I'd definitely be up for the artisan team going through some of the comments, both good and bad!

@andrewpowell6457

2 жыл бұрын

Please!!!

I once told a client his electrics were dangerous because he had no earth bond to his water…he disagreed and said, him having to parachute into France, on D-day worried him more 😂😂😂

@QUIX-KIWI

7 ай бұрын

But it's true sometimes, what with plastic pipework, having a bonded pipe at the cylinder when the cylinder itself is bonded, doesn't make any logical sence, to co-bond the metal piping connected by metal piping to the cylinder, when the water system to the client's end of pipe taps are all done in plastic pipes. See maybe his parachute hung up in a tree - which as far as I am concerned would have scared him more (but he survived the war - so he will probably survive the non-bonded pipework.

The 'you don't know what you don't know' point is the best philosophy in this case. Given the nature of kitchen wiring, there's good reason it should be left to someone with a ticket and annual assessment. Great video as always.

@QUIX-KIWI

7 ай бұрын

It's always that case of DaMn - but I wish I knew more than I did, when in reality you've forgotten more than you will ever learn

Always a pleasure to watch quality workmanship and customer care by all you guys. The problem is that I expect the same from people working in my home, but few of them deliver.

please do a vid with cory and jordan reading the comments, would be hillarious

Cory does awesome work ! The Cheeky Girls are now both working in car dealerships in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, in case you were wondering. The pair, who are actually called Monica Taylor and Gabriela Irimia are twin sisters who shot to fame in the early 2000s on Popstars: The Rivals. Despite being described by judge Pete Waterman as 'the worst act I've ever seen' they became inexplicably popular, even achieving two top ten singles. One of those was called 'Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)', which - for the uninitiated - gives you a decent flavour of what they were like.

I've been saying that there will be more and more of this after "the Great British lockdown refurb" - as reputable firms were booked up, all the good and complex work filtered down to the cowboys and I reckon we'll be fixing this stuff for years to come

@richardpowell181

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, a good supply of work guaranteed for us though

@johanbezuidenhout9466

Жыл бұрын

👍

@Dan-vw6sf

Жыл бұрын

I don't know how these cowboys sleep at night, just guessing what to do with electrics and potentially burning someone's house down or worse, mind boggles

Disconnect the neutral on whatever circuit you're testing to prevent any nuisance tripping

Thank you and the team for the awesome videos. May the business prosper and looking forward to more great videos.

+Artisan Electrics Cory should learn a trick!!! You can test that garage rcd with upstream rcd safely, by connecting your MFT to the neutral and line outputs of the Garage RCD as normal, but connecting the ''earth'' probe to the incoming-neutral connection. I worked this out myself and then John Ward pointed this out in an RCD-testing video as well. In this way, the line-"earth" test-current will travel back through upstream rcd (via neutral) fine, guaranteed to stay in balance there, but this RCD can still be tested without risk of upstream-tripping. This will not, however, tell you that the Earth is correctly connected from house MET to the Garage board (but theres' plenty of ways of checking that with flying-leads or whatever).

"I don't know what I don't know!!" im so using that. Its close to "I've forgotten more than you know"

YES, a reading comments video with Jordan & Cory would be fantastic!!!

I’m a retired plumber and have always re-connected any earth wires I have had to disconnect. Remember reading in one of our trade mags where a plumber was given a prison sentence for not re-connecting an earth wire to a metal sink top and the customer died as a result of an electric shock from the sink. It always pays to get professional advice from the relevant people.

@Marco-mg9tv

2 жыл бұрын

Really ? He did the right thing disconnecting it - A metal sink is a not an extraneous conductive part. Should never have been bonded in the first place. And how could anyone receive a shock from a non bonded sink ? If was because the water pipes somehow became live and made the sink live then the fault would have been lack of bonding on the water supply. Smacks of an apocryphal story to me .

@redcitadel8354

2 жыл бұрын

@@Marco-mg9tv The bonding for the water lines was probably a the sink as it was an easy to access place. So the plumber removed the water bonding.

@Marco-mg9tv

2 жыл бұрын

@@redcitadel8354 Really ? Are you suggesting that an electrician decided that a metal sink was the best point to connect main bonding to the incoming water service rather than the cold water pipe that would be supplying the taps to said sink ?

Absolutely love your attention to detail while doing testing, 90% of sparks have no interest and couldn't be bothered testing properly!

@QUIX-KIWI

7 ай бұрын

Worse, 50% of Sparkies should NEVER do self certification as, it they created the problem the first time around when doing the initial installation work, then when they do the testing, (later) they will NOT be able to find any problem, knowing they did it their way (thinking it to be the correct way) the first time around. Sadly, here in New Zealand, several years ago, Electrical Inspectors were bypassed in regs changes - so that electricians on the jobs could self-certify their own work (to avoid delaying the client's sign off on getting the property livened, or re-livened) and now, I spotted in more recent regs changes, that all work done that is to be certified by an electrician can ONLY be their own work that they then self-certify, being that they cannot certify anyone else's work, if they didn't directly supervise that person's work - at the time. Which to me, begs the question, how many jobs are installed incorrectly, to be certified as tested correctly, by the people who installed the installation incorrectly? And how many DIY clients (after having done a far better job than some electricians) who ask their electrician to check the DIY work they did, to get it certified, can't - when the electrician is NOT allowed to certify any work they didn't directly oversight when it was done? Yet - it's true even in the UK, as Jordon even said as much in a recent video, that he can't certify a client's DIY as he didn't supervise the person doing the work. at the time. Oh sure, it speeds up the client's end-use sign-off time, if the installing electrician can at the end of the install, inspect and sign-off the installation (as if they were the inspector of old) to allow the lines company to re-liven the property, from the replacing of the incoming pole fuses, but does it really give a reliable certification standard.?

Nice to see a Cory video. The Jordan-a-thon this week went on a bit. No offence, but Cory is a more entertaining presenter!.

Saw this at my late father in law's kitchen upgrade. He called me in as he was concerned over what he saw. What I saw was a disaster of electrical bodging. All old sockets had been extended via 15a connector blocks buried in the walls. The ring main had been split. Lighting was full of connector blocks ready to be plastered over. I left my report and they got a professional electrician in. Was all rewired back to the consumer unit properly avoiding all these bodged joints.

Been waiting for this all evening 😊

Thanks for the video guys I just had a kitchen fitted so I will be looking under my cupboards tomorrow for damn sure.

You will never stop those horrible cretins from posting toxic comments. So you must do everything in your power to keep posting your videos just to give them something to do in their sad lives.

At 15.00 you said it “ Not Competent”. There is no more to be said about people who just wing it, and attempt to carry out the work of other skilled trades without the proper training or time served experience. People need to know that they shouldn’t attempt work for which they are not competent, but where is the regulatory control to stop this insanity, so that customers know that they are employing competent trades people?

Made a decision about a year ago that once I finished school (I will be done school july 2022) that I want to be an electrician… came across your channel today and it’s just solidified that drive even more I cannot wait

@GasTraining

Жыл бұрын

How’s it going for you

Kitchen fitters look upon cooker circuits as sub mains for all kitchen electrics.

Nice Job Cory! Very clear and methodical. Which velocity bag are you using for testing by the way? Looks awesome 😁

Great vid 👍. The cheeky girls are now working in car sales I believe 🤣

Very interesting. Best tip is when fitting a new kitchen replan refit electrics. We got an electrician in when doing ours. Frankly it was cheap. He did a great job ( apart from one loose wire which I later found). Now I would get one in everytime. I dont enjoy fiddly stuff anymore.

That is absolutely shocking! Even the hob isn't fitted and sealed around the edges.

Great vid as always. Cory what model velocity bag is that? An organised bag to fit all my test gear in is what I’m after & that look perfect.

I had a Metrel first. NiMH batteries that lasted less than a day. Changed to a Fluke and I have to change the alkaline batteries once or twice a year

@Ragnar8504

2 жыл бұрын

I swapped my Metrel to AA alkalines pretty soon, they last reasonably long. Funny story behind the reason for the swap... I couldn't find the charger for months, until I found it - in the carrying case, just in a different compartment. By the time I found the charger again I'd lost one of the six NiMHs and decided to stick with alkalines.

Hope that breaker was saved to send off to Big Clive :)

@Peter_Vidgeon

2 жыл бұрын

My thoughts also.

I love your wit, makes a day that little brighter.

Wearing your overshoes outside 🤣 lost count if the amount of times I've done that lol

Love all the Bang & Olufsen equipment in this house! BL3500, Beo4 remote, BL5 and maybe an Avant 55 in the living room? have a similar setup myself :-)

"I'm not in Vietnam, I'm in Chelmsford" - back in the day closing time at Dukes nightclub made Chelmsford a warzone..

Love the banter thrown at nick bundy haha, as always great videos...

I have a Metrel tester (3125BT, not as fancy as yours!) and it gets through the first 3/4 of the battery in no time, but the last quarter lasts for ages. I *think* it might be that the battery gauge isn't set up for rechargeable batteries. It's difficult to describe as a good battery life, but I can get a couple of days out of it. Compared to my Seaward solar tester which I do a lot more testing with, that's run on the same set of AA batteries for over a year now and no sign of the low battery warning yet. Edit: oh, and the remote, what were they thinking?! I do like the test leads and various other bits about it.

As others have commented, the cooking load is no more than an old-fashioned stand-alone cooker, which, with diversity, is perfectly acceptable on a 32A breaker. Where there is a consumer unit on the end of a 13A fused spur, it is pointless, as there is no discrimination.

Absolutely amaizing video , thanks a lot mate.

I'd love to see Rueben and eFix get together for an apprentice special.

Great video, thanks and YES, I'd certainly be up for the suggested 'comment' one. As the comments are in the public domain, there should be no problem naming the comment-poster.

I would like that video you and Jordan reading out the good and bad comments also I love watching your videos keep up the fantastic videos

Great watching your attention to every detail .

Hey Cory , greetings from Romania. Nice video , you make fault finding fun and easy :). And to answer your question, the Cheeky girls are back in there home country Romania !

Fantastic insight into circuit testing 👏 and nice to see you’ve got a Ford transit as in one of the latest videos think your mate got sold a lemon with the all electric vw 🤔😎

overshoes outside , like the new fashion statement Cory. haha

Take the bond cable off the clamp and test for continuity and not just visually check,you never know if it was cut like the water bond. 👍

Insulating compound. I first saw it and used it when I worked in a shipyard.

Eneloop pro batteries all the way, the black ones. My meter came with the white ones which didn’t last very long. I’ve used the black ones for years in my photography, sound and video equipment and they’ve never let me down and go on forever. Tried them in my MFT and the difference is considerable.

Try using the Panasonic ENELOOP Pro batteries, they last forever. Even in winter.

@muzikman2008

2 жыл бұрын

Agree.. Great batteries 👍

@cultusgti

2 жыл бұрын

Get the IKEA white rechargeable batteries there better then eneloop and cheaper , check out big Clive's battery review and testing video

Thanks for the vids. And i hope you guys don’t go bankrupt. In fact i hope u guys go from strength. Stay safe. Take care

Can you guys do a video on the velocity 7.5 bag just recently bought one and would love to see how you load it out

Great videos! I am currently studying electrical installations...please can you help by explaining how you done the calculation @ 5:50 Thanks

Easy on the ads, same ad 5 times in 19mins!. Love your content, Cory is a great character.

@stevejagger8602

2 жыл бұрын

Use a vpn to relocate yourself outside of the rich zone. I get no ads apart from the start from where I live in Uganda.

@lawrencebrown2369

2 жыл бұрын

I too am getting tired of the millions of ads in every video! Great content 👍 spoiled by constant interruptions 😭

@Robert-cu9bm

2 жыл бұрын

KZread premium

@stevejagger8602

2 жыл бұрын

@@Robert-cu9bm money making off the backs of the poor for nothing

@JasperJanssen

2 жыл бұрын

The people running the channel have absolutely zero influence on the ads. They can’t say how many ads, which ads, or even whether there are ads. If they don’t monetize a video, that video still gets ads, just with no money to the channel. You’re complaining to the wrong people.

Really enjoyed this video.

Cory’s a fantastic electrician, absolutely fantastic 👌🏼

@conorjordan9029

Жыл бұрын

Is that your Cory. He's a know it all

@Cablesmith

Жыл бұрын

@@conorjordan9029 what?

I’ve had one of those breakers do exactly that to me. It’s normally the crappy cheap ones that do it, a spring slips out of place inside. Suppose it can just happen when they get old as well.

19:08 That bright yellow test lead on the MCB terminal looks interesting. Is it held captive by a magnet?

Always enjoy watching Cory, cracking engineer and his outlook is exactly the same as everyone of our engineers. A credit to the industry and Artisan. This must have been filmed just before the Daily Mail this week stated they're both working for Hyundai in York, not sure if they're singing to sell the cars though.

@terryhutchinson6503

2 жыл бұрын

Cory is not a qualified engineer.

@terryhutchinson6503

2 жыл бұрын

@Maxwell Boyne Terry Hutchinson Msc Bsc MIEE MIEEE HND (Mech Elec). No he isn't!

@terryhutchinson6503

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing how many people want to be a professional engineer but don't have the necessary qualifications. I did and was for 40 years, oh and please don't start talking about the university of life.

@TheFoxNes

2 жыл бұрын

@@terryhutchinson6503 You're the classic KZread engineer I recon. Sure sounds like one. And if you're not, probably about time to stop feeling insecure after 40+ years with the title.

@effervescence5664

2 жыл бұрын

@@terryhutchinson6503 Your comment has no bearing on comparing Cory to my own staff whom are all qualified engineers in multiple fields. Not to mention the qualification itself is recognized by C&G as engineering. Honestly you're coming across as someone who's pride is hurt by a 23 year old enjoying the industry and wanting to excel at it so has obviously 1; had a great instructor/mentor and 2; puts the effort in.

I was reading about a maximum length from the switch to cooker in the on site guide. The block being on the floor they imagine a bit of a water spill under there.

@timwoodhams958

2 жыл бұрын

Yup isolator has to be within 2 metres I believe

Why was the new circuit installed for the EV Charger when bonding wasn’t connected at the time of install? This should have been checked/rectified at the time of installation.

@Marco-mg9tv

2 жыл бұрын

“5 stars” for observation

Yes yes yes for a video going through the funny & salty comments.

I understand what u was saying about the cooker and hob both being on full Christmas

Non setting flue jointing compound is used to fill the gap between the gas pipework to the sleeve that goes out the rear of the gas box

Very entertaining.. thanks 😄

I like how through you are .I wish the standard was more like this here in the states.our inspectors are a joke here and most guys in the trades do some pretty substandard work .your standards are the same it sounds like as ours but ours aren’t as enforced .is a panel board allowed in a cabinet ? It’s illegal to do so here .Has to be accessible.36 inches of clearance for 120/240 and 42 for 277/480

Bonding,,,, yes well, I am retired but I still do that very boring job of PAT (Testing). In a Chip Shop Kitchen, I came across a 4 way extension cleverly lifted off the metal shelving to stop it getting wet. Great job on someone's part. However, on close inspection (outside of the remit on Pat (Testing), I spotted a Bonding cable had come adrift of its clamp and was hanging. This bonding joined Two prep area tables (stainless Steel). I informed the very friendly Manager who took a picture of it to report it to maintenance to fix. There is a very small chance that I may have saved someone from shock in the workplace. in addition, I was testing the appliances in a caravan, I tried to unplug the Kettle, but the plug was stuck in the socket, due to it not being plugged in properly, so the plastic on the pin and possibly the socket had melted. I failed the Kettle and made a reccommendation the owner replace the now faulty socket as well as the Kettle. I received a complaint that I was not supposed to be testing the sockets....!!

Great video, I love kitchen fitters hahaha. I no longer work with them as we always fall out with them! Yes please do an episode on the keyboard warriors so that I can compare them with mine!

Hi from Australia 🇦🇺 I’m an electrician and honestly I’m learning lots of things from you guys better than what I learned in school

@Robert-cu9bm

2 жыл бұрын

Australia uses a different electrical set up. Which is why Australia doesn't need fused plugs. UK is ring main, because after the war they were short of copper and it uses less.

Please can you guys do a video on the comments. It would be so funny. Cory would in tears of laughter so fast 🤣

Love your videos....Top Bloke.... Keep up the great work fella...😁😎👻🎃👍👊✌️🍻🏍️

Awesome video as always. Regarding the ovens there is no need for a separate circuit for the ovens as onsite guide states your allowed up to 15kw on a 30/32amp supply due to diversity (appendix H, H4 pg190). As you allow for the first 10amps then 30% of the remaining full load current in excess of 10amps + an additional 5amps if there is a socket on the cooker control unit (table A2 pg123). Therefore 12.5kw will actually draw approximately 28.5amps due to them being thermostatically controlled

@sirronnitram8937

2 жыл бұрын

Just as I was about to wire in another circuit, thanks

@travoltasbiplane1551

2 жыл бұрын

Some require 16a fuse protection though. 😉

@gd-bq7em

2 жыл бұрын

@@travoltasbiplane1551 this is true seen so many 16 amp ovens on 13 amp fuse and its melted it to bits. And when you read the manufacturers instructions it says protect by a 16 amp fuse and only have 32 amp supply with a electric hob lol nightmare 😆

@travoltasbiplane1551

2 жыл бұрын

@@gd-bq7em garage board in the adjacent cupboard. 🤣

@gd-bq7em

2 жыл бұрын

@@travoltasbiplane1551 ² Only thing dont like with the garage board is can be a lot of joints in front of the garage board like cooker switch and then maby cooker plate then garage board then another 16 amp switch. I have done one before when I removed cooker switch jointed the cables then into a 2 way board with a 32 amp mcb for hob and 16 amp mcb for oven with a 32 amp rcbo back at main fuse box

I’ve seen a cooker installed on 5amp 3 core flex when I was installing a washing machine

Check out E5’s podcasts on Earthing and Bonding, where they recommend current clamping the main earth on any TNC-S or TNS supply because of the possibility of unsuspected PEN conductor faults, and their latest on Regulation within the electrical industry.

Similar stuff used on the gas spigot but not the same - it's called Denso Mastic. I know because I've got them both on the van 👍

Metrel testers are awesome. Maybe the battery just needs renewing. My 3155 lasts a week without recharging. btw you’re becoming the 2nd best spark to watch after Tom 👍😂

The cheeky girls are living with me as my cleaners😆

Electrical detective work. Welcome to my world.

I just looked up the "cheeky girls" and now Im scarred for life.

The crazy thing is in Scotland they are pushing to license electricians yet its Kenny the Kitchen fitter and Billy the Bathroom fitter who mess up in the first place Why not police the Kitchen and Bathroom companies instead of punishing electrician for their cock ups

Depends on the ref method, but 2.5mm can usually handle 20 and 27A. So 40A for a ring should be okay in theory, unless you have to apply a derating factor for the potential for unbalanced load share between the legs of the ring.

You are very passionate about your job

Fairly sure the on site guide suggests 15kw of cooking appliances in a domestic setting is good on a 32a MCB. I tend to agree 👍

@cultusgti

2 жыл бұрын

Looks good from my bedroom window

I would love to see a video of Artisan electrics doing a project with Nick Bundy

Excellent as usual

I had to redo my cooker wiring recently to replace the 5kW hob and 3kW oven with a 4kW oven and a

@1over137

2 жыл бұрын

Of course dropping the breaker to 16A also covers the 2.5mm overload current.

Seen all this before ,a friend asked me to snag a kitchen fitters " electrics " 2 A4 sheets later I was finished ! Kitchen fitters answer its

@raychambers3646

2 жыл бұрын

Ps working!

I think I could listen to Cory recite the alphabet. Charisma incarnate. My wife thinks I have a bromance.

9:27 Have some kitchen salt too haha

Good job, well done.

the cheeky girls are now apparently working in hyundai car dealerships in yorkshire and lincolnshire. Love your videos look forward to many more x

the yellow and green wire on the copper pipe is there to stop the house from floating away. very important.

watched a number of your videos today, currently looking at starting the C&G lvl2 at the age of 42....Being currently full time employed in the newspaper industry on a pretty decent salary but conscious that it won't see me to retirement. In you opinion do you feel that this is a good route take? considering I will need to eventually take on the NVQ and will have to fit working with someone in with a full time (night shift) working pattern.

As you say, the diversity calculations are fine for 32a supply. I think it comes to 24a or so required for the circuit. [10a + 30% of the remainder].

@Lewdacris916

2 жыл бұрын

what if they are on at the same time though, wont that blow a 30Amp

@user-yw6qb9tt7t

2 жыл бұрын

@@Lewdacris916 if you look on the table on page 370 of the 18th edition (type B bs60898 mcbs) it says 52 amps (or whatever the hob oven load was without diversity) will never trip a 32amp breaker

Never throw out a good winter coat. Quote of the year! 😂😂😂

We had one, it was so bad the units had to come out and a complete rewire of the kitchen. Kitchen fitter had priced for an electrician but decided to do the wiring himself.

@Robert-cu9bm

2 жыл бұрын

I thought that the regs didn't allow for unqualified people to do electrics in kitchens and bathrooms.

Your welcome bud 👍 any time

@artisanelectrics

2 жыл бұрын

Where’s mine Nick?! 😭 Jordan

@NBundyElectrical

2 жыл бұрын

@@artisanelectrics there’s not enough room in your unit for 2 mate 😅😅

@artisanelectrics

2 жыл бұрын

@@NBundyElectrical 🤣🤣🤣

@mathman0101

2 жыл бұрын

@@NBundyElectrical hope you and your family are well Nick great to see banter between you both. Let’s hope we see a collaboration soon.

There are fewer sights more distressing than that of an Englishman in a baseball cap

@BestUserNameUK

2 жыл бұрын

Libertines👍🏼

Which Velocity bag do you have for your test gear?

I love my Velocity tester bag!

Yeah! like how not to repair an acrylic bath, it's not about the accidents, it's about how you cover it up and hope you get paid before it gets noticed. I think I heard the splitting of floor boards too, typical sparks ;))) there's a thing called a saw but I know you guys prefer a blunt bolster and fire wood.

Anyone have a link to the test lead with crocodile clamp and magnet?