18th Edition Consumer Unit Upgrade. Plus all the other shoddy work we find!!!

Installing a new Hager 14 way spd consumer unit. Once your in the house the client never wants you to leave.
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[@JohnSmith-pd1fz]

Good stuff and very informative! Familiar too as I recently changed one of the old Wylex units with a wooden back on it for a nice new split load box. All safe and secure now.

[@TheCraigsPlace]

Working my way in to domestic. I really enjoy the longer vids with little to no editing looking for little tips and tricks that only experiance can normally provide. Thanks for all your effort in filming your work.

[@cgavin1]

Hahah wow. Growing up in the 80's that was what we had! Olllld school. Just bought a house and it has wire fuses and bakelite box. No ring mains just a billion spurs done with flex. I'm still not dead... a year later. 😂👍

[@artisanelectrics]

Love those Hager Boards! Great video as always.

[@wonderboy2016]

Well done for not leaving the joint boxes in a state. A lot of people would just leave them alone and pretend they didn't see em. Nice job.

[@davidhill431]

Well we all saw em didn't we 😅

[@bryankeane2971]

Been following the channel for a while now mate. By far your best video in my opinion. Well done. Keep them coming👍

[@jameswallis3252]

Great video Chris, easily the best one you've done, very nice work also.

[@richardwash6678]

Brilliant video Chris, love the explanations and the history behind the work.👍

[@ScarredRealist]

That bonding cable floating around in the floor doing nothing :D Brilliant. If I could find an electrician - or any trade - putting out content like this, demonstrating their knowledge, I'd have them out to do work in a heartbeat - brilliant self advertising, IMHO, and good content to boot.

[@RC-airspace]

Thank you for your videos I'm learning a lot from you as I'm currently in the very early days in my course of becoming a domestic electrical installer. Once again thank you and keep up the great work

[@TheDeathBonus]

Really good work chris, a true pro. A lot of people would've just doubled up the lighting to resolve the borrowed neutral. Thanks for taking the time and effort to share your working methods and tips of the trade. Keep up the good work and ignore the holier than thou comments on here.

[@montystelevision3238]

This guy works with such care and diligence and describes everything so well.

[@tzisorey]

Well, that looked like a wiring system that had "grown organically", as we'd say at my previous employer. (Networking, not electrical) Always nice when you get the go-ahead to blank-slate it all.

[@Thorgal320]

I’m 43 now and want to become an electrician. I already know all the basics, probably up to a point to wire and install a consumer unit in a small flat (never done it though ((and don’t intend to do it without proper quals))). Thanks for the very informative video.

[@jammorst]

Love watching these videos electrical from other countries. It is a big difference from how we do it in Canada.

[@VadimDrevenchuk]

I'm an Electrician by trade in the US. We follow the National Electrical Code. And I find your videos fascinating, different county, different standards (similar in a way but also very different). New homes are built with 200Amp service and our circuit breakers are different. Its as if your circuit breakers/main panel/fuses are all solid-state. Thank you for the vidoes.

[@davidadams421]

Very interesting. It's good to say when something is alright. It's always easier to criticise (and justifiably so sometimes!).

[@DKNY707]

Nice job mate, nice to see sparks take pride in their work

[@garethfox6537]

Another top video chris can we get more like this super detailed and a joy to watch

[@wanhliu552]

Appreciate all your efforts in sharing your years of experience, taking the decades to edit b4 the 72years to upload. Keep em coming.

[@tinytonymaloney7832]

Takes me back to the 80s an 90s when I had my own electrical business, NIC appeared. Used to get some good jobs, house holders always paid on time, factories and commercial jobs always kept me waiting, some went tits up before paying

[@markandrews8437]

An other excellent video mate luv the detail you show thanks for sharing and keep them coming 👍

[@EuroB0B1]

Really cool to see a another tradesman enjoy his craft. Nice.

[@jeremytravis360]

I had an electrician come round to inspect my consumer unit. It was a modern MK unit fitted with MK RCD's in a plastic case. He told me it was "ILLEGAL" and had to be replaced and if I din't let him do it he would pull the mains fuse and leave me without any power. I reluctantly agreed and he fitted a similar unit but in a metal case. When the cost started going up and up I got scared and called the police. They made him return all the original MK box which he had taken away. This was a distressing experience because I am disabled and needed power for my refrigeration of my injections and to rum my central heating.

[@oiuslags]

It’s only a code 3 which means it does not comply with the regs BS7671 18th edition, Unless the DB board is placed in the only means of escape then it’s a code 2,which requires improvement usually that’s within 28days. He had no right to pull the main fuse that’s an offence Only code 1 faults require immediate action that’s basically stuff like being able to touch live parts, then there is a duty of care to make safe He should be a member of a regulatory body like NICEIC ect I strongly recommend that you report his actions to them and or the local government council building control department and trading standards

[@mattwhitley9315]

Really interesting video. Like to see how others do their work in comparison to what I have Been taught during my apprenticeship

[@sewers1000]

Hi Chris another great video. Always best to keep in the dno good books

[@sennabus3356]

Great video mate, real sparky, living in the real world 👌🏻

[@terrylonsdale6282]

Great video Chris as always...keep them coming in 👍🏻

[@GiffordsElectrical]

Another top video Chris. I loved the hammer action when fitting the gland into the board 🤣.

[@sivalley]

Tappy tap taaap. . .

[@williamlowther7051]

good work chris, you do a good job, nice and safe for the client and good for the next electrician to work on, keep up the good work

[@markguise4303]

Really rate your videos mate. I'm in the last year of my apprenticeship and think it's great to see how other guys do things 👌

[@armoris66]

I'm not a sparks but as a tradesman, you don't know how much I enjoyed your video (even the silent movie sections 🤣). Brilliant tips and info throughout.

[@michaelkirkham8335]

Excellent video Chris. Love the longer vids. If you can keep it up, the more of these the merrier.

[@djcymatic]

Thanks for the interesting video's. Nice to see someone who takes pride in doing it right!

[@jamesdyas542]

Excellent video thanks I went to a central heating radiator that was hardly getting warm for no apparent reason. Took the floorboards up and they had notched the joists by about 5 mm by the look of it with a bread knife and hammered the copper pipe flat so as to re fit the floor boards. Madness. Bit off subject I know.

[@marcus62647]

Great Video lad, good to have you back, been relying on some new guys to KZbin for my electrical kicks . You and MyTrustedElectrician have always been my main go to 😂 keep em coming 👍🏻 #HagerGang

[@David_11111]

Its just nice to watch good work. Sometimes the internet is right :)

[@leebutterworth7465]

Great video Chris great explanations on your work,

[@imranmajid1978]

A beautiful job, well presented and a very entertaining video too!

[@Ragnar8504]

If you still got those chunky RCDs I'd love one of them! They were designed in Austria, close to where I live and everyone had them back in the 70s and 80s! Oddly enough that design was only ever used in Austria, Eastern Germany and the UK, no idea why!

[@imtrue2132]

Fantastic to watch this and to know how the work is done in other countries.

[@user-km8jz9tp3e]

Great video mate nice to see most of the job and all the tips. 👍

[@-Dylann]

that cheeky smile at the end 😂

[@-Dylann]

also where abouts is that conduit with the earth, not a place where someone could trip over it?

[@carpnovice922]

Great work pal. Very thorough. At least these customers are getting a proper job done.

[@sen5908]

Good video mate , nice to see a spark not looking for other peoples faults on previous work, all these no all's forget that regs where different years ago , current stuff today with be obsolete in 10 years time , changing all the time 👍👍

[@cribblekid]

Never seen neutral and earths so tight , wouldn’t like to test that board

[@gflorey1975]

Really enjoyed this video, keep up the good work.

[@muzikman2008]

I feel like iv'e just done another days work lol... some shoddy work there eweeee! top vid Chris.

[@DaC-lt5mk]

Exactly how I lable my cables during a board change. Great minds think alike😉

[@ashmanelectricalservices4318]

I thought everyone done it this way... I don't mark the first one as I'm tight and can't spare the ink.

[@jameznm]

I could watch this all day long.

[@lewisbowditch694]

Thanks Chris for all your videos 👍 Really do enjoy all your videos, keep up the great work

[@markmmm1737]

I love the "hell sucker" fuse.

[@Hexatomb]

That was neat to watch, thanks for the video.

[@gavindebrito7117]

Great Video.I agree with others more detailed Videos as always a pleasure to watch.keep up to good work Chris👌

[@jamesmalin8580]

Nice work! I love it when a plan comes together! You must get pee’d off with fixing other bad workmen’s work though? Some great info and knowledge in these vids. Subscribed :)

[@justme5384]

Just love doing a board change on some old houses that might have a few boards, some external RCD, maybe some other weird wiring. And putting in a new board with RCD and everything in a new board

[@zaelectricalltd1]

Great vid .The rest of the world still has the rewireable 3036s or original replacement mcbs , yes the trip times don't comply but as long as you have those 2 rcds covering the incomers you are fairly safe .a for cables being doubled up in the 32 amp mcbs I usually take the 3rd and downgrade it to a 20 amp .most are elderly clients who aren't really happy to have an 18th ed fuse board upgrade or cant afford it .Great Vid .I also always recommend an upgrade to.

[@cressytisswuff]

I love how tidy your work is, I wish you'd done the wiring on my house!

[@crackedgaming5696]

Just pulled my floor boards up in the top floor bathroom and found a 10mm twin earth that runs up the external side of the building joined under the floor to a split con cable using service connectors on a peace of ply best part the live block had the side missing so fully exposed love it

[@trainsinkansas576]

Outstanding.

[@amd4life89]

Enjoyed as always mate, top job

[@JimWhitaker]

Just like welds: A good-looking weld is not a guarantee of a good weld; a bad looking weld is always a bad weld. Really neat work making best use of space.

[@syncrosimon]

I wouldn’t have shortened those earths and neutrals so much. But you get a lovely neat job your way.👍

[@bootsowen]

I agree, if you are replacing a board then someone else might have to do it again sometime.

[@dennisphoenix1]

Leave some slack , you might be back . That's what I was told as an apprentice

[@ovepot]

Seems the modern way, I was trained to leave sweeping bends when fitting c/u’s. Old school👍

[@lewisclarke9239]

They will be long I do this method there just tucked up behind. Just looks very neat. Great job exactly the way I do things

[@michaelbrooks4003]

Another great video Chris. Nice one

[@james.8985]

Awesome vid mate very detailed and great productivity keep up the great work 🤙🤙🇦🇺

[@e5Group]

Enjoyed this. 👍

[@The4Qman]

I'm still enjoying the videos after all this time, great work.

[@ObsessionoftheMonth]

19:04 In the IT world we called that "scope creep" when little add ons creep in to the original scope of work.

[@letsgocamping88]

Obsession of the Month we call them whileyer’s .

[@donnierobertson3088]

Great job again like always

[@darrengrimmer8541]

Great detail sir. Fantastic

[@JBE]

What a great video Chris! Nicely presented and explained. Yep the old borrowed neutrals problem! We've all had that issue. Love the thumbs up to all the keyboard warriors, it's all traffic like you say.

[@darenvitaelectrical5310]

Chris ,with you on integrated downlights ,so much better 👍🏻 try and build a rapport with your wholesalers they’ll deliver to you ,saves time and money

[@Scottinuk]

This is the first video I’ve seen where an electrician pulls the main fuse! It’s always done by magic on the other videos 🙂👍

[@skantycanty]

Scottinuk it is good to see and it proves a point when you find a lower rated fuse in the labelled fuse holder.

[@Scottinuk]

David Canty True that. Always an N/V as we have no idea what’s in there unless opened.

[@Graham_Langley]

@@skantycanty Good point. Round here they they used looped supplies but all the main fuse carriers have 100A labels. And at leat one house on the end of a looped supply has a power shower.

[@totherarf]

The 100a is its max capacity not the required fuse size! I take these apart every day and you get 100A, 80A and 60A fairly regularly. The fuse size should relate to the tail size and also not exceed the supply maximum ...... often you will see a 100A fuse supplying one property with a tail coming off the top of the fuse to supply next door via an 80A in its own cutout! There are areas where the supply daisy chains four properties of one service cable ..... again these are fused down for some strange reason ;0) Another reason for fusing down is for a high Ze as a temporary measure. They require a fusing factor of 3 so the max Ze you can do this on is not really that high and the DNO do need to come and sort it fairly quickly!

[@JimWhitaker]

@@skantycanty The holder is labelled for the maximum fuse you can put in it, not the fuse it has in it.

[@edglue6138]

Great video Chris. You nearly make me want to jump back on the tools again. Keep up the good work mate

[@GateKommand]

Thanks for the video mate.

[@hopsta]

Long video but interesting to watch. Thanks.

[@lloydschannel6488]

Nice one, Chris 👍🏻

[@frankholehouse1393]

What a big job , your a very good electrician very good video keep up the good work .👌

[@DaC-lt5mk]

'yes he's pulled it' in the thumbnail😂😂😂😂

[@harryrushworth5432]

Best sparky on KZbin for content by a mile mate

[@serenetysteel7007]

Good vid dude, earth rod pit is a wee bit small though. A Black wiska box works nicely with the black conduit, make it easier for yourself =)

[@peterg.8245]

I like the longer format. I’m not in the trades, electrical engineer actually, and find the explanations interesting.

[@KlusterYogo]

Great video bro - much prefer the longer ones. Nice little lunchtime viewing ;)

[@Robert-ts2ef]

You’re a knowledgable guy and you certainly earn your money.

[@frazer26]

The famous, “while your here, can you.......”

[@ickipoo]

Consider it a vote of confidence. Sure, it throws out your schedule, but they like what you've done so far, and want more of the same. In this case, it also helped ease the pain of finding that split neutral too.

[@dennisphoenix1]

Or can you just ......

[@tresslerj1985]

YEAASSSS!!!! RING FINAL!

[@narky4955]

Enjoyed the long video we want more!

[@devonfuse]

I once did the same as you and fitted a board on the skew to match a wonky cupboard. Came back some years later to find that everything had been rebuilt straight, leaving my consumer unit on the tilt and looking awful. After that I have fitted everything straight and level.

[@Graham_Langley]

That was my worry too.

[@PJB71]

Top job 👍🏼

[@kangtheconqueror]

Booyah! Another good'un. 👏🏻👍🏻

[@johnschlesinger2009]

Very enjoyable. A couple of points: the 1mm sq wire wrapped round that conductor end was not there to increase the conductor diameter. Many years ago, it was standard practice to wrap fuse wire or other light guage wire round larger conductors, such as meter tails, and sometimes all conductors terminating in fuse ways, to prevent strands from splaying out when the terminal screws were tightened: it gives a better connection. Second: your c.u. wiring is super neat, but why don’t you leave any slack? It is good practice to re-make off the conductor ends when they have been disconnected for testing, and from the look of it, this won’t be possible in the future on this installation. Other than that, great workmanship.

[@noskills9577]

Cant speak for the man himself but I leave the slack up behind the neutral and earth bars, I suspect he does something similar

[@train4905]

A most excellent job sir.well done superb.keep up the great bids sir.well done.

[@lossantoslols]

Nice one Chris 👍

[@barrybradfordlocksport]

Been checking your channel out for a few weeks now, well done at last a decent spark on here no bullshit keep it up pal 😎😎😎

[@Elfin4]

Enjoyed this and Im a former Chippy now working professional side.

[@SIHRA2]

Love it!!

[@doctorelectric470]

Nice one Chris, see you at Elex next week

[@allengraham7016]

another great vid i think i will change my consumer unit now after this vid NO only joking great detail and vid Chris keep it coming

[@simonabbott7323]

I would have brought the cables in the rear, then sealed up the gap. The unknown bonds I would connect as I feel it would be safer to connect them than not. I would put the radial sockets on 20's, if the circuits are ever extended. In my C&G training in the 80's, we used to do an exercise to prove that on short runs you could use 1 milli for immersions. Now, of course, you have to use minimum 1.5 for "power" circuits.

[@spongebobplugtop]

Older TT installations never had earth rods and relied on the metal water supply for the main earth and were often 6mm

[@dennisphoenix1]

I fitted an earth rod to a TT system years ago , fitted a 100 ma rcd , tested the rod got 200 ohms , connected the bonding cables , got 0.20 ohms.

[@FutureCurrent]

@@dennisphoenix1 probably one of the houses nearby has been converted to tnc-s and that is carrying over the metallic pipework.

[@ianmalone8053]

Worried if you put a new earth rod on the property there might be a chance that this earth route could then be the earth route taken by adjoining properties if the water/ gas mains are slowly being up graded .