Gas pipe live?

[hi1]

Well here's the tale. !940's house which has probably been in the same family since, recently owned by housing association so a council build?
House is soon to be mine and according to Wales and West utilities doesn't have a gas supply. The family that were occupiers had a thing about gas and refused to use it in any form. The current heating is electric panel heaters which i want to move away from not having won the lottery. So if there isn't a gas supply what is this pipe ( see picture)? If it is a gas supply pipe could it still be live? If so can it still be used with a meter perched on top. At the moment Wales and West are disireous of taking both arms and a leg to put a plastic supply in having no record of a gas supply to the house. Would that be because with no meter no manp? number no record and computer says no. If it was a live gas pipe would it have been connected to mains and as such being it appears steel could it corrode outside and leak even if i have a plastic system installed surely somewhere out under the road is the original gas connection waiting.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

That certainly looks like a gas pipe. Our 1950's service was steel pipe, but they had an ongoing project of replacing them with the yellow plastic, including the mains, throughout our area about five years ago. There were concerns, and regular checks for the steel pipework leaking, in the years leading up to the replacements.

Possibly, your area will have been done, and as you had no meter, no new pipe was fitted. Check with neighbours, see if they have new yellow pipes. If you have been missed from the install, then yes, it will be expensive to add.

 

[ianmcd]

That is an old gas service , unlikely it will still be live, but in the unlikely event that it is they will not use it, they will terminate it and run a new PE service to an outside meterbox