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Installation (domestic) without Service Head

Martyn
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We have an Installation without its own service head fed from a 50s/60s ryefied/MSDB style unit.


The Ryefield/MSDB is inturn fed from a 200A Tp&n supply head belonging to DNO. No visible issues other than supply to MSDB being unsheathed.


The MSDB has no key or tool to open, has direct access to 70mm lugged cables with door closed. 


With door open for fuse access there are no barriers, all removed and lost. 


Service cables are single insulated, tails to meters insulated & sheathed direct in to this unit. 


EICR for one of the supplied flats, does it pass or fail?
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    Fair enough. SSE may be more relaxed, or perhaps the metering folk have given up worrying. There are certainly regional styles, even if not officially. The one I'm thinking of is late 1990s flat conversion, and no MSDB  or individual pre-meter fuses at all (to set the tone, no planning permission ever given for the flat conversions either as our solicitor found out when we bought it). It is at the base of a crumbling Victorian building, and I suspect the now defunct gas lights were a late addition, and ever since no unnecessary expense  has been entertained at any time on any part of the building fabric. The joys of a leasehold...

    Mike
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    Fair enough. SSE may be more relaxed, or perhaps the metering folk have given up worrying. There are certainly regional styles, even if not officially. The one I'm thinking of is late 1990s flat conversion, and no MSDB  or individual pre-meter fuses at all (to set the tone, no planning permission ever given for the flat conversions either as our solicitor found out when we bought it). It is at the base of a crumbling Victorian building, and I suspect the now defunct gas lights were a late addition, and ever since no unnecessary expense  has been entertained at any time on any part of the building fabric. The joys of a leasehold...

    Mike
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