Hi, Just looking for a bit of advice on consumer units.
I've been replacing the old wiring (pre 1960)from my mums house and at trying to select the best consumer unit to replace the old fusebox.
It will have the following connections
1) Kitchen Ring
2) Living room/bedroom ring
3) Garage Ring
4) Lights
5) Immersion Heater
6) Cooker
7) Electric Shower
Everything but the shower unit seems fairly simple, (32,16 & 6A MCBs).
With the shower I understand an RCD is recommended, is this used in conjunction with a 45A MCB? I would probably want the garage ring on the RCD too.
Is a split load Consumer unit of any use here? I notice Screwfix has a prebulit unit by MK that is split load with a 100A DP in one side and an RCD in the other which is reasonably priced.
I've been replacing the old wiring (pre 1960)from my mums house and at trying to select the best consumer unit to replace the old fusebox.
It will have the following connections
1) Kitchen Ring
2) Living room/bedroom ring
3) Garage Ring
4) Lights
5) Immersion Heater
6) Cooker
7) Electric Shower
Everything but the shower unit seems fairly simple, (32,16 & 6A MCBs).
With the shower I understand an RCD is recommended, is this used in conjunction with a 45A MCB? I would probably want the garage ring on the RCD too.
Is a split load Consumer unit of any use here? I notice Screwfix has a prebulit unit by MK that is split load with a 100A DP in one side and an RCD in the other which is reasonably priced.