House rewire. Unsure on terminating at Consumer Unit

[Mattg89]

Hello all,

I am buying an old house in Kent (medway) and am looking to completely rewire the house. I am currently working as a trainee electrician and am on level 3 C&G. I am going to rewire the house myself as i know I can do this, but am unsure what to do when it comes to terminating it at the C.U. as i have never done this before. Would a fully qualified electrician be willing to terminate the circuits at the C.U then test it?
Any help would be great thanks.
Matt

 

[marc8]

Whenever a board is being changed by your mentor keep an eye out on what he's doing, ask questions.
They'll fairly straight forward once you've seen it being done and done a couple.
The tricky bits getting it looking spot on with the nice sweeping cables

I would be concerned about putting up a picture of breaking into the meter to put in a temporary supply.


By no means the perfect example however I'm quite proud of it

Earth to the earth bar, neutral to the neural bar. If it's a dual rcd be sure to terminate the same cable to the same side of the board.

Get yourself a cheap board as rpa said and give it a mock test with off cuts of cable.

Another tip:
When connecting up have say, upstairs sockets on one side and downstairs sockets on the other side so should a fault happen total loss of power to the house will be less likely to happen.
Best of luck

Whenever a board is being changed by your mentor keep an eye out on what he's doing, ask questions.
They'll fairly straight forward once you've seen it being done and done a couple.
The tricky bits getting it looking spot on with the nice sweeping cables


By no means the perfect example however I'm quite proud of it

Earth to the earth bar, neutral to the neural bar. If it's a dual rcd be sure to terminate the same cable to the same side of the board.

Get yourself a cheap board as rpa said and give it a mock test with off cuts of cable.

Another tip:
When connecting up have say, upstairs sockets on one side and downstairs sockets on the other side so should a fault happen total loss of power to the house will be less likely to happen.
Best of luck