Are you still fitting plastic CUs......

[Lazlo]

or have you begun to install metal re:amendment 3...

 

[Leesparkykent]

No way lol

 

[Engineer54]

Only the plonkers would be installing metal CU's in domestic premises at the moment!!

Are you installing them already then??

 

[sparkdog]

Carry on plastic cu as usual,until I see what the manufacturers come up with.Perhaps their answer will be different from the present metal ones.

 

[Andy78]

I will fit plastic until Jan 2016 at least. And then maybe even after that depending on the final decision or whether or not I feel like complying.

 

[Guest125]

We have always only installed metal. That way we can get plasterers to connect the boards because they won't catch fire. Great cost saving excerise.

 

[ImpededLoop]

The new regulation doesn't take effect until January 2016 and as yet it's not confirmed that metal is the only way to comply.

 

[Guest125]

Carry on plastic cu as usual,until I see what the manufacturers come up with.Perhaps their answer will be different from the present metal ones.

They are bound to come up with some sort of plastic enclosed metal board that looks nice and costs 3 times as much.

 

[Lazlo]

Haven't had any domestic DBs recently, just wondered what people were doing, got a big yellow book that sort of makes you think you should start slinging metal in at some point (1st Jan 2016). Maybe they will just produce some sort of non-combustible casing or cover to put them in.....?

 

[uksparks]

Maybe a fireproof jacket

 

[Octopus]

I might stop doing CU changes.......if these daft ideas about metal CU's do get implemented.

 

[Guest125]

The ammendment 3 course said material that would 'self extinguish' after being exposed to a direct flame. I am sure there will be something out there more pleasing to the eye than metal that will achieve this.

 

[Deleted member 9648]

An asbestos CU is what we need.

 

[mache]

. I am sure there will be something out there more pleasing to the eye than metal that will achieve this.

There already is, self extinguishing plastics have been around for few years now.

 

[Anthony S]

I would imagine manufacturers were aware of this well before it got leaked out to us lot and the wheels have in motion for sometime to come up with solutions.

Everyone will toe the line, so just get on with it lol

 

[Guest125]

I would imagine manufacturers were aware of this well before it got leaked out to us lot and the wheels have in motion for sometime to come up with solutions.

Everyone will toe the line, so just get on with it lol

exactly.

 

[GMES]

Yeah like a non combustible cupboard

 

[Anthony S]

Yeah like a non combustible cupboard

What's that go to do with it ?

 

[JulianC]

I fit plastic CU's but I cover them in Bakofoil. Like a metal CU then innit. Except they still catch fire. At least they cook through evenly now though.

I strongly suspect manufacturers will come up with a suitable plastic box before 2016.

 

[Guest77]

We have always only installed metal. That way we can get plasterers to connect the boards because they won't catch fire. Great cost saving excerise.

Oh No, you are back Gasp!!!