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- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
#1
A heads-up regarding Affinity's water bills: 'actual' doesn't necessarily mean that some nice person from Affinity has actually read your meter. I know this because:
a) our meter is hard to find and I can tell from the road vegetation and dirt that it hasn't been found recently;
b) the meter reading I captured on my phone's camera yesterday is appreciably lower that the 'actual' one on the bill.
What is, in reality, Affinity's estimate isn't that far out in our case - about £12-worth too high over the past 6 months, and I propose to go along with their revised direct debit (up £8/month for reasons best known to them) which will knock-on into waste water too. All the same, it's not what I define as 'actual'.
(Not my real name.)
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#2
All will be blamed on Covid as it is the get out clause for most things at the moment.
My monthly direct debit has also gone up but I am not worried as I will eventually get any excess payment back, so it is not worth the trouble of querying why they have put it up.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#3
True Jan
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TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
- Posts: 365
#4
As we're talking utility bills...
We were cold called this morning by (supposedly) our electric supplier, trying to hassle us into getting a smart meter fitted. I told them we don't really want one and hung up. They can't make you have one fitted can they?
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#5
[QUOTE=I told them we don't really want one.[/QUOTE]
But why? Surely they are merely the first step on a truly 'smart grid' which has to be the only sensible way forward for dealing with electricity generation, storage and distribution?
(BTW an update on the EV charging points being rolled out kerb-side in the district. DDC has just realised that the local power supply is so crap the only chargers they can put in are the equivalent of 'trickle chargers' which take over 4 hours to charge a vehicle and the plan was for a max of two hours waiting time. Doh!
The only alternative would have left it like Sing Sing jail when an inmate was executed.
Whenever anyone tried to charge their car the lights in the road would have dimmed and all TV sets would have to be re-tuned.
Crag faced traffic supremo Collor (CSE Science - failed) last seen reading Electricity for Dummies.)
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,095
#6
TheThinWhiteDuke wrote:They can't make you have one fitted can they?
Not at the moment.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,095
#7
Rachel Carson, David Attenborough, Timothy Treadwell, Chris Packham, the Environment Agency, Greta Thunberg, Just Stop Oil, Bill Oddie: you took a hell of a beating!
WGS: literally thirsting for England.
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'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
