According to Octopus (on R4 news yesterday) you can take reading today (their tarrif goes up a day later) & submit in the next few days, so no need to panic.
Without wanting to sound like a smug ****, didn’t we all (as a generally intelligent bunch) suspect this might happen and submit readings a few days back?
That’s what I did and I’m pretty stupid
Yep did mine on the 29th as I suspected there would be issues, plus I've been all over the country for work and I'd forget otherwise.
1.15am this morning EDF accepted my reading.
Without wanting to sound like a smug ****, didn’t we all (as a generally intelligent bunch) suspect this might happen and submit readings a few days back?
I did mine at 23.50 last night. 😀
A few days before or after makes little difference
We have the perfect storm of a none functioning smart meter. They replaced a broken 'dumb' meter with a smart meter in Sep 2020. For a year they charged us on estimated bills for a meter that was residing in a SSE skip somewhere. That resulted in threats to take us to court for none payment. Now they acknowledge the new meter exists but it's not connected to their system. I can take the meter reading manually but as the system thinks it's a smart meter there is no facility to submit the reading. I get a lovely condescending message on screen telling me not to be so daft. We don't get billed as no meter readings on a smart meter account seems to break the space time continuum - or at least SSE's laughable attempt at a 'system'. So it's frequent phone calls to a pleasant enough but seemingly powerless bod who promises to resolve things and apparently logs my meter reading somewhere. The promised booking of an engineer never happens and every month we repeat the process.
SSE are shit shit shit. We had no intention of staying with them but now no one else wants to take new customers and as the system is borked anyway we are stuck with the bellends. Did I say that SSE are shit? I'd say what I actually mean but sadly the swear filter would knock it out and my feelings would not come up on a Google search forevermore. Anyway SSE are incompetent shits.
