How much does it cost to move gas & electricity meters ?

sooty&sweep

Hi

Currently our gas & electric meters are by the front door.

We're planning to do alot of building work and I'm considering whether we should move the meters. Ideally I'd like to move them approx 20 feet into the utility.

However every time I try to get an idea of how much there is alot of shaking of heads & sucking of teeth and it's expensive but no straight answer of how much.

I do realise no one can give an accurate quote without measuring up & checking access etc but roughly how much would it cost ?? Can anyone give me a ballpark figure & anything I should watch out for ?

Thanks
Jen

lee111s

I think it costs quite a few thousand. There was a post on here not so long ago, try searching for it.

Gloomendoom

Before we were married my wife got a quote for moving the gas meter from one side of a wall to the other in her house. IIRC she was quoted just short of a grand.

That was a few years ago too.

daveyjp

My parents did this as part of a renovation and it is cheaper as part of a large job than just getting the companies in to do it.

They had everything disconnected, the builders then moved all the supplies to the new location, provided boxes etc, then called gas and electric to reconnect.

vansboy

A place I looked at had no gas, but a supply in the road.

Quote was about £800 for a new supply pipe to house from main, about 30'. Work done by NationalGrid, I think.

However there was an incentive from British Gas to become actual supplier of £250 payable to me once job was done.

Didnt get the place in the end.

VB

charlotte_rose

more than you would expect as its a closed shop run by gangster energy companies.

andrewf75

Depends on the company and distance moved. We had to move our electric meter (with Scottish and Southern). The whole thing was a pain in the **** but only cost £300. We moved it from an internal wall about 2 or 3 metres to an outside box.

pimento

We had our gas meter moved from up by the ceiling in our hall into the cellar and they did it for nothing.
They had to dig the road up outside our house, too as I recall.

This was in London and 1992.

fluffpot

1992 was a different ball game - you won't get nowt for nothing these days

Budget a few grand to do both gas and elec,

BlueC

We did ours last year.

Gas was £508 including VAT for up to 2 metres, done by National Grid who were very good. The next price is up to 10m I think and this is somewhat more expensive. This included moving the meter, and digging out the trenches etc, but didn't include reconnection of internal gas fittings as they will only reconnect "as was" and we wanted some changes made so got our own heating engineer to reconnect. Total spend was £658.

Electric move was £687.84 including VAT and done by SP Energy Networks, who again were really good to deal with. This was again around 2 meters (we basically went from an inside wall to an outside wall). This did not include reconnection of anything on "our side" of the meter - this had to be done by our own electrician so this added some cost. It also did not include any digging as they were horrendously expensive for groundworks so we got someone else to dig and refill the trench, which again added some cost. Total spend on this was £1257.84 but it was a fairly complex move - two meters, two supplies, new breakers, and steel armoured cable to feed two consumer units.

Hope this helps.

Plumber90

By the way if the new pipework is running in the ground and you dig the trenches that wil bring the cost down.