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My flat in a converted house doesn’t have a gas connection but the upstairs does.
Who do I contact to see if they can install a meter for downstairs?
Your local gas supplier I would assume – I don't know if they have to do it free of charge or not (I know that BT have to install a phone line without charge).
Edit: Not free for a BT line, but a fixed cost (I had a line installed a few years ago and it required a new telegraph pole but fortunately I didn't have to pay for that). It seems gas and electric can charge for the work involved.
is there such a thing as a local supplier for gas (and electricity) now?
I could contact the electricity supplier though.
I got a quote for this from (edit it wasn't Transco - I'll see if I can find who it was) and a local fitter recently for our shop and flat. We have one supply, meter in the flat, which feeds a boiler located in the shop which feeds the heating for the entire building which makes things tricky separating costs between shop and flat. around £5k for the new supply and meter.
Then you have the work to do for new boiler and pipework which was going to be another £5k on top of this.
Oh and they wouldn't give you a date of when they could come and put the new supply in until they had surveyed the site but was told to expect months not weeks. No wonder the previous owner couldn't be arsed doing it.
Any supplier should be able to connect you but I'd stick with a big established one.
You'll have to pay for it unless there are vulnerabilities and poverty.
should be cheap if the pipe doesn't have far to go
Dunno where you are.... so this might help
Down south anything to do with a meter goes through SGN. I had to move my meter approx 4m to the outside of the building. The charge was £1,5k for 3 guys a couple of hours. One guy did most of the work whilst the other 2 scratched thier arses.
Then i had to pay another grand to a gassafe plumber to run 4m of pipe back to where the original meter was a reconnect. SGN would not do this as they just care about the meter (I think if its less than a metre they would)
It is not cheap. Also long lead times, so if you want it, get it booked. I think we waited 6 weeks, though was expecting 2month+
https://www.energynetworks.org/customers/find-my-network-operator find your local network operator. They're the infrastructure folks. The company you pay is just retail.
I had to move my meter approx 4m to the outside of the building. The charge was £1,5k for 3 guys a couple of hours. One guy did most of the work whilst the other 2 scratched thier arses.
I had similar about 20yrs ago, one guy to move meter along external wall, didn't take long then sat in his van smoking a spliff, had to come back the next day as he'd left a leak in the incoming pipe.