Electric board running new supply cable - damaging flooring

jk0

Sounds odd to me. Why would next door want their electricity permanently disconnected? Have I misunderstood?

baldelectrician

unforeseen wrote: »

it's not the neighbour being unreasonable. They just want the supply capped.

Running a supply off next door assumes that next door have a supply. It is being capped

If a house has its supply capped then any work to be done would assume that there are no live cables in the house as it would be done at the incoming point. If the loop is left as is then it becomes a future danger as there are still live bles present.

It sounds like it needs to be done for safety reasons more than anything

What is happening is that next door are refusing the local DNO access to run a new lateral supply and want the supply feeding next door from their incoming cable not to be replaced / worked on
Next door have the supply cable from the street- another cable comes from there (unmetered) and goes to next door where their meter is.
This is very common.

Next door do not want their supply capped - they only want the cable feeding their neighbour capped and are being selfish

unforeseen

The first post says the neighbour want their supply capped

I have been contacted by the electricity board that they will need to run a new feed to my home because the old feed is looped through the neighbors property and they want their end capped

baldelectrician

unforeseen wrote: »

The first post says the neighbour want their supply capped

They want the end feeding next door capped- unless they want no leccy

Went to one yesterday and had to call Scottish Power out, the old lady had Scottish Gas install a smart meter and they told her the supply was old and needed to be upgraded.

When I called Scottish Power they had no record of a report and they sent someone out on a safety check.

They guy arrived and checked the earth reading (which we told him was a bit high) and said he would arrange someone to come and install a new supply from next door.

The OP needs to confirm if next door still have power (this means they are being a bit selfish) or of they have been cut off

skybooks

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The neighbors had their supply upgraded to 3 phase a few years ago, so they no longer need the single phase. Seems stnadard practice in this situation is to cap their end and run new feed. This wasnt done for some reason. We ssnce tiled our floor and hence the new situation. The floor was solid since built and had mosaic tiling before we replaced the tiling.

I have been advised that they are most likely misinterpreting the clause, which is intended to cover a scenario where orininal entry point of feed is obstructed, but at the moment I havent been able to see the policy in its entirety. Who is the body who would definitively interpret their policy?

Ectophile

It sounds like a bit of (deliberate) misinterpretation to me. I expect that clause was to cover cases where people have boxed in the supply cut-out behind cupboards or the like, so that the electricity supplier can no longer get at it for maintenance.

Doozergirl

It shouldn't be rocket science to find another route.

I can't count the number of times we've had to work out the best route for cables.

Meters should be outside now, anyway. Clearly the cables still need to get to the right place. Ceilings are easier to go through than finished floors, especially where the original floor is solid. There shouldn't be need to to dig anything up.

They have to be misinterpreting their own rules, but I'd move the conversation to a different route rather than argue about lifting tiles. It sounds ridiculous.

Davesnave

Totally agree with the above. We had a small gas leak under an inherited property with solid floors. We didn't dig the floor up, just ran new pipe up the wall and across the ceilings. Even easier with leccy I'd imagine, though I'll admit I don't know the relevant regs.

baldelectrician

skybooks wrote: »

Sorry, not received any notification of activity on this thread!
The neighbors had their supply upgraded to 3 phase a few years ago, so they no longer need the single phase. Seems stnadard practice in this situation is to cap their end and run new feed. This wasnt done for some reason. We ssnce tiled our floor and hence the new situation. The floor was solid since built and had mosaic tiling before we replaced the tiling.

I have been advised that they are most likely misinterpreting the clause, which is intended to cover a scenario where orininal entry point of feed is obstructed, but at the moment I havent been able to see the policy in its entirety. Who is the body who would definitively interpret their policy?

If their supply is 3 phase then it is effectively 3 single phase supplies, or a three phase one or both.
They electric company can take a supply from the 3 phase cable head to your home.
Problem solved

They reguarly bring in a 3 phase supply to a block of flats and take 4 flats off 3 phases (one will be doubled up)