wooden closet nailed to a pole, the box itself was once made of sheet steel but was now more like crispbread from exposure to the elements. I dared not touch it. It was a single phase feed that had one 10A circuit wired to the house, with two rusty steel cables running between the pole and wall. The ground rod was at the root of the pole and the live/neutral wires were just single rubber insulation wrapped around those cables. There were 3 phases wired to the top of that pole, and we ran a 4 core 10 SQmm aluminium cable underground to the house wall, where a weatherproof meter box & main unit was mounted. The owner dug the 25 m ditch (70 cm deep) with a spade. The inner wiring of the house was done as far as possible while we waited for the grid company to connect the new feed cable to the pole top and remove the old box. Every circuit was tested by wiring it temporarily into the old feed, so when the new box was commissioned, it was just plug and play. It was an old summer cabin that the owner converted to be habitable all year round, but he'd so far had only one light bulb and socket wired in each room, the way he bought it. Built likely after the wars, electricity added early 60's or so. Another creepy building was a farmhand's hut from late 50's, where a friend of mine moved for a few years. It also had one 10A circuit wired from the main building, crossing the road similarly with single insulated rubber wrapped around cables strung between poles, and 1,5 SQmm 2 core cable wrapped around a rather thin steel cable on each side for the last 10 meters before it reached the building wall. The only ground was at the end of the main building, and at the hut, the kitchen socket just had a jump wire from N to ground prong. Several other electricians looked at the contraption and said that it fulfills the code of the time it was built, and is generally safe when properly operated. Obviously that contraption could not be altered at all without legal requirement to rebuild it essentially completely - the poles and support cables could have stayed, nothing else.

[@GunnarWachenfeldImperator]

7:56 is a fused switch for bottle fuses (NEOZED), very common in Germany to feed subboards, because fuses are the only way to reach true selectivity.

[@michaelgallagher1652]

Great vid, just a couple of points. Picture 2 they are cartridge fuses, not rewireable .Picture 9 looks like line(brown) conductor burnt out ,not neutral.

[@derricksmiles6624]

agreed, 2 blue cables are good

[@lawrencetasker212]

Another great video showing the horrors of incompetent electricians, one small point, the BG board with wonky tails, this is not down to the board, but the poor workmanship of whoever fitted it.

[@mattWallJsy]

Always good to have a rogues gallery 👍

[@ryanpreston2617]

Great video as always love these type of videos keep it up 👍

[@kempaswe4022]

You should see the wiring on one of my old work place, 100yo workshop with 110 upp to 500v and the biggest fuses was 200amp. You had to check the voltage before you pluged in something because the regular outlets were 110,127 and 240v.

[@Lacking_something]

I'm going to need an electrician in west Sussex soon... I'm scared I'll end with a cowboy like the ones featured in your photos!

[@marcuselson4297]

Good vid Chris. Come across a lot of this sort of stuff myself. Some made me chuckle. How they don’t blow up astounds me... lol Someone get some sun cream...Jordan got burned. Only kidding. Shout to Artisan Electrical.

[@rubbersteve123]

Great clips, thanks

[@whatevernamegoeshere3644]

"Again we've got the classic 'above a ceiling it doesn't matter'" Since last time I've seen this I started working in this field and this line is literally painful

[@craigwelsh]

I'll have to take some pics of my house light switch 'backboxes' sometime - just a bent strip of metal threaded for the facia screws.. Added to that the previous owner fitted metal light fittings everywhere and there's no earth in the lightimg circuit snd have the roses have choc blocks behind.. Socket ring has rubber cable too of course. Whoever did kitchen work for previous owners decided to put a 2nd CU in rather than touch any of it. Though thats got a 32a breaker in in wired to dont know what! Looking forward to getting a rewire done next year when extension is built! Luckily I've found a couple of electricians in Manchester who follow your work as well as N bundy etc so hopefully their work lives up to your quality when the time comes. Mind ive had to tell them no kopex in my garden office though..

[@kingofthetrowel1725]

Nice on Chris loving the videos mate 👍

[@yrification]

Bils switches, boards and isolators 👌🏻 came across them as an apprentice in a potbank. Didn’t know until years later it was all asbestos, oh and we had a drawer full of spare fuses and carriers tossed in there...dust a plenty.

[@donnierobertson3088]

Great job and video like always

[@haydenuk02]

Wow there’s some bad work there. Thanks for the awesome content stay safe and take care

[@dougsaunders8109]

The frozen fire alarm is not a problem. If the place was on fire the ice would have melted 😁

[@DANNYBIOSHOW]

What’s with the hooks on the ceiling above the bed 😂😇😅😝😘😏

[@paulbritton187]

Never know when they'll come in handy 😂

[@markjones8437]

Could be for a cable tray or to abseil to clean the windows 😁😁 Bet Building Control didn't come out to check compliance with Part A - really should have been done under a building notice LOL 😉😉!! Might be worth giving the HSE a shout too for the - LOLER Regs - can't be too careful with safety harnesses 😂😂 !

[@paulprescott7913]

A very good insight into the bad workmanship. Made me cringe all the through it.

[@streaky81]

3:47 I've seen before in a rental property - in my case it was when years of oil and steam etc from the cooker top got into the switch for it that was parked horizontally maybe 30cm from the cooker top and it was arcing inside the switch which caused heat to build up and it cooked the wire, it's why I don't like the "standard" installs where the cooker top is in close proximity to the switch or other sockets. Doesn't take much. IMHO there needs to be a regs change over that - either as relates to switch design and allowing steam inside or where switches are placed.

[@Mc_123-d4o]

Should make this a weekly/ every 2 weeks video mate 👍👋

[@ashmanelectricalservices4318]

9:39 I love the back story 😂😂😂

[@sirronnitram8937]

Well done for not laughing, apart the once at 12min50.

[@mikes6844]

I think we have to take a realistic view here, not all trades people operate at your level. That’s a real good advert for having the electrics properly checked. But how many householders know this is something they should do? They turn the lights on plug devices in and it works! I watch channels such as this and plumbers, no doubt standards have risen over the years in many trades and along with that is the price. You all deserve a good days pay for a good days work but forgive the public for not understating what that takes in training, test gear, tools, van etc etc. A neighbour of mine pays £149 a year for an electrical safety check which entails a walk around her home. No testing! Education is key, you do a great job, but not all professional trades follow your honest standards. I was on Instagram following a plumbing chat and the bitching about customers was dreadful. Yes we are all different and have our ways, that’s life no matter what profession people decide to take. Carry on banging the drum and raising standards. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@raychambers3646]

Usual answer with this sort of "installation" is, works dunnit!

[@supersparks9466]

The state of this country’s lack of pride and Abysmal standards of workmanship unfortunately do not surprise me anymore As I see this on a daily basis.

[@wizard3z868]

same over the otherside of the pond i had to keep chking wiring cld have easily been the states and canada (these wld have been normal and approved for most parts of mexico 😱🤦‍♀️lol

[@ThePa1ch]

That EV install also has an earth coming off the neutral Henley block. Not dangerous, just rogue.

[@K3ndallUK]

So Henley blocks are ok to just hang unsecured in the air like that? I do hope you aren't an electrician with a comment like that..

[@ThePa1ch]

@@K3ndallUKI was talking specifically about the earth that Chris didn't mention coming off the neutral block. If it's a TNCS supply then you can see why someone might have done it. It just moves the point at which the earth is split off. They still shouldn't have done it. It could become dangerous. It's rogue (disregards the rules). There are clearly other issues.

[@mounirdiab2938]

Jacks all trades at their best.

[@norfolkngood8960]

I've had qualified electricians pull just as bad tbh, our housing association ones are useless especially.

[@jontownsend8090]

Scary stuff. Using the main cut out fuse as overcurrent protection, bloody shocking. Just imagined turning up on a job and accidentally touching something live that shouldn't be. I think i will invest in some insulated gloves.

[@paultipton743]

I was working with some horrible armoured cable today replacing a sodium son wall light for an Led bulkhead type and went to shorten the wires for terminating, cutting the inner sheath back but it was just cracking off no knife needed and the insulation on the inner cores was just crumbling off showing the copper. I would say it's from Heat off the old light fitting ( Thermal effects) or it could rubbish cable.

[@Cornz38]

I've had to do my own minor electrical work because for 12 weeks, 7 electricians have either failed to return my calls or been to price the job, make a date to start then just not bother to turn up. No wonder people will DIY it.

[@ef7480]

DIY is ok as long as you've done your homework, sticking to the regs and thoroughly tested in the correct sequence with the correct equipment. Afterall, the fundamentals don't change..

[@johng.1703]

when did they change the neutral colour to brown? in the burned out socket there are a blue / brown / green and yellow coming up from the bottom and it is the brown wire that looks like has been massively overloaded and over heated.

[@imark7777777]

I really should send some of my pictures in

[@timearp8185]

I wish I'd taken some of my house when I'd moved in, cabling to the garage was criminal.

[@imark7777777]

@@timearp8185 yeah it takes something really massive to want you to take photos otherwise you'd left going I wish I took the photos. We got a tour of the place before the tenant moved out, after the tenant moved out and we were moving in dot-dot-dot it was very different. This person figured out so many ways to use lamp cord and many of them were shouldn'ts. I found out that majority of the outlets in the place where on 1 50 amp breaker.

[@timearp8185]

@@imark7777777 nice. My FiL did some rewiring for us, both him and the person who installed the SWA weren't aware of how it should be terminated.. Didn't take long to do it properly.

[@alanreynolds6386]

just taken down the kitchen units in my daughters flat and you would not believe the wiring we found. may send you a picture

[@mr.berlingo8211]

So dangeerous having multiple brands of circuit breaker, definitely needs replacing to generate some more work

[@johnwaby4321]

And it still happens out there 😲😲

[@davidcoghill8612]

Some bodges are shortcuts to save the installer time and money, but the chocolate blocks stuffed up in ceilings makes no sense at all, it's soooo much harder and more fiddling doing it that way than using wagos.

[@db-bv5rs]

What do you think about the magnusson VDE Electrical screwdrivers Chris? They are cheap but are they quality?

[@Cjrelectrical]

I’ve had a set they were fine apart from the smaller terminal snaps very easily on the end.

[@db-bv5rs]

@@Cjrelectrical which brand would you recommend? Apart from CK. Sorry for the comments.

[@Cjrelectrical]

Using wera at the moment

[@db-bv5rs]

@@Cjrelectrical thanks👍🏼

[@riccardoz2953]

question: first picture why they need a new breaker board? arent allowed different brand if the nominal value are correct? yes it doenst look nice MAYBe but isnt working properly?

[@sambensley3534]

Good video

[@dawn1berlitz]

you likely would maybe go crazy with some of the stuff we have in the USA

[@ericmcrae7758]

What do you do when you come across these sort of night mares? Does it become a separate job, quote etc. or are you obliged to do something as the last electrician, if was gas they turn it off an label it dangerous?

[@Cjrelectrical]

Depends what you find. Can disconnect and issue a danger notice the dno will come and disconnect the unsafe house as they don’t want it on there network,then it’s up to the customer to get it rectified and certified.

[@Alcatraz2k]

What should have been done in the ev install?

[@peterprice8393]

Is that an escape hook on your ceiling above the velux window . You would have to be brave using and escape ladder from the top of the roof

[@Cjrelectrical]

Haha no it’s for my punch bag.

[@markdevlin8471]

So electric cables lashed to a gas pipe .. what could possibly go wrong...💥💥💥

[@wilbertbirdner1303]

First one looks normal for a residential property in Australia

[@peterwilson6503]

Chirs that is really shocking electrical work

[@James_Bowie]

At 3:52 did you mean to say the active/line side is burned out?

[@hond654]

9:10 they just created a "temporary connector point" so they can "temporarily" hook up an equipment to the clip...

[@kbultray]

On the first example which is typical example of non compatible devices being used. Do you not think Chris, manufacturers should have been legislated to make devices to a standard dimension? After all, when a socket or a wall switch is replaced you expect it to screw into a standard dimensioned box, so sometime in the past BS did use a bit of common sense. What went wrong when mcb’s rcd’s spd’s etc were released on to the market ?

[@mateuszwojcik7409]

People who done this, should be in court

[@mateuszwojcik7409]

they play with human life

[@lmarkey1748]

0:50 Looks like mine. Complete rewire is long overdue.

[@jondavies7013]

You should do a DIY off ;)

[@dretrodealerakasparkz5406]

SY cable isn’t recognised by British standards and as such should not be installed, same with YY etc but try telling A.C installers that

[@PurityVendetta]

I was just wondering when you said 'competent' electricians, who do you tell a competent electrician from the qualified but incompetent electricians? Three of the most appalling messes I've ever seen were done by qualified electricians and one of those was potentially lethal incompetence in a theatre, a public building.

[@Ragnar8504]

8:10 hard to say where this is but I'd guess either France or more likely Romania, these seem to be the only countries that favour red for line (along with blue neutral and yellow/green earth) and that terminal box on the bottom really looks like something from behind the former Iron Curtain. 8:52 Netherlands I'd say. I reckon someone wanted to add some lights to the shed in this horrible DIY way. 9:32 the cover on this CU has melted, hasn't it? 14:30 that DB has seen an awful lot of damp I'd say. I'd love to know where this is from! Single phase and double-pole MCBs by the looks of it - maybe Italy? I've seen that kind of universal bus bar in Austria but only with one brand of MCBs and these definitely aren't F&G. A colleague once called these bus bars "the world's hottest 3D jigsaw puzzle". I once had the end of one of them pierce a bit of wire, another phase - lovely dead short!

[@DerekHundik]

UK needs total rewiring

[@ashleyrowe2681]

@15.47 seems the main earth to that small db is connected into the neutral block to

[@wino99999]

9:19 live and neutral were wired around the wrong way as well..... Presumably the live conductor was too short to reach the live terminal....

[@djashjones]

I've just a consumer unit upgrade and the sparky that fitted it, did not fit any grommets

[@Cjrelectrical]

Which CPS was (s)he with ?

[@djashjones]

@@Cjrelectrical NAPIT

[@Cjrelectrical]

Email me over a picture please would love to take a look.

[@djashjones]

@@Cjrelectrical done. I used the email from your about page

[@thomasgriffin2908]

I would say the European image, is 3Phase and Neutral that go into fuse holders

[@sambarnes2063]

If it works, don’t fix/look at it. It’s lasted this long, leave it alone 😉

[@iandamianluciferwilson7385]

Sad thing is, most of those would have been done by “Professionals”

[@davey6024]

I have about 100 really bad examples on my work pda from over the past few years worth of eicrs I should send over

[@moonshinepz]

Great video as always, but the title looks like a bad google review title for your own business 😬

[@electricalstuff259]

3:55 live not neutral?

[@Mrflash222006]

A few beers or a bottle of wine before filming this one 🤐

[@marjusdedja9408]

Also there it looks like schneider electric on of them

[@SeanBZA]

Swapped a socket outlet this weekend. Was a little crispy inside, as one side of the dual outlet was entirely burnt up from the switch to the socket, and it was sparking. Yes the house that Stevie Wonder did the wiring, half the place is on one 20A breaker, and then the other half is on 2. Outbuilding breaker boxes was replace on sight, more because the cover was missing on the Heinemann one, and the breakers needed a hammer to turn them off, plus the only thing on the RCD was the geyser. Then replace a junction box feeding the pool, or more accurately put a new junction box there to replace the rust, as the one screw fell off when I undid it, and the other one sheared off as it was one with the remains. Have already replaced more than half the socket outlets and switches, along with lights, because of missing covers, painted over and intermittent. Strong house though, the main house walls are 15 inch brick, minimum, so I will need a really long drill to get through them. As far as we can figure it was a jail at one time, but the plans were destroyed years ago.

[@barryturner1146]

Y dont james work with andy

[@JimWhitaker]

I've never seen any real engineering justification for not putting the incomers through separate holes in the consumer unit. John Ward (I think) did a test which indicated that there was no heating effect measurable. How do these myths perpetuate?

[@dretrodealerakasparkz5406]

😂 Myth? Do you own a regs book? 521.5.1 is a regulation to comply to for sure, if you’ve never come across shoddy installs and experienced the vibrations/heat from people who think its a myth then you are blessed

[@BenCos2018]

13:40 does look like a traffic light one

[@sephirothsoul999]

17:27 why you can't trust people with metal faceplates!

[@DACA1970]

Enjoy the vids but not an electrician, at 55 seconds in you criticise the mix of breaker brands. Is that an issue if they are all functional and fit in the board?

[@cooper512]

I mean scientifically speaking you are correct , but in practice, it isn’t following manafacturers instructions, so if there was any issue, the liability would be on the installer. It’s just bad practice

[@kevinpoore5626]

Those are pretty ugly no I seen some pretty ugly and I wish I could share the photos under a confidentiality agreement I can't some of those were Child's Play compared to what I have seen

[@davey6024]

Its not haygar its hager! And you have to say it like the way Sega is said at the start of sonic on the mega drive. Haaageeerr!

[@dretrodealerakasparkz5406]

Also who in their right mind thinks they need to tape up connector blocks within accessories? Pointless and makes eicr’s difficult

[@HereForTheMusic-h5o]

The amount of shit we see is such a small percentage of the shit thats out there... When is it going to be made illegal for every nugget and his dog to fuck about with electrics????

[@Cablesmith]

I’ve got a few good pics for ya 😀

[@mr.d7372]

Unbelievable. Out of interest, what tasks can a householder undertake himself in 2022?

[@WarrensRandomAndWeirdVideos]

Most of this could be idiots trying to be cheap putting peoples lives at risk it’s unacceptable and needs to stop

[@mattWallJsy]

First! 👍😅