On 10 Aug 2006 03:48:56 -0700 wrote :
It's cheaper for them to have a team change many meters in the same
area than to have to keep coming back to individual meters with the
complication of missed appointments, etc.

If only they worked that way he six meters in the common front
hall, being replaced one by one. When I queried this, the fitter said
that he was over at one of the big 1930s block in East Sheen every
couple of weeks to change another meter and he'd be doing this for
another year.

It could be that the replacement algorithm is by usage, account age
or somesuch. Or it could be that they don't trust the fitters not to
get muddled if faced with replacing more than one.

I've had two visits to change my gas meter so far, both abandoned
because the meter (as was the fashion) hangs from the pipes and they
can't change this without moving a pipe ... which meter replacers are
apparently not competent to do.

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Tony Bryer SDA UK 'Software to build on' http://www.sda.co.uk