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Advice please - Electrician has opened wrong knock-out - do i need a whole new board?
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<blockquote data-quote="Noddyman" data-source="post: 546586" data-attributes="member: 37027"><p>Hi, We are having an extension where the consumer unit is mounted up high near the ceiling, with the meter and the solar PV isolator etc all down low in a cupboard, with a false wall hiding all the cabling between them. </p><p>The electrician has gone off spec and run the tails from the meter out a side knockout on the consumer unit and infront of the false wall to an isolator switch completely exposed and in the wrong place - it looks ugly!</p><p></p><p>The tails should have been hidden behind the false wall (with all the other cabling) with the isolator switch in the bottom cupboard next to the Solar PV isolator switch - surely it's common sense from a safety perspective that you have both isolators next to each other, not one visible next to the consumer unit and the other in a cupboard below.</p><p></p><p>I don't know what solution he will propose when he comes back next week but should i demand a whole new consumer board (as the drilled knockout will mean it's no longer IP rated) or is there a safe/quick/cheap solution to "fill in" the knockout that would be acceptable? He was given the spec, the builders knew it was wrong (and apparently queried it with him when they saw it) but i've not spoken to him directly yet but wanted some professional advice please.</p><p></p><p>Thanks</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Noddyman, post: 546586, member: 37027"] Hi, We are having an extension where the consumer unit is mounted up high near the ceiling, with the meter and the solar PV isolator etc all down low in a cupboard, with a false wall hiding all the cabling between them. The electrician has gone off spec and run the tails from the meter out a side knockout on the consumer unit and infront of the false wall to an isolator switch completely exposed and in the wrong place - it looks ugly! The tails should have been hidden behind the false wall (with all the other cabling) with the isolator switch in the bottom cupboard next to the Solar PV isolator switch - surely it's common sense from a safety perspective that you have both isolators next to each other, not one visible next to the consumer unit and the other in a cupboard below. I don't know what solution he will propose when he comes back next week but should i demand a whole new consumer board (as the drilled knockout will mean it's no longer IP rated) or is there a safe/quick/cheap solution to "fill in" the knockout that would be acceptable? He was given the spec, the builders knew it was wrong (and apparently queried it with him when they saw it) but i've not spoken to him directly yet but wanted some professional advice please. Thanks [/QUOTE]
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