LPG gas pipework

[helenfi]

My LPG gas supplier is insisting I change all my metal pipework to Yellow Plastic MDPE pipework which will cost heaps. Is this the law in the UK on a single private property? Do other LPG gas suppliers require this? Can they turn off my gas supply if I don't comply? My neighbours have exactly the same tanks and metal pipework and they have not been asked to change the pipework. I can understand in built up areas, but not in open space i.e. across a garden. Any advice gratefully accepted!

[Regbuser]

helenfi said:

My LPG gas supplier is insisting I change all my metal pipework to Yellow Plastic MDPE pipework which will cost heaps. Is this the law in the UK on a single private property? Do other LPG gas suppliers require this? Can they turn off my gas supply if I don't comply? My neighbours have exactly the same tanks and metal pipework and they have not been asked to change the pipework. I can understand in built up areas, but not in open space i.e. across a garden. Any advice gratefully accepted!

Unusual for an overground pipework routing.
Not the law, unless it goes underground or into a cellar.
Depends on supplier, and yes, they can cut you off if the supply is not safe, in their opinion.

[ARHarh]

My tank has metal pipework and no one has ever questioned it. I would try a different supplier.

I would get them to clarify exactly why it needs changing.

Who are you with? Have you tried changing supplier?

[Rough101]

Surely they mean the buried part only, when you say open space.

Does the pipe rise out the ground in steel outside and enter above ground?

If it goes through a basement, cellar or floor void it really should be all MDPE where underground then into metal once inside or above ground.

I’m not Gas Safe qualified, just been around similar discussions on properties, think it all changed after that explosion in Glasgow.

[Nick Forest]

Here is the HSE’s guidance on the matter. Corrosion is a factor when metal pipework is buried in the ground and there is a programme for all such installations to be replaced.

https://www.hse.gov.uk/gas/lpg/servicepipework.htm...

[WyrleyD]

I had the exact opposite in France when we came to sell our house, you have to have inspection certificates for insulation, water, electricity, fosse septique and gas and we failed on gas as the pipework from the gas tank was yellow plastic and we had to change it to copper with proper screw on fittings rather than the push-fit type. It was a right pain as the route was a bit tortuous, none of it underground, through the wall and around to the cooker, the cooker was the only thing that was gas.