If I were to buy a gas tumble dryer, how much would it cost to fit?

Sterlingtimes

If I were to buy a gas tumble dryer, how much would it cost to have it fitted by a gas installer?

Plumber90

Howcome you want a gas tumble dryer?

zaax

Plumber90 wrote: »

Howcome you want a gas tumble dryer?

they are a lot cheaper to run.

It depends how far away the is supply / meter is. A straight connect £50 or the shop might fit it for free like with a gas cooker

phill99

Assuming you don't have a gas TD at the moment, and you have a gas supply in the kitchen (and that the TD is going in the kitchen), its the cost of parts (copper pipe, connections etc plus the length of time it stakes to fit. I would suggest anything from half a day to a day, so £100 to £250 for labour and probably £20 to £50 in parts.

Sterlingtimes

Plumber90 wrote: »

Howcome you want a gas tumble dryer?

I am currently monitoring our usage of our dryer (rated which appears to be high. In five days, we have used about 20 kWh of electricity. The gas dryers (rated A+) are relatively cheap compared with heat pump dryers and the gas cost is perhaps a third of the electric cost.


I am doing some sums which is why I enquired upon the installation cost.


Do you think that I would be making a poor decision?

Sterlingtimes

phill99 wrote: »

Assuming you don't have a gas TD at the moment, and you have a gas supply in the kitchen (and that the TD is going in the kitchen), its the cost of parts (copper pipe, connections etc plus the length of time it stakes to fit. I would suggest anything from half a day to a day, so £100 to £250 for labour and probably £20 to £50 in parts.

This is what I wanted to know, Phill. I will use this information when I make a decision. It's potentially a little more expensive than I had considered. Thank you. Sterling

Sterlingtimes

zaax wrote: »

they are a lot cheaper to run.

It depends how far away the is supply / meter is. A straight connect £50 or the shop might fit it for free like with a gas cooker

Thank you.

Plumber90

Sterlingtimes wrote: »

I am currently monitoring our usage of our dryer (rated which appears to be high. In five days, we have used about 20 kWh of electricity. The gas dryers (rated A+) are relatively cheap compared with heat pump dryers and the gas cost is perhaps a third of the electric cost.


I am doing some sums which is why I enquired upon the installation cost.


Do you think that I would be making a poor decision?

I don't think you would be making a poor decision, I just don't really here of anyone fitting them these days.

Sterlingtimes

Plumber90 wrote: »

I don't think you would be making a poor decision, I just don't really here of anyone fitting them these days.

Thank you, Plumber. Mrs Sterling is not keen. I may need to rethink. If I remain electric, I need to see the contribution we get from solar PV in our first year.