£100 bonus for switching off at peak time

That doesn't mean a meter reader is needed does it. A fitter exchanges meters. Ours has been changed that way in the past. What will happen with smart - I have no idea.
Read what he said.
He's not being a dumb POS this time:o_O

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Will those on pre-paid meters miss out on the off peak offer? ie the poorest/low income users :(
 
That doesn't mean a meter reader is needed does it. A fitter exchanges meters. Ours has been changed that way in the past. What will happen with smart - I have no idea.
Yes it does It is the meter reader that visits every two years to confirm readings and no obvious tampering what do you mean what will happen with smart meters ? these still need checking regardless
The fitters are busy out there fitting
 
First 1 million gas smart meters fitted by BG within a few years were to be replaced due to reliability issues after about 500, 000 were done they came up with a software patch to help but still un reliable but it helped them catch up
They were that bad the emergency service providers ie National grid etc refused to work on them for meter faults due to the amount of jobs coming in daily.
Curious - what was the fault and what did it do? The fitter that fitted ours passed a rather odd comment but we have 2 items fitted. The meter and a separate thingy that from it's flashing leds looks after the coms.
 
Curious - what was the fault and what did it do? The fitter that fitted ours passed a rather odd comment but we have 2 items fitted. The meter and a separate thingy that from it's flashing leds looks after the coms.
The meters turned themselves off constantly , they didnt register and worse than that they registered gas being used when no gas was being used
 
And gas smart meters being installed at present have the facility to be changed to a prepayment meter at the press of a button back in the office so get in debt and they do not have to take people to court etc with all the additional costs they just turn meter to prepay and set a figure for debt to be paid back weekly .
I would imagine electric smarts have the same facility
 
Yes it does It is the meter reader that visits every two years to confirm readings and no obvious tampering what do you mean what will happen with smart meters ? these still need checking regardless
The fitters are busy out there fitting
Our gas meter was exchanged for a calibration check. Some time ago once. I though that was what you were referring to.

The odd change in some ways was exchanging the flexible. Bloke turns up to do it and says can't as the ones he carries were not long enough suggesting longer ones were available. LOL 2nd bloke to come says the same so I asked why he didn't just make up a short length of pipe. Smiled went back into his van and did that.

Then I had a gas fitter in that used some solder to swap over a gas pipe connection. We did have 2 meters and 2 pipes. A spec of flux dropped on the flexible and created a leak. The guy that came and fixed that shook his head and said the new ones are paper thin.

The piping change was to get rid of one meter and also have a meter house address that was more suitable. :) the pipe that needed swapping went to the central heating. I then asked for the unused meter to be removed. Proved to be difficult but the supplier complaints lot sorted it out eventually. I then had loads of strange letter concerned about not having a gas meter. Eventually a bloke who I assume was an inspector turned up, took a look and spent a good 15mins filling in some form or the other in his van.

Argggg we had 2 electricity meters too but that wasn't so bad to sort out. I had an electrician jumper the 2 consumer units and then just told them to remove the meter. It went a little more smoothly. Having 2 messed up the swap to smart. ;) They phoned up and said they had made a mistake as there were 2 appointments at the property so cancelled one. Fortunately no address problems on the meter they replaced. 2 spinsters used to live here and wanted separate bills.
 
And depending on what those two meters had been supplying previously the now combined internal demand maybe more than what one service(depending on size) into the house and standard meter can supply .
Calibration check by the company is usually done when a suspicion of tampering is raised if asked for by customer and meter is proven accurate plus or minus 2% then it cost customer quite a few bob
 
Yep. Old prepaid meters aren't smart enough to do it. Sam Grimes economics yet again.
The unfortunate aspect with prepayment is pay as and when it's needed. With the usual set up they get cash ahead of time as they are accounting for whole year use including the winter. They say this is good - it levels the bills but is it fair to charge prepayment people more?

Also as far as I know prepayment involves a card. On electricity it used to involve putting money in. ;) We have one on our top floor from when it used to be rented out by previous owners to students. They did this for a while and then stopped.
 
And depending on what those two meters had been supplying previously the now combined internal demand maybe more than what one service(depending on size) into the house and standard meter can supply .
Calibration check by the company is usually done when a suspicion of tampering is raised if asked for by customer and meter is proven accurate plus or minus 2% then it cost customer quite a few bob
I did query that on gas in case a high capacity meter was needed. No problem if it is but the only real load is the central heating and one standard meter was handling that without any problem. The house did have 2 powerful and probably rather inefficient under sink water heaters. The gasboard as it will have been then repiped the house with larger bore than what used to be used in older houses. The central heating provides hot water now. Some houses around here are still on the old steel pipe. They will have great fun if they update the boiler. One of our neighbours did, Others pass.

Electricity a bit more tricky. The house did have an electric stove on one floor and gas on the first. It now has one gas stove with an electric grill - plug in power levels. The 2 floors were fed from different phases. We have the usual not 100amp house fuse as some newer places get. Actually some have 100amp fitted and then find voltage spec goes out if they use it. What I should probably have done is insisted on a multiphase smart meter when one was fitted. Worse still gone 3 phase when I had a 3 phase lathe in the garage rather than using a static converter. While I can only see 2 phases the 3rd will be around and close as that is how many older houses in B'ham were wired. ;) Too late now. It might have worked out cheaper than the convertor. The wiring to the garage would have been "fun" though but could have done it myself without problem. I am trained somewhat in that area as it was handy at times at work. I may revisit this when the house electrics are fully upgraded. As things are now new wiring is correctly protected. Old as it was.
 
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