Where did you say the fuse box was?

[uksparks]

Hi,

Went to do an EICR today on a property to rent out, the sister of the homeowner was there, I said wheres the fuse box, its not obvious....

I looked high and low, everywhere, then thought, hmm I wonder if its in here...

Anyway, the outcome was, I walked away and said you need a new CU and moving etc along with your meters moving so given them a quote for that instead.

CUSTOMER: Why are you taking photos?
ME: So that I can plaster them all over the Internet tonight for entertainment.

 

[polo1]

Frankly, I don't see what your problem is. If the job was always easy, everyone would be doing it. A bit of effort on your part and the "satisfactory" report could be in the post pronto :smilewinkgrin:

 

[1stfix2ndfix]

I'd say the same price to move it or do it. Then let them decide

 

[rapparee]

They stuck a toilet under a distribution board at work, now you have to stand on the toilet bowl every time you want to access the db

 

[7029 dave]

The norm isn't it. Rack the lot out, an leave big pile for them units an all.

 

[Knobhead]

A friend of mine once asked me to swap their CU in a similar position, I told them no chance get some other mug to swap it I'm not spending several hours crawling into a cupboard.

Not with the size of you :ciappa:

 

[SparkyJoe]

Dunno why you would put the back into the cupboard

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[Poptasticdave]

Reminds me of a friend's new home in Kirk Ireton (Derbyshire) . Having moved in the meter reader called and neither the new owner or the reader knew where it was. Eventually found it at the furthest possible point of a corner base unit …. but the reader was a big fella and he couldn't get far enough into the cupboard to read it. 2 CU's (storage heaters and standard) also in same cupboard. Thankfully my friend realises that if she has a problem this is going to be a major issue so she's already got DNO coming to move meter and local spark lined up to come and rip out storage heater CU and relocate standard one. Makes you wonder what idiots install kitchens over services like this.

 

[electric will]

Don't know

 

[Knobhead]

Makes you wonder who specified where it was located. Last time I looked in my kitchen for some strange reason someone had put kitchen units in it. Some people get weird ideas.

This is one you can’t blame the kitchen fitter for.

 

[electric will]

Don't know

Only posted to get rid of annoying message. Hello to all my old friends, sorry I've not been in touch for a while

 

[robsparky1975]

I have done an EICR on a worst one than that,had to wriggle in and out of cupboard all day testing,f ing and blinding at kitchen fitters as a breed.Anyway customer wanted it moved and it ended up going on the other side of house in the hallway cupboard.

 

[ayjay]

what do the regs say about this? seems to me you robdogs just try to make up work
no test results--the installation might be fine
who gives a jot where the board/meter is?

 

[Knobhead]

At last, someone who’s actually thought about it.

 

[telectrix]

how about screw terminals being accessible for maintenance/inspection?

 

[uksparks]

In my opinion I would not feel safe working on it as there was no way to safely isolate the board, couldn't even get to pull the fuse.

More often than not, those old boards are missing the covers from the supply side of the main switch too so would have been very dangerous as you could easily touch a terminal.

Not only that, you must know what it's like trying to get conductors in the terminals again on these when there's too many in there as it is.

Oh the other thing, the side panel of the cupboard is blocking access to the case screw on the right, plus those other panels I did give them a good tug about but were not going anywhere.