new consumer unit

[neil_ev]

Hi all.

When upgrading a fuse box to a 17th ed. CU is it a legal requirement to get an isolation switch fitted, or can it be done live. Far from ideal I know, but the £90 price tag set by manweb puts a lot of customers off.

Thanks.

 

[ChrisElectrical88]

Haha jaythedogooder more like.

 

[jaythegooner]

well ring the number . i guess you probly wont

 

[telectrix]

i thought elle the belly worked in the strip club

 

[ChrisElectrical88]

Well no cause some jobswprths bird down the phone ain't worth 6 hours on hold for.

 

[Silly Sausage]

i thought elle the belly worked in the strip club

No, that's Shelley.

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Jay, heres a link,

Wylex 100A DP Supply Isolator

theres an enclosure on there for 2.25 (plus vat), all you need then is a DP Isolator.

should cost a bit less for you. Or buy the posh one above it for just over £20 notes unk:

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well ring the number . i guess you probly wont

You're right I probably won't, got fed up with that number a while back......

 

[Silly Sausage]

Here Jay, if seal cutting is such a horrendous offence worthy of the death penalty, can you enlighten us all with any evidence of any convictions for this heinous crime?

 

[jaythegooner]

had a few comments glad ive enlightened some .if you lot cut great , i was just trying to educate the new sparkys to do it right .

 

[ChrisElectrical88]

Has anyone actually been arrensted for this my guess is no. And I teach our apprentices to work safe and if they had to cut the seals to do that they crack the ---- on.

 

[jaythegooner]

il find a prosecution out and post it for you .

 

[Octopus]

Back to the statement about upgrading the tails to 25mm, this would suggest you are going to cut the seals on the meter and the fuse!!

 

[spark 68]

Jay The DNO won't prosecute for cutting seals (extracting electricity they will), because if they lost the court case RE: fitting Isolators to every house in the land as a precedent may be set forcing them to, as you pointed out would cost them a fortune, this is a risk they will not take for a prosecution of criminal damage to the seal, as against live working, cutting the seal is a "lesser crime".
Proving it is another matter.

At the same time they may not actually condone it (cutting seals) in case someone gets injured leaving them open to being sued, but most turn a blind eye, some even issue temporary seals to registered contractors.

 

[telectrix]

prosecutions generally only arise when there's evidence of stealing electrickery. how the hell can anyone prove that there were seals on the fuse before you were there?

 

[Zebra Stripe]

Hey, Im doing a board change next week in a small block of flats. At the mains intake on ground floor there's 2No 3phase supplies. These obviously correspond to each flat and 1No landlords supply. Its quite interesting, cos two of the seals are missing, so I deduced these two flats have had new CUs fitted etc and therefore it would be a waste of time sticking a flyer or card through their letter box. So you see this seal cutting thing can be quite usefull in more ways than one.:ihih:

 

[Geordie Spark]

right , thats it , enoughs enough.

to the OP - if you need strangers on the internet to spell out to you how to cut the power for a CU change , then clearly you shouldnt be working on your own.

to the gooner - your use of the written language is a pityful garbled mess.

It's pitiful young Mr Biff

(Pointing out your spelling mistakes since 1951)