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meter box damage

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  • 09-06-2020 4:15pm
    #1
    sinnbox
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭


    ive had my meter cabinet door smashed twice this year, how safe is my house is the meter is damaged?


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    autumnalcore
    Registered Users Posts: 835 ✭✭✭autumnalcore


    sinnbox wrote: »
    ive had my meter cabinet door smashed twice this year, how safe is my house is the meter is damaged?

    Are you talking about vandalism? Is the meter actually damaged or is this a hypothetical question?


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    sinnbox
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭sinnbox


    autumnalcore wrote: »
    Are you talking about vandalism? Is the meter actually damaged or is this a hypothetical question?

    its a hypothetical currently i just dont want to come home one evening and find the house burned to the ground or some lad dead at the back door because someone took a hatchet tk the door and hit a cable or the meter.


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    brightspark
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    A fire would be unlikely, electrical fires are caused by heating of bad connections etc.

    Potentially there could be a fairly decent arc flash if someone chopped through the cables that would cause localised damage (within the cabinet) and to anything or anyone in front of the cabinet.


    If the hatchet handle was wet (dry wood probably wouldn't conduct) then a possibility of death worthy of a Darwin Award.
    If you do find someone dead/dying don't touch them unless the power is off, find an something that is an insulator (e.g. dry plank of wood) to push them away from the cabinet.

    (But in real life anything can happen depending on the actual conditions)


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    Chicoso
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    I recall a fire spreading throughout the thermal insulation in a house

    About 25 years ago and they clamped down on holes in the meter cabinets and cables had to enter the bottom of cabinet after that


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    Cerco
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    sinnbox wrote: »
    its a hypothetical currently i just dont want to come home one evening and find the house burned to the ground or some lad dead at the back door because someone took a hatchet tk the door and hit a cable or the meter.
    I think you have bigger problems if this is likely to happen to your home.


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    sinnbox
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭sinnbox


    Cerco wrote: »
    I think you have bigger problems if this is likely to happen to your home.


    why? its not my fault some tosser who thinks this is an appropriate way to have a conversation gets himself blown up in the process


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    hesker
    Registered Users Posts: 1,513 ✭✭✭hesker


    Watch out for rodent entry. Had cabinet door pulled off the hinges once. Not long after I had mice problems. There was a hole at the bottom of the cabinet that allowed entry to the wall cavity. Couple that with joist penetrations that aren’t sealed and the mice have a field day.


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    Chicoso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 122 ✭✭Chicoso


    hesker wrote: »
    Watch out for rodent entry. Had cabinet door pulled off the hinges once. Not long after I had mice problems. There was a hole at the bottom of the cabinet that allowed entry to the wall cavity. Couple that with joist penetrations that aren’t sealed and the mice have a field day.

    Best plug any gaps alright

    Once upon a time they used to bash holes in the boxes but that all changed


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    Class MayDresser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 395 ✭✭Class MayDresser


    Chicoso wrote: »
    Best plug any gaps alright

    Once upon a time they used to bash holes in the boxes but that all changed

    Did it myself 20 years ago. When you think back on it!!


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    Chicoso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 122 ✭✭Chicoso


    Class MayDresser wrote: »
    Did it myself 20 years ago. When you think back on it!!

    Wasn't great

    I remember the inspector telling me about the fire

    Esbn clamped down then , I got refused a new connection for bringing a wire down the top of the box


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    sinnbox
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭sinnbox


    hesker wrote: »
    Watch out for rodent entry. Had cabinet door pulled off the hinges once. Not long after I had mice problems. There was a hole at the bottom of the cabinet that allowed entry to the wall cavity. Couple that with joist penetrations that aren’t sealed and the mice have a field day.

    Great something else to be looking out for, i swear one more thing, incident or accident im sticking a for sale sign up and getting out, couldn't put up with another few years of this ****e


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    Risteard81
    Registered Users Posts: 2,567 ✭✭✭Risteard81


    brightspark wrote: »
    A fire would be unlikely, electrical fires are caused by heating of bad connections etc.
    Although if it is being subjected to extreme vibrations and blunt force then this could very well induce loose connections. Although I agree that there is a strong possibility that exposed live parts through damage to equipment would manifest itself first.


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