Fuse board and consumer unit upgrades in Walsall. Old rewirable boards swapped for a modern RCBO board, tested, certificated, fixed written price.
Out on the post-war estates — Beechdale, Goscote, Mossley — the cable is usually perfectly sound and the board is the problem. Those houses were specified for a very different way of living, and an electric shower, an induction hob and a garden office hung off a 1960s board is asking a lot of it.
Nearer the town centre, in Chuckery and the older parts of Palfrey, the board is often a mix of ages: a newer unit added for a kitchen or a shower, with the original fuses still running the rest of the house. That split is worth sorting at the same time, because two boards with different protection is exactly how a fault ends up on the circuit nobody tested.
Wire fuses and no RCD protection. This is the upgrade that actually changes the safety of a house, and on estate housing it is usually the whole job.
Individual protection per circuit, so a faulty kettle takes out the kettle and not the upstairs lights at eleven at night.
The circuits get tested before the board goes on, because a new board over a fault is a new board that keeps tripping.
Issued and emailed, not promised.
Fitted as part of the new board where the regulations call for it, rather than left off to make the quote look smaller.
Every way on the board named for what it actually feeds, so the next person, or you at midnight, knows which switch is the kitchen.
Send a photo or a quick video of the room on WhatsApp, or get a free fixed quote — no obligation, and we’ll tell you straight what it needs.
On most Walsall estate housing a board change is enough — the cable is sound and the board is simply undersized and unprotected. In the older terraces it depends what the testing finds. We test first and tell you which one you have.
A straightforward board change is a day, with the power off for a few hours of it. If the testing turns up faults that need fixing before the board can be signed off, we tell you before we start rather than halfway through.
Usually because it is doing its job. An old board with no RCD hid faults that a modern board will not; the fix is finding the fault, not going back to the old board.
Often, within reason. Moving it out of a damp understairs cupboard or away from the front door is common, and the meter tails decide how far it can go. That is checked at the survey rather than discovered on the day.
Not on its own. A shower that runs cold or trips usually needs the right cable size and protection for its load, so that circuit is looked at when the board is planned and matched to the shower you actually have.