Taking on a new electrician

[enlighting]

There are Electricians, and there are proper Electricians, I'm afraid it's up to you to chose. I did a lot of interviewing at my old job, and as far as I was concerned I got in total15 very good Electricians over the years, it also depends on what sort of Electrician you are after, I have a list of questions I used but unfortunately they are at my old office and I no longer have access to them, I could come up with a few if you like, PM me if interested.

Please do

 

[Knobhead]

I'd be interested to see your list to see what you would ask, I am a firm believer of demonstrating skills.

I suppose someone has to teach you.

 

[7029 dave]

Aye, but it's not all that far from the truth!

When I was an apprentice the boss had a brand new factory built and we - the apprentices - did all the conduit & trunking work to get leccy to the machines etc.

It was all done after hours so's not to lose production time and all we had to bend the conduit with was a wooden railway sleeper with a hole in it. But when it was all finished it was bloody good - everything plumb and straight which wasn't that surprising as we were Precision Engineers.

In the old days of the shipyards if a hole was needed to be burned through a bulkhead to pass a pipe through, the burner would hold his cap against the bulkhead where the hole needed to be and draw around it with a bit of chalk and then follow he chalk line with his burning torch.

They employed blokes with different sized heids so's to have the option of burning different sized holes.

Yeah, I have used timber block with hole, when was a lad, shagged it right up.Give me the hilmore any day.

 

[Leesparkykent]

Yeah, I have used timber block with hole, when was a lad, shagged it right up.Give me the hilmore any day.

You are supposed to use the hole in the block for the conduit lol :icon12: