Dangerous Henley Block!?

EFLImpudence said:
I know what you're all thinking.
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... and you could well be right :-)

However, the OP did seem to be saying that there is a similar, but not so bad, issue (I presume again 'visible copper') at the meter end of the tails going to the Henley. If that is bad enough to need 'attention', only an idiot would break the meter seals, in which case one might just as well wait until the person who is allowed to break those seals pulls the DNO fuse, and then either take advantage of the opportunity to attend to the issues at the Henley, or else charm the person into doing that as well :-)

Kind Regards, John
 
JohnW2 said:
As I implied, it may perhaps have been put there with the thought of taking some other feed from it in the future.

Kind Regards, John
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More likely there used to be more than one CU/fusebox.

Certainly a good chance to fit an isolator, it's probably worth buying one [£20-£30ish] and offer tea and bix as others suggest. That worked a treat for me at a 3 phase village hall.
 
SUNRAY said:
More likely there used to be more than one CU/fusebox.
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Yep, it could relate to the past, just as well to the future. However, if it were me, since it's there I probably wouldn't get rid of it, 'just in case' ('the future').

Kind Regards, John
 
JohnW2 said:
Yep, it could relate to the past, just as well to the future. However, if it were me, since it's there I probably wouldn't get rid of it, 'just in case' ('the future').

Kind Regards, John
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check my edit.
 
Very shoddy work, looks as if maybe the exposed copper has been made too long. The other issue is that the grey sheath ought to be stripped back a little way short of the insulation layer.
 
SUNRAY said:
check my edit.
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Fair enough (it obviously wasn't there when I wrote before).

AS for your edit, I'm not so sure about "... an isolator, it's probably worth buying one [£20-£30ish] and offer tea and bix as others suggest", since that could be wasted money. As I reported earlier, when I had an isolator fitted (at the time of a meter change), they insisted on using a isolator they had suplied, rather than the one 'on my shelf' which I offered them, and did not charge for for the one they installed.

Kind Regards, John
 
Harry Bloomfield said:
Very shoddy work, looks as if maybe the exposed copper has been made too long. The other issue is that the grey sheath ought to be stripped back a little way short of the insulation layer.
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At least the insulation colours are probably correct. As I've illustrated before, the incoming neutral of my installation had red insulation (no longer visible, since the chap who did the last meter changed hid this 'evidence' with grey silicone :-) ) ...

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Kind Regards, John
 
JohnD said:
have you ever seen a regulation saying so?
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Do you need a regulation to tell you what is good practise? The grey is a poorer quality of insulation, intended for mechanical protection. Were that not so, the whole of the cables plastic covering could be made of the same colour as the insulation.
 
sparkwright said:
What do you mean?
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If we have the inner insulation layer exposed we might just as well not bother with the second layer at all and use cheaper singles.
chivers67 said:
Red Black single insulation?
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- quoted from elsewhere

Harry Bloomfield said:
Do you need a regulation to tell you what is good practise? The grey is a poorer quality of insulation, intended for mechanical protection. Were that not so, the whole of the cables plastic covering could be made of the same colour as the insulation.
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It usually is now:
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