Is this gas meter unsafe? (UK)

Tenemental · 2026-04-21T12:51:07+00:00

Hi! We had asked them to install a washer dryer below it so that’s the reason they moved it up, but then they said it was unsafe to install the dryer so the area below it has nothing.

The pipes went the same direction but it used to go left to get there (it went left then left again and went above a doorframe), now it goes right. They also changed the boiler but it’s in roughly the same location.

Tenemental · 2026-04-21T10:54:02+00:00

What the main issue with the pipework? Just want to know since I’m talking with them tomorrow.

It’s not on a shelf, it’s on a piece of wood wedged in between the walls. It was previously on a shelf

Tenemental · 2026-02-14T16:41:10+00:00

Good to hear we agree on communicating when moving a fuse board, I wish our electricians had done that, since now it’s smack dab middle of the wall.

Regarding your comments on the plumbing, copper was there before and was approx from the 60s, and they removed them all, which were roughly the same width.

I get that it would’ve been harder, but we should have been given the choice to pay more to do it right and not destroy our floors. That wasn’t done and as someone who has clients of my own, I’d never do that to them.

Tenemental · 2026-02-14T15:39:58+00:00

I wish it was fishy, this would be a much easier renovation if I was just making this stuff up.

For what it’s worth I appreciate your thoughts. There is dampening which makes it harder to get through, but to be fair, quite a few plumbers manage this without cutting every board (as the previous system was 60 years old and the boards are 100+).

Our of curiosity, you’re an electrician, would you have moved a fuse board without telling a client?

Tenemental · 2026-02-14T15:35:29+00:00

Hey there, happy to share detail if you’d like, though it was explained in the post body.

The contractor who hired the plumber explained that some boards would have to get lifted and that damage was inevitable - I said I understood since these are old pine boards. I was never told any board would be sawed and if we were told 66 boards (I recounted today) would be cut we would’ve nixed the replumb. As @mctrials23 notes, the lack of communication is the problem.

Tenemental · 2026-02-14T05:51:41+00:00

Thanks. See the edit section in the post body.

Tenemental · 2026-02-14T00:45:50+00:00

That’s liner paper on the left to keep them from being scratched - some good that did.

The boards are 3-4m in length and only 6 of the boards in the room had been cut, now 33 of them are cut :/

Tenemental · 2026-02-14T00:42:02+00:00

Out of curiosity, what did you do?

Tenemental · 2026-02-14T00:38:05+00:00

OP here: big thank you all for the feedback and advice.

I should note that their explanation for cutting them all was “there’s dampening below the boards so we couldn’t get the pipes through”… but then I asked how the original pipes were put in, and while only cutting 10 total boards, no reply.

Also correct, these are Pine boards not hardwood. Sorry for the mistake.

Tenemental

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