Good Old Delroy, he gets all the best Jobs :)

[Dustydazzler]

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[Mikegh]

Watched up to about 5 minutes

Not great that he earthed the socket but ignored the rest of the circuit, if that's the way he left it

 

[Petej999]

Watched up to about 5 minutes

Not great that he earthed the socket but ignored the rest of the circuit, if that's the way he left it

Doesn't instill much in the way of confidence.

 

[Mikegh]

He does a lot of checking earths with a voltage tester

 

[MJPD29]

From his videos I honestly think his work is fairly poor. The way he leaves some jobs leave a lot to be desired.

 

[7029 dave]

Trying to adapt a full conduit system will never be a great outcome, Del can only do his best with it.
Add ons with T&E is trouble, those boxes should be bushed to the conduit impossible to do with slip tube.

 

[Dustydazzler]

Lets not forget not every job has a massive budget to make significant changes , some jobs the customer only wants to lay out the bare minimum money possible

Del does of lot of HMOs and Rentals which again landlords only prepared to pay for what work is 'absolutely necessary'

 

[richy3333]

Stopped watching him and CJR. I don’t think showing bad and or dangerous practice to the public enhances our trade at all.

 

[Dustydazzler]

Delroy do you only do work in old council flats ?

 

[Electrics]

Stopped watching him and CJR. I don’t think showing bad and or dangerous practice to the public enhances our trade at all.

I never see CJR doing anything dangerous. I actually asked on here once for people to point me to his 'dangerous' or 'crap' work and nobody could (aside from that SWA he did..)

From what i've seen he does good work.

Delroy on the other hand, i think he's fairly poor. Anyone who glues trunking onto new expensive tiles and then no-nails' on a shaver socket next to a sink instead of simply cutting out a full tile and then putting it back and using plugs to fix the box........just no.

 

[richy3333]

The obvious one that springs to mind was him taking down a wall and then jointing cables in a wago box and ----ing it up into the ceiling and calling it MF. The materials and method he used did not constitute a MF junction box. I politely noted it on his comments and he removed the comment ?

 

[Zerax]

The obvious one that springs to mind was him taking down a wall and then jointing cables in a wago box and ----ing it up into the ceiling and calling it MF. The materials and method he used did not constitute a MF junction box. I politely noted it on his comments and he removed the comment ?

I think his son does all the techie IT stuff on Youtube for him... so he may not have even seen the comment ? It was deleted for him ??

 

[Electrics]

The obvious one that springs to mind was him taking down a wall and then jointing cables in a wago box and ----ing it up into the ceiling and calling it MF. The materials and method he used did not constitute a MF junction box. I politely noted it on his comments and he removed the comment ?

MF?

 

[7029 dave]

MF?

Maintenance Free

 

[Electrics]

Maintenance Free

FFS i knew that but it had escaped me. Cheers Lol.

 

[Dustydazzler]

I always thought MF stood for ManuFactured ☺️

 

[DPG]

I remember the one where he was sorting some dodgy sockets under kitchen cupboards. He routed the cables around the cupboards and up the wall completely out of any prescribed zones and called it a good job.

 

[Dustydazzler]

I remember the one where he was sorting some dodgy sockets under kitchen cupboards. He routed the cables around the cupboards and up the wall completely out of any prescribed zones and called it a good job.

This one I believe

 

[Dustydazzler]

Still luv Delroy thou , best celebrity sparks by a mile

 

[DPG]

This one I believe

You found that quick!

 

[mattg4321]

You found that quick!

Maybe he IS Delroy ?

 

[Electrics]

This one I believe

Haha yes i remember that was one of the first i saw, quickly followed by the one where he made an absolute c*** of a bathroom shaver socket.

Seems a decent fella but i wouldn't copy any of his methods.

 

[Petej999]

I think his son does all the techie IT stuff on Youtube for him... so he may not have even seen the comment ? It was deleted for him ??

Yeah right

Haha yes i remember that was one of the first i saw, quickly followed by the one where he made an absolute c*** of a bathroom shaver socket.

Seems a decent fella but i wouldn't copy any of his methods.

Best one IMO is when he install an exterior socket from a kitchen socket without first finding out if the socket he spurred from was a spur already, certainly looked like a spur to me. Like you say seems a decent Guy but some of his installs leave a lot to be desired.

 

[Petej999]

Still luv Delroy thou , best celebrity sparks by a mile

celebrity Sparks?

 

[Petej999]

Watched up to about 5 minutes

Not great that he earthed the socket but ignored the rest of the circuit, if that's the way he left it

 

[Petej999]

Maybe change his name to DELBOY the sparks HE CERTAINLY PULLS SOME STUNTS

 

[Mikegh]

I'd give him about 3/10

He seems to lack training/aptitude/experience

Can't quite be put my finger on it, just generally clueless anyway

 

[Dustydazzler]

He has been a sparks for over 40 years so I don't think his experience is in question ...

 

[lozarus]

Didn't he give a 16mm main earth a haircut to fit it in a consumer unit MET? I'm not a fan. Clickbaity titles and lots of running commentary criticising others, whilst seemingly being a bit ropey on some things himself. None of us are perfect but if you're going for the celebrity route you really have to cross all the t's and dot all the i's to avoid criticism.

 

[7029 dave]

Well I like him, maybe because he is from my era .

 

[7029 dave]

I'd give him about 3/10

He seems to lack training/aptitude/experience

Can't quite be put my finger on it, just generally clueless anyway

He started in 1973 an still going that speaks for itself.

 

[Petej999]

Well I like him, maybe because he is from my era .

I like him as well Mate, just a bit wary of his skills or lack of

 

[Petej999]

He started in 1973 an still going that speaks for itself.

Crikey1973 I must be the Bees knees then if that's the case, 1962 I finished my Apprenticeship 71 Married 73 Dad for the first time76 first job overseas.

 

[IAmSparkytus!]

Hope Delroys not reading this thread he'll be heartbroken poor bloke ?

 

[goasis]

For a man with alot if experience, i just watched a video where he chops a flex into the plaster, for an electric heater, rather than using the flex out of a switched fused spur... I mean I wouldn't have the guts to put my work online to be picked over but come on!!

 

[Electrics]

Hope Delroys not reading this thread he'll be heartbroken poor bloke ?

I'd be glad if it was me, good learning opportunity.

 

[Zerax]

I think it's because he has all that experience that he takes short cuts... he knows what he can get away with. And don't forget, his patch is East London... parking will be horrendous with a constant risk of theft. If that was me, I'd wanna be in and out as quickly as possible !

 

[lozarus]

As an aside, this is the reason i don't instantly berate DIYers, short courses or anything like that. You get corner cutters and bodgers everywhere.

I'll always remember going to a house wired in the 60's by an old boy with no qualifications, just a good base knowledge and plenty of Readers Digest guides. It was his own house and as such, he was invested in making it top quality- and honestly- it belonged in an art gallery. Absolute work of art, even the slip tubing in the garage. Everything was neat as .

Similarly today, I'm about to go and tidy up a connection made by a retired electrician of 45 years who was working maintenance here before he fully retired - choc block connecting some RFC singles together, not encased I'm anything and just lobbed above the suspended ceiling grid.

 

[Electrics]

As an aside, this is the reason i don't instantly berate DIYers, short courses or anything like that. You get corner cutters and bodgers everywhere.

I'll always remember going to a house wired in the 60's by an old boy with no qualifications, just a good base knowledge and plenty of Readers Digest guides. It was his own house and as such, he was invested in making it top quality- and honestly- it belonged in an art gallery. Absolute work of art, even the slip tubing in the garage. Everything was neat as .

Similarly today, I'm about to go and tidy up a connection made by a retired electrician of 45 years who was working maintenance here before he fully retired - choc block connecting some RFC singles together, not encased I'm anything and just lobbed above the suspended ceiling grid.

Totally agree. I've always said it's not time served that makes your work good - if you care about good work you'll find out how it's done and make it good. It's people who can't be arsed or who take shortcuts who do bad work irrespective of their qualifications.

It's not like short courses are teaching people to shove cables into back boxes without grommets or not using earth sleeving, those who don't do it simply don't do it because they are tight and lazy and produce the absolute minimum standards of work. That's about the person not the training imo.

 

[Dustydazzler]

THIS>

Some of the roughest sparks I have had the displeasure to work with are scam registered and time served

They cut corners and used substandard work just to make an extra few quid on the job

I know scam registered sparks who don't even bother certifying / notifying 'cash' jobs etc

Buts lets not go there on this thread...

 

[Mikegh]

Me giving him 3/10 was unfair

I'd rank him alongside me at probably 6/10 on practical

 

[Dustydazzler]

Delroy is a solid 7.5 / 10 imo

He always sleeves his earths , uses grommets and actually tests his work unlike half the sparks that i have worked with

 

[Dustydazzler]

Latest Delroy

 

[Mikegh]

Not clicking yet


Delroy the handyman?

 

[mattg4321]

Can’t wait to watch DustyDazzler’s Delroy’s new video!

 

[Dustydazzler]

JFTR I am not Delroy , but my dad used to be a spitting image of Delboy

 

[Lister1987]

I take it all with a pinch of salt, it'll all be editted and inevitably missing bits that has people amrchair sparking "why did he do this etc etc", I like that he tries to educate (in a fashion) clients as to why he does things a certain way but, as with every other spark on socials (media, not housing) there is always something to take away; good or bad. Either watch them as an example/good practices to follow or which pitfalls to avoid.

 

[goasis]

I dunno why I just watched his latest, its an attempt at an advert for schneider, but if you're going to title a video, "how to change a consumer unit" but spend more time talking about the nice stickers, and making an absolute meal of screwing two bits of wood together, and then fail to mention safe isolation, torque settings or testing of any kind, I feel like you've left yourself open to some criticism.

 

[Dustydazzler]

Thought I did a nice job ?

 

[Dustydazzler]

Another fault diagnostic master class by my favourite celebrity sparky