"N. Thornton" wrote in message
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"Lobster" wrote in message
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Unbelievable.
What do you do?

First, resist the urge to do what youd really like to do.
A lawyer might be able to advise.

This is the penultimate result of the modern practice of putting
complete t--- in charge of things that matter.

"Well it must be safe and OK because none of our agents have
ever reported it as being an issue"

what a joke. I would be tempted to repeat that sentence slowly, word
by word, as if writing it down, then suggest that if that comes out in
court after an accident they would really have problems. And that yes
you have warned the householders in writing of the dangers present.

Well for those that are interested (and somebody must be, as 90 of you have
inspected the shambles on the website link I gave!) I wasted another hour or
so on this "project" this morning...

I spoke to several Corgis, as well as your actual CORGI, Transco (several
times each) and got more or less equal numbers of responses of "yes a corgi
can move a meter" and "no a corgi can't move a meter" (it was particularly
inspiring that two separate calls to Transco elicited diametrically opposite
responses). A tech guy at CORGI gave me contact details of half a dozen
local fitters who he said had completed their "MET 1" certification which
enabled them to move meters, but the two of them I managed to get hold of
said told me that was b****ks.

Finally I had, erm, a sense of humour failure on the phone with Transco, and
to cut a long story short, it ended with them coming round to my way of
thinking, and they sent an engineer round 3 hours later to inspect, on
safety grounds. The guy who came was very relaxed about it, said he'd seen
plenty worse and that it wasn't really a priority issue, but he agreed to
shift it anyway, FOC. So he's left me with the meter in a new position,
capped off, and all (all?) I need to do now is get a corgi round to
reconnect it to the house gas system. Result! And now I can finally
access, and get to grips with the electrics shambles!

David