Gas pipes

Carla1981

I’m looking at having a new bathroom installed in the new year, the bathroom is downstairs and it has an unsightly gas pipe which I would like moved, the gas meter used to be in the bathroom but has been moved outside. I’m wondering if anyone had an idea of how much it would cost to have the pipe moved?

jefaz07

That pipe will be dead if it’s a service and fed an old meter. What material is it? 3/4 or 1” steel with a female cap? 

An old service won’t be left live if the merger had been moved outside...perhaps due to an escape. 

Best thing to do is ring your local network (SGN,Cadent,NGN) and ask for a live or dead check. (This is a free service)

I’m sure it will be dead then you can cut it out the way yourself. 

ic

It might be the pipe running from the meter, and hooking back in to the pipes that run off into the house and supply the boiler/kitchen/fire places.  Get a gas engineer round - if it is a supply pipe, he'll direct you to your supplier.

jefaz07

ic said:

It might be the pipe running from the meter, and hooking back in to the pipes that run off into the house and supply the boiler/kitchen/fire places.  Get a gas engineer round - if it is a supply pipe, he'll direct you to your supplier.

It’s not the suppliers pipe!?

Alter_ego

The OP asked about a gas pipe being moved - not removed.

jefaz07

Alter_ego said:

The OP asked about a gas pipe being moved - not removed.

The OP’s gas pipe is probably dead. Therefore you can do what you like with it. Are you going to move a redundant pipe or would you get rid?
If there had been an escape on that service (and I’m assuming there has and that’s why the meter has been moved to outside) then that pipe will have been cut off at the main. 

If the customer paid to get the meter moved outside already then again, that pipe will be dead and cut off back to the main. 

Either way, I don’t think there’s anything in it. 

*all my assumptions are based on service pipe work - internal pipework would be different*

OP can you post a picture?