Electricity meter box options

[flanagaj]

Our pole was moved on Wednesday and now sits nicely on the boundary.  Next step is to get a connection, but I'm unsure as to the best option for the meter housing, as there is currently no house and we will need a supply so we can live in a static caravan.  Is it a case of installing a temporary housing near the pole so a meter can be fitted and a consumer unit added and then accepting that I'll have to pay again to have the meter moved or should I just get someone to build a brick housing for an external meter unit.  There is currently no walls or anything that I could use.

[Kelvin]

Buy a kiosk (would suggest a 3 phase kiosk even if single phase supply) and mount it on a concrete pad. Fit it with three ducts (supply in, cable to house, and a spare) For the ducts Have the meter installed in it, a small CU and some sockets. That’s your temp supply. When it comes time for your permanent supply you remove the small CU and sockets, fit an isolator and run your house supply from it. 
 

Or get a small brick kiosk built as you suggest. Make it quite big. I’ve ended up with two kiosks as the EV charger supply is installed directly into the meter cabinet but this needed a small CU and because of the large isolator there’s no space in the original kiosk so had to fit another smaller one. 
 

Just think carefully about the cable run from housing to the house. You want it to be as straight as possible and as close as possible to wherever the CU in the house is going to be. I got that massively wrong with ours and placed the kiosk too far up our boundary but this was a year before we’d even finalised exactly where the house was going. It caused me a bit of grief when we came to pull the cable up to the kiosk from the house. Took my wife and I a full day! 

Edited Sunday at 02:04 by Kelvin

[saveasteading]

Unless you are a bricklayer who can also make a nice door, buy a fibre glass kiosk. You need  proper hockeystick  ducts too.

The concrete base is easy diy apart from getting the ducts in the right places.... these cables are big and stiff.

 

Thr kiosk will look the business and recognisable the electric company will be happy,  and it's easy to recognise and access in perpetuity.

[nod]

I installed this relatively cheap and easy to install 

[saveasteading]

 

[ProDave]

As above once the supply is installed into your kiosk there is no need to move it, the supply and meter will stay there and you lay a big armoured cable from there to feed the house.

[JohnMo]

I did a white external meter box on a post. Positioned it exactly where it would end up in the house.  As wall was built it was moved about slightly. Once water tight box was cut away from meter and positioned correctly.

 

If you need power to caravan, run armoured cable between meter and caravan.

 

[saveasteading]

The box simply bolts down on this.

[FarmerN]

We demolished a house and rebuilt. The meter was moved by the power company to a temporary kiosk as already suggested. Once the new build was water tight we paid to move the meter again into the plant room. I was expecting the power company to go back to the pole for the final new connection into the plant room and was surprised that they just made an underground connection to the temporary kiosk supply cable to make the new supply. Saved them about 15 meters of cable, the builder was doing all the digging except the last 3 meters to the pole which the power company wanted to do them selves.

Edited Sunday at 08:02 by FarmerN

[Kelvin]

I used the 38mm diameter black hockey sticks. The white ones are smaller (32mm I think) In hindsight I should have just continued the ducting in the ground up into the kiosk for house supply as the cable was 35mm2 so only just fitted but it took several goes. 

[mjc55]

I built a concrete pad and put external box on top.  Will remove next year when house is built