Best advice is to pull the relays on your meter when you depart for Blighty, we moved here 7 yrs ago,and the meter was damaged during a storm,this was replaced by the new digital,3 tariff meter.We were in formed at the time that all new builds,by law,had to be fitted with this type of meter.
Its no good fitting a cut off device indoors,this still leaves the meter live.As a matter of interest our lecky bills over the past winter months have averaged out at 35 to 40 TL a month.
I'me afraid that the practise of plugging into peoples electricity supply by builders during their absence is a common practise.
It is Turkey.
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