An off the wall question
Posted by: Consciousmess on 10 October 2017
There is a slight pun to that title, as arriving home yesterday I noticed the cable from the electrify metre on the outside wall is only about 2cm in diameter. This is for the entire large three bedroom house. 2cm! And that is an outside cable no doubt with weather protection.
i doubt others’ houses aren’t much different or are they? Because as we are renovating this house right now, I feel I am not getting the electricity I could get and ultimately benefit audibly.
Could and should a qualified electrician reinstall e.g 10cm diameter cable for the house? There’s only so far Powerlines go.
To replace the property incoming main is not a job for your electrician, it has to be done by the electricity board. The cable into your house is connected to your neighbourhood power distribution network & is constantly live.
The cable used in domestic mains is nothing like a 3 core such as the PowerLine, they are normally a coaxial type cable called split concentric, they have a single inner live core of 16mm or 25mm & the outer neutral (+PME earth) which has an equal or greater total area to the inner core. A cable with a 25mm/2 core has an external diameter of aprx 18.5mm (1.85cm) so my guess is thats your cable supply size
