I reckon most sparks would've told the customer: "Time for a full rewire!". Honestly, there's a point where it becomes more cost-effective to snip everything and start fresh and I suspect this pot of spaghetti is well past that. I love digging through messes like this but it's not something I could bill a customer for.

As a decorator I am often asked by customers to fix squeaking floorboards as an extra job. Much to their amusement I always lift the boards first, have seen too many horror stories with gas , water and electric being laid in joists. Never use nails only screws, some poor soul will one day thank me when it is lifted again.

Hi Chris the joys of a electricians life . Have to admit I had far easier to time in the industry working in the public sector, but can also relate to your world . Having done most aspects of this demanding of trades . This video is a prime example of the CRAP that the humble electrician will encounter in his or her career . Trust me even in the realms of three phase supply installations you will find Just as much rubbish . So to all you budding electricians watch and learn . Thank Chris and all your fellow utubers for promoting this key industry Kind regards Mike 👍

Great Video Chris, cleaners, removal men, carpet fitters,chippies and plasterers as well as electricians. James is one lucky guy having you showing him the ropes!

Add 3 part bonding 1 part cement goes off in about 6mins 😂👍🏻 save the waiting time 👍🏻👍🏻

I think you did really well in those difficult conditions good to see an electrician who cares and does it right

If there is ever a cable shortage, now we know why :b

"Why do it?" - pride. That's why. Not enough of it these days.

What's a ratchet? Same as a mouse shit - only BIGGER! (@ 5.53)

Thanks for sharing your work, good to see other industries. Can't beat funky socks!

My dad was an electrician. He once got housemaids knee and after that lesson learnt! Always had a kneeling pad or knee pads after that.

Client: "Can you look at this outlet for me?" CJR: *Does refactoring of the whole system by literally rebuilding the house* Good job -- cool video :)

You should of definitely put bundy10 conduit on the cable under the bath😂.... Good work as always 👍

Why the frick did they want a double socket between rad and the door 😬. Nice work anyway 👍

Here in the US, it’s against code to bury ANY junction box in a wall, floor or ceiling. This is why.

Great video,hard graft wiring house when it's fully furnished,I hate them sometimes you have to quote at higher price for all the messing around moving furniture around

That was a nightmare you deserve a grand for that work. I lose it when there’s that much furniture in a room anyway. You are so patient how dyu keep calm??

Please do wear shoes or boots to protect your feet but you can get over booties. Even domestically, you can hurt your feet.

You guys work hard for your paycheck. The codes are so different then in the USA. The buildings are very different our codes could not be met. Enjoy your videos and how hard you work. Thanks Leo.

Its good to see you’ve changed your view on using a cable socks over taping onto the rods😉

"Where all the magic happens" 😂 yeah, the box of tissues said it all

Great video Chris, James is a vey lucky guy : learning his trade with you , you a great way about you , On my first year as apprenticeship,we were sometimes beaten , and constantly shouted at . We hated our jobs. Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪

18:55 those old junction boxes must have been on special offer 😆😆😆

Good to see you are screwing the patresses to the brickwork in the correct manner. When my house was rewired, I later discovered that every patress was held by plaster alone. Needless to say this involved me in a load of extra work. The originals weren't properly flush either.

17:40 - those 2 socks do not, by any conventional definition, qualify as a pair.

Good call on not weakening those already deeply-notched joists by any further drilling. I reckon safeplates would have been a sensible addition though. Yes, the cables were in the center of the floorboard where no intrusion SHOULD happen, but one should reasonably cater for what MIGHT happen. IMHO.

With the cable sleeve/sock, reminds me of when I worked for BT. They had a much bigger version for pulling very large telecomms cables (diameter about the size of a man's arm) into external buried ductwork. Must have been a few tonnes of tension when pulling in long lengths, - but it worked ok.

That’s excellent work. You earned every penny, hope it was plenty...

This is so why I never did domestic electrical work, heavy industrial is much easier

For doing your filling try using a gaudeing trowel rather than a filling knife. Significantly easier and quicker.

Hey Chris where did you get the super rod tongue, i have the CK glow in dark one but i like the one your useing with the attachment keep on with the vids cheers

In All Honesty, I love Australia, pretty much all installs Out of large cities are so easy because the way Aussies houses are built, we have a wonderful space from the wall or brickwork to the plasterboard. No chasing out, Very easy to figure out plus a lot of aussie homes are hi set which means they are on top of supports high enough to walk under the house. Most also dont have cavity internal walls, just a single skin between rooms so we use a lot of conduit inside as well as out. I also love roof spaces, especially when installing home surveillance and security systems. The big downer is a Queensland summer ! Roof temperatures can go above 50celcius and when you have coveralls to protect against spider bites and scalding hot roof panels, its damn hot. I honestly dont miss chasing out brickwork for sockets and cable runs.. Cheers Chris for all you do, love the videos mate..

It's facinating how often I see you having to work around furniture that the owner could have moved before you showed up. It saves on damage, time for work, time for clean up etc. What's the issue...lazy, stupid, apathetic, or looking to sue for damaging their junk?

That fuse box is a mess 😮 I feel your pain ! 🤦‍♂️ personally I couldn’t leave a job like that , as I’ve found there’s some very scruffy people out there

I became an apprentice last week and have the same socks James had. It must be a pattern

Tracing out and tidying up crap like that is actually my favourite part of the work :D

Hi. I see. Good to know. Thanks for the info and quick reply. I enjoy your videos.

Hi Chris, top quality work as always, respect it you got a spare 20 could you do a video on safe isolation and locking off, let's get Michael Story out. Keep up the good work.

Put a conduit box lid over the cables on the joists

Keep up the great work and thanks for the awesome content stay safe and take care

A bit of a hornets nest there. Like you say, they don't teach that at the college. Good job👍

hi, can you share the link where you buy this red cable thong, i have one but there no attachments and i forced to fabricate them

should be a duty to report dodgy electricians work that way it weeds out the incompetent and two it improves the quality of work from those capable but not bothered. I say this because we are responsible for peoples lives. we are paid to provide a service but not at the expense of peoples safety anyone who disagrees can get in the bin. The fact anyone can bodge their own electrics endangers the occupiers. you can smell gas which is explosive. you cant sense by smell sight or sound conductors at a potential which could very well end someone's life. Hire competent electricians and check reviews to make sure like CJR and many others they have a good reputation with examples of their installations.

I'm sorry but this is the kind of content I love sitting here trying to work it out in my brain trying to guess what's what.

Not a bad job for a plumber! Great work Chris.

Didn't fully catch what is going on with the Wago XL box, you have 2 radials coming off I assume the main ring. I didn't think we were allowed to do two radials from one point?

WOW! None of that equipment would pass in the US. No matter how neatly it was installed. All junction boxes must be securely mounted, and cables stapled with UL approved cable staples within 6" of a box and every 6ft (unless they are fished through existing walls)All boxes must be accessible without removing any building surfaces, unless it is a clearly removable panel. All wires ruining through holes less than 3" from a stud surfaces, or through notches must be protected by metal "nail plates."

Do all British houses have hollow wood floors with tons of cable in?! At least that seems all I get to see in the various UK Electrician channels I'm following. That's completely unknown here on the mainland, at least in houses post war.

This looks to have become a massive job. Good effort here In regards to payment though, did you have a pre-agreed cost with the client, and asked permission to do further works? Or do you carry out the job and give them a cost on completion ? Cheers!

Tiger balm ideally the flying tiger balm version put it on knees it will help with blood flow and wear some knee pads. Use your adjustable seat.

Thank you for that labelling on the junction box (and cable?), if others would spend 20 seconds to get out a Sharpie then so much Miss Marple unravelling and deducing cold be reduced to a quick confirmatory test (of course we can't blindly trust such labels when found!)

I usually tape a container to the wall below the work spot with masking tape when drilling. It collects everything and nothing gets past the tape.

This video leaves me lost for words........17yrs in and still learning. The reason the industry has has become so deskilled is because dickheads think they can learn this in 3 weeks

Wow, that wiring mess is shocking, jb next to hot pipes oops. That house was close to need a complete rewire.

This video makes me feel sick domestic work is horrendous hope you had a good price in for that job I reali couldn’t have been bothered even taking that job on

I find it absurd that you spend all day working in your socks? What damage could shoes/boots possibly cause compared to removing carpet and floor boards?

Definitely a job to sort out the men from the boys well done mate got it sorted in the end

I'm wondering what you charged for all that - especially making good the previous bodger's work!

What a mess. Chris good job to sort it out, hard job

This is why i always keep a half bag of plaster bonding . You can do a quick fill and it will go off quickly allowing you to put a finish coat on and then finish job quickly. Or use some new plaster and add a bit of cement to make it go off quickly

A nice tricky job sorted 👍👍

Great video. Thanks for sharing. I see you like to use the wago boxes. Do you rate them and why use them rather than the correct amp.junction boxes etc? Love your videos. Good to see someone just get on with a job and not recommend a total rewire.

Hell fire for you but awesome learning experience for James

Open carpet gripper rods and socks - Never a good combo :-)

Lived in house re wires,,nightmares,suppose somebody has to do them!

I hate it when electrician's don't proviede a house wiring diagram (i.e. never), I create one when I renovate.

Morning I'll grant... Good I'll argue!!! There is NO SUCH THING AS A GOOD MORNING!!! There really should be a Law against Mornings starting before 1:00 PM ...

Would you not use the dual boxes with the single and double together. There great look far neater as well and less filling

I’d have said to the customer full rewire. But there may be reason why the customer won’t go for a rewire. Maybe don’t want to re-decorate and the fuss of it.

Chris James should be wearing pink socks 🧦 lol 😂 😂 😂 😂

Hi. I am an electrical engineer and I did a lot of electrical work like this since 11 years ago.....last 5 years in UK only. I have a question only....who is so stupid to cut the electrical cables in the back of the sockets an 5-max 8 cmonly as we find daily in UK electrical instalattions?! Did anybody think about the future test/maintenance/changes who occur on that socket?! If the electrician cut the cable from beginning to 5-8 cm only.....when you want to change the socket or future actions on that socket you will have no cable/wire left for fitting new/different kind of socket/switch.

Sorry Chris, only half agree with your comments at 19:38, you can suss that out after a 3 week course, obvs its nothing to do with the course, agree you do need something up there... I've come across this type of thing loads and have fixed just like you are, I'm pretty sure some of the mess I've seen was done by college trained sparkys who wanted to get in and out and make some £££s, its all about being conscientious. I reckon I have learned more from watching good sparks on KZfaq than I would on a 4 year apprenticeship, I've met some lads from both full college courses and the 3 week courses who I would never let near a screwdriver, its the same in any job, keep up the good work, watching your channel should be part of the college curriculum, I recently met a lad at the end of his 2nd year of college, light was not working, took him 5 minutes to change the bulb and then told me he didn't know what to do after that, his mentor arrived, fixed the fault and did nothing to explain or train the lad on what had been done, felt sorry for the kid.

It’s good you filled the holes. Had a plumber come out to fix a leak from the toilet overflow, so clean water. He smashed tiles but didn’t bother fixing it or even patching it up. I could’ve done a far better job.

3 cables in an MCB isn’t necessarily suspicious; spur at the CU is permitted subject to same rules as any other spur on a ring final. But in that house everything is suspicious 🤣

Did Steve Wonder fit the skirtings in that bedroom?

Lets see you chase out a stone wall in 27 seconds 😂 Bane of my life

A nice simple job can be royally shafted by multiple junction boxes to arse around with.

Under the bathtub? I don't like that one.

What’s general consensus on writing on cables to label. Doesn’t seem to happen very often. Is it time thing, or is there argument the ink will damage the sheathing? Personally I label them for my own sanity..

Good video, but it’s really stressing me out that you are working in just your socks.. 🤦‍♂️ Where’s your safety boots!! 😂

What a fecking nightmare! Do you get toners like the ones you get for network cables for mains cabling so that you can use the sniffer probe to find random cables, that would save a load of time.

Hi, been there and as you rightly say you can't really train an apprentice the skills required to deal with the nightmare you had to contend with overnight. I have also had in a similar situation where the person with you is unable to work on for genuine reasons which is not an easy thing to explain that you have to be very flexible in more ways than one in this type of trade to a trainee. Keep up the good work and stay safe.

Hi does anyone know of a sparky looking for a labourer near Newark or north Grantham, currently putting myself through a night course in lvl2 electrical installations and have worked on site for a year as a flat roofers labourer before now being on an estates maintenance team. (boring AF) Many thanks

Great video. I'm wondering. I'm 36, about to start my L2 in September in college. Would you say a quick course is good or crap instead of 3/4 years in college. I want to be a domestic electrician.

I hate joint boxes under the floors!

Great vid. Thanks.

Just asking - if you’d drilled through the wall towards bathroom at an angle below first socket (just above skirting), wouldn’t you be in the same floor run void? This would have saved you going in the bathroom at all.

Hi Chris i use a multi tool to cut the wall as far in as I can then chase it. It makes it neater. Why don't you use one ?

Not wearing shoes ? I would be afraid of getting a nail in my foot.

The James Corden of electrics

What a headache. Great job

There was a time when seeing crap like that would get to me, because nobody is interested, governing bodies, building control etc don't care, despite what they say publicly, then I thought why should I worry, there is one good thing that comes out of this, it provides work for the ones who do try to do the right thing. Your right you need to at least put a first coat on to second fix, and it takes no time.

How much is VAT ? We have GST goods and Service Tax here in New Zealand, basically the same sort of thing. Here it is 15% and if you are the end seller so to speak, you can apply for it to be returned in your annual tax return. But not the customer unless they are a business.

Must be so frustrating fault finding that when really you just want the client to move out for a week along with all his belongings and just rip it out and start again

Was that 25mm or 35mm boxes ?

Love this guy he’s such a pro

I’ve never actually used a scutch chisel, are they much better than a normal SDS chisel ? also, the heavy guage box lids are good for putting over cables that are notched into joists if you ever need to do it

how you at 108 ohms on r1 r2 ?

Nice one Chris 👍

Hiya just thinking shouldn't you pull floors so you can see that you are clear of joists 🥴