Here's two photos of gas meters. The old and dusty one, was in our gas cupboard for almost eight years, quietly adding up our usage, until we received a letter from National Metering telling us it had to go.
Apparently, the meter had a battery which was impossible to replace. I wonder who had that bright idea.
Anyway, a day was booked for the replacement to be fitted, the job was done and the fitter left the shiny new one in the box, fitted.
One slight problem, it made a horrible whistling noise. The sort of noise that goes right through you and starts an instant headache.
Back came the fitter to the house next door, which was making the same horrible noise. Between us, we used up all the meters he had in his van.
He said he's never enountered anything like it, scratched his head, and called his boss, then came back with another batch of meters.
We thought the problem had gone away, but we were wrong. So, I put in a call to the company call centre, who gave me the run around suggesting I should contact my energy supplier who could arrange a new meter...etc..etc. Well, I let National Metering know that they have caused this, and they should fix it, it really has nothing to do with my energy supplier!
I suggest that I should call the press next, and they could send a TV crew to have a listen to the noise that we were enduring.
Amazingly another fitter arrived within an hour, changed the regulator and hey presto, bliss.
