we're up bright and breezy this morning we're taking the idyllic drive out to Rutland i've
brought with me my verso consumer unit from Premspec absolutely now I've reviewed this
in a previous video but what are we going to be doing in this video again
we're going to be installing this consumer unit behind us but I'm always a little bit
nervous when we've got new contractors amongst us absolutely but here it's almost like we're putting
the band back together again isn't it because we're here with matt and marcus from bardel
so marcus is nipped off for those who don't know him this is matthew from bardel electrical
services limited and we're installing the consumer unit behind us matthew yeah but it doesn't look
like the origin of the supply to me now is this a sub board taken from the main board through the
hallway there's about i don't know that's about 15 meters away okay that brings up our first question
so we're more than 10 meters away from the origin of the supply are you going to install a type 2
surge protection device in this board as well yeah i think we are the board's got the surge
protection in it so that's what we'll we'll use that for this one okay the number of circuits
here how are you going to protect all of these circuits individual so we'll use our Rcbo's should
we crack on with them let's go so the way you've set the job up matt you've got to take many of the
knockouts out of you no just 25 mil one here in the and the two at the back and i think there's
a plate that will sit in here meaning you don't have any grommet stripping it works as a grommet
plate and the way you've set up your cables that's going to be an easy install it should
just go straight through i think from the review that joe did all the bits are inside it yeah
so okay so
yes they've got the grommet strip there but these are the inserts that we'll put in the back
to me this is always the bit i want to get over where the cables are in the board you've already
got the steel armored fema in because it's just a nice dressing element now isn't that yeah so it's
all quite tidy now to to make uh we'll just put these the surge protection bits back in
um yeah now it's just about putting the actual cables in getting the the chips in i take it
that we've got the line circuits on the left and the power on the right you've already dressed them
up yeah sort of yeah so it's sort of how they how they how they came coming in
anyway so we'll have all the sockets on here and lightings and smoke alarms on that side
i see you remove the neutral nerf bar there in order to connect the steel wire armor to
the metal enclosure and you've terminated into the top of the double pole switch what the connection
did take out that you had to re-terminate uh just the neutral bar on the earth bar we've
just re-terminated the the the connections for the surge protection device so it just leaves us
now to make those final circuit connections should we pass that one over to marcus yeah
so matt's wandered off and we're joined by marcus now in a lovely position marcus all
the cables are stripped and ready for terminating which order are you going to terminate them in so
i'll start with my cpcs and what i'll do is i'll i'll get everything in position in the terminals
but then i'll go at the end and talk everything right at the end of the installation would you
class that as a top tip so you don't miss anybody yeah basically yeah there's also a sticker inside
this consumer that gives you those talks ends as well isn't that yeah which is a nice touch really
saves me having to keep forgetting going back to the box get the instructions out and check so
so we've almost completed the install can you give us from an electrician's point of view some
key points that you like about this board market yeah so there's a lot of room above the bars here
which is nice for dressing in your cpcs you can get them looped in and leave plenty of slack up
there just in case you know in the future anyone comes and changes it the dim rail is mounted a bit
further away from the back of the board which is nice gives you plenty of room for dressing
the cables behind as well so so we've got a lot of cable that we can't see obviously swooping up into
the yeah they sort of come down where they can back up into the top of the terminal so any other
features um the rcbo has already come type a which is nice okay so we're moving away from obviously
18 because you go into a lot of wholesalers asking for a type a rcbo and they say oh we've only got b
curve so so yeah being the actual type of breaker yeah so it's nice that they already come as it so
just do a little tiny quarter of a turn back just so i'll make sure that it's not already too tight
and then i can go and tighten the tub and that's to two newton meters of torque is it it is yes
and that's the same for the neutral and the earth bar yes both bars are the same you've cut the buzz
bar down to length in order to accommodate the surge protection device yeah why do you think
it's so important to return the torque setting in this case again to two newton meter talk within
the board again i'm sort of a fan of the regs we recommend to follow manufacturing instructions
so where possible i always try to and you know they state a torx end so if if they've tested it
to a certain tightness then i believe we should put it to that tightness for for them reasons
so yeah divide the electrical industry and we'd love your comments below you're the type of person
that does talk the terminations back and consuming it's the required manufacturer settings or you're
the sort of person that goes with what your arm feels like we'd like those comments below
i'm torn now i don't know what impressed me more the speed that bardel installed the consumer unit
or the verso can simulate itself yeah those boys are rapid and it was a really nice neat install as
well wasn't it but that was aided in part by the verso consumer unit you've got those big knockouts
in the back to bring your cables through couple that with the sturdy kind of construction of it
with the easy fixing points and all the space that you've got above the rcbos and behind the
rcbos for rooting your cables and you're onto a bit of a winner there but what what did you
like about those rcbos guys they're a type and we've moved away from ac as industry has
also the keynote amongst you might have noticed that the socket circuits were actually
radial socket circuits that's another thing that we're moving away from or are we not we'd
love your comments on that we'd also love all your comments about the verso consume unit is
it one that you fit and there's some real special features that we haven't mentioned you'd like to
leave those in the comments and we'll try and get back to as many as we can all the remains
in this video is to say thank you very much for watching thank you very much for watching you