Amendment 3. Non combustible CU

[Eddiesparks]

Am I the only one confused as to why the CU is meant to be metal but the switchgear is all still plastic?! I mean what's the point??!!

 

[Hellmooth]

How long has your work taken per house and how many guys? Just out of curiosity!

What at happened with the original contractor?

 

[Leesparkykent]

How long has your work taken per house and how many guys? Just out of curiosity!

What at happened with the original contractor?

About 5weeks from 1st fix to commissioning for two men. Then an extra pair of hands for the odd few days when pulling the armoured cables in and cutting the down lights outs. Their work was gash for a 3.3mil new build and they kept on leaving their apprentices on site without supervision to crack on. The snagging list from their work in 1 of the houses was four A4 pages long lol.

 

[Midwest]

The boards don't look too bad until you have to plaster the front of it with multiple stickers of varying colours and sizes. Looks crap afterwards.

You can discover them, even of the inside of the new metal flap!

 

[Hellmooth]

About 5weeks from 1st fix to commissioning for two men. Then an extra pair of hands for the odd few days when pulling the armoured cables in and cutting the down lights outs. Their work was gash for a 3.3mil new build and they kept on leaving their apprentices on site without supervision to crack on. The snagging list from their work in 1 of the houses was four A4 pages long lol.

Good stuff, how did you manage to price it, was it a one off price for each house and was your estimating accurate? Never priced/done a large domestic install so sorry for the 3rd degree lol!

 

[Midwest]

You can discover them, even of the inside of the new metal flap!

Sorry meant 'hide' them!

 

[Leesparkykent]

Good stuff, how did you manage to price it, was it a one off price for each house and was your estimating accurate? Never priced/done a large domestic install so sorry for the 3rd degree lol!

Lol, Gave the drawings/spec to my wholesaler to price the material and then price per point. Bigger stuff like the mains rooms, fire alarms, pv, lutron, etc I worked out however many days plus mark up on the whole lot. I have a QS that I use for bigger jobs and compare figures with my own. I would say the estimating was pretty much bang on.

If you ever fancy a trip down to the south east Hellmooth on a working Holiday you can come work with me lol.

 

[Hellmooth]

Excellent, that'll do with the questioning for now, away and grab a coffee sir kidding lol, would have been a good gig for the gate company as well, wouldn't mind that kind of work myself!

 

[Leesparkykent]

Excellent, that'll do with the questioning for now, away and grab a coffee sir kidding lol, would have been a good gig for the gate company as well, wouldn't mind that kind of work myself!

Lol. You can come do them next time?

 

[Hellmooth]

Do you have any pics of the gates etc, love to see that kind of stuff!

 

[Hellmooth]

Wouldn't mind a trip down your way actually, working holiday

 

[Leesparkykent]

Do you have any pics of the gates etc, love to see that kind of stuff!

I will take some when next on site. I've got another house I'm doing and I've had all the gates made up by a architectural metal worker/welder....cost a bomb.

 

[Hellmooth]

If work falls through anytime soon I'll take the business trip down south mate Love any experience that differs from my day to day work!

I concentrate as much on access control as possible as I find the work more satisfying! I also use a local fabricator for making my gates, I used to work for a guy that done it all, he was a fabricator/welder to trade so made the gates in house, I was a spark and fell into the work through a mutual friend, loved it! He was a charlatan though so parted ways after so long, I picked up a lot of work from ex (unhappy) customers of his so it worked out fine! I fit a lot of traffic barriers as well so just buy straight from suppliers!

Do you install the gates as well then?

 

[Leesparkykent]

If work falls through anytime soon I'll take the business trip down south mate Love any experience that differs from my day to day work!

I concentrate as much on access control as possible as I find the work more satisfying! I also use a local fabricator for making my gates, I used to work for a guy that done it all, he was a fabricator/welder to trade so made the gates in house, I was a spark and fell into the work through a mutual friend, loved it! He was a charlatan though so parted ways after so long, I picked up a lot of work from ex (unhappy) customers of his so it worked out fine! I fit a lot of traffic barriers as well so just buy straight from suppliers!

Do you install the gates as well then?

I have done but prefer to leave it up to someone who's knows it inside out :wink_smile:

 

[Hellmooth]

Well wth your knowledge and in depth working practices I'm sure it's a walk in the park lol!

 

[Leesparkykent]

Well wth your knowledge and in depth working practices I'm sure it's a walk in the park lol!

I know my limitations though... Some things are best left to the experts lol.

 

[Hellmooth]

Well like our wonderful electrical trade, there is plenty Electrical Trainee's in the gate automation trade! My ex work colleague was a welder come gate 'engineer', would attempt to do it all himself, was funny when I used to try and explain how relays and gate control systems worked, couldn't even grasp a normally open or closed contact, used to look right through me then have a laugh with the other welders that I was talking Swahili :stuart:

 

[Leesparkykent]

Well like our wonderful electrical trade, there is plenty Electrical Trainee's in the gate automation trade! My ex work colleague was a welder come gate 'engineer', would attempt to do it all himself, was funny when I used to try and explain how relays and gate control systems worked, couldn't even grasp a normally open or closed contact, used to look right through me then have a laugh with the other welders that I was talking Swahili :stuart:

Haha sounds like a bit of numpty lol.

 

[Hellmooth]

Yip but numptys who can sell sand to the Arabs will always prosper, liquidate a few companies in the process but still manage to get good work in, a good website and friendly manner go a long way........

 

[Leesparkykent]

Yip but numptys who can sell sand to the Arabs will always prosper, liquidate a few companies in the process but still manage to get good work in, a good website and friendly manner go a long way........

There is sparks round my way who is exactly the same. I've worked with him on a few sites when we both just come out of our time and TBF I wouldn't let him put a plug top on lol. But now has 3 brand new vans on the road, a few house and an AMG merc. He always did have the gift of the gab...

 

[Hellmooth]

Yeah this is it Lee, just a natural at pulling the wool over unsuspecting customers, don't get me wrong he does produce some nice gates, but nothing is certified or doesn't follow any safety standards etc, the only other guy he had doing electrical work, was an alarm installer who didn't want to touch any low voltage stuff! Crazy but still got a lovely house and the vans to show!