i've suggested for a long time that Line Side studio needs a rewire and especially some
heating introduced into this building and efixx currently has four electricians within our team
however we're not going to rewire it are we we're going to pass it over to Pegasus electrical
where Eddie and Steve are going to rewire the unit for us they're going to introduce things that
we've already seen on the channel before we're going to have the salamandre trunking from legrand
we're also going to have the acti 9 isobar board from Schneider introduced into this building and
we're going to follow Eddie round as he starts the work within here pick his brains and see if we can
find some top tips we also have a top tip at efixx and what we've got here is you've got three meters
lengths of trunking and conduit and you've got a three meter floor okay but what happens Eddie when
you've cut that length and obviously it goes under the floor you're never going to retrieve it are
you can if you go up hill all right okay only the doors are open top tip for efixx always go uphill
so how did you overcome the problem i've overcome the problem i've created a three metre draw ah
right so use pieces of trunking what's stopping them going out the other end uh end cap on the
other end and that's it so all your offcuts go in here so off cuts of rod, tube and lids top tip
we've got another top tip down here as well which we have yes so what we've got here is plastic
mini trunking and conduit what's the top tip top tip keep in the bag that it arrives in
if you buy the bundle keep the three meter bags and that way then they stay nice and clean okay
yeah it's about getting all dirty that's probably done about twenty thousand mile and it's yeah
as clean as it would come and obviously you can put the offcuts in here as well because it's all
held within the bag it's all held within the bag top tip so you've brought me up here Eddie to have
a look at the Milwaukee laser level uh let's go back in in time what was the equivalent of
this say early in your career well it was either the Gary Neville which is what it's uh box level
with the bubble spirit level Gary Neville love it i've never had that one before and and then
you've got the uh water levels which was uh a tube with the water in it with markings at either end
and you'd keep one in a fixed position of what you wanted your datum line to be and when you
brought the other one up to where you thought it was going to be again when that line levelled out
that's it zero days that was it was there okay but this time we've got this lovely looking Milwaukee
one just remind me how it's attached to the wall can you it's um on the earth magnet so you fix it
to any steel work and there's also comes with a clamp that you can fix for like ceiling grid and
such like as well okay and this gives you three lines on my right horizontal vertical and does
it give you one over the top yes it's uh got three planes on it oh exactly vertical and just remind
me what we're using it here for then so i can see we've got the horizontal line comes round
what are you using it for uh we're using that to set up the hanging struts and the uh trunking
so it hits the bottom line of the trunking all the way around the room and you're going to use
that as your datum line throughout that's right yeah i'll take it it's battery powered along the
battery life this one's on the 6 amp battery and that'll last for i believe about 18 hours can you
explain the fine adjustment it's got as well Eddie we've got a knob just here and when we
turn it obviously i don't want to do it at the moment because we've got our levels already set
turn that and you know adjust the line slightly up and down to so so so you're taking it off the
wall and moving it up the fraction with the magnet being so strong it obviously
makes it difficult to get it to the millimeter okay you're gonna cut a piece of Legrand trunking
for me any top tips yeah PPE first yeah and uh i use a block of wood to clamp the
front to help to clamp it correctly and then just cut nice and steady right okay and then you're
going to show us another tip about once you've cut it and preparing the end yeah yes will do yeah
yeah very clean cut okay but of course we're obviously gonna have to spray that up in order
that it doesn't rust we'll need a slight file yeah which i won't do for demonstration purposes
but um you've got a top tip for spraying it up yeah i have indeed
you've told me i've done it wrong so that's good i like that i want to say you've done it wrong
but i didn't do it right yeah you're just too slow
top top tip then uh when spraying the end of the trunkings i'm at an angle from the inside so
you don't have to tape up there so i take it out didn't mine don't so no tape you're not required
okay as you can see then no spray
on the outside that's a bit of no masking required okay top tip top tip
Eddie we've just pushed it in here to our 90 degree and you said there's a little top
tip for me here yeah if you loosen off the uh nuts uh that they'll clip straight in they'll
send it you've got a pivot point uh so you can uh fix the trunking at the other end
uh thus you could do it as a one-man job so me and Gordon have looked at Legrands IP4X and
IP55 trunking on the channel however it takes a real professional someone installing it day
in and day out in order that we can get a true and honest reflection of the trunking however
Steve is currently busy so i've had to draft you in Eddie for your opinion so have you before
fitted this Legrand trunking yes you have yes so since when since 2011. wow that is a long time
you've been installing now there must be reasons behind choosing that as your trunking so what
would you say would be its best feature uh the quality and the speed of fitting speed of fitting
so therefore it's easier to install therefore we can work quicker and get to the next job etc
in that time so 2011's going back a while have you fitted anyone else's trunking in that time
yes i've visited other makes but i've just come straight back to Legrand
right okay so it's your trunking of choice would you suggest oh without question yeah and we've
seen it being installed we're going to continue on to getting some great tips off Eddie as we go and
put the lid on et cetera and we've also got the distribution board to mount so should we get on
we're doing some of that or should we let Steve do it all we'll leave today we'll leave Steve
so what's the top tip this time then Eddie over fitting turn buckles to the uh trunking lid
okay so we've got in front of us here 50 mm and 100 mm lid there and it looks like
pattern pending invention from Pegasus electrical is that correct yes something
like that yes okay so you show saying the mark up for these turnbuckle clips then
yes first of all we mark up one feet uh 150 from the end of the trunking okay straight line through
so square that one up and then you're gonna be using this bit of kit area
that's correct yeah and sometimes this is actually a viewing hole this one is right here yes you can
see that you've let's just have a little look yeah you've squared that one in there yeah and which of
the two are you going to use i'm going to be using these two here okay two marking points
all right okay and then is it 14.1 mm that we know yes it is yeah and then literally we just
and that's a 14 mm hole saw and you said that gives a real nice snug nice snug fit yes let's see
you're gonna pop a couple of them for us yes i will do yeah get me tap ometer
and i tend to uh face the uh the spring retainer to the outside yeah so it's ready to go go
pop them in there
and if they don't uh go straight away just quick tap okay going to repeat the process for us on
the 100 mm lid yes this works slightly differently all right okay i'd like a second top tip then yeah
same again 150 mm from the end
is it the same view in the hole again in your your lid itself that viewing hole doesn't work for both
uh no this one works slightly differently it's this view hole this time all right okay the second
hole yeah see that gives us that one yeah that would work for the three inch okay
or the 75 mm that's better yeah thank you um and i'll show them how we do this one
all we do is flip that round ah right okay yeah and that gives us
two positions and uh we drill again and off we go again
that's incredibly simple wouldn't it oh yeah how long you had your plate how long
has this template been uh this one's about three years old um the other one
one of the other ones got nicked with a load of other stuff so somebody borrowed your van
overnight did they yeah i didn't return it and then same again let's just uh pop them in
okay so i would suggest that plate there is a top tip from Eddie so we're going to set this up to
50 mm and you're going to show me a top tip in order to get a line across the bottom of
this distribution board at 50 mm yes that's quick Gary um little carping to trick okay
there we go six holes so we've marked out six positions what sides of the bushes again
these are 38 mil short reach bushes okay time to drill the holes in
that's nice and sturdy
top tip pull the cardboard in yeah and then you're back out you've
only got to back that part instead of the whole board oh right yeah
moment of truth in they line up do they yeah yeah yeah stroke of luck won't it
now that looks like a product i've seen before on the channel what do we got there then
oh we've got the Brocket 38 mm okay is that a prototype or is that available it is it is it's
prototype Adrian uh sent them up to me to give them a try okay let's give them a try then yeah
well they work
well that makes a lot of easier than that oh yes
me and the team at efixx would like to thank Pegasus electrical and all those top tips he
gave us as he installed the containment here at Line Side studios and what a pleasure it
was to see the Legrand salamandre ip4x trunking being installed after me and Gordon had done a
review on it i'm standing here by the acti 9 isobar distribution board from Schneider and
we've seen previously in videos me and Gordon look at the plug on neutral and the power tag
and in future videos you're going to see how we're going to develop the wiring system from this point
in order to facilitate the circuits that we install at line side studios
but as always we're interested in your comments have you been fitting this trunk in by Legrand
is it great what's your feedback is there any top tips that Eddie didn't give us that you'd
like to give us in the comments below we'll try and get back to as many of those as we can