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Nice job only one minor criticism. Bulkhead light is in wrong place. In the event of a power failure light will come on great but when you lift the flap on the CU it will block the light so you cant see which breaker has tripped and it will also be blinding whoever is looking. Better to have the light above or behind you if possible,
It's a small room, reflected light will light up the board
Nice work, nearly there, but you should add the icing on the cake, use cable numbers to all, preferably the heat shrink type, inc All Tails. This was common practice together with a Plan Drawing of the installation pinned to the wall whilst working on Rail Track, it sort of sorts the men out from the boys. I think also that the massive openings to the rear of the CU would be and should be treated as a FIRE RISK and filled with FP Putty [not filler or cement] I would also observe that the Pvc outer sheaths of all the cables should be within the enclosure by at least 10mm, again to reduce the spread of Fire. Mr Spence Eng
Whenever I do work in commercial properties I always add an emergency above the DB. Rewired my own place and put one in the electrical cupboard. I think it should be standard practice.
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Clear fuse board cover, 100% agree should be available!! When I do my fuse boards, I’d like to think I’ve done it justice, neat, tidy and photogenic! Like to leave my fuse boards in such a way that when the next Sparky comes along they know everything is in order and is impressed or makes them think twice about how their board can be done better.
Needs to be metal. But hard to get clear metal covers.
I think the emergency light is a great idea but surely the best place for it is on the ceiling not in your face? I mounted mine in the same place on the DB and I'm totally dazzled by it. I moved mine!
😂 true
only 1K to go.. you deserve it Nick .. enjoy your videos. always keeping it real
Thanks dude
Nice work guys! Thanks for using our VERSO board 👍🏽🙌🏽
Red cable only on smokes In Ireland.Great work 👍
Love the back board and trunking, so neat. 👍🏻👍🏻
On the subject of neat wiring installation, I was repairing a machine at a brickworks some years back. The whole place had a new centralised switch room, 20 or so 6’ panels all with transparent fronts, all the Contactors, fuses relays, timers etc fully visible and wired in the red, yellow, blue 3 phase wiring. Many Scada / data wiring in blue or purple. Looked like a piece of artwork, it was very impressive. Klockner Moeller switchgear throughout....
Emergency light on ceiling absolutely a great idea, I rewired a domestic property and put two emergency lights in one in office for the fuse board and another for landing/stairs.
Great neat work on the fusebox
Very Nice finish and like the emergency light above the board very nice touch
I can't believe this guy over passed my subscribers , lol 😂😂 . Well done 👏 Mr Nick Bundy
Nice touch the emergecy light did one when I changed my board.
Nice job Nick you certainly tidied the area up well.
Nice neat job there nick. I especially like your back board all holes cut neat. I always do the same and cut my holes slightly smaller than the holes in the DB (saves on grommet strips. I do normally put a fire strip in just to cover my holes when back entry tho to be honest it does not need it as the DB is made of non combustible material I actually looked hard at the internal pic of this board just to see if I could find something that I would not do or could pick at. But to be fair it's a perfect install right down to the tails not having the outer sheath stripped back before they are connected to the isolator (I hate that but many sparks do it) . I have being doing this for 30 plus years and like all sparks it's normally easy to find something to pick at, but I could not find one fault great job 10/10
I always thought from your past videos that the emergency light was one of your good ideas. When you get to 1K how about a montage video featuring snippets of videos from your 1st video up to the present day.
Always nice to open a db and see it all neat and tidy.
Another great installation Nick
Emergency lighting is such a great idea - I do it on most when I feel it’s applicable. 1k to go !
Ireland uses the same cable for smoke and fire detection. Think most regulations very similar. Another good educational tutorial for apprentice.
Great job Nick, loving the content since day one, keep it up 🤘.
Neat job, I too put have put emergency lights in above db's before. I have heard of niceic inspectors making Sparks put some cement board or fire stop/ grommets to prevent the wood back board catching in the event of a fire in the db
I'd put emergency light not above but on ceiling as light with effect the eye sight looking into the DB , nice work, is the wood fire protection
Re the emergency light. I am sure you have already figured it out but it would have been a link cable between the two terminals that you had left in place. You could always connect a switch to it and use it as it is meant to be used. It doesn`t matter either way!
I went to a new build estate about 8 years old (bit more upper market builds) they all have one above the board under the stairs, nice to see
Hi why not change the solar fuse box aswell that can be easily be incorporated into the new board via and mcb.
Nice Work Nick, good to see Adam on board , Keep it up you get to your 100000 soon😁👍
I've done this in my last three houses, but with a small recessed LED emergency downlight, makes sense really and for the low cost with modern LED fixtures I'm surprised it's not more commonplace.
saw you doing Em. lights above DB's back when I first foudn your channel before you even had Adam start with you: it should be a requirement, its def good practice. Inspired by you I fitted Em lights in both my and my mum's larders which is where our DB's are - very useful for me; huge safety benefit for mum in her 90's. only a few hundred subscribers to go and you hit your target! great work as always: keep it up!
Thanks mate, I’ve been there from the start 🙌
The concept absolutely makes sense. However, the location of the EMG light would have been best suited on the ceiling directing the light where it needs to be and not in your face blocking the top knockouts and taking up precious real estate on the back board.
The other way is to incorporate it into the main light fir the room/cupboard. Disco fitting with emergency backup. That way it's nothing extra that could obstruct adding to the DB
Gives u a little sun tan while flicking the breaker back up 👍
@NBundyElectrical meh I'm sold! Who doesn't need a 1min holiday whilst on a callout at 8.30pm 😎
the emergency light is going to be a pain in the butt later on. id put it on the roof so its not smacking you straight in the eyeballs, id also rotate the outlet next to the DB so its vertical above the switch rather then horizontal. more room for router/switch and looks neater
I do this quite a bit, but in Ireland if we install an emergency light, we must also install a CTU, this adds to the cost
There’s always a small link wire between PL + SL in them EM lights. Just remove the link wire mate, board looks class though! 👏
Hi Nick, in ireland it's regulation to wire smoke alarm circuit in it's own dedicated color, i never knew t&e can be got in red, we do have a pink cable available here, must try and get my hands on a drum of red t&e. I reckon it would be easier to dress the conductors , as the aico alarms dont leave shag all space to sweep wires neatly.
That board is a work of art, Nick - I've not seen better. Although I detest LED lighting, so I wouldn't have put an LED emergency light in 😋 As for the ethernet cables, I prefer using patch panels, but that's me; all my data at home is hard-wired, I don't use wireless at all.
I've done it on a many commercial places that don't have any local emergency lighting. Used to even build up some uni strut into a right angle so it faced directly under the DB
Very nice sir Nick!
Awesome job mate
Cracking board all neat and tidy rooms looking better with all that ply, can’t beat a neat and tidy workmanship.
Nice job nick. 👏
Great work once again nick. 👏 shout out to Adams eyebrows , beautiful
Keep up the good work Nick
I've installed emergency light bulkhead next to a socket in the hallway at my mum's property (I just wired it to a plug without faffing around with existing wiring), not only she's getting old but noticed a serious flaw with split board CU, if anything trip, it can kill entire house which is obviously not ideal! (sockets and lights circuit are grouped together!) 🤦🏻♂ I have installed one at my place too, because why not?! 😂😀 PRO TIP! Heat shrink over green light cos that lit up like a f Christmas tree!!
Great content Nick always great to watch and Learn And It won’t be long before you’ll be smashing That 100k a big achievement ⚡️👊
...another interesting vlog as a non sparky loving the content....and what do I know about emergency lighting??..... but yes agreeing with other comments here about the choice of position, loving the precise work and care of the finished look... keep it up matey....
You are the king of fuseboards
Use tiling back board over your wood board
Great job.
I would love a tutorial in setting up a shed or garage consumer unit as at the moment I have a grey box with an off/on switch and opening it up it has exposed fuse wire, thankfully the shed is on the house consumer unit but I would like to tidy things up and make it safer.
Nkce tidy work, good to see it
Have not done the emergency light in a long time, but data thing all the time now, I always do the socket for Data/Wi-Fi on a normal 6A or 3A MCB, this stops VAC cleaners plugged in and left under the stairs, if the is where the DB is sited.
Nice work Nick 👊👊👊
Liking the use of the red cables for safety circuits.
Use the same cable for smokes in the houses we do, gotta love it 😎
Nice one Mr B.
Unfortunately when the em light is on and the lid on the db is lifted you cant see the breakers as they are in the shadow or see into the board as the light is directly in your eyes. I do agree with a em light next to the board but it needs to be fitted in a more convenient position. Ps I found this out when I fitted my db and realised the mistakes listed above.
Led emergency bulkhead is the light under my stairs and wired to downstairs lights and a switch It has come in handy a time or 2
Take the link out in the EM light mate 😉
I did in the end 😂
@NBundyElectrical all a learning curve mate. I come from a domestic background and when I first fitted one I was like WTF 😂
Great video Nick. Did you fire seal the entry holes after, if so what with?
Neat board mate! Hate those little finnecky places all domestic boards seem to be in, makes it really tough for a tall, or in my case larger man!
1k to go ! well deserved
Nick really nice stuff. Does the SPD not need to be next to the main switch?
I’ve done this on mine 👍
You saying half five and the clock telling 1723h brought back memories.... Mostly waiting for an hour with my parents somewhere because when you say half six you mean half past six but us Dutchies take the half from the hour. BTW is this a thing in Staffordshire because I only heard it around there as I recall
So close bud too 100k , good to see the dream team back 🤙🤙🤙
Is everybody ready to unsubscribe for a few days just as he is about to hit 100k just so Nick loses his mind! 😂
Hope you get 100K soon, I currently have 4 but only started my channel this week, If im wanting to go for a neat finish i tend to install as ew larger board and have the meter and everything all on one board, Is the Verso any good ???? im currently going between Wylex and Fusebox but always looking for different brands to try
Stirling job Nick. Almost good enough to call yourself a chippy with that ply panelling.
Lol thanks bud
Nick are you able to do a video on terminating metre tails at both ends at all please? Every KZhead spark seems to upgrade the tails without actually showing the viewers how it’s done. Brilliant channel mate 👍
Yeah man 👍
99.1 tonight mate. Nearly there 😊
I have always fitted an Emergency light above or next to DB's, makes sense to ... doesn't it ? I'm just in the process of fitting some of the Saxby round pin hole EM lights throughout my home as well.
Why?
1K left!
Great video thanks Nick :-) - Is there a risk of Eddy currents as the Earth tail is entering the Consumer Unit in a different hole to the Live and Neutral tails?
Think about it....... When does current flow in the earth/CPC? each isnt a current carrying cable
Looks good Nick. I don't understand though why you left the solar on its own board in a plastic consumer unit below yours? Surely as part of the rewire you would rewire the ac side of the solar into an rcbo within your new board negating the need tor that plastic solar board?
I’m moving it over mate, got 1 day left at the job
Emergency light is good but will it ever get changed when it goes, I doubt it. I’m also in the no camp for the rear entry grommets, you can still do it just as neat without that future agg.
want great job pal
99k Not far off now! nice mate 😬
Why do you not use an insulated earth block ie Henley for your earth connections
Been doing it for years
Im no electrician but that did look pretty good
What trunking are you using Nick?
I never one a thing.on you tube I be wacht you for long time
do one of those cat 6s go to a point by the router to be connected to the switch? don't do data and interested to know
Yea take a feed from back of the router to the switch mate
I hope you don’t think I’m being a c**t…. But it must feel like a huge kick in the nuts the fact Cory is on nearly 90K subs and he’s been doing it for like 6months… I know Artisan gave him a huge boost I feel you should be 100K+ already for sure!!
Alright boyo
Is that fp200 for the fire alarm?
I think, given the nature of the work, (i.e. DB changes are very rare occurrences in the life of an installation and constitute major works when compared to, say, moving a socket outlet), fire-resistant MDF or a similarly rated sheet material rather than plain ply should've been used to mount the new DB etc. The fact that the timber you removed wasn't fire resistant is not a particularly strong defence, post-incident. In other words, it was reasonably practicable to use fire resistant materials in the circumstances. Also, as others have pointed out in the comments, you really don't want the emergency light in your face. It's a tiny room so it's next to impossible to locate the emergency fitting in a position where you would not potentially end up working in your own light but definitely _not_ above the DB!
100K wooohoo
Emergency light is a great idea, but I wouldn't want it shining right into my eyes like that. Needs to be either above or behind you as you're looking at the board.
I’ve put some sun glasses next to the board just in case 😎
Is it not FP cable ?
The last thing you need when the power's out is an emergency light beaming directly into your eyeballs.
Yeah you do 😂👍
there's a jumper cable inside the light that goes between permanent live and switch live. remove it.
700 to go 😏 End of next week it’s coming home
Looks neat but when you plug something into that lhs socket, the plug cable will over hang the light switch and that would annoy the hell out of me
Na, I’ve already looks pretty good mate
So why did they go from metal to plastic then back to metal consumer units ?
Fire containment.
Increased sales targets for manufacturers.
Your 'design' has made it very difficult to add any data cables in the future. I would have run the trunking down the righthand side of the ply and brought the cables out of that into the switch. Emg fitting is a blinder😎
Wouldn't the emergency light in the hallway be better... The light will be more useful where the trip Hazard is... And would still give light on the cupboard...
Always use red cable when I can 😁
Random question and not related to this. Does anybody know what phone or camera and software Nick uses to make his videos?
Use a GoPro hero 11 mate and da Vinci resolve to edit the videos
@NBundyElectrical you're a legend cheers dude. BTW, your videos have helped me massively with regards to pricing and generally givinv me the push to setting up by myself after over 20 years as sparks working for others... keep the content going big man :)))