Good evening all.
I currently have my gas meter on one corner of my property (front left), which serves a boiler in the garage which is on the diagonally furthest corner of the house from the meter (rear right). The pipework connecting the two is 28mm/22mm copper which is on the external walls of the house (side and back). Total run is about 20m.
We are having an extension built on the rear, and the builder's suggestion is that we have the meter relocated to in front of the garage, therefore only needing about 6m of pipe work to connect the two. This removes the unsightly pipework from the outside of the house, and also gets it out of his way as it currently runs where the extension is being built.
However the meter move comes at significant cost and requires two engineers (one from the supply company to move the meter, and then a gas safe engineer to do the final run and connect up). It also seems a bit needless as we're quite happy with where the meter is right now.
My question is this: is it possible for a gas safe engineer to run a new pipe underground from where the meter currently is to in front of the garage? We are having the driveway dug up for drainage, so an additional trench would not be hugely inconvenient and I assume we could lay 25mm MDPE with suitable protection as it rises from the ground and enters the garage. 22mm copper from there to the boiler.
It seems this is a less faffy solution than moving the meter, and likely to cost significantly less than getting the energy companies involved? I don't want to start ringing round gas safe engineers if this isn't feasible.
Apols for the long post - thanks in advance for your help.
I currently have my gas meter on one corner of my property (front left), which serves a boiler in the garage which is on the diagonally furthest corner of the house from the meter (rear right). The pipework connecting the two is 28mm/22mm copper which is on the external walls of the house (side and back). Total run is about 20m.
We are having an extension built on the rear, and the builder's suggestion is that we have the meter relocated to in front of the garage, therefore only needing about 6m of pipe work to connect the two. This removes the unsightly pipework from the outside of the house, and also gets it out of his way as it currently runs where the extension is being built.
However the meter move comes at significant cost and requires two engineers (one from the supply company to move the meter, and then a gas safe engineer to do the final run and connect up). It also seems a bit needless as we're quite happy with where the meter is right now.
My question is this: is it possible for a gas safe engineer to run a new pipe underground from where the meter currently is to in front of the garage? We are having the driveway dug up for drainage, so an additional trench would not be hugely inconvenient and I assume we could lay 25mm MDPE with suitable protection as it rises from the ground and enters the garage. 22mm copper from there to the boiler.
It seems this is a less faffy solution than moving the meter, and likely to cost significantly less than getting the energy companies involved? I don't want to start ringing round gas safe engineers if this isn't feasible.
Apols for the long post - thanks in advance for your help.
