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The only advice that isn't helping and that I'll criticize is that I should hire someone else to do it. I would really have appreciated your help! Really, the only reason it looked like this is because I was doing a quick test before temporarily rounding off. It was 10PM and I needed to eat and...

The main fuse is stuck (an Octopus Energy engineer tried to take it out and failed) and there's no isolator before the consumer unit. It's gonna be a while before I can install a new one.

This is acceptable? The issue is that behind the breakers is no full DIN rail, only the top ridge of a standard DIN rail. In the unit's design, the top of a breaker is mounted on the plastic, while the bottom part that would normally mount on the bottom of a DIN rail is not secured. Instead, the...

Yes I have. But I have the same issue. I only found it in an old consumer unit catalogue. Yes and no. It fits well and makes good contact, just like the original busbar. The rating is also high enough. But it means that a breaker from a different brand that clamps down slightly differently on...

Well I'm missing a component, I believe I mentioned this. Pretty obvious that it's not gonna look good when the breakers are not held in place correctly. It's to be expected that the old situation looks better than a work-in-progress photo while a component is missing. See my view on the the...

I was hoping that since this forum is for DIYers, this wouldn't happen. But I did notice the trend on other forums. I've observed that this questioning of competency/qualifications and recommending to hire a qualified person to do the works is very much a cultural phenomenon. I've lived in the...

It's a photo from a few days ago. It was dark when I was writing this post. As I mentioned at the bottom of my original post, I was improving the previous situation and this photo was taken while I was working on it. Having the neutral conductor exposed during testing is quite different from...

Hi DIYers! I just moved in and I needed additional breakers in the Hager Consumer unit (VECOS33-6H), but there was no space and no way to replace the unit with a larger one. Since it's a split unit, I freed up space for additional breakers by replacing the existing ones with RCBOs and removing...