suppliers main fuse next door

[ian1511]

been to look at a job today and the main cutout is in next doors property.anyone come across this before,its a semi detatched property,never at any time been one house.surely once customer has informed dno they should be out to inspect and move into customers house.any thoughts?

 

[Marvo]

I don't know the UK regs but I'm guessing this is illegal.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Quite common practice.

 

[SMB]

Ive never seen that before mate.

It must be illegal, if an emergency happened, and the neighbours were out, how would you isolate the metering tails / tails?

 

[SMB]

Quite common practice.

Really?

I stand corrected then.

Can't be good practice though.

 

[bugsy]

I've seen this a few times, the first time I phoned DNO and they just were not interested ,

 

[Marvo]

Yep, sounds dodgy to me as well, it would be illegal where I am under our regs.

 

[telectrix]

ive never seen that before mate.

It must be illegal, if an emergency happened, and the neighbours were out, how would you isolate the metering tails / tails?

axe?????

 

[SirKit Breaker]

Very common especially in back to back houses round my way. I have even seen lots of examples of one house with a 3 phase head, where 2 of the phases disappear into adjacent houses.

 

[SMB]

If the CU is on fire and you cannot isolate the tails, due to next door being on holiday, then there is a problem.

Almost makes having lights in a bathroom on an RCD look like a joke.

 

[ian1511]

very unusual in my book,agree with you smb hard work incase of emergency.she does have a main switch though so db can be isolated.

 

[SirKit Breaker]

If the CU is on fire and you cannot isolate the tails, due to next door being on holiday, then there is a problem.

Almost makes having lights in a bathroom on an RCD look like a joke.

Throw my uninsulated adjustable spanner into it, that will kill the power.

 

[cbw]

Very common here in Bury St Edmunds, 3 phases into cellar, then 1 phase goes out either way through the cellars to the adjoining properties.

I always get the customer to contact the DNO, they have allways replaced this with new supplies to each house, often at great trouble, roads up, paths closed and loads of mess!

 

[ian1511]

bugsy did dno ever retify this problem or is it a case of not gettin paid so its not gettin done!

 

[SMB]

very unusual in my book,agree with you smb hard work incase of emergency.she does have a main switch though so db can be isolated.

Yes, but what if the problem is in the meter?

 

[Deleted member 26818]

For you younger viewers, this was common practice, when the majority of installations were powering just some lights and perhaps a TV or a fridge.
When you could make free phone calls by tapping out the number on the cradle and Mars bars cost a tanner.

 

[SMB]

And when people respected their elders...?

 

[ian1511]

jus seen ur post cbw,have left ball in customers hands so am waiting to hear outcome.it also never had a main earth,should i go ahead an put rods in or wait for dno's decision or try an get one via next door?

 

[Superspark23]

Council flats somtimes have 3 mainfuses in the ground flat, 1 feeds the ground floor, 2nd to the 2nd foor and the 3rd to the 3rd floor. So quite common but not much logic.

 

[cselectrical65]

Its a link main and has an earth rod very common.

 

[mechelec]

I have seen nextdoor looped from the top of the cutout so 2 properties run off one 80A cutout fuse which is handy if the fuse blows and no one is home to gain access to fuse. It is more usual from the bottom of the cutout. And yes it is very common to find looped services from adjascent properties round here too (east coast).

 

[nickblake]

very common to loop in and out in properties but 2 cut outs in the same properties is a bit naughty

 

[armbands0]

I've seen it once, the supply for both properties came in through my customers house and fed to neighbours via tails.

The neighbour had overloaded their supply and the tails started smoking.

The DNO agreed to put in a separate feed to neighbour.