Fusebox location legal?

[robin8]

I am buying a house with the domestic fuse box in a detached garage 4 metres away.

It was installed in 1970 when the house was built and is a standard Wylex job.

Is the position of the fusebox still legal or will I have to relocate it inside the house?

Can anyone direct me to the site that confirms the answer to this?

 

[EFLImpudence]

Is the position of the fusebox still legal

Yes, why would you think it is not?

or will I have to relocate it inside the house?

No, why would you think you would?

Can anyone direct me to the site that confirms the answer to this?

See here.

 

[17thman]

There are no reason on the grounds of electrical safety or regulations that this is a problem. However, if you are concerned or when anybody is buying a new house, employ an electrician to conduct a periodic inspection report. This will cost around £200 to £300 pound for an average sized house and you will then know what you are letting yourself in for in terms of the state or condition of the wiring along with a very heplpful coding of the items which need to be addressed immediately and other recommendations. Money well spent, it could be a good negotiating tool

 

[RF Lighting]

As it's a detatched garage I'd be more interested to see how the final circuits get from the fuse box to the house.

Is the suppliers cutout and electricity meter also in your garage?

 

[17thman]

good point RF, even more reason for a PIR

 

[RF Lighting]

EICR

 

[17thman]

Its often been said that Birmingham is a back water. lol. The industrial revolution began here and i cannot even now get my terms correct, shame on Boulton, Watt and chamberlain, etc for not spreading their genes into my line

 

[Taylortwocities]

Robin, can we see a picture of the fusebox in the garage please?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Its often been said that Birmingham is a back water.

Jeremy Clarkson was more critical than that, as I recall.

Likened it to a changing room bath after the team had gone home.

 

[securespark]

Red White Blue, Red Yellow Blue, Brown Black Grey

MEB, PEB

PIR, EICR

I can't keep up!!

Time to retire, methinks!

 

[pjcomp]

Seems unusual, even for the 70s, for the fusebox to be away off in a detached garage - is the OP sure this isn't just for the garage and there's another, bigger one under the stairs or hidden at the back of a kitchen cupboard?

PJ

 

[Adam_151]

The only time I've seen anything like this was in what you call a 'park home' if you are being nice...

The fuseboard was located in the 'feeder pillar' again being nice* along with the service cutout, the twin and earths traversed to the park home via way of being wrapped in black PVC tape and buried direct in the ground.

Other properties were fed via such arrangments as a switchfuse in box outdoors, and unsheathed conductors as a submain installed in piece of waste pipe like what one would use for a wash hand basin

*It was a rotten wooden box with the door hanging off