"This Is A Joke" | Awful Electrical Work, Earthing Issues & Landlord Dilemma's

"This Is A Joke" | Awful Electrical Work, Earthing Issues & Landlord Dilemma's | Electrician's Vlog

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The Delroy The Spark Live Event Ticket Link:
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Eastway Electrical and Schneider Electric presents: The Delroy The Spark Live Event.
Join Delroy for an evening of electrical entertainment and discussion.
What the night will include:
• A screening of a special feature length episode of Delroy’s Eastway Electrical Vlog
• A screening of Delroy’s electrical biography
• A live Q&A with Delroy himself
• Giveaway’s courtesy of our fantastic partners Schneider Electric
About the feature length episode:
Delroy was called to do a straightforward EICR and some fault-finding for a property in East London. He carried out the EICR and fault finding and made the decision that some partial rewiring would solve the customers issues.
As Delroy began working on the installation; he discovered some of the worst electrical work he has seen in nearly 50 years in the trade. The episode, that’s is over an hour long, documents the discovery and rectification of some shocking electrical work.
Biography Screening
Delroy started out in the electrical trade in 1972 as an apprentice. Since then he has worked 1000’s of properties in London. On the night you will see an exclusive bio screening showcasing the story of Delroy’s career. You will see some of the buildings he worked on during the 1970s and 1980s and much more.
Event Details
Date: Sunday 14 November 2021
Time: 6PM - 9PM
Location: Cineworld West India Quay

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@ItzD3fW1sH 2 жыл бұрын

The fact they want to rent this out but aren't really grasping the gravity of the responsibility they should have being a landlord is scary and shows what's wrong with the landlord industry.

@eccotom1 2 жыл бұрын

Mao was right about landlordism

@ADF-js9vi 2 жыл бұрын

'I want you to do the work, but don't damage the tiles'. One to walk away from. 😌

@danielconlon2388 2 жыл бұрын

Shes looking for a cheaper way out. Some people don't see the dangers as "it was all fine last week"

@drpantastic1969 2 жыл бұрын

Ain't that the truth

@christopliss9947 2 жыл бұрын

Delroy has such a soothing voice, he would make telling someone their wiring needed ripping out almost a joy 😊😊

@Horsecockbadger Жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha thats true

@SkavenUK Жыл бұрын

Delroy: I need to take your car, house and any other money you have. Me: Oh Certainly sir.

@Elvis_TheKing 2 жыл бұрын

Oh my DAYS, Del. Lyn needs to wake up and understand that gaff needs a complete re-wire. Everything you looked behind had been bodged to high heaven... can you imagine what horrors are lurking behind the sockets, switches and light fittings you didn’t look behind? 🙈🤭😧 As you explained to her, it makes no sense at all to skip the EICR. I suspect she knows it is a house of horrors and doesn’t want to face the fact that the gaff needs a re-wire. Still, she’s gonna need that EICR before the tenants move in, so it’s incoming. Must have been one hell of a frustrating job. I can understand not wanting to damage tiles if they were new/tasteful... however, those things had 1985 written all over them 🙄 You have the patience of a Saint. Great video Delroy - keep up the excellent work 👍🏼

@alangriffiths8401 2 жыл бұрын

Good video again - Whoever skimmed the ceiling in that hallway couldn't be bothered to remove the light fitting to plaster it seems = okay, until you need to change or permanently remove the fitting.

@ClaymorePlumbing 2 жыл бұрын

It takes a special tradesman to tackle council house properties in London, every time I get a callout to one I know I have to allow myself an additional few hours because of the shit show I'm going to walk into lol

@joepostle3561 Жыл бұрын

Another quality video. Great explains, very through and patient both with the diagnostic and the customer.

@Elvis_TheKing 2 жыл бұрын

Delroy. You need to audition for the next James Bond. I’ll be most disappointed if you don’t!! “007 (volts). Licence to Chill!”

@shakyblues2099 2 жыл бұрын

Such great viewing. Really enjoy your content. You have a great way of describing and explaining things. Thanks. Keep it up.

@ianc8814 2 жыл бұрын

Mr. Delroy, I'm loving the channel, which I only found yesterday. It wasn't in this video, but the one where you had the trouble with the lugs in the drywall boxes was brilliant. I thought it was just me who had that stuff happen to them🤣

@michaelmurphy2330 7 ай бұрын

I love watching Del's videos, he's so calm and chilled out too, I'm fascinated by electrical things..

@busman2000 2 жыл бұрын

Del you deserve a knighthood, for the level of your patience and tolerance. ( You always appear to inherit the botch up jobs from the past) It's some times like watching " Dr Who ". Like you're caught up in a temporal causality loop and can't escape. It's not fair for such a nice guy like yourself. All power to you. Take care (Nul Coppularo illegitimo carborundum). I'll e-mail the translation if you want. Keep safe.

@chas3997 2 жыл бұрын

Client doesn’t realise the risk with poor earth and metal clad fittings I had the same. Old council flat using conduit as the earth🤬 degrading slowly over the years.

@sparksparkman8419 2 жыл бұрын

Exellent video delroy , great for apprentices ! What combination pliers do you use ?

@001Neal100 2 жыл бұрын

Generous amounts of Talc will help slide the singles through the conduit. I quite enjoyed that challenge.

@mikeZL3XD7029 2 жыл бұрын

Baby powder went out in the 90's, we all use gel-based pulling lube these days, it is gentler on the insulation.

@darkdepth1991 2 жыл бұрын

Oh my days XD XD, keep up the content Delroy. I like the creativity how you make installations safe again.

@wizard3z868 2 жыл бұрын

The reason why most of us decent sparks(in North america) run an extra earth conductor inside of our conduit runs in case of a break in earth continuity you don't run into these problems lol

@scottsparky1 2 жыл бұрын

We do now. That would of been done 50 years ago and it's been changed about since then. The conduit would of been a good earth when it was installed

@havoctrousers 2 жыл бұрын

@@scottsparky1 it probably still is, as long as you actually connect your back boxes to it!

@oneloveinus 10 ай бұрын

17:57 Another person vanishes into oblivion

@henryeadie7972 2 жыл бұрын

How do they expect to get a satisfactory EICR if they want to rent this place out? 😧

@steverobinson8170 2 жыл бұрын

Easy £60.00 stick limitations everywhere just fill in figures that give it a pass and away they go usually all done and dusted within the hour

@provis7706 2 жыл бұрын

@@steverobinson8170 well your a cowboy aren’t ya

@steverobinson8170 2 жыл бұрын

@@provis7706 I never said i do this, this is a service widely available usually targeted at Landlords by letting agents . As long as the landlords got his or her bit of paper they don't care without it they can't let the property. If anything goes wrong and a tenants hurt , if it goes to court just waves his / her little piece of paper well i had it safety checked and it passed im not a proffesional , by then bill and bens electrical service has long gone

@Mainly_Electrical 9 ай бұрын

@@steverobinson8170very true

@hammerfan188 2 жыл бұрын

Good video delroy looking forward to meeting you in November.

@thebarneyj 2 жыл бұрын

Did you interlink the smokes wirelessly using the rf modules del?

@MrSeananners12345 2 жыл бұрын

Unless you have an electrical background or some sort of knowledge people have no idea about why metal switches need to be earthed properly etc. I was the same until I started learning. People will assume you’re trying to rip them off and they’ll look for the cheapest way out of it. Can’t blame them for looking for a cheap way as nobody as an unlimited bank.

@benjohnston8665 2 жыл бұрын

You're amazing bro i would love to be an apprentice for you!

@mikeZL3XD7029 2 жыл бұрын

Delroy, "The estate agent is going to get "someone" to test this out. I totally agree with you, in that you get an EICR done first before you even have work done. And I come from New Zealand. That sort of work that you came across in that job, should never have happened in the first place, that is really piss-poor electrical work, if you could even call it electrical work.

@LeeKirkman88 2 жыл бұрын

Good Honest Man. Reputation is everything.

@sil8127 Жыл бұрын

It would be so easy to say ‘you NEED to do this or else’. They they might say no, re-bodge it and not get the work done and live in a death trap. Your method gives them control but encourages the right decision

@slimski 2 жыл бұрын

That’s handy that ceiling rose adapter box thanks

@alanwalton5735 9 ай бұрын

It's about time that we all walked away. Informed the local council and DOE. Only problem is that cowboys and DIYers would come along.

@bigsteve6729 2 жыл бұрын

Some people do not give a sh*t. Madness

@waynehenson1094 Жыл бұрын

My cousin married a guy that screws up people electric and I told him to stop touching electric work. I also told him to never call me to fix his screw up. Now he calls my brother (licensed plumber) to fix his plumbing screwups. He's a piece of work.

@drpantastic1969 2 жыл бұрын

Customers hate hearing the realities but that it ain't a simple job and will try their other electrician to confirm or ignore good advice

@mohammadalrasho5025 2 жыл бұрын

Good job keep up

@stephenconnell 2 жыл бұрын

Lack of care for peopled safety is stunning!! Inspectors wearing dark gasses when initial electrical install was done. Thank God for Delroy .

@petermichaelgreen 2 жыл бұрын

I strongly suspect when the install was first done it was done to what were accepted standards at the time. Even today systems which use the conduit as earth are still allowed by BS7671. The problem comes when people start messing with it. Because the earth isn't a wire non-electricians either don't realize it's there or don't know how to maintain it. So you end up with missing earths when DIYers or kitchen fitters get involved.

@peterwickett9088 2 жыл бұрын

Rent £1000 a month Want to spend some money on the electrical installation NO WAY Hard work trying to explain to people Do a Rewire and will be good for years to come - probably all pull though as well 👍🙂

@182conor 2 жыл бұрын

what sort of camera are you using?

@slimski 2 жыл бұрын

Do the screws themselves not need to still be earthed?

@daron8982 2 жыл бұрын

no because they are attached to the box and box is earthed or supposed to be

@stephenmckenzie3274 2 жыл бұрын

Should’ve just user a battery interlink heat detector and changed the others aswell. Save any of the hassle you had 🤷‍♂️

@hamiltonjames4 2 жыл бұрын

Do you ever work with air condition heat pumps?

@wizard3z868 2 жыл бұрын

Oh boy in the states I've been bitten by no earth on metal cover plates. (240 bite wld put you on ass best case)also some nut job wired a multi switch using just a single and wired the hot traveler to the earth screw (the earth wire was just not attached so if you touched the plate screw if switch was in right position you got a nice zap (down side of using plastic boxes lol)

@arniewheeler4673 2 жыл бұрын

great job fella

@trone32 2 жыл бұрын

Think I would have walked away Del 😵‍💫

@andrewdiplock7660 5 ай бұрын

I would have walked away from that the minute she said that “someone” else was coming in after to sort it,I think everyone on here knows she isn’t getting anyone in. You’ve put yourself in a pretty tricky position by knowing there’s an earth fault and leaving it, as you’re the last one to work on it,let’s hope the estate agent insists an EICR is needed before renting

@barryturner1146 2 жыл бұрын

Longsteps away delroy

@ef7480 2 жыл бұрын

1:28 Why metal door ?

@johngoard8272 2 жыл бұрын

Jeez Delroy you certainly seem to get the really grotty jobs to do mate and some of the wirings you fix makes me shudder when you see what the previous "sparky" did!!

@andersgrodeland5659 2 жыл бұрын

any specific reason there is metal conduit for the wires here , and the "rest" of the country the cables are alle plastered in to the walls or drilled through studs ?

@rowanNClangley 2 жыл бұрын

A number of London boroughs specified metal conduits in places they had built fifties and sixties, with the conduits running back to the "Mantel" enclosure with the meter and skeleton CU. The conduit was the CPC, and an awful lot of sockets ended up earthed just by the mounting screws from the socket to the mounting box - no flying lead on some of the places I have worked

@steverobinson8170 2 жыл бұрын

local authority 1950's and 60's

@stevethomas5849 2 жыл бұрын

18th Edition Clips for trunking?

@simonabbott7323 2 жыл бұрын

I have had customers like this. I turn tail and run.

@angusmercer 2 жыл бұрын

Is there a good reason for that bloody hell 🤣

@realestateservicessaleshea99 2 жыл бұрын

Nice work,thanks for the video!!! 🥃🥃🍺🍺🍺🍿🎯 Stay safe. Retired (werk'n)keyboard super tech. Wear your safety glasses!

@paulculshaw7048 Жыл бұрын

smoke alarm working

@adierob1 2 жыл бұрын

Good system in its time the old conduit and singles with the conduit being the earth but a nuisance to add onto and easily a danger if amateur diyers worked on it and didn't understand the conduit was the earth, that lot no doubt will want retired now as I would of thought the singles will be aluminium

@ImranKhan-cf8gs 2 жыл бұрын

That property needs a total rewire wiring is to old I would not take the risk the wiring is ancient with the conduit system

@datsunruss 2 жыл бұрын

You genuinely looked dejected when summing up at the end there Delroy. They make their choice and have to live with it but you can walk away with a clear conscience.👍

@firsteerr 2 жыл бұрын

its ok advising her to change some switches and sockets but the bottom line is she will have to produce a certificate as a landlord and it will not pass

@thesilentonevictor 2 жыл бұрын

This place is a big mess I hope you can get her sort out the right soon hmmm I see more issues down the line

@muttlymoo 2 жыл бұрын

Run away quick lol

@joanofarc708 Жыл бұрын

Connect it any way atall bury it and leg it

@jan-dr1xl 2 жыл бұрын

Im calling fancy video editing trickery on the way those new cables flew through the conduit,it never goes like that in the real world,or your just a jammy bugger.

@bramcoteelectrical1088 Жыл бұрын

Oh dear...time to leave and go to the pub buddy

@waynehenson1094 Жыл бұрын

I don't have the patience anymore to fix junk work. You lose money going behind people that don't know what they are doing. If there's a fire, the electrician gets blamed. Landlords hire these guys because they are cheap.

@ratchriat1716 2 жыл бұрын

a house full of problems 😁

@jasonhowe1697 2 жыл бұрын

Personally I would of told the owner that the home needs a rewire and permit check on the last wiring that was done on the property..l dealing with a bunch of bodge jobs tells me someone in the past has done wiring and has done it wrong.. you have a can of worms there Del

@ASBO_LUTELY 2 жыл бұрын

What's 240v doing on an earth (CPC) cable? It should be 0v surely! Power should only be flowing on a CPC for the time it takes to trip the circuit, you seem to act like it's normal to have 240v on the CPC??? WTF man!?!

@yankis. 2 жыл бұрын

I never understand why in UK and US they use outlet covers made out of metal. If the earth fails and you touch it, that's a shock hazard. EU electrical standards win once again.

@tresslerj1985 2 жыл бұрын

Because we are free autonomous countries who look for innovation. Also are all your cable ladder and trays plastic?

@yankis. 2 жыл бұрын

@@tresslerj1985 "Innovation" is a stretch when you use metal electrical boxes ever since electricity was first discovered lmao. And why would cable trays have to be plastic? They don't come in daily contact with the user. Outlets do.