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Thanks very much for explaining. I guess I'll have to live with it (or box it in a bit)
Anyone seen any neat solutions to hiding away this hideous problem?
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You're welcome. I'm up on this subject at the moment because my neighbour just had to have the pavement and their own path dug up to replace that main service cable because their existing one had failed dramatically at a join builders had illegally made over 20 years ago in order to move their main fuse.
It's not a small undertaking.
My approach would be a larger slim cupboard that could house things like pair of steps. Small fiddly boxing costs more in time to make and rarely looks better. Maybe design it in sketchup to see how it would look.
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Is there anywhere else you can move the main fuse and meter to? Maybe a box outside or something? Although that probably costs lots to the electricity distribution company.
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Make a fake grandfather clock to cover it up
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Make a grandfather clock to cover it up
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Tricky one. Those 2 boxes are your main fuse or cutout which you are not allowed to pull and nor is your electrician although many are willing and able to do it. The second box is your meter. Strictly speaking you don't own those or the cable between them and for obvious reasons the electricity board likes the connection to be simple and accessible.
You have a little spare that you could get it in the walls but I can't remember any reference to these types of 'accessory' in the regs because normally domestic electricians don't deal with them.
I think there would be a problem because there's no rcd protection possible there and there needs to be or sufficient mechanical protection which is going to be hard to meet. You can of course bury a wire horizontally or vertically from accessories on a wall, but again these are not normal accessories.
You can forget putting it in any other conduit because you'd need to break the law and risk that fuse flashing over and blinding you or setting you alight. I'm pretty sure you're not up for that.
(p.s. it very likely will not cause a fiery death but there is a small percentage chance)