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A friend who has a retail shop was concerned about her electricity consumption, I had a look and I found the supply comes from an adjoining domestic property and is fed via an isolater within the same but has had a new meter fitted by the sse again its in the other property, so I ffitted a meter next to the consumer unit in the shop to allow her to record and check against the dno meter, however during this I found that there are 2 breakers that circuit conductors coming in live and one socket outlet that cannot be isolated from either the cu or the supply isolator, now to the point does my responsibility end with reporting this to the landlord or is this something that I should inform the dno, local authority, or what
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A friend who has a retail shop was concerned about her electricity consumption, I had a look and I found the supply comes from an adjoining domestic property and is fed via an isolater within the same but has had a new meter fitted by the sse again its in the other property, so I ffitted a meter next to the consumer unit in the shop to allow her to record and check against the dno meter, however during this I found that there are 2 breakers that circuit conductors coming in live and one socket outlet that cannot be isolated from either the cu or the supply isolator, now to the point does my responsibility end with reporting this to the landlord or is this something that I should inform the dno, local authority, or what
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Bit confused about the 2 Breakers that you mention Mate, not sure what you are on about to be honest.
 
A friend who has a retail shop was concerned about her electricity consumption, I had a look and I found the supply comes from an adjoining domestic property and is fed via an isolater within the same but has had a new meter fitted by the sse again its in the other property, so I ffitted a meter next to the consumer unit in the shop to allow her to record and check against the dno meter, however during this I found that there are 2 breakers that circuit conductors coming in live and one socket outlet that cannot be isolated from either the cu or the supply isolator, now to the point does my responsibility end with reporting this to the landlord or is this something that I should inform the dno, local authority, or what
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That socket outlet sounds like 'free' power and a way to reduce the electricity consumption ;-)

Does it come from the consumer unit in the domestic property next door-a hang over from when they were all one property perhaps?
 
To answer the replies, yes it was all one property at one time, the 2 breakers have live feeds coming in energising the bus bar regardless of isolation, the tenants of the house are not keen on an inspection, and the shop landlord will probably be unwilling to pay for an inspection on the house and I dont want to get caught up in debate with either as to who is responsible, for my part I will do a report and send it to both I will of course make the installation as safe as possible, my other concern is should I raise this with any other official body,
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To answer the replies, yes it was all one property at one time, the 2 breakers have live feeds coming in energising the bus bar regardless of isolation, the tenants of the house are not keen on an inspection, and the shop landlord will probably be unwilling to pay for an inspection on the house and I dont want to get caught up in debate with either as to who is responsible, for my part I will do a report and send it to both I will of course make the installation as safe as possible, my other concern is should I raise this with any other official body,
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Write your report,one for the client, the Land Lord, yourself, you will have done your bit, as long as you have left the system safe then that's it until someone contacts you to remedy any wiring anomalies, in my opinion anyway.
 
There's obviously more crossover between the 2 properties.

If you're saying with the Shop CU isolator off there is a supply coming from elsewhere then tell the shop tennant to use that socket as much as possible, the tenant of the house will soon allow an inspection.
And for the shop tennant to switch the shop C.U off every night or when the shop is empty.
 
there is an alarm although it would appear to be powered from the nearest light fitting, but to be honest this place is one complete hash up, if the landlord asks me to do work it'll be a body swerve unless the shop is closed for the duration
 

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