Do we have to be home for a pre-mayment meter to be fitted?

spiro

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

Not necessarily.

Could be someone in the house unable to get to the door, relying on medical equipment, you pull the plug and the equipment goes off, and it doesn't automatically re-start on re-energisation.

Half an hour the carer gets back, finds the card through the letterbox and a dead person.

In this instance the person should be on the Priority Service Register which means they get special treatment in various situations including power cuts. If people are in this situation and are not registered DO IT NOW it could save your life.

espresso

SwanJon wrote: »

Sorry, but the above is wrong.
Once the meter is changed they will need to run safety checks on the electrics and will need access to the house to do this.

chanz4 wrote: »

this is correct. a polarity test is required

This is incorrect. All meter have the same supply/load terminal layout and it would be very difficult to change the meter incorrectly, as the meter tails are not disturbed.

No safety check or access to the property has been required each time that our meter has been changed.

Wywth

espresso wrote: »

This is incorrect. ...

No this is incorrect.

I've not had a meter changed yet where the installer did not want access to the property to check things were safe before reconnecting the supply.

Inspectorman

You can change an outside meter with no one present as long as the load is under a certain amount but it's not something I tend to do. As mentioned you can't be sure what you are turning off.

wr1ght

this obviously varies between companies as we would never do any work without doing a polarity test before and after

wr1ght

espresso wrote: »

This is incorrect. All meter have the same supply/load terminal layout and it would be very difficult to change the meter incorrectly, as the meter tails are not disturbed.

No safety check or access to the property has been required each time that our meter has been changed.

what if you need to change/upgrade the tails ?

chanz4

espresso wrote: »

This is incorrect. All meter have the same supply/load terminal layout and it would be very difficult to change the meter incorrectly, as the meter tails are not disturbed.

No safety check or access to the property has been required each time that our meter has been changed.

oops if took this advance when changing canabis farm meters, I would be up the stream without a paddle.

wr1ght

what you change them ? disconnection every time for these places
:rotfl:

espresso

wr1ght wrote: »

what if you need to change/upgrade the tails ?

A normal meter change does not usually require the tails to be changed but meter fitters are obviously trained to cope with such situations.

I have witnessed at least three meter changes where no testing was done and no access to the property was required. The fitters tools were a screwdriver, wire cutters and some red/black nyloc cable ties for identifying the tails. The previous fitter had marked the tails with paint.

wr1ght

espresso wrote: »

A normal meter change does not usually require the tails to be changed but meter fitters are obviously trained to cope with such situations.

I have witnessed at least three meter changes where no testing was done and no access to the property was required. The fitters tools were a screwdriver, wire cutters and some red/black nyloc cable ties for identifying the tails. The previous fitter had marked the tails with paint.

wow no testing at all ?

how would they know if polarity was right ?

how would they know if they where fitting a meter with a bypass in place such as a switched neutral ?

i certainly would not want any of my seals on anything that i hadnt tested.

the company i work for if you didnt do any testing and something came to light such as a live neutral reverse and you have sealed it up then your looking for a new job