You might not personally get the choice, but your employer certainly does. Particularly if there is significant travelling involved (time, fuel, overheads), for them to send someone out to do a job for which they were being paid less than £65 would be unlikely to make much business sense.
I can understand his problem - are you asking why BG will move a meter 2 metres 'for free', or are you asking why they will only do that so long as it is not 'through walls or cupboards'?Why?
Although I did not express it in such terms, that was essentially what I was saying/asking. It obviously costs something (probably at least £65) for someone (whether self-employed electrician or an employee of BG) to go out and do such work - so, if they are not charging that customer for the time/travel/work they must, as you imply, be effectively getting payment from other customers.
No, I mean the black 'box' indicated below. It's not the 'cutout' (that box) which is the issue, but the fact that the incoming supply goes into it. As I understand it, DNOs are not allowed to make joints in vertical cables - so a joint would have to be made (underground) somewhere outside your house (where the cable is horizontal), and a new cable brought in to the new 'cutout' position - hence the £000s.
The meter is pretty much directly above the cutout - how much space would you gain by having it moved? surely can't be more than a few 10's of mm?
What main switch?
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