Relocating a consumer unit - Regulations advice needed :)

[stuartcourt]

lucky not 3036s then:singer:

 

[stuartcourt]

maybe thats what those grabing claws kids have at beach were originaly for

 

[pencilpusher]

So I take it most of you put CU's up by the ceiling then?? ;-)

 

[stuartcourt]

i go about 1700 unless for housing association then 1100

 

[telectrix]

there's an estate near me, built in the 90's. CUs are all mounted drirctly above the downstairs bog at ceiling height. you can't get steps in. only way is to stand on the bog itself.

 

[SPARTYKUS]

there's an estate near me, built in the 90's. CUs are all mounted drirctly above the downstairs bog at ceiling height. you can't get steps in. only way is to stand on the bog itself.

One
like that near me too. Bet the CU's went in before the toilet.

 

[Des 56]

It seems to be the right place for them, given the quality of some of the modern ones

 

[telectrix]

well, obviously both the positioning of the CU and the bog were on the original design spec. which will , of course, have been done by an architect. nuff said.

 

[SPARTYKUS]

I guess its like that so that when (not if) it falls off it will go straight down the karzi along with all other bilbo bobbins.

 

[telectrix]

i had to sort a socket out on one the other day. now i'm just shy of 14stone, so i had to get the (lady) customer, (around 8stone, wet through) to get on the bog and isolate the relevant breaker. no way am i doing a £50 job and being billed for a new bog.

 

[Geoffsd]

Why was she wet through?

 

[SPARTYKUS]

She'd just been bathed!

 

[Brendan976]

The last person to have worked on my property seems to have made a mess of things. The consumer unit was relocated, following his advice, to almost ceiling height which is against building regulations as I have only recently found out.

Forgive me if I am reading this wrong, if its a new build? I would not expect to see a consumer unit, as A NEW BUILD, means just that, starting from scratch. Therefore, how can the last person make a mess of things and relocate a consumer unit? If this is a new build extension then the building regs regarding the suggested heights of consumer units do not apply.

Now this begs the question, have you had someone do this installion ,and are now finding out that they ( you) did not know what was required to satisfy the law

Ben

 

[monkeyelectric]

Why was she wet through?

She fell into the bog