Beneath your feet, running through the ground hidden from view, are the pipes that bring gas to your homes and business.
We’re committed to upgrading the gas infrastructure across the UK. We’re replacing the existing metallic gas pipes with new plastic pipes, which will futureproof our network and allow us to keep the gas flowing.
Your street has a main gas pipe running along it, as well as a smaller service pipe that connects gas to your home. We'll be replacing these with longer lasting plastic pipes.
We replace circa 1,700 km of mains pipe and 160,000 service pipes to individual properties annually.
To complete this work, we will need to dig holes in the public footpath/road as well as your private property to get to the pipes, turn off your gas, replace the pipe, turn your gas back on, then fill in the holes, reinstate the patch we dug and tidy up. To see this process in action watch the video below:
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