…yes I did Boozer but I signed up for just 1 year 
Who knows where I will be in 2 years time :shock: and the cost per unit and standing charge were higher for 2 years.
I have never even considered getting one and will resist having one installed for as long as I can.
I have concerns about them. The possibility that they can disconnect our supply remotely and the indisputable fact that they can snoop on us for whatever reason our supplier might wish.
Moreover, I cannot understand how people claim that they save them money. They don’t reduce power usage. All they can do is illustrate how much power one uses.
I don’t need an electronic display to remind me to turn off appliances, etc., that I don’t need to be on. I can work that out for myself.
I am like the Queen. I routinely go around the house turning off lights that have been left on… not saying by whom of course, although there are only two of us here (since our poor cat died 
).
Absolutely not. Creepy, intrusive and really annoying that we all have to pay for them even if we don’t want one.
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I have a water meter, I had no choice.
It has saved me diddly squat, I would be much better off without one.
I tried it but I obviously don’t have a very smart meter. I went outside and said “NO!” to it and it did absolutely nothing.
http://www.over50sforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4241&d=1508212824
Didn’t even blink…
http://www.over50sforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4242&d=1508212833
I tried speaking very sternly to it but that didn’t work either. Saying “No” to a smart meter is a non starter.
Perhaps treating it kindly works better after all the poor thing is outside rain or shine with no one for company, maybe it just needs a bit of TLC.
I won’t have a Smart in the house for all the reasons that other posters have already mentioned. I know exactly how much Gas/Electricity I use per day, do not need a robot to tell me.
I thought they were not compulsory. I’d certainly resist having one.
It didn’t work because you have to be more specific. They are ‘smart’ of course.
You must state quite clearly, “Stop turning”.
[size=4]PLEASE NOTE THERE IS ALREADY A THREAD THAT HAS DISCUSSED SMART METERS[/size]
Here:
http://www.over50sforum.com/showthread.php?t=39817
It has all the details and research links you are likely to need.
The quick summary is that you ABSOLUTELY SHOULD NOT allow your energy company to install a Smart Meter.
Smart Meters exist for one reason and one reason only . .
TO INCREASE PROFITS OF ENERGY SUPPLIERS
Smart Meters exist to herald in the new way of charging for gas and electricty. That new way is charging for energy usage at every minute of every day and applying different rates of charges at different times of the day. You can guess which parts of the day will be charged at the higher rates.
If you accept a Smart Meter, YOU WILL ultimately see your energy bills either double or treble. You have been warned!
You will also be at the mercy of the company who will have the power and ability to shut off your supply remotely should they so desire.
If the inevitable rise in your bills doesn’t turn you away then the prospect of having the equivalent of a mobile phone mast strapped to the side of your house, irradiating you and your children 24x7, should be reason enough to refuse one.
Smart Meters are a complete con. Just there to make mega profits by allowing the providers to charge you different rates at different times of the day. The meters will monitor your usage constantly (don’t ever believe what the providers say about that). They will work out when you use energy the most (i.e. when you are home from work) and that’s when they will charge you the highest rate.
They will present it as a kind of ECO necessity to force people to spread their energy usage across the day but that’s just kidology. There is no evidence to suggest smart meters help in any way to such efficiencies. There is plenty of evidence to suggest smart meters double or treble your bills though.
I have already put laminated signs inside my gas and electricty meter boxes expressely forbidding anyone to install a smart meter (should they try and do so whilst I am away somewhere).
Write to your provider early, take the initiative and tell them in no uncertain terms that you will not, under any circumstances, accept a smart meter.
Yes but in that case won’t they charge those without a meter the highest rate all day? I bet they do something underhand like that to get back at us.
You are buggered which ever way you go.
My supplier informs me that a smart meter cannot be fitted to my house because I have an economy 7 meter and a standard meter, therefore I supply them with two readings every month. Apparently the smart meters are not smart enough to handle this…yet!
Tomorrow I have a SMART Water meter fitted same as electric but obviously metering water.
This will replace my old meter which was read by a meter reader from a device outside the house. The new SMART meter will be read remotely. I didn’t have much choice really, if I had refused then I would be put back on an unmetered tariff which is obviously based on the number of bedrooms in your home. So with 4 bedrooms and only two of us now at home it will cost us an arm and a leg in water rates.
Using a meter has saved us a lot of money obviously but I do dislike the way this has been ‘forced ‘ upon us.
I hadn’t heard of smart meters for water Rehab.
How do you know these ‘remote’ reading will be accurate?
Will you still double check it yourself to make sure? I would.
Severn Trent are rolling them out Mups, apparently you can read the meter yourself, ours will be fitted in the downstairs loo where the stopcock is located.
And of course I can check my account on line to see my usage. I am not sure if there is a separate display like you have for a power smartmeter though, information seems to be a bit thin on the ground, even the website doesn’t say much
Well that was a load of nonsense, engineer arrived, took out old meter, replaced with new meter, without even switching the water off. And it’s not too smart after all. All it does is send a signal to a man in a van driving past whose computer will read my meter. Fitting took all of 20 minutes. Just to save a meter reader getting out of his van. Oh Hum!
That doesn’t sound such a good idea after all then.
What a waste of time and money, unless they have some devious plan up their sleeves you don’t know about yet? :roll:
I suppose it’s a financial decision Mups, no doubt I will have to pay for the meter and it’s installation through increased bills although we have been told it’s FREE, yeh right:shock:
I guess a man in a van with a computer can cover more ground quicker than having to physically go to each house to read the meter? And a cost saving by employing less meter readers, and they call it progress :shock:
I think you have this whole smart meter lark summed up in just that sentence Mups.
There are no doubt lots of devious plans in hand from the utility companies, all designed by them to offload as much workforce as they can, and put your bills UP by perhaps charging different rates for different times of the day.
We are entering:
[B]The Outer Limits! :twisted: 
There is nothing wrong with your electricity and gas supply.
Do not attempt to adjust them. :twisted:
We are now controlling your supplies.
We control the electricity and your gas and your water bills.
We can deluge you with different rates of pay for different times of day.
We can shape your supplies to anything our imagination can conceive.
For the next decades we will control all that you see and hear.
You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the deepest inner mind of our money grabbing companies to the outer limits. :twisted:
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They have let the aluminium foil beanie brigade out again.
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I keep getting come-ons from SSE about installing smart meters.
And I keep knocking them back…I went as far as threatening to switch providers if they sent me one more letter or unsolicited phone call about them.
I don’t blame you, they get on my wick too.