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Roger
Small bungalow existing fuse board 1 ring main and 2 lighting circuits,thats all !
It used to have economy 7 so it has teleswitch and another fuseboard 3 way.Gas central heating installed so this lot is redundant.
Both fuse boards have their tails squeezed into the meter (only 16mm) and meter head has 2 neutrals.
I am doing a CU change and rewiring lighting as no earth at switch although steel conduit for drops is all still in place.
Immersion feed is of a fused spur from the only ring main.They have had additional sockets added in the kitchen on 2 radials albeit not connected.I would like to access meter and service head to tidy this lot up,it looks a right mess currently.I obviously wont but whats the best way of going about it.As i am typing it is becoming clear in my head.I propose to do CU change/test inspect etc.But connect to a henly block leaving long meter tails.Coonect one set of old tails to healy block and this provides power as property is occupied.Contact Electricity supplier and hopefully they would remove old stuff and connect my new meter tails to the new meter which was recently fitted.Would they charge for this ?
I would mount CU direct on brick wall and leave meter and service head on existing chipboard.Or should this be replaced with a no flammable board ? i guess the Supplier would change if they thought necessary.
A local company quoted £2450 to do this and I am struggling to get to more than 3 days work ? they were going to put a 12 way board in !
It used to have economy 7 so it has teleswitch and another fuseboard 3 way.Gas central heating installed so this lot is redundant.
Both fuse boards have their tails squeezed into the meter (only 16mm) and meter head has 2 neutrals.
I am doing a CU change and rewiring lighting as no earth at switch although steel conduit for drops is all still in place.
Immersion feed is of a fused spur from the only ring main.They have had additional sockets added in the kitchen on 2 radials albeit not connected.I would like to access meter and service head to tidy this lot up,it looks a right mess currently.I obviously wont but whats the best way of going about it.As i am typing it is becoming clear in my head.I propose to do CU change/test inspect etc.But connect to a henly block leaving long meter tails.Coonect one set of old tails to healy block and this provides power as property is occupied.Contact Electricity supplier and hopefully they would remove old stuff and connect my new meter tails to the new meter which was recently fitted.Would they charge for this ?
I would mount CU direct on brick wall and leave meter and service head on existing chipboard.Or should this be replaced with a no flammable board ? i guess the Supplier would change if they thought necessary.
A local company quoted £2450 to do this and I am struggling to get to more than 3 days work ? they were going to put a 12 way board in !
