Smart meter advice

[Royston Vasey]

That was the programmes slant on them.

If you can get BBC iPlayer it will show you

I'll have a look tonight

 

[stephen cartwright]

I started the thread on October the 20th, so it will have been on, that day

I'll have a look tonight

 

[Gil Gunderson]

Mines being installed on Tuesday. Haway the novelty gizmo.

 

[Alan BStard]

Not having one in my gaff.

 

[Gil Gunderson]

Not having one in my gaff.

In case it comes to life and kills you in the night?

 

[Alan BStard]

In case it comes to life and kills you in the night?

That would be one reason maybe but I'm not having one because I'm perfectly capable of making my own decisions about how to control my energy usage.

Smart meters are a brilliant marketing trick by whoever it was invented a gadget and then found/sold the idea to the energy gaffers. They're really not necessary at all.

 

[Gil Gunderson]

That would be one reason maybe but I'm not having one because I'm perfectly capable of making my own decisions about how to control my energy usage.

Smart meters are a brilliant marketing trick by whoever it was invented a gadget and then found/sold the idea to the energy gaffers. They're really not necessary at all.

I’m to lazy to read a meter and I don’t answer my door so they’re ideal for me

 

[Alan BStard]

I’m to lazy to read a meter and I don’t answer my door so they’re ideal for me

Fair enough. Thats the whole point of them really - to make savings for the energy firms by doing away with meter readers - I just wish they wouldn't dress it up otherwise.

 

[Gil Gunderson]

Fair enough. Thats the whole point of them really - to make savings for the energy firms by doing away with meter readers - I just wish they wouldn't dress it up otherwise.

I’m going to dress mine up as a sexy nun (gas) and a egg (electric)

 

[Alan BStard]

I’m going to dress mine up as a sexy nun (gas) and a egg (electric)

I look forward to seeing the pic on insta.

 

[Gil Gunderson]

I look forward to seeing the pic on insta.

They’ll be there. Phwoar is what you’ll be thinking.

 

[Rusty]

Fair enough. Thats the whole point of them really - to make savings for the energy firms by doing away with meter readers - I just wish they wouldn't dress it up otherwise.

It’s a government thing not the energy firms. They wouldn’t be fitting them if they didn’t have to it’s costing them far more than the salary of meter fitters.

 

[Gil Gunderson]

Blokes here. Says can’t do me gas one due to pipes being to close to wall????

 

[PTR]

Just got the Leccy one fitted today.

Went up to 33p an hour usage at one point.. About to go to bed and it's down to 9p an hour.. Dishwasher and tumbler yer on will be fun

got mine yesterday for electric and I was intrigued.. was tickling over at about 16-17p per hour and this morning is was ticking over at 11p and hour.
put an electric radiator on to see how it chnaged and it jumped to 29p an hour..

Makes me think how people don't understand how electricity charging works. You pay about 20-30p per kWh

A fan heater is 2Kw. So on full blast, it will use ~50p per hour. Its really that simple

Why are the government pushing this? Is it really that important? Why are they bothering that the population get the most accurate bills? What other benefits are there of installing these?

It was one of the plans alongside insulation and low energy bulbs to get CO2 emissions down to meet the various legal requirements we are signed up to.

Problem is, they've been rushed out too soon AT OUR COST, and then they'll need to be replaced in a year or 2, AT OUR COST AGAIN

Basically, wasting 10 years' worth of potential savings from the idea. Morons.

 

[Scimmy]

I do mate. But limit it as best I can by using wired. I made sure when got work done at the house every room had a permanent Internet port.

These new smart meters are supposedly pumping out shed loads of waves.

It's gotta have some effect doesn't it?

You remind me of Jimmy's brother in "Better Call Saul"!

 

[Goat Eyes]

Blokes here. Says can’t do me gas one due to pipes being to close to wall????

It sounds like your pipes are very close to the wall. Tell him to just bend them out a bit, just make sure he doesn’t kink or split them.

 

[Gil Gunderson]

It sounds like your pipes are very close to the wall. Tell him to just bend them out a bit, just make sure he doesn’t kink or split them.

He’s gone now. Surely all gas pipes are near the wall?

 

[Goat Eyes]

He’s gone now. Surely all gas pipes are near the wall?

Mine come up through the middle of my lounge floor. Good for reading the meter but shite for watching the telly.

 

[Marty Moose]

He’s gone now. Surely all gas pipes are near the wall?

The gas pipe in my garage come out of the ground less than an inch from the wall and runs up to the meter and the British Gas gadgy changed my meter with no bother