The consumer unit used to be known as the fusebox
Many homes do not have an RCD (Residual Circuit Device) which protects your home from fires and yourself from electric shock
On inspection, we often find that many home are at risk of fire because they do not have the correct rating of overload protection
All our consumer units carry a 12 month warranty and an Electrical Installation Certificate is issued on completion of the work

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Consumer unit / fuse box replacements

The consumer unit controls and isolates all electrical circuits in your home

RCDs have to be installed on socket and lighting circuits which feed bathrooms as set out in BS7671- Amendment 2 2018 IEE Regulations. They are fitted into every new 18th edition consumer units we install and must trip if more than 30mA of fault current exists (Potentially 100mA could be fatal so this trips out before that amount can be present). The RCD must trip within 200mS (0.2s).

The latest consumer units have SPD surge protection and MCBs to protect the circuits from overload i.e. if a cable is rated at 10amps then an MCB must be rated below that, so it will trip instead of the cable getting hot. Also the new consumers units have two RCDs for fault protection. The reason for having two is so the circuits (sockets and lights etc) can be split, and then if a fault occurs you don’t lose all the electricity in the house so you can see in the dark and the fridge can be plugged in.

The main tails and main earth are checked and updated if required and included in the price. All our consumer units carry a 12 month warranty and an Electrical Installation Certificate is issued on completion of the work.

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