Rules and Guidelines
Want to participate in the discussions? Please read our Community Rules and Guidelines. Need some help? Visit Support and Answers.

  • State Not Answered
  • Locked Locked
  • Replies 13 replies
  • Subscribers 32 subscribers
  • Views 2041 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
You may also be interested in
This discussion has been locked.
You can no longer post new replies to this discussion. If you have a question you can start a new discussion

No more Sentry consumer units?

whjohnson
Anyone else heard that Honeywell are ceasing the production of MK consumer units and accessories at the end of this year?

Can't recall where I got the story now, but it went along the lines of not being a big enough money maker for them to carry on.

That said, I had noticed some very good offers on Sentry cus recently but wondered if it was because they were end-of-line and fitted with type AC RCDs.
  • 0
    I can confirm that production is ceasing the reps on the company stand at Elex told me so.


    Andy B.
  • 0
    928861e595b659e09b6b0dcc65d7d16a-huge-20190816_142700.jpg

    £58 at a Homebase store that was closing down a couple of months ago. 


    I have not actually used any yet ?
  • 0
    Are they stopping completely or is this just the closure of the factory in Wales with production being moved overseas ?
  • 0
    I was told at Elex that production is completely stopping.


    So presumably spares and repairs means a visit to EBay, unless you happen to have a trolley full.


    Andy Betteridge.
  • Former Community Member
    0 Former Community Member
    Definitely ceasing production , due to production costs Being unsustainable 


    bit sad really as regularly used to fit Mk consumer units , but their rcbos were blooming expensive 


    have recently been put onto a new brand called ‘fusebox’ rcbos @ 10quid a pop
  • 0

    Sparkingchip:
    928861e595b659e09b6b0dcc65d7d16a-huge-20190816_142700.jpg

    £58 at a Homebase store that was closing down a couple of months ago. 


    I have not actually used any yet ?




    Sold in packaging and at a store which are aimed firmly at consumers. So much for notifiable work!

  • 0
    The law around part P means it is perfectly OK for individuals to buy and fit an MCB, nothing stopping repairs and replacement, which are non notifiable, or a new circuit as notifiable working through 3rd party verification, or if you are lucky enough to have a building control dept that can do it at sensible cost, direct notification.But I agree, an awful lot will just get fitted and appear by magic.
  • Former Community Member
    0 Former Community Member
    I can buy absolutely everything that I need from DIYer stores to build my own house extension, plumb it in , wire it up and heat.

    you will never stop Diyers from doing work on their home.

    i would bet my years wages that 1000s of part pee notification jobs go unnoticed every single week...

  • 0
    ...and a lot of Part P notifiable installations were made just before the regulations came into force (despite the evidence of the date on the cables and/or the installed equipment indicating it was later ?)

    Alasdair
  • 0
    I wonder whether MK considered SPDs and AFDDs and concluded that the R&D was not justified?

Community Rules & Guidelines