This happened to me years ago when new analogue meter was installed. No LED lights then but I was getting electric shocks from taps and when was washing hands (120v running down earth). Electrician opened DNO fixtures and corrected it straight away then informed Yorkshire electricity

Great work Leon

Apart from the polarity issue there are two consumer units so I assume there is two flats but they are fed from one meter how is the electricity metered to each flat

Wow

Excellent, well done sir !

So you cut the tag or got the shite company back in to correct the issue ?

Great video, very well presented but more importantly well done for exposing what is clearly total incompetence! It's very concerning to know that there are contractors who are installing this equipment and must have some sort of certification but are actually leaving electrical systems in such a dangerous state. As you mentioned you were very lucky not to have been seriously injured as a direct result of this extremely poor installation! ⚡🤯

Reversed polarity

Interesting. I have always had live at the back terminals of the Henly Block. So the meter installation looks correct to me. It appears the tails to the consumer unit are not as I would expect them. Still the meter installer should have checked and put it right.

The guy that installed the smart meter may have been eager to get to the next job and cut corners.

Why swap around , should have called out the inulation company. They got paid well to do a sub standard job 😮

Love the video great information just hope you can get access easy to the light above the inverter. 🤞

My favourite quote from the video: "what on Earth is going on" - while checking the Neutral. 😀

Your 'monster' 30 kwh battery is toy for kindergarden. I've got over 300 kwh (for home) and just started to fill that it becomes almost enough.

Great job and very interesting details..

Interesting video 👍👍

SMART METER WIRED WRONG Live Neutral reversed

smart meter fitter not smart

The new advert stating we might be “rewarded” for using smart meters at different times really means we are going to pay more for electricity when we actually want to use it! I could see this coming from the very moment they were introduced and so much public money has been wasted on subsidising a technology that does not work properly and is designed to create greater profits for the power companies often based in other countries. How ridiculous all this is and shame on those politicians who let all this happen!

The moral of the story, Do not get a so called smart meter installed

What did the power company do about this? I feel that it is unfair for a customer or landlord to pay for this when the fault was caused by the power companies. I wonder how many homes are like this and the owner just leaves it because they cant afford to get it fixed.

You are a pleasure to watch!

never tested it . cowboy job,

The meter was bypassed I think mate

I've not searched for anything electrical or consumer units but was talking about getting one early and now this video came up. Thank you Google 😂

How would this affect the bill ?

This illustrates perfectly why I always, and recommend others, stick the non contact voltage indicator (Voltstick) into anything and everything before my fingers. These cannot be relied upon to prove safe, of course, neither do they necessarily prove unsafe, but if they light when you're not expecting them to, even for a second, it does indicate "proceed with extreme caution".

That's almost unbelievable! How flipping dangerous, what idiot changed the meter over, someone that just completed a govt training scheme? I'm an ex sparks retired now, but we had our SM fitted this year too in our house, and seeing this made me check our polarity. Thanks for the good awareness video.

Good job, always something to learn and stay safe by getting an expert in...

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Inverter and batteries in a loft.🙄🙄 Not good practice. Still legal but a no no in my opinion.

Do you earth the back boxes

Nice job

Big Great mistake!

Name and shame the assholes.

The life must be still on when the lights are still on. Sounds so bad looks of it it’s not their budget someone who’s done around the board

well that was fcking dangerous... i hope you phoned the D.N.O about this..

Having seen what they did to my cousins house basically beat a hole through the meter box and screwed half an acre of wood to the wall! I was in two minds about getting a smart meter fitted. Unfortunately I had solar installed because of the cost of electricity and living in the country you tend to rely on it quite a lot. As soon as the two? “Bob-a-Jober’s” came to my door I Schooled them on how they were going to install it, firstly by getting rid of the surfboard they had pre-mounted the meter too and told them to either “retrofit or not fit” as you can imagine they were very understanding not so I did mention that if they put a whole in my meter cupboard I would sue them personally for criminal damage and not E.ON. so the installation was very neat…

And don't forget that when a Henley block is used, the lives should be at the rear of the block and the neutrals should be at the front.but no excuse for not doing a socket test after completing work.

Great Video very informative Thank you 👍

Im no electrician but been told every smart meter install has to have a manual switch fitted after smart meter.

I think you should name and shame the company who carried out the work. There is no legal reason not to. It is your duty, knowing what you know, to inform people about possible safety issues regarding smart meter installations.

The old reverse polarity, never tested.

Excellent video! Just one question, you mentioned the electricity company had put tags on the smart meter and connecting box (with the problem) was it a legal problem to remove the tag and reverse the wires?

DNO tastic.....BOOM

Be interesting to know if it's a subby or not, I had a legacy meter change by a similar blue coloured utility company, sent a subby, never did a socket test until he was about to leave and i asked if he needed a socket to test from... The subbys on price work are usually the worst culprits, the industry should never have been incentivesed like that, absolute joke

In other words Donkeys have made a cock up and not checked their work even though they say they have. Donkeys and 240v don’t mix. I’m not an electrician but even I double check the polarity if I do any work in the house, because I’m not a donkey

How would the devices work? Was ther any damage to them

OLDEST trick in book neutral / live round wroung way . . DID 16 , yrs AS white goods SERVICE engineer diploma / city guilds pat tester 2237 . Came across this often . MEANS if it postive + switched Turn fuse off its still live . WE as humans not perfect , THATS basic stuff .

why have you got very BROWN hands