Nothing dangerous about swapping meters. They will pull the supplier fuse, swap the meter, and replace the security crimp on the fuse. The most "skilled" part is doing the screws up correctly.
But I am not surprised they would want to charge for adding a supplied isolator, this more or less doubles the work.
Personally, I manage without an isolator. The security wire on the main fuse seems to have broken. It's always been like that, officer.
Nothing scary about being trained to just take blood samples, particularly when someone who is fully medically qualified has ordered the blood test that is the reason for the blood sample.
Nothing scary about someone being trained to just change an electricity meter which is hardly rocket science.
aren't
The electricity meter swap is a POP, pull fuse, remove cover from meter terminals, release the tails, remove meter from board, position and fix new meter to board, fix tails into terminals, replace cover, replace fuse and apply seal. The terminal layout is standard and the spacing only minimally different.
I think the spacing of the in/out pipes on a gas meter is standard but not the height of that fixing from the base of the meter. So a shorter meter ends up hanging on the pipes unless the shelf/bracket is moved.
maybe they are the ones with the rubber gloves and mesh suits that change the meters, and not some demented fetishists after all!
Brian
Why not just fit your own isolator and not tell them?
Wouldn't you need to be Gas Safe certified to change somebody's gas meter?
I guess the idea might be that there should be 'fixed' ventilation as you might seal the garage door up at some point?
Not that you couldn't cover some draughty airbrick as well ...
A bit like replacing draughty windows with hermitically sealed uPVC and then having to fit a draughty airbrick or fixed open trickle vents because you have an open / gas fire.
Cheers, T i m
En el artículo , newshound escribió:
What security wire? It's never had one (nor the meter) and nary a peep out of meter reader man in years.
Yes, but I wouldn't be surprised if they have a class that only allows the holder to change meters. Gas Safe is not just a bit of paper allowing you to work on gas but lots of bits of paper each one allowing you to work on different aspects of gas, domestic, commercial, industrial, etc
ARW a écrit :
Done, yesterday lol
I know less about the subject than you. How is the size calculated?
Did you fit a changeover switch so you can plug in a generator instead of a plain isolator?
Ignore, just found John's post.
message-id
And no-one will notice or care.
I fitted one the other day. Customer had just had his meter moved and although the bloke that did the work works for "insert big co name here" the job was cash in hand. And for a bit of extra cash cash in hand he also split the electric supply (one to the meter and one to inside the house. The changover switch is used to swap between the two.
Ha. Years ago (before Transco) my parents phoned about a gas leak, they came and checked, no leak found, but they put prohibition notices on both the front and back room fires (back also included the central heating boiler) leaving no heating at all.
In both cases they claimed that a "non-combustibe" hearth was required under the fire, despite both fires having integral metal bases and the one in the back room having a second metal base, with all the boiler controls inbetween the two.
They rapidly removed the prohibitions when it was pointed out that when the system was installed by my father, they'd come out and tested and inspected the installation and approved it.
They were called out twice more for the leak and still said there wasn't one.
In the end we called them back for a fourth time - after using just soap and water to find that their pipe to the meter was leaking!
SteveW
doctors have more important things to do than take bloods. That's what phlebotomists (bleeders) are for, and sometimes they have got some nursing or auxiliary care experience anyway. Most patients have decent and easy veins to access and it's really quite easy. Kiddies can be challenging. If the patient had difficult veins (inpatient or outpatient) then there were always more experienced people around to assist.
I have taken more blood samples than I could ever count. St Richards hospital didn't even employ bleeders to go round the wards in the morning, so the haematology technicians did it. At St Bartholomews there was a group of ladies who went around the wards first thing in the morning then spent the rest of the day in outpatients. Any difficult patients were sent up to the Haematology dept where the technicians would have a second attempt and as a last resort, get one of the same departments trainee medical haematologists to try.
Which of course means that for my regular blood tests, I cannot have them done at the local GPs (even by the Practice Nurse) and instead have to go to the local hospital. That means being there by 06:30 if I don't want a 2 hour or longer wait. As they don't open the outer door of the corridor until 7:00, no-one can get a ticket from the dispenser and you just have a load of tired people who pour in and then have no idea who was first. I'm actually due to start work 15 miles away at 7:00 (at one point is was 06:30 and 45 miles away) and am paid by the hour, so ending up at the back of the queue and still having to wait for hours is more than a little frustrating.
SteveW
We can and in fact some of the retirement villages etc even have someone come around and do that in your own unit. And some of the local GPs do it too.
Ours don't have as long a wait as that, but I personally do show up so I am first in line, essentially because I hate going without breakfast and prefer to have the blood taken as early as possible and then go home and have my usual breakfast.
Ours is much better organised. The place you wait has no door at all, the shutter is to the counter where you flash your papers etc and the door to where they actually take the blood is next to that. The ticket dispenser is always available and they reload it before leaving in the evening the night before so its always available before they start.
The other path group isnt in the hospital and isn't quite so well organised. You have to wait outside but everyone keeps track of who showed up when so you do get to get your blood taken in the order in which you showed up.
New GP indicated. Ours has a specialist phlebotomist.
They called me on Tuesday, and I made an appointment for the next morning. I arrived a few minutes early and was called straight in.
Wish I hadn't let her stick a blob of cotton wool on to my hairy arm with strong tape though!
Andy
HomeOwnersHub website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.