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

No excuse really

would it be a bit ott if I printed this off and posted it through peoples doors?

That's the issue then. If you have to click the main box to reset after a credit run out and you don't have a key at 4pm Sunday then you are not going to have no electricity until you get a key. You're going to force the door to reconnect the electricity.

These are outside? Why don´t they place them inside the house? Much safer.

So they can be read without people having to be at home

They come off. Especially in storms and of they’re already weakened.

i bought a key for one in the house I rented and discovered the locking mechanism was broken. The whole door came off in the next storm.

I have a smart meter. They can be read from a distance.

The real issue is why you have to have this special key that anyone can get. It's not security because anyone can buy one, it's not safety because it's just to keep a door closed and prevent rain ingress. So why not a standard latch.

Meter cupboard.

You must live in a really rough area. I’ve never seen this issue and I don’t live in a posh fancy area. Most meter cupboards are intact. Maybe my neighbours actually have keys to the meter cupboards and don’t need to leave them unlocked.

Is this a stealth move to sell smart meters?

Without the cabinets, in the old days, the meter reading men would have to come into the house to read the meter; they might not be quick enough for the "please have your identification READY" sign at the door, they might not take their shoes off; and worse, they might ask to use the toilet! The horror! 😮

I see it for gas meter cabinets around here. I find it bewildering. When I misplaced our key, I got a next day replacement from Amazon.

ETA For some reason, all our electric meter are indoors.

That's nice, dear - a picture of the key that was sitting inside on top of the fuse box whilst the bloke from the electricity company smashed his way into the box to swap it over to a digital meter without my being informed (or even knocking on the door on the offchance I wasn't at work) it was going to happen. And then he went on to do every other new build on the street.

It’s the same with radar keys.

Well i was told to get a key off Amazon.

Yeah clearly your area is a hotbed of door smashers, maybe the local Facebook group has tips on how to make your house look run down?
To be honest the common factor is the batch of doors that was put in, maybe you should be ranting at the rubbish quality that the cabinet manufacturer put in which failed due to normal use.

we lived in ours about 4 months, when a storm hit it ripped it right off, we replaced it and guess what got ripped off again

Ok I can understand that you personally dont like the look of it, but if you really think that they will "bring down the tone" of a whole area, you are taking over think to a new level. Or just a snob.