DIY Consumer Unit Change

[AndyPRK]

I think we all know there are two ways of pricing a CU change.

1) A high initial cost, but likely to be an honest quote that won't later increase.

2) A cheap initial cost £300, and various extra's will (or could) be added along the way.

 

[JohnW2]

I think we all know there are two ways of pricing a CU change.
1) A high initial cost, but likely to be an honest quote that won't later increase.
2) A cheap initial cost £300, and various extra's will (or could) be added along the way.

Indeed - and, provided the 'extras' are charged fairly (which often they are not, by the £300 folk!!), the latter would probably be the best for the customer, because they then pay for the work which was actually required. The former approach (if it's a 'fixed' quote) inevitably means that, if the job proves to be very straightforward, the customer will usually over-pay, since the high fixed quote will have incorporated some provision for 'extra work which might have been required'.

Kind Regards, John

 

[First-time-buyer]

^thats right.

The question is, leave the earthing and that will £400 max or DIY the earth and they will hunt until they find something else wrong.

 

[AndyPRK]

It's the unknown unknown costs that is the concern.

E.g shared neutral on landing light.
You might want to investigate that first and resolve if required. That would be expensive.

 

[First-time-buyer]

A simple example of that is singles at the landing switch, however I think its an intermediate

 

[AndyPRK]

The classic example is the landing light stops working when the downstairs fuse is removed.

Or a link between the com terminals in the downstairs light switch

 

[First-time-buyer]

There appears to only be 1 lighting circuit so no issues now. I will pull the cover off the board and have a peek. I have 30-40mtrs of old skool B&W T&E which if I could find where upstairs is fed from and JB it out back the board.

 

[AndyPRK]

Oh yes I recall now. I would be using a type C MCB for the lights then.
Don't want a blown bulb leaving the house in darkness

 

[First-time-buyer]

I know that feeling however most people can walk from memory and we have good corridor husbandry of keeping it clear

 

[First-time-buyer]

Some images

Board and Meter inside a corner kitchen cupboard.

Post deleted as photo posted below.

Double Socket, Spurred from a Single Socket, Providing power to the garage board and the light in the rear porch.

Awesome eh

 

[First-time-buyer]

Post deleted as photo posted below.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Tissues not needed with left to right gravity.


Why are so many pictures rotated lately?
Can't all be the posters.

 

[First-time-buyer]

We also found Choc-Blocks on 1mm in the attic with tape on them, easy fix.

Here are the pictures rotated..

Ah...the fridge socket?

EFI... just for you.. a screen shot.. photos were uploaded using phone.

FTB

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Why are so many pictures rotated lately?
Can't all be the posters.

It's a well-known (should be well known to Apple users) problem with images from iphones (and probably ipads too).

http://iphonephotographyschool.com/iphone-photos-upside-down/

But whatever the root cause, and whoever is to blame for the orientation ending up wrong, it is the posters fault if they don't, immediately after posting, think "oo-err", and use any of the many image processing tools out there to fix it and re-upload.

 

[AndyPRK]

Why are so many pictures rotated lately?
Can't all be the posters.

It's a well-known (should be well known to Apple users) problem with images from iphones (and probably ipads too).

http://iphonephotographyschool.com/iphone-photos-upside-down/

But whatever the root cause, and whoever is to blame for the orientation ending up wrong, it is the posters fault if they don't, immediately after posting, think "oo-err", and use any of the many image processing tools out there to fix it and re-upload.

That link is regarding photos being 180° out. Where as the OP's photos were 90° out.

Tissues not needed with left to right gravity.


Why are so many pictures rotated lately?