Getting a gas meter relocated in your home

ska_lover

Hi there,

We are moving to a new home, which has the gas meter in the most ridiculous of places, and we will be needing to get this moved to a more acccesible location, perhaps a cupboard as is normal in properties as far as I know

Who would pay for this, would the gas company charge us for moving this? I am expecting they would. Incidentally we will need the meter changed anyway as is a token payment meter at the moment - and were hoping to get it relocated at the same time as swapping it to a 'normal' one

Ive moved house a few times and have never come across this before

cajef

ska_lover wrote: »

Who would pay for this, would the gas company charge us for moving this? I am expecting they would.

You will have to pay, you don't really expect them to do it for free do you, plus it could be expensive depending on the work involved to relocate it.

MeterMan

Supplier will move it upto 2 meters away as long as it occupies the same space.

If you want it moving any further you will need to contact your gas transporter, the cost of moving it would be approximately £1000

shegar

We wanted our metre moved when we moved here 7 year ago , as its in a cupboard on the floor , but they wanted £1100 to move it, yea youve guessed it , its still in the cupboard.........

[Deleted User]

Unless you are desperate, leave it where it is. Its going to be replaced eventually by a "smart " gas meter which is half the size and you will be able to read the meter on a monitor if needed, so you will rarely ever have to look at it

jimmy_81

There's actually 2 separate companies involved in this.

The first is the gas supplier - BG, NPower, EDF, whoever you pay your bills to. They are responsible for the gas meter alone - NOT the gas connection running up to the meter.

The gas connection, as MeterMan says, is the responsibility of the gas transport company - possibly BG, or Scotia, think there may be a few others. If you give your supplier a call they'll be able to tell you who the transporter is.

If you need the meter moving far, then it's the transport company who need to do it - and yes, they'll charge. I recently paid £522 for a completely new connection - but that was having had the trench dug already. If they'd done it would have been nearer £1000.

Ilona

My electricity meter is in a ridiculous place, in the middle of the wall, five feet up from the floor, in the living room. An ugly eyesore. The previous owner had a cupboard with a false back made to disguise it, which does the job, and I shall leave it when I leave the house. There's no way I'm paying to have it moved.
Ilona

lou-28_2

I've just been looking into moving our gas meter about 1-2 metres from where it is as it's on the wall we want to knock through. Eon who supply our gas have said they can't do it as they are not responsible for the meter so to contact National Grid.

National Grid have quoted £897 if we get a gas safe engineer to reconnect the gas afterwards or £1,277 if they reconnect it. It's such a rip off.

ska_lover

Ilona wrote: »

My electricity meter is in a ridiculous place, in the middle of the wall, five feet up from the floor, in the living room. An ugly eyesore. The previous owner had a cupboard with a false back made to disguise it, which does the job, and I shall leave it when I leave the house. There's no way I'm paying to have it moved.
Ilona

Its just ridiculous where they choose to place them isn't it. I really dont understand why they would put them in such silly places rather than in a cupboard.

ska_lover

Thanks everyone for your helpful responses. I think we really have no choice but to get it moved, as takes up an awful lot of space - in an already small room - it's about two foot up and it's quite a way away from the wall as well, and is a terrible trip hazard. It must have been fitted by dennis the menace!

PasturesNew

If you're determined to move it ... I'd look at having it moved outside. Out of the house and easier for the meterman to read it without knocking on the door.