UK PILC mains cable to PME system

[Steve Plock]

How do uk power networks install a PME system on old PILC mains cable. Do they use the old cable and put a junction on, where it terminates in the property. Or do they put new cable in from the street. Do anyone know how much they charge for this.
I'm getting the usual unapproved earthing clamp problems which uk power networks are refusing to fix.

 

[suffolkspark]

I swear so many of the clamps are original, I get so many old ones with 6mm dark green earth wire on them

 

[Rockingit]

How do uk power networks install a PME system on old PILC mains cable. Do they use the old cable and put a junction on, where it terminates in the property. Or do they put new cable in from the street. Do anyone know how much they charge for this.
I'm getting the usual unapproved earthing clamp problems which uk power networks are refusing to fix.

If a supplier provides an earth it is their responsibility to maintain it. ESQCR refers.

 

[Steve Plock]

If a supplier provides an earth it is their responsibility to maintain it. ESQCR refers.

UK POWER NETWORKS are abjectly refusing to maintain the earth on their PILC mains cable, they have a special form for this, where they state the earth clamp is unapproved. And therefore couldn't be theirs. Will they PME older PILC cable or dig up the street to install all new mains cable

 

[Steve Plock]

UK POWER NETWORKS are abjectly refusing to maintain the earth on their PILC mains cable, they have a special form for this, where they state the earth clamp is unapproved. And therefore couldn't be theirs. Will they PME older PILC cable or dig up the street to install all new mains cable

 

[Rockingit]

UK POWER NETWORKS are abjectly refusing to maintain the earth on their PILC mains cable, they have a special form for this, where they state the earth clamp is unapproved. And therefore couldn't be theirs. Will they PME older PILC cable or dig up the street to install all new mains cable

What earthing arrangement is currently in place? TN-S via this clamp? Having recenty dealt with UKPN on am intake move, they do have the habit of trying to tell customers that they need to pay to rip up half the street to upgrade the old and degraded infrastructure instead of doing it regardless and paying less to shareholders.

My understanding of ESQCR is that where the neutral (by either TNx) has been provided for use as an earth then the DNO must maintain it. It's therefore largely irrelevant as to who put a clamp on that sheath originally - in fact it could even be argued it would be up to them to prove it wasn't them. But regardless, you need to be provided with an earth.
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(4) Unless he can reasonably conclude that it is inappropriate for reasons of safety, a
distributor shall, when providing a new connection at low voltage, make available his supply
neutral conductor or, if appropriate, the protective conductor of his network for connection to
the protective conductor of the consumer’s installation.
(5) In this regulation the expression “new connection” means the first electric line, or the
replacement of an existing electric line, to one or more consumer’s installations.

 

[David Prosser]

I'm curious as to what regulations the ladies would have to work to as these only reference men!

 

[DPG]

I'm curious as to what regulations the ladies would have to work to as these only reference men!

Same regs but they tidy up after themselves

 

[Rockingit]

I'm curious as to what regulations the ladies would have to work to as these only reference men!

All statute law that references 'a being', whether that is an individual, organisation, legal entity, whatever, are always referred to in the singular 'he'. In the same way that an instruction is always 'shall', rather than 'will'. Just quirks of our linguistic history, nothing else.