Tails between Cutout and Meter

oharaf · 18 Aug 2009

At a job yesterday, the tails between the meter and the cutout are Fabric Coated Indian Rubber NICE!!!!!!

Phoned YEDL helpful as ever, 'Nothing to do with us'

So can any one tell me who they do belong to?

Could have sworn blind it was them

flameport · 18 Aug 2009

They belong to the cutout fairy - the one who always breaks seals before any electrician arrives.

oharaf · 18 Aug 2009

Yes that crossed my mind, however, it just is not our job to do!!!!

The seals had amazingly been stolen a few nights before

Still want to know WHO owns them because it is about time they did some work, these are brittle and in need of attention

RF Lighting · 18 Aug 2009

They belong to / are the responsibility of YEDL.

Sounds like the usual fobbing off from the NEDL call centre.

Bloody nightmare to get anything done with them lot.

I've had to sit and argue to get someone out to a failed earth on a PILC. She even offered me a PME for £60 before I finally got an engineer out.

He came and put his meter on, and said it's fine mate.

I asked him to disconnect the bonding and try again

oharaf · 18 Aug 2009

Yep that's it Rob...

Back on to YEDL in the a.m. they offered PME as well at £65

Problem was it was already PME & TN-S!!!

Looked like DIY PME, just left it alone Ze was 0.04!!!

securespark · 18 Aug 2009

That sounds very high for PME...

SUNRAY · 19 Aug 2009

Tell supplier you got a shock off their cables, they should come running!

Well dawdling at least it worked for me when I wanted the 7/0.044 cotton & rubber tails replaced.

rebuke · 19 Aug 2009

So, when I enquired with EDF about getting my cutout fuse upgraded to 100A (currently 60A) they told me I'd need to get my supplier (in my case BG) to upgrade the tails between cutout and meter if they weren't 25mm (which they aren't), and that their responsibility ends at the cutout. Given that you are all stating its YEDL's responsibility in this case - was EDF telling me porkies?

LiamPope · 19 Aug 2009

I also thought tails were the supplier's responsibility rather than the DNO's. EDF gave me the same line about my tails when I enquired about a main fuse upgrade. N-power came out and upgraded tails to 25mm, upgraded meter and fitted an isolator, all free of charge

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Lectrician · 19 Aug 2009

securespark said:
That sounds very high for PME...

Your looking at decimal point in the wrong place

Click-Sure · 19 Aug 2009

C & D type breakers in your house then.

What did you measure the PFC at?

TheKeymeister · 29 Dec 2012

Pretty sure it is the meter operator rather than DNO, when we put a new supply in we leave a cutout and that's it, the meter operator does the rest.

Having said that, I have a job at the moment replacing 3 submains in a building that are the DNOs, the meters are at the far end and the submains are in VIR with steel conduits plus a bit of wire as an earth

OwainDIYer · 29 Dec 2012

TheKeymeister said:
Having said that, I have a job at the moment replacing 3 submains in a building that are the DNOs, the meters are at the far end and the submains are in VIR with steel conduits plus a bit of wire as an earth

That's nice.

I used to live in a block of flats wired like that.

Only there wasn't the extra bit of wire

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