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Loved being a sparky in the 80s..sadly the army turned me into a mechanic, then hydraulic fitter.. really miss being a spark- happy days! trained to the 15th edition lol. Respect to the modern day electricians !

I must say I do agree with johns comment about commercial sparks looking down their noses at domestic sparks. I’ve worked a lot in both sectors and I must say domestic offers up a whole different set of challenges that you will never come across in commercial or industrial work. Great work guys 👌🏻👌🏻 also he said about putting the carpet grippers in window sill 👌🏻 top tips from me aswell, if it’s a furnished room take a photo before you start so everything goes back how you found it and number all your floor boards so you know where they go back to 👌🏻 great work team artisan

@Ahmedsunz

4 ай бұрын

Would you recommend domestic or commercial and where to strat commercial journey from if so ?

@theowebsterelectricalservices

4 ай бұрын

@@Ahmedsunz i would recommend both ! As they both will provide you with different skills and knowledge. If your going self employed don’t expect to just get a lot of commercial work it takes time to build up that client base along with a good reputation

CU looked amazing Luke. Nice one

im impressed it didn't take 3 weeks again 😅

@artisanelectrics

Жыл бұрын

Do I know you?

@waynelofts7864

Жыл бұрын

How come you only use 2 blades in the hilti Chaser and not 3?

@stupot_64

Жыл бұрын

@Gabriel jackson Mrs Jessica Liam killed my dog and made a stew with him. Do not deal with her.

@anthonycampbell9807

Жыл бұрын

You need a disc on your wall chaser like Nicks, that’s a game changer.

@marksimpson3035

Жыл бұрын

Not 3 weeks , took them a month 😯

Cracking video. Very good details on each aspect mentioned.

Love your work lads - greetings from Ireland. Worked in industrial maintenance myself. My good hint as regards floorboards - set the circular saw depth using a piece of sample floorboard to just below the bottom of the tongue itself - not the bottom of the board. That way, there is still a margin of error of approx 4 - 5 mm and you still get to cut off the tongue without going all the way to the bottom of the board itself and possibly nicking other pipes or services. Worked for me every time. Would love to have served an apprenticeship with ye if I was starting out over again.

I always mark across the floor boards with my black sharpie saves time when your trying to find them to put back down

Great video as always. It would have been great to see in more detail how you deal with the existing cables and how you secure them in the chases

Great video! Nice to see some rewire work.. didn’t know you guys like to get dirty tho 😂 You definitely need to invest in a Metabo triple blade chaser

good Video John Lee and Luke team work the Artisan way

Great video lads

Oooo, I love factory tours. When I was doing my EE back in the '90s, we had a tour of Drax and Hartlepool Nuclear. :)

I once managed to short out two phases on a 35 amp supply, the bus bar of one phase poked through the insulation of another phase conductor. These days DIN rail boards have fully insulated 3-phase bus bars but that was an 80s board that I was just jiggling around. When I was done I screwed in the main fuses at the meter, measured voltage at the board, all fine. No IR testing because it was my own place and late in the evening and everything, you know how you get negligent sometimes. Turned on the RCD in the outbuilding and measured again, everything dead. The short had blown two main fuses (D02 Neozed bottle fuses) without any bang or even a fizzle. Luckily I had spare fuses so crisis averted. I'm still surprised the whole event was so quiet! Usually even an L-N short on a final circuit results in quite a bang.

Great floorboard work

really nice work .....

Can use fire rated board to mount CU too, makes sense if your trying to maintain safety !

Don't worry, everyone makes mistakes that result in a big bang at sometime, it's a steep learning curve and you won't do it twice. Looking on the bright side, when you accidentally connect 3 phase into a board that's linked out for single phase supply the several thousand amps fault current means the fault is cleared nice and quickly by the supply side fuses.

Love the channel boys, do you ever wire for low voltage points like bt/data etc?

Wish my board looked as neat at that - nice job !

What protection glasses are you using guys? Looks good and has side protection as well

Really good tip I robbed off someone the other week if you put a screw in the little hole on a wood saw you can use the magnet on the laser level and slide it up and down. It’s actually a game changer 😂

@intelectnw

Жыл бұрын

👏👏👏👏 genius!!

Back in the 80s we used a lump hammer and boaster chisel to lift floor boards :)

@lotuselise4432

Жыл бұрын

I used to also have a floorboard saw with the curved/rounded end if they needed to be cut.

@andmacmac6899

Жыл бұрын

L i l noo iki mloll m ll o l l l l o olkl lolo loiok. N@@lotuselise4432 of our lo lip look l lip nnnn

I would like to see more footage on how you feed/fish cable behind walls and ceilings etc please!

@artisanelectrics

Жыл бұрын

Noted!

You need to buy a Faithful Nail Puller. Makes easy work of floorboard nails. I drill a 6mm hole either side of a nail so I don’t have to hammer the nail puller in too much.

@Simon350S

Жыл бұрын

Never seen one of those…. Added to my new tools list 😍

We always use doncaster cables, best cable by a mile nobody comes close.

@artisanelectrics

Жыл бұрын

It’s amazing 🤩

@TheChipmunk2008

Жыл бұрын

With us for power, it's either Doncaster or Prysmian... for Cat6 and stuff it's Doncaster

Put some insulation tape on the back of those coach light pins, It'll stop them pushing back whilst you fix it.

@adamsmithelec

Жыл бұрын

I do this now after once losing a pin down a drain in garden I was working!

@markpotter8280

10 ай бұрын

@@adamsmithelec my experience on coach lights is make sure the pins are flush with the brick and not in the mortar line, that being said if your lucky enough to mounting them on a flat brick wall

Hi, thanks for this. My house needs a full rewire which I'm happy to get done. But i need to save up for about 6 months before I do any other works inc plastering. After a house rewire, is it still liveable ? I'd get rid of all the dust and mess the electricians have made, but I'm wondering for the next 6 months, would it still be dusty? I don't mind the holes in the walls etc

"Opening this box is just making me want to get a pizza tonight..." 😂😂

Lads I hope your treating Luke to another few burgers, Fair play Luke that's a neat tidy board 👊nice job😃👍

@richnorman7325

Жыл бұрын

5 hours though...

What is the cordless screwdriver your using in this video ? please

What clips do you use to hold the conduit in the cases?

In Germany we place the switches at 105-110cm and the sockets at 30cm above the floor. Interesting to see that you use 120/45cm these heights were often used in Germany untill the 1960s.

@WestSideConnection5

Жыл бұрын

In belgium 110 center for a switch and 25 center for an outlet. But this is not a written rule

Seems to be johns way or no way… patterns emerging over a few weeks

@hb4782

Жыл бұрын

What a bitchy comment 😂Not really he seems pretty chill. Nothing wrong with taking a bit of charge. Prob what he’s instructed and paid to do.

All this stone looks like a nightmare. Makes me happy that we more often than not timber frame here in the US.

It's definitely best practice, though is it mandatory? Please share the BS7671 regulation that requires fire grommets for consumer unit cable holes? Or maybe Manufacturers instructions?

Edeting is NOICE 🎉

450 and 1200 are for new builds to adhere to building regs that cater for disabled living. When conducting a rewire, the client can have the heights they want as long as its practical. Personally……350 to the bottom of sockets and 1300 to the bottom of switches is the sweet spot for most of my clients.

@gadgetman36

Жыл бұрын

350 is too low for sockets. People shouldn't need to get on their hands and knees. 450 is the normal height for sockets. For disabled living sockets need to be much higher, I'd say 900.

@Spark101.

Жыл бұрын

@@gadgetman36 You’re wrong

@fredkeogh9035

Жыл бұрын

I was interested lifting the floorboards and yes the worry of hitting pipes etc, nothing changes on that score ‘

I'd like to see a video on how you go about pricing a job like this, considering you have 4 lads on it including Reuben and alot of materials (all cable) supplied FOC for "sponsorship". Do you charge for the material, do you charge for the extra time to film etc?

Can you also do a video on how you rewire wet rooms - bathrooms and kitchen? thanks

Why didn't you ask the customer what height they wanted them.

What’s these metal pencils with a green end I keep seeing everywhere and where do I get them from??

@hb4782

Жыл бұрын

Tracer

May i ask how much a rewiring like this will cost?

I only did house bashing for the extra cash, for friends or my own house, stuff shifting furniture around and lifting carpets up, I mainly did commercial/industrial installs, 20 years old making off PYRO ends on a balcony in the snow at the V+A museum, brrrrrrrrr.

Great video guys - as always. The electrical structure of domestic houses in Britain makes me frustrated. And that you need to chase for every electrical outlet and switch - when doing a rewire - or fixing a damaged cable etc. Anyone know if they are going to make rules & regs so when installing a "hidden" cable (in wall, loft etc) you should be able to repull the wire witout opening floorboards or chasing down walls? Spark from Stockholm, Sweden

@quinnbattaglia5189

Жыл бұрын

It's bizarre watching these videos as an american, our way has its own quirks but at least we can fish cables through walls.

Жыл бұрын

In Germany often times plastic pipes are put into the walls, the floor and the ceiling. There are sometimes hidden trunks called a "Kabelkamin" there you can can switch between floors. In our house there is one big trunkin the wall from the consumer unit up to the roof and the cables branch off into the walls and ceilings. So this feels like a heck lot of work.

@carlmarquardt994

6 ай бұрын

They dont bother thinking ahead for future

Hi A.E ...what cu are using ...

Switch with lots of cables here…. 5 😂😂

Every found treasure under the already lifted boards?

There seems to be some conflicts with guidance to heights with some giving centre's. 150, 450 and 1200.

@danbobnix

Жыл бұрын

Always refer to building regs part M. Gives the acceptable mounting height of accessories between 450mm - 1200mm. I'd always go 450 bottom, 1200 top based on this.

i didn't see that fancy marking out gadget that lee used to swear by when marking out boxes...has it been superseded by new fangled tech then?

Love your work lads always nice and neath but any chance you could give the customer a decent door light. That 1940s yolk ya have them is a joke. Even a can uo down light .

A shower in the bedroom. I've known a hotel that had that feature, but that was ages ago.

The DeWalt laser owns that Hilti box right now..... Doesn't accessibility come in to play with a rewire? New builds are one thing but a rewire you aren't really matching in to existing like you would for say a few additional outlets.

Sockets downstairs 450 ? upstairs not 450 ?

Think it’s 3m from a shower cubicle and for the irrelevant 450mm new build height I was always told it was centre measure. Keep up the work guys.

@TeamSimpsonRacing

Жыл бұрын

Recently changed to 2.5M in the regs. 450mm is the bottom of a socket outlet

The apprentice missed out on a lot of education with this one. These are the perfect jobs to bring them on with

@artisanelectrics

Жыл бұрын

Reuben was there we just didn’t film those days 👍🏻

@andrewdobson3518

Жыл бұрын

@@artisanelectrics ahh that’s good news, I know I got a lot of my experience from those rewire days. I wasn’t trolling. I just thought he’d not ended up going there

I'll always let the customer choose the height of the new sockets and switches. Not all customers like the new heights and I'd never make that decision without consulting them

@Simon350S

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely, was going to comment the same 👍

@sebperrin9797

Жыл бұрын

I still think it should be installed to the new regs anyway?

@will151989

11 ай бұрын

Not in an existing property@@sebperrin9797

@wil172921

10 ай бұрын

New regs have standard heights for a reason. Build to the latest spec no issues then.

@shumble69

7 ай бұрын

These height regs are only for new builds not existing properties.

wonder how much you charged for this job ??

Would be interested to see how much that cost and how long it’s taking, 3 of you on site in such a small house , did it really need a full re wire .

@crabmansteve6844

Жыл бұрын

"Buy once, cry once." Now the homeowner has complete piece of mind about the entirety of the electrical system in their home. It's fully modernized now.

@markbriggs6786

Жыл бұрын

@@crabmansteve6844 yes but was it necessary I see this all the time rewires up sold when the system is sound and safe and all it needs is a slight up grade , the regs are used as leverage ,I agree if it’s fully necessary and it’s un safe then re wire it .

I can't believe you are still wall chasing with 2 blades and a chisel bit in an SDS. Talk about doing it the dusty, hard, slow way. It's about time Jordan bought you guys a Metabo 3 blade wall chaser and dust extraction kit (or blag one free from Metabo like Nick did).

@rogerbean393

Жыл бұрын

Just stick a 3rd grinding wheel between the spacer and the other 2,wheels then Just use a brink hammer so much quicker . They will be for weeks !

Isn’t one of the things that you shouldn’t do is put the CU under the stairs now because it is a potential fire escape?

@r3co0

Жыл бұрын

No, that's for a plastic consumer unit. No fire risk for a metal cu.

Talk about to many cooks this is a perfect example having only one in charge.

Surely after paying for a few man weeks of spark effort, the customer would replace that old underlay and carpet!!

Luke... them fire grommets. You don't cut them Criss-Cross style! You push the cable/s through to help maintain their actual use as a seal. 5 hours in your cupboard eh... and how many more on actual tartting it up. 😉

Rewires are stressful enough cany imagine filming it all

@thereal1006

10 ай бұрын

stressful lol i love getting stuck into a nice rewire

We just put a quote for rewire of a 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom house and a future extension for 8K euros in Dublin! Ppl were outrageous!? Plenty of extra sckts, switches, new 2x 10mm showers, new main, iso switches, new panel, etc... All solid walls!!! Good luck if thay can find a spark to do it under our price!

@hks-lion

Жыл бұрын

Out of interest, roughly how many hours of work would that be?

@richardwalsh5882

Жыл бұрын

Sounds far too cheap to me. I'd charge more than that in Donegal.

@lukagrloci78

Жыл бұрын

@@hks-lion about 6-8 days for two of us! Lets say around 50x2 working hours!

@hks-lion

Жыл бұрын

@@lukagrloci78 fair I think €8K is a decent price

@lansdorf

Жыл бұрын

People expect rewires to be priced at 30 year old prices. I've just finished a rewire and when I've brock it down I've done it for £22p hour and it was a first class job and perfectly plastered up . Never again, from now on I'm doubling that rate and if they dont like it then get someone else.

This channel just basically shows diy Dave a full on instructional video of how to re wire your house. And then they’re amazed at some of the shoddy work they come across. With in depth videos your publishing you may come a cropper for liability some day

Now try to do all this in een concrete house..Like they are in the Netherlands.

Im interested to know if youve done the rewire for a lower rate as doncaster cables supplied the cable?

@hb4782

Жыл бұрын

Doubt it as it probably cost them more in filming/doing things as neatly/expensively as they were.

@SuPrAmAd101

Жыл бұрын

@@hb4782 yeah but they also get revenue from the video which i doubt gets passed onto customers, but you cant charge for materials if they were “supplied” especially as part of an advertisement

@hb4782

Жыл бұрын

@@SuPrAmAd101 fair point

Hey Nick Bundy how much do you think Jordan charged for this. Lol

John, stop trying to hide your new gut. Embrace it brother. Lots of money went into growing it 🤣

you guys need nick bundy lol

the young lad talking about installing a there phase fuse board while the link kit was still fitted and energising it is pretty fucking scary tbh. the fuck was he doing it unsupervised in the first place is the question??

21:22 Those leads (10mm² brown blue) are totally not up to code in our country. Can't have those leads exposed. Needs to be inside a flex or insulated (xgb we call it) when outside a junction box or lead pannel. Actually a big nono! Imagine nicking those (in our country 230V/ 40A)....

Boys…how much does an average rewire cost? There’s such a variation in quotes how are you supposed to know who to go with. I have a vacant small 3 bed terraced and was just quoted £7k plus vat even though all the carpets will be up and rooms empty. Hard to stay compliant when it’s unaffordable to the average person.

Measuring from skirts 🤨 1:55

@damothirlwall8699

Жыл бұрын

Noticed that too mate. What’s going on there.

@ryanstevens2457

Жыл бұрын

@@damothirlwall8699 seriously unprofessional

A neat job but extremely toxic on the lungs! I don’t think a torque driver was used on the board, This is key to avoid arcing or damaging cables . Usually theres a torque label in the board.

Todays hidden word is ‘agitate’ 😂

@artisanelectrics

Жыл бұрын

😅

Miss Corey just want him back 😪

@Simon350S

Жыл бұрын

I’m sure you already are, but if not, go watch his new channel, it’s ace 👍

We love Artisan but they really shouldn't do rewires. It's going to be another 4week rewire judging by John taking up those boards like he's on Time Team. (with 2 blokes watching lol) - ear defenders on whilst taking up lung destroying 60yr old underlay - missing middle wheel in Hilti which would've churned up the rubble and center piece of plaster - and finally haha, always always always get the customer to determine positions and heights, give them a sharpie and follow them round on day one obviously advising where needed. Imagine doing all that and handing the keys back for the customer to say 'why have you done those sockets / switches that height ?' Easy to pick faults in others work just hoping it helps on the next one... you guys do amazing work in other areas that is top tier - keep it up !

A shower in the bedroom. Are you rewiring a brothel?

I don’t think I could do a rewire especially when you’re doing the wiring part and you got someone recording you. I just want to get in and get gone.

TH1AB

The hight of sockets is 450 mm from the floor to the centre of the socket ....

@glasgowrewires

Жыл бұрын

450 to bottom… always

John digging people out for not cutting boards on the joist! Hypocrite 👍

If you were worried about hitting a water pipe could you not just use a metal detector

I've been doing rewires on average 5 a week for the past 20+ years. This was painful to watch

@markstewart7559

10 ай бұрын

So one rewire per day?

that' chase down to the 3gang switch at the front door looked awful guys.. this video shows a lack of experience from this group. re wires are never easy but you guys could deffo benefit from having a old head in the group leading the way, even noticed you hadn't bent the top and bottom lugs back on the single boxes before plastering them in. also 5 hours to mount and second fix a easy fuse board like that is crazy

You can't put sockets where you like on rewires. Yes you don't have to put them 450mm to the bottom but you can't make them less accessible than they already were.

@Heathen.Deity.

Жыл бұрын

Indeed. Don’t have to improve, but you can’t make it worse than before you started (relevant to Part M in this case).

Rip off merchants 😂

Dont like Doncaster cable its always twisted towards the end of the coils.

Runinig bare cables even if its flat twin & earth, it's not upto code with our standard. Insulated either conduit or trunking depending on the type of installation.

@THECALLOF241

Жыл бұрын

No requirement for it in the uk

@xxhardnutsxx

Жыл бұрын

we can if its on an rcd, or if can touch would use trunking ect for addition mechanical protection

@persona250

Жыл бұрын

@@xxhardnutsxx all lights and socket outlets in a domestic property require RCD protection regardless of installation method .

@TheChipmunk2008

Жыл бұрын

Clipped Direct is an acceptable method of installation (reference method C). Almost never used in occupied structures now due to appearance, except in roof spaces etc. But VERY common in sheds/etc.

@xxhardnutsxx

Жыл бұрын

@@persona250 yh my bad lol, meant when or because it on rcd and would use trunking for apperance, time for bed Im waffeling

Such high quality standards in the UK yet the earth "CPC" still isn't insulated for the complete legnth.

@williammartinculleton5875

Жыл бұрын

We in The Irish Republic only use all insulated conductors throughout their length too, and NO ring final circuits ☘️

@zoltrix7779

Жыл бұрын

@@williammartinculleton5875 Same as Australia, we also have a 2.5mm2 earth in 2.5mm2 cable, however, C curve breakers are the norm.

@JorgeAMG187

Жыл бұрын

@@zoltrix7779 C curve seems kinda High for a normal household. B should be the standard really

@AndrewStrydomBRP

Жыл бұрын

That's actually a good thing, it means it is more likely to hit the neutral or live and trip the circuit instead of staying live when/if the cable is damaged.

@zoltrix7779

Жыл бұрын

@@JorgeAMG187 Well, thats the way it is. You can't even buy a B-curve breaker for the most part in Australia. It's pretty irrelevant if you fault loop is within spec for a C-curve.

I don’t understand why you UK sparks don’t just cut the ceiling plaster to run cables in a multi storey and just get it patched and painted afterwards at the clients expense. Surely better than all this lifting carpets and floorboards, far too much screwing around

@hks-lion

Жыл бұрын

My guess is there’s not enough plasterers around, would take weeks or months to get them in.

@lotuselise4432

Жыл бұрын

The still would have to cut the joists and if its an older house with a wood lathe ceiling then you don't won't to start cutting runs in them.

This rewiring would be so much easier with KNX & DALI, but I guess nobody wants to pay the premium for digital electrics.

Painful to watch ! All that dust and no masks , glad it’s your lungs !

What a pity your customer didn't have you run ethernet at the same time.

@hb4782

Жыл бұрын

Have you not heard of wifi?

@QuentinStephens

Жыл бұрын

@@hb4782 Yes. Wifi sucks compared with wired ethernet. Wifi has real bandwidth problems when multiple people are using it. Wifi has real problems with certain types of walls. Signal attenuation is a thing with wifi but not with wired - as long as you are within spec. Wifi has real problems with security. Random passers-by cannot hack a wired ethernet link. And get back to me when wifi can do 10 Gbps and 25 Gbps.

Switch with lots of cables here…. 5 😂😂

Switch with lots of cables here…. 5 😂😂