Large white box with Danger 230 volts on it

[Dr Nuts]

Just checking over a bungalow originally built 1963 that has had a lot of modifications done in 2003 and also has a detached garage with power to it. Found the fuse box but there is also this additional box with what looks like a circuit breaker switched 'off'. Any ideas please

 

[Colin Brenton]

Might be a junction box where the consumer unit used to be?

 

[RandomGrinch]

Hi,

As long as you are careful, open it up and have a look!

Nothing is (very!) likely to jump out at you.
Given the amount of wires entering the box, as above, it seems likely that there's a junction box inside.
There may be a slight possibility of other control units inside e.g. garage door controller?
But too many cables for just that.

Then send us a pic of the inside

 

[333rocky333]

If the building was done in metal tube it may be a Junction box so they could reuse the old pipe network.
The small box is a RCD possibly at one time for the garage

 

[Dr Nuts]

Many thanks gents when I'm back at home I'll have a look inside. It is next to a very old and hopefully disconnected fusebox. Photos to follow but thats really helpful, I have only just joined this forum, thank you for the swift replies

 

[Deleted member 267285]

Quite possibly an alarm or shower pump box, could be something else though.

 

[flameport]

Hopefully not one of those 'rewires' where some lowlife just joined the ancient rubber cables to some short lengths of new T&E and installed a new consumer unit a short distance away.