Garden distribution board

ncpitts · Sep 2, 2014

Hi all,
I would like to pick your collective brains by asking if any of you has installed a DB/consumer unit in a garden or outside which is flat and flush to the ground . This one is by a lake and needs to be flat. It will be sat in grass/lawn
Ideas or solutions please

Ta lots

Nigel

Pete999 · Sep 2, 2014

trev said:
You'd still need masking tape for the opening end.

No Mate not with those click seals surely

Guest77 · Sep 2, 2014

Fred Carney's, say no more

trev · Sep 2, 2014

Pete999 said:
No Mate not with those click seals surely

To get a proper seal around the cable entry point.

GMES · Sep 2, 2014

£ 10.00 Admission, come on in

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trev · Sep 2, 2014

Only one problem Glenn, the install is going outdoors.

GMES · Sep 2, 2014

trev said:
Only one problem Glenn, the install is going outdoors.

I'm not explaining the joke Trev, because I know you get it Pi$$taker Lol

ncpitts · Sep 2, 2014

Murdoch said:
Got to be a wind up.

No, not a wind up, the customer is very serious, my personal thoughts are the same as yours and i thought i would get some intelligent argument as to the silly idea or a fantastic solution, but no, we get daft jokes about carrier bags
I was going to use your expertise to demonstrate how bad the idea is and go with a cab, but not now
.well done sparks

trev · Sep 2, 2014

The carrier bag jokes are the demonstration of how daft the idea is mate

ncpitts · Sep 2, 2014

trev said:
The carrier bag jokes are the demonstration of how daft the idea is mate

9478 posts and carrier bags are the sum total of wisdom.
The customer is a very intelligent man so if an IP68 box is placed in another and then another (which what he suggested) do you have any scientific reason why not as I'm struggling,I know it's not right but am having difficulty arguing with his logic)

Octopus · Sep 2, 2014

Why does he think a cu is required anyway?

Silly Sausage · Sep 2, 2014

ncpitts said:
Hi all,
I would like to pick your collective brains by asking if any of you has installed a DB/consumer unit in a garden or outside which is flat and flush to the ground . This one is by a lake and needs to be flat. It will be sat in grass/lawn
Ideas or solutions please

Ta lots

Nigel

It's a rediculous idea in the first place, you know that, but you didn't offer up a (equally daft) different solution.

Offer up some ideas yourself for discussion.

edexlab · Sep 2, 2014

I heard of a similar customer idea years ago where they wanted a Db and meters hidden in a courtyard for supplies to separate dwellings in a barn conversion fed from the Dno supply in the main house located 15 m away where the owner lived but didn't want the private meters etc in his property
The idea was to have an underground block built cupboard big enough for the equipment and room for access this was to be hidden under some kind of trapdoor, it was scrapped in the end as they didn't want the costs of building it and ensuring it was tanked and that there was adequate drainage and a pump setup to prevent flooding
Maybe something like this could be proposed, done properly it would be no different than having a db in a cellar but I doubt the cost would make it viable
We didn't do the work and what actually happened in the end was a posh raised flower bed with a waterproofed cupboard accessible from the side facing away from the barn.

trev · Sep 2, 2014

The carrier bags thing are what is known as a p1$$ take mate, it's quite common in the construction trades when someone comes up with a daft idea no matter who that person is.
Well, I'd be thinking about condensation for starters.
Then If you drilll a hole to eradicate that you've completely buggered up that IP68 rating so the box cannot be buried

Silly Sausage · Sep 2, 2014

ncpitts said:
9478 posts and carrier bags are the sum total of wisdom.
The customer is a very intelligent man so if an IP68 box is placed in another and then another (which what he suggested) do you have any scientific reason why not as I'm struggling,I know it's not right but am having difficulty arguing with his logic)

Sod the 9400, them spare 78 posts have more wisdom in them than more than 100,000 other posts on here.

Your customer may be a very intelligent man, but how much does he actually know about electrical installation?

not clever · Sep 2, 2014

Either place a small brick built box into a ha-ha or hide it in some folliage then put your cu inside it......
One of these?
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Infact how about a ha-ha with a wall & put a meter cabinet in the wall and a cu in the cabinet.