damn gas company

[DukeConnor]

Gas company has been sending me letters. zthey need to cpme in my house for a safety inspection. Meter is in the basement.

I ignored them for awhile until I get a shutoff notice.

My basement is mu reloading and gun room and I really don't want a stranger in there.

I relent and they said between 8 and 4. I can't schedule a time.

I burn my last vacation day to stay home and meet them.

The pricks don't show.

I am extremely pissed.

[2DogsBarking]

Figure out the cost/value of your day - deduct it from your bill.

[ideaman]

DEMAND THEY RELOCATE THE METER TO OUTDOORS WITHOUT COSTS. If need to, complain ot the PUC. It's for THEIR convenience. I've done quite a few with PECO.

[Roger Kipwell]

I've never seen a house with the gas meter inside.

[knight0334]

I've never seen a house with the gas meter inside.

It isn't uncommon. I've seen water, power, and gas meters inside houses.

[Walleye Hunter]

I worked with a guy who used to read some sort of meters in the city of Philtytown and he reported some pretty disgusting conditions.

[bogey1]

I've never seen a house with the gas meter inside.

My old hose has one. They wanted to move it out front, I told them no.
Its still in the basement closet where its been since the 50s. There is an advantage to it,
if you think about it, but.... dont do it

[Daycrawler]

Tarps and a few screws from the wall are your friend. tarps are cheap and can be used for other things. A broken water line from the fridge caused water damage on two floors. I had to bring the adjuster through the damaged rooms. Out of site out of mind.

[gun-bunny]

My old gas meter was in the basement and had the same exact problem as the OP. I had them remove the meter and shut the gas off at the curb. They had to bring a truck over to dig up the old valve just so they could shut it off. No more UGI for me...

A year or two after that, I got the exact same letter in the mail, that I needed my meter inspected. I told them they completely removed the meter, capped off the entrance pipe, and shut it off at the street. Nope, no good, they wanted to see it. I laughed at their threats to turn off the gas, until they said they would get the cops to let them in; public safety and all ().

I did what JustinR did; take a day off from work and covered everything up with old, painted up plastic. The UGI guy gets there and asks me where the meter is, I told him in one of the back of their guy's trucks. They took it with them when they removed it, but nobody ever seemed to follow up on it. I made sure this guy did. I haven't had natural gas in the house for the last decade or so.

The biggest thing I learned from the whole thing was that UGI has NO IDEA of what they are doing. It's a wonder that we only hear about 1 or 2 houses blowing up from gas leaks every other month and not far more.

[DukeConnor]

DEMAND THEY RELOCATE THE METER TO OUTDOORS WITHOUT COSTS. If need to, complain ot the PUC. It's for THEIR convenience. I've done quite a few with PECO.

I am going to make some calls tomorrow.