Half a fault 2 : The odd switcheroo

[@jongmassey]

Visual aids? I thought that's what I'd catch by watching your videos

[@dsesuk]

Snort! You win pinned comment on this one!

[@JayTheSparky]

🤣👏🏻

[@AnnoyDroid]

This is the second time watching this and I for one find it interesting. I think it would be a great idea if the electrician would also leave a wiring route diagram a bit like what we used to do as network installers. Especially if they use a weird route. Anyway great video as always

[@lxymuppet]

Thanks for taking the time to put this video out. It makes a change to see real world problems being resolved rather than pristine fuse board instaĺls over and over

[@dsesuk]

There's not a lot you could call pristine on this channel. We're very much the dirty end of it all here.

[@ManxAndy]

The Holmes & Watson of electrical fault finding….great follow up, and glad you sussed it in the end….hope you’re feeling better soon David, 👍🇮🇲💪

[@dsesuk]

More Watson and Watson here Andy!

[@johncooper5293]

I've been waiting 6 months to find out what the issue was and it took covid to get it published. Although frustrating and not seen as a video worth releasing I thought it was excellent and you made the best of a dogs dinner. You sounded awful with covid so hope you have recovered now.

[@dsesuk]

My apologies for the delay John. A tough edit this one, and a shame we failed to film a lot of the goings-on as we were so busy trying to figure out what was happening on the day!

[@FreeWhilly734]

Love the honestly.. no bs just pure wisdom. I find the other electricians quite arsey but you two are so down to earth. Your explanations of various regs have helped me so much. Very inspirational keep it up look forward to many more adventures. The only other like you is J Beck so I loved the team up you guys did.

[@dsesuk]

Very generous of you old chap, and yes, J. Beck is indeed a fine fellow. He has a couple of vids on his channel where we've got together in the past. Here's hoping for a future collab with the great man!

[@leighbrowne8863]

I do enjoy watching these videos on fault finding. Mainly because I don’t have to find the fault myself!!! I have been in this situation many time!!! It’s the “Where do you start!” You don’t want dismantle the whole house as you have only got to put it back together! I’m not sure if i would prefer a lighting circuit or sockets? Sockets tend to be more “DIT’ed” but you just never know what the cable run will be!!!!! All the while the customer is going to ask “How much is it going to cost?” And when you have fixed it eventually and found say a junction box with a neutral touching earth and its takes 10 minutes to rewire it and you present an invoice for the entire day. Then you get “That only took you 10 minutes to fix???” Customers just don’t understand the level of stress and resilience that goes into finding the fault!!

[@philipsharp6944]

Thanks for great electrians and making electrical videos

[@dsesuk]

Cheers Philip - very kind of you!

[@mikeburgess5218]

I always enjoy your content Dave, both from you and Mr. Marsh lol, no advertising, and always funny and very enjoyable.

[@markpunt9638]

Get well soon. In all honesty, I have to say that was absolutely absorbing to watch.Thanks for putting it out

[@dsesuk]

It didn't feel absorbing on the day - more... wearing! And we're still at a loss as to how that fault shifted position entirely.

[@xxDADDYDAYCARExx]

@@dsesuk builder from hell definitely involved First thought, dope taking feeds and spurs through junction box hell. secondly..... I did have this happen to me a good few years ago.... some tossbag turned the lighting circuit into a ring !!!!!! Fault jumped around same way yours did 👍 GET WELL SOON.... Covid finally nailed me about 2 months ago after dodging it for near enough 2 bloody years. 👍❤️❤️❤️👍❤️👍❤️👍❤️

[@fumthings]

@@dsesuk maybe one of the cables moved and the fault went away, then you just got mixed up about which half was faulty. in the end the result shows the true fault.

[@pauldavies9709]

I really enjoy fault finding as a spark so found entertainment watching you get to the root cause. Personally after a few hours of getting to work out the state of the wiring would have insisted in them going for at least the partial rewire route. Far too many hidden junction boxes there that will definitely be a problem in time to come.

[@dsesuk]

Thanks Paul. This one was very much a quick fix to get the lights back on. There will certainly be problems in the future and someone needs to invest time and money into uncocking this cock-up!

[@michaelscott3401]

Hello Dave and Nigel my best you tube sparks the best episode yet fault finding is a pain in the posterior you can spend hours and days trying to sort a problem out easier to rewire the circuit if of course you can get room to install new cables for the faulty circuit holes and more holes at this point i would just demolish the whole ceiling would make the job easy to get at you need the patience of a saint well done in sorting it out lads top rank.

[@dsesuk]

The trouble with this sort of thing is rewiring is obviously best, but tenants are living in there and it will be a massive disruption to pull known good feeds in. For now, we want to keep it ticking over and talk the owner around to thinking of some long-term planning to get it sorted out properly.

[@tomengineer1467]

Hi Dave & nigel again as always a good video …… real sparky work Your problem takes me back a few years we’re I had the same problem over a few months on a Manor House that had been converted to oap flats After many weeks of testing we noticed it was only happening on cold days. Only found the problem when using mft with wander lead ….. putting prob down on insulation under 1st floor boards mft beeped ……. Insulation was wet ….. rain was getting in from air brick and water spread like blotting paper through insulation with 4 JBs units in its path …….. as dried out faults cleared themselfs

[@dsesuk]

Good find Tom! Always nice to get a definitive answer after some proper fault finding techniques.

[@GunnyRabbit]

Just love the vids! I'm not the best out there by any means.. But, I always learn something from your escapades.. Making me just that little bit better than I was before.. Keep on truckin!

[@paulkarafillis8166]

Hey David. I hope you feel better soon mate. Thank you for sharing more electrical goodness. Thinking of you mate. Paul, Melbourne, Australia

[@dsesuk]

Thanks Paul!

[@MazeFrame]

After spending several hours today troubleshooting a printer fault, this video was straight forward and perfectly straight forward.

[@dsesuk]

I can sympathise - printer faults are the worst. And the first thing a user does when nothing is churned out of the printer? Send it to print again. And again. And again.... because surely if you do it enough times, it'll pop out eventually, no?

[@stevejagger8602]

Another great piece of detective work in a shambles of an installation - enough to make any saint swear. I have a Progressive Electronics 200EP to trace hidden cable runs in ceilings and walls. It consists of an audio generator, which outputs a warbling tone, and an inductive amplifier with built in speaker. The audio generator is connected to live and neutral at one end of the cable, and then the inductive amplifier detects the audio tone - the louder the sound the closer you are to the cable. The only downside is that all loads need to be disconnected on one side, and you can get inductive coupling between cables in other circuits where they run close together. However it has saved me a lot of time tracing cables where there was no obvious route, and located ends of cables on second fix where the back box has been plastered over or not cut out.

[@dsesuk]

I have a warbler too Steve and it does come in handy, although I doubt in this kind of installation it would be able to point us at much. We've lowered ceilings here, so most of the wiring isn't just above the plasterboard you can see, it's above a second level of boarding behind it!

[@UberAlphaSirus]

@@dsesuk Turn it up then! They are bloody brilliant!

[@stevejagger8602]

@@dsesuk In this case the distance from the ceiling to the cable is too big to get accurate location, and only give a generalised idea of the run. What you faced in that house was a nearly impossible task without perforating the ceiling like a Swiss cheese!

[@Ressy66]

We use tone and probe in telecomms, wouldnt leave home without it, invaluable.

[@michaelcostello6991]

Put link to first video would be an idea !!!! Thanks for sharing your pain and learning .

[@dsesuk]

Oops! Good plan Michael. I've put it in the description now, but the first video is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGOvfHh_q82FiLM

[@chema_lopez]

I hope you have a quick recovery and thanks for the video.

[@dsesuk]

Thanks Jose. I'm sure I'll be back on the van (and down the pub) this week at some stage!

[@chema_lopez]

@@dsesuk great!

[@Richardincancale]

I watched this recovering from the C thing, realised about 49:00 that I’d fallen asleep when you found the fault, so I’ll have to watch it all again now!

[@MazeFrame]

We are all friends here. It is okay to admit you want more electrician action and but the thing on repeat.

[@dsesuk]

Maybe I should have released this as an AMSR video?!

[@doncodman913]

Hi David.. The ground floor lighting in my house was actually done as a loop . What issues for an EICR could be genuinely be raised in your opinion . I think the hall light was supposed to be on its own leg so it could illuminate even if the downstairs lights tripped. The sparky that popped by to look over the house said that the circuit would have to be changed as its not acceptable or something. Look forward to your thoughts . Regards Don Codman

[@OCD_Sparkies]

really enjoyed this long-format vid, shows the process in great detail. Learned a lot.

[@christopherkingston9601]

You must have worked on a flat with quantum effects acuring hence the faults moving when observed.

[@sergiofernandez3725]

Did you have fun filling in those holes with your One strike? Hope your spicey cough gets better soon.

[@dsesuk]

We always enjoy creaming One-Strike into our holes Sergio!

[@fusebox4473]

Another engaging episode from Birmingham Electrics. I have a hunch that place needs a rewire.

[@dsesuk]

That place is on borrowed time until something trips off again and whichever sucker goes back will have to take pot luck in opening up the finishes to try and find where the previous homeowner his all his iffy junctions.

[@jktism]

Thanks alot from a spark in Sweden. Say hi to Nige.

[@dsesuk]

Thanks for tuning in! Not sure about saying Hi to Nige. Maybe I'll just call him a prick like I normally do. He'll be expecting that.

[@GordonjSmith1]

sorry you have the 'bug', and hope you have a quick recovery. Contrary to your perspective I thought that this was really very instructive. I thought that the way you guys approached it was very informed, and I tend to agree that a problem is likely to reoccur despite you finding 'a decent solution' to a 'tricky problem'. I do wonder if the circuits are still connected to the house above in some way. Really excellent and 'informing'. You guys at your best in showing a difficult 'site' problem. My thanks.

[@dsesuk]

What this place needs first is a proper EICR - not the Mickey Mouse paperwork our rivals submitted that failed to mention anything about cross-connected circuits and showed obviously fake IR numbers as being off-the-chart. Because these are false ceilings, most of the wiring is behind the original ceiling above what you see here, so it's a difficult one to find and break down circuit wiring.

[@farmersteve129]

It wouldn't surprise me if hidden somewhere in there is a load of old VIR cable - possibly even some 1 core VIR which has confused later "installers" and lead to bridged neutrals - I've seen it a few times - especially with the over boarding lark.

[@dsesuk]

Could be anything hiding in the ceiling above that false ceiling!

[@ratbag359]

All I can think of is cross connect with loose connection. But it's been 6 months would of expected it to show up again by now.

[@dsesuk]

Odd how the fault flipped from one side to the other so definitively. One minute it tested on the bedrooms, the other it was between the hall and kitchen. We must have disturbed or changed something, but I couldn't say what or how. The testing was logical: reads good and works without the bedrooms, reads bad and trips with the bedrooms. Then it was suddenly reads good at the bedrooms, reads bad and trips at the hall and kitchen!

[@RichardArblaster]

27:53 that lighting now looks like a scene from a horror movie, as soon as Nige puts his hand up in the hole again, something is going to grab it and pull him into the ceiling 😆😆😆

[@dsesuk]

If it did, I'd just run off and go down the pub Dickie.

[@ChrisShucksmith]

Did you flick any 2-way light switches between the first reading and the second that 'removed' the fault from the line conductors and left it functional on the other path? Has the hallmarks of multiple faults...

[@dsesuk]

A two-way could perhaps explain why the bedroom feed read from bad to good so suddenly Chris, however nonesuch was present. The faulty cable we bypassed was a feed rather than being on the load side. I can't explain it, but it hasn't reappeared in the last six months so remains a mystery at this time!

[@pradolover]

Great video, how's the manor house with the Mitsubishi Challenger lady going? Hope you are feeling better soon.

[@dsesuk]

All done at the moment at the Manor House Stuart. There is a kitchen extension to be built but they're having trouble getting quotes from builders. So far, our man Sam Smith is the only one who has submitted pricing, and his figures were apparently higher than expected. I doubt that project will go ahead this year.

[@ryanatkins3013]

I Enjoy that vid chaps. Keep them coming. Found it very interesting 🧐. Hope you fill better soon Dave 🤞

[@dsesuk]

Cheers Ryan!

[@michaelcostello6991]

You suggested putting lights on power circuit. Can you do that. Are the cables too small for a power circuit. I am an apprentice and just learning. Thanks

[@dsesuk]

We could have cut off the feed for the downstream lights and then run them off a power circuit so long as we fused them down at the point where we pick up the power. This is quite common in conservatories when they're added to a house - rather than tap off power and lighting, they're often spurred from the sockets with a light or fan light fused down on a switched spur. Here, it was a no-go as the downstream lighting was cross connected back into another lighting circuit somewhere else.

[@michaelcostello6991]

@@dsesuk Thanks

[@ovidiuroman1979]

RESPECT FOR YOUR WORK.I LIKE YOUR VIDEOS,I FEEL LIKE I'M THERE WITH YOU

[@dsesuk]

I wish you were here with us too. We could then sit in the van and let you figure this nonsense out!!

[@ovidiuroman1979]

@@dsesuk i have a Metrel Mi 3125 BT.And last week i use it to find a mistake in a new installation.That's why i respect you work more.Have a good day

[@stuartbridger5177]

great work, frustrating troubleshooting, but you got there in the end! get well soon

[@dsesuk]

We got somewhere in the end! Lights are back on, but we're not sure quite what's going on.

[@Mattja1]

My guess is the fault you found before christmas was either down to moisture that has dried up or has somehow been disturbed so as to no longer be apparent, and that what you found today was a separate fault that has developed since. One of the lessons I learnt early on in fault finding was to never assume there's just one fault.

[@imark7777777]

Well that was a Schrodingers cat and of an electrical video. Glad for the follow up I think?

[@Lenny-kt2th]

Send the customer the bill and tell them you won't be coming back unless it's for a full rewire of the place. Curiously (or maybe not), I enjoy the fault finding videos the best, including this one. I also like to know what the cause of a fault was before signing off on the job, but we don't always get that lucky. Greeings from the Netherlands and get well soon!

[@dsesuk]

Thanks Lenny. Jobs like this ain't pretty, but then not every fault situation is going to give you an easy smoking gun you can simply repair and walk away from whilst whistling merrily!

[@nickhubbard3671]

Great video! Subsidence - joist moving, trapping a cable?

[@dsesuk]

I have seen subsidence bork a cable before, but this seemed to switch position on the day, and that I cannot explain.

[@peterrobinson850]

Hi Dave and Nige, from an old spark from the 60's. I hope you get well soon Dave, this Covid is a nasty piece of work. Regarding your Video, on the contrary to being boring I found it rather , interesting and captivating you did well to sort that crap out, I wonder if a signal tracer might help in the future to pin point the cable runs, I may purchase one just to see if it works? to be perfectly honest a rewire is the only solution, the puzzle is the fault transferring from one circuit to the other, I will have to view the video over again to see what if anything you did that could have transferred the fault over after dismantling the light fittings. Keep up the long vids they excellent in my opinion. Peter.

[@dsesuk]

Cheers Peter. We have a tone tracer to hand, but these are false ceilings; the main wiring is above the ceiling that is above this ceiling! I doubt we could find a tone tracer sensitive enough to give us a localised route between rooms.

[@Dog-whisperer7494]

Hi David just a quick question. Why the push for RCDs on sockets particularly for portable equipment use outside, would having an plug top type RCDs on things like lawnmowers and even power tools like drills be a better option and cheaper ?

[@havoctrousers]

People simply won't use portable RCDs if they aren't aware of or don't care about electrical safety. Also, the push for RCDs on circuits that are likely to serve mobile equipment was in the 16th edition of the regs, which was last amended in 2004 so it's not a recent thing!

[@Dog-whisperer7494]

@@havoctrousers thank you . I agree some people won’t use them . My question came about as a friend asked me to replace the plugs for plug top type RCDs on his lawnmower and hedge trimmer . So I was just wondering if if would be a acceptable option ?

[@havoctrousers]

@@Dog-whisperer7494 from a safety perspective, plugtop RCDs on outdoor equipment are a great solution. If the question is "will an electrician give me a satisfactory EICR if I have a circuit that obviously serves outdoor equipment without an RCD", the answer is most likely no. This is because all of the guidance on EICR coding is to give a C2 for non-RCD protected sockets likely to serve mobile/outdoor equipment.

[@Dog-whisperer7494]

@@havoctrousers I agree

[@Dog-whisperer7494]

@@havoctrousers the my original question came about as a friend of my wife saw that I have a plug top RCD on my lawnmower, and she asked if I could get a couple for her to put on her lawnmower and hedge trimmer . As I know she has a rewireble fuse box I told her I not sure if it would be acceptable under the wiring regs , I just was sure that’s why I asked the question , but I think I took it a bit beyond what I was asked. But I the it was a valid question? Thank for your kind reply 👍

[@michaelcostello6991]

Can you tell if rcbo tripped from overload or earth fault ?

[@dsesuk]

The only way to tell an RCBO trip without testing the circuit is that if it goes with a bang, that's definitely an overload!

[@IanFarquharson2]

Get well soon! There’s not some 3 way leg that has a neutral common miswire in it?

[@dsesuk]

Dunno Ian. The weird thing is how the fault was demonstrated to be present after a reconnect of the bedroom cable, then moved after the same was disconnected. It doesn't add up.

[@molsky13]

feel the despair don't matter how good a sparks you are cable faults will give your arse a good rogering

[@williamlowther7051]

great vid, you work well together, fantastic resolve

[@dsesuk]

Cheers William!

[@davideyres955]

Get well soon David. Covid is not a cold and makes you feel kak and can lst after. I’m told slow release vitamin c tablets help with fatigue and it seems to have helped me.

[@dsesuk]

Cheers David, all passed now. I'd better get back out and do some actual work!

[@samstride6793]

Feel better Dave!

[@dsesuk]

Oh, 'tis nought but a spot of man-flu Sam!

[@mathman0101]

It bears repeating as other have said this kind of frustrating fault finding are excellent. The frustration and head scratching are part of the appeal - it’s real world data gathering. On the fluctuation of the IR tests on your two visits well I suspect temperature and moisture had a part to play. Super experienced motor testing experts always carry these two types of additional instruments to provide a complementary baseline to the IR test. I think here we could have used some different types of IR testing that are the Provenance of motor testers. I would have done a time IR test that really is a great tool to plot the IR time curve to give a real assessment of the condition of the wiring and doing so I believe would have given you a better assessment that the wiring condition across the house was actually consistently poor. Of course there is always the deeper issue of conformal invariance of current phase transitions that can impact poor condition wiring at different times that’s a deeper argument and requires a whole lot of maths to explain. And I mean fields medal maths😱. Keep up the great work. Coming back to blighty soon to see mum and dad need advice on a good AFDD board for them.

[@dsesuk]

Crikey, sounds complicated! All the best for your visit back to these (currently unusually sunny) shores. Whereabouts are the old folk?

[@mathman0101]

@@dsesuk West Yorkshire Batley and Spen Valley. Lest you say something about country folk and 🐑

[@taskhunters5245]

Fuc..ing lovely😆 destruction Derby. Brawo👏👏

[@FrontSideBus]

Great that you managed to get that fault in the end!

[@craighendren5693]

"Wow, we've bastardised the ceiling.... some b*****d has to repair in anyway". Lol epic

[@dsesuk]

Always nice to leave a little delight for the muck-spreader!

[@Flashjohnsparks]

If the neutral was cross connected, just disconnect the faulty neutral and earth and just use the live core.

[@dsesuk]

Trouble is, it may not be a deliberate cross-connect. 0.95 Ohm is low and suggests a copper to copper connection, but I've no idea where that is and how it's been made. I wouldn't want to disconnect cores to rely upon it and besides, running a line without an adjacent neutral or CPC would leave an electric field around the cable that isn't neutralised and that could cause problems of its own.

[@Nick_Carlos]

Bit more difficult than my 4 down lights I had to install in Leamington all the way from Bristol.

[@dsesuk]

Ah, was it you we bumped into at CEF a while back? Or are there other sparks from Bristol installing downlights on our turf?!

[@Nick_Carlos]

@@dsesuk Yes it is I, top video as usual lads. 👍

[@daverdaceng]

Bloody DIY Arseholery!

[@muzikman2008]

Good luck Dave.. I had covid mk1 a couple years ago, not pleasent ... Take it easy man, nothings worth giving a shit about but you and your family.. I mean that 😔

[@dsesuk]

Cheers old fruit!

[@muzikman2008]

@@dsesuk take it easy man 😉👍

[@asherd101]

If David can’t fix a fault it’s well and truly fucked

[@dsesuk]

I think things here were fucked years before we got involved!

[@garygriffithsTEMLTD]

Get well soon

[@dsesuk]

Thanks Gary, I should be back in the black this week!

[@allanmould2633]

Good video again david

[@dsesuk]

Cheers Allan.

[@Martin-uf4ut]

Great video.

[@dsesuk]

It might have been... if we hadn't slung the camera to one side in a huff when things weren't going our way!

[@Lenny-kt2th]

@@dsesuk I know the feeling all too well and I'm not even a sparky (yet).

[@yrification]

What I ask myself at the end of every day, ‘I’m not terribly sure what’s gone on here today’ 👍😂

[@dsesuk]

I try and wipe it all out with alcohol.

[@olly7673]

Firstly, get well soon Old Chap. Lots of warm brandy to ease the cough and asscoiated sore throat will help no end. I've enjoyed your last 3 vids as usual but not got round to commenting on how I still look forward to you new releases, apologies. This fault finding one, as has been said by others, is very enjoyable. I wonder if the mystery might be related to a 2 gang mis-wired strapper between two circuits? This time you turned up to the flat the affected switch was in the opposire position to the last time. I can't think of any other reason it would happed. If you're off work you will be able to post vids shorter than the 4 week intervals of late...... otherwise we have to watch Bundy or Cory! Only kidding.... they're great as well but in a different way. Cheers! P.S. Does your "BuymeaBeer" deliver? 😉😉

[@dsesuk]

Wish I could explain it Olly. The odd thing was we did track down a definitive fault on a feed between two rooms, and with that section of cable replaced, things were back in the black. But that cable was in operation and tested as working when we arrived. It's all too odd. Sorry about the slow upload schedule of late. Hopefully I'll have a little something out tomorrow too.

[@olly7673]

@@dsesuk I was only joking about you getting more videos out...... just get yourself better and get plenty of rest, us lot can wait.

[@Dog-whisperer7494]

Interesting video as always . That was definitely a nice big fat pig of a job. But as always you got it sorted. 👍 Sorry to hear you got covid . I’ve had it and I spent a week in hospital as a result not nice. Get well mate , hope you don’t get long covid

[@dsesuk]

Crikey Sean, that sounds like proper COVID rather than this nancy-boi version I've got!

[@Dog-whisperer7494]

@@dsesuk yes mate I had colitis as well and I was not in a good way . But thankfully the hospital got me sorted and back on my feet fairly quickly.

[@andrewcadby]

41:00 Interesting, it's unusual to have 2 circuits with interconnected neutrals, each protected by its own RCBO, without one or both of them tripping every time anything is switched on.

[@dsesuk]

Ah, well, these circuits are paralleled off the same RCBO which is why there's no trip. They are separate circuits, each serving a different area, each with its own unique impedance and insulation resistance characteristics, but a cross-connect between them means the company who installed the CU had to bung them together on the same RCBO, otherwise there would indeed be tripping issues. Indeed, as the earlier EICR and board change paperwork didn't mention any of this, I presume the company performing the CU change stumbled across it during functional testing and found they had to shoehorn them together on-the-fly.

[@adrianupnorth]

What I always hate about these type of faults is the customer comment of 'it must be satisfying to find it at last'. Well no not really, I've just wasted my entire day on your shit wiring. And extended its life until the next bloody fault. Nicely caught on video, Dave.

[@mastergx1]

Why the FOOK am I watching this!? I deal with this shit day in & day out! Also when looking for a cable run - I find using a circuit tracer gives you an idea where it routes.

[@dsesuk]

There's probably a perverse pleasure in watching two other saps trying to wrap their hangover around a job they don't wanna be on!

[@muzikman2008]

@@dsesuk I get that 😉👌

[@Betco1]

How do I buy you a beer on PayPal?

[@lewis94uk]

Open your CD drive and pour a beer in there

[@dsesuk]

I steer well clear of PooPal Steven - bunch of crooks that lot!

[@Betco1]

@@dsesuk how do I help you prop up the bar then?

[@dsesuk]

@@Betco1 Very kind of you to offer Steven. There's a link in the description to the Buy Me A Coffee website, or YT has a Thanks button that nobody's ever used (and goodness knows how that works!)

[@RichardArblaster]

I know this was filmed before Sam got his electric van. How is he getting on with it? 😆😆😆

[@dsesuk]

Haven't seen Sam much (for some strange reason) Dickie, but as far as I know, he's getting on okay!

[@daverdaceng]

DSUK youtube content is important public service broadcasting - Consider DS as the Green Cross code man in Electrician form (but slightly less threating/menacing to children perhaps)

[@dsesuk]

Hello children. Hold my hand and I'll help you cross the road. Say, would you like to see some puppies...?

[@johnnylong8821]

honey, raw onion and warm milk in a cup buddy should see you through, old Irish remedy!

[@dsesuk]

Sounds delightful. I don't suppose I can also add a slug of Jameson's too?

[@ForTheBirbs]

Sorry to hear you've got the pox. More effluence of incahol required. Your body swapping with Nige is going well.... Get well soon, and back on Bundy's WhatsApp group

[@dsesuk]

Ah, yes. Bundy caught me drunk when he asked if I'd join a Whatsapp group. Had I been sober, I'd have declined Jim. I hate Whatsapp and steer clear of all groups including my own family ones. It all ends up as a constant stream of stuff coming in when I already fail to keep on top of my emails, texts and phone calls!

[@nrg-5003]

Whoever is responsible for that dog shit wiring is definitely worth meeting!

[@dsesuk]

Former homeowner I reckon. "I don't need an electrician, I can wire these lights in myself before I board over it all."

[@paulbell7654]

What was that tasty looking food that span on screen with the chips and cheese and what looked like bits of bacon on it please Dave. Hope your Chinese virus does not affect you taste for beer!!

[@dsesuk]

We call that the 'heart attack' and it's served by The Urban Fox pub in Leamington. Cheesy chips, jalapenos and bacon! You come away from it about eight quid lighter and clutching your chest, but it's worth it!

[@paulbell7654]

@@dsesuk Sold! Looks delicious. Similar to what I get from German Donner Kebab, they do a chips and beef/chicken doner meat combo box with cheese sauce and jalapeños on. I think you should feature more of this type of tasty food on your channel

[@carlrobson5745]

Deffo tell you are not 100% at least you've got time to edit some content right?

[@dsesuk]

Annoyingly, although being off the van for a week, the flimmin' thing wiped me out Carl. I spent much of it just laying about feeling sorry for myself!

[@bernardcharlesworth9860]

Sorry you had such problems but please take care of language you use on utube.thanks

[@dsesuk]

You must be new here Bernard. I'm afraid foul language is a trademark of this corner of the internet. We're full of it in real life and don't go out of our way to hide it on here.