Moving Gas Meter

If you are extending the the pipe, then any Gas Safe can do it I think as NG/SGN are responsible upto the isolation valve. If you wish to shorten it, i.e. modify NG/SGN network, then see the OP.

This seems to be a regular issue.

To try and clarify....

1)If you are having an extension built and the building of said extension means that the incoming gas service pipe would be enclosed /built over/within the new floor of the extension,then it needs to be relocated to outside. It is not permissible to have a live gas service pipe of any appreciable length contained within a domestic dwelling.
If it gets discovered later..the chances are it might get cut off and you will be left gas less.

The builder/inspector should be well aware of this and factor it into the costs


2)The company who own the supply network and your service pipe are the only ones authorised to undertake modifications to service pipes and mains. They may well devolve this work to one of their contractors.

3) A lot of the cost involved is in re-instatement of the public highway. Often a new service has to be run from roadside to house. Excavations in the public highway are expensive and need to be reinstated to the required spec laid down by the local authority. That is the expensive bit..not a bit of pipe.

4) No person may interfere with,move,relocate or refix a gas meter without the permission of the meter asset manager.

5) For short distance moves,the meter may generally only be moved to within the distance of the inlet flex between the ECV and meter. In some circumstances,it is permissible to extend the inlet using copper or steel tubing.

Dont blame the gas transporter..blame the system.

When we used to have the mighty national asset known as the British Gas Corporation,much of this stuff was done for free or discounted rates. Now you have freedom of choice,a free market and the costs to go with it.

No one does anything for nothing any more.

HTH

Our gas meter is in the cupboard under the stairs. We have an extension on that side of the house so it's not against an outside wall.

My son had a terraced house where the meter was in the living room. But it was against the front outside wall.

jpower wrote: »

We also have the problem of a new extension over an existing incoming gas service pipe. Does anyone know under exactly which regulation this is not allowed? I have accessed the following manual from National Grid TPMMSL-1 Edition 2 on the turecruitment.co.uk website (sorry, as a new user I am not allowed to post the link) and found that we do not contravene any of their requirements and also have an installation in accordance with their diagram and yet they say that the rules are that there can be no live gas pipes under living accommodation.
But where is this written? Surely from a safety viewpoint, if the gas somehow gets through the PE pipe, it will be contained within the steel pipe?

Thanks:cool:

Please call 0845 605 6677 and ask for a check for safety on this and an engineer will come out from the transporter and check it for you.