HMO Room Wiring

[mineral]

I am planning to create a 6 bedroom HMO , to be leased to the local council (Short term lets). Their surveyor has said that each room needs to have its own consumer unit. ie Only one room will trip if there is fault

Has anybody got experience of this or done this ? I have asked a electrician and he said it is not required or unachievable to have 6 CU's and 1 for communal area's.

 

[Vortigern]

It is achievable to have consumer units in each room. However, you may well require an AFDD and possible SPD costing hundreds for each consumer unit. For this reason it would be better to have one central consumer unit supplying each flat with possibly a din rail meter for each flat. For instance one landlord I recently did some conversion work for had a bill for £6000 electricity. The tenants were wont to leave heaters on and disappear off to sunnier climbs for a few months. At least you could switch off the supply from a central location if needs be if you can't enter the room. Tenants can be most interesting in the way they treat property and equipment. It may therefore be safer to have the consumer units in a central location.

 

[Anthony S]

Will pm you if you want me to design this for you.

Doing it for free ?

 

[Pete999]

Doing it for free ?

OK Good luck

 

[Anthony S]

OK Good luck

You might be retired with a pension but others are still trying to earn a living and can't afford to design for Free.

 

[snowhead]

If the Local Council, who will be leasing the HMO have stipulated each room must have it's own C.U, then each room must have it's C.U. or go find someone else to lease it to.
Any discussion about alternative ways of doing it is pointless.

It doesn't matter whether it's unusual or over the top or if other extra work needs to be done as a result.
If the Council wanted 2 rooms painted Blue, 2 Pink and 2 neutral colour, then that's what they'd need to be.

If the first electrician has said it's not required or unachievable to have 6 CU's and 1 for communal area's, then the O.P will have to find one that can achieve it.

 

[Pete999]

You might be retired with a pension but others are still trying to earn a living and can't afford to design for Free.

What's this all about?
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OK Good luck

What you will do it for free?
I certainly wouldn't, do it for free that is.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

possible SPD costing hundreds for each consumer unit

Why would you want one in each CU?

 

[Pete999]

Why would you want one in each CU?

Why would you want one in each CU?

It's a possibility that the poster is unsure of how an AFDD or SPD works and their requirements within the installation.

 

[Vortigern]

Why would you want one in each CU?

Is that an oblique suggestion you don't? I did say may and possibly

 

[BruceBanner]

All as above.

 

[DPG]

You might be retired with a pension but others are still trying to earn a living and can't afford to design for Free.

I don't think he means he'll do it for free.

 

[Pete999]

I don't think he means he'll do it for free.

I didn't mean FOC.

 

[Leesparkykent]

Depending on where abouts in London it is, I would be more than happy to give you a quote.