Changing a total mess of a fuseboard | Thomas Nagy

[@nitt3rz]

Your van is the neatest & tidiest works van I've ever seen.

[@64offroadpe25]

Keep the videos coming. Really like the clean neat work that you do. Wish other electrician did that kind of clean work. Keep up the great work.

[@StilSlepn]

Big Clive sent me, and I'm glad he did. Great show lads!

[@ZahidAli-xp5rv]

Good team work, very informative made is so easy to understand for new electrician....Thank you.

[@shooter3267]

What a pleasure to see units/junction boxes etc labelled up, the time it saves when fault finding !!

[@lmmartinez97]

I'm an industrial electronics engineering student. My studies don't have much to do with your videos, but I'm learning a shit ton about practical electrical work from watching them. Thanks a lot mate, I truly enjoy your channel. Cheers from Madrid :)

[@davidbickley5362]

This guy produces better tv than the BBC, I could watch these vids all day. Keep up the good work Thomas.👍🏻

[@thomasnagy]

Blimey, what a nice comment! Cheers pal! Wish I had the time to make enough vids so you could watch them all day ;-)

[@lfpi07]

Great job on that fuse board! Watching these videos is better than therapy :)

[@salex1066]

Nice to see you care so much about cable layout, sweet fuse box

[@ben_wilson1605]

I'm choosing my gcses options and you are one of two people who have inspired me to choose my options that equate to being a sparky.

[@farzadazizi8130]

Just want to say ,i am proud of people like you which taking there job proudly And i am not a Electrition but a handyman for nearly 15 years!!! I have knowledge of wiring but bever had a chance to advance it Shame But will try to finish my electric course soon But again well done and proud of you

[@gregorythomas333]

What a huge difference the clean-up makes! Really great job guys!

[@nathanlucas6465]

12:52 Was that a glitch in the matrix?

[@childishtombino1275]

Amazing. I noticed that too lol

[@jonathanfurtado3696]

Yep that glitch in The Matrix still going to this day

[@19NinetyUK]

Really enjoyed this video you guys are entertaining to watch. Keep it up!

[@terrystephens1102]

Very neat rewiring of the power board. 😃👌👏👏👏

[@thomasnagy]

It was a pig to do, but looked ok i thought.

[@david886blue]

I'm a new subscriber from Big Clive's site. Thanks to you both for a look at critical infrastructure installation and repair.

[@michaelking6883]

Ignore the haters, great job Tom. The jargon police will always be there - jealousy of success. As a maturer guy coming into the industry over the last year or so your videos have been invaluable. So please keep up the good work!

[@evilutionltd]

That sandwich wasn’t nice, it was satisfactory.

[@danielmahon4097]

evilution lmfao

[@Dailymailnewz]

The Emergency light stuff near the consumer unit, it is a battery powered or mains powered?

[@craignicholson505]

Now that's worthy of art in my eyes that fuse bored nice double take of the entry systam tom U both worked your guts out on that job

[@garypautard1069]

How good to see English electricians on KZbin who talk about things we understand.

[@Swingtotherhythm]

Hey mate ! Absolutely love your channel ! I’m a electrician from Australia. Almost out of my time as a apprentice. Keep up with you YT as its great !

[@arniewheeler4673]

nice finish too. well done Tom and DAVE

[@micssticksnpipes]

Great vid guys. Always good to see how other sparks do it. Keep em coming

[@chriholt]

Always enjoy watching you guys , another great video!

[@hotelhero4193]

Its seeing set ups like this which make me glad to be an in-house electrician for a commercial company. Scary :o Great video, thanks Thomas

[@williameldridge6873]

Tom and Dave you are both doing a great job. I live across the pond and I'm breaking into the electrical business as a retirement job. I've found the videos informative even though I'm having a little trouble understanding your terminology and humor. I have found that you have too many "Arm Chair Quarterbacks" in your viewing audience, remember if your not part of the solution your part of the problem "Fellow Sparks". It is easy to throw stones when your sitting in the stands. We also have a problem with the younger generation not wanting to work in the "Trades". Some of the major things that causes them to shy away from it is the "Old Crotchety Bastards" (master electricians that are in debt to all there ex-wives and can't retire), the hard work and little pay. I will part by saying keep up the good work Tom I look forward to the next videos when the "Third seat" will be filled.

[@sarnxero2628]

This is the first video of yours I've ever seen and I can't believe that's an acceptable state for a wiring panel to be in. No wonder you're pulling it out. Electrical work looks very different than what I'm used to seeing in America.

[@krashd]

The fact Americans seem to loathe any form of regulation and have a lot of very old buildings of their own makes me doubt that every building in your country has tip-top wiring.

[@mjones3644]

Nice video mate! I'm currently doing my second year at college (City & Guilds level 2) and watching videos like this are great for knowledge etc! Keep it up!

[@FiscalWoofer]

The wall behind the boards looks like it’s only held up by your new ply! Very tidy job nice!

[@politicalmudpit6792]

As a distance learning prospective electrician I have no idea how I’ll ever learn to deal with stuff like this. I couldn’t have managed to plaster without my apprenticeship!

[@richardsandwell2285]

I had to work my Bank Holiday too, but I always think it is nice to work a bank holiday and take it off another weekend when the Motorways are nice and clear, and the beaches are less crowded. Take off a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday break if you can, to make up for losing your bank hols. What a nice neat install.

[@victormendonca7441]

Good Work Matey, safe isolation quote cracked me up lol

[@2009yazz1]

Very neat fuse board top job

[@kingcup2140]

Good job guys! Cheers

[@matthewdixon336]

Fair play fellas . Nice job

[@GazDaGooner]

What a man. God to see some younger sparks doing a decent job. We're they your temp site lights by the dis board

[@MartiA1973]

Sitting here revising for my C&G2391 and adding"No other SOB in the building on a banker's holiday" to my revision notes on safe iso' so that's a PASS sorted. Besides, once I'm out in the wild any BH is a no-traffic day and I'll have another one where the hotels are cheap. Good on yer Tom(s).

[@dfpguitar]

Sorry if this is an excessively basic question, but from where is the power turned off if you want to work on a fuseboard/consumer unit? is it just that isolation switch in front of you or is it done by the energy provider somewhere down the line?

[@seanirishedwards]

Nice work on the consumer unit

[@paulbrendan8034]

Just you d your channel. Fellow sparky, nice original idea. It's a good chance to show people what we actually do an it's all I interesting. Fair play

[@Antoine.Gagnon]

Great video! Keep on rolling!!

[@rusrus29]

Go dam it! you're the best sparks in London Town !! "this time next year rodders, your be a millionaire!! " ha Love the work.. Thanks i seem to have an addiction to your channel more than netflix now ..

[@MrCrossWire]

Nice job lads!

[@stuartjohnson7930]

Hey I'm a new viewer from Australia, love the content. I run my own electrical company in Aus and its real interesting seeing how similar our systems are!

[@WilliamHaggerty]

As a canuck, this is all completely backwards!

[@stenningelectrical1205]

Hey tom love watching the channel. I’m a sparky down in Sussex, and I really would like to know why you don’t fit RCBO consumer units. Cheers Sam

[@geovannyramirez3604]

Really good videos, keep them coming, i enjoy seeing them, I can relate in a couple of stuff, I'm from Nicaragua and I live in United States (Florida) and some requirements are likely the same some others are different, from your side of the world, but we can all agree on one thing, it's an amazing and beautiful trade to get in to, my tools are Milwaukee as well, my brother got me into them and now I just fell in love with them, let's face it, when you're on your own and you need to finish the job, those are the right tools for it. Greetings Tom.

[@StevieCooper]

Here from Big Clive. Very interesting. Nice to have a recommendation to a channel

[@thomasnagy]

Thanks for heading over. enjoy the show !

[@lukepear]

Dont worry about flickering so much its not that biggy as long content is great. Keep doing what you doing yours work is top notes😎 Have a great day for You and Tom😛

[@danbarnes5878]

Its bank holiday monday thats safe isolation lol so friday is even safer isolation cause no one wants to do much and shoot off early so im pretty confident no one will want to come and turn a circuit on

[@cagdasbutun829]

Lovely job

[@harrylisbon8423]

I know you haven't done the snagging yet and will probably do it anyway but I always whack a bit of mastic or painters caulk around the top of the trunking it just finishes it off nicely. Great work keep em coming 👍🏻

[@deformedjeff]

Quality install lads!

[@kyleadamson]

Thought the technical terms for an eicr were either "it's alright" or "it's f***ed". Who'd of thought ive been doing it wrong and It was ment to be satisfactory or unsatisfactory all this time.

[@funkyironman69]

Then there's the "completely and utterly f***ing f***ed"

[@rukinaa]

Mate, it should be: it's alright or change it because you might die.

[@pistolpete5189]

That’s it mint for another 50 years 👍

[@jovetj]

6:25 "I've gotta change out a few luminaires today...." LOL!

[@MultiArrie]

Thats a propper job, old messed up distribution boards replacing is challanging but verry rewarding.

[@baconbacon332]

Your humour is so amusing

[@ninogaggi]

As my old tradesman used to say, “lamps glow, bulbs grow”. In fairness though he was an arse.

[@kingstoncolby6236]

Instablaster

[@nw24153ns]

Purely amazing!

[@Tomoose1985]

Great video! Shame not to see a bit more of the fuseboard area being turned around but we understand. Keep it up fellas 👍

[@fimbles1015]

I would not worry about replacing the consumer unit, I would be sorting out the rotting, wet, unsupported wall behind it first. Nice work as usual :) Cable management was pornographic!

[@MikeB470]

Great finish to the DB change. Be nice to follow behind u on that one mate. Was there a fused spur for the bell transformer? I believe even adjacent to the DB one is required.

[@OlafurArons]

Would you happen to know why you use multistranded wires as opposed to singlestranded ones? As far as i know, here in Iceland we only use multistranded for cables that don't go from fuseboxes to outlets/other internal wirings.

[@miketrump1360]

Because multi-strand wires are easier to work with and it makes sense. Over here in New Zealand, we use wires in switchboards that look like welder cables, they have 215+ fine strands for the distribution parts of the board. I did my time with the older solid conductors at socket-outlets (2.5mm2) and the 1.5mm2 at lighting circuits, stranded is definitely better by a long stretch.

[@ryanwooldridge7546]

I know your work is good but daaaaamn, that fuseboard cupboard came out cleaner than Jesus's conception 👍

[@softbuns]

aye, impressive work :)

[@TDGalea]

This comment wins.

[@ashvanbro9329]

Great work tom. What a mess who ever did all that work b4 u mate.. task inahalf

[@kevindinsdale8204]

Can we presume that the scrap wiring is a perk of the job to take and weigh in?. Or is it included in the pricing?.

[@MMKLYH]

It gets fucked in the bin

[@gsxrgeorge00]

As an American electrician, its interesting to see how you guys do your panels.

[@Rich10000]

How was the other end of the SWA incomer connected at the other end? I can't think where i'd gland the other end off into.

[@bensalvage4443]

Which model of sds drill do you use ? Does it cope with engineering bricks?

[@fidelcastro9579]

Lovely work on that consumer unit. 👍 Just subscribed.

[@jamc1035]

Well done chaps not much making good after you for sparks only a shit load of pointing 😁 keep up the good work loving the channel

[@jonjohnson1259]

Hiya great video how do you know which cable is which after you've disconected them? Also a LAMP is the device into which s BULB goes

[@stevenskillern9470]

Hi, you have added a note to state that the EM sign is the wrong one. It isn't so please don't change it. That arrow has a couple of meanings, one is "Progress up from here" and "Progress through and on from here" so the latter meaning is applicable for this so as above it is actually the correct sign for this location. The only meaning of the sign down arrow is "Progress down from here" and is the most misused/incorrectly used sign. Your average corridor as well should have the arrow up sign as well to progress through and on from here but nearly always it's the wrong pointing down one. Keep up the good work, love the high standard and general attention to detail, Its refreshing to see.

[@frankocean5197]

Very darti work

[@moodyga40]

love theses rewires

[@Thundera-yn2fj]

what is your opinion on using trunking as i have people say they don't like it because it looks ugly. if that is the case and the walls are solid brick, is there another alternative that is not as ascetically unfavorable?

[@keeganmccrae]

great vid again tom and dave, im a 3rd year apprentice and was just wondering if you would be able to do a video on testing for the new and future apprentices. what tests we do, why we do them and maximum readings allowed such as Ze is 0.35ohms for a tncs system

[@miketrump1360]

Read the Regulations, if you can....

[@JuanAndresLanza]

Nice job on the Fuse Box, client will be pleased, noted the building has a Apollo Xpander Wireless Fire Alarm System....

[@whatevernamegoeshere3644]

3:40 "You just have to try to go slowly and as methodical as you can" [takes out massive cutters and puts it around a bundle]

[@alanbaltic]

And if it's not a bank holiday Monday just pull the cut out fuse 👌

[@churchers]

12:50 Intercom system was so good they fitted it twice.

[@vRackham]

He's taking the piss. Lately there have been comments about repeating sentences.

[@farmerdave7965]

Glitch in the matrix.

[@johnschlesinger2009]

Very good work. Have you ever ordered Erco ELV track and fittings? That gear is MADLY expensive!

[@BecomeYourBeliefs]

Do you have any tips on how to remember which wires go where and how to keep your wiring neat for an aspiring electrician?

[@miketrump1360]

As Tom said in the video, take your time, it's not a race, things get fucked up when people rush things, wires get put in the wrong terminals, wrong circuits get put in the wrong breakers. Neatness is in no way accidental, it is about having a measured approach to what you are doing.

[@cbk-te7ru]

Dont they have lock out tags in London??

[@jimmyc5381]

How many hours did you quote for sorting that mess

[@scottritchie6943]

For a fuse board up grade, the mains fed what is the requirement if you have to break the seal

[@EdgyNumber1]

9:18 Big Clive did and interesting tear down of one of their shower units. Interesting robust piece of engineering.

[@RODALCO2007]

Nice job.

[@phil-zz5hk]

that is spooky , i am watching this bank holiday monday 1 year later . wow .

[@simonharding1572]

and now 2 years also spooky

[@stevehenke678]

I literally lol'ed at bank holiday being an effective means of isolation. I wish I could share the isolation & test certificate I work to. Requires three people to put an isolation on.

[@gavinjohn-hyde2760]

Noted you called the dno or supplier out to move the cut out and meters etc... whats your view on pulling fuses in general? Nearly all of us have had visits from the seal fairy to magically remove one... I know some who wont even entertain the thought and call the dno to pull it for them.. guess its a judgement call, if its old and stuck leave well alone, but a modern henley with no load is unlikely to cause issues

[@idi0tdetectioninprogress]

There`s really not an issue in cutting the seal on the bullet. Look at all the `decent homes` social housing upgrades, DNO simply could`nt support the thousands of board changes which have taken place over the past decade or more. Cut the seal, pull the bullet, leave the meter sealed, install new 25mm tails, cut the load side of the meter tails, and terminate into a Henly block. Take a picture of your masterpiece, and notify the DNO, tell them the fuseboard had melted and it was a midnight call out! Obviously if there`s a real issue with the state of the main intake, leave well alone and report. Scary thing is you are probably more qualified as an engineer than the ` smart meter` installers, and while I agree we all need to make a living, there have already been some serious blunders on both Gas and Electric meter changes. Wouldn`t it have been nice if they had agreed to build an isolation switch into smart metering, supposed to be intelligent people!

[@gavinjohn-hyde2760]

Got2Bgaga very well put. We all know what goes on. As we agreed on its ajudgement call. Putting an isolator in the meter is far to much like common sense. You can get meters with a switch built in but guess it was a cost thing! As for some of the meter installers ... less said the better. I can see the time when one emds up in court for manslaughter

[@ecc84]

You can actually get away with cutting the seals by stating that the board was in a dangerous condition and required isolation. can't quite remember off the top of me head where it is in the regs.

[@smartchip]

Why dont sparks do the meter installation in the U.K. ? Since part p the electricians have been going down hill, we basically had people doing a two day course installation of domestic electrics, nic/ eic etc dont care, they get more money in, so they profit, sparks in the uk are Muppets, yeah yeah, I am trained and educated there amongst other countries, but yeah born and raised, just makes me ANGRY, we got stuffed,

[@jonhigginson4096]

gavin john-hyde I have no qualms with pulling fuses or come to that replacing tails, there’s a few times with new meters that there’s half a turn left on the dno terminals in the meter! As far as I’m concerned a consumer should be able to disconnect from the system and I’m confident that with 30 years experience I’m able to do it safely and leave it in a better state than some of the clowns who are fitting these things.

[@paddyodonovan975]

I like the inside of your van

[@Graham_Langley]

Been thinking about putting a 3kW handwash like that Triton in the downstairs loo here while it's being rehashed as the stored hot water takes so long to reach it. Your recommendation may well sway me.

[@coyote5735]

Don't bother with them they scale up in no time resulting in poor water flow and tepid water. The water supply needs a softner for long life.

[@edcooper2396]

Couple of things; Instant water heaters are always a lot better in summer than winter. Did you use decent lamps in the gallery space, for art you'd want something with CRI 95+?

[@supersparks9466]

That’s how I do cu as well, 50 x 100 trunking ,makes it all neat an tidy, well done Tomas you must have seen I of my installs?

[@simonabbott7323]

That first FCU hidden in the boxed-in section....how do you change the fuse when it's all clad?

[@44R0Ndin]

They said they'd be putting a door on the boxed-in section so you could get in there and read the water meter, probably use the same door to get at the FCU.

[@645hughes]

Another great video lads. I have a question about the little water heaters that seem to be everywhere, what's the kW rating on those and did you put them on their own circuit? Great channel. 👍

[@JwiseTheRealist]

top sparks, that was an amazing job you done …. poshest sounding sparks too

[@CivilisedMuffin]

The track lighting looks spot on (hah, pun only half intended). What make did you use?

[@mickgeraghty1016]

Looks like KB, www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_Index/Lighting_Menu_Index/Lighting_Track_and_Spots_Index/KB_Lighting_Track/index.html

[@StrathpefferJunction]

If all else fails, you can often get rid of the LED flicker by setting your shutter speed twice your frame rate. I used to have a mare with the flicker, but that sorted it immediately.

[@iwtommo]

Safe isolation - bank holiday monday. Love it