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Thanks Alec and Doug both for your very helpful and informative responses. The outdoor "main switchboard" was not screwed shut and only had two plastic latches keeping it shut. Yes you are right the isolator at the DB was labelled as main switch (as in many residential installations), upon looking a...

Right I guess technically it's not just a meterboard (that just what we'd always referred the ones on the external of houses where the mains is fed into with meters), at this switchboard there is the mains coming from the road through the main switch > meter > fuse > submains feed. The main earth co...

Awesome cheers guys, makes sense

Hi All, I was at a house the other day and needed power outside for a fixed wire appliance (heatpump) the distribution board was in the center of a 2 story house and was impossible to get there without making a complete mess. The meter board was outside next to the where they wanted the heatpump so ...

Hi all, Just after some clarification on distance of LV from a gas califont (instantaneous water heater). I know about distances from regulators (800mm from riser) and distance from cylinders (exchange/in-situ fill) but can't find anything about califonts which are generally plugged in to an outside...