[CS[_3_]]

I need to get a new circuit board fitted, dual RCB etc. How much of
the work am I allowed to do myself??
TVMIA

[Andrew Gabriel]

In article ,
CS writes:
I need to get a new circuit board fitted, dual RCB etc.

Why do you?
Is it actually faulty or unsafe?
A house doesn't need to meet current standards,
but it does need to be safe, which it would be if
it meets 16th Edition (and probably 15th Edition too).

How much of
the work am I allowed to do myself??

All of it. However, you would need to do a building notice
and have the council come and inspect it. They will likely
try and parm this off as your responsibility, and charge
you extra because they don't have appropriately trained
staff, even thought they've been told not to do this.
The upshot is that this is all being ignored by many
councils, although some are still anal about it.

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Andrew Gabriel
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[NT[_2_]]

On Oct 12, 7:38*pm, CS wrote:
I need to get a new circuit board fitted, dual RCB etc. How much of
the work am I allowed to do myself??
TVMIA

In principle you can do all of it. However, its unusual for a CU to
need replacing, lots of rented properties are quite happy on their
original 1970s fusebox.

Also I don't know how much you'd need to learn, to comply with regs.


NT

[Pete Verdon]

NT wrote:
On Oct 12, 7:38 pm, CS wrote:

I need to get a new circuit board fitted, dual RCB etc. How much of
the work am I allowed to do myself??

Also I don't know how much you'd need to learn, to comply with regs.

If he's talking about RCBs on a circuit board, probably quite a lot.

Pete

[CS[_3_]]

Companies I've approached to manage my letting have said that main
circuit board/consumer unit must have RCDs to assure Elec Safety
Certificate for letting.

Quite happy to do it, already added small CU for garage a few years
ago. Reckon that a dual RCD board with 10 breaker slots would do it -
currently have 10 breakers scattered around. Even built a shorted
plug to check RCD trips at under 30ma, although do not have timer for
40ms part!!

Just fitted out a 22m steel vessel with 12v/24v/240v 1ph and 380v 3ph
circuits, 12kw generator, 22kw battery, 6kw inverters, shore supply
isolation transformer, contactors to auto change over supplies etc etc.