Consumer unit move?

[PaulF]

Any help from you knowledgable people please for my first question.
I am advising on a heat pump installation and the required location will block the consumer unit access. We have two options - take down a supporting wall to give space or switch the CU from its position to the other face of the same wall. The question is - it will probably need some of the cables extending ( which would be junctioned and protected in a suitable box but would this also need to be fully accesible, not just a squeeze at the side of the heat pump?)
Any ideas? ( I have just had this dropped on my desk this am by the boss and have very little info at the moment)
Thanks

 

[Richard Burns]

You could do permanent maintenance free joints in the cables then they would not need to be accessible.
You could either crimp all the cables that would take a long time; or use MF junction boxes, not sure if there are MF JBs for large numbers of connections.
Either way it could look quite messy, but need must and removing a supporting wall sounds a lot worse.

The other alternative is to position the heat pump in sensible location in the first place!