I am planning on moving my electric and gas meters as part of some building work. Anyone with SSE and done this recently and can let me know a rough cost for doing this, the move will be approx 1.5m closer to the main supply. Also will they install (by default) a smart meter at the same times?

Thanks in advance for any comments.

Cost me about £400 to move my gas meter about 6 inches from the front porch into a box on the wall outside. And, that was with me installing the box!

That was a long time ago, 2001 if I remember correctly...

Think it is about £800+vat for gas, probably similar for leccy.

If you are brave enough and ask the right people, there are tradesmen who do a bit of work after hours......a little under half price and whenever you want it rather than the protracted wait involved with utility companies. (these people do it day in day out, and get plenty of work from builders)

god help you with sse, they dont own the gas pipes so it depends on who supplies the pipe to your meter.
budget around £400 per meter to move. chances are you will then need to reconnect the outlets of them yourself, certainly here in scotland the gas guys will fit the meter and not reconnect the outlet

£1200 to bury 15m of overhead (well feed it through the duct i'd burried!) and move the meter from the house to the garage...

Not a bad earner for 2 blokes for 2.5hrs.....

We had our gas meter moved in March 2013 by Northern Gas Networks. It cost us a lot less than we were expecting. Just checked the invoice. £398.92. It was moved from a kitchen at the rear of the property to outside the the front of the house. We were redoing the kitchen and it was in the way.

They did a really good job in my opinion They had to dig up a small part of a concrete driveway and a little bit of garden in order to locate the pipe work. They moved the meter in an afternoon and another team made good on the outside works a couple of days later all for the price stated above. I was really impressed with the price and the quality of the work. We also had a site inspection prior to the work being carried out so people visited the property three times. We had heard of horror stories of around a thousand quid prior to getting quoted.

I think the utility people are looking to move meters to the exteriors of properties for ease of access and this may have been reflected in the price a bit. The job was doing them a favour in the long term.

I paid a mate who is a qualified gas fitter to reconnect the house. He charged another 120 quid for the work involved. The utility folks only do the supply up to the meter so you still need to connect up to your gas fires and boilers from the meter.

[Edited on 20/11/15 by RichieW]

I wanted to move my electricity meter (it was going to be obscured by the washing machine). They wanted £1000. I just stuck a cheap arse USB IR camera on a copper strip pointing at it and when they come to read it I switch on the laptop and show it to them. 5 years later and no worries

Most leccy companies will move the meter by roughly 3'/1m for free, but not the incoming cable. For that you need for local DNO, which you can find with 30 secs of Google usually. Prices vary, from less than you expect to how bleeping much?!