Replacement Consumer Unit Manufactuers Pros & Cons

[ChrisElectrical88]

Hager 100% if there is no budget. The mini Type A RCBOs are excellent and can do IR without disconnecting the conductors.
If you want a budget and very good to install board, Go with Fusebox.

 

[Mark.fardon]

I would like your opinions of different makes of CU's. I'm converting my garage to a habitable room, Cinema room to be precise. The CU will remain in the garage, albeit moved slightly. The current one is a Hager dual RCD. However, the RCD is type AC and I would like to change to RCBO's. I'm also thinking of using their Design 50, and having the lid painted a RAL colour, but not sure of the costs of that. So potentially could end up with another make.

So I'm after a new CU, RCBO populated (DP or Sw N), SPD but not AFDD's. Having not been installing them for a couple of years, whats the favourites out there?

Hager, in my opinion no better than most others. I think there’s some sort of Hager snobbery that maintains the boards are so good - quotes like oooh so much space and Ooooh a little spirit level and I fell for it too because that’s what everyone says /thinks. I’ve fitted around 20 boards this year and started off with a few Hager now only fit CP FUSEBOX RCBO [type As ] good price point decent quality . would never fit a dual board. If hager were so good why did they sell those crap boards with the shitty bit of foam to cover the gouged out squares pretending to make the top surface IP4X ffs?View attachment 58810View attachment 58810
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[davesparks]

Hager 100% if there is no budget. The mini Type A RCBOs are excellent and can do IR without disconnecting the conductors.
If you want a budget and very good to install board, Go with Fusebox.

If there really is no budget constraint then it would have to be a Schneider Acti9 PoN board.

 

[ChrisElectrical88]

If there really is no budget constraint then it would have to be a Schneider Acti9 PoN board.

Ill install Schneider all the way three phase and single phase commercial and industrial , but Single phase in domestic environment, Hager is better suited I think.