Electricity meter box options

[Kelvin]

1 hour ago, flanagaj said:

Given that others have said how difficult it is to pull the cable through the ducting and around the bend, has anyone found a larger hockey stick duct than the 50mm (split phase / 3 phase) that SSEN specify which would work with 100mm internal diameter ducting?

The other stupid question I have is around the ingress of water into the underground ducting.  I assume that the ducting remains below ground and is not bent 90 degrees and partially up the side of the pole when they come to connect.  The pole is on a bank and the kiosk is lower.  I just have visions of water making it's way in one end and coming out inside the kiosk.

 

And one final thing.  How do you connect 100mm ducting to a 50mm hockey stick.  The internet seems to suggest using tape!  Surely, there must be a ducting to hockey stick reducer?

 

I used this stuff to seal each end of every duct in our build. Our kiosk is higher than where the pole is so not a problem. However I dug the trench from the pole to my kiosk and left it open at the pole end and sealed it once they had pulled the cable. The one duct I didn’t seal, leaving it to the ASHP installers who used silicone sealant, failed within a few weeks so I fished out the big plug of silicone and used the red stuff instead. 
 

https://www.filoform.com/filoseal

 

Just take the duct up into the kiosk and don’t use a hockey stick. Speak with your DNO and discuss with them what they need you to do and how much flexibility there is. They should also send you a guide as part of the project plan. 
 

In my case the service cable from the pole to the kiosk was more or less a straight run so dead easy for them to pull the cable. Our issue was the cable from the kiosk to the house as I made it much harder than it should have been because of where I put the kiosk. 

Edited 19 hours ago by Kelvin

[kandgmitchell]

Our supplier gave us this specification - we had 3ph so laid the 125mm dia duct from the cabinet to the plot boundary. They went from the boundary to their supply cable in the road bringing their own ductwork. I positioned the kiosk as close as I could to the boundary to reduce my work and used the pre-formed slow bend to pass through the base and into the cabinet.

Ducting specifications (002).pdf

[mjc55]

5 hours ago, LnP said:

Am I missing something?

 

Everything up to (and not including) your meter is the responsibility of SSEN. You won't be pulling SSEN's cable. What sort of duct needs to be there and how it's laid out is for SSEN to specify. You're asking questions about facilities which are their responsibility. They will have expectations about what you will do and what they will do, so you'd better ask these questions to them.

This!

 

How the cable gets to the meter is not your responsibility.  Up to and including your boundary is completely their responsibility.  From the boundary to the meter all you should be doing is digging a trench for them.