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OP - you are the perfect candidate for a smart meter, just contact your supplier and get yourself on the list to get one fitted. It won't completely save you needing to take readings, but at least you'll only ned to do it once every few months just to check they match what your supplier is seeing!
A really simple one to solve - assuming that you are being truthful that your motivation is just pure laziness.🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
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EssexHebridean said:OP - you are the perfect candidate for a smart meter, just contact your supplier and get yourself on the list to get one fitted. It won't completely save you needing to take readings, but at least you'll only ned to do it once every few months just to check they match what your supplier is seeing!
A really simple one to solve - assuming that you are being truthful that your motivation is just pure laziness.
Not a chance of getting a smart meter, get yourself listening to vox pop chat radio and you may learn a thing or 30 -
gesdt50 said:
Not a chance of getting a smart meter, get yourself listening to vox pop chat radio and you may learn a thing or 3EssexHebridean said:OP - you are the perfect candidate for a smart meter, just contact your supplier and get yourself on the list to get one fitted. It won't completely save you needing to take readings, but at least you'll only ned to do it once every few months just to check they match what your supplier is seeing!
A really simple one to solve - assuming that you are being truthful that your motivation is just pure laziness.Oh dear, you're one of *those*.Talk radio really has a lot to answer forN. Hampshire, he/him. Octopus Intelligent Go elec & Tracker gas / Vodafone BB / iD mobile. Kirk Hill Co-op member.Ofgem cap table, Ofgem cap explainer. Economy 7 cap explainer. Gas vs E7 vs peak elec heating costs, Best kettle!
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As a long term ex meter reader I came across a lot of people like you .Those who would fight to the death to not give meter readings and would never. allow a meter reader to do a safety check or would not allow a smart meter to be fitted .gesdt50 said:EssexHebridean said:OP - you are the perfect candidate for a smart meter, just contact your supplier and get yourself on the list to get one fitted. It won't completely save you needing to take readings, but at least you'll only ned to do it once every few months just to check they match what your supplier is seeing!
A really simple one to solve - assuming that you are being truthful that your motivation is just pure laziness.
Not a chance of getting a smart meter, get yourself listening to vox pop chat radio and you may learn a thing or 3
You are running rings around the suppliers who nowadays are so pathetic you will beat them hands down .0
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