On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:54:35 +0000, Harry Bloomfield wrote:

Andrew Gabriel explained :
Not for decades.
Replaced my parents' CU in 1999, and made a call asking for supply fuse
to be resealed. After a couple of years and several meter readers,
it hadn't been done, so I called again. It was still on file, but meter
readers no longer do it, so almost 20 years later (and many meter
readers), it's never been done.

Same here - I broke the seal to do some re-jigging and it was never
sealed until the SM was fitted a couple of years ago. I never requested
it to be resealed after cutting it, it seemed pointless.

In the middle of the broken seal era, we had the cut-out fuse blow and a
distribution engineer round checking a lost supply - neither bothered to
reseal it. SM meter installer did though fit a seal on an isolator in
the meter cupboard, which I had fitted the day before he arrived, I
can't think why he did, because it was downstream of the meter and my
own property.

I broke the seal on our main fuse in about 1997. It was eventually
replaced, I think when we got the new 'electronic' meter a few yaers
later.

Strangely, he also put a seal on the Henley block I'd added on 'our' sude
of the meter!



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