General Chat

Marion

I would check with whoever you go with that they will do all the work for you. We have recently had our electric meter moved to the outside from the cupboard under the stairs. We had to buy the meter cupboard ourselves and attach it to the wall prior to the electrician coming making sure that we had the right amount of wire. We also had to drill through the wall to the outside ourselves. The only thing the electricity board did was to dig the hole at the base of the wall for the pipe and install the meter. We were then left to fill in the hole they had dug. They charged £600!!! Alright for an hours work dont you think? Hopefully you wont have the same problems with the gas people.

Issy

Very weird, Maddie. Maybe it's coz I was putting on me posh voice when I was pretending to be my mum? LOL

Issy, that's unbelievable, sounds like you were properly ripped off.

Tell them a BT van just knocked it and you can smell gas ! They'll end up dong it for free !

LOL Lindsey

Jeez,

You would have thought to move a meter to an outside wall would suit them better as they dont have to arrange access to read the meter at bill time!!

All new or refurbished houses over here have to have meters on the outside and they are moved for free if already insitu!

love t.x

They refused to move mine so now I dont let them in to read it. They get 50 pence each meter reading..... but not my 50p!

Thank for your replies girls.

Good idea Linsey, wont try it though lol.


Got a form to fill in today,that was quick only phoned yesterday.
Anyway on it it asks if it is more than two metres,that might be enough.
Form is filled in and we have to wait on surveyor..free it says.

thanks again
Marion

Well now my porch is finished this gas box is in the way - it takes up so much room that I could utilise. I have just called british gas and asked how I go about leaving when they asked why I said that an alternative supplier would move my gas box chepaer than their quote of £465.00 if I changed my gas and leccy over to them ...... British gas said ok - well you dont need to do anything just go with the other supllier and they will contact us and youll be moved in abuot 6 weeks.

NOT the answer I was looking for - I was hoping they would reduce the quote. They just dont care these days.

I see there is also one that goes on the ground.
As long as ours is moved down a bit it should be ok.

Marion

Just a thought to remind peeps to beware when moving gas meter boxes on external walls. If you have a damp course if can affect the integrity. In our current house (not the one I was talking about before) they moved the electric meter outside a few years ago, it was after the damp course had been done, some how it has started making it damp on just that section of the wall inside. I don't know if it's because it's too low.