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Just have a go - whats the worse that could happen?
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I don't think you should be looking to plumbers to install any gas piping, it's not their job and installing it requires calculation of pipe sizes (from gas consumption of appliances) that's probably outside their area of expertise. A gas-safe engineer can install and move piping on the domestic side of the meter, but anything on the supply side, (including moving the meter) needs to be done by British Gas (usually via the supplier I think). However... I think you might be ok with just a regular gas-safe engineer because, when I was reading up to get our gas meter moved, I seem to recall that if the movement of the meter is with the range of movement of the flexible pipe it doesn't require British Gas to get involved. Double and triple check that though, as my recollection is hazy.
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I'd like my gas meter to be moved, it's sat about a foot away from the wall through which the gas pipe comes - on the end of a flexible pipe.
If not for the hard 22mm copper pipe that runs from the domestic side of the meter it could be moved very simply, without having to do anything other than push it gently against the wall.
I've been advised that no plumber would touch this job, and that is' gas-company only, for ~£700.
Does anyone have any experience of this sort of thing? I'm unsure why a plumber can re-position gas-pipework elsewhere in a building, but not coming off the meter, and I think that £700 seems a bit steep for a job that I could do myself (but won't due to risk of blowing the spare bedroom apart).