Moving/removing electric and gas meters

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I'm having a kitchen refurb and small single story extension in July. I need my electric and gas meters moving, possibly to the room next door (on the same wall but on the other side of a room partition... the wall is brick) . Does anyone have experience of this? Do I need an electrician/ plumber or do I need my gas/electric supplier to do it?

Also, I think there is an old electric meter next to the one that is the actual current meter.. who do I need to get to remove it?

The meter is the responsibility of your current supplier, so contact them. They can probably advise on the defunct meter too.

I think now all meters ( new and old ones being moved ) have to be accessible from outside. I thought it was to do with if there was a fire they could be turned off easy by the emergency services. I’m not 100% sure.

It will be down to your energy supplier to move them but you will have to pay the costs (and it’s expensive for what it is).

I just had mine moved.
Western Power distribution had to do it. Legally they own it.
Cost £1400 to dig up a meter of ground. Move the meter and refill it.

They have the monopoly. Legally. Its day light robbery.

We moved ours when we had an extension built. We had to apply to western power as they own it. They then wrote to our neighbours as their power would also be turned off. It cost £2000 and was about 6 hours work for the two western power guys who came.

Wow I was thinking it'd be a couple of hundred quid!!

My energy supplier is Bulb... so I assume it's them I need to contact then? This is when I wish I was with a big supplier that I could phone rather than a small internet based supplier!

We had our electric meter done in January after months of hassle and a pit of a garden, we had to dig the hole, they scanned the wrong sodding pipe so we had more digging to do. Cost around £1400 for half a days work, DH did all the electrical type stuff as well so would have been more to get an electrician to sort out that bit of it too.

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I just had mine moved. Western Power distribution had to do it. Legally they own it. Cost £1400 to dig up a meter of ground. Move the meter and refill it.

They have the monopoly. Legally. Its day light robbery.

We had the same in November. Also had to have our own electrician on standby to do the connection to the fuse box, inside.

Bulb have a phone number. Ignore the reasons why they think you should call, you are the customer.

So I've looked on the bulb website and it says if I move them less than 1 meter on the same wall it's about £200 per meter.. more than 1 meter I have to get western power involved which from reading these posts is when it gets expensive.. I think moving them less than a meter could mean I can hide them in kitchen cupboards 🤔