CU wiring too short for new board!

[FAA Greenie]

Hi Guy's, first post for me.

I have a client who has asked me to replace a rewireable fuse board for an 8 way split load board. No problem. Until I look into the existing board to find that the spark who fitted it took great pride in ensuring that the outgoing supplies were measured to the millimetre (Thou's of an inch to you oldies)!! to fit into the fuse terminals. Obviously this leaves me no spare wire whatsoever to get these wires into a modern 17th edn board. I have done prelim testing on the installation and all the circuits are fine so there is no reason to rewire any part of the installation. The existing fuseboard is in the garage and the client is unwilling for me to dig out and chase new cabling to the nearest sockets/lighting accessories inside the house to extend what i have to work with.

What is the easiest, safest, legal, easiest on the eye way to extend the little stumpy bits of cable i have available to give me something to work with?

I can, possibly move the board down a short distance, currently the circuits feed into the rear of the existing board.

Thanks in advance, if there is an obvious answer, i accept ribbing and critisism very well....

 

[Phil]

Phil, so just bypass the 'built in' neutral busbar altogether and use the din rail?

i take them all into the board tbh the line and neutral.best to take out what you put in. dont forget it could get mixed up in the box with the two bars

 

[FAA Greenie]

guy's, just to introduce myself. My name is chris. I spent 23 years in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm as a 'Greenie' which is naval terminology for a spark. I loved every minute of it but decided two years ago to give it all up so i could spend time with my family and especially my liitle baby girl, instead of spending it in Afghanistan with smelly blokes. The obvious choice for me was to convert my skills to the 'civvy' sector so went and did the domestic installers, 17th edn and inspect and test as part of my resettlement package. And here i am now asking 'no such thing as a stupid' questions of you guys!!

 

[Phil]

guy's, just to introduce myself. My name is chris. I spent 23 years in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm as a 'Greenie' which is naval terminology for a spark. I loved every minute of it but decided two years ago to give it all up so i could spend time with my family and especially my liitle baby girl, instead of spending it in Afghanistan with smelly blokes. The obvious choice for me was to convert my skills to the 'civvy' sector so went and did the domestic installers, 17th edn and inspect and test as part of my resettlement package. And here i am now asking 'no such thing as a stupid' questions of you guys!!

ohh no another DS thats durham sparky similar route to you mate. a good friend of mine did the same and is in civvy street now sparking

 

[FAA Greenie]

Yeah, get that now Phil, safer to just use the rail to extend the circuits rather than use them as space savers. Cheers mate.

 

[FAA Greenie]

So why Durham sparky then? Where does that come from? Odd thing is, I'm from Middlesbrough originally!!

 

[Knobhead]

Don’t use the jumpers for anything carrying any amount of current, if you get any heating it damages all the connectors it passes though. I found that out when I had to replace 50 odd when a fault passed heavy current from one end of a bar to the other.

 

[Phil]

So why Durham sparky then? Where does that come from? Odd thing is, I'm from Middlesbrough originally!!

thats where he is from. ex royal navy subs

 

[FAA Greenie]

Ahh, I see

 

[Paul.M]

So why Durham sparky then? Where does that come from? Odd thing is, I'm from Middlesbrough originally!!

Durham sparks is one of many people on here like yourself, ex-services. There's a bit of a saying on here "no such thing ad a stupid question" (well there is but you'll see them for yourself in time, but you get what I mean). Ask anything you need to know mate, you will always get a quick reply.

 

[FAA Greenie]

Thanks Paul. Believe me, in the past 23 years i have never been afraid to ask the crazy questions!! It's rule number one in the Navy!!

 

[Phil]

Durham sparks is one of many people on here like yourself, ex-services. There's a bit of a saying on here "no such thing ad a stupid question" (well there is but you'll see them for yourself in time, but you get what I mean). Ask anything you need to know mate, you will always get a quick reply.

im doing it the backwards way round my application is in reserves

 

[nickblake]

i always keep off cuts of single compartment dado trunking for this job , and if i can i will lower the CU if its to high and connect cables with wagos staggerd in the trunking works a treat and looks good too

 

[DurhamSparky]

stupid questions are the way forward...!! welcome along FAA so yo were a WAFU then....(Wet And F'ing Usless)

 

[High Tower]

I love phillis' method and I can't dispute that that is the right job!!

But...........

SOMETIMES there just isn't room
For a adaptable box

And

Sometimes the customer just won't stump up the extra £30 to do it right,

Then I have to revert back to crimps/ wagos inside trunking

 

[sparks1234]

Through crimps in the consumer unit, heat sleeve them if you like but why put an extra box in? theres no need, its an extra box on show