Meter exchange and Isolator issue

No idea. Hardly refusing to install smart meters if the isolator isn't there are they.. ? My meter cabinet had an isolator on it before smart meter install as I had to move the meter location few year ago.

Our indoor meter was upgraded to a smart meter a few days prior to Christmas last year. They fitted an isolator as part of the job.

40 year old installation

I think esbn are concerned that on older installations ,if an isolator is fitted then there’d be nothing to prevent a non rec from doing a rewire or board replacement without providing a certificate.

Yup, like this guy.

This is the Esb lad putting in a smart meter trying to explain to a customer that the install is a ball of sh*t and needs to be disconnected. So much wrong here.

You may want to edit that. You can clearly see a company name

I wonder did he do the solar installation too Or perhaps solar was done before the car charger (that number may be the solar installer)

i think that should be reported to safe electric though

I thought it looked like 6sq

Agreed. Although it’s a very short length of cable, the PSC would be quite high at that point - A fault on that NYM would probably take out the service fuse relatively quickly.

Not condoning it! But there could be a lot less protecting the concentric coming into the cutout.

Still a bag of crap that , basic insulation rubbing on meter box going into the cavity ,

Thanks for the update

this is not an isolator in the meter box

this is an (ocpd) over current protective device to protect the main cables

you never had an isolator fitted

the car charger company isn’t permitted to do this type of installation without an isolator

your installation still doesn’t comply with regulations (although neater)

my recommendation is to get it completely redone and a certificate 1 provided to esbn

id be interested what safe electric say when they come out

I’m talking about the esbn isolator specifically. These works should not have been carried out by the rec as he’d have to be working on a live cable. It’s specifically says that this type of work cannot be undertaken if no mains isolator is installed by esbn.

these Henly blocks aren’t i.p rated and are also outside the permitted area. No mechanical protection on the cables to the outside distribution board is also an issue.

if the job was done properly then there’d be no need for the Henley blocks at all and all the connections would be done on the bus bar in the outside distribution board

the proper way to resolve this is to get a main isolator fitted by esbn and redo the main cabling

(it’d have been much simpler to run the charger back to the existing distribution board in the first place,but that’s a different issue)

a certificate 1 is required for this

Any update from safe electric

So back to your original post

At the moment I'm trying to get my smart meter to change to a day and night.

I thought going back from SM to dumb meter was not an option

thanks for the update o.p

Some rigmarole for what really should have been straightforward

If it was done correctly from the start then you wouldn’t have had an additional charge from esbn

That's total shlte about a backlog with Safe electric. The cert can be issued directly to the customer by the electrician, Safe Electric just get a copy of that cert.

I think that was only a couple of weeks though, certainly not 8 weeks. That new crowd running Safe Electric are a disaster, all about the money.