Placing consumer unit?

Not that long ago it was quite common to see supplies and meters etc (not just for electrics) that high or , just as bad, low down in a cupboard and out of place, out of mind. Silly really but it was the norm back then.


Similarly a pull switch in a bedroom is often called a lazy switch or a "lazy betty pull switch". I have no idea who lazy betty was. People`s perception was if you made something easier you were lazy. Daft really but who thinks it`s sensible to walk acrros a bedroom to the door to turn a light on after you done that walk or fumbled with a table lamp. A pull switch over the bed or if you don`t like em, a plateswitch near the bed must be more sensible, not lazy.


People used to "set things in stone". If someone had fish on friday then they always had fish on fridays (not just the catholics), if someone always had their tea at 5:30 then it always was 5:30 not 5:00 or 6:00 and if they had sausages on a Tuesday it was always every tuesday.

I used to work with a bloke who sometimes asked "what day is it?" when you told him he would reply "Oh good, it`s xxx for tea tonight!".

I used to go home and only then find out what was for tea for me (note - Tea is what some of us name the evening meal, dinner is midday meal, unlike those posh types who calls the evening meal dinner and midday meal luncheon).


Yep folk had set ways and it must always be so

Not that long ago it was quite common to see supplies and meters etc (not just for electrics) that high or , just as bad, low down in a cupboard and out of place, out of mind. Silly really but it was the norm back then.


Similarly a pull switch in a bedroom is often called a lazy switch or a "lazy betty pull switch". I have no idea who lazy betty was. People`s perception was if you made something easier you were lazy. Daft really but who thinks it`s sensible to walk acrros a bedroom to the door to turn a light on after you done that walk or fumbled with a table lamp. A pull switch over the bed or if you don`t like em, a plateswitch near the bed must be more sensible, not lazy.


People used to "set things in stone". If someone had fish on friday then they always had fish on fridays (not just the catholics), if someone always had their tea at 5:30 then it always was 5:30 not 5:00 or 6:00 and if they had sausages on a Tuesday it was always every tuesday.

I used to work with a bloke who sometimes asked "what day is it?" when you told him he would reply "Oh good, it`s xxx for tea tonight!".

I used to go home and only then find out what was for tea for me (note - Tea is what some of us name the evening meal, dinner is midday meal, unlike those posh types who calls the evening meal dinner and midday meal luncheon).


Yep folk had set ways and it must always be so