Consumer Unit Relocation

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This may be an impossible question to answer without seeing behind the box/in the wall, but are consumer units normally wired with a fair amount of slack in the cables feeding them?

I want to extend out my bathroom, but to do this I'd need to move the consumer unit roughly 1 metre over from where it's currently located, so that it sits outside the extended part of the bathroom - is the current cabling likely to accommodate this or is it a bigger job than "just move it over"?

I'd be getting a professional in to do it, but I'm weighing up whether while I'm refitting the bathroom it'd be worthwhile to also extend it.

 

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Does the mains come into an external electrical box with the meter then into the fuse board?

Yes, I believe so - the mains comes in to a downstairs cupboard within the block, there's then 4 meters to split it to each flat.