Hi all - first post.
Renovating a house & would like to move both elec & gas meters from understairs cupboard (now about 1.5m from front door) to front outside wall - a distance of approx. 4m. Southern Electric via Ebico supply both services, although elec is pre-payment type & I would also want normal credit type meter installed.
Currently, have floorboards up on ground floor and stairs out so access is very good, with about a 7" crawlspace available.
Am prepared to fit external meter boxes, probably flush fitting with suitable lintel installed, to external wall. Would also ask REC to fit an 100amp isolator, so sparky could connect up later in complete safety.
Questions
1) Can both gas & elec both re-route under front room floor?? - I would not like to dig an external trench if at all possible. If so, what depth & what conduit / protection would be required assuming this is my responsibility as inside the house boundary?
2) Guess elec consumer unit will have to follow to internal wall behind the new meter boxes - needs replacing in any case - but whats the maximum distance allowed from meter?
3) Would requested isolator switch be installed internal near CU or inside new meter box?
4) Lastly, i don´t like the look of either the current gas or elec terminations. No bonding of gas pipe. Poor braiding of elec with exposed earth into their cable, with unclipped meter tails & earth lead. Longshot but hoping to persuade Southern Electric / Ebico that when replacing elec meter that the terminations of both services need making safe in any case & therefore get a large discount - ie to including moving them??
Apologies for the long post, but hopefully my questions are not too daft. Thanks for taking the time - any advice much apprieciated
Renovating a house & would like to move both elec & gas meters from understairs cupboard (now about 1.5m from front door) to front outside wall - a distance of approx. 4m. Southern Electric via Ebico supply both services, although elec is pre-payment type & I would also want normal credit type meter installed.
Currently, have floorboards up on ground floor and stairs out so access is very good, with about a 7" crawlspace available.
Am prepared to fit external meter boxes, probably flush fitting with suitable lintel installed, to external wall. Would also ask REC to fit an 100amp isolator, so sparky could connect up later in complete safety.
Questions
1) Can both gas & elec both re-route under front room floor?? - I would not like to dig an external trench if at all possible. If so, what depth & what conduit / protection would be required assuming this is my responsibility as inside the house boundary?
2) Guess elec consumer unit will have to follow to internal wall behind the new meter boxes - needs replacing in any case - but whats the maximum distance allowed from meter?
3) Would requested isolator switch be installed internal near CU or inside new meter box?
4) Lastly, i don´t like the look of either the current gas or elec terminations. No bonding of gas pipe. Poor braiding of elec with exposed earth into their cable, with unclipped meter tails & earth lead. Longshot but hoping to persuade Southern Electric / Ebico that when replacing elec meter that the terminations of both services need making safe in any case & therefore get a large discount - ie to including moving them??
Apologies for the long post, but hopefully my questions are not too daft. Thanks for taking the time - any advice much apprieciated