On 08/06/2016 09:18, Chris French wrote:
Andy Wrote in message:
Nick Odell wrote:

The energy company want to undertake a safety check of my gas meter.

IME that's code for "too many estimated or customer readings", they'll
send a normal meter reader bloke.

Not for us, we get regular meter readers, but still had someone
come to check the meter a couple of years ago.

The safety check seemed to involve looking at the meter and going
OK :-)



My impression is that it has more to do with checking that you haven't
bypassed the meter in order to steal unmetered gas.
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Cheers,
Roger
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