Scottish power changing my meter

rogan

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So im currently renting and we're with scottish power for gas and elec

I just got a call saying an engineer is coming to replace out electricity meter on monday 'as arranged' none of us arranged this.. so we're guessing its our landlord

what does this mean for us? (the billpayers)
 
Probably just switching out the old style meter for a Digital one so shouldn't effect you at all.
 
simulatorman said:
Just check his credentials when he arrives and take a copy of the old reading.
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This. He should leave a card with the old meter number and reading and the new digital meter.

As for the arranged bit, all we got was a postcard telling us they were coming on a certain date and time to install the meter and if it wasn't convenient then ring to rearrange.

EDIT: The card/letter was only addressed to the occupier and not anybody's name. Nobody binned it just thinking it was junk mail have they?

And in our case, they fitted the wrong meter to our house and for over 6 years now we haven't had an electric bill :D
 
I hope for your sake it stays that way and they dont lump you with 6 years at like £30-40 a month ;)
 
rogan said:
I hope for your sake it stays that way and they dont lump you with 6 years at like £30-40 a month ;)
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Can't anymore. They changed it a while back that they could only go after unpaid electric up to two years agao and then last year that was again reduced to a year. So as and when they finally sort it out (i have had 8 engineers visit and I have correspondance back and forwards that is about an inch thick) they can only come after me for one year's usuage.

I wish I had know that 7 years ago as I would have started a business from home which consumed huge amounts of electric ;)
 
Yeah Britcoins would have worked for me if I had ATI cards lol

Have been running 2 x gtx470 for quite some time now though ;)
 
Is it a regular or a pre-payment meter since if it is the latter then they replace them every once in a while because the batteries in it would be running low (I'm waiting on a new meter but only because the current one has developed a fault and no longer reads the key).
 
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