Electric meter

[WWilts]

Applying for connections to services.

Electrics (SSE) ask for a site layout drawing:

Please indicate where you would like the supply cable to enter the building

and where you would like your meter to be located

 

Never done this before, not aware of any pros and cons. Where would you choose, for the new dwelling?

PS Floor plan is rotated through 180 degrees relative to site layout

[TonyT]

Storage cupboard off the entrance.

 

seems a logical place for a consumer unit 

[Temp]

Our study/home office has a cupboard and we chose to put the CU in there along with the telephone line, modem, DECT base station and the burglar alarm panel. The meter cupboard went on an outside wall of the study.

 

We didn't want the meter cupboard to mess up the appearance of the front of the house and the above is around the side but still accessible, so if they do send a meter reader he can get access without us being home.

 

The location of the CU around the side also made it easy for me to run a cable out to my shed 8n the back garden later.