Has anyone had noisy vibrating gas meter?

Can anyone tell me if you solved your problem and how? A national Grid man said in passing that exchanging an upright meter for a horizontal one which i think was called a G4 could stop the noise. Our provider is ESP and they changed a 3 year old upright meter for a similar new one and the noise is still happening with any demand on gas. We are trying to get them to install a flatter meter with less of an echo or vibration potential but they say they dont use them. We say tough and they need to use them. The problem is the pressure is acceptably high in our rural location but the present metres in our newbuild close of 5 homes cant cope and they hum, scream and ring sometimes across the whole house. We understand that the regulators could be damaged by this set of circumstances as well as attracting every insect in the world..the infernal collective hum of meters has them thinking we are a hive!! Has anyone else got ESP independent supplier? So far they are very very difficult to contact. National Grid say the gas supply is safe-we are not in danger but we cant live with this noise..losing a lot of sleep and patience. )o:

In all my years I've never heard of such a noise from a meter. Your supply pressure is regulated to a safe level which any meter can handle silently.

Same as 45 i have never heard of such a noise .The pressure in your area will not be any higher than what is allowed depending on whether its low or medium pressure

6 Gas engineers from Grid and Esp plus our plumber have heard the noise and neighbour's one is doing it too when hobs, hot tap and heating are on. All now agree it isnt the new condenser boilers as the noises are not vibrating the pipe between boiler and meter. The reading was way up adn they say they did go to the 'guvnor' at edge of village and turned it down to 75 millibars but that their bosses had told them that the demand in rural Sutton is very high so that 75 millibars is acceptable. I am only passing on what i was told. I ahve to take their word for the safety of the reading and the gas coming in but it does not solve the noise problem. If this site had sound I could record it for you every time we used gas appliances. Earlier in the day Gridman no 1 went to 7 houses and tested their pressure and came back to me saying there was potentially a seriosu pressure problem. All our gas supplies were switched off for hours and after dark 2 grid men and 2 ESP fitters came and listened to the noise which only occurs with gas appliances turned on. It is like a tuning fork only deeper. They agreed after conferring with thier bosses that they could not switch the whole village off and then said the high pressure was OK and it was the fault of the meters which needed to be flatter ones rather than horizontal and that had worked in another area with same problem. The trouble is ESP dont use G4s and it is a G4 meter whichNational Grid man no 2 said might solve the problem. National Grid were here all day but once they ascertained the millibars were safe and turned out gas back on they left saying they couldnt do anything else. I am having to battle with ESP about this next week and try to get them to try the G4 meters. Our culdesac is a private road and we are supplied by ESP not the National Grid or BG. I was told that NG could not turn the pressure of gas down lower just because our meters were nosiy but it isnt acceptable and maybe the meters can be damaged according to NG man no 1.

Put a video on you tube .

Same day a lot of people in the village lost their water supply for an hour..do you think that the gas men generated a check on the water pipes? They never mentioned it but I suppose it is possible. Strangely our water supply is madly strong pressure too and it is milky white with bubbles out of the tap and even in toilet cistern..gas and water LOL lemonade on tap!

Having never heard this before i actually came across it last week , semi concealed meter (sensus top read) and it was making quite a load humming noise while there was a demand on it . It was def the meter as i changed the reg as it was leaking.
Cust never mentioned it annoying them so i never mentioned it but remembered this topic

I came across a noisy gas meter which cycled the noise.

Turned out to be water in the street mains which they had already dealt with but had reoccured. It was causing the pressure to swing between about 10 mbar and 30 mbar.

Tony