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Who's responsible for cabling to fuse box in house?

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  • prowla
    prowla Posts: 14,222 Forumite
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    I think that everything up to the meter (ie. including the main fuse and the meter) is the electricity board's, and everything after the meter (ie. your multi way fuse box, distribution, and house wiring) is yours.
  • spiro
    spiro Posts: 6,405 Forumite
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    prowla wrote: »
    I think that everything up to the meter (ie. including the main fuse and the meter) is the electricity board's, and everything after the meter (ie. your multi way fuse box, distribution, and house wiring) is yours.
    Everything up to the main fuse is DNO, tails to meter & meter is Meter Operator (appointed by your supplier), everything after meter is house owner.
    IT Consultant in the utilities industry specialising in the retail electricity market.

    4 Credit Card and 1 Loan PPI claims settled for £26k, 1 rejected (Opus).
  • Terrylw1
    Terrylw1 Posts: 7,038 Forumite
    spiro wrote: »
    Everything up to the main fuse is DNO, tails to meter & meter is Meter Operator (appointed by your supplier), everything after meter is house owner.

    Tails to the meter are the customers side, did you mean they can't be connected to the meter other than by the Meter Operator?
    :rotfl: It's better to live 1 year as a tiger than a lifetime as a worm...but then, whoever heard of a wormskin rug!!!:rotfl:
  • spiro
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    Terrylw1 wrote: »
    Tails to the meter are the customers side, did you mean they can't be connected to the meter other than by the Meter Operator?
    Tails from fuse to meter are MOP. What is happening more now on new connections is that the MOP fits a breaker after the meter so the electrician can turn power on/off and connect tails to consumer unit.
    IT Consultant in the utilities industry specialising in the retail electricity market.

    4 Credit Card and 1 Loan PPI claims settled for £26k, 1 rejected (Opus).
  • Terrylw1
    Terrylw1 Posts: 7,038 Forumite
    spiro wrote: »
    Tails from fuse to meter are MOP. What is happening more now on new connections is that the MOP fits a breaker after the meter so the electrician can turn power on/off and connect tails to consumer unit.

    Tails from the consumer unit are the private electricians, the MOP just connects them to the meter. Yes, isolator switches have been round for years as MOP's would fit them upon supplier request, they still seem to.
    :rotfl: It's better to live 1 year as a tiger than a lifetime as a worm...but then, whoever heard of a wormskin rug!!!:rotfl:
  • Inspectorman
    Inspectorman Posts: 61 Forumite
    I fit isolators when I have them, which isn't very often :rotfl:
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