Who regulates DNO's / Meter Replacement Fitters

[chiplard]

Went to look at a job today, customer ( a family friend ) wanted a couple of new sockets.

Checked existing CU and found an old wylex rewireable with no earth. They have had a new head installed and had a meter change done, converted to PME within the past few years. But to my amazement they had brought the earth from the head to a MET and left it at that. No earth connection to the CU.

Now i know it is not there responsibility to connect to CU or to supply an earth in the first place but why should they be allowed to supply one and not at least inform the customer that their install was unsafe?

Every job that we do has to be certificated and paperwork left with the customer, but it seems that these guys don't have to.

Surely we all work to the same Regs, so why not the same paper trail for the install work they do!

 

[oldtimer]

You may be surprised but it can be common I was flat hunting with my daughter and found the exact same thing I also fitted a board at a house that recently had a cut out switch fitted only to find the final Ze was 0.9 and found that there was never a proper earth at all what I could not understand was surley they test PSCC and Ze when they upgrade the head end but no chance and another job wel I will leave you with the pics

 

[Graeme Harrold]

Just hooked up from a brand new supply, the earth was fitted, but was one of the cores cut from the split concentric supply wtapped in green tape........standards eh!!!

 

[madmac]

Went to look at a job today, customer ( a family friend ) wanted a couple of new sockets.

Checked existing CU and found an old wylex rewireable with no earth. They have had a new head installed and had a meter change done, converted to PME within the past few years. But to my amazement they had brought the earth from the head to a MET and left it at that. No earth connection to the CU.

Now i know it is not there responsibility to connect to CU or to supply an earth in the first place but why should they be allowed to supply one and not at least inform the customer that their install was unsafe?

Every job that we do has to be certificated and paperwork left with the customer, but it seems that these guys don't have to.

Surely we all work to the same Regs, so why not the same paper trail for the install work they do!

chiplard: I'm sure if you quoted the Health & Safety at work Act:1974, they would soon be very interested.......especially the section on "acts and omissions" as this is clearly both!!! They "acted" by altering the incoming services and metering, and they caused an "omission", due to them not informing the householder of the potentially fatal condition of the householders earth potential!!!