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Question on running supply from meter box to consumer unit (new build)

  • 10-08-2023 3:12pm
    #1
    SodiumCooled
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    Hi, I am just wondering how the supply from the meter box is normally routed into the house in a new build. Wiring has started on the house last week and I have been scratching my head a bit on how the electrical is planning on getting the cable out - mostly around airtightness concerns.

    The electrician plans to bore a hole into the cavity above ceiling heigh and another below it at meter box height so he can feed the cable down the cavity and then push it into the meter box from the lower hole. The lower hole doesn't concern me as its easily refilled and then plastered over but the airtightness plastering has already been done above the ceilings so I am wondering how difficult it will be to seal around this again?

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  • #2
    Lenar3556
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    It used to be be done like that, but doesn’t sound ideal.

    I saw a housing estate recently where they ran the same 50mm red ESB ducting from the meter cabinet to the ceiling void at build stage and filled the end with fire stopping style putty after the cable was installed.



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