Changing consumer unit in garage

[GhostWKD]

Hi all,

Got a consumer unit in my garage which has 2 breakers (lights & sockets). Want to get more sockets added but given I've tripped the breakers a few times with existing setup thinking of changing the consumer unit for one with a bit more capacity.

Anyone know how much an electrician would charge for that? I get that its a bit of a length of string question but want to have a bit of an idea before I speak to the electrician

Cheers,
Alex

 

[GhostWKD]

Thanks for replies guys, to try answer a few of the q's;

It's not the main CU, that ones in the house and has a connection to this one in the garage. Times I've tripped it have been running a couple of Halogen heaters in the winter, keen to be able to use heaters & power tools at the same time

Cable going to the garage looks pretty beefy but good shout on checking the garage breaker rating, that may be the quickest check of viability to be fair

Bad photo but one I took when discussing with friends (who it turns out know about the same amount of near zero when it comes to this )

 

[GhostWKD]

If you're cold in your garage...you're not working hard enough

Work smart not hard

Not 100% sure, not a spark but do work alongside a few working for an electrical company

But, you may need to change out to a metal CU due to new regs.

How old are the regs? The house is less than 2 years old so would hope it's not any different now (consumer unit inside the house is plastic too)

That quote has come out wrong..mixed me and rexehuk together

My point was correct that the rating at the house cu will be the current max capacity for the garage supply and together will the cable size will help the op decide the next steps

Agreed rexehuk misunderstood the rating on the RCD, 63a is the most common rating, followed by 80a, 100a and 40a in my experience.

Appears to be just an off the shelf garage cu kit, so whoever fitted just used whatever came with the deal, so 16a might be able to be increased, may have just used 16a as it came with the cu etc

This is the CU inside the house which then feeds the garage, so it's a 20A jobbie on this end I think?