RCD's, RCBO's, RCCD's

If I've bought the wrong unit I will take it back and buy the right one.
Take it back and get a refund.

Your electrician will be paying less than you so it'll be cheaper to have him supply it.

As ever, personal recommendations are always the best way to find a reputable tradesman, but if you're having to go ahead without much in the way of those, or references, don't put any store by registration itself - sadly it is possible to become registered with woefully inadequate qualifications and zero practical experience. You don't have to spend long here to see people cropping up who are registered and "qualified", but who are clearly seriously incompetent in reality and who should not be charging for their services.

You want someone to install a CU. It may interest and dismay you to learn that you can become a "qualified" electrician without ever having done that particular job.

It's your money, several £'00s of it, and you have every right to ask prospective tradesmen what their qualifications are. Just being listed here is not a good enough guide. No genuinely experienced electrician, with the "full set" of C&G qualifications will mind you asking - in fact he will wish that everyone was like you.

I feel sorry for people who have been misled by training organisations and (shamefully) the Competent Person scheme organisers into thinking that a 5-day training course, a couple of trivial examples of their work and some basic understanding of how to use test equipment will make them an electrician, but not sorry enough to agree with them trying to sell their services to Joe Public.
 
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Years ago there was an attitude "I know what I am doing I don't need to test"...

...Thankfully those days are behind us and all electricians not only test their work but also produce a record of their results.

Years ago? I suspect the majority of installations are still carried out by people with the "no need to test" attitude. And of the rest, a great many are incapable of correctly inspecting, testing and certifying an installation.

It will be many years - if ever - before we reach the happy Nirvana you describe!
 

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