Electric meter removed after drug farm discovered.

you can only sensibly do dead tests. At least on paper they are likely to reserve the right not to connect to something that has no proof of testing. On the other hand on the day the chap may not be so bothered.

Is there enough room to include a REC2 style isolator between meter and CU  so that it can be connected and yet left dead ?

This separates the steps of installing the meter and energising the installation if there is any uncertainty about who is supposed to do what.

Mike

Just wondering if the meter fitter will require  a eic for the cu with insulation and R2 readings or a eicr for the installation.

You can only certify what you've designed installed & tested - if you're only installing a CU that's all you can certify. If (parts of) an existing installation is involved the best you can offer is an EICR.

   - Andy.

Sounds like the electric company who the previous tenants paid/didn't pay their bills to has taken their ball back and won't play any more. So the landlord can either apply to them, if they still exist, or to any other electric company to fit a new meter. Each company, I believe, will have their views about what is required paperwork for downstream of the meter. Unfortunately some won't even consider entering into a meaningful conversation until someone signs up. But you can probably cancel pretty quick if you don't hear the right noises from them, within bedding down period.

Agree with Mike, get an isolator fitted at same time as meter if space for it, else make space.

Regarding EIC or EICR. They are going to be of limited worth either way. But if an EICR is "satisfactory", with only dead tests and limitations, it would probably satisfy the private rental legislation. 

I'd imagine that a DP main isolator and a smart meter would be required in such cases, otherwise it would be business as usual for the meter installer I think.

Jaymack  

I have been to a few of these jobs over the years where the police have raided the premises and have taken the DNO rep. with them. The DNO will remove the supply fuse and reseal the head and remove the meter. 

They will not re-connect unless they get a satisfactory EICR. When I have done these I put under "limitations" "Dead testing only as no supply connected.The installation will require further live testing when the supply is re-connected". 

The houses I have seen have been extensively damaged with holes cut in floors and roof for ducting to vent the heat. Nails or screw eyes banged in to walls for steel wires to hang the lights off, earth on the floors with water damage everywhere. A consumer unit with no cover screwed to the wall and supplied directly from the head or meter with live terminals exposed. I have not seen one that has utilized the domestic installation. The ones I have seen I would think were done by the same person(s) as the "installations" were almost to the same method and layout. 

I have seen one with metal door handles connected to the mains as a booby trap for the Police and other drug dealing competition.

All the ones I have seen were rental premises where a smartly dressed South Asian man turns up complete with briefcase and offers the landlord 6 months rent in cash on the spot so his company boss, who is paying a visit to the UK, can live there during his stay. Landlord says yes please and takes the cash no doubt forgetting to tell HMRC of their cash payment. The landlord very upset they have no electricity and thousands of pounds of damage to the house and missing furniture. 

Thanks for all the advice,I will fit an 100A isolator.

                                                            Regards,Hz