Worst place you've seen a fuseboard / consumer unit..??

sparkyjohn1 · May 5, 2014

Was round a job over the weekend,, asked the customer where the consumer unit was,,,,, led me to the cupboard under the stairs, not really a surprise.... but wasn't expecting this,, !! Lol...!!

Worst I've ever seen,,, !!! Although, it's an old Re-wirable Wylex, probably there before the toilet was put in,, so not really the sparkies fault... Plumber should have known better.!! Still worth a chuckle tho...//.

Brings a whole new meaning to locating a C/U in an accessible place.... hmm,,

[ElectriciansForums.net] Worst place you've seen a fuseboard / consumer unit..??

Plonker 3 · May 5, 2014

sparkyjohn1 said:
Was round a job over the weekend,, asked the customer where the consumer unit was,,,,, led me to the cupboard under the stairs, not really a surprise.... but wasn't expecting this,, !! Lol...!!

Worst I've ever seen,,, !!! Although, it's an old Re-wirable Wylex, probably there before the toilet was put in,, so not really the sparkies fault... Plumber should have known better.!! Still worth a chuckle tho...//.

Brings a whole new meaning to locating a C/U in an accessible place.... hmm,,

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You have never met a plumber have you?

sparkyjohn1 · May 5, 2014

Yeah mate,
met a few plumbers in my time,, Only a handful are decent and clued up,,,,, The other's just don't give a damn,,,!!

R G · May 5, 2014

Hardly surprising ,The trade is all going down the pan these days,,

Englishman · May 5, 2014

Taking the p*ss ain't it

sparkyjohn1 · May 5, 2014

lol.. yeh,,, accidentally turning the power off the whole house when reaching round for the bog roll...!!

Darkwood · May 5, 2014

I've posted it before but this is behind the washing machine after a new kitchen was designed and fitted. Its a mates house and lucky for the plumer and kitchen company it was done several years ago or I would be ripping them a new rectum!

Alex Ramage · May 5, 2014

Under the floor of a toilet being converted into a utility room. It's the DB for the flats in the block! They had to cut a hatch in the ceiling below to get access but wouldn't pay for relocating it

R G · May 5, 2014

Shop fitters are some of the worst for this sort of thing , I had to remove a complete 2M run of racking system once together with all the stuff on the shelves and then the board had been moved by the guy who put the racking in so as he could get a fixing for the support timber and the whole DB was hanging suspended by the cables in mid air ,,,

SPARTYKUS · May 5, 2014

Ray Galea said:
Shop fitters are some of the worst for this sort of thing , I had to remove a complete 2M run of racking system once together with all the stuff on the shelves and then the board had been moved by the guy who put the racking in so as he could get a fixing for the support timber and the whole DB was hanging suspended by the cables in mid air ,,,

Hanging in the air...? Maybe he needed the extra Amps for reference method E

uksparks · May 5, 2014

I swapped a light fitting the other week for a lady, I said where's the fuse box... She pointed at this small door in the kitchen next to the built in cooker...

it it must have been 18" x 20" this door, I opened it, I said where is it? She said behind the cooker...

The cooker had been built in to this apparent new wall and left a gap of around 6 to 8 inches directly behind the cooker so to even get a screwdriver in to remove the cover you would have to remove the cooker, not only this you have to be rather small just to get in the cupboard.

some people are right plonkers!

R G · May 5, 2014

Hanging but supported by cable ties , another store, (same name though) , the DB had been moved of the wall and new slat wall had been fitted , and the DB was pushed up and sat to top of the ceiling tiles , this was the same group of stores , mention no names!!

Adam W · May 5, 2014

On a refurb of toilets in a school: I was there for the rip out stage, then went back right at the end of the job. The area where the DB was had been turned into the caretaker's toilet, but there were no obvious signs of it.
I asked the guy who had been there for the whole job - you had to go into the caretaker's toilet, shut the door, put the toilet seat down, stand on the toilet, remove one of the laminated panels above the cistern, and it was behind there.
Unfortunately I didn't get a picture.

trev · May 5, 2014

Worst place I ever saw a CU, Throckley in Newcastle.

SPARTYKUS · May 5, 2014

Best Ive seen was a house that had had a new kitchen fitted, in the corner unit, right at the back, was a small (maybe a foot by a foot) bit cut out of the back plate, still not obvious, but if one crawled into the kitchen cabinet, and shined a torch in the hatch and sideways, one would see a number of KMFs and a couple of off peak boards about 3 feet away on a wall.

completely inaccessable and out of reach.

was doing an EICR so wrote it up and walked off laughing wiping the tears away