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post 47 states consumer unit changed 28th April so that's over a week !.Sparky is coming Monday, Monday IS next week
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post 47 states consumer unit changed 28th April so that's over a week !.Sparky is coming Monday, Monday IS next week
Thought you meant a week b4 the sparks is coming smart arsepost 47 states consumer unit changed 28th April so that's over a week !.
Hi Vol, The electricity company, Scottish Power, have obviously noticed that the tap service supply to your flat needs upgrading, as do most tenement flats in Glasgow. This should not be at any cost to yourself.Some information to add, On May 16th the electricity company (the main electricity infrastructure company not the name on the electricity bills) comes to upgrade the supply side meter at the close mouth (for those that don't know, close is the entrance way to a Glasgow tenement). That will be upgraded in order for me to have SMART gas and electricity meters installed. This, with the CU replacement, is part of the general upgrade of systems in the house.
The supply side upgrades will include a new isolation unit as the existing fuse box with the big ceramic cartridge fuses is well out of date. I obviously don't actually know what they will be changing/installing as they don't share that information with me, of course!
The RCD does not "trump" reversed polarity the danger of reversed polarity trumps the RCD. If we leave aside the RCD for a moment, the danger lies between L-N. This means the installation can still be live even when the breaker operates (or is switched off) in the consumer unit for any particular circuit. The ramifications of that are quite exhaustively numerous.
While I think that the subject has been "beaten to death" I would like to address your suggestion vis a vis the trolls, it is only natural we will confer among ourselves in order to orientate ourselves to the facts presented against the facts not presented which are garnered by inference (we all sometimes have to fill in the blanks). I think any electrician knows there is no way you can leave a client with the situation you have described, I know I could not leave until I had rectified or issued a danger notice and isolated the supply and possibly called the DNO or maybe REC as @MrLights has suggested, (and if you look at his qualifications, I am sure you will attach significance to his statements)
An electrician would (must!) be aware this would break the law and leave the client in a hazardous situation. Personally I find a deep lack of congruency in the assertion that an electrician left you in such a potentially dangerous situation. It leads me to feel that there is something missing. I am not suggesting you are obscuring vital facts, I can accept you may have missed or not be able to know the true situation. The idea that RCD can obviate a reversed polarity is dangerously misleading. Again I can not imagine an electrician could have made such an assertion. Hence the sense of incongruency. Sorry to go on but there it is.
I offered something germane to the conversation. At no point have I stated or inferred you have lied. But if the cap fits then indeed wear it. In fact I took pains in stating I accepted this may be something beyond your ken. But no matter I have had worse insults on this forum and elsewhere. There is no evidence as there is no accusation. I will stand by my assertion that something is missing. You have been told the cause may be on the DNO side as opposed to the electricians. I would not venture opinion on such a set of vague facts without personally inspecting the installation myself (which I guess will not happen til hell freezes over!) However the fact you are left in this situation is a breach of the law. That is incontravertible. I suggest you take heed of the cautions you have been offered.If you have a real suspicion of something germane, then speak up and give your evidence.
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