Wiring of two cu

[Suz]

Hi all, take it easy as first post on here. I have recently completed my eal domestic installers course and 2382 17th edition. I am renovated my large four bedroom home and plan to rewire the house.

I have had an isolation switch fitted by the DNO so I can start the work safely. The kitchen will be having two ovens, induction hob, micro needs to be on its own circuit and large amount of lighting and other ciriuits going on in house. Due to this and to future proof, I am planning to install two cu. Two 10 way split Rcd, directly next to each other in the garage. I currently have 25mm tails from the meter into my isolating switch and then directly into my cu. There appears to be enough room in the isolating switch to double up the tails. Is this acceptable instead of a Henly block.

Is it sufficient to then have Dno isolating switch and then a main switch in each CU.

Many Thanks in advance

Suz

 

[DPG]

If the microwave is going on its own circuit, then the kettle should as well presumably? What rating is the microwave just out of interest? Daz

 

[Plonker 3]

Try reading the OP... You're telling me that you think they are competent? Come on?

I never said that, before you try and put words in my mouth please read what I put.

 

[Ducksy]

OP sorry if someone already asked but what size is the DNO fuse?.....all those spare ways in CCU and bedrooms, someone might go electric shower crazy and over do max demand.

 

[Thomas123]

I never said that, before you try and put words in my mouth please read what I put.

Why did you comment on my post if you agree with it then? If the op is asking such a question they are obviously not competent. That is my evidence.

 

[Spoon]

every room had its own radial for sockets

Good idea... If your kids dont turn the music down or want every electrical appliance on at the same time you can just switch off the power to their room. Happy days...

 

[monkeyelectric]

Good idea... If your kids dont turn the music down or want every electrical appliance on at the same time you can just switch off the power to their room. Happy days...

Thats one way of looking at it , we stayed at a log cabin in Serbia when we went away with our motocross bikes a couple of years ago and that had the same setup, there were about 20 mcb's in the board, i think each one was for individual sockets and light fittings there though

 

[alancoulson]

this is a great example of what is wrong with this site, ********s like thomas123 making comments like that !! why ??

 

[KAS1]

Who would ever double up the tails !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is a great example of what is wrong with this site, ********s like thomas123 making comments like that !! why ??

 

[somersetsparks]

OP sorry if someone already asked but what size is the DNO fuse?.....all those spare ways in CCU and bedrooms, someone might go electric shower crazy and over do max demand.

that would be the very least of much concerns, unless you got a grow room, your average domestic gaff will not blow a cut-out fuse

 

[MDJ]

Is this acceptable instead of a Henly block.

Is it sufficient to then have Dno isolating switch and then a main switch in each CU.

Many Thanks in advance

Suz

Not Normal practice and I would dismiss anyone working for me who did it as my confidence in their ability would be exhausted, I would take the main tails from your isolator switch you had fitted into a Henley/ RDL block and then feed each board that way, there is a main isolator because you have mentioned you had one fitted, seems silly you are thinking about doubling up, TBH quite amusing as well, also it may be worth considering your design of the Job, one board may do, however I have wired houses, well large houses where I have needed more than one board, doubling up is not the best way if a new installation, I have certainly seen it before though with disgust of course.

 

[Thomas123]

this is a great example of what is wrong with this site, ********s like thomas123 making comments like that !! why ??

What's wrong with my comments? If you served 4 years, earning peanuts, being spoken to like sh*t, treated like sh*t, but kept a smile on your face and never answered back just so you could have the privilege to learn to become an electrician you would know why I, and many others get annoyed when there are idiots who are bored with their jobs and do a 5week joke course and start taking our jobs!!! After 5 weeks you know nothing!!!

 

[Paulgwat]

What's wrong with my comments? If you served 4 years, earning peanuts, being spoken to like sh*t, treated like sh*t, but kept a smile on your face and never answered back just so you could have the privilege to learn to become an electrician you would know why I, and many others get annoyed when there are idiots who are bored with their jobs and do a 5week joke course and start taking our jobs!!! After 5 weeks you know nothing!!!

I am sorry but where does the fact that you spent 4 years earning peanuts, being spoken to like sh*t, treated like sh*t imply you had a decent training that would mean you were anymore "competent" than someone who has done a 5 week course?

How do we know that you didn't spend that whole 4 years digging holes in the ground, bending steel conduit and being sent on tea runs?

At the end of day none of us have an entitlement to "our" jobs and if the work these people carry out is as poor as everyone claims then they won't be in business long enough for you to worry about them, will they?

Before I decided to embark on becomming an electrician i spent a lot of time talking to people and the one thing they said as a collective was that they were fed up with hiring so called time served competent people who failed turn up when they said they would........ so maybe it is isn't the training companies who are opening the doors to the industry but the people in it who might think they are competent but certainly aren't professional.

Paul

 

[Andy78]

I am sorry but where does the fact that you spent 4 years earning peanuts, being spoken to like sh*t, treated like sh*t imply you had a decent training that would mean you were anymore "competent" than someone who has done a 5 week course?

How do we know that you didn't spend that whole 4 years digging holes in the ground, bending steel conduit and being sent on tea runs?

At the end of day none of us have an entitlement to "our" jobs and if the work these people carry out is as poor as everyone claims then they won't be in business long enough for you to worry about them, will they?

Before I decided to embark on becomming an electrician i spent a lot of time talking to people and the one thing they said as a collective was that they were fed up with hiring so called time served competent people who failed turn up when they said they would........ so maybe it is isn't the training companies who are opening the doors to the industry but the people in it who might think they are competent but certainly aren't professional.

Paul

Bit of a sweeping statement to suggest that time served sparks are not professional. A bit like the judgement that gets cast upon Electrical Trainee "sparks" I suppose.

But seeing as you have justified your judgement on your own research, then you must be open to the idea that the members on this forum have indeed done their own research on 5WWs, and can justify their sweeping judgement by the fact that 90% of Electrical Trainee questions on here are asked by newly qualified short course guys who don't have a clue what they are doing and shouldn't be working unsupervised.

There is a reason for everything, and claiming that time served sparks are undermining their own industry from the inside by being unprofessional, rather than it being from the influx of undertrained have-a-go heroes may be the reason you get some flack for that statement.

 

[Adam W]

I think there's a bit more to being a 'good' electrician than just turning up.

 

[Paulgwat]

Re reading my message it does come across as a sweeping generalisation and that was not my intent, so apologies for the wording of my message - i didn't mean to imply that all time served sparks are unprofessional - in all occupations whether deemed competent or not there will always be those who are unprofessional and don't follow through on what they say they will do.

What i tried to get across rather ham fistedly was that before the professional time served electricians attack the Electrical Trainee lot and training companies they should take a look at those who are time served and competent but who by their lack of professionalism are fostering the perception that ever increasing numbers of electricians are needed as nobody can ever get work done on time

I hope that clarifies my comments

Paul