cutting meter tags oops

[sparky-s-w]

Hi,

i realise the ilegality of cutting the security tags on meters/fuses etc, and dont expect people to identify themselves as offenders, so Hypothetically
is it practical to call/arrange for the relevent energy supplier to come out every time you change a fuse board/upgrade meter tails?

i have a friend :wink_smile: who has in the past possably cut meter tags in order to change the meter tails, as I (i mean he) didnt have time to mess around contacting suppliers.
do most other contractors do this?, i cant imagine every single electrician would get these tags propperly removed every time. Hypothetically.

 

[Des 56]

After call out to a customer who said there electrics were intermittent I got a lecture from DNO after cutting seal and removing neutral and phase cables from their meter after it was heavily smoking due to a poor connection, it was either this or a fire, they agreed I did the right thing off the record but still went through the speal over the phone ten minites after I did it and contacted them. If I had stood there and waited for them to arrive, the next day by the way, the whole incomer would have gone up, possibly the house as well, I would have regretted not using common sense, which seems to get lost theses days with all the regulation and red tape.

You actually phoned them ?:hurray:

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[Guest55]

Theres only one seal i like.............

 

[Guest55]

And for those who get it horribly wrong................

 

[sparky-s-w]

must have earnt a few of them in my time

 

[RISElectrical]

Ive heard of these tags but in reality I have never seen them, all the fuses dont have seals when I arrive.

 

[topquark]

It would be chaos if there was a seal on every service head fuse you encountered.

 

[telectrix]

i generally find that the canadians have clubbed the seals off

 

[wade88]

I turned up to one job and had to heave this lump off the fuse!!!

 

[Geordie Spark]

You can buy whole packs of seals for a few quid off ebay if anyones that bothered lol.

Yes I did ..... but couldn't get anyone to sell me a crimp tool with a number to emboss on the seal. :sad:

 

[Tonkatoy27]

I have a friend who has a friend, who cuts through the tails (one at a time of course) with a pair of shears. Strips the end of the tails with said insulated shears and terminates them straight into a twin Henly block. He says it takes 5 minutes and then he can carry on with the cu change and connect his nice new 25mm tails into the block when he's finished. All ready for the supplier to connect into the meter on the next visit if they can be bothered.
He is also wearing a massive tin helmet.

 

[Top Cat]

dont get me wrong, i do contact energy suppliers usualy, time and customer cotentment willing. just very anoying waiting for some kid with possibly less experience and electrical qualifications than most contractors, to turn up.

Used to work for the Electricity Board and every meter fixer i ever new were failed electricians!

 

[telectrix]

I have a friend who has a friend, who cuts through the tails (one at a time of course) with a pair of shears. Strips the end of the tails with said insulated shears and terminates them straight into a twin Henly block. He says it takes 5 minutes and then he can carry on with the cu change and connect his nice new 25mm tails into the block when he's finished. All ready for the supplier to connect into the meter on the next visit if they can be bothered.
He is also wearing a massive tin helmet.

exactly how we always did it before the H&S gestapo started jumping up and down , frothing at the mouth.

 

[DNS1]

I'm training at the moment and one thing I really don't get is how I can possibly do a board change etc if I can't pull the DNO fuse...

If I tell the customer that they're going to have to wait (AND pay the DNO for the privilege) they're going to tell me where to go and give the job to someone else.

Can I realistically bash the old board with a hammer and then say the fuse was pulled as it was necessary for safety reasons?!

 

[Guitarist]

Of course you have to cut seals and remove the fuse if you go to look at a CU and notice smoke coming from it. After CU change (for safety's sake), call DNO and explain how you prevented a fire.

 

[telectrix]

you have 4 choices.

1. do it live as post#25. 2. call out DNO for 2 visits to unseal and reseal. 3. pull fuse as the seal fell off before you started. 4. lose the job to some cowboy.