Gas board have had the entire street dug up laying a replacement gas main, to replace the original one which is rusting and leaking. They have been causing chaos for a couple of weeks now and expect to be still at it after Christmas.
They are running the new main first, then running the pipes up the drive last.
This morning they came around delivering Christmas cards - hope they are not staying for Christmas dinner. :-)
If you have an internal meter and want it moved outside now is the time to do it as they will do it for free.
Richard
Tricky Dicky submitted this idea :
Thanks, but we had it moved outside 30+ years ago.
For which fluid?
Which service, and company, are we talking about here?
Which 'fluid' does your gas board normally supply then?
Is reading not your specialist subject by any chance??
Nothing in the subject or body mentions gas (or anything).
Nothing in TD's reply maybe, but did you see HB's original message?
They will be around on Boxing Day for their Christmas Boxes.
Colin Bignell
Tricky Dicky's initial reply wasn't flagged as "re:", although the headers did reference Harry's original. It's entirely possible that some newsreaders are failing to thread correctly, making TD's post look like the first. There wasn't any quoted text in TD's reply, either, making it look like just a bit of a strange original.
Hmm, its a charm assault obviously, Happy Christmas, sorry but you have to cook elsewhere as we will have the gas off Christmas day. Brian
My gas board used to supply my electricity. I now get my electricity from a water company.
jgh
I'd rather not have one of those ugly boxes on the outside of the house - and I read my own meter anyway.
They're only really practical and aesthetically fitting if they're those ones that are recessed into the thickness of the wall itself, not blu-takked onto the outside of the wall.
jgh
Given this is being done after the build and for free, blutack it is.
But even when installed as neatly as possible they still stick out like a sore thumb. And who reading this can't do their own meter readings?
When I lived in Michigan, USA, the meter wasn't in a box, it was just screwed to the wall, and so was only about 3/4 inch deep, and quite unobtrusive. And they have real weather there, watch the news right now.
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