Read a high up electricity meter

Unfortunately I do not have a smart phone or a normal camera. It is very expensive to move a meter. I just thought someone would have brought out a stick with a magnifying glass at one end which would rely it to a digital readout on the other end. Oh well I will just have to put up with it. Thanks for your ideas.

Dear Truman - how I sympathise! My GAS meter is 10cm off the ground outside my house. The terrain is gritty and full of stones. I have to use my garden kneeler to get down low enough to read the meter.

If you have a mobile phone with a camera, use a selfie stick. We had a meter moved about twenty years ago and, although I can't remember the cost, I can remember being shocked by it. I don't know if it's still the same, but back then only the electricity company was allowed to do it.

I am with Octopus and read my own meter. Octopus suggest taking a photo of the readings anyway.

You can buy Bluetooth Telescopic Sticks for about £6. That would enable you to take a photo with a smart phone. Then you have an evidenced reading.

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Why not get the meter moved to a more convenient heigt?