On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 20:58:23 GMT, Lurch wrote:

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 20:52:41 -0000, in uk.d-i-y Colin Wilson
strung together this:

Quite right. I've just rewired a friends house in Sheffield and their
off peak is an absolute bargain but the YEB say they can't get that
tarriff now. If they stay as they are they can keep it but if they
want the meter or any related equipment changing they'll have to stick
it on the more expensive tarriff.

I don`t think they can force a tariff change just because they want to -
if any equipment needs replacing (including the cutout / meter) the
tariff stays as-is AFAIK. At the end of the day, tariffs are usually*
just different figures applied to the same meter reading(s).

That's what I thought. They're on a 60A supply and I wanted them to
get a new 100A cutout and new meter fitted, they have been in for
sometime. The 'not without a tarriff change' quote was apparently
mentioned quite a few times.

Yup, remember that you're dealing with half-educated chimps in most of
the call centres. They won't have a clue about tariff legislation,
they're programmed to come out with a standard set of responses that
favour the leccy company whatever the question, on the basis that the
customner equally won't have a clue whether what they're being told is
true.