consumer unit

I've just viewed a house to possibly purchase, am I correct to think it needs a new consumer unit ? Switches / sockets looks modern but how do I onow if it needs total re-wring ? Cheers

After being in our latest house for about 6 months, I'm thinking of building a log cabin at the end of our garden about 40-45m back from our garage, but I need to be sure that we can safely and effectively supply it with electricity before even starting the project. Connecting directly into the...

Hi all, I'm in the process of buying a house. I went for a second viewing at the weekend and essentially performed our own survey. I was surprised to see that the electrics were all in conduit. There was conduit visible up from the consumer unit and the lighting radial in the loft was seen to...

I just had an EICR done and the electrician recommended swapping the CU unit out as it tripped as soon as he plugged his meter in. It's probably 30 odd years old, BS 5486, so makes sense. My question is if £600+ is a reasonable cost for installation of a new 5 circuit CU? It's in London. Thanks

So we've had our electricity tripping randomly.. We have an old fuse board so all the circuits are on a single rcd, so fault finding has been tricky. We got home today to a burning smell from the area, called an emergency electrician who found the tails going into the meter had come lose, he...

Hi all I am posting here because I always had good advice when I lived in the UK and the forums here in France are not so helpful . Could be my French ! I wanted a bit of advice. We are buying a house built in 1978. The electrical report came back with some anomalies, which are fairly standard...

Hi, we are getting a new cooker. The old one has been removed from a circuit that states 32amp circuit in the consumer unit for the cooker. All the new cookers I am looking at seem to want higher? 40amp plus. Have I misunderstood is it OK to use the current circuit and just replace old cooker...

Recently taken back an ex-rental property which has two Hager consumer units. The second one is just for the storage heaters. It has a red main switch on the right, and six black switches on the left. I have no experience with storage heaters, but as far as I can figure out none of the...

Hi, Can someone confirm whether the consumer unit in a garage (setting up my man cave) has to follow the "1350mm and 1450mm from floor level" rule? It is not clear to me if this would only apply to habitable area. I'm insulating the place and would like to get conduits in place for the CU. TA

Hi All, I have a property with the old style fuse wire boards. I need an EICR certificate as well. One tradesman has said they will carry out the EICR first to find any faults with the existing wiring and then change the board to a new consumer unit to finish the test and issue the EICR? I...

Hi All, I have a property with the old style fuse wire boards. I need an EICR certificate as well. One tradesman has said they will carry out the EICR first to find any faults with the existing wiring and then change the board to a new consumer unit to finish the test and issue the EICR? I...

I already have a small workshop that is wired to the main consumer unit in the house. In the small workshop I have consumer unit and it runs lighting and sockets for power tools, pillar drill, table saw etc. Now I am building a larger workshop down the bottom of the garden and will need to...

Hi Just after a bit of info about garden power, and don’t worry I will not be doing any of the connections myself and will be getting an electrician to do the work as I understand it needs to be notified to relevant organisations (part P). What I’m looking at doing-at the most we will want to...

Hi and thanks in advance to all the givers of advice here. I want to upgrade a Triton electric shower from 8.5kW to 9.5kW but would need to swap the existing 32a CU fuse for a 40a fuse. Is there a way for an idiot to safely tell what size the wiring is on that circuit as I gather I need 8mm for...

Buying an old house. 1920 ish No electric safety records avail, although, its not the original owners selling (they passed away, this is their kids selling) Surveyor suggest full electrical safely check and budget for a rewire. Although most of the survey suggests to replace things, that I...

Hi I'm thinking about getting an electric car charging point installed. My issue is that it would be fairly easy to run cables from the consumer unit to the outside of the house where the charging point would go, however if the cables needed to be run from the electric meter it would be pretty...

My consumer unit is located upstairs in one of the bedroom closets, can you buy clear plastic covers with access hatch etc that would enclose over this protecting from any potential roof leaks, pic of what I have below

Hello, I'm a newbie so hopefully posted in the correct place. I bought a ring pro doorbell which I knew needed hard wiring. I thought it would be as easy to replace my old one with the new one. It isn't. As I've suggested I currently have a wired in doorbell, 8v transformer outside of my CU...

Hi In my (new) consumer unit, there are 3V across the Neutral bar and the earth bar, when the mains is off. There is also 53V across the mains switch from L to N when it's off and 44V between the line supply and line out. Is this normal when the mains switch is off? Isn't N and Earth connected...

I have a handful of RCBOs in a range of sizes from 6A to 45A which I’m fitting into a consumer. The terminals on all but one (the 45A) line up exactly with each other and the main breaker but the other is around 5mm out of line. Is this normal and how would this be overcome? All breakers and...