We are soon signing for our house although officially moving next summer. But of course we want electricity and water to continue at the house so is this the right path right now?
I gather that as long as you’re still resident in the UK, you can only open a UK Revolut account. Which could presumably be used to pay for French utilities.
Once you actually move to France, I believe the correct procedure is to close the Revolut UK account and open a Revolut France account. Apparently they are 2 separate legal entities.
If you’re concerned about a possible gap between closing the old Revolut account and opening the new one, one solution would be to open another account with a different French bank after you arrive. As backup.
Thank you for the replies, should have mentioned Im Dutch, moving from Netherlands to France. In Oktober I’ll be in France and get the key’s. Planned to get a prepaid card and shove it in a spare phone. Then try open a Revolute France account right away.
Which is an absolute pain for us as the address EDF use for us is not our actual address, but some other address that doesn’t exist. We’ve tried several times to get them to change it for our real address but they refuse to do so.
I had a similar refusal from EDF. The good news is that the address correction needed concerned the location of their Linky equipment which is off-property. They simply refused to correct the address where their Linky is to be found.
Luckily the problem does not occur with the address they use to send the bills so they do get paid. But I hope one day when they need to, they will still be able to find their Linky
We have online billing only. If they try to send us a letter, it doesn’t get delivered as the address doesn’t exist.
The road name they have for us is actually another nearby side road in the village and there is land set aside for future housing that would theoretically acquire the number on that road that EDF has for us. It’ll be interesting to see what happens if they ever build that house.
I think it’s a fairly common problem, having the wrong address on various accounts that you can’t change. We have it with the tax people, who see any change of address as a move, which of course it isn’t.
When our address was changed back at the turn of the year I had the devil’s own job getting EDF to get it right in their records. They managed to bodge the postal address (not that we use that, being paper free) in a way that would have worked but was annoying, but didn’t change the address being supplied/lieu de consommation.
Anyway, after several emails & also 'phone calls they finally managed to get it almost right, but still insist on including our old commune name in the postal address, as well as the correct one. That unnecessary bit doesn’t appear in the lieu de consommation
Our address was changed on the national database, being an administrative thing. Our tax returns & now tax fonc demands have all arrived with the new address on without any need to tell them.
When renewing our residency, we found that there were several versions of our address in different places. And , obviously this didn’t look good for proof of address. Like many we changed from Lieu dit, to a more conventional, though stupidly numbered, address. Our mayor’s office kindly gave us a signed, stamped, very official looking document pointing out to anyone who was interested to know, that ? was our new address and it had been ??. It covered all the variations.
