Consumer unit in cupboard in Shower Room

[robertl]

Hi All,
looking for some assistance on this as finding different information wherever i look.

We have a garage external to the house, which we are turning into a small 1 bedroom flat, due to the layout the shower room will have to be located in the corner where the garage consumer unit is, which is a two way consumer unit, rcd protected with lights and sockets coming off it.

The question is whether I can just build a small cupboard around it with a door, or will i have to partition off the corner so the consumer unit is in a seperate room behind a partitition.

I have found several posts mentioning new builds with consumer units in toilet / shower rooms, but just wonder where exactly i stand with current regulations, I'm in Scotland also.

Look forward to your replies on this.

Thanks
Robert

 

[davesparks]

Just move the consumer unit to a more suitable location, its not going to be much work to move a 2 way CU.

 

[robertl]

Just move the consumer unit to a more suitable location, its not going to be much work to move a 2 way CU.

The moving of the consumer unit wouldnt be as much of an issue, it's the armoured cable supplying it from the other side thats the problem, also the timber frame walls etc, not easy to get the cable moved along. short of putting all the circuits into a JB and extending them across that way. It would be do-able but just thinking an airtight cupboard will be as good as anything.

 

[davesparks]

The moving of the consumer unit wouldnt be as much of an issue, it's the armoured cable supplying it from the other side thats the problem, also the timber frame walls etc, not easy to get the cable moved along. short of putting all the circuits into a JB and extending them across that way. It would be do-able but just thinking an airtight cupboard will be as good as anything.

Armoured cable is easy enough to extend.

Surely if you're changing this room from a garage to a habitable room then the existing circuits will be getting rewired to serve the new purpose?

 

[robertl]

Armoured cable is easy enough to extend.

Surely if you're changing this room from a garage to a habitable room then the existing circuits will be getting rewired to serve the new purpose?

Some small parts will be getting changed, but luckily the ring main and lights are all just about in the right place, need to remove a couple of sockets that is about it, and run a couple of switch cables to move the lights from one circuit to 4, but nothing much needs changed thankfully.

 

[robertl]

Some small parts will be getting changed, but luckily the ring main and lights are all just about in the right place, need to remove a couple of sockets that is about it, and run a couple of switch cables to move the lights from one circuit to 4, but nothing much needs changed thankfully.

It's not actually a garage at the moment, it was a garage when it was built, around 12 years ago, we never used it as that, so changed it into a Cinema and games room. It has now become defunct since the last house extension, so now turning it into a flat.

 

[Dannybruff]

Put it in a cupboard with a TKey latch and i think youll be ok...

 

[Welchyboy1]

I’d just relocate it and be done with it, what would it be, half days work max

 

[Welchyboy1]

It’s a much easier job to move it now with the build work

if you don’t you’ll no doubt only end up with some electrician kicking up a stink about it being in the shower room in a future EICR or something