Tuesday last week EDF were supposed to overhead cable a three phase supply to my workshop and come back on Thursday to fit the meter. Tuesday brought 12 contractors from 'Freedom', and 9 vehicles including a low loader with excavator as they'd decided to replace the above ground section of the11kv underground cable feeding a transformer on poles and had to dig a joint pit to make a join. First problem - excavator too big to get under the pole stays - ended up lending them my 3/4 ton excavator. Second problem came on Thursday when they came to fit the meter. 'Where's the CT chamber' said they. apparently as the supply is current transformer (CT) metered they have to install a separate box called a CT chamber and no one had thought to do it, nor could they find anyone with the right form to fill in or authority to sign! Now re-booked for 10th March.
Then, ultimate irony, yesterday they rang up - could they hire my
100kva generator?- they were recabling locally and would have to cut off an elderly very infirm couple who had medical kit that couldn't be turned off !! Anyway off goes my towable geny, only to return that evening with a box of chocolates and a bottle of whisky!
So far it's only 9 months since I asked for 3 phase - lucky I'm not running a business..
AWEM