Moving electricity meter

Phil B · 2011-11-01T19:39:38+00:00

We're having an extension built on our house. The electricity meter was outside on the wall which will become part of a shower room so we're having it moved to a box in the new outside wall. We've paid handsomely to have the supply moved and have been given a rather strict and arbitrary list of requirements. In particular, we are told that we must have a separate isolator 'adjacent' to the meter as the tails to the consumer unit are about 3.5m long. It cannot be in the same meter box so our electrician installed it today in readiness - a 10cm by 20cm by 30cm monstrosity in the middle of the wall in the hall.Has anyone else hit this challenge and found a more elegant way out? I am told that issue 17 of the IEE regs says that these conditions can be imposed by the supplier. We are in south west London region.