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So I came home tonight to find two gas board vans in the street.
I said to the workies: "You're not looking at the gas pressure by any chance are you? Because ours was fluctuating quite a bit yesterday"
Turns out they were and 3 other houses in the street had problems. One had no gas at all. Bloke comes in, looks at our internal meter, does the sucking in air thing and says: "Whoever put this in has just sleeved 16mm tubing inside the existing pipes and it's not a wide enough bore for your supply. We'll need to replace this with an external meter. We have crews out tomorrow I'll add you to the list."
While I appreciate getting it sorted out so promptly, I'm not sure I want an ugly-arse white PVC box stuck to the front of our 100-year old terraced cottage.
Are there any more sightly options?
get a brown one
Is brown PVC less bogging than white?
At least it wouldn't go yellow after a week I suppose.
Not allowed lots of supply side pipe on your property, but you can have the meter concealed in something better at your expense yes.
Thanks, I found http://www.meterboxes.co.uk/content/METERBOXESmeterboxes.asp?TypeID=1&CatID=23
This:
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Looks a bit better than what the neighbour has which is something like this:
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Only kinda yellowing with green damp on top.
But I'm not sure if they are going to give us any choice.
I don't really want to be without gas, but I don't want an ugly solution forced onto us when a few quid would get something less ugly.
You can get ones set into the wall (our leccy one does). Still unsightly but less protruding.
Looking at that site I think you can only have it set into the wall if you have cavity walls, but we don't