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We've recently moved house and this is on the wall outside. Can anyone tell me what this is?
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Posted : 04/09/2011 3:31 pm
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looks like a cup for a security gate. Is it in a narrow gap?


 
Posted : 04/09/2011 3:36 pm
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Listening device


 
Posted : 04/09/2011 3:37 pm
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Stopper for door handle?

Baby gate mount?

EDIT Gah andyl


 
Posted : 04/09/2011 3:37 pm
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Looks like a sensor for a something,maybe a security light? Unscrew it and look behind it! Post a picture of the back and i can probably give you a better idea, (electrician by trade).


 
Posted : 04/09/2011 3:38 pm
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Limpet mine, don't touch it!


 
Posted : 04/09/2011 3:41 pm
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It's about a foot to the right of the gas meter box. I'll unscrew it and have a look - looks more of a mount than a sensor to me.

It's in the middle of the front wall of the house, about two foot from the ground.


 
Posted : 04/09/2011 3:50 pm
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haha i live in an apartment building and i have always presumed they are sensors for lights to come on in the corridors, there is one out side every apartment door, so i just took off the one outside my door and it has a small grey cable in it. inside and in my water tank cupboard is my water meter with a small grey cable going into it, the meter says "smart meter" on it so i think the water company come round and scan the black round thing and it gives them a meter reading, being so close to your gas meter i guess its for gas meter readings. so they dont have to come in your house or you have to ring them up with it.


 
Posted : 04/09/2011 4:00 pm
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Yep, it's for taking water meter readings.


 
Posted : 04/09/2011 4:02 pm
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It has got wiring to it....

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Posted : 04/09/2011 4:03 pm
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The wiring goes through the wall towards the kitchen sink area, but the units cover up where it is connected to.
Any ideas?


 
Posted : 04/09/2011 4:04 pm
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ahh that's cool.


 
Posted : 04/09/2011 4:04 pm
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can you push the bit in the middle in, like a switch?


 
Posted : 04/09/2011 4:07 pm
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only cut the red wire


 
Posted : 04/09/2011 4:10 pm
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You've had the answers already... It's a remote reader for the water meter, the meter readers have a gizmo that they offer up to your fitting an hey preto, meter read without having to come inside....


 
Posted : 04/09/2011 4:10 pm
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only cut the red wire

Lolllzzzz


 
Posted : 04/09/2011 4:15 pm
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Ta very much. Water meter sensor gizmo.
I'll sleep easy tonight.


 
Posted : 04/09/2011 4:15 pm
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[i]I'll sleep easy tonight[/i]

Not now that you have activated the antitamper nebby get flux scrinsen you wont 😉


 
Posted : 04/09/2011 4:43 pm
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You've had the answers already... It's a remote reader for the water meter, the meter readers have a gizmo that they offer up to your fitting an hey preto, meter read without having to come inside....

Yeah right, that's what [i]they[/i] want you to think. Rip it off, it the NWO bugging your house. I ripped mine off of my house now I keep on getting letters claiming to be from utilities companies trying to get into my house. The perfect cover.

You have been warned.


 
Posted : 04/09/2011 4:46 pm