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Hi,
Before I begin my tale of woe, I have my tin hat ready!
I'm retired from the trade, I started out just as the 16th came in and had a rather interesting career before being thrown a googly, so I am out of the loop by a few years, yeah I can re-qualify and join a scam but its not going to happen, anyway to keep it short, I would like to replace my CU, a plastic wylex split load that had two 80 A rdc's and nine mcb's and a spare slot, the reasons are as follows:
A) its an ex council house that was rewired in 2010, last periodic was carried out in 2016, a clean sheet except for marking the plastic enclosure as a C3, not had any serious problems until:
B) a few months ago I replaced the shower 45 Amp ceiling isolator with a more robust hager wall mount isolator, the old one had as usual failed, it was while fitting this switch that I decided to check the 4 A mcb terminals for tightness, What I found was that at some point in the past someone must have ripped the head off the clamp screw, cut the hole bigger and fitted an oddball screw, there is a similar situation on a 32A mcb on the other rcd side.
Now I was going to try and obtain direct replacements but they are obsolete, the best wylex could suggest was replace the lot with another series because the bus bar as you know, has been moved a tad so it wont fit the rcd's either, meaning a full change, if I have to do that I may as well swap the entire board and go with rcbo, having one spare way for future expansion.
The problem is I need this doing and need the paperwork, money isn't the problem, getting someone is, I have asked two companies up here in Merseyside and no one got back over it despite the job being free of problems, possibly I picked the wrong people who knows.
I carried out a full test myself after finding the tampered clamps, I can provide the last periodic along with my recent results, no problems , no open rfc's and insulation on 8 circuits is 1000M ohm at 500V and one thats 800M ohm possibly due to moisture in the wall that comes and goes, and every outlet has been replaced with scolmores, either white or steel.
There are no hidden surprises, no damaged cables under the floors and attic and no hidden junction boxes, but I do have two correctly fitted accessible wago boxes in the attic to provide a tap off the lighting for the shower fan and attic lights, its really rather boring really.
Now I know I may get flack and it may be deserved but I believe the conditions are good and it should be on the face of it, a nice clean job, fresh coffee and a little banter and that's it, anything unexpected then it will be resolved no problem.
Finally (and I can hear some say about time), is there any one here who is near Merseyside who would like to take this on or do you know anyone who may be interested ?
One mast thing, three months ago I had the DNO replace the service head and earth ( TN-S ) because I didn't like the look of the earth, rightly so it was in poor condition and we now have a new 100A grey service incomer that match the grey 25mm tails.
Phew, thats it, thank you.
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Before I begin my tale of woe, I have my tin hat ready!
I'm retired from the trade, I started out just as the 16th came in and had a rather interesting career before being thrown a googly, so I am out of the loop by a few years, yeah I can re-qualify and join a scam but its not going to happen, anyway to keep it short, I would like to replace my CU, a plastic wylex split load that had two 80 A rdc's and nine mcb's and a spare slot, the reasons are as follows:
A) its an ex council house that was rewired in 2010, last periodic was carried out in 2016, a clean sheet except for marking the plastic enclosure as a C3, not had any serious problems until:
B) a few months ago I replaced the shower 45 Amp ceiling isolator with a more robust hager wall mount isolator, the old one had as usual failed, it was while fitting this switch that I decided to check the 4 A mcb terminals for tightness, What I found was that at some point in the past someone must have ripped the head off the clamp screw, cut the hole bigger and fitted an oddball screw, there is a similar situation on a 32A mcb on the other rcd side.
Now I was going to try and obtain direct replacements but they are obsolete, the best wylex could suggest was replace the lot with another series because the bus bar as you know, has been moved a tad so it wont fit the rcd's either, meaning a full change, if I have to do that I may as well swap the entire board and go with rcbo, having one spare way for future expansion.
The problem is I need this doing and need the paperwork, money isn't the problem, getting someone is, I have asked two companies up here in Merseyside and no one got back over it despite the job being free of problems, possibly I picked the wrong people who knows.
I carried out a full test myself after finding the tampered clamps, I can provide the last periodic along with my recent results, no problems , no open rfc's and insulation on 8 circuits is 1000M ohm at 500V and one thats 800M ohm possibly due to moisture in the wall that comes and goes, and every outlet has been replaced with scolmores, either white or steel.
There are no hidden surprises, no damaged cables under the floors and attic and no hidden junction boxes, but I do have two correctly fitted accessible wago boxes in the attic to provide a tap off the lighting for the shower fan and attic lights, its really rather boring really.
Now I know I may get flack and it may be deserved but I believe the conditions are good and it should be on the face of it, a nice clean job, fresh coffee and a little banter and that's it, anything unexpected then it will be resolved no problem.
Finally (and I can hear some say about time), is there any one here who is near Merseyside who would like to take this on or do you know anyone who may be interested ?
One mast thing, three months ago I had the DNO replace the service head and earth ( TN-S ) because I didn't like the look of the earth, rightly so it was in poor condition and we now have a new 100A grey service incomer that match the grey 25mm tails.
Phew, thats it, thank you.
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I think when a professional refers to the cu as 'that' then its time it went 
