First Electrical Services Ltd
Areas Covered
Sutton Coldfield
Tamworth
Lichfield
Atherstone
Coleshil
All surrounding areas
Consumer Unit Replacement
Think of your fuse board as the main hub of your home – its the ‘thinking centre’ to all electrical aspects in your home. If the job is carried out incorrectly, your home will be in a dangerous condition and your family is then at risk from electrical harm.
Firstly, I will outline the main reasons why you may need or want to upgrade your old fuse board to a new 17th Edition Consumer Unit
You are having some other electrical work carried out and need to comply with the regulations
Your old fuse board is overloaded and starting to cause problems for the remainder of the installation.
Your wiring installation is in poor condition but you cannot afford a rewire, changing to a 17th Edition Consumer Unit will offer some protection.
Whatever the reason upgrading an old consumer unit to one incorporating two residual current devices (RCDs), is a job that many people will now have to consider at some point.
The above points may have been raised by another tradesperson in your home such as a builder if are having a large building project undertaken.
Earthing and Bonding
Before the consumer unit is changed, the electrician will have checked the distributor’s equipment at the origin of the installation (where your meter is) along with the earthing and bonding arrangements. This is to ensure that they are properly connected, safe and that they comply with the regulations.
If there are no main bonding cables to the gas and water or they are undersize then this will need to be done as part of the overall job and costed for accordily
Fault Finding
A good contractor will have built in an allowance for some Fault Finding because experience tells us that there are often minor issues that need to be resolved, if this has been built into the cost then often the electrician will not bother you with the detail, but will just rectify simple faults as found. Major faults would be notified to you and be discussed as a separate Job.