i like days like this i've got it bright and breezy i've traveled down
to Portsmouth because I'm here today to see Dan from DJE Electrical Services
Dan left some comments on a video that I produced on the 10 way fully loaded
BG consumer unit Dan's a massive fan of that product and I'm going to get
a chance today to spend some time with him out on-site so let's go find him
so Dan how's it going thanks for watching what are we up to
we are changing a domestic fuse board today um we have
a split load board at the minute an old plastic style
we're going to be adding a new fuse board metal clad obviously 18th edition
with SPD and dare I ask what is the make of that board have a little guess
is it by any chance of BG board in one so let's see install the BG board today
well he never mentioned he was this rapid he's already in uh
isolated the board and the old one's going out so if customer
changes are mined out damn we're in trouble aren't we we very well be
always my favorite this is get the board on the floor and turn to the
customer and say do you remember where any of those connections went yes always
finally it livens up the payment process when your wi-fi is not coming back on i
hope um someone's got a clue because i haven't you know it's classic one line
all right it's getting the other circuits out ready they're all
labelled and knit okay ready so you know where they're going yeah I just
use a nick system okay yeah i did as well simple i find tape pulls off
yeah writing's another job and that one yeah and i can't do it
so that involves spelling yeah so just uh just to update people watching the
video it fully electrical installation a condition report was done you showed
me that report off camera and we're actually at the stage we're interested
in the actual consumer change itself yep introducing surge which is great yeah so
uh this one's this one's gonna be off in seconds so that's not coming out
i used to find it fascinating when you've got like three pauses and
one slotted things like that all right well that's off so moment of truth the
odd one's out uh is the new one going to fit in that gap there well we hope
so mate because it's a little bit too late now if it doesn't so let's get it
like look at that made to fit me a couple of things i really
like about it the spirit level on the left-hand side up there
really good yeah you find that useful agreed yeah i just think it it just it's
a little touch for me um just to get it get it obviously nice and straight
um another really interesting good point about these is the screws obviously come
ready if you just screw in that you haven't got unscrew and screw them in
obviously at the risk when you get to the end here as well they bite
so you kind of unscrew it it just falls out which is which is a
little a little beautiful i think and the gap on the right-hand side are
ideal for the towels it's huge yeah if you can't sweep the tail in there
um i think you're doing something wrong and you know you can drill your whole
loads of room up here sweep them in nice joints so yeah all in all solid board i
think i think you've had a bit of luck there with the sides of that covered in
the side of that board so well done no luck involved okay so you can do
rear entry on this board dan it comes with all the stuff in the kit doesn't
it it does comes with a little plastic bit for the middle which clips in uh
shouldn't go anywhere once it's clipped but i always look to add a bit of
super glue just to make sure cause obviously cable entry is very important
um so yeah i don't think enough people take it seriously
uh we do need to grommet stuff we've got sharp metal edges so
also we've got this grommet strip here which i can place around these two entry
holes and again with a bit of super glue and just sturdies everything up peace of
mind for me so when i've mounted the board i know the cables are safe and
the grommet strip as well as the other strip we're all included in the kit
all comes with the kit yeah that's all everything they have indeed and blanks
i've just seen you do the first part of the dim round nice little feature shows
again down what you're up to it was just literally they put little nicks in it so
it's just a case of a bit of gentle persuasion you haven't got going mad
with the saw and away you go okay now it's ready to be fitted it is indeed
check them off as i go in another one in another one in yeah
yeah making it the piece of art plenty of room though yeah yeah very very nice
bit of room mate um it's just yeah i find them just nice to work with
yeah the depth of the back when i was putting my hand in i've got a
man's size and like you damn but when i put my hands back there i think he
kind of has incredible amount of room to dress cables behind the
yeah the breakers in the dinner out but yeah that's exactly it and that's what
we're looking for is just little things that are going to make our lives easier
um little things that are just going to make the install easier go smooth
that's what we're looking for in every
nick this new cable that's a tune yeah don't want to lose your markings
so most of the cables are i'm going to make a a few
connections to extend a few cables so we're in a good place
any top tips for your layout are you you've got a layout in mind um
i always try and spread it so i've got a ring main and one ring main on the other
light and lighting so obviously just diversity just giving it a bit of um
leeway if you lose one off you're not gonna lose all your lights if
you lose one off the board you're not gonna lose all your sockets
absolutely um try and keep it that way because obviously we bang on about
um when we do rcbos about nuisance dripping so it's also good to get
the most out of a split load board and use it for what it's there for really
and again you've you've offered the customer you know do you have a full
rcbo board it's down to the customer's choice without a doubt and obviously
i understand you know you look at it probably a minimum of 200 quid more um
but the option was that yes so they've always got that
option and i think that's important so really exciting stage we've extended
uh all the circuits didn't quite reach the the board position um yeah we'll get
ready to strip now identifying the rings and stuff and obviously you know getting
it all dressed in so i can get uh swept in neutral swept in otherwise it becomes
a bit of a bird's nest um which could be an absolute pain in the backside to work
on but this is the fun part of the yeah yeah you do rewire you you hunkered down
here and i think your son's off running around finishing all the second fix
you probably instagram on the go at the same time yeah yeah
yeah that'll do the board yeah obviously we're going after this we're going to
show it but obviously we're going to complete the full installation testing
you've done your pre pre-inspection test which we've seen off camera
this is just a fun bit really isn't it we're trying to show you whether any
patching of any hole replacements or anything like that we're just
purely just having a look at the ease and comfort i think that the bg board
brings to the electrical contractor
so if you were to take a stab at it how many bg boards do you think you've
fitted in your time uh crikey it's thousands we should have won all of
council contracts i've been installing them since i can remember to be
honest and this is what i've never had really a bad thing to say against them
there we go and it's just nice in with the screw it's all set you just
bend it in it's i don't know i just find it's a lot of room to work in there
and all the screw heads i'm alright i'm
thinking they're all the same uh what they call plus minus or
slide yeah you could use one screwdriver for the whole thing whole
board everything okay we will be going back to the top screwdriver before the
first person jumps in obviously we're just nipping them in at the moment yes
so with the way you dress the cables i see you taking the line conductors
down the back uh where the pin rail is obviously you do line and then you go
neutral or earth next exactly yes i'm thinking behind it okay that's it mate
so rather than sweeping your neutrals across in your cpc to give yourself
the maximum amount of room even though there's a huge amount of room behind
there yeah it's just folding out of the way that's just how i've always
done it i suppose i'm quite handed with things at times but it's just
how i find the process to to do it is works easier for me otherwise i
find i'll just end up with a bird's nest and the ocd and me just wants to scream
i just it you know if you work if you know where you're at with it
you can work on it there's any faults or anything like that and we show in
showing parts of this video we're not going to show it all we're not trying
to do a diy guide here i've had to do a a consumer unit we're just showing
you know some of the great practice that i've seen throughout today with you then
so long conductors coming together now we need to nearly finish those
and we've obviously split them according to what we discussed earlier upstairs
and downstairs across the shower cooker just the two bigger ones
it comes fully populated with the breakers um you did have to swap one
of them out um you swapped out a 32 but they pretty much cover most situations
you think yeah definitely um they put the 140 in obviously for 10 mil showers
i always put my showers on a 10 mil at 40. um yeah and then obviously the 32s
uh they come with four 32s two six uh two sixteens and is it
four sixes or three sixes so yeah it's a nice nice spread of what you need
and the spd was fully wired in when you got it as well which i thought was nice
yeah didn't send you the kit actually they've done that for you it's all
done yeah so saving me i've gotta just check the tightness and go from there
all right i just want to you got any top top tips i'm not missing
it or not i don't mind if you haven't no i well i always unscrew as much as
much as you can until you can't feel it going anymore and once you've unscrewed
it you'll know you'll feel it it just keeps going around and what i
do before i do it i'll just push just to send them back send them all back
but always have a look because even there look the third one
still hasn't gone right back so it would be quite easy to
to miss it yeah and then just hold it in like that i always screw this end yeah
so that we don't get a bend on the dim rail hence why some people may struggle
with the lids and then i'll just do this in and it just then we've done
the two ends it means once we tighten in between it should sit a lot straighter
yeah and obviously earlier you're going to go back in obviously talk them all up
at the end through in a minute but the line conductor all done nice and neat
i like the neutrals as well just cpc's to go yep and uh that'll be probably us
somewhere in the region of finishing this board yes
so we're coming towards the end of it where the cpc's are going in now
before obviously we've got testing what would be your your feedback for bg on
their balls because not everything's perfect well no exactly that and i
mean no board's perfect um there's a few little down sides to this one being the
knockout for the uh tails isn't in line so i've drilled my own here but it could
do with having a knockout there so it's you know little things like that um also
that's dim rail this is solid because i believe if you dress the cables in
properly and you screw it to a decent i mean that's not going anywhere but
i have had in the past where they leaned forward with the weight on them
so i think maybe just one more solid attachment in the middle of the dim
rail will stop that from happening um and you do get issues with the
lid but again i think that's down to the rail um and if that can be
sorted i think that would take that element away so yeah it's not perfect
but as i say it's definitely one of my favorites to work on
so we'd like to thank you dan for your time today brilliant thanks for coming
so i'd looked at the bg consumer unit as a live feed event and today we got
to see it out in action so what's our summary thoughts on it dan again
uh enjoyed the install decent boards uh solid boards fun to work on with the spd
loads of space so yeah i think we've done a good job it looks good
safe tested customers happy 18th edition and all for a very very
good price reasonable price so i can't really grumble with a
BG as always we're interested in your thoughts and your comments please make sure you leave them below and we'll try and get back to as many as we can
happy days just one thing left i guess if you don't mind me
thanks