Old Consumer Unit and Other Gubbins....Advice Needed

[nordberg73]

OK - my surveyor is telling me that the house we've just bought may not need a rewire but most definitely needs a new consumer unit and possibly some work doing by the electricity board on the main supply cable - or something along those lines... Based on the photo below, can anyone extrapolate on this so I can at least read up on it before I get a sparky around?

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• nordberg73
• 3 Jun 2010
• 3

 

[holmslaw]

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[Hager]

give you a tenner for the 2 boxes

 

[kai]

What I don't understand is, why do many old houses tend to have 3 phase service fuses in them, surely we had less appliances back then, and no power showers etc???

 

[1john]

well that install has a cable in and a cable out so i guess they just joint the three phase in each property and then put each 3rd house on a separate phase. I have been in plenty of large old domestic properties with 3 phase supplies but rarely utilising all three phases.

 

[nordberg73]

give you a tenner for the 2 boxes

Why, are they museum pieces or packed with copper??

 

[1john]

give you a tenner for the 2 boxes

Why, are they museum pieces or packed with copper??

Neither, common as muck old c/u.