DNO Attendance

[Toonlad]

Was doing some council work on landlords CU upgrades, arranged for the dno to hook up my tails, out of the 5 jobs , 2 ended up reverse polarity. only saving grace i was energising my side after them. So i took photos , cut his seals off and pulled the bullet and swapped them around. Then my company gets a snotty letter of complaint about cutting seals off......... photos sent before during and after, resulted in no further action for some reason lol.

 

[sparks1973]

Was doing some council work on landlords CU upgrades, arranged for the dno to hook up my tails, out of the 5 jobs , 2 ended up reverse polarity. only saving grace i was energising my side after them. So i took photos , cut his seals off and pulled the bullet and swapped them around. Then my company gets a snotty letter of complaint about cutting seals off......... photos sent before during and after, resulted in no further action for some reason lol.

i hope you let slip that pics were to be retained by yoursel for `future reference`...lol...

 

[sparks1973]

look....sometimes the DNOs are a law unto themselves....time amd time again we come across poor standards by them....
but were to conform ....right?..
lol...

 

[steve_morrison]

you get more info from a brick than most DNO's

 

[Engineer54]

As far as i'm aware the DNO do not install meters, this work is contracted out to a meter installing company. Most of the guy's working for these companies are lucky if they get a couple of days training, ....They are NOT electricians as they used to be!! Yet another area of our Industry that has been thoroughly de-skilled and let go of, without even a whimper!!!!

 

[shazbutz]

I know that you'll all be surprised to hear this but their attendance has been. First attempt - missed the time slot given by the home owner. Second attempt - missed the time slot given by the home owner. Third booking - no show. Well it has been raining. Any takers on if they'll find the enthuisam to run in a PME? No, me neither!!!

 

[Engineer54]

I know that you'll all be surprised to hear this but their attendance has been. First attempt - missed the time slot given by the home owner. Second attempt - missed the time slot given by the home owner. Third booking - no show. Well it has been raining. Any takers on if they'll find the enthuisam to run in a PME? No, me neither!!!

If it's available at the consumers service head (eg, ....Main distribution network cable is/has been PME'd) they won't need to run anything. A 10 minute job at the service head, or about an hours work, if they change the service head at the same time to a pucker PME head!!!

 

[shazbutz]

They finally turned up yesterday. Dug a hole in the pavement and verge and left leaving the following message with my customer "tell 'im it's fixed, we tested it and it's now 0.2, OK" and left leaving the hole filling crew to arrive at some vague future point. They chose not to upgrade the head leaving the crappy one as in their words " there are worse, Missus"!