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have you asked when the "Reading last time" was, as in the actual date, on page 2 of the bill?
£4300 Electricity Bill!
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Hopefully your right, but I can't see why they would take readings of your meter. Also it might not help you as you can't prove, when that reading was taken or if it's correct.
Yeh I was thinking that.
Don't know anyone who knows any thing about cabling and I don't know when the last official meter reading was.
It wouldn't surprise me if something dodgy is going on. We had our washing machine replaced recently and the guy who came to do it was surprised with the way the waste water had been done, apparently it was joined with the waste pipe from the sink, which it shouldn't have been and was one size too small which cause blockages etc.
Also we had a fire in a restaurant which is next to the shop we live above, there was tons of smoke coming in to the flat but none of the alarms went off. Apparently the way they had been wired up meant that if the landing light wasn't on none of the smoke alarms would work cause it was getting its power from the lights power source!
Nope thats right, the meter has hit 99999 and wrapped back round to 25049, or at least that what they seem to think.
Don't know, haven't got it to hand, I would guess it says we are liable for bills. Thought that would be a pretty generic term on the agreement? Else why would anyone pay bills?
Five digit meter, it may have gone round the clock.
quoting myself but it's not just the wrong way round, it's just wrong
your owed usage = current reading - previous reading (which you say you've paid for)
so it's 25049 - 80624 = -55575
they owe you loads of money
ah rubbish, no loophole, although is that going to be accurate? I've never had a meter that's gone over so I dont know
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Nor have I, but it obviously must happen
Of course it doesn't mean they've used 45,000 units in the quarter, because it may have gone back to zero ages ago; nobody knows, because nobody was bothering to read the meter
And you are still paying rent?
How naive can you be. This should have been reported as the agency has to test every year. There license could be removed and criminal charges if they falsified the documents.
They fixed it pretty quick sharpish after we reported it to the fire brigade - even the actual landlord made an appearance.
They can only backdate a year supposedly, still, £4300 seems incrediably high even for a year?
yeah, it's going to be an absolute ball ache for anyone to work out what their actual usage has been, especially as they've been paying based on estimates so the total usage is actually considerably higher but they've already paid some
But they must have falsified documents and put your life at risk.