Gas meter location - any laws/regulation on this??

[Doctor Drivel]

To do what? All they can do is cut of from the outside. They can only charge down a door unless they suspect an imminent explosion.

[Tim Mitchell]

Why? natural gas isn't poisonous.

[Ed Sirett]

There should never be a smell of gas from any gas appliance indoors. If there is, then there is a problem. Call 0800 111 999 and get them out to fix it. If you are very unlucky the leak is on your pipework and they will simply turn the gas off and tell you to get someone to fix the leak in your cupboard. However there is a very good chance that the leak is on there meter or their pipe work.

It may well be that the leak is very small nevertheless any smell of gas indoors is a problem, if for no other reason than it may mask a bigger more serious leak later on which no one takes any notice of.

If the new meter has remote reading then apart from the pipework (route no doubt chosen to minimise their work), there is really no problem.

[Ed Sirett]

In this case they probably don't have powers of forcible entry (unless they suspected a dangerous situation). However you simply won't have gas any more.

[Ed Sirett]

The old manufactured gas was highly toxic and a concentration much less that lower explosive limit was fatal in minutes.

Natural gas is much less toxic. However gas leaks need to be fixed - because some of them are serious and any leak might be just such.

[<me9]

Cambridge (or it may have been Oxford) was converted to natural gas much earlier than was originally planned to prevent the student population using its toxicity for heads in gas ovens.

[Doctor Drivel]

Yep. I used to look at the property for the ideal meter locations, decide where the risers where and only then decide where the underground pipes would go. |They are doing it backwards to save time, effort and money. Well that is the private cowboy sector for you.

[Doctor Drivel]

Double Income No Kids Yet ?

tut, tut.

[Doctor Drivel]

That is not mandatory, I just suggested that to the builders whop did it. Make sure the cupboard is soundproofed as much as possible, as some maters can make a noise. Not what you want in a bedroom

[Doctor Drivel]

Risers rising up the inside must be in fireproof ducts.

[Doctor Drivel]

That's a shame. They should have kept the whole place on town gas to this day.

[Andy Hall]

So were you in the public cowboy sector?

[Doctor Drivel]

Nope. Contracted on to the superb public sector which put the consumer first, not profit.

[Andy Hall]

So now you're telling us that the public sector contracted unqualified individuals to do work for consumers.

That's putting the consumer first?

[Doctor Drivel]

I didn't tell you that at all. You need any Corgi crap to design. Only hands on people need to be Corgi. They insist you are educated in the field though.

[Andy Hall]

I see. How exactly were you educated and what qualifications did you achieve?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

The obvious place would have been in the now redundant airing cupboard? Or neatly between the twin 'combi's'?

Designed by Drivel. Accepted by his relations. Rejected by the world.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

You were contracted to BG?

Explains it all.

The total lack of any concept of value for money that pervades your posts.

[ben]

Walking around with the Queen, Sh***ing in public places.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Explains it. You only talk cow.