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

[ThePunnyPeachDuck]

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

What's an electric cabinet door?

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.

I was going to ask that.

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

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

I don't understand what you mean OP

Meter cupboard?!

Is it where the electric meter is?

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.

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.

These ones. Meter cupboards.

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

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

It must just be round here then.

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

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

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.

Perhaps they lost the key, I just think it makes the area look a bit shit tbh

We are thinking of selling but who wants to live in an area where people can’t manage their electric cabinets ?

Mine is currently on the floor but it wasn’t ‘smashed off’ it got battered in that awful wind we had a while back and one hinge has completely snapped and taken a big bit of the plastic door front with it, no way to reattach. Even when I didn’t have a key to open it I just tediously got it open with my fingertips, never occurred to me to smash it open so unless you saw the people living there smashing their electric metre box open, it’s weird you went straight to them doing that just to gain access.

Owned my home for 9 years. Never opened it. No one’s ever smashed it open. Never seen one smashed open.

Do you not do self reading. We have to send a reading every 3 months.

An electric cabinet?

Ours is a smart meter and I don’t have to send any readings.

When my new ones were installed I was given a flimsy plastic key for an extremely stiff lock. It snapped eventually and left me faffing about using tools to try and open it to reconnect my electricity supply when my credit ran out!
Can't imagine everyone would have the patience to do that. I left it open for the mean time. First knock at the door was someone to say it was open so they'd pushed it shut 😤 I bought a metal key asap 🤣

DM’s is broken. It’s not as easy as it should be to find out how to replace it.
A be meter box is expensive and you need someone to fit it. However, I think all you need is a meter door, which is quite cheap. I haven’t done it yet because I need to measure it.