Gas Meter Relocation

Spivo46

We are converting the garage to a bedroom and would like to move the gas meter 2 metres to a box outside. Our builder is doing the digging and supplying a new gas meter cabinet in the wall. Octopus put me onto our gas network supplier (Norther Gas Networks) and they have quoted £790 to move and reconnect. Is this reasonable and are there any alternatives in the North East of England.

P.S - The lead times for doing the work are crazy!

QrizB

Yes that's reasonable.

No there are no alternatives. The supply pipework belongs to your network operator and only they can work on it.

mr_stripey

£790 is pretty good compared to some quotes I've seen!

Ectophile

That sounds like quite a lot to me.

When I needed my gas meter moved, I got Southern Gas Networks to do all the work - pulling up my drive, digging the trench, installing everything and then reinstating teh drive.  I paid £960.

ossie48

Ectophile said:

That sounds like quite a lot to me.

When I needed my gas meter moved, I got Southern Gas Networks to do all the work - pulling up my drive, digging the trench, installing everything and then reinstating teh drive.  I paid £960.

Someone else on here was quoted £13k by SGN.

Can you elaborate on when this occured, where the meter was initially and where it was moved to. We need ours moving from an integral garage to an outside wall. They'd have to rip up and reinstall a block paved drive in the process. 

I'm hesitant to get a quote as I've heard that once they're informed they are duty bound to investigate as its technically 'non compliant' although it wasn't back in the day.

ic

In 2021 I had Cadent move my meter from one side of the house (where we were demolishing the wall it was attached to and extending), to the other side of the house. 

They dug two holes in the road, one to disconnect the old pipe, and another to connect a new pipe - which was uprated for our big new combi.  They then moled the new pipe under the drive and down the side of the house, and installed the new meter box.  I paid £767 - however it turned out they were slightly delayed on their service promise, so automatically refunded us £40 and gave us a hamper of gifts (to our delight!).  At the time I thought it was a lot of money, but by the time I saw how many people were involved, the roadworks, resurfacing and moling - it was pretty cheap. 

I'm sure inflation will have taken effect in the interim, however your price sounds a lot for a few metres of pipe from the old meter location to new.

Ectophile

ossie48 said:

Ectophile said:

That sounds like quite a lot to me.

When I needed my gas meter moved, I got Southern Gas Networks to do all the work - pulling up my drive, digging the trench, installing everything and then reinstating teh drive.  I paid £960.

Someone else on here was quoted £13k by SGN.

Can you elaborate on when this occured, where the meter was initially and where it was moved to. We need ours moving from an integral garage to an outside wall. They'd have to rip up and reinstall a block paved drive in the process. 

I'm hesitant to get a quote as I've heard that once they're informed they are duty bound to investigate as its technically 'non compliant' although it wasn't back in the day.

That would be February 2019.  The meter was moved from the front of the house to the side.  There was an existing pipe from the meter running around the side of the house, so they could reconnect the meter to that with minimal work.