Meet angry painter Gary Hayers aka GSH Electrical
yeah and I okay so problem
so I've left that situation before escalated with the painter and decorator but let's review what
he was up to so obviously he's removed the two front screws out the socket and lifted it away
from the wall allowing him to paint neatly around the actual socket outlet itself we know that sake
out that was live because he was listening to his music a situation that's unacceptable there
must be a solution to that problem and we'll come up with that during this video presentation but
what is the risk well there's a massive risk of electric shock from accessing the terminals
in the back of the socket outlet so that can't be left in situ and there must be a solution to that
problem the solution for us to that problem is the socket shield this is the safety shield that
goes on single and twin doubt let's let's review other situations similar to the painters one that
could also arise to a risk of electric shock so looking at this one you can see the socket
outlet again has been removed from the wall but this time it in order to allow the plastering
team to skim around the actual socket box itself however from the photograph you can see that a
lot of the plaster debris is falling into that socket outlet and therefore is unacceptable we
cannot tell from the picture whether it's live or not but we would like to leave the situation
where a wall could be plastered could be tiled and could be energized and we'll look at how the
safety shield allows you to do that the reason the electrical accessory can be energized in
this picture is because it complies with bs5733 which is the standard for electrical enclosures
it also complies with regulation five to two point four point one for the ingress protection in other
words the IP rating of the enclosure has been restored by installing the shield these safety
socket shields also conform to BS4662 which is for the standard sizes in the UK
for single and twin boxes what does this mean to the electrical contractor well it means he
can install his first and second fix test the electrical circuits and energize them leaving
the safety shield in place coming back some days later the plastering and painting decorating
team can complete their tasks before with the requirement to de-energize the circuit remove
the safety shield and replace the socket fronts meaning that all trades can work safely using
the outlets that are Indians halation such as lighting and sockets in order to aid their
job but also with zero risk of electric shock from actually touching the live parts behind
the electrical enclosure let's take a closer look at the socket safety shield they come in
two different types so the one and two gangs i've got the two gang in front of me and two different
designs they come as disposable and reusable let's have a look at the reusable one first
the reusable one separates in the corner and it's going to separate in either corner but in order
to install that you'll need to separate into one of those corners so we can do like so if we open
it out around my conductors like so rejoin it back together and sit it into the position on
top of the box like so the disposable one now you're gonna be thinking Gary's gonna have to
disconnect all the conductors in order to install the disposable one you don't let's remove the plug
itself from here and then let's take this one back off I'm joined the corner so make it easier for me
to take it back off like so and then we take one of the disposable ones so we just need to slide
it on so as long as the conductors are nice and close in the back we destroyed it round the back
into position alright so I don't know obviously we can put our front back on it just to remind
you we would just break this little split here in order that we can take it off so when we come to
take it off at the end of the fix we just crack it down here and it will part into two pieces
very easy when I say it's disposable when you've used it you should recycle it it's actually made
from the most recyclable plastic material that is out there so we're not chucking these into
a landfill when we're finished we're actually gonna recycle the material I think it's time
to pop upstairs and install one for our painter and decorator so there was an easy solution to
the situation the painter and decorator was facing with himself he's wanted to keep the
stereo going obviously wanted to cut a nice paint law around here he's removed the sake
outlet and it's energized with the Energizer socket outlet now and we're going to fit the
sockets shield we're gonna fit the reusable type ones that can go in each corner both corners
detach you'll need to detach one corner go around the actual electrical accessory which is isolated
reassemble the shield and locate it into the box itself you cannot return the 3.5 machine screws
you've had with it because they're now not long enough so temporarily we're gonna use some that
are 50 mil long in order to put this help that back so let's do that next so just locate that
one this side like so and I'm going to okay this one as well and then we just tighten
them up so what this will do will mean that we can reenter Joy's the socket outlet safely and
we've returned the IP rating of all sides of the enclosure back to its original value so
let's bring this back into place like so okay and then this one and what we've now is achieved the
IP rating on the top surface to be a minimum of five p4x and the remaining parts of service
being a minimum of IP 2x meaning that now we can reenter joyce's socket outlet we can paint round
it plasti round it tall round it whatever we're doing so remove the safe isolation kit I'm gonna
reenergize the circuit it's back on guys the sake our lows were energized so we can hear the music
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