Help needed on extremely high electricity bill

Gerry1

The splitter doesn't need a seal becasue it's downstream from the meter.

But it's curious how the meter cover has been removed and replaced since the OP took the opening reading.

coffeehound

matelodave said:
That's not necessarily true. the "magic flat" may well have had a leccy meter and they may have been paying their bills quite unaware that it was coming through someone else's meter from upstairs. 

That would at least help the OP establish how much had been overpaid I suppose, though proof would still be tricky.  Yes it's clearly a lash-up that no electrician would put their name to.  Presumably there aren't the same compulsory checks when selling commercial properties so it's possible the current LL isn't complicit . .

coffeehound

Gerry1 said:

But it's curious how the meter cover has been removed and replaced since the OP took the opening reading.

Is that evident from the photos?

matelodave

If the splitter was originally in circuit before the meter to split the incoming company feed between the MEM box and the two flats then it would have been the property of the energy company in the same way as the meter and MEM box and should therefore have been sealed.

However if the splitter had been installed after the meter to combine the the original Peak & Off peak supplies to feed two distribution panels then no, it does not need a seal. It all comes down to who installed the splitter and why.

(my outgoing meter tails feed to a splitter where it now feeds the  original peak and off-peak distribution boards as we now only have a single rate meter - the connection was made by SSE who fitted a seal, even though it is on the outgoing side of the meter and probably doesn't really need one - see piccy)

Hasbeen

coffeehound said:

Gerry1 said:

But it's curious how the meter cover has been removed and replaced since the OP took the opening reading.

Is that evident from the photos?

Yes it has been taken off and replaced between the OPs original and later photo?



Bottom cover brass screw location? Wide thin then thin wide?

Gerry1

coffeehound said:

Gerry1 said:

But it's curious how the meter cover has been removed and replaced since the OP took the opening reading.

Is that evident from the photos?

Yes !

QED

coffeehound

Ha, good spot!

matelodave

There  are a few of us on here that are of the opinion that there's something that just isn't right here but cant actually decide who is the perpetrator and if it's not the OP then he's been the victim. Just my opinion you understand

Robin9

coffeehound said:

Ha, good spot!

Also white smudge move from top left to bottom right.
The questions  - why had it been removed and by whom and when.

Hasbeen

Agree. But would have to cross that bridge  when we come to it?

Hopefully Gentlegiant will come back with outcome?

Should have went for independent electrician but suspect not.

But LL technician was scheduled to come to day.  So waiting on results.