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blownfuse
Hi all,
I've searching around for a while and I always end up here to good advice so I figured why not pop along
My situation has arisen from what must be a very common situation: Homeowner (me) wants to install a new hungrier shower and discovers it's a CU can of worms!
The main thing being I've discovered the house has no main earth!
There is no earth coming In or OUT of the old CU other than one which bonds the water. So it's safe to say there's neither a main earth from the service head or an earth spike.
I've decided on full RCBO protected CU but need to get my head around this missing earth and how much it should cost.
It's a PME system as there is a small sticker on the service head (cutout?) saying so but absolutely no earth terminal supplied and I can see no hidden areas where there could be one (covered or not).
I've included a pic in case any of you are familiar with this service head.
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I'm baffled why they would change over to this and not at least supply the earth terminal for the consumer's sparkie to crack on.
I know it's not their responsibility to supply an earth but I figured if they've supplied the PME system then the least they could do is make the earth available otherwise what's the point!
I've phoned the DNO (NEDL) a few times over the past week and this time the women on the emergency line said "we don't deal with electrics" and "I don't have a clue what PME is sir". PMSL. I rang that line because I was playing the "I got no earth in my house" tactic.
I explained that they have supplied an earth into the property but haven't made it available to be used. All I want is it made available to a sparkie and she said "can't they just cut the security wire and pull the fuse out and do it themselves?"!!!
I told here a sparkie wasn't going to touch it as he isn't allowed to. I resisted explaining to her I thought she was either mad or trying to cut costs and refuse everything even if it took ridiculous statements.
There was plenty of arguing the toss but she was convinced it was fine to rip into it
Anyway, to cut an epic story long...she reckons we will still need to pay around £160 just to get the earth terminal made available!!!!!
Does this sound right or is her obvious ignorance coming into play again? I'm reading around and it seems some are paying just £30ish to get earth terminals made available in their dormant PME systems.
It's too late on Friday now to ask a different department so I though it's time to join here and ask
I'm not even going to bother boring you more with the mission just to upgrade the main fuse! haha
I've searching around for a while and I always end up here to good advice so I figured why not pop along
My situation has arisen from what must be a very common situation: Homeowner (me) wants to install a new hungrier shower and discovers it's a CU can of worms!
The main thing being I've discovered the house has no main earth!
There is no earth coming In or OUT of the old CU other than one which bonds the water. So it's safe to say there's neither a main earth from the service head or an earth spike.
I've decided on full RCBO protected CU but need to get my head around this missing earth and how much it should cost.
It's a PME system as there is a small sticker on the service head (cutout?) saying so but absolutely no earth terminal supplied and I can see no hidden areas where there could be one (covered or not).
I've included a pic in case any of you are familiar with this service head.
*DELETED*
I'm baffled why they would change over to this and not at least supply the earth terminal for the consumer's sparkie to crack on.
I know it's not their responsibility to supply an earth but I figured if they've supplied the PME system then the least they could do is make the earth available otherwise what's the point!
I've phoned the DNO (NEDL) a few times over the past week and this time the women on the emergency line said "we don't deal with electrics" and "I don't have a clue what PME is sir". PMSL. I rang that line because I was playing the "I got no earth in my house" tactic.
I explained that they have supplied an earth into the property but haven't made it available to be used. All I want is it made available to a sparkie and she said "can't they just cut the security wire and pull the fuse out and do it themselves?"!!!
I told here a sparkie wasn't going to touch it as he isn't allowed to. I resisted explaining to her I thought she was either mad or trying to cut costs and refuse everything even if it took ridiculous statements.
There was plenty of arguing the toss but she was convinced it was fine to rip into it
Anyway, to cut an epic story long...she reckons we will still need to pay around £160 just to get the earth terminal made available!!!!!
Does this sound right or is her obvious ignorance coming into play again? I'm reading around and it seems some are paying just £30ish to get earth terminals made available in their dormant PME systems.
It's too late on Friday now to ask a different department so I though it's time to join here and ask
I'm not even going to bother boring you more with the mission just to upgrade the main fuse! haha