Landlord electrical safety certificate

My wife (a registered Landlord, since we are in Wales) owns a property which she rents out through a registered Agent. Gulp, the consumer unit is plastic and beneath the stairs. The property is similar to our own next door.  The rented property was rewired late 1990s, by a NICEIC, (I think) electrician and following purchase by my wife has given an EICR by a registered electrician who also did the new kitchen electrics.


So, if at the property's first Rental check get a fail for the consumer unit by whoever the Agent employs, in Wales it is up to the Agent.... where would move it to?


Our own property next door, when we had it rewired in 2002, we chose to have the meter moved to a through the wall box (about £700 by MANWEB-SP) and a 10 metre or so sub-main to the garage via a switch fuse (under the stairs! at least it is metal). With a suspended ground floor this was easy, but the rented property next door has a solid floor and no real other location other than to be put in a meter box outside! Which I do not consider to be a good idea for a few reasons.


So what is the greater risk, a plastic consumer unit under the stairs or a multi-way junction box in its place so as to enable the extension of lighting, ring, cooker cables etc to a safer place.  Maybe change to a metal consumer unit in same location, but otherwise seems a backward step.  Our own house of course has a plastic consumer unit of 2002 vintage.

Clive

My wife (a registered Landlord, since we are in Wales) owns a property which she rents out through a registered Agent. Gulp, the consumer unit is plastic and beneath the stairs. The property is similar to our own next door.  The rented property was rewired late 1990s, by a NICEIC, (I think) electrician and following purchase by my wife has given an EICR by a registered electrician who also did the new kitchen electrics.


So, if at the property's first Rental check get a fail for the consumer unit by whoever the Agent employs, in Wales it is up to the Agent.... where would move it to?


Our own property next door, when we had it rewired in 2002, we chose to have the meter moved to a through the wall box (about £700 by MANWEB-SP) and a 10 metre or so sub-main to the garage via a switch fuse (under the stairs! at least it is metal). With a suspended ground floor this was easy, but the rented property next door has a solid floor and no real other location other than to be put in a meter box outside! Which I do not consider to be a good idea for a few reasons.


So what is the greater risk, a plastic consumer unit under the stairs or a multi-way junction box in its place so as to enable the extension of lighting, ring, cooker cables etc to a safer place.  Maybe change to a metal consumer unit in same location, but otherwise seems a backward step.  Our own house of course has a plastic consumer unit of 2002 vintage.

Clive