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Original poster

To get irritated driving through the new housing and seeing houses with the electric cabinet door smashed off?

42 replies

ThePunnyPeachDuck · 26/04/2025 20:19

You can buy a key to unlock it for £2.97

It’s not just 1 or 2 houses there are loads of them, it’s some sort of epidemic

OP posts:
ClareBlue · 26/04/2025 20:28

I was surprised when we got a new cupboard for the meter and they didn't leave a key. Surely leaving a key would stop at least some people forcing them open.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 26/04/2025 20:28

Maybe you should tell the electricity company, then, as they're the ones who smashed it open.

JandamiHash · 26/04/2025 20:27

ThePunnyPeachDuck · 26/04/2025 20:27

It must just be round here then.

Are you gonna clarify what you mean? What’s an electric cabinet door?!

Original poster
ThePunnyPeachDuck · 26/04/2025 20:27

It must just be round here then.

OP posts:
HeddaGarbled · 26/04/2025 20:26

Do you really have to buy your own meter cupboard key in a new-build?

MereNoelle · 26/04/2025 20:25

eurochick · 26/04/2025 20:23

I think she means the meter cabinet you sometimes see on the front of houses. I can’t say I’ve noticed the doors being broken off them round here.

Ah ok. I live right next to a new built estate and haven’t noticed any flapping around.

TheNinthLock · 26/04/2025 20:24

These ones. Meter cupboards.

To get irritated driving through the new housing and seeing houses with the electric cabinet door smashed off?
Wtafisgoingontoday · 26/04/2025 20:24

I think it’s the cupboard which houses the electricity meter, I agree with the OP it looks really scruffy with the door flapping about or missing.

eurochick · 26/04/2025 20:23

I think she means the meter cabinet you sometimes see on the front of houses. I can’t say I’ve noticed the doors being broken off them round here.

stonebrambleboy · 26/04/2025 20:23

Is it where the electric meter is?

Dawninglory · 26/04/2025 20:23

Meter cupboard?!

ARainyNightInSoho · 26/04/2025 20:21

I don't understand what you mean OP

SneakyGremlin · 26/04/2025 20:21

Do you mean an EV charging point? Struggling to work out what you're on about.

MereNoelle · 26/04/2025 20:20

Eh? I don’t know what an electric cabinet door is!

ilovesooty · 26/04/2025 20:20

SlugsWon · 26/04/2025 20:20

What's an electric cabinet door?

I was going to ask that.

LuckysDadsHat · 26/04/2025 20:20

Ours fell off after about a year when though we have a key. I think the plastic is not great in them and they just snap.

SlugsWon · 26/04/2025 20:20

What's an electric cabinet door?