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Sounds like a the sort of customer I’d avoid to be honest. The electrician has quoted £700 and I’ve found some dreadful cheap non compliant consumer unit online for £100 so he is clearly earning £600 for an hours work.

Depends on the location and spec but not outrageous

Leads with a banana plug for a meter which doesn’t have banana sockets. Classic Winston :LOL:

Use a wago 221 connector. Meter probe in one port, wire to be tested in the other.

The fact that the certificate was issued ten years ago will mean it has expired now anyway. You need to have an electrician carry out an EICR to your rental property without delay. It is a legal requirement to do so...

Would you give a wired fuse in the neutral conductor or a water pipe used as the main earth a code bearing in mind that it was satisfactorily installed at the time?

If an installation has no RCDs and no supplementary bonding in the bathroom, or has high risk socket outlets such as those which are likely to supply equipment outdoors without RCD protection then I think a C2 is perfectly justified and all the guide books I’ve seen suggest this to be the...

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Oh ok because lack of RCDs presents a greater risk than lack of SPD so it gets a higher code. Open live knife switches used to be allowed but are more dangerous than either of the two items so would receive a C1. More dangerous = higher code. I don’t see what’s difficult to understand about...

It’s a brass tube terminal which is attached to the back box. It’s less common for it to be in this position rather than the corner of the box but perfectly normal. It looks like the CPCs all terminate into it which is fine, although a link wire to the faceplate would be desirable.

You’re confusing me now. I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make.

I see no reference to SPDs in the list of codes, or any mention that it’s absence makes the installation unsafe merely that the new CU will contain an SPD, which seems entirely reasonable.

Yes. I’m not sure anyone is saying otherwise are they?

I would guess that the entire plastic globe would unscrew and all the metalwork would remain in place.

I don’t think a lack of surge protection makes an installation dangerous but I do think that it is non compliant and would record it as such. I’d expect a 1992 installation to have issues with the bonding and lack of RCD protection which would be potentially dangerous.

When I was a wee boy we used to mount switches at 52” to the bottom of the box. These days it’s normal to mount them at 1200mm to the top of the box. They look very low at first but once you get used to it I personally much prefer the new heights.

The regulations are not retrospective, but that’s a very misleading statement in the context of EICRs. An EICR is carried out using the current version of BS7671 as a reference. It doesn’t matter when the installation was installed or last inspected. I would very much except a 1992 installation...

No they don’t quite fit side by side unfortunately

I thought about an adaptable box lid but I don’t think it will look right and will have the fixing holes in the wrong place. I think I might have to make something bespoke.

The plan is to punch D sized holes in the blank plate so a modular frame isn’t really suitable. I can make a flat plate blank out of steel if needs be but if there’s an off the shelf product it saves some messing about. These are standard MK blank plates which I have punched holes in and...