Leaving gas meter in new downstairs toilet

speedyrazor

Hi, I currently have the gas meter in the garage which is joined to the house. I want to convet the corner of the garage to a downstairs toilet, knocking a new door from the hallway into the new toilet.
my question is doing this will meen thaty the gas meter is in the new toilet on the wall, I plan on boxing this in and should work out space wise all ok. moving this gas meter is gonna be in the region of about £900, so I would prefer to leave it where it is and box it in.
Would this comply with current building regs?

Kind regards.

DVardysShadow

Your biggest problem will be discerning if there is a gas leak.

bengasman

You can box a gas meter in as long as there is unrestricted access to the emergency control valve as well as the meter itself, and no risk of build up of gas in a confined space.
At no point can you allow or cause any damage to the meter or pipes.

speedyrazor

DVardysShadow wrote: »

Your biggest problem will be discerning if there is a gas leak.

Why would this be my biggest problem?

diable

DVardysShadow wrote: »

Your biggest problem will be discerning if there is a gas leak.

speedyrazor wrote: »

Why would this be my biggest problem?

Because if there was a leak the gas board would move the meter for you.

This happened to me as the gas board have to maintain the pipe to the meter, when I had a leak they moved the meter to the front of the house and ran a new pipe in my neighbour was peeved as he had to pay for his to be done.

Comprende (sp)

speedyrazor

diable wrote: »

Because if there was a leak the gas board would move the meter for you.

This happened to me as the gas board have to maintain the pipe to the meter, when I had a leak they moved the meter to the front of the house and ran a new pipe in my neighbour was peeved as he had to pay for his to be done.

Comprende (sp)

Then this is not a problem, if there was a gas leak later down the line then I would get it moved for free, excellent?