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    Adding a small consumer unit

    I’m stunned by the continuing, sometimes vituperative, discourse that has ensued since I posed a question about fitting a consumer unit in our hybrid house. Having unwittingly provoked this thread, I should say a thing or two about my own experience both as a professional AND as an experienced...
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    Adding a small consumer unit

    Gentlemen! Gentlemen . . . it was never my intention to intrude on what is clearly a matter of grievous controversy. I simply sought some technical counsel on the practical aspects of wiring the little cottage I have bought. Instead, I appear to have detonated a buried bomb from some previous...
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    Adding a small consumer unit

    Thanks for all the helpful responses. I didn't expect to provoke a discussion on the vexed question of delegated responsibility, and of course I wouldn't dream of soliciting the technical endorsement of an electrician who hadn't been involved from the start in a project. I will, in all...
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    Adding a small consumer unit

    We are combining two cottages, one of them really small, into one house. The little cottage has an old distribution board and meter plus company fuse. There are only four circuits - two small power rings and two lighting, with a maximum estimated load of 12.5 kW (we are putting the "laundry"...
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