move meter

[Blue Fox]

Hi guys

Are we as electricians allowed to move a meter or is that only permitted by the dno got a customer ask about it while I have been doin other work for them

 

[Andy™]

only DNO can touch their stuff. but im not going to say anything if you DIY....

 

[Northern Electric]

I would assume you are meaning moving the whole meter board, ie to an outside cupboard. Obviously this would mean re-routing the incoming supply cable, therefore a leccy board job.

 

[stator-electrical]

With the permission of the supply authority we can usually make changes - depending on the situation.

I would suggest contacting them to ask - then the supply authority can send one of their own engineers to check and re-tag once the work is complete.

I did a job where the customer needed to have a new point of isolation before the C.U. The authority were fine with me doing the work but the customer was asked to pay for them to come out afterwards.

 

[green-hornet]

I agree 100% with Andy.

Everything before and including the meter is the joint responsibility of the DNO and the supply company.

It is still an offence to interfere with this equipment.

Most DNO and supply companies are flexible in the control of this law, I would just call them and ask for permission, its just a phone call and you may find them very accomodating.

I have through experiance learned however they now prefer to connect to the meter in very short enclosed runs to avoid any tamper with the supply cables.

This may cause a problem when moving the meter from the origin of supply.

 

[Andy™]

I agree 100% with Andy.Everything before and including the meter is the joint responsibility of the DNO and the supply company.

It is still an offence to interfere with this equipment.

Most DNO and supply companies are flexible in the control of this law, I would just call them and ask for permission, its just a phone call and you may find them very accomodating.

I have through experiance learned however they now prefer to connect to the meter in very short enclosed runs to avoid any tamper with the supply cables.

This may cause a problem when moving the meter from the origin of supply.

been on jobs before where they have the little block cable between head and meter. it makes it very hard to stick a temp supply direct into service head when credit meter is off! (the joys of empty council houses).

skip forward to a job and i had gone for some food. came back to find electric board is there to install REC2 isolator.... wouldnt be too bad if there wasnt a bit of 6mm into the service head and the meter on the windowsill in a different room.....

 

[green-hornet]

Omg

That just proves what we have suspected all along.ROTFWLROTFWL

Well not all of them are, we have a very clued up member on this very forum!

 

[Andy™]

OmgThat just proves what we have suspected all along.ROTFWLROTFWL

Well not all of them are, we have a very clued up member on this very forum!

i used to end up doing something like this on 70% of jobs.... but just about every one i only had to remove live from head. they have even fitted the isolators and left it with the 6mm still in service head! (usually same bloke)

 

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[Northern Electric]

Ha Ha,

As you may have read before, I served my time at the local leccy board. I saw a few sights whilst there, though at the time I was a bit naive about meter fiddling.

The small cable blocks are called encapsulated blocks, they are meter tails encapsulated in an epoxy resin to stop people tapping into the live side of the meter.

One classic job was where the bloke was adamant that the t&e cable forced alongside the meter tail out of the cut out was an act of his dog!

We were always taught at the training centre to strip the tails to the minimun to ensure there was no copper on show. If encapsulated blocks wern't used, then the tails were to be covered with meter trunking, it was an art to make that stuff fit!