nickmorris6
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Hi,
I have a very nice client who has bought the entire top floor of a block of flats across five floors. He wants to turn the three flats he has bought on the top floor into one huge flat and then build on top of his flat another floor for an even bigger flat!
To do this, he needs 50% of the buildings residents to be on board, so he is offering them money as well as perks such as modernising the building, garages, common areas, lift etc.
Part of this modernisation requires him to relocate the electricity meters from outside every flat, into small room in the basement where the main service head enters the building. I have tried phoning the UK electricity power and electricity companies themselves but have not had a clear answer from anyone!
Does anyone know an approximate cost of this?
Are there regulations, such as does each meter have to be a certain distance from each other?
He will be switching all of his electricity meters to one company, so no doubt they will upgrade the meters to be more modern, in all liklihood will they an electrician to upgrade the cables going from meters to flats as well?
Currently you have the main service head and then SWA coming off of this, running up a void and finishing outside each flat via the meter. I always thought the fuseboard had to be within 3 meters of the meter, but this cannot be the case as I have seen the opposite in flats before!
Any help would be most appreciated. Obviously the electricity companies who supply the electrics would be doing the work, just want to know more information and costs.
Thank you.
I have a very nice client who has bought the entire top floor of a block of flats across five floors. He wants to turn the three flats he has bought on the top floor into one huge flat and then build on top of his flat another floor for an even bigger flat!
To do this, he needs 50% of the buildings residents to be on board, so he is offering them money as well as perks such as modernising the building, garages, common areas, lift etc.
Part of this modernisation requires him to relocate the electricity meters from outside every flat, into small room in the basement where the main service head enters the building. I have tried phoning the UK electricity power and electricity companies themselves but have not had a clear answer from anyone!
Does anyone know an approximate cost of this?
Are there regulations, such as does each meter have to be a certain distance from each other?
He will be switching all of his electricity meters to one company, so no doubt they will upgrade the meters to be more modern, in all liklihood will they an electrician to upgrade the cables going from meters to flats as well?
Currently you have the main service head and then SWA coming off of this, running up a void and finishing outside each flat via the meter. I always thought the fuseboard had to be within 3 meters of the meter, but this cannot be the case as I have seen the opposite in flats before!
Any help would be most appreciated. Obviously the electricity companies who supply the electrics would be doing the work, just want to know more information and costs.
Thank you.