EDF broke into my home and fitted a payment meter

t0rt0ise

What a lot of assumptions made here, made by people who have absolutely no knowledge of the background circumstances. Of course they ought to have made an appointment with you and then if you weren't in, they would force their entry.

And Kim, I do love your comment that had he been renting he'd have to have paid for the door. Does he not have to pay then if he owns the house?

Premier_2

KimYeovil wrote: »

They break in through the front door, usually. A bad idea to let happen if you are renting as you also have the cost of repairing and replacing the door on top of the fuel debt.

To be fair, they usually use the services of a locksmith, the cost of which would be added to the customers debt.

Not sure why there would be a mess though? :huh:
Perhaps you're right, perhaps they used the universal door opener as supplied to the police

Premier_2

HappyMJ wrote: »

Ahhh the lovely prepayment meter. Now the first thing you do is compare tariffs and switch. EDF aren't really good for prepayment meters so switch to a better tariff so it doesn't cost you an arm an a leg to turn things on. The inital credit and the emergency will last a while as no amount is deducted for debt until you top up the key and put it in the meter and it should give you enough time to switch.

EDF won't allow a switch because of the current debt

KimYeovil

t0rt0ise wrote: »

And Kim, I do love your comment that had he been renting he'd have to have paid for the door. Does he not have to pay then if he owns the house?

He does not need to pay to make good all the damage and restore to the original standard. He can just go with whatever minimum clean-up is necessary to leave the home secure.

HappyMJ

Premier wrote: »

EDF won't allow a switch because of the current debt

OK the second thing to do once a good tariff is found is pay the debt off within 7 days which should be before EDF will have received notice from the new supplier and refused the switch.

HalloweenJack

KimYeovil wrote: »

He does not need to pay to make good all the damage and restore to the original standard. He can just go with whatever minimum clean-up is necessary to leave the home secure.

depends what his contract is like - he could be eveicted if he doesnt make good

t0rt0ise

HalloweenJack wrote: »

depends what his contract is like - he could be eveicted if he doesnt make good

That's what Kim meant. That if they owned the place they can do what they like but if they rent it they have to make good. But that depends on the landlord. I live in Housing Association and if something happened I'd make good and they wouldn't know different until I moved out and I don't intend to do that for some time.

Joyful

Happy M

I would imagine the op got in this mess because they couldn't pay their bill so I don't suppose they can afford to clear the debt. As I don't know what the standard recovery rate EDF set on warrant exchanges I would suggest Sharquois contacts them to make sure the amount is affordable.

backfoot

The OP doesn't seem that bothered to even reply to all the helpful replies.

spinningsheep

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