Edit: I was not expecting a sticky and such an outpouring of support. I've decided to try and find an electrician after much suggestion. Thank you for the love and support. You guys are awesome!
Weird question.
My fusebox is in my basement, where I've pretty much stocked up for Armageddon. I'm wary of letting an electrician into my home to install fuses and switches for my power generator so I'm thinking about doing the install myself.
I was wondering if anyone might be able to assist or provide a step by step with my set up?
Thank you
If you have an incoming service isolator you may be able to do it, but if you have nothing but incoming fuselinks you would have to pull them to make dead the wiring between the incomer and your first fuseboard, because that is where your changeover switch will need to go. In the UK you are not permitted to remove the fuselinks (they have anti-tamper tags) yourself. You will need the changeover switch (automated or not) to integrate the generator so you can swap to generator power if/when the grid goes off, or when you choose to run on generator only. This is inserted prior to that first fuseboard, so the issue is making the feed to the fuseboard dead first.
You can pull the fuselinks but need to take precautions as you will be getting close to and exposing live terminals while they are removed. Rubber gloves, eye protection for the possible sparks (turn everything off first), a rubber mat and boots, and then refitting the covers being careful not to get close to the live terminals.
The thing is with those live terminals, they are not fused and the shock you get will be long lasting and will only go off when the distribution fuses go, which will take a long while, enough to potentially melt your branch of the network. Plenty of hazards, not like mistakes after your fuseboard which will disconnect quickly thanks to your fuses (still bad) or your RCD (quite quick and relatively safe to make a mistake)
so, watch out, know the risks.