Moving an External Gas Meter

[nam]

Hi All
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 . Does anyone know if this work can be done by an Independent GAS safe registered engineer

 

[nam]

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 considering I was quoted only 2800 for the porch work.

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.

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

 

[nam]

went through the online quotation https://cggasb2b.cadentgas.com/ngcpt-service/index.html#/b2c/alteration/theproperty still shows £1700

This is there guide price

 

[nam]

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