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[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.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Better pedantic than unintelligible (like some on here).

It comes with age.

Mind you, the old fashioned schools with real teachers that I went to were a big help too.

 

[Silly Sausage]

Mind you, the old fashioned schools with real teachers that I went to were a big help too.

Knowledge was literally beaten into one on many occasions!

 

[Geordie Spark]

Knowledge was literally beaten into one on many occasions!

Me too.

The cane, the strap, gym slipper - even the blackboard ruler and blackboard duster. If teachers behaved that way today, they'd end-up in jail but it worked for me. I hated those teachers at the time, but if I could meet them now I would shake their hands and thank them.

When I started my apprenticeship I thought the foreman was a right barstool who had it in for me. It seemed that no matter what I did I couldn't do right for doing wrong.

It got so bad I went for an interview as a grass cutter with the local council. I got the job, but had second thoughts and turned it down & persevered with my apprenticeship.

20 years later when I had my own business I wanted some special tooling made and I went to him - he had become the boss by then as THE boss had died - and got him to do it and I thanked him for the bloody good training he gave me. We became good friends after that.

 

[Octopus]

It comes with age.

Mind you, the old fashioned schools with real teachers that I went to were a big help too.

Were those the ones with canes?

 

[Geordie Spark]

Were those the ones with canes?

Yes they were and straps and gym slippers, blackboard rulers and anything else that came to hand!

 

[coachincolin]

In Scotland the energy suppliers will give seals to registered sparks. They state that they will prosecute sparks who cut seals but never heard of anyone being prosecuted yet.

 

[Silly Sausage]

Me too.

The cane, the strap, gym slipper - even the blackboard ruler and blackboard duster. If teachers behaved that way today, they'd end-up in jail but it worked for me. I hated those teachers at the time, but if I could meet them now I would shake their hands and thank them.

When I started my apprenticeship I thought the foreman was a right barstool who had it in for me. It seemed that no matter what I did I couldn't do right for doing wrong.

It got so bad I went for an interview as a grass cutter with the local council. I got the job, but had second thoughts and turned it down & persevered with my apprenticeship.

20 years later when I had my own business I wanted some special tooling made and I went to him - he had become the boss by then as THE boss had died - and got him to do it and I thanked him for the bloody good training he gave me. We became good friends after that.

Hahaha...pretty similar experience myself at school.
I was 71-78, (brutally) thrashed on many an occasion. If it was nowadays, there would hardly be any teachers left in that school!
I came out with 9 O levels, 1 CSE (French!) & 3 A levels. If I'd gone to the local comprehensive, which was seriously dog rough at the time, I'd have almost certainly left at 16 without a single qualification to my name.

Am I emotionally scarred from all that, Am I ----! My life would almost certainly be considerably worse than it is now, if I hadn't had a bit of sense beaten into me now and again.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Hahaha...pretty similar experience myself at school.
I was 71-78, (brutally) thrashed on many an occasion. If it was nowadays, there would hardly be any teachers left in that school!
I came out with 9 O levels, 1 CSE (French!) & 3 A levels. If I'd gone to the local comprehensive, which was seriously dog rough at the time, I'd have almost certainly left at 16 without a single qualification to my name.

Am I emotionally scarred from all that, Am I ----! My life would almost certainly be considerably worse than it is now, if I hadn't had a bit of sense beaten into me now and again.

I'm with you all the way.

 

[richy3333]

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 taken a while but at last somebody said something sensible

 

[GLENNSPARK]

the problem is that your new tails have to go into the meter. loads of posters have said cut the fuse seals but don't touch the meter seals. this means using henley blocks to connect your new tails into the old meter tails. then you got to call supplier to connect them direct into meter. catch 22.

well i dont give a tupenny damn....

i`ll cut them meter seals if it warrents it....i dont care....

 

[GLENNSPARK]

because to fit isolaters in every property would cost a fortune , this is why we tell customers to ring then they install , its planning , if the house cu is on fire then you ring straightaway . oh biff thanks i think .

cost who a fortune?

the consumer...or the DNO....lol

the DNO for fitting the damn things....but not for the cost of fitting them....more like the lost revenue due to their callouts drying up..

the recent debacle over smart meters should be enough evidence here....lol..

 

[richy3333]

In Scotland the energy suppliers will give seals to registered sparks. They state that they will prosecute sparks who cut seals but never heard of anyone being prosecuted yet.

Not my experience at all in my area. Hydro allow NICEIC/SELECT sparks to cut seals so long as appropriate PPE is used etc. They reseal when the meter is next read

 

[Badged01]

The cane, the strap, gym slipper - even the blackboard ruler and blackboard duster.

I always seem to remember the use of them on me in the classroom preceded by the words ...... "you laddie at the back"

 

[Knobhead]

Going back to the 80’s the meter readers checked the seals. It’s a good job they didn’t look too close. Mine had EMEB seals on a NWEB meter.

 

[Geordie Spark]

I always seem to remember the use of them on me in the classroom preceded by the words ...... "you laddie at the back"

I don't remember ever getting any advanced warning of an attack - it just happened - a totally unannounced air strike by a blackboard duster

Those wooden blackboard dusters had some weight behind them mind when they landed on yer heid.