Do the electricity supplier charge

[George]

for examining a meter?

reason being I've been in this property for three years now and was on prepayment for a while but decided to go DD and have a normal meter put in. Anyway this meter that was installed was not new nor was it serviced meter otherwise the numbers would have been set to zero,it had a reading on it at the time of installation so this tells me it probably came from another premises? The problem is every time I go to use an heavy appliance the circuit breaker trips and has never done this in the three years I've lived here before the meter got installed.

TIA

[R]

Question is has the installation made it safer or produced a fault?

[Colin Wilson]

Sounds like a normal meter. The readings are not reset when they're installed elsewhere, they simply keep a record of what the reading was.

Your tripping problem sounds incidental to me, but you could always ask them to do a check for safety (they'll have shift electricians available).

[The Wanderer]

It would have been tested and certified at some point in its life cycle.

No, there would have been at least a few units registered as part of the certification procedure, so a newly overhauled and certified meter will never have zero units on it.

Dunno what present thinking is, but meters taken off circuit within 5 years of certification were deemed suitable for reissue without recertification, given that the certification period for a quarterly meter is - or was - 20 years.

Bear in mind there will probably be a charge for that.

[Colin Wilson]

Not in the Scottish Power area it isn't - at least not in Scotland !

[Stuart B]

My meter was "humming" slightly a short time ago and what I had to do was ask my supplier ...EDF...to get in touch with Scottish Power and they came out in a few days and replaced the meter. No Problem...No Charge

Stuart