Getting my gas meter moved

Jen789

Hello!
I'm planning to renovate the area underneath the stairs in my house and put in a downstairs loo. At the moment there is a cupboard there in which the gas meter is.
I need to get the gas meter moved. Preferably to the front of the house in a semi-concealed meter box.
Does anyone have any experience of this process or any advice? Who do I need to contact to make this happen?
Thanks!
jen

iamcornholio

Contact National Grid.

It's one rate (£500?) for up to something like 2m, and anything more they have to quote you

ormus

700 quid is more like the going rate.

millie

I was quoted £745.00 to move mine from the cloakroom to the garage just the other side of the same wall. The builder is putting a vanity unit over it.

Jen789

Thanks everyone. We're in Southern Gas Networks region. They're sending out a surveyor to quote on the job.

Apparently choosing a semi-concealed gas meter complicates things as we will need to order this from our gas supplier.

I'm also going to speak to a builder to see if there's a way to keep the meters under the stairs and get the downstairs loo fitted.

kmmr

I wish you luck. I had a terrible terrible time with national Grid trying to do this. Took 4 months, hundreds of phone calls, and eventually tears to get it done on the fourth visit. Two visits I sat around all day, only to be told they had forgotten to book the engineer. And then told to wait was 6 weeks for the next one - as that was the normal cycle! Ignoring the fact that I had already waited 6 weeks for the visit that wasn't scheduled.

They also tried to charge me £1000 due to a computer glitch, which they agreed was ridiculous, but they couldn't make a booking without charging it. Which caused another 4 week delay. And they have you over a barrel as no-one else is qualified to do it.

Oh dear... I shouldn't talk about this. Just writing it is reminding me of what a massive massive stress the whole thing was!

carpet_cleaner_harpenden

kmmr wrote: »

I wish you luck. I had a terrible terrible time with national Grid trying to do this. Took 4 months, hundreds of phone calls, and eventually tears to get it done on the fourth visit. Two visits I sat around all day, only to be told they had forgotten to book the engineer. And then told to wait was 6 weeks for the next one - as that was the normal cycle! Ignoring the fact that I had already waited 6 weeks for the visit that wasn't scheduled.

They also tried to charge me £1000 due to a computer glitch, which they agreed was ridiculous, but they couldn't make a booking without charging it. Which caused another 4 week delay. And they have you over a barrel as no-one else is qualified to do it.

Oh dear... I shouldn't talk about this. Just writing it is reminding me of what a massive massive stress the whole thing was!

can no one else do the job neil

zax47

carpet_cleaner_harpenden wrote: »

can no one else do the job

No. Only the local infrastructure company (National Grid/Transco/etc)

kmmr

zax47 wrote: »

No. Only the local infrastructure company (National Grid/Transco/etc)

There are some other options that you can ask to quote, but they really only do large scale projects - like new blocks of flats. They all say that NG (or your local provider) are the best value for domestic work.

'Value' is a subjective term in this case!

Although, to be honest, in the end the £500 seemed an ok price, as it did take 4 guys a full day and three vans required for safety and... whatever... no interest in what all the messing around was for.

The real stress was the months of managing, and endless sitting around for people who don't show up. Not needed in the middle of a stressful build anyway! You just can't trust that they can organise ANYTHING.

thecatwithnotail

I just had a quote through from National Grid to do this work.

I have a gas meter inside my flat in a really unsightly location - right at the top of the stairs as you enter the flat. Ideally I'd want it moving to the outside of the flat.

National Grid's "system" seems really convoluted. I was advised that I can only have the meter moved to an exterior wall (which really cuts my options in my mid-terrace flat). I was told that they couldn't survey the flat before the work was paid for, so I had to put in quotation details for a small job, pay for that, and then have a survey done and either pay the extra or have my initial payment refunded. Really unusual.

So, the quote for a small job just came through - and it's £1200.00. That's for a 0-2m length of pipe and a surface mounted box.

Totally and utterly confused now - seems like there is no way to have my gas meter moved reasonably...

diable

thecatwithnotail wrote: »

Totally and utterly confused now - seems like there is no way to have my gas meter moved reasonably...

I had a gas leak, they moved the meter and re-routed the pipe all for the princely sum of £0