My old man was a sparky, and one of my jobs as a kid, was to drill an extra hole, next to the cable hole, for any mice that might be making the journey across the ceiling. Well before cordless drills, all done with a brace and bit, or an auger.

Running an electrical business is horrible. Especially a one man band. Pure stress

Empty house rewire easy peasy.

House bashing !!!

1:28 you didn't have to take that wall coating off . Now you should put some silicone around the box to prevent the wall to absorb the water. And did you you drill a drain hole in back box ?

3:10 stand on something and use your body weight as a force

All these places we had to live in are disgusting. Some black (God knows what they are made of) blocks, low ceilings, rectangular rooms etc. And then people think why they get sick and so on.

3:37 whats that ? the copper wires or pipes ?

The old boys that taught me called it a "Spider box" and had all the connections there and only one cable at switch/light. A nightmare when you need to wire new smokes off the lights 😅

That height is only for new build

Really? Changing the colors of the wires? Highly illegal in Europe.

Good tool, good song, good work

It’s called a pancake box, it’s how a lot of lighting circuit were wired, we have somewhat modern day equivalents today whereby a Wagobox is fitted in the loft, a fed goes in and all the switch line cables and light fitting cables spider out of the box.

Ck 210 or 160mm???

I usually leave a bit of the original insulation colour visible to make it easier for the next guy to figure out the recolour scheme if any changes are made.

They do!

Why dont they make the cables with the right colour from the factory?

Top man. Keep posting

It’s why we’re like gods to plumbers! Fking toilet repairmen!!!

If you’re going to mount the consumer unit on unistrut why not go rear entry with 1 hole 🤷‍♂️

M8, that box. Have a word with them two old geezers at efixx. They probably remember installing them 'back in the day' (?) 😂

Was going to say about knee pads - your better off to have them on all the time otherwise your seriously fuck your knees up! Nice work Welsh Lad 😅

More content, please.

Mate, use the hole saw dust catcher. Will prevent all the dust falling on you

May i start by saying i love your videos, and I was wondering if you could give me some advice. My son is 19 and starts his second year of college. Have you any tips on getting an apprenticeship as he is struggling thanks.

It's an octopus box mate.

love your content and your energy mate! keep up the good work and post a lot of vids for us!

I found one of those boxes in my (1957, Cwmbran) house. Mine hadn't been touched since the house was built. The terminals inside were really tight and fixed with some thread-locking varnish. Mine said "The Octopus" on it's lid and also carried a label bearing the 1957 installation date. Since Cwmbran is a post-war "new-town" there must be thousands of them here. The house only had about four mains sockets from new. This made for very neat wiring between The Octopus and the quaint wooden fuse box. That neatness is now gone with three ring finals and several radials post rewire. Thanks for the vids, Jimbo.

Keep it coming young man

Good to see you back Jimbo. You’ve got a real natural presentation style.

Good to see your content on You Tube again, hope to see more. That Super Rod cable dispenser seems really handy.

I use CK 3 pliers w/ bending anvil which I utilise for single wire termination. I do not do price work- I am a sole trader.

Couple of clout nails.

So… 1. Don’t panic 2. Panic 3. Blag the assessor

Use the divide and conquer technique - that way you don't have to open every socket. ..

When you double the conductors you need to squash them together so they sit under the screw properly. Otherwise probably making a worse connection.

Looks good.

There should be a special place in hell for those that embed electrical cables directly in plaster. A bit of oval conduit costs next to nothing compared to having to replace cable which is embedded in plaster.

Banjo?

Banjo?

Uppa valleys 😎🔧🫡

Just get the Milwaukee version of this, you know it will go on for years, also trying getting new battery’s for this in 3/4 years time,

Was pretty sure the regs on socket heights and switches only apply to new builds?

1 way is for a sparks 1 way is for a diy who shouldn’t be touching it

That’s a beauty bit of kit and 20v is no joke! My milwaukee m18 (18v) drill powers through anything I throw at it, got chainsaws attachments and everything…

Are the staples fire rated? What size of T&E does it go up to?

Used oval tube on a job a couple of years ago… plasterer moaned like buggery.

Great video . She’ll be moving to London . To work for Nagy .. ( he’ll want all the gossip from wales !! )

Seems obvious, but cant you chase out the channels for the horizontal cables runs to 22mm and then chase the backboxes out to (whatever depth for those is needed), does that seem reasonable and within regs?

Why on earth use one pole breakers? Why a neutral bar and not individual neutrals with two pole breakers? Is this done in larger industrial panels aswell? Nice arc if you somehow disconnect that main neutral...