Main cut-out fuse and meter location?

[Ponty Massive]

May sound like a strange question. Is it necessary for the main cut-out fuse to be locate next to the meter? The reason for my question, I was looking to move my meter to the other side of the wall and was given a rough price of £700 to move the service head (about 3 feet away).

If the meter could be placed on the other side of the wall and the service head left in place, this could solve all my problems.

 

[J&M Electrical]

May sound like a strange question. Is it necessary for the main cut-out fuse to be locate next to the meter? The reason for my question, I was looking to move my meter to the other side of the wall and was given a rough price of £700 to move the service head (about 3 feet away).

If the meter could be placed on the other side of the wall and the service head left in place, this could solve all my problems.

Not 100% sure, BUT, (in my experience for the council in leeds)in blocks of flats that have say 10 properties in, the cutout and meters are sometimes in a cupboard under the stairs, the cutout on 1 side and big 150x150 trunking running round the room containing the tails to the meters, which subsequently fed 60A Switched Fused Isolators up to the flats. The furthest meter could have been 6m away.

 

[Ponty Massive]

Thanks J&M, only thing I can think of is the local isolation issue; however how often does the DNO need to isolate my meter?

 

[telectrix]

i'd be inclineds to just have the meter moved, cheapest option

 

[J&M Electrical]

Thanks J&M, only thing I can think of is the local isolation issue; however how often does the DNO need to isolate my meter?

They do everything live anyway don't they?

 

[Mad Spark]

i saw one just the other day in a flat, the cut out out side on ground floor, and meter on the first floor in the ladys living room. It been like it for at least 15 years i was told.
i hope that helps

 

[Knobhead]

At the end of the day Ponty all you can do is ask, we’re just guessing.
I can see no difference to the situation of a flat. But the Lord (DNO/Supply Companies) work in strange and wondrous ways.

 

[Ponty Massive]

Ok then, just to throw it out there, what about moving the meter yourself? (Small digital one)

 

[truckster]

If the tails are less than 3m I can't see a problem. If they are longer stick in an 80A switch fuse by the meter and away you go. I don't think the supplier will lie you messing with their meter, they're funny like that

oops..mis read the post..I think nowadays they want the meter as close as possible to the head to avoid little scamps pinching some unmetered juice.

 

[mogga]

everything before the outgoing tails belongs to the DNO SO fitting an switch fuse would need the DNO as would moving the meter ect your between a rock n a hard place There was a thread about somone whos builder wanted them to shift the meter n If memory serves me correctly a reply told story about someone being blasted across the room even when knowing what he was doing due to the condicion of the DNO Cable

 

[sedgy34]

Get it all moved other side of wall would cost about £150 cash
Find someone who does it for the DNO they will do it as a foreigner

 

[Acer]

Got a job at the moment where the cutout and meter are about 7 or 8 metres apart....no proper tails either just VIR insulated twin about 10mm.. However both the meter and the cutout have been changed in recent years so it would appear that there is no hard and fast rule here..

 

[Des 56]

Just shove one of these in as an extra to extend and save a few bob
HENLEY HOUSE SERVICE CUT OUT FUSE HOLDER 100 AMP METER BOARD C/W 100A FUSE LIN | eBay

As you may know,in the valleys there were quite a lot of installs, in the terraced houses, where the cut out is at the front door,the tails run under the boards, and the meter and fuse board at the top end of the hall,some may have been diy jobs,but there were too many for them not to be suppliers jobbies

 

[Acer]

The real problem here is not so much the distance between cut out and meter but the size and condition of the cable linking them....it's equivalent to 10mm T&E and insulated with VIR.....the supply company have now said they will come and have a look... Interesting what you were saying re valley etc..the supply comes in on overhead looped from adjacent property which in turn is looped from another property...a right bloody mess with high level joints on eaves etc etc.

 

[Meterman]

Ok then, just to throw it out there, what about moving the meter yourself? (Small digital one)

The only people allowed to move your meter are the DNO or Supply Company, if you move the meter yourself or you get an elcectrician to move it, they will prosicute you.
Meter should be located as close as posible to the cutout / main fuse.

Hope this is helpful
Meterman