Today an engineer called and demanded access via my bedroom into the back garden so he could get in the corridor between my property and the one next door.
He refused to show me his ID, instead rolling his eyes saying he is in uniform, has a truck and was obviously genuine, when he showed me it only had his first name, no reference and no picture. I refused access and he had a go at me, demanding he had the right to access as he saw it when putting the meter in and he had every right to use it. I said there isn't access. There is a door but only access is via my private bedroom on the ground floor at the back of the property, it's private and not for access, there are a few steps to the garden as it is sunken, and full of rubble after a lightening strike a few years ago (it didn't effect the building I live in), I cannot use the door due to disability and it certainly it is not a access route or fire exit.
The building has been checked by the fire brigade.
He than said he had every right to come in and I was unreasonably blocking him doing his job. If the door was not fire exit then he would get the building condemned as unsafe and make me homeless and made comments about me burning to death trapped in a fire. That is a phobia of mine having been trapped before, whilst he wouldn't know that, I was upset by that.
I rang the electricity company to complain and they couldn't see what the problem was they said it's the best place for meters between properties (I live in a terrace) as there is a greater chance of reading the meters. Having got someone to go and look it turns out the corridor is almost blocked by these meters on the floor so no one could get out via it anyway.
Am I unreasonable to send a complaint letter to the company and demand they do something about him, and their stupid policy of putting meters in access corridors? The building next door is to be for severely physically disabled people who move in august (I know that as I applied to live there but was too late).
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Becca19962014 · 25/07/2014 22:55
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