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update - it turns out the gas pipe that the builders hit was only 5 inches below the surface and so they are going to contest this! but its not going to be at a cost to us thats for sure! The gas fitters were shocked to see that we were still running on copper piping and the supply was...

thanks all - They have now re-routed the gas pipes to outside of the proposed build and the gas engineer has offered to move the gas meter to outside the property for less than half price (he will be doing it on the side of his full time job!). I suppose there is an up side to this happening...

We are in the process of building a one story extension at the side of our property. All planning etc was approved and the builders started digging the footings yesterday. Today, they hit a gas pipe with their machinery and we had to call out the emergency gas people to come and cut it off...