More frequent meter reading
Further to David and Caroline Reiling’s letter about ARMS (The Sunday Times, October 28), it is clear that ARMS makes no allowance for the fact that many of us have to use air conditioning in the summer months. For my wife and I this period is approximately from mid-June to mid-September, with fans sufficing for a time either side of this period.
What ARMS really needs to do is to read the meters more frequently. I suggest a reading at the beginning of June, followed by one at the end of September and another in early February. Our last meter reading was on May 31; this is fine but by the end of September our reading would be very much higher, as much as two and a half times our winter consumption. Over this period of high consumption I usually send ARMS a cheque valued in excess of the amount they demand as a means of evening out my payments.
ARMS should send out someone to read the meters at regular intervals, or better still have a computer system that can read the meters directly ‘in house’.
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Pauline Peterson
Nov 11th 2012, 23:10
How about changing the rude and arrogant meter reader in a certain area of Birkirkara?
Joe Cilia Vincenti
Nov 11th 2012, 14:07
Dear Richard, I suggest you learn how to read your meter yourself, thus at any time you want you can know the extent of your consumption. I assure you that if our meter readers can do it..you also can.
Jo Woodall
Nov 11th 2012, 18:55
He doesn't mean that; of course anyone can read a meter. But the frequency of receiving the bill is ridiculous; we definitely need to have the bill more often (and the readings also) so that the cost is more evenly distributed through the year.
Joe Scerri
Nov 11th 2012, 11:33
When ARMS decides to install smart meters in every single household then we can do away with meter readers. But as usual it takes decades to have something fully up and running here.
Pippo de Marco
Nov 12th 2012, 09:35
Does anyone remember the date that Gonzi promised we would all have Smart Meters by ?
My electricity meter had to be changed last year and it was replaced with another Dumb Meter ! ( so much for cost effective use of time and resources ?) And the meter reader still didn't have any paper in his machine, so no print-out. Again !
"Smart Meters" + "ARMS" - Is that Irony or Contradiction ?
Peter Murray
Nov 11th 2012, 11:05
Dear Richard,-We used to have our meters read once every 2 months for many years until as a cost -cutting measure this was replaced by the current bi-annual reading resulting in many men being laid off.This action also coincided with the advent of the illegal ESTMATED demand for payment of utilities based on a spurious rationale Finally,very few people indeed are compelled to HAVE to use A/C.
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