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 SianiAnni
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Topic starter 11/07/2025 10:44 pm  

There have been a couple of similar questions here, so apologies if I'm going over old ground. 

Octopus Energy removed my gas meter last September, after I had a heat pump installed. But they replaced it with an earthing cable (I can't find the post with the proper name of this cable now - one of @Toodles?). The meter was on an external wall in the hall, about 2m to 3m from the electricity meter. I don't have solar, battery or EV charger.

nomoregas meter

I'm working towards getting the suspended wooden floor insulated and making perimeter airtight (membrane below and above insulation), and there are several things that will ideally be done before that happens, the relevant ones being
- lifting flooring
- installing a new dpc and then replastering most walls up to 1.2m, removing anything and everything attached to the walls below 1.2m
- where necessary lowering radiator pipework below the joists for ease of future maintenance
- removing redundant gas pipes to two reception rooms where there used to be gas fires, and the pipe to the gas hob in the kitchen (which isn't being used obviously).

Once the floor is up I was going to borrow some pipe cutters and start cutting off the redundant gas pipes. Is this safe to do? Having read a warning about how the rooms would smell of gas, I'm wondering how long it would take to dissipate?

Is the earth cable still needed? If needed, then would it be possible for an electrician to join the earth cable attached to the gas mains coming in through the external wall to the other bit connected to the gas pipe going down below the floor. If the bracket, the gas pipe and earth cable are no longer needed then the bracket can be removed and it's one (or two) fewer holes in membranes that will need taping up.

Apologies for tiny pic, can't seem to make it any bigger. And thanks in advance for any advice! 

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 AgentGeorge
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12/07/2025 8:21 am  
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i had the gas pipe terminated out side the house in the rabbit hutch style housing.

The meter and regulator were removed and a seal fitted on supply side with warning label.

At this point all gas in the pipe was vented

There is an option to have the Gas pipe removed all way back to road but thats expensive

The earth lead was not re-connected and there is no requirement to earth bond unused gas pipes

i then removed all gas pipes inside house 


   
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