Gas Farce - Transco & Powergen

Andrew Mawson · 2004-11-22T17:51:01+00:00

The council are relaying our pavements - contractor rips up our gaspipe -boiler goes out (well it would !). Transco come along, and say they cannotjust re-connect to the existing 1.25" plastic wrapped steel gas pipe intoour house as their policy is to replace with polyethylene.Team comes to slide 20mm up the pipe - hit an elbow under my shed - dighole - connect to 20mm convoluted - get that round elbow. Inside team comealong to connect pipe to meter - say flow too large gives too high apressure drop need larger pipe.Outside team come back - lay 25mm pipe up to hole - I move shed - theycontinue in 25mm to meter. Inside team come along to connect pipe to meter -say flow too large gives too high a pressure drop need larger pipe.Outside team come back - lay 32mm pipe. Inside team come along to connectpipe to meter - say flow too large gives too high a pressure drop needlarger METER !!!!!OK it's a big detached house - 7 bedrooms - the current meter is a U6 (ie 6cu.m./hr) which is largest 'domestic' and Transco say we need a 'U16'.Transco say I have to ring Powergen (my gas supplier) to ask Transco toupsize the meter. This I do - they take the call and tell me someone willbe along today. Having hung arround all day I ring them back - "oh no youshouldn't have been told that - you need to ring another number " This Ido - they say "Oh you have to fill in forms and pay £300" At this point Ihit the roof and start to consider moving my three commercial gas contractsand my domestic away from Powergen (I'm paying £12,000 a year to Powergenfor gas alone across four contracts).Powergen are 'considering what they can do . . ' and I've put out feelerswith other gas suppliers !!!! Meanwhile Transco tell me I can only run mygas boiler and not any of the gas fires or hob for cooking.Don't you love privatisation !!!!!AWEM

Nov 22, 2004 27 Replies

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Steve Firth 21 years ago

IMM wrote:

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IMM 21 years ago

Getting worse. Getting worse. Does anyone know what effect kicking s*it all your life affects a person? Fascinating.

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:::Jerry:::: 21 years ago

IMM, don't feed the fish.

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Steve Firth 21 years ago

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Ed Sirett 21 years ago

I can understand your frustration, it _did_ work before (but it wasn't right). Now it's got to be done right and that means a commercial sized supply.

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IMM 21 years ago

True he has the brains of a kipper.

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IMM 21 years ago

I never used to be. A U6 was used up to 350 cu ft/hr

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Steve Firth 21 years ago

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