New Gas Meter

slinkydonkey

Hi

So we are doing up an old house and have had National Grid come out and cut the gas pipe and redirect it to outside the house in a semi concealed ground box.

My friend who is a Gas Engineer said I need to phone my provider to get a new Gas Meter fitted he said ti should be free but OVO Energy want £92 does anyone know if other providers do it for free?

And do any provide Smart Meters for Free OVO said they use a 3rd party company to install the meters so she couldn't even tell me if i was going to get a smart meter ..really rubbish service to be honest.

slinkydonkey

I asked via Twitter ( Twitter is its great for contacting Customer Service departments for companies I highly recommend it and its free!)

British Gas do it for Free so Im going to tweet a message to OVO to get them know there rivals do it for free and see if they respond.

southcoastrgi

smart meters are for electric not gas

ilikewatch

southcoastrgi wrote: »

smart meters are for electric not gas

I thought gas meters such as the Landis Gyr Libra 310 were "smart" meters - these are being installed in residential properties?

lstar337

southcoastrgi wrote: »

smart meters are for electric not gas

What do you call this then:
Landis+Gyr G370 Gas Meter
Compliance with defined objects for SMETS1 with OTA for SMETS2*

slinkydonkey

lstar337 wrote: »

What do you call this then:
Landis+Gyr G370 Gas Meter
Compliance with defined objects for SMETS1 with OTA for SMETS2*

Who's your energy provider ?

lstar337

slinkydonkey wrote: »

Who's your energy provider ?

That's not my meter, just a google image search result.

Sorry, didn't mean to get your hopes up.

ilikewatch

A friend has recently had a smart gas meter installed by First Utility - he seems pleased with it and them. According to their website they don't charge for smart meter installation.

Nada666

slinkydonkey wrote: »

I asked via Twitter ( Twitter is its great for contacting Customer Service departments for companies I highly recommend it and its free!)

British Gas do it for Free so Im going to tweet a message to OVO to get them know there rivals do it for free and see if they respond.

So? Why should they not charge you for the service? Did you ask your neighbours to pay for curtains? Did you apply to Government for new carpets to bought with taxation?

Why on earth would Ovo care if another supplier had to charge more expensive prices because one-off costs were passed on to all customers rather then the beneficiary?

They will tell you to go ahead. And continue to offer a cheaper product because they are not wasting money accommodating free-loaders.

Of course this is money saving expert and you are free to exploit this system - sign up with British Gas, pocket benefits, then swan off to a supplier without such overheads. But Ovo won't care.

wr1ght

ilikewatch wrote: »

A friend has recently had a smart gas meter installed by First Utility - he seems pleased with it and them. According to their website they don't charge for smart meter installation.

be aware of this if you switch away from fu they will remotely disconnect your supply

slinkydonkey

Nada666 wrote: »

So? Why should they not charge you for the service? Did you ask your neighbours to pay for curtains? Did you apply to Government for new carpets to bought with taxation?

Why on earth would Ovo care if another supplier had to charge more expensive prices because one-off costs were passed on to all customers rather then the beneficiary?

They will tell you to go ahead. And continue to offer a cheaper product because they are not wasting money accommodating free-loaders.

Of course this is money saving expert and you are free to exploit this system - sign up with British Gas, pocket benefits, then swan off to a supplier without such overheads. But Ovo won't care.

If you don't have anything useful to say jog on mate