YouTube electricians

[co00okie]

OK, I'm still as green as a baby's nappy with all of this. I decided to change career and took a part-time night course (More on this later if your interested.) I'm no where near as good as someone who has done a full apprenticeship. Took my 17th edition and ran with it. Admittedly to the wrong industry (gates and security/access control etc.) BUT I have found my way back to house bashing and nothing prepared me for this....

After watching numerous electricians on YouTube I find myself trawling the regs to see what they call shocking! Or shody workmanship to see if its against the regs and find them quite minor to what I've landed myself in.

First House - fault find upstairs sockets not working
Easy right, straight to the consumer unit. Burnt out busbar on mcb. Loose connection. Whilst there though, Tennant complained about 2 downstairs lights, when turning them on at the switch lights pop and trip on cu. Belled out every cable and rewired what looked like 18 different electricians who had come and patched and patched and patched work. Changed light fittings and all seems OK.

This one screwed me.... No idea not a clue. Sent to fit x3 smoke alarms (X2 smokes and a heat alarm in the kitchen to be exact.) wireless so should be a walk in the park. No! So I fit smokes and turn the power back on. Lights work fine, but smokes are not illuminating the led to show power... On all 3. I used existing cabling on hallway and landing smokes. And wired to permenant live on kitchen light fitting for heat alarm. I'm stumped because I'm testing power at smokes and it's there. Tested continuity across live and neutral and bing there's a short somewhere. My issue is why hasn't the rcd tripped? I mean wtf?

So my question is why isn't this classed as "shocking" or "shoddy" to the YouTube electricians. I know I shouldn't be trying to learn this stuff on YouTube but, why is a loose switch face the worst thing these guys have seen when the ---- I've come across in the passed 2 days really worry me?

P.s. Sorry if your a vlogger. Its not really aimed at you. Just shitty landlords that probably do there own eicrs.

 

[7029 dave]

LAsparkTV Wire&Test , Rupert is very entertaining and eccentric far too honest thats what I like about him, out of them all I have subbed to his channel.?

 

[ipf]

Pre 1970's and years onward, plenty could have won Oscars for filming at work........if we'd had the facility.
If someone had turned up on site filming, like some of these jessies, they would have laughed at and kicked off.
Thinking.... I would have loved some photos, though, but there you go.
There was an old WW2 e-boat engine, used as a stand by genny, at one works.....Oh for a film of that starting up.

 

[Dustydazzler]

A D.S classic right here ...

his process of elimination is hilarious

 

[Ian1981]

A D.S classic right here ...

his process of elimination is hilarious

Junction box MF or not, is brutal buried in the wall like that.

 

[Dustydazzler]

Junction box MF or not, is brutal buried in the wall like that.

Ah , but it works so must be fine ...

(me personally would have hacked out the old Mabel and pulled in a new leg)

 

[nicebutdim]

David Savery swears too much, anyone else thinks he looks like Mr Gilbert from the inbetweeners.

I almost get the impression that he doesn't care much for what people think and I don't mean that to be dismissive of your point.

He maintaned a blog full of his experiences and learning for many years, on his website, that few will ever have read or cared about and his videos aren't much different from his writing.

 

[Ian1981]

Ah , but it works so must be fine ...

Ah , but it works so must be fine ...

(me personally would have hacked out the old Mabel and pulled in a new leg)

Mabel or the cable? ?

 

[Dustydazzler]

Came across this video of another youtuber sparks , nice to see a youtuber showing a bit of a commercial electrical installation

(rather than just Chris the old plumber mate picking holes in domestic wiring which is pretty dull if I’m honest)

 

[Zerax]

Ah , but it works so must be fine ...

(me personally would have hacked out the old Mabel and pulled in a new leg)

I think it must be Cockney rhyming slang... Mable & Mellor were an old music hall double act before the war... Mable & Mellor = Fella ? (but don't quote me on that...)

 

[Electrics]

The others I would not employ for free.

Why not? I watch a lot of the main 'offenders' and to a relative newcomer they seem to know what they're talking about and do neat work etc.

Can anyone point out exactly what these people are actually doing wrong? So far i just see people saying they are tedious or boring or they wouldn't employ them but never actually saying why.

Do you have some examples of what they do that is unforgiveable? Because to me their work seems neat and tidy and it all tests ok, so I can't see the problem in it?

I appreciate they might not have the knowledge of some others but they are qualified, and if they do neat, safe work, where is the problem?

 

[westward10]

The plumber fella reinstated some swa cables and didn't bother to earth the armour he treated them like high tuff.

 

[Electrics]

The plumber fella reinstated some swa cables and didn't bother to earth the armour he treated them like high tuff.

Ok well that's one thing, but the rest of his work? What's so bad about it? What about the other sparks?

 

[Dustydazzler]

Poor old Delroy put Henley blocks inside a fuse box ...

not his finest hour but still a massive fan of his vids

 

[Dustydazzler]

The plumber fella reinstated some swa cables and didn't bother to earth the armour he treated them like high tuff.

that’s because he is a plumber ... ?

 

[gazdkw82]

The plumber fella reinstated some swa cables and didn't bother to earth the armour he treated them like high tuff.

Although that was a very bad decision and one that he wont ever live down, the majority of his stuff is alright. Not great but ticks the boxes (most the time)