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Smart meter - yay or nay?

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FuckingHateRats · 12/08/2022 13:06

We're with Bulb.

Currently pay £229 DD every month (four bed semi with shit windows). Sitting with £475 credit at the min.

Bulb are keen to install a smart meter.

Those who have one, would you recommend it? Will it make my payments go up or down?

OP posts:
NanaNelly · 16/08/2022 17:21

Dontfuckingsaycheese · 13/08/2022 01:24

They don’t come out and fit them. You just get them out of the box and plug them in and they work by … erm… magic? 🤔

I’m thinking of getting one as I rely on my dad to read my meters for me and he’s getting on a it and has forgotten a few times recently. I was just sitting here thinking I should come back to the UK for a month in the winter to get house things sorted out and I’m seriously considering smart meters. So daft question - what do you plug them into please?

Dontfuckingsaycheese · 18/08/2022 00:57

Apparently that’s just the monitor bit. That’s not the smart meter. So they need to do something to the meters themselves.

DaSilvaP · 08/12/2022 18:37

Changedmynamefor · 12/08/2022 13:28

DH works for a utility company and says we’ll get one over his dead body.

Reminds me of a good friend, now retired, who was a surgeon.

I asked him long about getting some minor cosmetic surgery. His categorical advice was "if it's not life-threatening, don't go anywhere near a scalpel".

You ignore good inside knowledge at your own peril.

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DaSilvaP · 11/12/2022 20:38

Ooops
I asked him long time go about getting some minor cosmetic surgery.

MrsKrankyPants · 11/12/2022 20:42

MarmiteCoriander · 12/08/2022 14:48

I recently moved. Previous house was still on economy 7 and Bulb's smart meters cant be fitted to those apparently- despite constant emails about installing one!

New place we are renovating. I was religious about monthly readings previously, but I can see daily what has been used and what is on at the moment. I always turn lights off etc, but its opened by eyes to daily appliances and what they use. Microwave and kettle use FAR more when on that I ever expected.

I also see the amount shoot up when the workmen have their cement mixer on and then charge their tools on our electric! 😡

I was initially against getting one. Someone advised that in time- we will likely ALL need to get one, and best to get in now whilst free. Each to their own though.

We're on economy 7 and Octopus installed our smart meter. I was terrible for doing meter readings.

DaSilvaP · 11/12/2022 21:07

FuckingHateRats · 12/08/2022 13:06

We're with Bulb.

Currently pay £229 DD every month (four bed semi with shit windows). Sitting with £475 credit at the min.

Bulb are keen to install a smart meter.

Those who have one, would you recommend it? Will it make my payments go up or down?

Will it make my payments go up or down?

Here is a real possibility for that:
(four bed semi with shit windows)

Improving the thermal insulation of those windows - that will help for sure.

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