I needed Gas and Electric meter …
I needed Gas and Electric meter relocated due to garage conversion. I had a choice of Cadence who did Gas and UK Power network who did Electric. Reviews of Cadence were good so decided to get Cadence to do my Gas meter move. They were absolutely brilliant and did the whole job from start to finish, with good communication and responses and completed an excellent job. UKPower would only do the cutting of the supply and taking the new cable to the new meter location box---you had to get a builder to dig the drive from the main cable to the new box location, get him to install the new meter box, then had to get your own Elect supplier ( mine was octopus) to move meter from old location to new meter box, get your supplier to move the Elect meter,then get your electrician to connect back to the house. Too many people involved ALL at the same time, so contacted Crown Energy who said they would do the whole job. What a NIGHTMARE! The Untilities Manager had no idea what was going on. I had asked for the whole job to be quoted--she quoted just for the cutting of the supply and rejoining and to the new site. When I said i had asked for the excavation work to be done as well, she said she made a mistake and got in touch with UKPower( as a subcontracter!) and the price DOUBLED! She kept refering to the contract I signed and when i pointed out flaws in the contract, she said it was just a general contract and not relevant to my case! To cut a long story short it took me 6 months of several emails and phone calls,up and down to her before I could even start. They took all the money upfront, subcontracted UKPOwernetwrok to do the digging of the mains and reconnecting( which i could have got them to do directly). I had to separately get my own builder to fix the new meterbox, dig the access for the Hockeystick, get my won electrician to connect to new meter and back to the house, at the same day arranging Octopus to move the meter( they were brilliant as I said I did not want to be without an electric supply.) To compare: Cadence did the move with 2 emails and one site visit---they even rectified the reinstating of the block paving that Crown did badly! For me Crown was an utter waste of time and energy---wish i knew beforerhand. These are my personal views based on my experience








