What would you do here.

[Andy5678]

Looking at this job, I haven’t touched anything yet so any faults you find are nothing to do with me.

The top switched fuse feeds a CU in the house.

The bottom one is old and the customer would like to use it for another CU in an out building. A 16mm SWA has been run to the box.

Now I am struggling how to think about terminating it all and doing a neat job.

First thing would be to seal the hole and stop the snails.

I’m not sure about using the old switch fuse as the holes cut out on the top don’t look right and is a cover missing? I have seen new ones of these available from wholesalers so that could be an option. But could be a tight squeeze.

There is room for a second meter box along side which could house the 2 switches or just the the second one and then would just need to worry about getting meter tails through.

Would like to hear your thoughts so I can come up with a plan.

Thanks.

 

[PEG]

They must have been recently to fit the smart meter, take it nothing was said about the state of it.

Nothing would be said,as a vast number of the people fitting them,would not be aware of a problem,if there were a nest of snakes at the bottom,and the top was on fire...

 

[Cid]

Nothing would be said,as a vast number of the people fitting them,would not be aware of a problem,if there were a nest of snakes at the bottom,and the top was on fire...

Well to be fair these meter guys are under pressure to fit certain number of meters per day. They don't waste time poking around the consumers side or looking for defects with the exception of gas leaks.

 

[mhar]

Well to be fair these meter guys are under pressure to fit certain number of meters per day. They don't waste time poking around the consumers side or looking for defects with the exception of gas leaks.

They have to fill in what I think is called a MOPs report which is a meter operators sheet where they note any defects or queries to the existing equipment. They waste a lot of DNO time reporting exposed conductive parts in the cutout, what the rest of us would call the pme terminal. Each report has to be investigated.

 

[mjb]

Meter boxs and internal meter boards are now owned by the customer

 

[Graham DJ]

This used to be economy 7 where the CUs are remote from the meter box and so require KMFs due to distance.
The bottom one was for the off peak which has become obsolete probably due to gas central heating replacing electric storage heating.
That is a British Gas smart meter and electric is not their strong point.