The upgrade people notice most is not the metal box, it is what sits inside it. An old board protects the house with a handful of fuses and, at best, one residual current device covering everything. Trip it and you lose the lot, including the freezer and every light in the building. A modern consumer unit gives each circuit its own RCBO, so a fault on the garden socket takes out the garden socket and leaves the rest of the house running. There is room for a surge protection device too, which matters more now that most homes have several thousand pounds of electronics plugged into them.
Before any of that is fitted, though, the existing installation has to be worth putting a new board on. We test first: earthing arrangement, main protective bonding to the gas and water, the condition and insulation resistance of every circuit that is going to be reconnected. If a circuit has a fault it has been quietly living with, a new board will find it within minutes of being energised — better to know that at the survey than at half past four with the family standing in the hall. Where the results say the cable is past it, we will say so rather than sell you a board that cannot fix the problem.
Walsall covers a very wide range of housing, from older terraced streets through post-war semis to newer estates, so what we find behind the cover varies enormously. That is also why we quote after looking rather than over the phone. Read the full fuse board replacement service, book the diagnostic first with an EICR in Walsall, see the rest of what we do as an electrician in Walsall, pair it with EV charger installation in Walsall or a house rewire in Walsall, ask about commercial work in Walsall, or ask for a free quote.
What gets checked, what gets fitted and what you are left holding at the end of the day.
Nothing is disconnected until we know what we are reconnecting. Earthing arrangement, main bonding to gas and water, insulation resistance and continuity on each existing circuit. That half hour is what stops a board change turning into a fault-finding afternoon nobody budgeted for.
The new board is a metal-clad consumer unit with an individual RCBO on each way, so a fault is isolated to the circuit that caused it. Every way is labelled properly, which is worth more on a wet Sunday evening than most of the rest of it put together.
A surge protection device sits in the board and clamps the spikes that come down the supply after a storm or a switching event. It is a small addition at the time of a board change and a great deal cheaper than replacing a house full of electronics afterwards.
In a normal house it is a day. The supply is isolated, the old board comes off, the new one goes on, every circuit is reconnected, tested and labelled, and the power is back on before we leave. We will tell you at the quote if yours is likely to be anything other than that.
You get an Electrical Installation Certificate with the test results for every circuit, and the work is notified to building control under our NAPIT registration. Landlords get the paperwork in a form that stands up when an agent or a tenant asks for it.
Four stages, with the checks that protect you done before the old board comes off the wall.
We see the existing board, the meter position, the earthing and the bonding, and get an idea of how many circuits the new unit needs to carry.
The unit we intend to fit, the number of ways, whether surge protection is included and anything the testing says has to be put right first.
Supply isolated, old board removed, new consumer unit mounted and every circuit reconnected, identified and labelled as it goes back in.
Full testing across the installation, RCD timings recorded, power restored, certificate issued and the work notified through NAPIT.
Fuse boards, inspections, rewires and chargers all get done by the same electrician in Walsall; the towns either side get the same fuse board service.
What Walsall homeowners and landlords ask before booking a consumer unit change.
For most of the working day, with it back on before we leave. We isolate the supply, change the board and reconnect and test every circuit in one visit. If your installation has something unusual about it we will flag that at the quote rather than on the day.
Modern domestic boards are metal-clad, and that is what we fit. It is one of the more visible differences between a current consumer unit and the plastic ones that were standard for years, and it is not an upgrade we charge extra to talk you into.
Only if the tripping is caused by the board. Far more often it is a fault on a circuit, and a modern board with an RCBO per way makes it obvious which circuit that is instead of taking the whole house out. We test before quoting so you know which situation you are in.
It combines overload protection and residual current protection in one device on a single circuit. The practical result is that a fault in the garden or the kitchen affects that circuit alone, rather than tripping one RCD that is covering half the house.
Yes. Changing a consumer unit is notifiable, and we notify it under our NAPIT registration through the Competent Person Scheme. You get the Electrical Installation Certificate and there is nothing for you to submit yourself.
Yes, and it is common alongside an EICR. We can work to a tenancy’s access arrangements and the certificate you receive afterwards is the document an agent or local authority will want to see.
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Walsall’s housing runs from older terraced streets through post-war semis to modern estates, and the boards behind the covers are just as varied. Fuse wire, early plastic units and boards with a single RCD covering everything all still turn up here, and each one calls for a slightly different conversation.
A free, no-obligation quote to replace an old fuse board in Walsall with a metal RCBO consumer unit, tested and certified.
All work is completed by qualified and certified electricians, with relevant approvals and documentation provided where required.
