On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:19:06 -0000, David WE Roberts wrote:

Was talking to a mate of mine who is having his electric meter
moved
from one room to the next and they've quoted over a grand for the
job
- this is British Gas apparently who also do electrics.

One question nobody seems to have asked.
Do you have to use your current retail supplier of electricity to do
this, or can a qualified 3rd party (or other electricity supplier) do
the work?

AIUI meters and supply head have to be done by their respective
owners.

There are now effectivetly two demarcation points in an electricity
supply. The DNO has the incoming line up to and including the main
cutout. Who ever you buy your electricity from does from the cutout
to the outlet terminals of the meter. After that any "competent
person" can do the work.

I'm half in the process of trying to get our supply head and meters
shifted but Electricty North West (aka NORWEB) are a right pain to
deal with. The meters could go in a box outside but said box is on
the back of the property behind two gates. Apparently meters these
days can only be on the side or front and not behind any gates... We
would really like some one with authority from ENW to come out look
at the situation and say no you can't do that but you could do this.
Will they send some one out nope, you have to fill in the form, send
in plans, etc etc first. They will then quote (from the plans) which
you have to accept before they *might* send someone to actually look
at what is proposed. Or they might just send the engineers who suck
teeth say "can't do that squire" and depart.

Bear in mind the ENW are just the DNO, they will only move the supply
head and cut out. One has to also co-ordinate with the people we
actually buy the lecky from to get the meters shifted...

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Cheers
Dave.