Adding a second consumer unit or replace existing one
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Do me the courtesy of not corrupting this thread by taking it off topic.
You've made your point; i.e. I dont know anything and you think someone will die. No need to continue repeating yourself and corrupting this thread.
I'm not alone there; am I?
https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/mft.480755/
something like this you would need, though not much use till you know how to use it.
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Installing a CU is not a trivial job, and I can assure you that it involves knowing far more than you think it does.
Asking questions here can be a useful part of a learning process, but they are not a substitute for proper structured studying. The key term there is "learning process" - you cannot learn all the things you need to know just by asking questions here. It isn't structured enough - it won't provide you with a way to progress where each step builds on what you learned before.
You can't carry out a job of this magnitude by asking whatever random questions happen to occur to you. You've already shown that you have some dodgy misconceptions - what if you get something wrong because you have no idea your knowledge is wrong? What if you miss something because you simply have no idea it even exists, and just don't realise you don't know it?
I'm going to say this one final time.
Can everyone please stick to the thread topic.
The thread topic is NOT
Anything else; create your own thread.
Can everyone please stick to the thread topic.
The thread topic is NOT
- Is this forum a substitute for learning?
- Does the OP know how to change CU?
- Can you spot spelling mistakes?
Anything else; create your own thread.
It is simply not practical to provide a list of instructions on how to replace a consumer unit. The instructions would likely run into hundreds of pages of text.
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Ban all sheds has already posted the necessary link, get reading and come back with any questions. I found a book was more useful than the regs though.
You are not the forum police and just because you don't like the plenty of answers you don't need to go all bold on us.
You are not the forum police and just because you don't like the plenty of answers you don't need to go all bold on us.
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Somewhat misleading. You don't need to buy any test equipment - the installation will be tested by the LABC or their appointed electrician. Of course ideally you would test so that you don't have to pay an additional retest fee if the readings are unsatisfactory, but theoretically the total outlay would be the ~£300 fee plus materials.
In this instance however, the OP doesn't appear to have the appropriate skills to undertake the task.
Yes, but amongst other problems you would have to notify the council and pay for the work to be inspected. (And then re-inspected when it fails the inspection, which it surely would.)
This makes it economicaly totally impractical; it's MUCH cheaper to pay someone else to do it.
Is that sufficiently on-topic for you?
Or the appropriate realisation of how much there is to know.
No need to worry about that - here's one which was done earlier:
vacemir - you might as well buy that now. You're going to need it, so the sooner you get it the sooner you'll be able to get stuck in.
This will be a useful adjunct to it:
Good.
It is just not realistic to replace a CU by simply following instruction to use that, to do this and then this and then this, etc. You have to actually know what to do, you have to actually understand everything that's involved.
DIYnot is not the only forum on the internet to offer electrical advice - there are several others. I suggest you try asking your question on some of the others, and when you do you will get told the same thing.
Because it is true.
And if you do go away and actually learn everything you need to know, I promise you you will also learn that it is true.
I'm not complaining - but received this earlier:
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