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Electricite de France - moving meter? Anyone experienced?
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Moving the EDF meter.

It is apparently eye wateringly expensive. Anyone done it?
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ours is in a different place than it once was. Dunno how that happened, must have been the previous owner wink .

We arranged for one to be moved for a client last year, cost €650TTC. Their devis states specifically "not being extended"; so if it is moving towards the point of delivery (i.e. just shortening the existing cables within the property) it's probably loads cheaper than moving it further from the entry point (pull out old cables all the way to the street, re-pull longer cables back in).
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Cheers @shep, encouraging I think. Someone had suggested €7,000 ... Shocked - we only want to move from the upper floor to the basement, which may or may not require extension.
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In very simple terms the normal electrical supply layout is; cable in / meter / cable out to distribution board (fuse board)/ cables to electrical circuits

When moving the meter, one of the cables (in or out) will have to be shortened but the other will obviously have to be extended / replaced.

You talk about the meter being moved, but what about the distribution board? If this has to also be moved then a number of cables might have to be extended/replaced.
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@Mr Marmot, Not distribution board as well at this point.. Just want to get meter and main trip out of "client" space.
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As @Mr Marmot, indicates, it's not just the EDF (ERDF to be accurate) cost upstream of the meter, there is also the cost downstream of the meter, i.e. new tails to the tableau (or extending all the individual circuits if moving the tableau too). Everything downstream of the meter is your sparky, ERDF stop at the meter.

It sound like what you want will be "an extension" if the building supply is via overhead (which many older properties in france still are, even in town); or "not an extension" if the supply comes in underground. Either way, best thing is just to contact ERDF and have a supercilious guy in blue coveralls come round and tell you "oh - you don't wanna do it like that mate". rolling eyes Toofy Grin. The devis is free.
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@shep, indeed. We are, as I suspect S explained, having groundworks done in Autumn and also thought that might allow interrment of the supply. We'll see what they say...
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