So I have been doing it wrong all these years

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A how to video on installing an external socket Get's bizarre around the 2 minute mark

 

[1Justin]

Oh and @1Justin - get your own avatar! I thought it was me answering the thread for a moment!

No! someone's got my Avatar. I assume maybe you did it first, but it seemed a good idea to me (and I really hadn't spotted yours beforehand !). Great minds think alike.
Mine is just behind the house.

 

[egg67]

I love this place, how to do videos peaple having a go at some one for 4" not 4cm and stolen avatars.
Leave it to me I will ring the plod and get it sorted, let's be happy as it's the 1st October we can all go to the shops and buy Christmas decorations. Happy New Year one and all

 

[Rpa07]

No! someone's got my Avatar. I assume maybe you did it first, but it seemed a good idea to me (and I really hadn't spotted yours beforehand !). Great minds think alike.
Mine is just behind the house.

We'll keep it our little secret - shows that we like this electricity stuff!

 

[Silly Sausage]

We'll keep it our little secret - shows that we like this electricity stuff!

You two are on the wrong forum ... Pylon Appreciation Society - Pylon Appreciation Society - http://www.pylons.org/

 

[stevethesparks]

What the chap in the video does he can be answerable for, the worrying thing is if this little outfit ever take on an apprentice. Its about time the Electrical Trainee qualifications were squashed.

 

[Pete999]

Well said that man.

 

[varilite]

Frightening, wonder if he tries to recess the boilers into the wall as well

According to that link he has been a spark for 20 years

So why is he just a domestic installer?

 

[Sisyphus]

By far and large & way past Utubes, I'm finding customers that come from HD (abbreviated because i don't know if forum rules allow me to post it) having witnessed some electrically wired 'display model' as the gold standard.

I don't know who wires them , electrical isle employee? corporate headquarters?, or whatnot , but some are truly awful by any bona fide sparks standards , the majority of us wouldn't lower ourselves to it....

As i do biz in what i'd simply describe as the wild west , a bureaucratic mess of 50 odd fiefdoms of revolving rules , it's common to roll up on a DIY'er install standing on the advice of this big box monopoly, asking us to 'just energize it'.

Does this work the same in the UK?

~S~

 

[Richard Burns]

By far and large & way past Utubes, I'm finding customers that come from HD (abbreviated because i don't know if forum rules allow me to post it) having witnessed some electrically wired 'display model' as the gold standard.

I don't know who wires them , electrical isle employee? corporate headquarters?, or whatnot , but some are truly awful by any bona fide sparks standards , the majority of us wouldn't lower ourselves to it....

As i do biz in what i'd simply describe as the wild west , a bureaucratic mess of 50 odd fiefdoms of revolving rules , it's common to roll up on a DIY'er install standing on the advice of this big box monopoly, asking us to 'just energize it'.

Does this work the same in the UK?

~S~

The usual approach is "I will just run the cable and fit the accessories and get a spark in to connect up and provide a certificate!"
or "I will get an electrician in to sign it off once I have done the work."
Inappropriate, dangerous, and not legal in many cases.
Pretty much like the video above!

 

[westward10]

I love this place, how to do videos peaple having a go at some one for 4" not 4cm and stolen avatars.
Leave it to me I will ring the plod and get it sorted, let's be happy as it's the 1st October we can all go to the shops and buy Christmas decorations. Happy New Year one and all

The usual approach is "I will just run the cable and fit the accessories and get a spark in to connect up and provide a certificate!"
or "I will get an electrician in to sign it off once I have done the work."
Inappropriate, dangerous, and not legal in many cases.
Pretty much like the video above!

You actually understood That?

 

[Paul Marsh]

.. Just watched that vid: Geeeze. I have no words.

 

[westward10]

.. Just watched that vid: Geeeze. I have no words.

You must be able to think of some but probably not printable.

 

[spary]

This guy lives on a electrical desert island

 

[Pete999]

Just a thought, but do you reckon he is a forum member, or better still knows someone who is, bet his lugholes are burning. That's ears for the more PC amongst us.

 

[stevethesparks]

I don't think it would make any difference, he is one of those that knows best. If you go straight to the you tube link he actually argues with the people knocking him there.