At least the water company contacted you...
Before I sold my flat I moved back in with my folks months before the sale. I was gutting the place and doing it up.
Water company asked me for a reading one day and the meter was all 00000..
A few days after that I get a letter asking me to call them urgently only to start getting interrogated by someone when I did so.
Did I live there? How many people were living there? etc etc.
I explained the situation and got an 'Oh'.. The nincompoops had just gone ahead and replaced the meter without asking questions...
