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Thanks very much for your quick reply.  Thought that might be the case but didn't want to just go ahead without looking into it further. Thanks again.

Hi all, I have a quick question regarding electric ovens. We currently only have an old Baby Belling Electric Oven which is fitted with a standard 13A plug and plugs into the normal Ring Main.  It uses 1.1Kw when it's on, but has a maximum load of 2.5kW.  It has two cooker rings on top which...

it is hard to work out what's connected to what but I think you are right. The three big grey boxes on the left I guess are the isolator switches? I do seem to remember the electrician talking about those being for the old storage heaters. The smaller white boxes I think are the isolator a...

Thats a scary thought that the left hand 3 phase meter is still connected to a potential load as our electrician told us he had disconnected us completely from these meters.  Not that we were thinking of touching the old storage heater consumer units much but if one is still connected then it's...

Sorry, called you paddler, meant canoeboy. :)

Thanks Paddler! Okay, here we go, are you ready? The next two pictures are to the left of the one above...

Only a couple of posts to go before I can post a picture. I think you are right though slipshod. The meters are connected to a rectangular box. The last engineer explained that in that box there was a live plate that they were connected to and he felt it would be too dangerous to deal with. I...

Thanks KME.  I have an OWL energy monitor which and I set an alarm for when it reached a certain load (20 kWH).  When it started beeping, I had to go switch things off! When we went back to using the three separate single phase meters, I was able to buy two more clips and use the energy monitor...

No, that sounds about right.  At it's peak we probably had the following switched on: 9.5KW Shower 3KW Heater Living Room 2KW Heater Bedroom 1 2KW Heater Bedroom 2 3KW Undersink Water Heater Bathroom 2KW Oven If someone turned the iron and kettle on I would have been worried... I may see...

The DNO would be Electricity North West for me.  It may be worth me giving them a try. The bank just leases the space from the property firm we bought our bit from.  Property firm washed their hands of it really.  I can see why! It's good to know about the single phase meter being okay up to...

One last thing to add is that we get letters constantly telling us our meters need to be changed as they are old.  But then once the engineers come out, they tell us they can't do it.  I would hope that they are reading the usage properly - as I said, our bills are pretty huge and there are only...

I do feel like going to Offwatt about the redundant/dormant meters at least.  If they were removed, I'd be free to switch supplier without the hassle of them being re-activated. But keeping the three separate meters is a waste of money year on year with the extra standing charge.  I should try...

Thanks for the replies so far! Firstly to John, yes, the redundant meters are located in the bank bit of the building which doesn't belong to us.  They are still connected to the grid but not into our property.  We had engineers come out to try and remove them - the supplier agreed to do this...

Hi everyone, new to the forum and after a little advice please about the electricity setup in my building. We bought a property a few years ago that had been used as offices.  It's rather an old building and we have three floors above a bank.  We now use the space as one residential space (our...