Electricity Meter Question?

Col.Mastard

I need to get my Electricity Meter's position changed, who do contact to do this?

Electrician or Electricity Co/Transco?

Many Thanks

HugoSP

You need to contact your distibutor.

In the South West it's Western Power Distribution.

The energy supply companies (British Gas etc) in our area try to charge for some services that Western Power give for free. One example is temporary disconnection of the electricity supply to allow safe working to change CUs etc.

ritesh

Col.Mastard wrote: »

I need to get my Electricity Meter's position changed, who do contact to do this?

Electrician or Electricity Co/Transco?

Many Thanks

I recently had my gas and electricity meters moved from the inside to the outside wall. I am in the south east. For electricity I had to contact EDF energy and for gas I believe it was Transco.

One other thing I picked up on was that our electrician is from London and whilst he set up the terminal for it to be connected to by EDF it turned out that EDF could not accept his terminal as it was not accepted by EDF in the South East. What he set up is accepted in London! Very strange indeed that the electricity companies are not standardised.

Once you apply to have your service moved, they should supply you with a pack as to what is required. If not, ask them what ducting is suitable (the one I had to get was from Jewson), you will be required to buy the new meter box for the Electricity and make sure your electrician is familiar with what the set-up should be in your area for the new service to be connected to.
hope this helps

Col.Mastard

Thanks for the Replies.

If I wanted to move the Gas meter aswell, is it done the same way?

Lifeisbutadream

Col.Mastard wrote: »

Thanks for the Replies.

If I wanted to move the Gas meter aswell, is it done the same way?

Yes. and its not cheap.

Col.Mastard

Lifeisbutadream wrote: »

Yes. and its not cheap.

Do know roughly how much it costs? From the inside to the other side of the Wall

[Deleted User]

Hi,

contact your electricity and gas suppliers and ask them for a quote, you are going to have to contact them anyway if you want the jobs done.

HugoSP

Col.Mastard wrote: »

Thanks for the Replies.

If I wanted to move the Gas meter aswell, is it done the same way?

Transco for that one and the other poster is right - it is not cheap!

They tend to charge on bands. We had ours moved and were measured at around 0.5 metres over the cheapest band. That put another £200 on the quote!

I challenged this with them and they altered the quote to the cheapest band. They simply estimate the distance to be covered from aireal maps, they don't get the tape measure out, so there is often some margin for negotiation, if you know what I mean