David Savery Electrical Services's video: Waffly Consumer Unit Upgrade

Contains the usual foul language and a lot of hot air debunking an EICR previously undertaken without due care and attention by someone holding the same NICEIC Approved Contractor and Which? Trusted Trader membership I tout to my own potential clients; accreditations supposedly indicating we have an idea of our job and won’t be pulling Joe Homeowner’s trousers down. You may judge for yourselves whether their findings were on the ball and if this client was in safer hands had they used the other guy. I had to do something I didn’t want to on this one: I pulled the main fuse. I had no real choice on the day. Well… I guess I could have had the DNO out, but their pricing and availability varies across the country and this one was out of my usual area covered by Western Power Distribution. As I don’t want to identify the area I was in, not least because there’ll be some tedious nonce out there watching this and desperately trying to find which DNO they can grass me up to while sobbing back their little bitch tears, I’ve taken steps to blur or anonymise giveaway details like the meter serial, vehicle registrations, estate agent signs etc. You’ll have to go through it frame by frame to try and spot any clue of whose turf this is on you frickin’ loser (you know who you are). For everyone else, when things get blurry, don’t adjust your set. Just to state: pulling the supplier fuse is not big, hard or clever. Better to arrange for safe isolation for planned work to avoid the inconvenience of burn injury or death. All the more annoying then that safe isolation from the grid isn’t a given right and the DNO/suppliers make it difficult, expensive and a postcode lottery when it comes to arrangements and costs. DNO’s charge the earth and threaten legal action if you bypass them, while suppliers will only speak to their end client (the home/business owner) and not the sparkie wanting to get up to their elbows in non-network equipment which *she or he has the damn right to be working on safely*. I don’t normally leave my patch in leafy Warwickshire, but this house belongs to my niece hence my riding to the rescue(?) once I’d seen the quality of the report paperwork produced by her local spark. I originally had no intention of filming it, but the fine folks at ConsumerUnitWorld.co.uk offered to supply the Fusebox gear and supply a discount code too which is SAV7109 for 10% off the already reasonably priced Fusebox range. So, stop reading this and go check out https://www.consumerunitworld.co.uk My thanks to Alymazing Karaoke for musical support: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG024cJIVAgbUHvjYV7IiQw/videos As stated in the video, and as commenters have mentioned previously in another DNO rant on last year’s cocked-up SPD installation, it would be better had I used a DP isolator myself rather than Henley blocks, but I don’t carry such on the van. Well, at least I didn’t when this was filmed a few weeks ago, but I have one on there now as a standard stock item. Oh, what's that? You say you're with CheckaTrade and don't like me putting the boot in? Well, that certainly sounds like your problem. Hit the thumbs-down if it makes you feel any better.