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I believe the requirement for metal clad consumer units/fuseboxes was driven by the concerns of the fire and rescue services: in fires the plastic enclosures could melt causing live conductors to fall into the pooled water pumped into the burning building. This had consequences for the safety of...

if you stack it in the loft the house might tip over

for 3 quid you can get ownership details from : landregistry.gov.uk if you Google that a bunch of con artists come up who want big money so go direct to the gov.uk address. if the property is unregistered, bad luck and back to plan A above.

i bought my house from a carpet fitter. when i had occasion to lift the carpets i found beneath the underlay thick paper (like cartridge/artists' watercolour paper only thinner) it seems to have been very effective at keeping out draughts and to have outlasted the underlay.