£6594 job application with no long term prospects.

[dennis]

They did a pressure drop test before and after replacing my gas meter.

[Tim Watts]

On mine they actually looked at the CU. Perhaps because I'd told them I needed the cutout fuse pulled so I could install a new CU.

[spuorgelgoog]

Mine changed the meter with the live tail dangling, without pulling the fuse.

I didn't tell him it was a nice easy smooth pull :-)

Owain

[Andrew Gabriel]

Monitoring of the guinea pigs has shown that this effect lasts only about 2-3 weeks. Then it reverses, and as people see how cheap a kettle boiling or washing machine run is, some become less concerned about energy use than they were beforehand.

However, none of this requires smart metering - DIY power usage meters have been commonplace for ~10 years, and given away by many electricity companies. Giving one to every home would be much cheaper than smart metering.

Yes. Do check the consumption of the smart sockets - most consume more than the standy power of TV's and other things people mistakenly use them on. Set-top boxes tend to be bad in the UK, because they are mostly country-specific, and we have no legislation requiring low standby consumption, whereas TVs are sold into countries where such legislation does exist, and we also benefit in that case.

I do that with home automation, and it's been extremely effective at saving energy.

[bert]

In message , Richard writes

Do people coming out of the forces have a bag of cash with them and are they desperate to get a job?

[Andrew Gabriel]

I booked myself on plastering and bricklaying courses many years ago. The training centre was on the army grounds at Aldershot, and probably over half the people doing the courses are still in the army, but preparing to leave, so I assume the army paid for them as part of their training to leave process. The centre did a full range of building courses, each in various formats from just 2 day courses,

1 week courses, and full C&G.

That training centre has now closed, so I don't know what the current situation is for the army. I have been to its replacement, and I didn't see any army people there - it was all teenagers doing building trades training (mostly standing around talking to each other).

[Weatherlawyer]

I signed in with Reed's agency to both learn more about the situation and to get future job vacancy notices. Now I keep getting emails offering me meter installation contracts of one sort or another.

If you signed up to learn more about this crap, are you too getting the same problem?