Meter Certification

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EssexHebridean said:

TELLIT01 said:

It intrigues me as to why the utility companies have never been in touch with me about certification dates on meters until smart meters appeared.  We have lived in the same house for 36 years and never previously been told our meter may not be accurate.  Total coincidence of course.

How strange - we had to have our electric meter in our old property replaced for exactly that reason.

Ditto. In the nine years we were in our previous house, we had two meter replacements; from the spinny-disc meter to an electronic one, then a few years later from that to a different electronic one.
And then a few years after moving, the electronic meter in our new (& current) house was replaced by a new electronic one, before that was replaced by a smart meter 4-5 years ago.

Swipe

TELLIT01 said:

It intrigues me as to why the utility companies have never been in touch with me about certification dates on meters until smart meters appeared.  We have lived in the same house for 36 years and never previously been told our meter may not be accurate.  Total coincidence of course.

When I moved into my previous house I had a mechanical E7 meter replaced with a single rate digital meter. I can't remember which supplier as I've had so many but I think I switched to a new supplier a few months later. Twelve months later I got an email informing me that my meter needed replacing (no reason stated). I replied quoting the serial and model number of the meter and informed them that it must be some kind of mistake as it was only replaced 12 months ago and had less than 3000 units recorded. They replied back with a very aggressive email, threatening court warrants if I didn't comply. I therefore agreed and the meter installer replaced it with an identical model and concurred that it was a complete waste of his time.

DE_612183

Swipe said:

TELLIT01 said:

It intrigues me as to why the utility companies have never been in touch with me about certification dates on meters until smart meters appeared.  We have lived in the same house for 36 years and never previously been told our meter may not be accurate.  Total coincidence of course.

When I moved into my previous house I had a mechanical E7 meter replaced with a single rate digital meter. I can't remember which supplier as I've had so many but I think I switched to a new supplier a few months later. Twelve months later I got an email informing me that my meter needed replacing (no reason stated). I replied quoting the serial and model number of the meter and informed them that it must be some kind of mistake as it was only replaced 12 months ago and had less than 3000 units recorded. They replied back with a very aggressive email, threatening court warrants if I didn't comply. I therefore agreed and the meter installer replaced it with an identical model and concurred that it was a complete waste of his time.

Back when I worked for the local electricity company ( pre-nationalisation ) we used to encounter errors on cert dates - sometimes a 76 got transposed for a 67, but once the meter had that certification date there was nothing you could do apart from remove it, pass it through the test centre and get it re-certified - as you say a waste of time but the regulator insisted due to H&S issues.

gbhxu

Have to agree, never heard anything about meter certificates until smart meters .were introduced.

Still have a lovely dial meter

DE_612183

gbhxu said:

Have to agree, never heard anything about meter certificates until smart meters .were introduced.

Still have a lovely dial meter

Meter re-certification has been a thing ever since I can remember - I started in the electricity industry in 1980 and at that point we were replacing meters that were 20 years old - so they had to have been certified in the 60's.

When you say "dial" to you mean numbers that turn round or a little pointer that moves around like a speedometer in a car?

EssexHebridean

I think this is a bit like memories of white christmasses as a child - they didn't really happen, but it suits our rhetoric of how we really want things to be! 

Spoonie_Turtle

gbhxu said:

Have to agree, never heard anything about meter certificates until smart meters .were introduced.

Still have a lovely dial meter

Entirely possible that if nobody objected to having their traditional meters changed for another traditional meter, it didn't need to be brought up.  Or if it did have to be brought up in individual cases, it was just between them and the supplier, not on social media nor worth spreading beyond the mention of it down the pub.