Water meter

[Neil]

I have never read our water meter before so I decided to check it. The latest bill said" estimate".

Anyway, I lever up the cast iron cover and it doesn't look like it has been read for years, but between the meter itself and the cover at street level is a piece of white cable / pipe that leads up to something epoxied into a plastic housing mounted in a hole in the cover.

Am I right in assuming this provides some kind of means for them reading the meter without lifting the cover?

How does that work then, 'cos it looks incredibly unsophisticated?

Cheers

Neil

[Allan]

You don't say which water company you are with. Up here, Yorkshire Water, they are starting to put automated meter reading devices in; AIUI, it's done by a wireless device and they can read about 6 at one go without getting out of the van. YW info at:

[Neil]

It's Bournemouth and West Hants. The meter doesn't look at nice as the one in that photo though.