Securing Electricity Meter Cupboard

[bernardgreen]

Keep on like this and I or some other like minded person will come round, open your meter boxes and flip the isolators or pull and take away the main fuses so the pair of you shut up or lock up your boxes.

 

[DaveHerns]

Knocking their heads together (hard) might be better.

 

[mattylad]

So this thread is all about locking an electricity meter cupboard to stop the spelling bees from escaping?

 

[cooker44]

Wtf! This was just the thread I was looking for, but there are pages of off topic discussion. Can anybody following this thread highlight the conclusion reached and any off the shelf products available to secure a meter cupboard please.

 

[ericmark]

I am not sure how the smart meter has changed the playing field, before the smart meter the meter reader needed access to the meter, so it had to be the standard key.

Today the supply can be cut remotely, and the meter is also read remotely, so there is really no problem fitting any lock you like. The problem is the faraday cage, if the cabinet is made of metal it would need an aerial outside the box, and if made of plastic, then clearly it is easy to smash.

However you will be better starting a new thread, as being 7 years old, answers given today may be wrong to the original question.