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Can one stop power cutters by not letting them in door

  • 12-02-2013 07:17PM
    #1
    Freezing nuts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭Freezing nuts


    What is the process of cutting off electricity supply ? I always assumed they cn do it by flicking a switch at HQ... On reading their last warning letter with date of the big bad cutter men, it said not opening door is an offence or something similar ( ripped it up). Do they need to get in house to cut it off ? They read meter outside with all the other apartments meters so they could cut it there right ?


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  • #2
    ITS_A_BADGER
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,232 ✭✭✭ITS_A_BADGER


    pay your bill problem sorted


  • #3
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    Freezing nuts wrote: »
    What is the process of cutting off electricity supply ? I always assumed they cn do it by flicking a switch at HQ... On reading their last warning letter with date of the big bad cutter men, it said not opening door is an offence or something similar ( ripped it up). Do they need to get in house to cut it off ? They read meter outside with all the other apartments meters so they could cut it there right ?

    Next time try reading BEFORE tearing up.


  • #4
    Pilotdude5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Pilotdude5


    Well if they do cut it off, your nuts will be freezing for sure.


  • #5
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    They'll come with the local sheriff if you don't let them in.

    And of course as you all know it's legal to shoot a sheriff but the debate around shooting a deputy still rages on.


  • #6
    grizzly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭grizzly


    Appropriate username op :pac:


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  • #7
    Freezing nuts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭Freezing nuts


    Is this the failed comedian forum ?


  • #8
    gifted
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,203 ✭✭✭gifted


    Pay your bills....scrounging git...:D


  • #9
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Freezing nuts wrote: »
    Is this the failed comedian forum ?

    And racist, women-hating, baby-killers too.


  • #10
    somefeen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭somefeen


    Freezing nuts wrote: »
    Is this the failed comedian forum ?

    Yes


  • #11
    scwazrh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,981 ✭✭✭scwazrh


    They usually just remove the service fuse which is beside the meter.


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  • #12
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Freezing nuts wrote: »
    What is the process of cutting off electricity supply ? I always assumed they cn do it by flicking a switch at HQ... On reading their last warning letter with date of the big bad cutter men, it said not opening door is an offence or something similar ( ripped it up). Do they need to get in house to cut it off ? They read meter outside with all the other apartments meters so they could cut it there right ?

    They flick a switch to cut you off. Then upon further continued non payment they will pursue you with every legal means possible. This may include selling your debt to a debt collection agency who will then make regular visits to your door seeking payment, before they too will pursue you through the courts.

    You'll be forced to pay eventually OP.


  • #13
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    What are you planning on doing for power whenever they cut off? Reconnection fee is very high.


  • #14
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    Come to an agreement with them that you will pay them €5 a month, at least you are proving that you are at least trying to pay them something.


  • #15
    Freezing nuts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭Freezing nuts


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    They flick a switch to cut you off. Then upon further continued non payment they will pursue you with every legal means possible. This may include selling your debt to a debt collection agency who will then make regular visits to your door seeking payment, before they too will pursue you through the courts.

    You'll be forced to pay eventually OP.

    They could try but i refuse to pay due to a supposed resolved issue going back a few years when i was overcharged for 2 years.

    So it is fact they don't need to get in apartment to cut power ?


  • #16
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,902 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    Freezing nuts wrote: »
    What is the process of cutting off electricity supply ? I always assumed they cn do it by flicking a switch at HQ... On reading their last warning letter with date of the big bad cutter men, it said not opening door is an offence or something similar ( ripped it up). Do they need to get in house to cut it off ? They read meter outside with all the other apartments meters so they could cut it there right ?

    You asked for and was given sound advice in your other thread. You are too lazy to go to a CWO. :rolleyes:


  • #17
    Freezing nuts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭Freezing nuts


    scwazrh wrote: »
    They usually just remove the service fuse which is beside the meter.

    Anybody could cut somebodies power then at anytime


  • #18
    orestes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    Freezing nuts wrote: »
    They could try but i refuse to pay due to a supposed resolved issue going back a few years when i was overcharged for 2 years.

    Fight da powah!


  • #19
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Freezing nuts wrote: »
    Anybody could cut somebodies power then at anytime

    They need access to the box.

    I've seen whole apartment blocks being cut off when ruffians set fire to the box in the basement.

    So yeah, anyone could I suppose.

    Doesn't change the fact that yours will be shortly and in the official, legal manner.

    You should take people's advice I think and swallow your pride.

    Start talking to them about paying the bill off in installments instead of some imagined stand-off where you don't let them in.


  • #20
    Freezing nuts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭Freezing nuts


    Kristopherus wrote: »
    You asked for and was given sound advice in your other thread. You are too lazy to go to a CWO. :rolleyes:

    Yes but covering all options, the CWO will not help leaving charity option as last resort imo. Just trying to cover all angles.


  • #21
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 98,142 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    "We run the gas off the electricity and the electricity off the gas and we save two hundred pounds a year, but then a few weeks later ah god, I'll never forget it now, we got a new boiler..."


    Anyway if you get cut off you'll have to pay a reconnect fee


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  • #22
    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    They can't flick a switch at HQ they have to come into your house to remove the fuse or else removing the wire going into your house altogether

    You can always try to bribe the guys who come in to do a purposefully shoddy job resealing the fuse box


  • #23
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    see the Social Welfare people if you are genuinely unable to pay....


  • #24
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Freezing nuts wrote: »

    Yes but covering all options, the CWO will not help leaving charity option as last resort imo. Just trying to cover all angles.


    You may be under the misguided impression OP that you have any legal recourse once your bill is left unpaid. The fact is as has been mentioned previously that it doesn't take much effort for the utility company to cut you off for non payment, at which point a reconnection fee will be required and your account cleared before your electricity will be turned back on.

    Attempting to switch to another provider will also prove difficult because they have all become wise to this sort of behaviour and will refuse you an account very quickly.

    Your only real course of action left open to you is to clear your account and THEN pursue a dispute action with the provider. They will not listen to your claims otherwise and neither will any court.


  • #25
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,182 ✭✭✭dvpower


    Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

    You can always try to bribe the guys who come in to do a purposefully shoddy job resealing the fuse box
    If he had money to pay bribes, he probably wouldn't be posting this in the first place.


  • #26
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »
    They can't flick a switch at HQ they have to come into your house to remove the fuse or else removing the wire going into your house altogether

    You can always try to bribe the guys who come in to do a purposefully shoddy job resealing the fuse box


    Apartment buildings have a switch room for utilities such as electricity supply and cable tv that feeds each apartment in the block. They only need access to this room and not specifically to your apartment.


  • #27
    westies4ever
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭westies4ever


    Know a guy who works for esb and has to perform cut offs - they don't need to get in.


  • #28
    yellowlabrador
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,216 ✭✭✭yellowlabrador


    If you claim benefits you could as for the householdbudget package and they will deduct some of your arrears and also pay towards your next bill. They will deduct the money at source or else get a prepay meter installed and pay your arrears off a couple of euros at a time.


  • #29
    Freezing nuts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭Freezing nuts


    Ok so now i'm sure they don't need to enter apartment, seemed the likely scenario. If only laptop batteries lasted longer so i could spend day in library powering it up and get my hands on a camp stove.


  • #30
    Alter-Ego
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Alter-Ego


    Just pay under protest and chase them for whatever you feel they owe you later.


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  • #31
    dj jarvis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,485 ✭✭✭dj jarvis


    the internet connection i am sure would would cover the cost of the power , i would imagine - priority and all that.

    also , i would suggest that if you start using a camp stove in a block of apartments your neighbours might want to kill you, as they are notorious for starting fires and also killing their users with fumes.

    payment play , few bob a week , sorted , no need to be causing hassle of it


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