Communal Meters & Seals

[Friedapple]

I am in a residential block of 5 flats and have been told that to have various bits of work carried out, the seals of each of the 5 meters needs to be removed. That means that each account holder of each flat has to arrange for an engineer to attend on the same day to remove the relevant seal. Does this sound correct? It sounds crazy that 5 engineers would have to visit. Is there another way for the electrician to obtain permission to do this themselves? What if for example the building had 100 flats? The electrician couldn't expect all 100 flats to coordinate seals to be removed on the same day.
Thanks!

 

[davesparks]

in my opinion in these circumstances the DNO should do the seals on the fuses and the meters.

If you get the right person from the DNO then this can be arranged in exchange for a few beer tokens.

 

[Dartlec]

Sse used to have a scheme to let electricians full single phase fuses and reseal them, i have not heard of any others doing this.

Sadly I'm not aware of any that does it - though I keep badgering the UKPN rep at the trade show - he normally tells me I'm the 50th that day to mention it, but nothing ever gets done. If the seal fairy ever went on strike we'd be in trouble!

 

[Deleted account]

Seal fairy strike.

ok everyone out!

 

[7029 dave]

The DNO are authorised to cut seals they have MOCOPA.
Many a time when I was in metering doing a shift of meter because customer wanted the service moving. WPD moved the service and meter etc, when I rocked up it was all done sealed the lot, never did claim these type of jobs because not worth it, just closed them of with a note and moved on to the next job.