Builder disconnected gas meter

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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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Wouldn't have thought gas board would terminate a pipe like that, but you never know.

I've seem builders clamp the plastic gas pipe, then cut it to shorten it, then re-terminate it, before refitting meter.

So nothing surprises me now.
 
Could always call 0800 111 999, & have a chat, or report a smell of gas, won't cost you anything, don't want to meet Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates before your due time.

The gas pipe is usually sleeved with a black liner to protect gas pipe from abrasions, etc, when it enters a property.
 
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Call and see? You sure it's not a new feed put in and not hooked up yet? looks blathered in concrete tbh. Builders shouldn't be touching anything to do with gas, what so ever! Unless it's completely dead. If it was there where you say the box was, I'd imagine it's dead if its been left like that and just bent it over out of the way.
 
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You're supposed to use the Gas Board for ANY resiting of the meter. This often doesn't happen though because they charge a fortune for it. It's almost £1000 just to resite a meter within a 1m radius and gets more expensive from there on....

If you phone the gas people then you're going to cost your neighbour a chunk of cash....
 
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.
 
Have a chat with your neighbours and their builder before reporting anything. You could really **** your neighbours off unnecessarily if you're not careful.
 
Bunka said:
Have a chat with your neighbours and their builder before reporting anything. You could really **** your neighbours off unnecessarily if you're not careful.
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I just keep quiet, that way you can't be blamed, you have more than one neighbour around you, so anyone could have reported it, so report it as a suspected gas leak.

Gas engineers don't know who reports the leaks, only the location, area, to find & repair 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.
 
If you've got any worries, call the gas people in. That is what they are there for. A gas explosion could easily take out your neighbour's house and the houses either side of it (including yours).
 
Have a word with your neighbour about your concern
Working in the building trade we just hate when some old git with nothing but time on their hands causes the authorities to come snooping around holding a job up
If you don`t get a satisfactory answer THEN call in the gas board etc but not before asking the neighbour
 
ANDARIAL said:
Working in the building trade we just hate when some old git with nothing but time on their hands causes the authorities to come snooping around holding a job up
If you don`t get a satisfactory answer THEN call in the gas board etc but not before asking the neighbour
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This.

All I see is a pipe with a shut off valve sitting in the open air. Is this valve supposed to miraculously fail and the gas self ignite in a non enclosed location?

With the wind we have lately I wouldn't be able to smell chicken poo under my nose never mind a hypothetical gas leak. Go back to shouting at kids playing on the grass :p
 
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.
 
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