Changing meter with a shared fuse

[littleoctonauts]

Hello

I'm in a rented property with a prepayment meter for both gas and electricity, which quite frankly is a pain and I want a credit meter. Landlord agreed. Energy company comes to change it, they say we have a shared fuse and neighbour's permission needed to switch off supply for the change. Neighbour not in so energy company go away and say book another appt. Neighbour then refuses permission to switch off supply. They don't like energy companies coming in and messing with stuff in their house. They are very get nice people but they seem sceptical of authority or any institutions.

Neighbour asked his supplier for advice and was told not to allow it as not needed. But I spoke to his supplier about our situation and they said if it's a shared fuse they do need to switch it off. So I think he didn't understand what his own energy company said.

Has anyone got experience of this and how to get around it?

Bump

Do they need to access neighbour's property to change your meter? I was in a similar situation. When our meter was changed they said it was a shared fuse with the upstairs property and we just phoned round until a family member located him (small village), he said no problem and the meter was changed. All our neighbour had to do was reset his oven clock and such. A small interruption to his supply, not engineers traipsing through his house.

If it's just his electricity that will be momentarily interrupted (we're talking a few minutes at most) then speak to your neighbour and tell him that. Make it clear it's YOUR meter being changed and the only thing it will do is cut the electricity off for a short time.

www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/internet/en/help-and-advice/documents/looped_services.pdf

I've explained all that but he still said no I will have a read of that leaflet, thank you.