with the winners of the efixx awards due to be announced this Thursday in our live
premiere we thought it would be a good idea to have a sit down with some of the judges and get
to know a little bit about their personalities and also an insight into the judging process
so first up we've got paul elcot from doc store so uh paul can i get you anything just before
we start the interviewing good coffee yeah here you go ready will that do that's a good cup of
tea during that well i try my best but you can't beat one from home though can you can't educate my
wife i've been married to her for 21 years and still keeps telling she puts too much milk in
okay that that may be a bit more personal than we were looking for there paul so uh let's get stuck
into the interview we can always edit that out first of all what did you make of our sponsors
how would you describe them large global brands such as the car i think you may be a bit confused
there paul the car is a product rather than a brand okay well we may have to agree to disagree
there let's move on uh what would you look for in an electrician coming to work on your home
i would be looking for an electrician to come to my house who first of all dresses smartly ah
like this you mean would you uh would you allow me to come and work in your home oh
well that's a little disappointing uh hope you and me are okay matey is there anything we could have
done to maybe make the judging process better for you make me feel more comfortable in either going
to a shop uh that feels a little bit beyond our remit there paul i know it's really tough
post lockdown but sometimes you've just got to get out of your comfort zone i'll tell you what
let's restore your confidence a bit here you've listed as your special skill on the judging form
as being able to name all the countries that make up the uk please show us scotland yes
i think northern ireland that's a great start keep going scotland oh a little repetition there
try again mate northern ireland well i think we'll we'll circle back around to that one there paul
thanks very much for helping us out okay so next up is our very good friend shahid khan of the eca
he's been working very hard to get the second amendment to the 18th edition out of the door
and of course we're very very grateful to be able to read that now so shaheed how does it
feel to finally get the second amendment out of the door and into public hands
so not quite as exciting as we thought then um your tie was a lot nicer than mine so i've taken
mine off would you like to unveil your copy of the second amendment for us now so i've lost it
yeah okay well maybe you could tell us what the book's called at least what was the name of it
it's bs 7671 shaheed maybe you could describe it to us then um
it's absolutely massive well it is definitely bigger than the last one by about 60 pages or
so what's your favorite regulation that you've memorized from the second amendment would you say
i don't know there's loads okay it feels like we're not getting much out of you here shaheed
let's try and break the ice a little bit with some more personal stuff let's start with a joke
what kind of van does an electrician drive i don't know there's loads a volkswagen
okay so now you're a bit more relaxed let's talk about some personal stuff what do you
like to do to unwind on the night well i'll log into youtube and i'll watch some efix videos
that's very kind of you to say shaheed but i'm not sure that's quite what we're looking for
in terms of relaxing activity i mean there's nothing wrong with that well that may not be
entirely true bud you did tell me about a dream that you had the other night on a farm and they
had drones and all sorts of stuff and there was a lot of automation on there and that was that
was a really exciting one for me and when you were in your dream how would you describe the
noise that the largest drone was making it's it's buzzing only to be expected from a drone
and were you by yourself in your dream and there were a couple of good eca members as well so that
was that was nice to see you see what i mean i think you need to find a way to switch off before
bed and while ethics videos are great there might be better ways of relaxing anyway let's conclude
with your special skill children's tv shows can you name the motto of the children's tv show
record breakers dedication very good it's the key to success so close it's
dedication's what you need pretty cliche but yes but it's still the right answer to the question
okay well thanks for joining us shaheed we'll move to our next judge and that is stephen smith
from ev comply so steve we've not met in person before do you know my full name uh joel public
uh it's close it's joe robinson no worries so what did you think of the other judges that we've
interviewed so far i really liked what they the way they came across they were great weren't they
and how do they compare to you not soul mancunian well nobody's perfect make me sound intelligent
okay well i'm sure we're all equally clever in different ways now it's a shame that we weren't
able to do more of the judging in person with each other could you just describe that judging process
to me please what times are in people's homes no i didn't know you were all getting together in each
other's homes while we were judging but that's a bit strange do you uh do you know why i wouldn't
be invited to that i said yeah that's a difficult one well i know there was a bit of tension on the
judging panel but uh who is the one who got properly on your nerves i won't name any names
very noble okay no worries so let's talk about the awards themselves then now your business ev comply
very kindly supported us with one of the categories which category was it it was
really difficult to to decide was it it seems that there's one very likely award that you'd really
want to be involved in i should know the answer of this off top of my head okay well it was the eevee
installer of the year so thanks very much for that we really appreciate it and do you think there's
any categories that we missed out on that we should pop in next year maybe as lawyers they're
involved in this space as well okay i think that might be a slightly different arena stephen but
sure we'll keep it in mind now i'd like your advice on something i need to charge up an ev now
should i use this lead or should i use this one i'm kind of favoring this one what do you think
don't put this in okay so i'll plug this one in then i might need another engineer now
i mean i'm i'm fairly competent steven you know it's just plugging in a lead i'm i am
a qualified electrician you could you could always work for yourself yeah i guess so but
you know the team would struggle without me i don't want to let them down really
now how do you think this interview is going so far then mating yeah it's fast fast-paced
fast-paced environments are working fair point let's slow it down a bit and talk about how you
like to relax i can see here from your judging form that your special skill is you enjoy
identifying common household objects so let's play a game what do i have here that's that's
that's a key solid work there maybe let's talk music what sort of stuff do you enjoy you know
small one-man bands oh really is that not a little bit niche i mean i guess there can't be too many
of those around yeah yes yeah i've seen a few okay and what are you doing for a holiday this year i'm
rambling don't worry mate that sounds delightful and finally after the awards if we go out for a
drink and you want me to buy you a cocktail what am i buying for you can you give me a french twang
i've never heard of that one no steven uh i'm not convinced that's going to do you any good but
thank you very much for your help with the judging process and thank you for being interviewed
and thank you to all of our judges who've been absolutely spectacularly helpful sacrificing their
time and their energy to speak to us and also with the judging and also being such good sports
to take part in the spoof interview don't forget the awards is premiering on youtube at 7 pm
on thursday the 31st of april so tune in for that to see who's won an award and who made
the shortlist all that remains in this video is to say thank you very much for watching