REC elec. supply isolator

sillygoose

Have various changes under way, going to be some house circuit changes and will need at some point a consumer unit change.

To make life easier I would like an isolator switch put in the meter out tails, some houses have them and it lets you isolate the supply as and when you need without breaking main fuse seals or getting the supplier to disconnect then reconnect you, I think its called a Rec switch.

Has anyone had one fitted and how much were you charged? is it down to the electricity supplier or the distribution network supplier to do it? (tried searching around and not found out much)

Thanks.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

An electrician can do it so long as they ring the electricity company & tell them they have removed the main fuse due to necessity/safety (blah blah blah). It would be ok.

baldelectrician

1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »

An electrician can do it so long as they ring the electricity company & tell them they have removed the main fuse due to necessity/safety (blah blah blah). It would be ok.

Scottish Power insist on fitting the isolator themselves at a cost of £120.00, they don't let you break the seals and then 'call them up', alothough this was standard practise until a few years ago when they discovered money could be made

1984ReturnsForReal_2

baldelectrician wrote: »

Scottish Power insist on fitting the isolator themselves at a cost of £120.00, they don't let you break the seals and then 'call them up', alothough this was standard practise until a few years ago when they discovered money could be made

An emergency is an emergency

sillygoose

1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »

An emergency is an emergency

true.. but they may then be awkward about letting you reconnect if you told them your consumer was smoking.. anything else is downstream and they could argue why didn't you just kill the consumer main switch.

I have seen some of the digital meters have rec switch built in, not mine sadly.

Baldelectrician you mentioned a supplier, scottish power, can I take it that means in my case I need to contact British Gas rather then Central Networks to get it done? :beer:

baldelectrician

Your supplier asks the network operator to get the work done

Some charge some don't

v0lc0m

Thanks to this thread I checked with British Gas first... they will install an isolator for £47.23 and they are doing it next week (3 working days notice).

As I understand it this is much faster and significantly cheaper than Scottish Power.

Cheers