need new power point, is this main board up to it??

[wozzzzza]

cant get an answer from anyone at the moment, my electrician is out of order for a few month, cant get anyone else to look at it for 2 weeks, whats the story here?
i want to add a 20 amp power point 10m away from this switchboard for a clothes dryer. is the switch board ok for this??
the sub board you can see at the top is for solar from what i have been told.
need to add a 40A circuit breaker somewhere whether another sub board or in this board. can it be done without any issues or does the entire board need upgrading somehow for some reason??
this is just the main board, it branches out to 6 sub boards filled with RCD's that goto each unit.

[Camelot]

That's an old board, someone seems to have cut the panel to add a new RCD and done a poor job of the cut out with them sticking loads of blue tape around it.

It looks like that board is already supplying 3 sub boards, maybe you could come off one of those 3 sub boards depending on the gauge of wire supplying them.

Are any of the sub boards close to where you want to add the new socket, if any are and no spare slots you could upgrade the sub board and run a larger gauge cable to it from the main board if needed, which would allow you to put a larger breaker in the main board supplying the new sub board.

However, a new main board and breakers would be the way to go, I would also look to bring it up to UK spec by giving the hard wired smoke detectors their own circuit and breaker, rather than tapping into the lighting circuit.

[wozzzzza]

That's an old board, someone seems to have cut the panel to add a new RCD and done a poor job of the cut out with them sticking loads of blue tape around it.

yes i might peel that back a little, im curious now.

It looks like that board is already supplying 3 sub boards

6 actually.

yes i might peel that back a little, im curious now.

maybe you could come off one of those 3 sub boards depending on the gauge of wire supplying them.

Are any of the sub boards close to where you want to add the new socket, if any are and no spare slots you could upgrade the sub board and run a larger gauge cable to it from the main board if needed, which would allow you to put a larger breaker in the main board supplying the new sub board.

However, a new main board and breakers would be the way to go, I would also look to bring it up to UK spec by giving the hard wired smoke detectors their own circuit and breaker, rather than tapping into the lighting circuit.

the nearest board is the other side of the block, two free spaces but running a cable there is a nightmare, be around 40m and what would voltage drop be?. upgrading the original cable even more so nightmare, probably impossible.

just looking at an old picture of the board, that has the 3 phases coming into it? are they all joined into 1 at that switch? or is that bus bar a 3 phase bar or something and one phase does a third and another another third and another another third?

[Camelot]

Is this board from another property? they will have balanced the 3 phases

[wozzzzza]

Is this board from another property? they will have balanced the 3 phases

that board is a sub board from the main board, just 1 of 6. they are all pretty much identical
heres the layout of the stuff. one main board on ground floor, 3 sub boards on each level.