Cost of capping a gas pipe?

Legacy_user · 10 April 2012 at 11:40AM

The title says it all really - im wanting to remove a gas hob and replace with an electric one and have the gas pipe cut back and capped.
im just looking for an idea of cost.

Ruski · 10 April 2012 at 4:20PM

20 notes isn't going to cover it if you do it legit - the whole supply would need to be soundness tested before and after.

I'd expect my gas man to charge me around £80.

yeah - I know... but that's the price you pay nowadays... :-(

wellused · 10 April 2012 at 4:28PM

And !!!!!! Turpin got hanged eh?:rotfl:

ginvzt · 10 April 2012 at 4:57PM

I had a gas leak after removing the nail that held picture from the wall above the fireplace.

I had gas safe registered engineer to come and cap it off as we were removing the fireplace anyway. He had to find the pipe in the wall and cap it off. The wall was not sorted out after by him, as we were replastering the room anyway.

For this job I paid £40 about a year ago, if I remember correctly. The same guy fitted a new boiler for us few months before.

C_Mababejive · 11 April 2012 at 5:04PM

What area are you in ChrissyG?

BlueC · 11 April 2012 at 5:52PM

Between £40 and £80. Basically the cost of a callout as the parts are negligible. If they do it correctly then they'll also do a leak test too, which takes a little while.