intake for 14x flats- meter spacing

[J.C.E]

Morning chaps

Finally doing my 1st intake on the 19th!
It is for 14x flats and 1x L/L supply

SSEN are installing the new incoming supply and they said they are also supplying and fitting the Ryefield board and the main isolator
(I thought this needed to be done my me as a BNO??)

Anyways they apprantly want me to just installed the 14x switched isolators make of the 14x SWA sub mains and install the 150 x 150 trunking with the tails between my isolators and the meter
-and they will wire from the Ryefield into the supply side of meter

is this normal- i though the DNO stop at the head nowadays..

Also I do not think the client has choosen what company he will be using for the meters- what is a good safe spacing guide to space out the meters and isolators- I am going to try fit all 15x meters and 14 isolators on 2 rows wrapping around a 90degree corner

also am I right in saying the trunking above the head needs to be min 1300mm and max 1800mm high from floor?

How do people usually do their slots in the trunking for the tails going into the meter? -maybe 2x 25mm holes about 65mm apart then open these into one slot??

Cheers

J

 

[Leesparkykent]

Use meterboards between switch fuses. I don’t slot the trunking for the meters I just a 32mm male and female bush and pass the in and out tails through it.

 

[J.C.E]

Use meterboards between switch fuses. I don’t slot the trunking for the meters I just a 32mm male and female bush and pass the in and out tails through it.

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Cheers Lee

The builder was going to line the walls with some kind of sheet- could i not get him to do it in that FR chipboard? So everything can just get screwed directly onto it...

I was thinking to probaly have on each row of trunking- the SWF underneath the trunking butted up side by side then to have the meters above the trunking so to need less rows of trunking

So maybe just leave 8in wide space per meter?

 

[mhar]

Locally our DNO depot has refused to connect to customer supplied Ryefields on so many occasions that they decided to supply and fit the boards themselves so the job would be done right. I believe this is something decided on a very local level and I was also told that there is no mark up on the cost of the board.

 

[Toneyz]

Not done by me (would not use that make switch-fuses) but an idea.

 

[J.C.E]

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Not done by me (would not use that make switch-fuses) but an idea.

Is the ply fire retardant?

I am going to try the Lewden SWF as they seem
A little less bulky then the wylex and there isn’t ample space!!

 

[J.C.E]

Also i know the dno dont like connecting to tri rated cables but will the meter company be fine if i use it from meter load to isolator feed?

 

[Toneyz]

Is the ply fire retardant?

Sorry, no idea as it is only a photo got for design purposes. I would suggest ply with a cover of pink fire resistant plasterboard.