Consumer Unit

[Mark555]

Hi

My home was built by Wilcon 18 years ago and am looking to get the electrics updated.

On checking the consumer unit I find
I did turn the power of from the outside.

The left side is for the cooker and sockets 1 and 2, the right side is for the lights up and down plus the smoke alarms (they each have a battery that sounds a repeating beep if the power goes off) The 2 MCB's covering the sockets/rings, the left one is for the kitchen/utility/bed3/4/landing/garage the right one is for lounge/dinning room/hall/bed1/2 so one covers the left side of the house the other covers the right hand side of the house.

I am looking to have a split load twin RCCB consumer unit fitted. Can this be done and conform to 17th edition, if so how and or will I need to re-wire so sockets/rings so that downstairs sockets are covered by 1 RCCB and upstairs sockets are covered by the second RCCB.

Thanks in advance

 

[telectrix]

not a lot of difference, though and by fitting RCBOs, you'll get a better end result. also, it's less work.

 

[MTI]

another building firm that has dropped all circuits down the skin of the wall between brick and block - love it! my dads house is only 12yrs old and same as this (minus the red jonnys lol) I lifted cover off board and discovered a massive hammer and nicker had been used to blow out a hole in breeze size of a house brick and all cables dropped down outside skin. like mentioned - liable for part p and changing protective device changes characteristics of circuits and will need to be tested. possible lack of bonding noted too however hard to tell from pic. maybe its an unbroken loop on gas and water. just a thought but no clearer enough to tell. time to make a call me thinks