In the cupboard under the stairs, I can either move the suppliers meter board (am I allowed to do that? would they know? ;-) ) to make room for the new consumer unit next to it (won't fit on it, even if that was allowed), or put the consumer unit on the adjacent wall.
If I put it in the adjacent wall, it's sitting right above the pipe bringing the water into the house, i.e. right above the stopcock. Some of the cables might have to run behind the pipework which loops out of the stopcock and back under the floorboards.
I don't like either option, but which is least bad?
Is either one (or both) disallowed by regs? I don't think I'm supposed to move the meter board, but I don't think I like the idea of having the stopcock below the consumer unit. It can't leak upwards, but I suppose it could spray upwards if something catastrophic or stupid happened.
Cheers, David.