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Installing recessed gas meter box

  • 30-08-2017 2:38pm
    #1
    D13exile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭


    I've just bought a three bed semi with oil heating. I want to switch over to gas as it's outside the front garden. I had a guy out yesterday from Gas Network last Ireland to look at where the supply would run in to the house and where the meter box would go. I thought this would be straightforward but this guy was something else. A lot of sucking through his teeth saying "you could put it there but the guys laying the pipes might not agree". I asked him was I supposed to dig a hole in the table of my house for this box only for his colleagues to refuse to connect it up? A surface mounted box will only block the side entrance btw. I suggested the boundary wall with the neighbour but he's concerned I'll crash my car into it.

    I thought this guy would just point and say that's where it's going but no. I've to take a chance and put in a recessed box into an existing wall and hope his colleagues agree to it. That's ridiculous!!!

    So can I dug a hole in the table wall for a recessed box or will it weaken the structure?


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  • #2
    murph226
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,385 ✭✭✭murph226


    AFAIK there is regulations regarding where the meter has to be fitted, I would have thought the guy from the Gas network would have made this clear to you.


  • #3
    D13exile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭D13exile


    murph226 wrote: »
    AFAIK there is regulations regarding where the meter has to be fitted, I would have thought the guy from the Gas network would have made this clear to you.

    Oh he told me where it couldn't go, but he was vague as to where it could go. There's no heating in the house as the oil burner is knackered and I need the gas connection to go ahead but I'm stuck as to where I've to place the meter box. If I dig a hole in my gable wall for a recessed box, the gas people might not agree to it according to the guy I had out yesterday.


  • #4
    zapata
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 890 ✭✭✭zapata


    Did you get the recessed box installed and approved.
    I'm considering switching from oil to gas or just to have connection in for future convenience as it seems to only cost €250 to get from the mains to the gable wall under 15 meters.
    I've only started to look into tonight but my situation seems similar to yours in that I park the car at the side of the house.
    Some info here : https://www.gasnetworks.ie/home/get-connected/meter-location/


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