Moving an External Gas Meter

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Anyone have any experience of moving an external gas meter. My provider is EDF who directed me to Cadent Gas being the grid supplier. I wanted to move the meter less than 1m to another wall so there is space to build a porch. I was quoted £1700 :eek: . Does anyone know if this work can be done by an Independent GAS safe registered engineer
 
You can get these done privately but would need commissioning by cadent. You can save money by digging out the hole for the pipe yourself.

The prices are usually standardised (I know ours are, I work for sgn the cadent equivalent in the South and Scotland). Have you been quoted online? If so they'd do a full survey before carrying out any work and if you're literally moving from one corner to another it shouldn't be that expensive.
 
Friend of mine is having an extension built. He is paying £1000 per meter to be moved (gas an electric).
 
just a gas pipe and a 30 year old meter 0.7m. How much work is involved in that. Cant see it being value of £1700 :eek: considering I was quoted only 2800 for the porch work.

SoliD said:
You can get these done privately but would need commissioning by cadent. You can save money by digging out the hole for the pipe yourself.

The prices are usually standardised (I know ours are, I work for sgn the cadent equivalent in the South and Scotland). Have you been quoted online? If so they'd do a full survey before carrying out any work and if you're literally moving from one corner to another it shouldn't be that expensive.
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thanks i will have a look at cadent site. I saw a post of someone with ovo energy and they are charging only £250 to move a meter 0.7m . such a difference in price
 
If it involves moving any pipework before the meter, it will be nigh on impossible to get anyone other than cadent to move it.

We were looking to move ours less than 1m to fit a downstairs toilet last year and we were quoted £750 by cadent from what I remember. It definitely wasn't any more than £800. It was a fixed price to move it anywhere from 0-5m so quite why your quote is so high, I don't know.
 
I had mine moved back in Feb from one side of the wall in the hall, directly in the other side which was in the garage. They were going to charge over £850 for moving it 6inches.

Ended up paying £443.66 by digging out the drive to expose existing pipe work. There was nothing else to connect to the meter as we were renovating the house.

Took the surveyor less than 20 minutes to assess and take photos, and then the team a month later less time than that.

It was a slog digging the ground out though in the rain and clay mud!
 
went through the online quotation https://cggasb2b.cadentgas.com/ngcpt-service/index.html#/b2c/alteration/theproperty still shows £1700 :eek:

This is there guide price

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No, a gas engineer can not move the meter. There are very severe consequences if anything goes wrong so normally they are beyond bribing. Lol. However, if you get a smart meter fitted sometimes the engineer will move it at the same time. They are reluctant to because again anything goes wrong and their head will be on a plate.
 
I've just had a side extension built, and that involved knocking down the garage that had the Gas meter on the side. Effectively we moved the Meter about 1.2M towards the front of the property.

We come under West and Wales Utilities, and the initial 'quote' was £1328..

The builder had a gas safe engineer cap off the incoming Gas supply and he dug the Gas Pipe out, luckily it went directly to the front of the property anyway so effectively would just need shortening and putting in a ground box at the front of the extension.
I phoned up WWU and they sent an engineer out to have a look, he spoke with the builder and agreed what simple 'excavation' would be required at the front of the extension, so the builder offered to do that for free, the new quote came through for ~£600.. This is mainly due to the ease of just shortening the existing pipe and fixing in a ground box.

Still a rip-off IMO, the guys came down, it took about 20 minutes to screw the ground box in place, and they just cut the incoming gas main 'live', quickly chucked it in the box and capped it off.. the Guy re-installing the meter then turned up and he took 10 minutes, 5 yapping about the new larger ground boxes (I hate them all, ugly things!) and just connected the meter up and left.. so less than 30 minutes of work for £600..
 
thanks for all your comments , so it looks like I have no choice but to stump up £1700 for moving the meter include the external pipework 0.7m
 
Know any dodgy builders? When the owner of the property next door to me built an extension his builder just took the meter off the wall and put it back on the new wall when the extension was built. Wish I reported it now like.

Well I assume it was done by a gas mate of the builder rather than the builder doing it himself but it certainly wasn't done officially.
 
pp111 said:
No, a gas engineer can not move the meter. There are very severe consequences if anything goes wrong so normally they are beyond bribing. Lol. However, if you get a smart meter fitted sometimes the engineer will move it at the same time. They are reluctant to because again anything goes wrong and their head will be on a plate.
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No No no! No smart meter installer should be moving a gas meter more than a few inches to install a meter bracket this is the LAW. The Gas Transporter Cadent in the OP's case is the only one that can move it.
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Know any dodgy builders? When the owner of the property next door to me built an extension his builder just took the meter off the wall and put it back on the new wall when the extension was built. Wish I reported it now like.

Well I assume it was done by a gas mate of the builder rather than the builder doing it himself but it certainly wasn't done officially.
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Dont do this, please I have seen far too many dodgy installs in the last few years because of builders or dodgy trades that think they know better than the legal requirements and implications of getting it done properly.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ondon-king-street-fire-two-dead-b1207120.html

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/en...de4b0d24cde07ef78?utm_hp_ref=uk-gas-explosion

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/20...n-_n_8165224.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-gas-explosion

As others have said, dig the trenches yourself and get all consumer side pipework in place and Cadent may reduce the price. Lots of the price is based on ease of access and access to the external mains pipe line.

They will most likely perform a pop pipe installation, basically prep everything and make the connection whilst the mains are live (not turning the gas off for the whole street) as its quicker and just as safe as taking all the pipe off grid. It will mostly depend on if you have steel incoming pipes or PE (Plastic).
 
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No No no! No smart meter installer should be moving a gas meter more than a few inches to install a meter bracket this is the LAW. The Gas Transporter Cadent in the OP's case is the only one that can move it.
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Well, he did it. And he checked with his head office first to see if was OK.
 
My network provider had no issues with mine.

The builder had a Gas Safe (or whatever relevant qualification is required) engineer disconnect the meter and cap off the mains, I queried this and talked it through with the engineer, he was very helpful, he mentioned he can only temporarily do this to work on the Gas carcass, and could reinstate as-was, but since we had to move the meter which involved shortening the mains pipe and reconnecting to the inlet of the gas box, the Network provider had to do that, but he could do the first part.

To back that up, neither the network engineer or installation team had any issues at all, the same gas engineer was on site whilst they where and they talked it all over since we wanted to ensure the new feed from the meter box was neat so needed them to be careful about placing the new box.

I certainly wouldn't allow the builder himself to touch the gas..
 
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