Live wires left exposed by electrician

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Photo of current set up -

Al_Ross

The meter is sealed by the Electric Supply Company,so I expect that is how he found it, I don't think its your Sparky's problem here.

alumende27

OK, that is indeed three cables. Without seeing a photo of the entire setup, that is a bit confusing (I am not an electrician). I assume the L and N tape is covering bare conductors showing at the top of the two cables on the right hand side, which will be the live and neutral cables to the fusebox. The thick cable on the left is the supply cable coming from the supply company and doesn't appear to have an issue with exposed wiring.

Of course, it's entirely possible the electrician didn't even touch them. If he's replacing the fusebox he just needs to pull out the main fuse (somewhere just to the bottom left of that photo) and then fiddle with the other ends of the cables that go into the meter. There should be no reason for him to fiddle with the cabling on the meter itself. That's sort of substantiated by the old looking seal on the fusebox. I'd have expected the electrician to have noticed this though and either fixed it himself (a bit naughty but they all do it) or contacted Western Power on your behalf.

The advice remains the same - find out what paperwork your relative received from the electrician to start with. If he signed off the installation as safe, I think the very least you can expect is for him to arrange to get it rectified.

Lomast

Only the power company can touch those wires out of the meter, the issue is likely to be nothing to do with the rewire

Lomast

Just to add most off the fitters employed to fit smart meters are not electricians they are just trained to fit meters if anything is remotely not simplebthey have to refer it to an engineer who is qualified

alumende27

Lomast wrote: »

Only the power company can touch those wires out of the meter, the issue is likely to be nothing to do with the rewire

I'd agree that the supply company is responsible for the installation up to and including the meter, but I believe the meter tails to the fuse box come under wiring regulations scope, and the electrician should therefore inspect said cables and note any deviation from the standard.

Nearlyold

Can't see why the meter fitter thought it meant he couldn't fit the new meter, provided there was enough cable slack available all that was needed was to shorten the bare wire at the cable end that's held in the termination clamp so the cable went far enough into the new meter so no bare wire was exposed outside the meter casing - simples! Whoever fitted the cables originally removed too much insulation

bris

I can't see any exposed wires, they are clearly connected to the meter or it wouldn't work in the first place. If there is any exposed wire under the tape then it has nothing to do with the electrician that done the rewire and the fault lies with who ever installed the meter.


The smart meter installer clearly isn't very smart.