edf accused me of tampering

baza52

If the tamper had been found and resolved the OP would not be in this position.
Still think its a windup

dollydiva

Guilty as sin.

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baza52 wrote: »

If the previous tenant had bypassed the meter how could they have run up a £2000 or £3000 bill?

how much electric could you get through in 4 years ? because I have found a bypass this year myself which was over 4 years.Once you start getting free electric you can then heat free, no need for gas central heating on. The next door neighbour to this 4 year fiddler reported that the lights were on 24 hours a day. This case has been settled now with the man paying a back bill of only 6 months (claimed it was already bypassed when he moved in ).The neighbour ,a freind of mine, says hes now moved house to a nearby street, no doubt to carry on the good work with a less vigilant supplier than B.G.
I Think the OP was referring to how much was owed by the previous bypass with the £2000 debt

Terrylw1

Just to add for the OP, they cannot disconnect in Winter where there is a disabled person present. This would be the responsibility of the supplier but if the engineer discovered this, it is applicable to him/her hence they abort.

If its dangerous, its not the same since the engineer is protecting your safety as well as your neighbours. I don't know what additional help should be afforded in the case of a disabled occupant,.

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baza52 wrote: »

If the tamper had been found and resolved the OP would not be in this position.
Still think its a windup

you could be right about the wind up, standing charge debt would never get to that level, meters havent been in long enough, but it could be debt loaded onto meter for either previous bypass or non payment of credit meter bill.

Hasbeen

Terrylw1 wrote: »

Just to add for the OP, they cannot disconnect in Winter where there is a disabled person present. This would be the responsibility of the supplier but if the engineer discovered this, it is applicable to him/her hence they abort.

If its dangerous, its not the same since the engineer is protecting your safety as well as your neighbours. I don't know what additional help should be afforded in the case of a disabled occupant,.

"we never in house"

As op states above, so does disabled person stay there with parent's or not? Does anyone live there?

Ops opening post is very scrambled re info, but that is probably because they are immigrants and do not fully understand english and laws/behaviour etc? They need to speak to CAB and possibly take along interpretator. And do it soon!!!

In answer to previous posts, No. It is probably not a wind up, these people come to the UK travelling all across the EU to get here because they have been told everything here is free, so free electric is espected?

baza52

sacsquacco wrote: »

how much electric could you get through in 4 years ? because I have found a bypass this year myself which was over 4 years.Once you start getting free electric you can then heat free, no need for gas central heating on. The next door neighbour to this 4 year fiddler reported that the lights were on 24 hours a day. This case has been settled now with the man paying a back bill of only 6 months (claimed it was already bypassed when he moved in ).The neighbour ,a freind of mine, says hes now moved house to a nearby street, no doubt to carry on the good work with a less vigilant supplier than B.G.
I Think the OP was referring to how much was owed by the previous bypass with the £2000 debt

But the OP is saying the meter was STILL BYPASSED after they moved in.
As you point out bypassing gives you FREE elecricity so how could the previous tennant have a 2 or 3 grand bill as the bypass has only just come to light and the OP stated the previous tennant had the bill when they moved in?

Terrylw1

baza52 wrote: »

But the OP is saying the meter was STILL BYPASSED after they moved in.
As you point out bypassing gives you FREE elecricity so how could the previous tennant have a 2 or 3 grand bill as the bypass has only just come to light and the OP stated the previous tennant had the bill when they moved in?

Its a PPM, so did the previous tenant run up a big bill, have a force fit done with warrant charges...then get out of it by tampering?

Its seems strange that the supplier didn't expose it though if that were the case given they should have seen a debt that never reduced.

baza52

hence the OP being a windup

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I dont think the OP has stated they are an immigrant family, spellings poor, but mine is. its better than a lot on ebay. Bypassed meters will still show standing charges buiding up which can indicate length of a tamper to some extent.They are usually estimated for the weeks/years of a tamper and loaded onto the debt screen on screen "S". then theres nothing to stop the original bypasser doing it again with a new meter installed. Thats what the procedure is. I ve caught same houses tampering twice in twelves months. They usually refuse access but RPU people get in again, and so it continues.One of my first posts was about prosecutions for tamperers, this sort of thing is the result of this lax attitude to bypassing, leading to ( if its not a wind up ) meters bursting into flames.
the use of the word " vwalla " meaning I think the french "voila " indicate to me a deliberate wind up. Cant see an immigrant family using that sort of del-boy expression