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We have an external meter in a big white box. The electric feed arrives via an overhead cable.
The box is attached to an existing extension that's going to be knocked down and rebuilt (longish story). The cable from the meter board goes straight through the wall behind it fuse board is attached to a wall that won't be taken down so can just be boxed in.
Ideally we'd like the box moved to the wall beside it to the right in this shot - where the ivy is and directly under the incoming power cable at top of the shot) and internal routing of cable from meter board to the fuse board moved.
Is this a job for an electrician or the power company? I understand electricians can move meter boards but not sure what limits on that are. The cable from the meter board would need to be disconnected from the fuse board to reroute it but the incoming feed to the meter won't be disturbed.
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If possible - costs?
You'll need to get a service alteration done by the electric company. Used to be around £300 when I used to price them up, though that was 15 year ago. More than likely need your own sparky to extend the meter tails as well.
cheers - I didn't know what it was called and was googling 'move my electricity supply' and seeing quotes in the £1000's!
Doesn't look too bad 🙂
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Caveat: I am not an electrician 🙂
However, I recently had to move my meter as a part of an extension project.
I would advise you in the first instance to speak to your supplier who will forward you onto the company responsible for the distribution in your area (in my case it was Electricity North West).
My understanding is that they're basically responsible for everything up to and including the cut-out in the meter box. Thereafter it's the domain of your electrician. They'll be able to give you more of a steer on specifics and what you need to do to kick the process off.
For my extension, we needed the meter box moving something like 5 meters onto another wall. This required a site survey to figure out where the supply cable ran underground, digging a trench and "jointing box" to allow the supply cable to be spliced, and running cable to the new box location before finally connecting everything up again.
This cost something in the region of 1700 quid, although I was nominally responsible* for all the groundwork. So effectively the cost covered the survey, the splicing bit, and the re-connection.
It looks as though your job is going to be less involved so hopefully would be less costly, but I guess the above is a ball park figure.
* I was lucky: they wanted to shoot an internal training video on the process using my site, and offered to do the digging, etc, as a good-will gesture. Saved me a lot of work!
Surely as this is stw you should have had some replies on how to DIY by now? 🙂
All the above - note that price you have found is just for the move and the new tails. You will need your own sparky at your own cost to finish it off so you need to co-ordinate the two so you aren't left without power after it has been moved.
I did the same 11 years ago and it was pretty straight-forward - moved from an understairs cupboard (which was being converted into a cloakroom) to an outside wall.
I deal with gas but think it’s similar situation. Electric network will deal with everything up to the meter, supplier deals with the meter itself and then your electrician from the meter onwards.
There should be standard prices published on your electric network’s website which shouldn’t be hard to figure out. For your built-in meter box you may need to get a new one fitted in the new position first.
Main money saving will no doubt be on any excavation required. If you are getting an extension built it’s usually cheaper to get your builder to sort that.
In true DIY fashion can you not just fasten some bell wire to it and move it your self 🤣
Just had my overhead cable moved to an underground supply, and as the electricity supplier wanted to get away from low level overhead supplies, so did the work for nothing (as long as I dug the trench for the cable). They gave me the plastic shroud for the buried cable also (as long as I collected it from their depot). It helped that the overhead cable was more than 50 years old and quite perished. It's worth talking to someone to see what you can encourage them to do. (Low level overhead supplies are really unsafe when you cut the hedge next to it (for instance)).
I did have to pay the sparky to move the wiring from the new meter position to the consumer unit (2 visits to coincide with the various building work bits - cost £450).