Anyone had a gas meter moved?

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Can I ask how much it cost you?

About £500 six years ago...

Marking my place here. £500 though?

Wow really!!
Did you just ring up the gas board? I've emailed them & got no reply.

Yes, we called gas board who contract it all out to one company. It took them almost no time to do it. Complete rip off but ho hum. Iirc, it takes weeks to sort out too which at least gives you a chance to resign yourself to the sheer greed of it all.

Having ours done in a couple of weeks. Costing about 650 (which seems good value when the electricity move is over a grand). You need to find out who the network supplier is, rather than who you pay. Once you have a date you then need to liaise with your gas company. It is a bit of a faff, and it would lovely if it was just on company to deal with. Our move is a bit complicated so yours might be cheaper.

I had mine taken out about 15 years ago for free. We had just moved to a house with dual supply but the gas was just for a cooker and we had an electric. The gas co tried to charge us a standing charge and I refused after a couple of months of wrangling they agreed to cap the gas and remove the meter so we wouldn't be liable for any charges.

ATM we are waiting to have our token meters taken out and as we are with EON it is done for free. British Gas would of charged us £120 each. We did have to wait a few months to change back over to EON but we are now just waiting for a removal date.

Not sure which meter you meant but as you can see minimal cost for both ways. I think it does depend on who your supplier is though

Thanks. We are with British gas. It's a move of probably about a meter or so.
Will ring them.

So has everyone here had it moved to another position in the house? We are looking to get our gas and electricity moved. I'm assuming to somewhere like understairs cupboard...

Ours are being removed from inside the house (we have two - long story) to outside the house by the back door. There are quite a lot of regulation about where you can have them and I don't think under the stairs is an option any more for gas. I think they now only fit them externally to either the front wall or front section of the side wall.

Cost will vary depending on where you want to move it to.

You can get an indicative quote from National Grid (and ask for a formal quotation if you wish)....

www2.nationalgrid.com/UK/Services/Gas-distribution-connections/

insert will they move it to back wall do you know? We're in a terrace so side wall no option. Can't move it to front wall as we have period property and no one else on street has them at the front, wouldn't want ours to stick out.

We had ours moved, we had to get Transco out to do it because they own the pipe or something, rather than Brotih Gas. Cost £500 two years ago - they moved it 10 metres and re-routed the gas pipe. We're in London.

It is in the cellar so we moved it from back of house to front.

Moved ours from kitchen to box outside about £800 last January. Absolute rip off cost wise took about 2 hrs. Different teams though, ones who moved it couldn't reconnect it obviously !

Easy to organise though.

Ours was £500 (Yorkshire) to move the meter around 2m so that it was outside the new garage we'd built. They also had to move the gas pipe as our builder had built the garage over it!

My in laws were thinking of having theirs moved as part of an extension last year - it was costed at something like £900 to move about 2 metres!!

It's a rip off isn't it.
Thanks Lozislovely for the link.
When I rang British gas the lady on the help line asked if I needed it moving more than 2mm. Who moves a meter less than a mm?

Anyway, national grid is who moves meters in this area.

We had to have a new boiler put in on other side of house. Gas meter stayed put (so thankfully didnt have the hall laminate ripped up) but pipework had to go upstairs and through some very tricky backs of cupboards. Whole job cost £3k, including 3 new radiators, new boiler, work, vat.

Ah yego boilers are expensive aren't they.

Luckily this is just moving the meter from under the stairs to outside the house.
I want an under the stairs loo so it has to be moved.

I wanted ours moved out of the kitchen to the external wall - about 2m. It was going to cost £2000. They said regulations wouldn't permit them to move it and so it would have to be a new meter from the new supply that was put in a few years ago (not the old supply that the current one comes from). Hence the meter is still in the same place.

Minimalist Not sure if they (transco/sgn/whoever does your area) will let you have it on a back wall. They can have a little discretion if it is an existing supply rather than a new build - but depends on the person who does the quote. Getting the quote is free so I'd suggest you as for what you want even if it doesn't seem to fit with current regs. You can also get semi concealed boxes which are less intrusive than the classic wall boxes.

Slightly old thread, I know, but have been searching for info about moving my gas meter. I am in London in a small ground floor flat and wanted my gas meter moved out of one of my kitchen cupboards (where it is a huge waste of space). I don't mind where they move it (one of the upper cupboards on the same wall, outside or wherever). Spoke to the National Grid today and was quoted £1700 to move it up to 2 metres. This seems absolutely EXTORTIONATE but it seems I can't go to anyone else. Other posters on this thread seem to have paid substantially less. Have they suddenly raised their prices? Does anyone else have experience of this?

I was with SGN so it may be national grid are much more expensive. Do you have a written quote? If so it should break it down into contestable and noncontestable parts. The noncontestable bit only national grid can do the contestable bits other companies can do (and national grid have an obligation to tell you would can do it). Hope that helps.

We contemplated it but the cost was so prohibitive that we didn't bother. We were quoted £850 plus VAT to move it from the inside of the wall to the same position on the other side of the wall. But we also had to arrange to have the pipe dug up all the way to the road and "made available". And then have it filled in and made good afterwards. Plus they couldn't tell us exactly where the pipe was, so potentially we could have had to dig up most of the front garden before finding the junction in the pipe!

In the end we just created a cupboard around it and left it there. Not ideal but a damn sight cheaper and less hassle.