Planning kitchen: how close can Consumer Unit be to Gas Meter. Preferably both in same 500 base unit. Thanks
True, if they were side by side. However, if one really wanted a CU in a kitchen base unit (I certainly wouldn't!) I would think there would be enough height (usually ≥800mm, and the gas meter will presumably be on the floor/bottom) for the CU to be above the gas meter (with >150mm between them), wouldn't there?Minimum is 150mm, so both in a 500 base unit will be impossible.
Under the stairs?Agree not ideal in kitchen unit but nowhere else for it go.
My in-laws (no longer with us) bought a 1980's new-build bungalow. The CU (a Wylex Standard - about the only good thing about the job!) was is a corner base unit in the kitchen. I think it must have been installed before the kitchen was completed since, even when the cupboards were emptied, it required major acrobatics to even get to 'touch' it, let alone 'maintain' it! I suspect that the position was probably chosen because it was just on the other side of the wall from the external meter cabinet (shorter/cheaper tails!)!I wouldn't want to be the one to maintain that cu. I hate working in cupboards! Glad I'm not a plumber!
That's almost certainly untrue.Agree not ideal in kitchen unit but nowhere else for it go.
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