How to find out if my neighbor is stealing electricity from me?

Sergei asks:

Good evening! Do not tell me what to do right. I have suspicions that a neighbor is stealing electricity, because over the past 3 months, payment for electricity has increased almost three times, as if I were paying for 2, or even more, apartments. A dilapidated 2 floor house was built back in the USSR. Counters are located in each apartment, and the instrument panel is between the first and second floor. And now I’m looking for information, whether they can connect to my apartment through the dashboard, otherwise there was an incident today where a neighbor was doing something in this dashboard and the electricity was cut off only in my apartment, and not in the whole house. How to check here?

The answer to the question:

Hello! To begin with, you need to contact the management company with this question. Further, why are you so sure that only in your apartment, and not in the whole house? Maybe all the apartments powered by one phase were disconnected? The neighbor does not have the right to do anything in the access electrical switchboard, since the management company is responsible for it.
Most likely, he couldn’t connect to your meter through the shield, since usually a cable comes into your apartment, where it connects to the meter and your sockets, lighting, etc. are already connected from the meter. But if you have adjacent walls, then he could, if the meter hangs on “his” wall, making a hole to connect to your wiring, and also if you have sockets installed in through holes between the apartments.

And you can check it simply - turn off all electrical appliances and see if the counter shakes. This should be done not once, but several at different times of the day.

There is also a separate article on this site:https://our.electricianexp.com/en/kak-nakazat-sosedej-za-xishhenie-elektrichestva.html

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