Shed install. Splitting tails

[mainline]

Exactly, I really can’t understand why it wasn’t just put on the other side of that wall… all of that trouble for no real benefit

Is that cabinet surface mount cant see from the pic, if so can't you put another next to it

 

[timhoward]

As above , if you could do away with the 63a mcb completely and put in some sort of 2 way consumer unit to feed the house and a shed then you could make a dogs dinner look not too bad

If it were my house , I would probably do the above and have the house on a 63a mcb or even a 50a mcb and the shed on a 32a or 20a

The fun is finding a 2 way CU that fits in width-wise, has 100A main switch, but also has enough space to give you any hope of getting 16mm tails in and around to the top. A lot of them simply wouldn't have room.

This might work

Metal Clad Consumer Units Fuse Boards Amendment 3 | CEF

13.6 cm wide and comparatively spacious

 

[mainline]

The fun is finding a 2 way CU that fits in width-wise, has 100A main switch, but also has enough space to give you any hope of getting 16mm tails in and around to the top. A lot of them simply wouldn't have room.

This might work

Metal Clad Consumer Units Fuse Boards Amendment 3 | CEF

13.6 cm wide and comparatively spacious

Agreed

The fun is finding a 2 way CU that fits in width-wise, has 100A main switch, but also has enough space to give you any hope of getting 16mm tails in and around to the top. A lot of them simply wouldn't have room.

This might work

Metal Clad Consumer Units Fuse Boards Amendment 3 | CEF

13.6 cm wide and comparatively spacious

Seems overkill for a shed supply not knowing the size etc, but I am assuming it's a socket and a light.

 

[mainline]

Agreed

Seems overkill for a shed supply not knowing the size etc, but I am assuming it's a socket and a light.

Used loads of those, get them cheap on Amazon with 3 fuse sizes.
As said, it's the Henley blocks and tail routing that takes up the space when using more than one.

 

[123]

I take it when it came to getting the ducting for the DNO supply, a big hammer was the only tool available?

Never seen the cut out mounted like that before either, it certainly doesn't look the most secure mounting. Also never seen the duct left open and not filled with a putty of some sort.

 

[Dustydazzler]

I take it when it came to getting the ducting for the DNO supply, a big hammer was the only tool available?

Never seen the cut out mounted like that before either, it certainly doesn't look the most secure mounting. Also never seen the duct left open and not filled with a putty of some sort.

Almost looks like the builder was left to get the DNO cable up inside the meter housing, the smart meter came first and when the DNO came to connect there was no room left to fix the head back

Either way it is pretty rough as ...

 

[brianmoooore]

Angled back head like that is common enough in flush mounted boxes to avoid sharp bends in the cable.
Strangely, the Western Power used that arrangement in one of my supplies in a surface box. Service cable comes out of the ground and rises up to the cabinet a good six inches away from the wall.