You can put the panel in walk test mode and it will reset itself after every activation.

"Put that out so if anyone dies I can say it wasn't my fault" 😂😂😂

cool content, as a school kid its really intersting to see how people do their jobs

your workmanship and care for your customers are the best. swearing is totally fine and u are showing up what really happens when a job sounds simple but realize how much more time it takes to do correctly. keep up the good work.

That was fun,,, I'm in Canada and have worked in fire alarm, among other things, for over 20 years. Retired now. We always had 2 people (and walkie talkies) in all system tests. We did a lot of Government work, hospitals, senior homes and jails.

Another slice of your weekend devoted to youtube production. Thanks Thomas.

keep up the good work mate - your editing is better than most who have a fixed camera, never mind lugging all of it around with you! keep it up.

Your videos are very much appreciated Thomas, keep up the good work and great content.

As an apprentice thank you for all your knowledge and explanations! You make more sense than most people I have worked with! Keep up the good work!

What a top bloke! To take the time out and give people an insight into what you do is highly appreciated. I'm working as a lightning protection engineer at present and wanting to cross over to your side of things your videos have given me the determination to just go for it. Thankyou

Love your videos. They are entertaining and educational. Neat seeing the slight difference in your work vs what I'm used to in the USA. Thanks for your time!

I discovered you yesterday and I love your channel. You are doing the work I always wanted to do since I was a kid, but couldn't afford college and no one locally wanted an apprentice. You are doing a great job anyway, but to record your work on video so professionally is even better! Thanks for your uploads, I have now subscribed

Yes today was a good day that I watched your video and really enjoyed every single bit of it. Keep up the good work 👍👍👍

Another great video Tom! Brilliant to watch. Hope you keep making them. I'm hoping to go solo one day and these videos are great in terms of what to expect when I make the jump. Cheers

Great video Tom. I'm starting my electrical apprenticeship within the next few weeks and your videos have been very informative and enjoyable. Keep it up mate!

Excellent stuff, love all your videos!

Great video as always!

love watching your videos .. keep up the good work

Your videos are great. I know how hard it is to get the job done and also film at the same time but you're doing a brilliant job. Keep up the good work 👍

KEEP THE EXCELLENT WORK.GBY!

You are a boss! Hard enough being self employed, you’re doing great!

Really great!

Just watched this one Tom very good video shows the wide variety of work u cover 👍👍👍

You kept calling the panel a fuseboard 😂 electricians life be like

Hi Thomas just getting into the trade myself at 24, at college doing one day a week. Just landed a job as an apprentice/lackey/tea maker :) 4 days a week!. I Watch all your videos and your work ethic, presentation, methods are deferentially something to learn from keep up the good work buddy!.

Keep up the good work!

Great job

great video

Great video

This is the original video that got me into watching this channel all the time 😂😂

as an electrician myself i love to see how others work in other countries. lovin this

Really informative, subbed.

I do like a twin flex pro panel. Part 1 & 6 this conforms too for a sav wire. Very intelligent for what it is. It's nice to see no resistors in the non used terminals. I see a lot of electricians put EOL resistors in non used terminals and this causes them to over heat. This panel you can switch off unused terminals. Very neat 👍🏻

Coolest channel I've come across in a while :D

No worries at all Tom ive just subscribed to your channel from Perth Western Australia im not an electrician. You do an awesome job trying to keep up with requests doing your job filming and editing your days work you have passion and great work ethic standards... just remember to take some time out for you too! Cheers mate!

i love you thomas!!!!

Great video thank you 😊

Hello lovely work

Great info bout fire alarms

I like your videos!!!

Tom yet another great video, don't worry about how you come across every single video provides great information and humour. P.s. you need an apprentice!!! Being ex army I can fund my own training if I had a workplace 🤔😉

Tom, I have watched the majority of your videos, "excellent!"; very informative and you have a captivating camera presence. Please keep up the great work. Cheers from your neighbour in Atlantic Canada; Halifax, Nova Scotia. Jeff Smith, TTM Home Inspections & Home Check-ups. August 29, 2018.

Hi Tom, keep up the great videos. I’ve just got some potential work/experience finally so hopefully it works out for me :) Thanks for the inspiration 👍

That intro was brilliant

No joke, I was your 20,000th sub!!!!

Great video Tom .. When I used to work on lots of different panels there used to be a one man test mode, even if it was just a pin connection link or a test mode on the addressed ones... :-)

Tom great content in your video, i am a registered contractor in Ireland so i have great interest in some of the differences in our regs

Nice video Thomas, you should do a video showing what the back of your van looks like fully kitted out!

Looks like you will have to get someone to work for you, so many people are asking for this :) Good video;)

well done! recently found your channel and subscribed :D

I wish my school had that logic link system as it is common for the alarm to go off when a teacher uses a toaster. In my years at the school we have had more alarms from food than drills

Great video just got a new subscriber found you channel about a week ago i don’t subscribe to a lot of channels but your I just love so I have

I used to work for a very well-known grocery delivery company who are extremely popular in central London. As it was the nature of our job to be constantly unloading, our training put strong emphasis on loading rules in the city. You are permitted to stop for loading (includes unloading too of course) for 20 minutes on double yellow lines, AND in on-street Pay and Display parking spaces. You are also allowed to double-park alongside on-street parking bays so long as there is at least one free lane for trafffic to move around you. Exceptions to these loading rules are: - Not on Zig Zag markings, on any pedestrian crossing - Not blocking any dropped kerb - Not within 10 meters of a junction - Not where double yellow lines run down the kerb (no loading at any time) - Not in an area of restricted loading - these are marked by a single yellow kerb marking, and the times are shown on signs on the kerbside. - Not where the local council has suspended parking or loading. It's not exhaustive but it might save you hauling half a dozen heavy fire extinguishers along a main road in the city!

This is quite fascinating seeing the differences between testing there and here. We do not have a weekly test but we do have monthlies that serve the same purpose.

Sounds like you should get looking for an apprentice mate. I've heard you mention it a couple times now. Probably should look into it, would make for good videos! Keep it up mate. Informational and entertaining, lovely to see others take pride in their work :)

Wow congratulations on 1k subs man, very well deserved! That's crazy I'm pretty sure when I first started watching you only had like 20 or so! You need an apprentice mate, find one that's actually interested and keen to learn and you're laughing! Will make you £££ in the long run too😉 Hope all is well👍

Have now subscribed

good stuff ;)

No idea why this was in my recommended but I subscribed

Great content again. If you want to save legs n stuff you could carry a can of compressed air and blow it to alarms after the alarm has started. It wont retrigger the alarm that way. Also you can set the panel to walkmode or testmode, not sure whats it called so you dont need to go back to panel after all invidual buttons and censors. Just check the log that they all sent the alarm to panel

Use pressured air to clean detectors after you smoked them, you´ll have less trouble.

Spray of compressed air into the smoke head after the smoke works a charm

New sub

Love your work mate so nice to see an elective an who's work is so neat and love the vids! I'm a fire alarm engineer by trade did you do your fault finding on this service? And as I can see from some of the other comments your aware their is a test mode so won't need to go into that ☺ keep up the good work 👍

Hi im training to become an electrician and have just started watching your channel. I am finding it very helpful on what to expect and the advice on tools a geart help. Thanks Damion

the fire alarm day in my school is a thursday but once a burnt toadt set an alarm off on a tuesday. the alarms there are apollo s65 with strobe

testing Tuesday was also for Broadmoor hospital escape prisoner alarm back in the the day at 10am - most towns in a 10 mile radius had a siren.

Great videos Tom I'm a first year apprentice and your videos are great to learn from. Can you fit in one of your videos how you go about doing two way switches and intermediates ?

Keep up the good work man. Just a little note - wouldn't it be easier to use the Walk Test mode so when you finish testing a call point the alarm silenced itself? That would stop you needing to keep going back to the panel

This is different from what they do in the US but still a great video!! How often do you do these kind of videos? I have a firelite MS-5UD in my home.

Brilliant video. Wanted to know where you carried out your fire training? Thanks

Had a fire safety inspector come into my work last week. Found one of our emergency light failed. I Checked it two weeks ago and it worked. I Found the logic board failed so had to replace with a whole new from old standard emergency light to LED emergency light. I did it all by myself yesterday. Now we’ll pass fire safety inspection when the fire safety inspector comes in again this week

Cool

Your videos made me want to become an electrician .

I love you

Fike twinflex pro you can do a silent test and wait for the LED on the device, then test the sounders at the end.

Congrats on 1k

You should do subsequent alarms so you don’t have to run up and down the stairs to reset. Just write down or remember the order you set off the alarms. I do Reg. 4 testing for Los Angeles county and sometimes I have to do it alone.

that's where you need the apprentice to run up and down the stairs while you wait by the control panel 😂😂😂

Just Thought I would mention it to you as it would save you a lot of hassle. I would invest in an Apollo test kit. It has extension poles and makes life a lot easier testing Thomas.

I just did a fire test in an apartment here. Gave caretaker over a week notice on day I was to be there so they could notify tenants. When it came to ring the bells, everyone came out... They never got notified. I usually do the testing with bells offline then when done, do a final test with bells.

realy enjoy watching your vids keep it up can we pos have a blooper real one day thank you

Hey Thomas Top video as always, just wanted to ask what do you do regards to recording your services and inspections on the fire alarm/detectors also how often do you test your emergency lighting. Where I work as a rule I do a weekly call point/fire alarm test on a Thursday around the same time so staff know it's a test and at the same time I do a single emergency light spot test. I then fill out a record spreadsheet I knocked up on excel with the dates tested, location and any findings. That has been enough to please the people in charge

Nice mode of demonstrate.AZ phk

do you wear a mike (I don't see it) or is it on the camera rig ? I'm a new subscriber and have binge watched alot of your videos already. They are great !

some say he's still going up and down those stairs to this day

The ontario fire marshal here in Kingston ontario canada will leave a one week notice during a building fire alarme test that says the fire alarmes will be sounded but to ignore them as they are being tested but the alarmes may go off without warnning

the flat im in has a fire alarm system similar to that one, but i have one question. in regards to the sensor which type would you recommend for someone who vapes, there has been a few time where i have set the alarm off by just vaping in my room and is just annoying

Thomas if you already have got a key, put in "test mode" that would save a bit of time and your ears may not bleed at the end of day.. ps in test mode you won't need to put as much smoke in it as detectors are more sensitive..

Hi tom, just wondering , what should a sparky charge for a days work or a call out? I'm based in south London. Great videos by the way. Really helpful with your knowledge in the industry. just starting out myself in the trade, so all the hints, tips and experience that you're sharing is really grateful.

Really liked your video I'm fire life safety tech from Los Angeles , CA USA it's great seeing fire systems from all over the world . Is there a code reference you use? Also are fire sprinklers common and do you test them.

How many times have you had someone running out during a test?

Just wondering what type of wireless mic set up do you use

Tom great Video, can you tell me what cable you use for main smoke alarms ?

You coud have just put in test mode and it would have saved you going up and down the stairs, or hirng an apprentice. Everything awesome

May I ask how do u change the sounder settings? Edit: I mean change the tone of the sounder Question 2:if u do emergency lights? How often do u have to test them?

Hi Thomas, I'm an electrician based in south east London just wanted to know your thoughts on checkatrader if you use or not, or if it's worth it??? Thanks Richard 👍

Addicted to your videos Thomas. I was wondering if you allow people who are completing the 2391 and 2392 to come and work with you for free to gain experience?

Hi Tom, question on the fire extinguishers. I have customers that ask me if I change them - I do not... yet. I always thought you needed to pressure test them. How do you handle this with customers? Do you just change the extinguisher and purchase the correct size/type? Thanks!

Thank God i'm not the only Person thinking the same about Fire Alarm Testing... "Walking keep walking, up the ladder down the ladder and walking, walking :D "