new gas supply cost, please help me !!

lmp_2

hi slinx

i got intouch with the national grid and they said they dont do the accuracy challenge, to be honest the girl i spoke to didnt know much about anything and i was realy p--- off with the price and stuff i just left it. should i put it in writing and send them copies of the fulcrum stuff and do you know which dept i address it to. thanks a very disgruntled and still bloody cold gal !!

lmp_2

Hi Slinx

I took your advice and got in touch with the national grid, the woman i spoke to said she would try and sort it out for me. 10 mins later a guy rang me from the NG to say he would challenge fulcrum and agreed that the price was unacceptable, he said he would requset a full detailed price breakdown from fulcrum and also said it could `rock the boat`. He asked me where i had got the info from to challenge the decision, so i told him, Money saving expert. I was emailing him back permission to act on my behalf when low and bloody behold, Fulcrum phoned me, apologising for the quote and agreed it is ` a little high` and assuring me they will re look at it and get back to me on monday (today).

I dont think they will reduce it by a lot,if any, but i will keep you posted.

and you know what I HOPE I DO ROCK THE BOAT !!!! Robbin sods ! :rotfl:

lmp_2

Hi slinx ta for that

Fulcrum have now said they have done all they can ( they have done nothing) and now they are saying they can possibly do an infill for those of us who are interested ( i asked about this at the beginning and was told if i wanted this done then i would need to pay for the job then get the money off my neighbours) Also on the quote it states that i will be putting in a main pipe and now fulcrum said this is a mistake and it should say a long service pipe, but the price still stays the same, Its a load of crap. !! they have done nothing. Anyway i have emailed the guy today at fulcrum and i will wait for his answer, i am not here for a week or so so i will get the stuff to you when i am back on the forum. and you never know maybe they will do their job and conduct a proper accuracy challenge.

infinityplusone

lmp wrote: »

hi all iv just had some very disturbing news! fulcrum have quoted me £9.868.00 for my new gas supply. is this right ? can i get this reduced ? its a lot of money please help me someone !!!

I have a house about 60metres from the gas main via a L-shaped cul-de-sac (privately owned by the four houses at the end). Fulcrum have quoted £17000 (seventeen thousand pounds!) while a firm of civil engineers have quoted £1500 for digging the trench and putting the new gas main in (but not connecting it to the gas main). Less than a tenth of the price!

I think Fulcrum should be investigated as rip-off artistes.

harryhound

Sounds like profiteering to me.
The only possible excuse may be the need to get legal wayleaves over other peoples' land and pay them compensation for the inconvenience.
Are you one of the 4 houses up the cul-de-sac? Do the other three need gas too?

[You get the same effect in the electricity supply business. I am in the process of evaluating a ground source heat pump as an alternative to my non existent gas supply - to paraphrase:
- Dear EDF I would like to spend lots of money buying your electricity - please can you confirm that my supply is up to specification.
- Dear customer send us two hundred and something pounds and we will send a man round to tell you.]

infinityplusone

There is no need for legal wayleaves over anyone elses land since we own the drive ourselves and everyone would welcome getting a gas supply. None of the four houses, which include my own, have gas.

I'd welcome any solution like "in-filling" - which I do not know much about.

I have prepared a summary of what I have found out about getting a gas supply. I will put it on a new thread and would welcome constructive comments etc.

TKC_2

infinityplusone wrote: »

There is no need for legal wayleaves over anyone elses land since we own the drive ourselves and everyone would welcome getting a gas supply. None of the four houses, which include my own, have gas.

I'd welcome any solution like "in-filling" - which I do not know much about.

I have prepared a summary of what I have found out about getting a gas supply. I will put it on a new thread and would welcome constructive comments etc.

In the National Grid 'GAS DISTRIBUTION CONNECTION SERVICES CHARGES' they mention sthg about the infill (see page 4), and probably you could find some more information about this in the same document?
...Any premises which falls within a ‘live’ infill scheme and meets the above
standard charge Application Criteria, will be required to pay a mains
contribution cost, plus the appropriate standard charge from the above table...

http://www.nationalgrid.com/NR/rdonlyres/F268EE86-08E4-49CA-AF89-73CCDE1D61E2/24447/CSCD_Apr08Final.pdf

puddy

im interested in this too because ive seen lots of propeties that im interested in, and none of them have gas! i cant live with electric, either for heating or for cooking.

one im particularly interested in, is on an estate of maisonettes, i dont know whether the road is private or not (estate agent is useless), but i do know that from looking on rightmove, 2 other maisonetttes for sale there, one a few doors down and one sort of opposite, have gas, therefore, i am asusming that there is a mains in the road.

i have emailed scotia gas as i checkedon the national grid site to see that they are the supplier in the south of england to ask whether the mains pipe is under 23 metres from the property as in their blurb they give prices for connection IF the property is 23 metres away from the pipe. however, it also talks about the ground being owned by the property owner, but surely if its in the road, it would be the local authority wouldnt it? very confused.

Premier_2

jenner wrote: »

... however, it also talks about the ground being owned by the property owner, but surely if its in the road, it would be the local authority wouldnt it? very confused.

Could this refer to the land the property is on? If it's a leasehold property, you won't own the land.

If it does mean the road, it only belongs to the council if the road has been adopted by them. I know somewhere where the houses/road where built almost 7 years ago and the council have still not officially adopted the road there yet.

puddy

the property comes with share of freehold, so that might be ok