Just a quick(ish) post to get some advice.
This involves moving the gas meter and gas supply pipe (pipe from mains to ECV & Meter) so not 100% sure this is correct part of forum?
Anyway my gas transporter (SGN) are currently renewing mains and supply pipes where I live. I didn't think it would overly affect me as the supply pipe into my property is yellow and I assumed fairly modern. However I received a card through the door yesterday that mentioned changing the supply pipe and the meter, the meter bit was definitately news to me and hadn't been mentioned in any of the previous letters.
I spoke to a foreman on site who said that the part of the supply pipe that enters the house footprint needs replacing, but as my meter is under the stairs and there is a bend in the pipe (under the garage floor) he said a new meter would be needed.
He said the solution would be to excavate my fairly new block paving about a metre back from the garage doors, connect new pipe to existing pipe, run new pipe in a trench under small area of garage floor, then up the wall to connect to a new meter just inside the garage doors. They would then run a copper pipe along inside of garage wall, through wall to under stairs and connect to existing pipework.
After he had left I had some doubts. Firstly this new pipe would breach the DPM under my garage floor and secondly I can't see how they would lift my block paving and then put it back exactly as it was. I know that it's notoriously difficult to remove block paving without breaking at least one block? He assured me that they would restore both the block paving and the small area of excavated garage floor to its original condition but I am not convinced.
I came up with a solution of running a new gas supply pipe from the mains on the other side of my property (left hand side as opposed to the right about 6 metres between new and old pipe), putting a meter in a floor level brown box on corner of the house then running a wall mounted external pipe down the side of the house, through the wall (under floorboard level) and into the under stairs area (a straight run) to connect to existing pipes.
My questions after this lengthy explanation (apologies) are -
How much say would I have in persuading them to take this second option. The trench, apart from the pavement is all in soil/grass which I know has to be 450mm deep, the length of the trench would be about 12metres on my property plus the pavement and then some part of the road, 14 metres overall would be a good estimate. But it does involve less restoration work overall and the meter is outside which I know they prefer.
I have checked the SGN website and OFGEM but none of them refer to this type of situation or anything similar.
Secondly if the alternate pipe run is a no go how good are they likely to be when it comes to restoring their excavations
And finally is there a technique to deal with a pipe breaching a DPM so that it is still protected against damp.
Any advice greatly appreciated.
Thanks
This involves moving the gas meter and gas supply pipe (pipe from mains to ECV & Meter) so not 100% sure this is correct part of forum?
Anyway my gas transporter (SGN) are currently renewing mains and supply pipes where I live. I didn't think it would overly affect me as the supply pipe into my property is yellow and I assumed fairly modern. However I received a card through the door yesterday that mentioned changing the supply pipe and the meter, the meter bit was definitately news to me and hadn't been mentioned in any of the previous letters.
I spoke to a foreman on site who said that the part of the supply pipe that enters the house footprint needs replacing, but as my meter is under the stairs and there is a bend in the pipe (under the garage floor) he said a new meter would be needed.
He said the solution would be to excavate my fairly new block paving about a metre back from the garage doors, connect new pipe to existing pipe, run new pipe in a trench under small area of garage floor, then up the wall to connect to a new meter just inside the garage doors. They would then run a copper pipe along inside of garage wall, through wall to under stairs and connect to existing pipework.
After he had left I had some doubts. Firstly this new pipe would breach the DPM under my garage floor and secondly I can't see how they would lift my block paving and then put it back exactly as it was. I know that it's notoriously difficult to remove block paving without breaking at least one block? He assured me that they would restore both the block paving and the small area of excavated garage floor to its original condition but I am not convinced.
I came up with a solution of running a new gas supply pipe from the mains on the other side of my property (left hand side as opposed to the right about 6 metres between new and old pipe), putting a meter in a floor level brown box on corner of the house then running a wall mounted external pipe down the side of the house, through the wall (under floorboard level) and into the under stairs area (a straight run) to connect to existing pipes.
My questions after this lengthy explanation (apologies) are -
How much say would I have in persuading them to take this second option. The trench, apart from the pavement is all in soil/grass which I know has to be 450mm deep, the length of the trench would be about 12metres on my property plus the pavement and then some part of the road, 14 metres overall would be a good estimate. But it does involve less restoration work overall and the meter is outside which I know they prefer.
I have checked the SGN website and OFGEM but none of them refer to this type of situation or anything similar.
Secondly if the alternate pipe run is a no go how good are they likely to be when it comes to restoring their excavations
And finally is there a technique to deal with a pipe breaching a DPM so that it is still protected against damp.
Any advice greatly appreciated.
Thanks
