Moving a gas meter
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Phooey

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13,304 posts

187 months

Sunday 10th March 2024
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Our gas meter - which is an old bulky thing, is inside the house (utility room - which was originally the garage). I’m wanting it move it from inside to outside - so basically the other side of the wall. Any idea of cost and/or best way to get this done? We are with Octopus Energy but I believe Cadent (who are due on our street tomorrow onwards to dig up the road to change the pipes) are the ones who move/fit meters?

Thanks

essayer

10,281 posts

212 months

Sunday 10th March 2024
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They might want to move your meter if they’re replacing pipes. Might be worth asking the folks on the ground when they start tomorrow

netherfield

2,942 posts

202 months

Sunday 10th March 2024
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essayer said:
They might want to move your meter if they’re replacing pipes. Might be worth asking the folks on the ground when they start tomorrow
You might get lucky, when gas people were laying new plastic pipes down the road of the Mother in Law, we asked if they could put the meter in a box outside, no problem more or less the other side of the wall from the original so little pipework alteration required. Four mugs of Coffee may have helped.

Nowadays I think they prefer them outside anyway, easier to read or change.

Edited by netherfield on Sunday 10th March 20:01

eskidavies

5,730 posts

177 months

Sunday 10th March 2024
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If you’ve already got a plastic pipe to your house then it just be a transfer onto the new gas main they are replaceing , unless you’ve built over the gas entry, or if you have steel service they will try to insert a plastic pipe inside , if it won’t go then it’ll have to go outside to a box , have a chat with the team , lost count of meters I’ve moved when they dont really need to be , Btw I don’t work for cadet I’m on another network

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14,657 posts

54 months

Sunday 10th March 2024
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netherfield said:
You might get lucky, when gas people were laying new plastic pipes down the road of the Mother in Law, we asked if they could put the meter in a box outside, no problem more or less the other side of the wall from the original so little pipework alteration required. Four mugs of Coffee may have helped.

Nowadays I think they prefer them outside anyway, easier to read or change.

Edited by netherfield on Sunday 10th March 20:01
Interesting as a family member moved their meter outside and had to get three different people in to don’t the job.

Civil to move the connection, supplier to connect the meter and a gas safe guy to reconnect the gas pipe back into the house and it was a ball ache to get them all on the same day.

Phooey

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13,304 posts

187 months

Sunday 10th March 2024
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Thanks for replies. I think in the letter posted through the door they (Cadent) mentioned something about inserting a plastic pipe through the old metal pipe. A quick Google says it’s approx £1000 but can be up to £2500 to get Cadent out to do it if customer paying. The reason for moving is remodelling house floor plan and the gas meter is in the centre of a room which will be turned into a study. I could box it in but would rather it moved.

Patio

1,327 posts

29 months

Sunday 10th March 2024
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Doing exactly the same thing at the mo

Meter internal under stairs, moving it a foot to other side of external wall

Northern gas network have quoted £900 to put it a wall mounted meter box

Bloody monopoly

Dan83

7 posts

25 months

Wednesday 13th March 2024
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I have literally just done this (as in last week)

Cadent charged just over £800 for mine to move from the hallway into the porch. They did it all in one day, they dug outside and put a new plastic supply pipe in through the wall, moved the meter and came back and made good out the front. only thing I did myself (and to be fair they would do if Id paid them, but I wanted to alter something else at the same time) was connect the meter back into the house, so to speak. All in all I was pretty happy with it. No gas for probably half a day

National Grid on the other hand, have done essentially the same job on my electric meter. Cost over 2 grand, took place over 2 days, using 3 different teams - I dug the porch out and the hole through to the outside myself, or that would have been more money (and presumably another different team) . They wouldnt actually move the meter itself, so I had to pay Eon separately (only £170 odd, but still) to come and move that once it was done, and then still had to do all the reconnection into the house myself. I am still chasing them daily 7 days later to come and fill back in the massive hole in my drive - 2 different gangs have theoretically come , but in reality have turned up and then dissapeared again without doing anything. No electric for pretty much a whole day as expected, but one end of my drive unusable now for a week.

Waiting period from sorting it to it happening was about 3 weeks in both cases, although I assume that's fairly location dependant - I think they said it could be up to 8 weeks.

I was lucky in that my electrician is family, and my gas safe guy is a good mate, so it wasnt a problem that they were hanging round/working out of hours to sort with me once cadent/national grid were done - it would have been a pain scheduling that if I'd been using a 'normal' spark/plumber, as neither will give you a solid time they turn up or how long it will take to move the supplies/meters - I was lucky that National Grid were done when Eon turned up - I assume we'd have had to work out who was doing what, when in some other way if Eon turned up first etc

You probably can tell who I am more impressed with at this stage...........

Edited by Dan83 on Wednesday 13th March 13:39


Edited by Dan83 on Wednesday 13th March 13:40

littleredrooster

6,016 posts

214 months

Wednesday 13th March 2024
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We had this done almost exactly 12 months ago, but it took almost three years in the planning because of our useless gas supplier.

In frustration at not being able to get the supplier to help in a timely manner, I approached two of the major contractors (Cadent & Morrisons) both of whom said they could do it if the supplier rubber-stamped it. The price came as a bit of a shock, however - between £2800 and £4600 to move a meter from inside a wall to outside the same wall less than 1 metre away.

To cut to the chase, however, our supplier finally got their act together and did the job, lining the steel supply pipe with a plastic pipe at the same time and charged £610. All three trades were on site at the required time to make the job run smoothly.

megaphone

11,294 posts

269 months

Wednesday 13th March 2024
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I had mine moved from one outside wall to another, about 6 feet. This was done when the new gas pipes where being laid around the area, when I approached the 'boss' asking if they could do it, he suddenly 'smelt gas' and listed it as an emergency. It was moved within two days , I paid nothing but I did bung the guys doing the work a few quid.

dhutch

17,240 posts

215 months

Friday 17th October
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Dan83 said:
I have literally just done this last week

Cadent charged just over £800 for mine to move from the hallway into the porch. They did it all in one day, they dug outside and put a new plastic supply pipe in through the wall, moved the meter and came back and made good out the front. only thing I did myself (and to be fair they would do if Id paid them, but I wanted to alter something else at the same time) was connect the meter back into the house, so to speak. All in all I was pretty happy with it. No gas for probably half a day.
Brill.
This is on our to do list ahead of completing renovation of the last room of the ground floor.

When you say into the porch, that was just an naked meter inside? Not a wall or floor mounted meter box?


Dan83

7 posts

25 months

Friday 17th October
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Yep, just the meter on the wall on a wall bracket - Its a 20's semi, and we've made the porch itself bigger, so I will be boxing it it into a cupboard in a 'traditional' style when I get round to making one, as I want one in there anyway to sit on when putting shoes etc on, but they were perfectly happy with doing it that way

i.e



But not disconnected, obviously biggrin

Edited by Dan83 on Friday 17th October 13:41

Funky Squirrel

460 posts

90 months

Friday 17th October
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I had this done in 2020 with Scottish gas. £530 to move from an external wall for an extension.

I had done all the groundwork and built a plinth for the meter.

Guys came put their machine on the exposed live pipe, to stop the gas and moved the meter, took about 40 minutes.

Countdown

45,548 posts

214 months

Friday 17th October
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My BiL is having this done soon. He's moving it from an inside wall to the outside Ii.e. immediately outside where it is now). Cadent are charging £1,099. They would have done it by now but he had scaffolding put up and apparently they won't do it while there is scaffolding.