Hi folks. My house has Econ.7 therefore I have 2 consumer units. Is it possible to incorporate the heating board into the main board. I don't do any domestic stuff. I've seen dual boards and split boards but I'm cofused as to what the difference is. For example can I buy a dual board and...
I am in the middle of a new build house construction (bungalow) where the runs from the main consumer unit (if there is only 1)
will be in some cases nearly 60 meters of cable. So i was thinking, that it might be smarter to put a second consumer unit at
the other end of the house and run a...
Keep getting asked by friends to change their domestic consumer units. Can anyone inform me of the proper procedures to follow? There could be a few to do but am not sure if I need to supply paper work etc.
may sound a stupid question to some sparks but one thing that puzzles me over dual rcd consumer units is the following points : bs7671 says all new boards must be fitted with dual rcd consumer units to comply to regs so all circuits are protected. a typical example is our local council is...
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asked to change two boards the other day to new 17th boards. the two boards was running from the same supply i.e single phase with 100amp main fuse. has anyone else seen this before and is it acceptable.
Hi , can anyone out there clarify this situation? On a periodic inspection for a landlord, you discover that the consumers unit is farly new (hager,mcbs) but no rcd protection what action should be reported? marked as non complient or acceptable? Also battery (not mains) powerd smoke detectors...
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Doing a re-wire for a restaurant. The premises currently has 2 Hager RCD main switch board mounted next to each other between galv trunking.
One of the consumer units used to be on a day night meter, however is now permanently live.
Is there any problem in using the 2 boards as...
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I work for a solar PV company, and they're trying to streamline (for cost planning) our connection to the consumer unit. We need an extra mcb to connect onto, and most of the time customers consumer units don't have a spare way, and if they do then continual load deratings of...
Going to be starting work soon for a company who never change the main board if extra circuits required they just put a small 2 way next to the existing board.The way I would do this would be to spilt the tails and use henly blocks,In some cases this way cant be possible so which other methods...
Hi all realy silly question maybe. Doing consumer change on old consumer 3036 type! now if all test,s out right is it our job to fit rcd protected mcb,s or rcbo,s or indeed any rcd protection at all ! or is it down to what the customer wants to pay ? what are the rules on this? thanks...
Hi. Does anyone know of any consumer units still in production that are 200mm deep from top to bottom as you look at it from the front. I have a tricky job to do involving replacing a pair of 8 way ccu's that are tight to a kitchen ceiling and then have the wall units built right up to them. The...
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I need to locate a new consumer unit approx 10 to 12 metres away from the mains supply. The existing old unit is less than 50cm from the supply.
My initial thought is to replace the existing old unit with a small unit housing just a 100A double pole isolator switch and run tails from this...
my local wholesaler has a special on MK 10 way boards at the moment 65 quid including 2 rcd's and breakers. seems good to me.
what are they like on quality and to work with? always use hager myself so not much experience of mk although a quick look at the board atthe wholesaler and it looked ok...
Hi, I do not know much about electrical regulations but I have recently had a consumer unit fitted in my kitchen, it is very near to my sink but is also very unsightly. I was just wondering what the minimum distance is for the consumer box to be near water? Thankyou
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