Fuse board, fuse box, consumer unit: they are all names for the same thing, the box where your supply is split into circuits and each circuit is protected. On the Isle of Wedmore that box might be in a Georgian house on The Borough, a Victorian villa, or a farmhouse with barns across the yard. We replace old ones with metal RCBO boards and certify the work.
A typical three-bedroom home has eight to ten circuits. Many houses around The Borough and the Victorian villas in the village are bigger than that. A separate circuit for the Aga or range, an annexe, a garden room, an extra ring for a large kitchen, outside lighting, a supply to a workshop: each one is another way on the board and another RCBO. It is common for a larger village house to need a bigger enclosure, and the price reflects the count.
The upside is that every one of those circuits ends up independently protected. When something trips in the utility room, the rest of the house stays on, and the label tells you exactly which circuit it was.
Because Wedmore and its hamlets are spread out, a few good photos often save a wasted trip. If you can take them safely, send:
Do not remove any covers to take them. For a simple swap we can sometimes give a fixed price from photos and a call; for most houses we will want a short survey, and the written price follows that.
Pricing is tailored to each job. Larger houses, extra boards and any repairs to failing circuits are set out line by line on the written quote, which we confirm once we have seen what is involved.
What does not change: the metal enclosure, the main switch, a Type A RCBO on every circuit, Type 2 surge protection, arc fault detection on bedroom sockets, new 25mm² flexible tails, a full test, the Electrical Installation Certificate and Part P notification through NAPIT. Those are in every board we fit.
Toward Theale, Blackford, Mudgley and Westhay, a lot of properties are farmhouses and converted barns with long supply runs between buildings. Those runs need to be in armoured cable, buried or fixed along a protected route, and protected at the house end by a device sized for the cable. We often find older runs that are undersized, unprotected or fed from a socket, and we deal with them alongside the board change.
If the wiring in the house itself is old, a board change may only be part of the answer; see rewires in Wedmore, or heritage rewires for listed and period buildings. For everyday jobs once the board is done, our Wedmore electrician page covers the small works.
The nearest board and supply jobs to Wedmore from 2026.
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Yes. People say fuse box, fuse board, consumer unit or distribution board for the same thing in a house. Strictly, a fuse box has fuses and a modern consumer unit has circuit breakers or RCBOs, but they do the same job of dividing the supply into circuits and protecting each one. When we say consumer unit replacement, we mean taking the old one out and fitting a metal RCBO board in its place.
An RCD shared across several circuits trips all of them when any one has a fault, so a damp outside light can switch off your fridge, your heating controls and the upstairs lights together. With one RCBO per circuit, only the faulty circuit goes off. It also makes fault-finding quicker, because the tripped device tells you where to look. That is why every board we fit is built this way.
It usually means at least one extra circuit, sometimes two, and a larger protective device for that circuit. We count it like any other way on the board. If you are converting a cooker to electric, the new circuit needs to be sized for it and RCD-protected, and the supply has to cope with the load. Mention it when you book so the survey covers it.
The power is off for most of the day either way. A larger house with more circuits, a second board in a barn, or several outbuilding supplies takes longer to test and label, so on a big property we start early, and occasionally the outbuilding work runs into a second day. We will tell you at the survey if we expect that.
Yes, and we do it. A consumer unit replacement is notifiable under Part P of the Building Regulations. We notify it through NAPIT, and you receive the Electrical Installation Certificate from us. Keep both with your house papers, because they are the evidence a buyer's solicitor will look for when you sell.
Priced by the job, not by the hour. A written, fixed price after a survey, NAPIT certification on every notifiable job.
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