Gas Connection

Galby

We have just bought our first house which has no gas connection. There is gas in our street which most of our neighbours have in their homes. Just wondered if anyone has any experience of costs of having the connection put in? We are planning on installing gas central heating. Many thanks

ic

AFAIK you can only get a new supply installed by national grid - the company who manage the pipes. Details here: http://www.nationalgrid.com/uk/Gas/Connections/GasServices/NewGasSupply/

Looking at their indicative prices, depending on where you live the cost will be £500 to £1000. Note this is just for the pipework up to the meter. You'll have to arrange for a supplier to fit the meter. If you're prepared to do the digging on your property, you can cut the cost by half. If your house is right on the edge of the street so there is no digging, its much cheaper.

National Grid only provide the new gas service pipework and control valve, we do not arrange the gas meter or the
internal plumbing/appliances after the control valve. The customer must arrange the gas meter from their chosen Gas
supplier or Meter Asset Manager and the fitting of any internal plumbing or appliances with a Gas Safe Registered
Engineer.

http://www.nationalgrid.com/uk/Gas/Connections/GasServices/NewGasSupply/DomesticSingle/AdditionalHelp/DomConCharges.htm

Doozergirl

Last time we did it, the total cost of getting it into the house from the street was about £2500 and IIRC they expect you to dig your own trench as well as soon as the pipe hits your land.

Bargain.

irnbru_2

Galby wrote: »

Just wondered if anyone has any experience of costs of having the connection put in? We are planning on installing gas central heating. Many thanks

If your connection point will be less than 23m from the main pipe then it will be a standard (per metre) connection charge. Beyond that, it's a bespoke quote.

OFGEM has a HowTo.

If you live in a fuel poverty area, you may get the connection for free.

Galby

Thank you all, you ahve been very helpful indeed. I ceratinly ahve a starting point now so to speak. Is there a way to tell where the main pipe is from looking at a road/ street? Our house is at the bginning of the street - the first house in fact.

tim9966

I've had to pay £3,300 to get it put in from a gas main 50m away from the house. Had it been less than 23m it would have been about £600.

I applied back at the end of May and they are due to start the work in 3 weeks time so it will have taken 3 1/2 months to sort out, but I've had to get 3rd party concent to cross the land of an old peoples home down the road which took a month to get permission for.

National Grid cover a lot of the country but some parts are covered by different companies. I've got to use Wales & West to do mine.

The way to tell in advance is go for a walk and look at the man hole covers, or just apply for a quote which took about 2 weeks to arrive which shows on a map where all the pipes are.

Galby

Thanks so much. We are up in Scotland so I have applied for a quote from Scotland Gas Networks. We are now thinking it might be just too expensive to go with Gas....goignto have a look into the cheapest methods for electricity. our house currently has electric storage heaters whcih i have no clue about. However i will be sure to let you all know how much we are quoted for the Gas connection.

irnbru_2

Galby wrote: »

We are now thinking it might be just too expensive to go with Gas....goignto have a look into the cheapest methods for electricity. our house currently has electric storage heaters whcih i have no clue about. However i will be sure to let you all know how much we are quoted for the Gas connection.

Before any choice is made I would check your insulation levels in the property. Have a look here too.

Search this forum, there is a long storage-heater thread in there.

stephen25uk

i live in scotland and got a new gas connection to my house last year,about 20 meters in length....cost us £575 all in,and then i managed to claim back £200 for a carbon reduction scheme