Best free standing electricity meter cabinet?

[Bramco]

Hi,

 

We're some way from the road and were planning to put a free standing meter cabinet alongside the drive about as far as Western Power will go and then lay the rest ourselves up to the house.

 

There seem to be loads of options for free standing cabinets, GRP, steel etc. and obviously various sizes.  We were thinking that we could put a small CU in there as well to have a couple of sockets halfway up the drive.

 

Has anyone done this and if so what cabinet did you use/recommend?

 

Simon

[Mr Punter]

Where we are they (UKPN) like a GRP kiosk.

 

I got one of these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/192594789689 and have a CU in there for temporary site supply and it will be made into permanent later.

[IanR]

The DNO would only bring their cable to a point 25m from the meter position on the property, joining to a domestic supply cable at a position that was in a field, so we made that connection underground and brought that to a self-built kiosk on the edge of the curtilage.

 

The kiosk serves multiple roles, with the mains water stop-cock and splitter to house and out-buildings there and also a relay point to get the PoE and data cabling to the Entrance within 100m.

 

 

 

[Jilly]

My builder made a brick built thing, using the instructions included with info from ukpower networks.

[Bramco]

55 minutes ago, Mr Punter said:

I got one of these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/192594789689 and have a CU in there for temporary site supply and it will be made into permanent later.

That looks good. I guess the advantage over a brick built one is the triangle key access.

 

Simon

[Bramco]

23 minutes ago, Jilly said:

My builder made a brick built thing, using the instructions included with info from ukpower networks.

Thanks

 

Do you have a link?

 

Simon

Edited July 26, 2021 by Bramco

[Bramco]

51 minutes ago, IanR said:

The DNO would only bring their cable to a point 25m from the meter position on the property

 

That's the issue we have - I guess I could pay them to go further but then I don't want a naff plastic box on the side of the house anyway, so perhaps cheaper and more aesthetically pleasing to drop a box into the hedge...

 

Simon

[IanR]

11 minutes ago, Bramco said:

 

That's the issue we have - I guess I could pay them to go further but then I don't want a naff plastic box on the side of the house anyway, so perhaps cheaper and more aesthetically pleasing to drop a box into the hedge...

 

Simon

 

Are you bring the cable up in a trench, or over-head?

 

Ours was in 125mm ducting, in a trench, dug by us, so I got them to create a non-serviceable, underground joint to the domestic supply cable. The joint is underground with nothing that marks its position.

 

I couldn't convince them to bring the "public" supply cable all the way to my kiosk.

[Mr Punter]

Sparky fitted an 80A fused switch in the kiosk with meter tails.  He will run SWA sub main underground from the fused switch to the consumer unit location in the property and connect up when we want it to be permanent.

[Jilly]

https://www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/internet/asset/a3d0e364-d05a-426b-a202-608102e46409/Small connections to do list.pdf

[Bramco]

41 minutes ago, IanR said:

Are you bring the cable up in a trench, or over-head?

 

Trench and they've agreed to bring the supply to where we're planning to put the cabinet.

 

27 minutes ago, Mr Punter said:

Sparky fitted an 80A fused switch in the kiosk with meter tails.  He will run SWA sub main underground from the fused switch to the consumer unit location in the property and connect up when we want it to be permanent

 

Sounds like just what we need to do - thanks for the info.

 

21 minutes ago, Jilly said:

https://www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/internet/asset/a3d0e364-d05a-426b-a202-608102e46409/Small connections to do list.pdf

 

Thanks @Jilly  very useful in case we go that route.

 

Simon

[WWilts]

On 26/07/2021 at 14:05, Mr Punter said:

Where we are they (UKPN) like a GRP kiosk.

 

I got one of these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/192594789689 and have a CU in there for temporary site supply and it will be made into permanent later.

Considering this supplier.

How did the cable enter the kiosk from the ground? Don't the kiosks have a GRP base too?

[Mr Punter]

24 minutes ago, WWilts said:

Considering this supplier.

How did the cable enter the kiosk from the ground? Don't the kiosks have a GRP base too?

 

With a hole saw I made a 38mm hole in the base for the hockey stick.