Finding the Electricity Meter

Farcear

I am renting an apartment in an apartment block in the city centre. I need to get an electricity meter reading and have been told that, as tenant, I need to sort this myself (which is fair enough).

Looking around the common areas, I cannot find anything that obviously looks like an electricity meter.

First image - There are some white boxes on the outside wall of the apartment block, just below the ground floor windows. I think these could have meters inside but I cannot open these.

Second image - There are also a few boxes inside the door, but these look more like fire alarm systems.

Sorry if this is a bit of a stupid question but do you think any of these might have an electricity meter inside?

Thanks!

Tokyo

First photo looks too small to be electricity - more likely to be phone or cable. Second photo is definitely the fire panel.

Take a look around outside for a white meter enclosure - it'll be about 70x60cm, and about a metre off the ground. Failing that, they may be located in the common area indoors somewhere, though they'd be pretty easy to spot.

Darc19

Usually they are not easily accessible.

The block management will have access. Just give them a call.

YellowBucket

Definitely ring the management company. They could be in some unrecognisable location.

Thoie

Farcear wrote: »

I am renting an apartment in an apartment block in the city centre. I need to get an electricity meter reading and have been told that, as tenant, I need to sort this myself (which is fair enough).


Thanks!

In my last apartment the meters were all in the basement, behind a locked door, in with equipment for the lift and water pumps etc. If you needed a meter reading you called the managing agent, and they emailed it to you.

Has your landlord given you the contact details of the managing agent for the block?