Gas & electric meter move.

Simmz

Simmz

Simmz

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Does anyone know if this would be allowed. Gas meter submerged into the ground then in one of those brown boxes, then have the electric box above it in a surface mounted wall box.

Thanks.
 
I looked into this a few years ago. Yes it is doable but it has to be done by the local distribution company. Expect it to take a long time and expect to be fleeced was the advice from my electrician and Gas Safe technician. I may even have got an indicative price for the electricity meter move and it was 5 thousand odd. But I imagine it is very dependent on who your distribution company is and the nature of the move. My electricity meter was to move it about 4 meters from the kitchen to the back wall of the house so included for an exterior enclosure.
 
As plaidcasual says it can be done, but iirc has to be done by a contractor approved by the supply network (not your billing company), and can be eye wateringly expensive, especially if it's more than a very small distance.

How far are you looking to move it?

I'll also move this to home and garden.
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Someone moved it whilst i was typing.
 
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Yeah, they are not going far. Gas is only going 1m and that's been quoted at £1030 which will probably take them less than an hour.

Electric box would be 2m and waiting a quote now as they have out today. On the SSE website it seems to state that will be about £548.

My only concern was I can't seem to find any information on whether the box can be above the other. The electric cable in the pipe bit would be 20cm away from the box in the ground and I've read things about it needing to be a minimum of 15cm
 
PlacidCasual said:
Those numbers are far smaller than I was expecting, they seem fairly reasonable if they're reflective of what they actually quote.
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It's when you go 3m or over it starts to get pricey. It suddenly jumps to like over £3k and get more pricey for every extra meter.
 
Had it done a couple of years ago
Need to pay network/distribution firm to move main cable to box

Utility company bods then connect from meter to house

Sparky then commissions everything in house and do consumer unit connections

All on same day
 
Had my gas meter moved after we had an extension built, didn't cost us anything. All they did was dig in front of the house, cut the pipe and add about a metre.
 
PlacidCasual said:
I looked into this a few years ago. Yes it is doable but it has to be done by the local distribution company. Expect it to take a long time and expect to be fleeced was the advice from my electrician and Gas Safe technician. I may even have got an indicative price for the electricity meter move and it was 5 thousand odd. But I imagine it is very dependent on who your distribution company is and the nature of the move. My electricity meter was to move it about 4 meters from the kitchen to the back wall of the house so included for an exterior enclosure.
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That seems a massive amount to just move the meter a few meters?
 
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