Hi all, need to check the legality of something with you Gas Safe guys.
We're having much of our front wall rebuilt/re-pointed. 3 gas meters are screwed to the wall via old render, which has been stripped from the rest of the building. Our builder needs the meters to be unscrewed so that he can strip the remaining render and repair the brickwork. Our Gas Safe engineer said he could cap the pipes, remove the meters, then replace them at the end of the day. HOWEVER, our builder needs the meters to be unscrewed from the wall for a few days (and we don't want to be without gas for that length of time). Our builder doesn't care if the meters are still attached to the pipes, just so long as they not screwed to wall any more: he needs them to be 'free-standing' so that he can replace/re-point whatever bricks need doing.
Our Gas Safe guy says that it's illegal not to have the meters screwed to a wall. Is it illegal to screw them to a board instead, for stability? (this is our builder's 'solution') I don't want to be in the situation of paying another call-out charge only to be told by the engineer that what the builder is proposing is illegal and can't be done. Advice please. Thanks.
We're having much of our front wall rebuilt/re-pointed. 3 gas meters are screwed to the wall via old render, which has been stripped from the rest of the building. Our builder needs the meters to be unscrewed so that he can strip the remaining render and repair the brickwork. Our Gas Safe engineer said he could cap the pipes, remove the meters, then replace them at the end of the day. HOWEVER, our builder needs the meters to be unscrewed from the wall for a few days (and we don't want to be without gas for that length of time). Our builder doesn't care if the meters are still attached to the pipes, just so long as they not screwed to wall any more: he needs them to be 'free-standing' so that he can replace/re-point whatever bricks need doing.
Our Gas Safe guy says that it's illegal not to have the meters screwed to a wall. Is it illegal to screw them to a board instead, for stability? (this is our builder's 'solution') I don't want to be in the situation of paying another call-out charge only to be told by the engineer that what the builder is proposing is illegal and can't be done. Advice please. Thanks.
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