Who can move a gas meter?

[Ermintrude]

Are you all 100% that only Transco can move it for each of the three circumstances I've described?

Are you saying that a local boiler installer, when plumbing into the gas outlet of the meter, can't move the meter up the wall a couple of inches within the reach of the flexible hose?

No with gas suppliers consent usuall 1m is easy money. I can sell your installer approved fittings kit ?

 

[Ermintrude]

The problem youl have is that sometimes the gas main coming into the box below the ecv can be attached to the box with a union and slackening the union MUST NOT be done by anyone apart from transcontinental / sgn. Not all are like this . To be safe your better getting transco. In as if the plumber causes a disturbance in the main he won't have the equipment to fix it. Transco work with live gas daily as not like there's isolators in the street like water mains for each house. (But there are the odd isos).

Live gas equipment ? Is that the patented ecv snatch o matic or the copyright bung kit?

 

[davidso]

In forums in various places - including this one - there doesn't not seem to be a consensus about who can move a meter. Some posters say anything after the ECV can be carried out by *** with YYY qualification, some say something about having a "ticket" or consent for the supplier and so on. And then some people, like you croppie, say absolutely not.

I just wanted to make sure, before, I pay £1700 to Transco to re-orientate the regulator 90 degrees on the top meter or swap the anaconda for a longer one (does one exist? - no one's answered me that yet) that there wasn't another qualified workman who could do it for less.

There's a citizens advice page online - it won't let me post a url (google meter & non-contestable and it's about halfway down) - which mentions that part of the work in moving a meter is "contestable" and can be carried out by a non-Transco person. This is the quote...

Does your supplier have to carry out the work?


Some parts of the work for moving a meter have to be done by your supplier. This is called non-contestable work. Other parts of work can usually be carried out by someone else, such as a registered electrician or gas engineer. This is called contestable work.

 

[Dotty]

It is not contestable. It is simple.

It is Transco's property. Only they may work on it. The one exception is a GSR with a MET1 ticket but only then with transco's permission. I didn't mention that because not many people hold that qualification.

And no. You cannot get a longer anaconda.

It's not the first time CAB have got their facts wrong.

 

[Ermintrude]

John your wrong. Sorry to challenge your wealth of knowledge but your miles off mate.

 

[newcastle phill]

You grown a goatie there sir ermin of trudeshire

 

[kris]

Live gas equipment ? Is that the patented ecv snatch o matic or the copyright bung kit?[/QU

Yerh the simple clamp ermi

 

[Dotty]

Nice use of catering hoses.....

 

[Dotty]

Nice use of catering hoses.....

Tell a lie. I just had a closer look.

That's the 49.99 special innit!

 

[Ermintrude]

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