[top post corrected]
coffeeman wrote:
Psst wrote:
On 10 Dec 2006 04:11:29 -0800, "coffeeman"
wrote:

My gas meter is fixed to my external house wall but within a
lean-to garage. It is not recessed into the wall, it is mounted
on a steel plate fixed directly to the brickwork at a height of
1800mm. The incoming gas pipe comes vertically from the floor to
the same height as the top of the meter but 200mm to the right of
it and connects into the top of the meter with a 'bendy' metal
pipe. The cut-off lever is at the top of the rigid vertical pipe.
The outgoing pipe comes from the top of the meter and bends left
after about 600mm then runs along the garage wall and into the
kitchen wall further along.

Your best option would probably be to engage your joinery skills
and make a wooden weatherproof box yourself. Fiddling about trying
to fit a standard surface monut meter box would be too much trouble
as the connections arent right and they would need alteration which
means ££££

I would look into fixing a standard recessed meter cover onto my box
so it locked with a normal meter-reader's key. Any thoughts?

Try this lot: they may have a box to suit, or I note you can even buy
the locks (and other parts) separately:
http://www.meter-boxes.co.uk/content/home.asp

David