Fuse Board Upgrade in Dalston

Prestige Engineers provide fuse board upgrades and full consumer unit replacements throughout Dalston and the wider Hackney area. Whether your insurer is requiring an upgrade, you are installing an EV charger, adding solar panels, or your property has an old rewirable fuse board, our NICEIC registered electricians handle the complete job from survey to certificate.

Old fuse boards in Dalston properties — particularly those with rewirable fuse wire rather than MCBs — provide no RCD protection against electric shock. A modern dual RCD or full RCBO consumer unit detects earth leakage currents as small as 30mA and disconnects within 40 milliseconds. This is the protection level required by BS 7671:2018 and is now expected by every major home insurer.

Homeowners in Dalston adding EV chargers, solar PV systems, or extensions frequently find their existing consumer unit does not have the spare capacity or correct protection to accommodate new circuits. We assess your incoming supply, calculate total connected load, and specify the right board to serve both your current installation and future additions — avoiding the need for a second upgrade when you add more circuits later.

All consumer unit replacement work in Dalston is Part P notifiable. As an NICEIC approved contractor, we self-certify and notify Hackney Council on your behalf. The Electrical Installation Certificate we issue is the legal proof of compliance that your insurer, mortgage lender, and any future conveyancer will require.

If your Dalston property has recently had an Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR) that identified C1 or C2 faults with the consumer unit, we can carry out the remedial work and board replacement as a single visit — saving you the cost of a second call-out and getting your property to a compliant, insurable condition in one day.