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is this eddie abew lol

Never a dull moment dealing with DIY work on electrical services

I looked after 3 residential homes for several years with around 120 private apartments. All the apartments had bathrooms without windows and I would say that a good 75% of the residents would turn the fan off permanently regardless of how many times I told them the reasons to have them on.

Green is copper rusting, from the water ingress

Look at the underneath og the BT socket. That's where the waters getting jn, where BT has drilled the cable through the wall, not drilling downwards, and probably not sealing the hole

UA-cam randomly suggested this vid to me, and I'm glad it did. Considerations of outside/rising damp aside, I *think* a culprit for those rusted sockets might be *condensation,* and it sounds to me like *all* of the mains wiring in that room might need replacement. She certainly needs a full installation safety test ASAP, especially as what she said at 17:06 („None of the sockets that side work“) suggests to me a possible break in the downstairs ring. 🔌⚡🔥😳 The room has plants in it which might not help (Look at any greenhouse!) and those sockets are low down on an outside wall, presumably solid/non-cavity. On colder nights the wall will get cold, causing condensation to form as warm air inside the room comes into contact with the cold wall. This builds up on the face of the wall and then runs down, in this case right into the top of the sockets and onto the exterior top of the back-box. Cue a few warm/cold cycles and decay of the back boxes starts fairly quickly, especially if they're cheaper (thinner) steel with poor galvanisation. 💧 In this case the decay has clearly affected the sockets and cables as well as the boxes, and I wouldn't regard *any* of them at all salvageable - The CPC fault you found shows there are definitely other faults elsewhere. ⚠ Personally; The replacement sockets might be best not sited on that wall - Or if they are; In plastic surface mounted boxes and with sufficient protection against condensation taken into consideration. 👍

It’s a ballast

Some poor bugger would of lit up like a Christmas tree glad you sorted the problem and told the reality of the situation

There are a lot of plants in that room, was someone careless with the watering?

"The old sparkys use to say thats your best screwdriver mate" (shows hammer)... proceeds to use a screwdriver as a chisel! Lol 😂😂😂😂

Rising damp is a bummer

Enjoy your videos Del, It seems that modern builders have relied on one secure support for the pull switch, to a beam (if you're lucky) and then the other screwed into the plasterboard. Obviously over a short time the plasterboard fixing loosens and the awkward angle causes the cord to wear, also causes a problem with the switch mechanism

that fuse board is not in reg. made off plastic and next to the door. it should be in a cupboard or box.

There'll never be any progress on house building methods (still brick built as 100 years ago) as long as the house builders have as big a government lobby as they do. Any and all proposed improvements are watered down or killed outright. Profit above all else

perfect i enjoyed that

Good vid, and what an awful mess!! Green is usually copper oxide, I ALWAYS put cable in conduit. Where is damp coming from? Rising damp? Leak or historic leak?

This guy is a joker

Never had a problem with damp in that corner ? The corrosion and rust staining say otherwise.

ahhh good old british stupidity, running muh "twin n earf" cable straight through walls, no copex. Learn to use copex, brits. And what were you trying to do at the end!? Just smash the whole damn thing, I can't see on the video but it might be a pipe that burst through the other side of the wall. Make a big hole, put some cement if needed, and put a PLASTIC box inside the wall. IP rated plasic box fully insulated. Plastic doesn't care about that damn environment. Might be some regs that says it needs to be on the wall not in the wall but I don't care. You can put a cable gland if you want for the cable. But gimme a break with that old crummy cable. The copper even cought corrosion. Should've pulled a new cable but... no copex.

Such a horrible lady who's never wrong,

what's the device he's using to test with a screen?

Very professional electrician. Not many would continue a job like this and simply walk off. Thanks for saving this households lives.

The Ken Holdups!!! 😆😆😆😆 0:15 6:58 7:16 10:39 11:25 - My Favorite 😆 Clearly hear the frustration before it cut off 17:59 18:54 24:47

Always bad news when you see sockets sitting on the skirting

The customer is a Irish woman

i worked in an electrical wholesaler for over ten years. I love watching your videos , im always shouting out part codes to the stuff youre using lol :)

Feel sorry for you mate I'm just a competent DIYer who follows the rule ethics with electrics etc but I wouldn't fancy meeting that mess anytime soon & those galv boxes take some hammer but chemically their not bombproof

TBH I don’t think either of them really know what’s going!!!!!

Why didn't you just fix it instead of digging into when she had here tiles done what's that got to do with you she wanted the boiler fixing

Don’t forget that wiring is done to a early regs I would say it would be done to the 16th addition

Don’t forget that wiring is done to a early regs I would say it would be done to the 16th addition

I think delroy thought she was a bit out to lunch, thinking maybe she aint even got a new floor or heated system . She was strange to atart with borderline Aspergers

Her tone was awful. It was like she wanted to blame anyone who walked through the door.

Of all the people I know that have dimmer switches fitted not one of them actually uses them. They either have their lights on or off.

So you got earache off her,because she wanted you to fix another tradesman bad work. You did the right thing.

Well done.

You should’ve called the video electricity vs people that don’t understand

Need install an spd

Whip the skirting off the cable is coming upwards 👻

Should use a centrifugal fan in this situation with a back draught shutter. An overrun timer will also be required if there’s no opening window

I think your dad put that in 60 years ago lol 👻

Always expect the worse man just saying but good earner but must be done 👍🏿

Why skirting two colours just asking 👻🤪he said shall I look at the other one no the hole house man

Why skirting two colours just asking 👻🤪

Good sir, a thousand thanks. Very nice stuff. But - well, there's always a but - any chance of some of the shots a little closer? Even with a big screen and decent specs I have to squint a lot. Oh well - that's age. Thank you very much.

My quick and good way to bung in new back boxes in this kind of situation is to use chemfix. Strong and durable. Sets in 20 mins. As soon as it's set, you can mix up some filler and plaster around the gaps, trowelled smooth ready to piant. Then in an hour you can move to the next job.

The wiring looks like a complete firetrap. If the backing boxes have corroded that much the wall is sure to be damp and that alone will deteriorate the cables. A local rewire should be carried out with the correct cable as you could be responsible for any problems in the future.

I feel absolutely awful for you what a absolute nightmare for you and the home owner especially if they don't have the money at that time to fix it, but I was just wondering what do you do when you go in to do a very simple job like this one, and you are just thinking all it needs is a replacement wall socket and when you remove the faceplate the job turns into can of worms and it looks like the flat/house needs a full rewire to be made safe once again what do you do hypothetical saying if the wiring is a fire risk but the owner refuses to do the work for whatever reason are you still allowed to refuse to switch the power back on or do you have to switch it back on if they say so even after you have notified them of the potential risk especially if other flats or homes could be put at risk one way or another if they have same age of wiring how do you stop this falling back on to you when you done everything right and the flat or home still burns down after you have given the homeowner a warning of the potential risk of fire due to the old wiring.

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