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brman
I've got a CU change in a couple of weeks. I did a pre survey and everything looked ok except I have just realised I take much notice of the tails. :sad_smile:
The trouble is the CU is in what was the garage however the garage has been turned into a room by plasterboarding the walls - hiding completely where the tails go. Meter is external at the usual waist high, CU is about 30cm from the ceiling inside, about 2m horizontally from the meter.
So....
a) I have no idea where the tails are behind the plasterboard. As it was originally a garage they were likely to be surface mounted I guess but it is quite likely this doesn't align with the correct zones in the present room and the almost certainly aren't 50mm deep.
b) I can't be sure but I suspect they might be a slightly over 3m long.
So I guess the question is, what would you do?
I am thinking I really should be trying to trace where they go and do something about it if they aren't to the regs. On the other hand I am changing the CU, not the tails and I don't know that they are wrong. For all I know they are mechanically protected where I can't see them and ripping out tails that have worked fine for 20 years and potentially fitting a switched fuse because of the length feels a bit of an over-reaction.
what do you reckon?
The trouble is the CU is in what was the garage however the garage has been turned into a room by plasterboarding the walls - hiding completely where the tails go. Meter is external at the usual waist high, CU is about 30cm from the ceiling inside, about 2m horizontally from the meter.
So....
a) I have no idea where the tails are behind the plasterboard. As it was originally a garage they were likely to be surface mounted I guess but it is quite likely this doesn't align with the correct zones in the present room and the almost certainly aren't 50mm deep.
b) I can't be sure but I suspect they might be a slightly over 3m long.
So I guess the question is, what would you do?
I am thinking I really should be trying to trace where they go and do something about it if they aren't to the regs. On the other hand I am changing the CU, not the tails and I don't know that they are wrong. For all I know they are mechanically protected where I can't see them and ripping out tails that have worked fine for 20 years and potentially fitting a switched fuse because of the length feels a bit of an over-reaction.
what do you reckon?
