Do I Have To Have This Gas Work Done?

norm27

Thanks for all the replies. I'll contact Northern Gas Networks and ask for someone to come out and inspect and advise me what needs to done and how urgent it is.

jefaz07

Albermarle said:

You will be liable. The service will be plastic and when it was on the outside wall it was to regs. 

Not sure though the fact that it is plastic is the issue.

We have just had all the old gas mains and service pipes in the street replaced by plastic ( yellow MDPE to be technical). The service pipe that comes into the house is now plastic, and  is connected directly to an internal meter. All done by Cadent and checked by a gas safe engineer.

The fact it’s plastic is 100% the issue. Your pipe will have been inserted up the old service, a service head adapter fitted and it will have been ‘foamed off’ with fireproof material which seals the annulus between the PE and old steel service. 

I’ll put any amount of money you like on the fact they haven’t ran an exposed PE service through your property. 

Albermarle

jefaz07 said:

Albermarle said:

You will be liable. The service will be plastic and when it was on the outside wall it was to regs. 

Not sure though the fact that it is plastic is the issue.

We have just had all the old gas mains and service pipes in the street replaced by plastic ( yellow MDPE to be technical). The service pipe that comes into the house is now plastic, and  is connected directly to an internal meter. All done by Cadent and checked by a gas safe engineer.

The fact it’s plastic is 100% the issue. Your pipe will have been inserted up the old service, a service head adapter fitted and it will have been ‘foamed off’ with fireproof material which seals the annulus between the PE and old steel service. 

I’ll put any amount of money you like on the fact they haven’t ran an exposed PE service through your property. 

I did say I was not sure, and you are right our new plastic pipe has been fed through the old metal pipe.

grumbler

FWIW, my friend lives in a village where the entire gas network is being modernised by Cadent. His meter, supplied by an underground steel pipe, was in the former garage converted into a dining room. Cadent moved the meter outside and connected it with a new few meters copper pipe to the place where the meter used to be.

They didn't charge anything.

jefaz07

Albermarle said:

jefaz07 said:

Albermarle said:

You will be liable. The service will be plastic and when it was on the outside wall it was to regs. 

Not sure though the fact that it is plastic is the issue.

We have just had all the old gas mains and service pipes in the street replaced by plastic ( yellow MDPE to be technical). The service pipe that comes into the house is now plastic, and  is connected directly to an internal meter. All done by Cadent and checked by a gas safe engineer.

The fact it’s plastic is 100% the issue. Your pipe will have been inserted up the old service, a service head adapter fitted and it will have been ‘foamed off’ with fireproof material which seals the annulus between the PE and old steel service. 

I’ll put any amount of money you like on the fact they haven’t ran an exposed PE service through your property. 

I did say I was not sure, and you are right our new plastic pipe has been fed through the old metal pipe.

Apologies. Didn’t mean to come across brash. 

Albermarle

grumbler said:

FWIW, my friend lives in a village where the entire gas network is being modernised by Cadent. His meter, supplied by an underground steel pipe, was in the former garage converted into a dining room. Cadent moved the meter outside and connected it with a new few meters copper pipe to the place where the meter used to be.

They didn't charge anything.

When Cadent started in our street, a gas heating engineer we knew socially said they will probably want to relocate our meter outside, as this seems to be the way they prefer. No idea why, and Cadent never mentioned it anyway.

Albermarle

jefaz07 said:

Albermarle said:

jefaz07 said:

Albermarle said:

You will be liable. The service will be plastic and when it was on the outside wall it was to regs. 

Not sure though the fact that it is plastic is the issue.

We have just had all the old gas mains and service pipes in the street replaced by plastic ( yellow MDPE to be technical). The service pipe that comes into the house is now plastic, and  is connected directly to an internal meter. All done by Cadent and checked by a gas safe engineer.

The fact it’s plastic is 100% the issue. Your pipe will have been inserted up the old service, a service head adapter fitted and it will have been ‘foamed off’ with fireproof material which seals the annulus between the PE and old steel service. 

I’ll put any amount of money you like on the fact they haven’t ran an exposed PE service through your property. 

I did say I was not sure, and you are right our new plastic pipe has been fed through the old metal pipe.

Apologies. Didn’t mean to come across brash. 

No problem, !