Gas supply

[Gary111]

Hi, my mate has bought a flat which has a gas boiler and hob.
There's also a meter.
He's contacted British Gas who said there is no record of it having a gas supply.
They suggested having the meter removed and cadent coming to see if it's got gas.
Mentioned something about getting it capped too ?

Does anyone have any experience of this please ?
Is there some way we can tell if the gas supply is live ?

Thanks

 

[muggles]

Get a Gas Safe installer to come and check. Could be one of those rare properties which has a live supply but isn't documented. I've never come across one but I've heard that they exist. It would of course be very bad if you to carry on using it without telling anyone

 

[DP]

Get a Gas Safe installer to come and check. Could be one of those rare properties which has a live supply but isn't documented. I've never come across one but I've heard that they exist. It would of course be very bad if you to carry on using it without telling anyone

Same as have a client whose meter was not recording the usage, he called it in and meter was replaced

 

[FiremanT]

Get a Gas Safe installer to come and check. Could be one of those rare properties which has a live supply but isn't documented. I've never come across one but I've heard that they exist. It would of course be very bad if you to carry on using it without telling anyone

Came across two that I can think off. The first many years ago was a house in the middle of nowhere beside a railway line - presumably originally a railman's home. The occupants told me they have never had a gas bill, as BG insist they don't have a gas supply. I was there, employed by the old BG to fit a cooker that they had bought from the BG showroom.!

 

[bernardgreen]

a house in the middle of nowhere beside a railway line

Was it an ex-railway property ? In days gone by some of those did have a private un-metered gas supply from a nearby station, signal box or other railway building. The railway company paid a single bill for all the places they supplied.

 

[oldbutnotdead]

This flat- is it a house that's been newly subdivided? If so, best get an RGI to have a shufti- it may be that whoever did the dividing just threw a load of 22mm from the original single house supply. You can buy meters from eBay....see if the meter has an MPRN on it (or is it MPAN for gas, always forget which is which)...

 

[CBW]

Is there some way we can tell if the gas supply is live ?

Boiler and hob work? Yes = gas is live

 

[flameport]

He's contacted British Gas who said there is no record of it having a gas supply.

BG are an overpriced energy supplier. What they probably meant is that they don't supply the property.

Enter details here: https://www.findmysupplier.energy/ to find out who the suppler is.

 

[FiremanT]

Was it an ex-railway property ? In days gone by some of those did have a private un-metered gas supply from a nearby station, signal box or other railway building. The railway company paid a single bill for all the places they supplied.

I assumed it was, TBH, purely because of the location. Did not know about the unmetered supply angle, though

 

[ianmcd]

wish it was my house