Gas meter moved?

Gwenrose

Eaga heating fitted a new boiler under the gov scheme a year ago. The boiler was serviced three weeks ago and the engineer from Warmsure, found the boiler was not getting enough gas. After a number of engineer reports it was decided the boiler had not been fitted correctly to the gas meter but to the old pipe work of the old boiler.
The gas to the boiler was cut off and we had no hot water or heating.
Eagaheating was told by Warmfront to correct the problem.
The engineer from Eaga heat has moved the gas meter so that he could fix the gas pipes on to the gas meter, he could not have doen it if the meter had not been moved.
We are in the process of selling the house and buying a bungalow, but I am scared that the engineer has committed an ellegal act as the meter belongs to Transco.
What should I do, we are terrified that although the contract is between Eaga heat and Warmfront, we will be in the firing line if what he has doen is ellegal and we do not inform some one. If I knew a year ago how dreadful applying for a grant for a new boiler could be and having the cowboys from eaga heat fit it I would never have even tried to get the grant.
Please help with some constructive advice, we are at our wits end with worry.

CHR15

How is anyone going to know??

Without being dishonest, simply don't offer the information and talk about the wonderful views from the garden

Pssst

What do you mean he moved the meter? can you be more specific? do you have a pic of said meter installation?

trisontana

Just to correct one small point. Transco has now been re-named as National Grid Gas.

Gwenrose

Pssst wrote: »

What do you mean he moved the meter? can you be more specific? do you have a pic of said meter installation?

The gas meter was incased within a wall between the clockroom and garage, the meter was always read from the garage side through a glass front.
To connect the pipes from the new boiler to the meter would have been difficult and I was given to understand that for the connection to be doen the meter would have to be moved by what was Transco as they owned the meter.
Because the boiler was not fitted correctly in the beginning, the Eaga Heat engineer decided to remove the meter from box in the wall where it was put in 1971 and fix it onto the inside of the garage wall approx 2ft from the origional position, fixing all the new pipe work from the boiler to the meter, without permission from Transco.
Is it legal for the meter to be moved without permission from Transco as it is their property, plus I understand the new regulations are that the meter has to be no further than 2mtrs from the property boundery?

What do we do, because if Transco find out the meter has been moved and it is illegal, will we be the ones who end up in trouble even though the contract is between Eaga Heat and Warm Front?

advantix

I believe that as long as the meter was moved less than 2meters (approx 6 ft) and was moved by a GASSAFE registered engineer, and the engineer reported the move to National Grid then it is fine. You can call your Gas supplier to confirm this but i believe this to be correct.

Pssst

As i understand it,the meter ,under normal circumstances,would only be moveable within the range that would be permitted by the length of the stainless steel inlet flexible connector,i.e the bit of flexi steel pipe that fits between the emergency control valve and the pressure regulator.

The only way to extend the inlet beyond that length would be to use copper or steel tubing between ECV and regulator inlet. The GSIUR (regs) allow for this as long as the meter is clearly labelled with the location of the ECV but the official line is that the person undertaking that work must have METERS on his gassaferegistration authorisation card and the permission of the MAM (meter asset manager aka owner of the meter) must be obtained.

In practice the important bit is the labelling of the ECV/its location and the correct gassaferegister authorisation of the person undertaking the work.

If the metering work conforms to regs,dont worry about it

You CAN get away with murder these days you know.