Move the Box!! Please!

[sam8364]

Hi all,

Can anyone please advise. I am having a dispute with the supply equipment into my house.

I have two boxes beloning to the supply company - one is the meter this is connected in one direction to my fuse box and in the other direction to a big plastic box which takes the supply from the ground via a 2" thick cable running up the wall from under the floorboards and splits it to my meter and via a cable through the wall to next door's meter (it is an old victorian property).

My issue is this. the 2"supply cable running up the wall to the first box is positioned in such as way that it prevents the front door from opening to 90 degrees and has damaged the top of the front door. This system was clearly installed years ago and previous ocupants of the house have obviously not been bothered.

I want to put in a new front door and do not want it immediately damaged by the supply equipment. Now I am not legally allowed to touch the supply equipment, but EDF energy insist they will charge me for moving it. Energy Watch say there is nothing they can do, as do OfGen.

I can understand a charge if this move was for cosmetic purposes but as it obstructs and damages my door I would say it is H&S issue.

Does anyone have an experience with this and can suggest a way of getting this sorted?

 

[RF Lighting]

Unfortunatly the DNO have you over a barrel. The only choices you have are: pay up for it to be moved, or put up with it as it is.

Has the door damaged the supply cable? This is the only route that I can think that you could possibly go down.

 

[Lectrician]

Open and shut it a few times, a little harder than usual

SERIOUSLY - Dont! DANDGEROUS!

 

[Adam_151]

We'll just send Lec round with the hedge shears after he has had a few beers and can be convinced anything is a good idea

 

[RF Lighting]

A plasterer we work with once put an axe through the supply cable of a cutout he wanted moving

Damn near killed the stupid b*****d

(got the cutout moved though)

DO NOT DO THIS

 

[plugwash]

it may be possible to carefully move the cable arround a bit without disconnecting it, could still be risky though if its old cable.

any chance of a picture of the problem?

BTW are the live jointing kits used by the recs availible for purchase?

 

[Adam_151]

A plasterer we work with once put an axe through the supply cable of a cutout he wanted moving

Damn near killed the stupid b*****d

(got the cutout moved though)

Must have taken drunken ex-dno employees too seriously ... http://www.screwfix.com/talk/thread.jspa?forumID=23&threadID=15056

(was a charge made for repairing the damage?)

 

[RF Lighting]

(was a charge made for repairing the damage?)

No, as it was an 'accident'

 

[sam8364]

Can do a photo - how do you post them on here.

Yes it has damaged my front door a little at the top where it hits the cable - problem is that I want to put a new front door in and do not want this damaged as well.

Cannot move the cable to new position as it is 2" thick and inflexible.

Have discovered also that movement caused by the door hitting the cable has loosened the crews on the wooden back board to the point where you can just slip the screws out by pulling lightly with fingers - got to be a H&S issue.

btw -I did suggest to energy watch that I could just keeping hitting it hard with the door until it broke and then they would have to fix it - "yes, you are right" they said!!

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Can do a photo - how do you post them on here.

Go here: http://www.imageshack.us/ and install the toolbar.

Then you can upload pictures and automagically create the links in your post simply by dragging & dropping the image(s) into your post as you type it.