Ok first and foremost I’m not a sparkie, I did all the work in my own house 30+ years ago, which a sparkie checked and approved and I know the regs have changed etc.
My son has just bought a house was told nothing wrong it’s all hunkydoory you can move straight in, went to have a nose a bit of building modernisation required 2 rooms in to one, take out fireplace, replace one or two rads. So he says have a look at garage and I said “oh you’ve got electric in here, tidy” where’s the consumer unit? Haven’t seen one was the reply. Went outside to see where the feed came in, it’s only fed from the house 60 m away by 1 MM lighting cable. So alarm bells started ringing, the consumer unit in house is the old fuse wire type there’s switches here there and everywhere and the building survey didn’t pick this up!!!!!
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Now then money is tight as he’s a low wage earner and his savings have gone purchasing the house. I’m hoping to find a sparky who will do final connections and me and my son will do ground work like chasing walls, routing cables, possibly wire sockets if allowed and purchase the items.
I’ve seen this BRITISH GENERAL 16-MODULE 10-WAY POPULATED HIGH INTEGRITY DUAL RCD CONSUMER UNIT (2920G) in screwfix
Which is £68 then went on TLC website an MK (which I believe is a good make) consumer unit with same rcd’s and comes up @ £154 would it be considered cutting corners to go with screwfix version. Would a professional use the screwfix one?
I know I’m not allowed to fit the consumer unit and as for the wiring, having seen what’s there I want to re wire the whole house to be on the safe side, my plan is to get a temporary supply to have electric in the house while I rip all the wires out for a refit
Finding a spark who will do this could be a hurdle as they have to sign it off, so off I go to find a spark
My son has just bought a house was told nothing wrong it’s all hunkydoory you can move straight in, went to have a nose a bit of building modernisation required 2 rooms in to one, take out fireplace, replace one or two rads. So he says have a look at garage and I said “oh you’ve got electric in here, tidy” where’s the consumer unit? Haven’t seen one was the reply. Went outside to see where the feed came in, it’s only fed from the house 60 m away by 1 MM lighting cable. So alarm bells started ringing, the consumer unit in house is the old fuse wire type there’s switches here there and everywhere and the building survey didn’t pick this up!!!!!
Now then money is tight as he’s a low wage earner and his savings have gone purchasing the house. I’m hoping to find a sparky who will do final connections and me and my son will do ground work like chasing walls, routing cables, possibly wire sockets if allowed and purchase the items.
I’ve seen this BRITISH GENERAL 16-MODULE 10-WAY POPULATED HIGH INTEGRITY DUAL RCD CONSUMER UNIT (2920G) in screwfix
Which is £68 then went on TLC website an MK (which I believe is a good make) consumer unit with same rcd’s and comes up @ £154 would it be considered cutting corners to go with screwfix version. Would a professional use the screwfix one?
I know I’m not allowed to fit the consumer unit and as for the wiring, having seen what’s there I want to re wire the whole house to be on the safe side, my plan is to get a temporary supply to have electric in the house while I rip all the wires out for a refit
Finding a spark who will do this could be a hurdle as they have to sign it off, so off I go to find a spark
