gas

[marnanel]

One of the minor annoyances I haven't mentioned before is that the letting agent switched us to a new gas company, who sent us a new meter key with a letter saying "This is so you don't have to deal with bad debts from former tenants." So I was not much amused to discover that the new key already had a debt of £73 on it. We phoned them, and they cancelled the debt, but it'll take a week to go through (because their computers are actually powered by gnomes or something). Until then, we get 10p of gas for every pound we put on the meter, because 90p goes towards the debt, and 10p of gas is not quite enough to run a bath. This wouldn't be as much of a problem if we had more spare cash at present, and if the weather wasn't starting to get cold.

Comments

[pseudomonas]

Can you get the key meter replaced with a non-key one? IIRC the key sorts are quite a lot more expensive (or they used to be, anyway)

[marnanel]

I asked about that. They said yes, as long as we pay for parts and labour to install it: total cost about £140-ish. :/

[pseudomonas]

Can you get the landlord to agree to split the cost? Lower gas prices is a selling point for them.

[treeowl]

I think you should report them to the police for theft. Perhaps that will get their attention.