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We're currently looking at buying a house, however it doesn't have central heating and no gas supply. We want to put CH in, and also want gas for cooking.
There is gas in the street, but as far as we know no supply to the house.
Anybody know who to contact to get a rough price for having a supply put in?
Even better, anybody had experience of doing this? any idea of timescale and cost?
I'm guessing its british gas or transco?
are you old? my dad had it done free.
It was transco when I put gas into my flat around 10 years ago. Cost me £250 but months later they compensated me £50 for changing the date. I wasn't even that bothered as it was only a couple of days later.
are you old? my dad had it done free.
I like to think not (32). Although the graduate sat next to me was talking to me about The Who like I would remember them first time round 😕
Transco will install it up to and including your new meter... Then your new local Gas safe heating engineer for the rest.
Cost wise not sure depends on time and materials etc.. but get a few quotes... It's a good opportunity to get the right size gas pipe work in the property as new boilers need a good supply , we often have to upsize pipe work when fitting new A rated boilers.
Aha, turns out Transco is now part of National Grid.
For anybody finding this thread in future, info is [url= http://www2.nationalgrid.com/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=35725 ]here![/url]
Transco were the biggest pile of steaming effluent that I ever dealt with. Quotes varied daily and possible routes to the house seemed to change depending on which "customer dis-service agent" picked up the phone. It took months to sort and when they did come out they started digging up the wrong side of the house - lucky I was off work.
Mine was for connection from another main running perpendicular to my row of houses. Once it was done it saved a fortune as we were on bottled LPG.
Depends where you are.
Scotland or South/South-East = SGN
Wales & South West = Wales and West
Up north = Northern Gas Networks
All the rest = National Grid
Prepare to have your pocket picked.
Renationalisation anyone?
Just had the fella round today. Knackered old pipe in the street, so need to get them in to restore supply. You can save a bit by doing your own digging.
Don't bother excavating yourself it will cost you more in The long run, your looking at between 500-700 if your private land is less than 20 meters from the road and the main is within that distance from the edge of your property. The reason that guys was 250 was because the main is in the building being a flat. Don't excavate as transco will probably use a mole and no digging required. I used to do these quotes for a living.
We got ours done a few years ago, can';t remember the price but it was well under a grand (SGN for us). But we did get a cheque back since we were moving to a more efficient fuel than the electric heaters that we replaced. I think it was in the order of 250, so took a good bit of the sting out of it.
It is worth getting a quote for dig and non dig. You will only be responsible for the dig on your property if you do go down that route.
Imo it's not worth the digging out yourself, the amount of people I saw pull up drive ways ect and dig a trench that needs to be at least 12inches deep only to see transco feed a line without digging at all.... It's a waste of time and you save yourself 150quid.
My sister had this done, she had a block paved drive and all they had to do was take up a few blocks where they wanted the pipe to enter their property.
British gas then turned up and "moled" the pipe through, no digging involved for £600.
You could also have a look around and see who (if anyone) is contracting for the gas supplier in your local area. Go direct to them and the service should be a bit more sprightly for the quote if they have another job in the area on the same day.
As I do this kind of thing for a living it is worth asking. Mole is great when no services around. But hey take all advice on here as gospel if you like 😉