On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:19:09 +0000
Nightjar wrote:

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.


Good question. I'll look next time I'm there. If so, it is probably in
the airing cupboard, where all the plumbing lives. It's worth finding
it anyway, just in case of emergency.

--
Davey.