Consumer unit upgrade

Welsh_sparky_21 · Jul 31, 2023

Just looking to see if anyone’s had a similar job or has any other ideas. Got a consumer unit to upgrade, the current one is fitted inside an enclosure that houses the meter head. It’s on old Mem DB, the cables are wired in conduits which are all terminated onto the the inside of the enclosure. I’ve only got a 300mm gap so don’t see me being able to fit a new DB inside the enclosure, my plan was to fit a joint box inside enclosure and join through the circuits and fit a bit of wood on top of this and mount the new DB onto this, anyone else got any other suggestions? I can’t see any other real way without causing major disruption to the wall

davesparks · Jul 31, 2023

Do you have any pictures? From the description it sounds like an old mantel cabinet, if so you can get skeleton boards that fit inside to replace the original.

Welsh_sparky_21 · Jul 31, 2023

davesparks said:
Do you have any pictures? From the description it sounds like an old mantel cabinet, if so you can get skeleton boards that fit inside to replace the original.

I’ve not got any, just had a quick look on Google there. That might actually work, never realised you could get something to fit, thanks for that