On 11-Jan-17 2:45 PM, Davey wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 12:32:59 +0000
Nightjar wrote:

On 11-Jan-17 12:27 PM, Davey wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 12:15:24 +0000
Andy Burns wrote:

Davey wrote:

I read here some weeks ago that the installation of a Smart Meter
was not mandatory, but I have just received a notice about the
impending installation of a water meter in Essex.

Is it a water meter, or a smart water meter?

A few years ago Severn Trent had a division producing smart water
meters. By the time I got smart gas/elec meters and was interested
to know if they could fit a smart water meter, they'd flogged that
division off, and I think the main company became USA based, and
now we just have S****er in the UK and the consumer division
doesn't have the option of installing one.



It doesn't use the term 'Smart', but it does say that it will use
Automatic Meter Reading Technology, "allowing the company to read
the meter by just driving past the property". I guess this
qualifies as a Smart Meter.

How they install this is going to be interesting. The five flats'
supplies split, with 'Y's, inside a pipe chase, which is just big
enough for the pipes, but hardly for meters as well. Outside the
property would meter the whole property, not individual flats.


In some flats I know, the meters are installed in each flat, where
the supply enters the flat.


In my case, that is buried somewhere in the walls or under the floor!


Do you not have a stopcock in the flat? If you do, it would be installed
just before that.

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Colin Bignell