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Hi all,
I asked about this in the building forum as it is more wide ranging than just the gas service, but was advised to ask here too.
My gas meter (and electric meter) is currently inside the house inside a kitchen cupboard. I am thinking of getting it moved externally, literally to the outside of the same wall its already on.
I will need to fit an external gas meter box, but space is tight as its a side entryway that leads to the back gardens between two houses.
My house is 9" solid walls.
I initially wanted to take out a skin of bricks and fit a flush mounted box. But I can't do this because the recess depth needs to be 160mm, which won't work in my 225mm solid walls.
So Im looking at a surface mounted gas meter box, which is readily available so that's fine. But, I want to partially recess it into the wall by half the wall depth, or around 100mm. This will mean the protrusion from the face of the wall is about 150mm instead of the 250mm that an externally mounted box would be if fully surface mounted.
Im not worried about the cut edge of the brick looking a bit rough, I can trim round the box with upvc trim once its fitted, like they do round window openings when you have new ones fitted.
Is there any reason I won't be allowed to partially recess a surface mounted gas meter box?
The service pipe already comes up from the path below, through the wall to where my meter is. This will hardly change - it will come up from the same place, into the meter box, and then through the back of the box into the house to join up with the existing pipework.
I asked about this in the building forum as it is more wide ranging than just the gas service, but was advised to ask here too.
My gas meter (and electric meter) is currently inside the house inside a kitchen cupboard. I am thinking of getting it moved externally, literally to the outside of the same wall its already on.
I will need to fit an external gas meter box, but space is tight as its a side entryway that leads to the back gardens between two houses.
My house is 9" solid walls.
I initially wanted to take out a skin of bricks and fit a flush mounted box. But I can't do this because the recess depth needs to be 160mm, which won't work in my 225mm solid walls.
So Im looking at a surface mounted gas meter box, which is readily available so that's fine. But, I want to partially recess it into the wall by half the wall depth, or around 100mm. This will mean the protrusion from the face of the wall is about 150mm instead of the 250mm that an externally mounted box would be if fully surface mounted.
Im not worried about the cut edge of the brick looking a bit rough, I can trim round the box with upvc trim once its fitted, like they do round window openings when you have new ones fitted.
Is there any reason I won't be allowed to partially recess a surface mounted gas meter box?
The service pipe already comes up from the path below, through the wall to where my meter is. This will hardly change - it will come up from the same place, into the meter box, and then through the back of the box into the house to join up with the existing pipework.
