Builder disconnected gas meter

LeeUK said:
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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You said yourself you don't actually know if the builders did this or the gas people did. Ask first.

Don't forget to walk around looking at the sky, there is an equal chance of being struck by a meteorite.
 
You have to consider that the neighbours may not know what the builders are doing is unsafe or may even have paid them to organise for the meter to be legally moved.

Personally I'd report it.
 
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.
 
The only peopl than can move/amend/change your incoming gas mains AFAIK are Northern Gas Networks (or similar company elsewhere in the country) if it's not them doing it I'd be very cautious and speak to your neighbour.

Just going and flat out reporting it is a bad idea as it may cost your neighbour the best part of a grand, which is what they quoted me for moving meter from one end of the house to another
 
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.
If you have an issue with it, then you need to at least mention it in passing to see what sort of response you get. You can then weigh up whether its worth pursuing.
Whatever the case, keep it as casual as possible when dealing directly with the builders.
Let the people who are paid to deal with stuff like this do the confrontational bit if it come to it.
 
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.
 
LeeUK said:
The comments by Bitslice above also reinforce that fact about dodgy builders.
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What comments? :confused:
And I'm not a builder either, I'm just pointing out that all you have is a pipe with a valve on it. If you call the gas people out they will come and look at the pipe with a valve on it and probably drape some coloured tape around it, they may even tie a label on. Are you actually any safer as a result? No you aren't.

This is all a somewhat odd risk assessment, what do you think is inside a gas meter box? Yep, a pipe with a valve on it, in fact the same valve you are looking at now, so in a weeks time when this valve is inside such a box you are no safer than you are now are you?
If your danger of death is so obvious then get the gas people involved, add a £1000 to your neighbours build plus whatever fine they feel justifies their monopoly, but feel happy at saving the world from a near impossible external explosion.
Yet you still haven't asked anyone what is actually going on, so sorry this just strikes me as too much curtain twitching.
 
Did it occur to you to just go and ask? They could have shut off the gas supply somewhere else (we have a valve next to our front path under a cover) and you're simply seeing the end left that they'll need to arrange the gas meter to be fitted onto later.

All this guesswork and ridiculous assumption of an explosion when you could simply go around and sort it out? Man up.
 
covenantuk said:
Did it occur to you to just go and ask? They could have shut off the gas supply somewhere else (we have a valve next to our front path under a cover) and you're simply seeing the end left that they'll need to arrange the gas meter to be fitted onto later.

All this guesswork and ridiculous assumption of an explosion when you could simply go around and sort it out? Man up.
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Second this comment
 
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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