intake for 14x flats- meter spacing

J.C.E · Nov 11, 2018

Morning chaps

Finally doing my 1st intake on the 19th!
It is for 14x flats and 1x L/L supply

SSEN are installing the new incoming supply and they said they are also supplying and fitting the Ryefield board and the main isolator
(I thought this needed to be done my me as a BNO??)

Anyways they apprantly want me to just installed the 14x switched isolators make of the 14x SWA sub mains and install the 150 x 150 trunking with the tails between my isolators and the meter
-and they will wire from the Ryefield into the supply side of meter

is this normal- i though the DNO stop at the head nowadays..

Also I do not think the client has choosen what company he will be using for the meters- what is a good safe spacing guide to space out the meters and isolators- I am going to try fit all 15x meters and 14 isolators on 2 rows wrapping around a 90degree corner

also am I right in saying the trunking above the head needs to be min 1300mm and max 1800mm high from floor?

How do people usually do their slots in the trunking for the tails going into the meter? -maybe 2x 25mm holes about 65mm apart then open these into one slot??

Cheers

J

Leesparkykent · Nov 11, 2018

Use meterboards between switch fuses. I don’t slot the trunking for the meters I just a 32mm male and female bush and pass the in and out tails through it.

J.C.E · Nov 11, 2018

Leesparkykent said:
Use meterboards between switch fuses. I don’t slot the trunking for the meters I just a 32mm male and female bush and pass the in and out tails through it.

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Cheers Lee

The builder was going to line the walls with some kind of sheet- could i not get him to do it in that FR chipboard? So everything can just get screwed directly onto it...

I was thinking to probaly have on each row of trunking- the SWF underneath the trunking butted up side by side then to have the meters above the trunking so to need less rows of trunking

So maybe just leave 8in wide space per meter?

mhar · Nov 11, 2018

Locally our DNO depot has refused to connect to customer supplied Ryefields on so many occasions that they decided to supply and fit the boards themselves so the job would be done right. I believe this is something decided on a very local level and I was also told that there is no mark up on the cost of the board.