Mounting board for electricity meter

Bert Coules · 2013-02-07T11:35:51+00:00

My power supply company want to update my (original sixties) meter. When I phoned them to arrange an appointment, I informed them that the mounting board is crumbling and asked if their engineer would replace it. "No," I was told, "but he will tell you if it's unsafe and if it is, he won't change the meter". So it seems that the board is my responsibility.It occurred to me that I could have a replacement board standing by to go in when the engineer arrives and the two jobs could be done at the same time. Is there a recommended or required material that should be used?Many thanks.

Feb 07, 2013 21 Replies

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Bert Coules 13 years ago

That could be good news.

That little catalogue of disasters, though, definitely is not. Perhaps with luck I'll get te first but not the second...

Thanks for the reply.

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Bert Coules 13 years ago

Well, the meter has just been replaced. The fitter declared the board to be sound enough, though he was mildly concerned at the state of the secondary board, which holds a black-box unit connected just before the meter, and gave me the number of UK Power Networks to call if it got any worse. "It's not your responsibility to replace it" he said, which seems to have sorted that question out.

In retrospect I should have asked what he would have done if the meter board had also been in a very poor state, but I didn't.

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