Moving a consumer unit

[nmilner]

Hi,

I am having a new bigger garage built onto the side of my house and converting the existing smaller garage back into a room within the house. The 100A fuse, meter and consumer unit are currently situated in the current garage but I want these all moved to the new garage. What I would be grateful to know is can I mount the fuse, meter and consumer unit directly onto the breeze block wall or should I have a piece of wood screwed to the breeze block and the fuse, meter and CU mounted to this? If it is the latter, what type of wood should be used and how much of a stand-off from the wall is required?

Thanks in advance.

Nick

 

[Adam_151]

You need to have the REC move your meter, they will mount it on a piece of wood themeselves, or you can install a plastic meter cabinet in the outside wall and elect to have them install it in there instead, then you need to have a sparky move your consumer unit, this would probably get mounted directly to the wall, and reconnect the circuits to it

 

[ban-all-sheds]

If I were you I'd start working on Plan B, in case when you get the DNO quote for moving the meter you say "How much? *£%&^"@#!"