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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.

 
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.

 
The only people who can answer the question about the meters are the suppliers, then for each flat you will need a sparky and my guess heaps of patience as this doesn't sound straightforward.

Best you get some local sparks to come and visit site with you and go from there

 
Only thing i can say, is he cannot swap all the meters to the same company, does not work like that....

When you have a NEW supply put in, as it is being arranged, they the DNO give you a number, an MPAN. You then give this to your chosen supplier, who then arranges to install a meter, and then gives the number back to the DNO who know then that it is ok to go ahead with the install. This is to stop you having meterless supplies!!!

Anyway, say you have chosen to have your power supplied by the "ACME Power Company" They will then install a meter. If you later change supplier, the "old" supplier is obliged by rules set by whoever the regulator for this sort of thing is to either give, or hire, the "old" meter to the new supplier. This is why you do not have to have a new meter all the time.

Now, problem is, so far as i know, as each flat has its own MPAN [as it has its own meter] the occupant can have any supplier he likes...

You sure that there is not just the one "proper" meter installed and all the others are landlord owned submeters??

john..

 
It sounds, like the guy wants to be the BNO.

This is complex.

It will be down to the local DNO & the electricity suppliers & their nominated contractors to do, but you will probably need some sort of "consultant" who is familiar with the procedures to assist you, & design the BN.

 
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