Wiring two fuseboards together

cubix

Can anyone give me an idea of approx cable size required and fuseboard breakers needed as will help me do a bit of homework on cost of materials before I decided to get a sparks in to do the job. Standard 4bed house which had been divided into two flats so each consumer board would have a kitchen on it, now back as one house with two seprate meters so doing away with one meter and going to connect both consumer boards together. Runs between both are not long , approx 15mts but may need to go outside so not sure if armored cable would be required for regs. Thanks

2011

There are a lot of variables here and quite a bit to be assessed so it would be best to get a professional to look at your specific installation. Most of the costs will not be materials so working out what is required will be of limited benefit

2011

If each board is already fed from a common point (at the meters) then it may make sense to connect these feed cables together close to the meters. This could be done in a small consumer unit. Then the existing boards become sub distribution boards. An assessment will need to be carried out to ensure that the single supply has sufficient capacity.

kirk.

Distribute using the existing cabling

Main isolation(+overcurrent protection?) at the origin

Supply capacity should be ok?

Don't think theres any problem with above ?

ELM327

I had a similar setiup and it was much easier and cheaper to join the boards (3 in my case) at the meter, keep the board in the main house as the main board and the other two in the office and the garage as sub boards. One of the two meters was removed.

cubix

2011:

Appreciate the options and thanks to all for ideas.