cost to remove oil fired CH & install GF CH

Grimbal

We're possibly looking to buy a property that was built with oil fired CH. I was wondering if anyone had a ballpark figure on how much it would cost to remove this & install a more traditional gas-fired one please (4bed detached)?

I'm guessing that there is mains gas relatively close by (town encroaching on this property), but would need to bring it into the actual house itself. Again, if anyone had any ideas on how much this would cost, it would be much appreciated !

TIA
Liz

moonrakerz

If you haven't actually got gas into your house - it will be VERY expensive !

gas4you

I would think it will be around £100-£150/metre for the gas to be laid on these days.

Get a quote from National Grid before you make any decisions.

olias

You will need to budget for:

New gas boiler (If the original oil boiler is quite old, they tend to be quite large, so you will have extra to budget for disposal and re-instatement/redecoration of area where it was sited.)

Removal and disposal of oil tank and concrete pad it was sitting on (Of course you could just leave it, but I would imagine you would want rid)

Cost of laying gas to house. If it in the street outside, then this could be reasonably cheap, particularly if you dug the trench from your property to your propertys boundry yourself. Things that will increase costs are for example if the main is on the other side of the road and the dig has to be done in two parts with traffic control etc. Obviously it will be considerably cheaper if the main is for example under the verge on your side of the road.

Probably more costs I have not detailed as well. I would suggest getting 3 lots of quotes - Plumbers (for boiler and associated pipes/tanks etc). Builder to remove and dispose of oil tank and pad (probably has to be specially licensed), and national grid for gas to house.

Olias

Grimbal

hmmm, it sounds like it will be a very expensive job if we were to go for this property. It's on a little ridge, set back from the lane, so I suspect that even the piping of the mains into the house will cost £000s!

Location is lovely, but the house would need work as it stands, even over and above getting gas in, so I think that we'll just have to walk away from this one

thanks for your replies - this board, as always, is a mine of information

olias

Apart from being a bit more expensive to run, what exactly is your issue with oil heating? Most rural properties have it. If you want a rural property, then you will be severely limiting your choice if you discount all those with oil heating.

Olias

Mankysteve

There's always air source and ground source heat pumps.

Invalidation

Make sure you get a BIG LPG gas tank. Then get your vehicle converted to run on LPG, egt a filler nozzle and BINGO, cheap motoring.

Canucklehead

Good afternoon: have you considered this option? We've been looking into it for our next property.

Canucklehead

Grimbal

thanks again for your replies. I think my major concern is with the price, and the secondary concern with the non-flexibility of the system (i.e. you have to get it filled up!)

Although the house itself is on a road going out of town, I wouldn't consider it rural tbh - just that the the rest of the town has encroached somewhat. It _could_ be a nice place once renovated, I'm just a little unsure how much of a money pit it would turn out to be!

andy208833

I have a 4 bed semi detached with extention. To get rid of my oil fired central heating and replace with gas including removal of the tank cost me £3.5k. This included new boiler 10 radiators and all the pipework.

I also didn't have gas to the house so i contacted my electricity company (so i could do dual fuel) and they put me onto the correct number for getting the gas installed. They then provided me with a quote, approx £500 as i remember, then asked me to confirm i was happy with it before arranging a date. Doesn't hurt to ask the question and get the quote?

If you are serious about buying the house take a gas engineer round with you to quote on the price of fitting?