**Show Us Your Installs!!!**

[Spudnik]

Right chaps,

Due to a few unavoidable issues, we have lost the original thread and pics etc.

Sorry about that!!!

So, if you want to re-upload your pics then great, if not, give us something new!


Cheers!!

 

[gottahugenoggin]

the garage alone is the same size as my house!

just a question for a noob newbe,how come you use all RCBO's?

 

[trev]

just a question for a noob newbe,how come you use all RCBO's?

Why would you not? You're going to lose 1 circuit and all the rest are still operational

 

[gottahugenoggin]

ok thanks,thats what i thought but i didn't know if there was another reason i didn't know about,no harm in asking ay?.Im still in collage so im getting into the habit of asking lots of questions,no offence meant by it.Obviously it offers the minimum inconvenience in the event of a fault but i thought it was a bit pricey for people nowadays.
Nice job by the way

 

[trev]

ok thanks,thats what i thought but i didn't know if there was another reason i didn't know about,no harm in asking ay?

The only really stupid question is the one you think is too stupid to ask

 

[SparkyDips]

i think it will come to that with Regs eventually but i had the opportunity to get this board at a good price, its belts and braces but like trev1 said, why wouldn't you?

the garage alone is the same size as my house!

lol cheers, trouble is its full of rubbish now!!

 

[gottahugenoggin]

lol cheers, trouble is its full of rubbish now!![/QUOTE]

so is my house....rubbish and motor bikes ha ha

i would do the same given the same circumstances,i just didn't know if for some reason you had to use RCBO's

 

[SparkyDips]

got one for sale at the moment in the for sale section, £250 with 9 RCBO's.

grab a bargain my man

 

[gottahugenoggin]

im a numpty at the mo,ive only done my defined scope so im only allowed to look at CU's in catalogues,so on that note ill give you £2.50 for it??? co'mon its christmas(ish)

 

[oldAL]

will dig some more pics out guys but just a few to get going:

New Consumer to accomodate new circuits:-

New Kitchen Upfit:-

Another Kitchen:-

Garage Conversion:-

New Garage:-

will upload some more once i find the folder, DOH!!

how do those sockets in the last pic above the work bench get away with being <100mm clearance?

 

[SparkyDips]

they are fitted on angled dado rail, so are facing up and out slightly.

 

[oldAL]

ah, OK,that makes some sense.
still be tight on the 100mm though I would have thought,
is that an actual reg, or simply good practice?

 

[The Ranger]

I'll put my **** on the block without looking and hazard a guess that it's not actually a Reg!

I've been known to be wrong in the past!!

 

[oldAL]

TBH that would be my thoughts on it too.

 

[Engineer54]

they are fitted on angled dado rail, so are facing up and out slightly.

Something like this i would guess?? This stuff is by Marshal Tuffnel...

 

[gottahugenoggin]

when you refere to 100mm,is that suggesting they may/may not have to be 100mm from the work surface? sorry but i dint warn you all i ask lots of questions.Now you know how i feel when my 6 year old bombards me with a million and one questions a 5:30am that he already knows the answers to...sorry :90:

 

[The Ranger]

when you refere to 100mm,is that suggesting they may/may not have to be 100mm from the work surface? sorry but i dint warn you all i ask lots of questions.Now you know how i feel when my 6 year old bombards me with a million and one questions a 5:30am that he already knows the answers to...sorry :90:

the 100mm would be a good working practice in the likes of a kitchen with a socket flushed into the wall 100mm off of a work top so the socked is usable without a small radius on a squished bit of flex, I can't say this is a REG in BS7671 but I'd hazard a guess it's not but some other documents may stipulate such as building regulations!

 

[Richard]

Out of interst, why did you opt to use a board full of RCBO's rather than a dual RCD board? Must have been a nightmare to terminate!!

 

[The Ranger]

so that if a fault occurs he only loses that circuit and not half the board

 

[Engineer54]

Out of interst, why did you opt to use a board full of RCBO's rather than a dual RCD board? Must have been a nightmare to terminate!!

A very sensible if not costly alternative to a dual RCD board. Your never going to be plagued with taking out numerous circuits when just one fails, or when you have problems with an RCD itself. ...I know what system i would prefer!! lol!!

 

[Cyberprog]

IIRC the Dado Rail is by Marshall Tufflex I use their Mono 10 product extensively, but have used the angled stuff before for work benches.

 

[Richard]

A very sensible if not costly alternative to a dual RCD board. Your never going to be plagued with taking out numerous circuits when just one fails, or when you have problems with an RCD itself. ...I know what system i would prefer!! lol!!

No doubt, and I quite aggree!!

however it was more the price of it I was thinking!! I get RCBO's for aobout 14 quid a peice, so I think you had 12 circuits, thats 168 quid there, as opposed to 50 quid for an MK Dual rcd DB.

But if the client was happy to pay for it, great!

 

[gottahugenoggin]

Out of interst, why did you opt to use a board full of RCBO's rather than a dual RCD board? Must have been a nightmare to terminate!!

i asked the same on page 8,he got the board nice and cheap,he's got another for sale if your interested?

 

[Engineer54]

IIRC the Dado Rail is by Marshall Tufflex I use their Mono 10 product extensively, but have used the angled stuff before for work benches.

Not just work benches. That pic i posted was a bit i had left over from installing in a kitchen for a friend early last year in Cyprus. That had just 2 socket outlets, one of them being behind the fridge/freezer. So totally useless for other appliances.

I fitted the stuff to the bottoms of the wall cabinets, as the walls, and worktops were both tiled!! came out looking quite good actually!! I've posted the kitchen pic before but if you want to see it i can always post it again...lol!!

 

[Engineer54]

i asked the same on page 8,he got the board nice and cheap,he's got another for sale if your interested?

Hager RCBO's 11 or 13 Euros at the wholesalers in Cyprus the last time i purchased one. But you can get cheaper too at around 8 or 9 Euros. But MG and ABB RCBO's are around the 30 Euro mark. ...All Plus the VAT of course!! lol!!

So it's still ''Rip Off Britain'' over there then!! lol!!

 

[Mr.Si]

Hager RCBO's 11 or 13 Euros at the wholesalers in Cyprus the last time i purchased one. But you can get cheaper too at around 8 or 9 Euros. But MG and ABB RCBO's are around the 30 Euro mark. ...All Plus the VAT of course!! lol!!

So it's still ''Rip Off Britain'' over there then!! lol!!

Right, that's it... I am gonna have to start an import business.

When I was in aiya napa or lefcosia earlier this year, i should have bought a whole load!

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