Please help me assess my wiring/heating

[dtester]

Thanks for that.

 

[gazfen]

Service Provider Dno

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Btw you have the sensor on the neutral

So?

 

[dtester]

Hi everyone, thank you all so much for your replies thus far, all very useful and insightful. So, we've established that this is a real botch job. What I do know is that I had a letter from Southern electric last year / 18 months ago stating that they would be replacing the teleswitch - is this bodge down to them as I would expect them to install correctly, if so I want to know whether I should be getting in touch with my provider for a moan. From what has been suggested is this something that a well qualified sparky can do and is allowed to do, or as there have to be connections into the teleswitch I have to go through my provider?

Sorry for all the questions.

Dom

 

[ricicle]

Btw you have the sensor on the neutral move it across to cable 4 on the meter

That is the only cable with enough slack on to give you the current reading of the whole installation.

 

[securespark]

Btw you have the sensor on the neutral

That should not affect the operation of the unit.

 

[flameport]

What I do know is that I had a letter from Southern electric last year / 18 months ago stating that they would be replacing the teleswitch - is this bodge down to them as I would expect them to install correctly,

Very unlikely - if they were just replacing the switch or meter etc., that is exactly what would happen - old one removed, new one installed in the same place. Meter changing people generally don't have the time to do other things, and even if they did, are probably not trained or allowed to do so anyway.

Do you only have 2 storage heaters? If so, it is questionable whether E7 is actually of any benefit at all, since you will be paying more for the daytime units than on a single rate tariff.

 

[dtester]

What I do know is that I had a letter from Southern electric last year / 18 months ago stating that they would be replacing the teleswitch - is this bodge down to them as I would expect them to install correctly,

Very unlikely - if they were just replacing the switch or meter etc., that is exactly what would happen - old one removed, new one installed in the same place. Meter changing people generally don't have the time to do other things, and even if they did, are probably not trained or allowed to do so anyway.

Do you only have 2 storage heaters? If so, it is questionable whether E7 is actually of any benefit at all, since you will be paying more for the daytime units than on a single rate tariff.

Thanks, thought that would probably be the case. Yes, only have 2 storage heaters, a 3kw plus a 1.5kw, now that I have some better baseline data on my usage when the heating is on I am going to do some cost modelling on the different tariffs to see where things lie. Currently I just need to know that a decent sparky will be able to remedy the botched installation.