Builder disconnected gas meter

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LeeUK

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Builders in next door building a front extension. The gas meter has been removed to make way and the pipe has just been left lying in the garden with a cap on the end.

You can see in the photo the yellow pipe that has been dug up and being thread through the stack of bricks and the white pipe bit on the left that usually comes up from the ground to the meter box.

I'm not sure if the builders did this or if the gas network came and did it. But I'm thinking surely if the gas network did it they wouldn't leave a live gas pipe flapping around like this?

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It's not new as the gas network have not been to dig up and lay new pipe. Or has a hole been dug on the public pavement where the main gas main is to connect/terminate it.
 
I think if I report it then they'll know it's me as it's only me who can see it. I doubt their other neighbour could see it from there.
 
Firstly I'm not an old git and these builders have already ****ed me off by doing demolition work right up to 9pm at night each night and all day Sunday the first week they were there.

Environmental Health say they can't make noise like that after 6pm weekdays and none at all Sundays. My quality of live was **** that week. But I didn't complain.

I don't see why I should have myself or mu property put at risk by some unsafe gas works no doubt carried out by someone not gas safe registered.
 
bitslice said:
You said yourself you don't actually know if the builders did this or the gas people did. Ask first.
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I had a new gas connection from the public pavement up to my property a couple of months ago. Thinking back to how they worked, I seriously doubt they would have left a live gas pipe the way this has been left. No warning barriers or anything.
 
mjd said:
Sadly this is often the way with builders/developers. We had 12 months of dubious goings on next door to us and the idiot responsible for it all even managed to make it seem that I was the unreasonable one when I questioned anything. The way it seems to work these days (and obviously this doesn't go for all builders etc...) is they will do whatever they think they can do without being told otherwise if it saves money.
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The builders next door certainly give me this impression with other things they have done too. The comments by Bitslice above also reinforce that fact about dodgy builders.
 
There is no other flap in the ground anywhere with a cut off valve in it. The gas pipe comes up their garden under the soil then under the patio as shown in the photo.

And as already said, the gas network have not been out to disconnect it from the gas main under the public pavement as the hole would have been left for the reinstatement team to fill up a few days later.
 
It's too late now as the dodgy builder connected it back up to a new meter box while I was at work last week.
 
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