hi, and welcome back to theenvision. home at last. video series. we’re on site today. we're talking with jeff disher from disherelectric. now, an electrician is one of the trades on site that needs to be licensed andcertified. so first, let’s talk about that. jeff, what does that entail? well, first of all, you got to be accepted into the apprenticeship. the apprenticeshipis five years long but in between there and after that, you have to have continuing education.just not a matter of getting your license, it’s a matter of maintaining that licenseand keeping the classes and codes updated for your license. so the importantpart of this is: homeowners need to really pay attention to who it is that they’rehiring to work on their job. sure. now here on site
we want to see what it takes to rough in ahouse. behind us here is a pedestal. jeff, walk us through this, how does this happen? you have to find out, really, who’d be serving your residents, whether it’dbe a wisconsin public service, alliant energy, or we energies of that sort. but finding outwho that is, and then an application has to be filled out by the homeowner or the contractorwith it or together. fill that application out. get that in as soon as possible and thenpay any bills that may need to be paid for that to proceed. then when we get that ok’d, the basement gets backfilled. we come in, we set the pedestal. and that’s ultimately then what triggersgetting the power from the road to the house? exactly. then the utility companywill send in a contractor or do it themselves,
trench in. bring the wires in that and fireit up. tell me what’s going on here? well, we’ve got our 200 ampservice here. that’s normal on a house (a residential house). we come in from the pedestal.we come down. this is where our circuits will come out of. whether it’d be the bathroomcircuits, living room circuits, or bedroom and all those. so all those leadscome down, they’re actually running throughout the house. now, why don't we explain how this systemdiffers from the old system with fuses. what we’ve got is a breaker system. they’renew, up-to-date. there’s new codes to that too. there’s arc-fault breakers and panelsequipped for all those things. we have breakers that can trip and reset and it tells you thatit's tripped. are all the circuits live
in rough-in or is that later? we’dnot rough them in ’cause we don’t accidentally turning on circuits that we do not want live.circuits that don’t have outlets in them that would be open and dangerous in that time, so... ok. we usually won’t do that until trim out or whatever, so. ok and thenat the final, then we’ll get inspection of this. the actual inspector will come in and say“yeah, everything’s good to go.†yes, gets inspected to check to make sureeverything’s up to code and everything else that we’ve put the arc-fault breakers inplace. why don’t you explain what a homeowner can do to help you out? have them come through as a walk through first of all before we do rough in but we also encouragethem to get through and try to make they have
their plans set aside, the specifics of whatthey’re looking for in their home. we also look for cabinet drawings. whether it be thator their vanity drawings, their bathrooms, kitchens, and everything else. so it givesus an idea what we're looking for and what we can plan for. so, that’sgonna tell them where lighting is going to be important for you to rough-in for or you’regoing to need to know where a range is, or a microwave or refrigerator. all those things,so you know where those leads go, correct? exactly, yes. and what they wouldneed to plan for, whether it’d be electric oven or gas oven and stuff like that. we alsowant to make sure that the homeowners are aware of the different colors of devices:whether it’d be light almond, white or ivory
are the three basic ones. and then we comein and actually install them, so. ok and they’re generally bringing in theirlights to you, right? yeah, normally what that would be is they’ll pick theirlights out ahead of time, bring their lights, set them out in the place they want or atleast mark them which part of the house they go to. and then at that point, that’swhere you get your final inspection? yes, after we trim out and everything we getfinal inspection. inspector comes in and makes sure everything is up to code and go from there, so. ok,sounds good. i think that covers everything with electrical on residential, right? pretty much, yeah. ok, good. well, i hope you found this information helpful.if you did, please subscribe to our youtube
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