when my brother was a squatter they always bypassed the meters

( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 15:45, archived)

You do, I'd say 99.9% of the time they dont take the trouble to just by pass a loft / grow room . It wouldn't be too difficult if the left is on it's own circuit, but I'm calling bullshit , soz

( mongychops, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 16:04, archived)

What, you mean the builder may not be being truthful
about his reason for not being onsite for a week? I can't accept that.

Though, it would have meant collusion between the builder AND the sparky. There was definitely a weed farm in the loft - saw it with me own orbits before they ripped it out.
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 16:07, archived)

not to counter your BS detection skills mate, but surely bypassing the entire house, a house I'm assuming wasn't being squatted or was otherwise dodgy apart from the weed farm in the loft, that bypassing the whole meter so no bills etc
would draw attention to the house, no?

You're the expert, I'm happy enough to be wrong here.
(Smegg Wallace The O.G. Q.R., Mon 21 Jun 2021, 16:08, archived)

He's got a point

( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 16:21, archived)

A joint more like!!!
Because weed.
(dribble, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 16:52, archived)

^Comedy tin

(dribble, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 16:52, archived)

Did you hear that a pigeon got arrested and thrown in jail
For smoking a 'dovetail joint'!!!!!!
(Smegg Wallace The O.G. Q.R., Mon 21 Jun 2021, 16:56, archived)

Now he's doing bird

(dribble, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 17:07, archived)

on D wing

(Smegg Wallace The O.G. Q.R., Mon 21 Jun 2021, 17:12, archived)

The no bills and thermal cameras normally is the undoing of weed farms. But that takes fucking years . The leccy companies are notoriously shit at billing, sending reminders, arranging court and getting bailiffs, can normally pay fuck all for 2 years eas

( mongychops, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 16:27, archived)

fair enough

(Smegg Wallace The O.G. Q.R., Mon 21 Jun 2021, 16:43, archived)

so...if you had a massive leccy bill but paid it off regularly,
that wouldn't necessarily be suspicious? Or would it?
( Turing's Artificial Hand Sig Sauer, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 17:07, archived)

Leccy companies are not plod, or aligned to them . What you use it for is up to you. They do not report

( mongychops, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 17:14, archived)

is it not the case that the law can request usage reports from the providers for use to justify raids?
I'm sure I heard something like that, people talk bollocks though of course, and no-one more so than my old pal Yeti
( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 17:23, archived)

Yeah, but you are years down the line. Quicker ways to raid somewhere. The energy provider do not give two fucks .

( mongychops, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 17:30, archived)

I think unusually high bills are as much of a flag as nonexistent ones
If you use LED grow lights the potential for this is greatly reduced I believe
( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 17:19, archived)

Well halogen will be banned from sale September. Fluorescent 2023, although I expect next year. Sodium and halides will get banned , but they are industrial so might take a while. You'll only have led by 2025 I reckon

( mongychops, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 17:25, archived)

are we LED it off the road

(Smegg Wallace The O.G. Q.R., Mon 21 Jun 2021, 17:29, archived)

All the street lamps here are led now I miss the glow of sodium

( mongychops, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 17:34, archived)

Bloody weird light they put out

(dribble, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 17:38, archived)

No warmth to them

( mongychops, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 17:48, archived)

Might stockpile halogens to resell in a few years
I mean I made my first million selling incandescents at ridiculously inflated prices to nostalgics who like to cook their dinner by holding it near the ceiling for a few minutes, hooray for good old fashioned inefficiency
(dribble, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 17:37, archived)

I've told a few big companies to stock up now, or else I'm mugging you. When fluorescent goes it will be boom time for sparks

( mongychops, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 17:51, archived)