This photo shows the whole consumer unit along with the Niko home control modules sited in the enclosures above.

Conduit work in a new garage installation

This was taken during the installation of a new consumer unit

This was the result of a badly installed consumer unit. A fire spread through the kitchen but fortunately all occupants escaped in plenty of time due to smoke alarms being fitted throughout the property.

A partial rewire was obviously required along with an all metal consumer unit designed to contain a fire and prevent propagation should a fire occur within.

Finished consumer unit installation after the fire.It's difficult to see the depth of the consumer unit here, but due to it's depth it was possible to safely box in the rather unsightly cabling (still visible) within a kitchen cabinet. This hadn't been done at this stage as UK power networks had yet to finished installing the new service head and meter.

First fix of a new living room. Ethernet, coax and power in place. The larger 'waste pipe' was to allow for a wall mounted TV to be installed with power and cdmi cables dropped through the pipework. Lots of double checking of measurement here to ensure that the TV bracket could be mounted without fouling the cable runs!

This meter enclosure had seen better days. Serious risk of death here as the meter tails had exposed cores.

Some downlights and a fan in a bathroom weren't working. These inspection holes I cut in the ceiling revealed the problem. Note that the CPCs (earth cores) had been cut out on some cables, just to make matters worse!

This kind of thing is very often seen in the older installations around Brighton and Hove. Certainly not ideal.

Another lighting feed just chock blocked together in a loft space.

This, believe it or not is a consumer unit or fuse box as some call it. The wooden and glass front swung open exposing the live parts within. Note, the feed to the box is in VIR (vulcanised Indian Rubber) cabling, This hasn't been used since the 1960s at the very latest, although this example is much earlier. The cabling broke up when inspected leaving the live cores exposed. This was still in use and supplying a 3 bedroom property until late 2018.

When outside cables get wet or damp they are often the cause of nuisance tripping of RCDs within peoples homes. This one was highlighted during a main consumer unit upgrade.

The left hand one of the two nails here was live!

This is what can happen when junction boxes are not tightened correctly. This was audibly arcing and I heard it as I was lifting the carpet to get to the floorboards beneath. This was a fire waiting to happen. Inaccessible junction boxes should also be of a maintenance free type with do not have screw terminals.

Someone had tried to resolve an issue with their central heating system. Needless to say, I had to pull it all apart and make good.

Again another common sight in older houses.

At least these junction boxes all had lids!

Someone had installed a second consumer unit into a property and had crammed two sets of main tails into the connections at the top of a main switch. You can see that they didn't quite fit and so whoever decided to cut some of the individual strands away to make them fit. This results in an undersized cable. Also see that a plastic blanking plate has been used as a barrier to prevent the live and neutral touching. This was just one of the many terrifying parts of this installation, but I only got this one photo before resolving them!

A shower installation with a loose terminal can cause a lot of heat.

A call from a customer saying they were having trouble unplugging the washing machine which was plugged in behind a cupboard. Luckily they had turned off the power before trying.

Doesn't look very pretty, but ironically, is far less dangerous than some others I've seen!