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Electricity is no joke! In this video I discover a pretty shocking piece of electrical work on an EV charge point installation carried out by a fellow sparky. Everyone makes mistakes, but this could have been an extremely serious one! Was the customer ripped off, I was I wrong to be unhappy?
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[@o.kgonzales6055]

Outstanding video. The ‘Big red flag’ finished me 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@roydowling2542]

More crispy than a Ginger on a beach 😂😂😂😂

[@avidviewer1]

Really interesting. Thanks!

[@corymac]

Thanks for watching!

[@LluisTheWoodWorker]

Great vid Im also in Cambridge finishing my A-Levels and im thinking of moving somewhere and starting something cuz Cambs isnt that great XD

[@gmcmaster1985]

Awesome Cory, I’m in Poole if you fancy a beer 🍺

[@damien2844]

Congratulations on getting married

[@timlarsen5014]

Its so good to see confident young professionals (you Cory) in the system who push the boundaries to do their best work. So well deserved Cory and good luck in your new location and wedding 👌

[@Pires9820]

Many people no longer take the time to check their installation properly and that's what annoys me the most in this job. Our profession is one of the most dangerous in the world and can have immense repercussions on the lives of many people. Fire, electrocution,... so many things that can be easily avoided just by testing properly. All this just to save more time, money by playing with customers' lives. They make me hate my work 🤮

[@corymac]

Don’t hate your work my friend, just be happy to be among the good guys 🤩🎉

[@eleanorhathaway3619]

I'm not an electrician but dam i can do better than that. When I moved in I changed all the face plates of my sockets and I'm glad i did cause there were a couple loose connections in the back. well having watch Cory from artisan and a couple other youtubers plus everything i learn from my late grand father who was qualified, I have learnt how safety and a proper job are so so important. Needless to say My heating wasn't working either and i was waiting for someone to come out and fix it. The heating guy came out and basically said there is no power to the fused spur... knowing how bad the sockets were i checked the terminals on the fuse box... needless to say it wasn't even done up... bear in mind the person who left it in that state was qualified and doing the EICR... that just the start of what i found! There was exposed copper on the tails into the meter so the only ting protecting me from a shock was the 60a fuse. So I may not be an electrician, i may be a DIY'er but the difference is making sure you do a good job but most of all making sure everything is safe. Top work as always cory. So glad it was caught in time!!

[@alexacb63]

I've not rewatched it so I may be misremembering, but pretty sure this efixx video concluded that those tails line taps aren't compliant with the regs: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3enoI15q7itorc

[@simonmaverick9201]

"more crispy than a ginger at the beach" - OMG!! I nearly pissed myself!!

[@IanFarquharson2]

Great episode Cory. Good for you, doing what you want, when you want, where you want. Bournemouth will have loads of houses in need of bringing up to a more modern spec, and older customers that are wary of kitchen fitter sparks. Once the word goes out how meticulous and honest your work is, you’ll have a full diary in a few months. All the best, Ian

[@utterlyexiged]

The annoying thing about this kind of work is that they get away with it time and time again without being held accountable. It's the British way to let them carry on and just pay someone else to rectify it.

[@joeruffell4082]

I assume this is way more common than we actually realise. The only reason it was found early enough is because the customer was on the ball! I can see the use of AFDDs becoming the norm for this type of install soon purely down to the amount of load they demand!

[@corymac]

Unfortunately yes. Anytime a government grant comes in and creates a boom, there usually is a cowboy boom to match

[@blower1]

AFDD would have done absolutely nothing to stop that high resistance loose connection burn - even if there was small amounts of arcing, AFDDs only tend to trigger on a large sustained arc. The manufacturers would like to tell you they would trip on loose connections - they almost never (if ever) do.

[@jessiepooch]

DSES did a test of AFDDs and they would not trip on a fault like this.

[@leeroberts1192]

@@blower1 Would RCBOs have been any good or is there nothing that can protect against a fault like this one?

[@justme5384]

Isn't the SWA earth not connected at 7:00? I mean there is a ring connector and a bit of green/yellow wire but is the other end connected anywhere?

[@rlfvacslakenheath]

from that camera angle it certainly looks like its not connected. there only using a 2 way wago connector one cable from the swa and one cable from the charger.

[@davewright22]

I just noticed this too, the SWA isn’t bonded at that point.

[@three-phase562]

No, it doesn't look like it is connected, but it would depend on the PEN fault arrangement as having the armour of the cable earthed at both ends would potentially bypass it.

[@rlfvacslakenheath]

@@three-phase562 thinking about it. he installed a new cu so if the armored cable is glanded to the cu it will be earthed.

[@marktubeie07]

Congrats on the move Cory, you'll be fine ! Just had a thought, I hope Ted finds his feet, he looked up to you and you gave him his start. He was probably gutted when you moved on. Great little apprentice.

[@dunx101]

Your videos have been motivating me to do my own electrical business in the future!

[@corymac]

That’s great to hear bud!

[@Chris-hq5zs]

Love Bournemouth and Poole. Good on ya fella! Get ready to enjoy the summer! Fancy a beer or two in September when I’m down?

[@corymac]

Cheers man! DM me and if I’m about sounds cool!

[@three-phase562]

Given the increased loading being seen on domestic properties, due to the installation of EV chargers, solar and heat pumps etc, it is likely that burnout connections will become more common place. Working in industrial, it is already a fairly common fault to find as the higher currents tend to expose them better.

[@therealdojj]

And hang in, if your next video is coming in two weeks, and you are getting married in two weeks, are we going to see a wedding video 🤔 Congratulations 🎉

[@djhworld_]

The thing is how would a customer protect themselves from this. From the video Cory mentioned the customer didn't cheap out on the install, so you hope you would get good quality workmanship in return... Are there any tips a customer can follow to make sure the work they are getting is OK? It sounds like in this case the certificate had no test results on it, so that's one thing to look out for...

[@angellino1]

What?"European boards and electrics"?They are crap,I am a romanian,trained in Uk ,with knowledge of Italian,Spanish,Romanian electrical and those at least are soooo bad.I would not trade Uk's electrical and wiring to Europeans.....and I've been told northern Europe electrics are not that good either...soooooo

[@conormclaughlin7756]

Best of luck Cory. It's always nice to be by the seaside although you should have chose a seaside in God owns country lad 😎

[@krissybufton]

Hey Corey! I’m just down the road in Southampton! So if you need a work contact get in touch! Fellow spark here, albeit boring domestic construction 🤩 you won’t regret being by the sea! Life is great

[@gavinjohn-hyde2760]

Sticker on front at start of video shows the install company! wont name them on here for fear of being sued but look at the companies website... wouldnt call them electricians!

[@mbaklengs]

A very healthy reminder of why one should take great care when terminating connections. Yet an amazing ØY episode!

[@corymac]

Thanks very much! 😁

[@edglue6138]

Don’t just say it Do it!

[@corymac]

💯

[@terencelawrence1050]

better to cut seals make safe if dno question it supply photo evidence why you did it and why you had to do it that way.

[@hasankhan-ey5oz]

Hi Cory I am your big fan bro

[@corymac]

Thanks Hasan! 🙏🏼

[@stuartmoore7107]

Hey Cory, welcome to the south coast. Your do well in the area as your work is 1st class. Hope you invited Jordan etc to the wedding evening lol. Good luck for the day and the new adventure. Good surf around too when windy.

[@adamsmithelec]

Hats off to you for having the bottle to up sticks when you have a network in Cambridge. You'll be back up to the same level again in no time!

[@Jay369]

Freedom or Money? I'll take free money 😂 All the best Cory. No doubt you'll make a big success of the move.

[@corymac]

😂 I didn’t think of that! Genius

[@SteveN-pw4dj]

I think they have large circuit boards in Europe as they use radials which are 16amp at the breaker because a lot of their plugs have no fuses as we do in the UK.... I may be wrong, i'm a joiner, but that is how i understand it. I go to sweden and they sometimed tell me not to put the toaster and kettle into sockets next to each other, or not turn them both on at the same time 😮 otherwise it trips the breaker..... No such issues in the UK.

[@evbobdemon6994]

That's bad work. I'm no expert electrician, but..... through the years, I've done electrical work on people's houses and never nearly set fire to someone's house through bad workmanship. I even got a bollocking for doing some electrical work on my flat even though the company that took the storage heaters out said the job was done better and tidier than their own electritions, lol. 😅😅. Well done, Cory saved the day.

[@brad30]

Hey Cory, you should start uploading some KZbin shorts. You deserve more recognition as you are the best electrical channel on here! ❤

[@rlfvacslakenheath]

Bournemouth. Your not far from the wise voice of reason John Ward who operates from the the next town over in poole.

[@jacktissington]

Line taps that's how you know that they aren't a real electrician, sounds like upskilled meter engineer. That's the problem with ev just now

[@geoffupton]

nice move cory! 😊 you'll look back in a few months and it'll be like... god! i had such a quiet landing here, now im like busy beyond heck! 😊 thats bril! now off to the surf!! 😂😂😂

[@MrCarnivoure]

I love that magic trick when you tapped the fuse out!n😅😂. Stupidly of UK installations without mandatory isolation switches makes electricians resort to magic tricks 😢

[@stuartthespark]

So, Jordan told you to get out of Cambridge 😅

[@barrypritchard2306]

Hats off to you Cory is dose not matter where you are in the country you always do the Best job and congratulations on getting married in two weeks.

[@craigbutler6243]

Mick Hucknall (a ginger brother) of Simply Red, once said this of all the insults & abuse thrown at redheads " if you replace the word ginger with black what do you get? Love the vids Cory, keep em coming.

[@regchan]

hello from near Horsham west Sussex at least im a subscriber near by

[@Seryosin]

Those blue black splices, looks like SLIW54, are meant to be installed on utility poles. That's what they're called - overhead line splices. Whenever you see these things installed in a DB you know a dummy has worked on it.

[@janholland2224]

Keep up the banter. Cheers from Holland. I mean The Netherlands, Eh Kingdom of The Netherlands of course (sorry Caribbean fellow countrymen). Norway sounds pretty good to me; lot's of (former Dutch) friends there (Bergen and Trøndelag area). Cheers, J@n!

[@alexkcchung]

What you'd rather have? Freedom or Money? Should be on a T-shirt

[@leeroberts1192]

Why isn't it mandatory for the DNO to install an isolator whenever they do any work on an install that doesn't yet have one?

[@therealdojj]

Would it be worth going through the steps about getting the dno to come out and check/upgrade the main fuse? Just had a new board fitted and found out that the 100a service I thought I had was actually only a 60a 🤷 Thanks And good luck with your move to the coast 👍

[@samparsons5580]

Good lad for moving to my hometown! Couldn’t have moved to a nicer coast line. Enjoy the lifestyle and Bournemouth! Any local advice/tips gimme a shout 🥳

[@Reaktanzkreis]

3:17 its amazing , all the elctrical switchgear crammed in that tiny space filled with rubbish and household utilities. Were are the 80cm mandatory clearence between frontline and the opposite wall? How you can do a proper job in that space?

[@klapouchy1000]

UK should take into account the benefits of a three-phase system when it comes to car chargers; UK electricians should invest in torque screwdrivers (poor design, poor workmanship)

[@EverydayLife621]

You could have put in an isolator during the fuse pulled period?

[@litz13]

European electricians .... oh so funny. Wait'll they take a gander at what goes on in the USA

[@stevenlane729]

I hope that they get rid of that combustible material (cardboard) from the meter room.

[@HeathenGeek]

I'm sure those tap-offs have been. . . banned, disallowed on tails now or summat? Something to do with them being intended for use on single insulated cables, not double. Also, there needs to be a great, fookoff big sign in that cupboard that says 'don't store stuff here next to the stuff that could literally explode if you bash it'. imvho

[@bloepje]

I was just discussing a "mobile" power system with someone and it was only natural to us that we needed a board to screw everything onto... I just wonder if it is something special.

[@angellino1]

Tlc electrical wholesaler next time?!?!😮😮😮

[@2Sorts]

Looks to me like that terminal was left completely undone. That’s one thing that frightens me, I check everything 3-4 times and even then it bothers me that I might have forgotten one.

[@Ragnar8504]

I pull on every single wire after triple-checking all the screws. That way you can spot wires that slipped behind the terminals, I've had that happen with some brands of MCBs. You can tighten the screw all you want, the wire will still be loose. Many years ago I briefly checked a mate's 1970s electrics in Prague and found a wire in one of the MCBs that was completely loose, clearly the screw had never been tightened. Fortunately it was on the least dangerous circuit, there was (no kidding) a dedicated 10A circuit for the bathroom extractor fan and it was this wire that hadn't been connected properly. All the other connections were reasonably tight, even though the lighting circuits were partly 2.5 mm2 aluminium.

[@kellymarieangeljohnson114]

The europeans have got a cheek moaning about our electrics they have unfused plugs no earthing and frequent power cuts whats good about that

[@neilbissett1240]

As ever I will big you up top man I feel you should be allowed to display a company’s logo if they did a poor job 🤔👏😎ps I guess the next video with be the wedding day any way wishing both of you the best on the big day 🎉❤️❤️

[@Randrew18]

If you ever want to visit further south in Cornwall I live in Launceston, would be awesome to meet you as a fellow electrician 😎

[@chrisfs150]

Ive never seen that type of tails tap in connection before.. Do we not use henley blocks anymore?

[@christay21]

Your old mate the dno sparkly would have a fit

[@angellino1]

Ooooh,what do you think about kewtech?

[@jayc1140]

If that cable is going from the meter to the isolator then it would be down to the meter installer not the bloke who fitted the EV charger surely? The sparky would only be responsible and allowed to open the cover to the either side of the isolator

[@BerkeleyTowers]

Love your vids and your work Cory...... followed you and some of your fellow spark KZbinrs for a long time................... BUT! I hate to be the Debbie Downer, but you all make a lot of hay about showing the faults, correcting others work etc etc etc............ However, these videos never end with " I reported this to HSE/NECEIC/Trading Standards and the following action was taken." You said what you should have done at 12:44..... but didn't. If you're not doing it, who's stopping these people ripping off/hurting/killing the next poor mug? I'm as big a critic of the governing bodies as anyone, but how can they do anything if they don't know?

[@corymac]

The customer has followed the steps that are currently in place and reached out to the company through the NICEIC… which of course will sadly likely go nowhere 😔. I’ve reported probably over 10 contractors Paul and seen it go nowhere unless someone dies or is seriously injured.

[@BerkeleyTowers]

@@corymac Happy! That you've done that....... Sad! That my (zero) expectations of the governing bodies are justified. 😕

[@tzony1_original]

I love the UK braker boxes, the metal ones. They are very good in case of melting brakers or bad contacts

[@DaMuShErZ]

Bad place to pause 🤣. Respect the move man its something ive considered for a while. Definitely will be far happier as a result im sure + contracts on the wedding!

[@midlifekris-is]

Great job and top banter as always! Good luck on the new start!

[@heladas90]

Also cory potential issue with the choice of that fusebox RCBO is that it isn't a double pole switching, you need the miniature versions for double pole.

[@Randrew18]

Main switch is double pole so it’s fine

[@herrtomas6729]

If I remember correctly, the miniature is as you say 2-pole switching, but is only RCBO protection on the "L". I think you can get a version that has protection on both L & N.... But forgotten where!!

[@mikebrooks9854]

Nice Job 😄👍 I was just wondering do you have to use a Rcbo that switches off the live & neutral on a car charger installation?

[@RaithUK]

Congrats on the up-coming event and im sure she's a lovely lady.

[@craigc5879]

Bournemouth retirees = money

[@yorkshireoz9416]

what is your business called, we don't understand the OY 😂

[@AX12CON]

Arent those tall fusebox rcbos single pole ?

[@judebrown4103]

Great work Cory. Many congratulations on your forthcoming wedding, she's a lucky girl.🍾🥂 I admire so much the fact that you happily just up sticks and make a change without any hesitation. Good luck with the new location, I'm sure you'll do well wherever you go on word of mouth alone..👍

[@projectartichoke]

Good on you for not reusing those awful splices! A lot of people would just to save money. I'm glad you realize that some things are more important.

[@artisanelectrics]

What a shocker! Great vid

[@alexbabcock1880]

Lmaooooo big red flag

[@HA05GER]

Wire taps make me sick. I'm no electrician but have a decent understanding and am an engineer by trade. They do it in plumbing as well I'm like why it doesn't take longer really to do the job properly.

[@corymac]

Yep! Me too

[@garybillins4760]

Great vid love the banter 😂 where did you get those tag/seals from?

[@tschubb1992]

Does the RCBO not need to be be double pole? I thought Fusebox only did mini double pole RCBOs? Great content as always! Cheers

[@mikegmarshall]

Correct chap the ‘talls’ are SP

[@evilgrayson]

Congratulations on escaping Cambridge!

[@gadgetman36]

He just couldn't compete with Artisan! 😂

[@nailgunnercolbeck]

Cory its absolutely awesome to see a fellow trademan taking so much pride in the work they undertake! There will always be people who think they are capable of doing a job in all trades, these people are truly dangerous! So to all those that are looking for trademen and women please get references and don't always go for the cheapest quote.

[@corymac]

Thanks mate!

[@JensenPGATourDriven]

Great content Cory , Show this type of jobs & how dangerous it could have been and it not Something I could ever do . highlighting this on KZbin is spot on and Explaining this . l have lot to learn and it doesn’t help that some electricians are do this . they don’t care of the consequences., And all the best on your Big Day !! And could you do a in-depth video on your MILWAUKEE set up packout Storage,and tools , Thanks ⚡️👊

[@angellino1]

I knew that trick....same old wise man😂😂😂

[@corymac]

😂🤣

[@heladas90]

Is that just a double pole mcb as well?

[@xeno087]

Flippin' brilliant as usual mate. This sort of honesty & integrity is what our industry needs 👊

[@MrAvosetta1]

You need to get a coffee from ounce thank me later

[@samfish6938]

whats the sticker on the door

[@johnhogan1141]

Well done on everything you're doing you're genuinely inspiring good work 👏

[@adamjwhite50]

Them wagos in junction box aren’t made for 6mm they are up to 4mm they will need the push in wagos

[@mikebrooks9854]

If they are wago 221 lever connectors they do go up to 6mm 😀

[@anthonyphipps431]

😊😊😊😊😊😊😂👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@highkicker11]

Cory those frogs being so high and mighty forget all those old homes that have small electric cupboards with the gas mains right below it

[@corymac]

😭👍🏼

[@taylorlightfoot]

And to think there are licensed electricians NOT using torque wrenches and screwdrivers on their work...

[@corymac]

There’s not always a need for a torque screwdriver, this isn’t an issue of incorrect torque, the electrician completely missed the terminal so it was just touching the breaker

[@funhaus_crew]

Did u go to the boscombe or poole cef?

[@leeroberts1192]

There's a Kew Electrical branch in Poole (also a large Greggs very near by, as well as McDonalds, Burger King and KFC)

[@aasepaasee]

Lucky girl. Wish it was me

[@paulmarshall8012]

I'm in a new build have done tiling in the kitchen and loosen off the sockets and the wires just popped out

[@corymac]

😬

[@justme5384]

I like that we have nationwide wholesalers in Finland, like Sonepar, Onninen, Rexel and Ahlsell. So if I'm working 300km from home I can just go to a local Onninen and pick up stuff I need and at the same price as my local shop since it is one big supplier

[@lappfjard]

Yeah, but they still rip you off.😅

[@justme5384]

@@lappfjard that's my boss's problem 😂

[@Flashjohnsparks]

Paralysis by analysis