The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

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Floss wrote: »

Your "gas-powered radiator" will be of no use for a gas connection. You will need copper piping of the regulatory size run from your meter to where you want the cooker. When we had our old BG condenser boiler replaced by a combi in February 2010, we paid in excess of £700 to have new gas piping from the front door to the upstairs back wall, in a relatively straightforward run under accessible floorboards.

In the case of this house - the gas meter is outside the house by the back door. The back door opens into the kitchen as per usual. So - I'm guessing that this copper piping would have to be put in from said meter underneath the floor over to where I intend to have the cooker.

Errrm...the floors in this house are concrete (rather than the wooden floorboards I pretty much thought every home had....:o).

Oh boy....does this mean they are going to have to dig up a run in that concrete kitchen floor to lay a gas pipe for a cooker hob under it?:mad::eek:

I have a feeling my head (and my bank balance) hurt here....

greenbee

They can run the gas pipe round the wall either inside or out. Or even above the ceiling and down.

moneyistooshorttomention

greenbee wrote: »

They can run the gas pipe round the wall either inside or out. Or even above the ceiling and down.

Ah - I think I see how it could be then.

In the back door and underneath the floor at that point - for just a few inches. Then along the wall inside the floor cupboards and through one wall worth of units in effect (underneath the "floors" of those units) and re-emerging 2 rows of kitchen units later (the kitchen window row of units and then one of the side wall of units) and that re-emerging being coming up through in the 2nd row of wall units to the back of a hob.

Gotcha - I think. Ta:)

greenbee

It'll be up to the gas engineer to decide how to route it. There are safety regs that determine what they can and can't do.

Hard_Up_Hester

Yeah, funny that isn't it, the power of social media. Our old mortgage has been paid off, we now have finance in place for the next step and mortgage repayments have reduced from £760 to £240 pcm.
At least now I feel that I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

pollyanna_26

I'm so happy to read this post Hester . It just proves determined effort pays off but you should never have had go through it . Try to get some well deserved rest this weekend x
Mar How did the night out go , have you worn yourself out ?
polly

Floss

Hard_Up_Hester wrote: »

Yeah, funny that isn't it, the power of social media. Our old mortgage has been paid off, we now have finance in place for the next step and mortgage repayments have reduced from £760 to £240 pcm.
At least now I feel that I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

And the light is not a train coming towards you & your L&M :j

Hard_Up_Hester

I thought I'd sleep better once the mortgage was sorted, but no. I slept 10 until 12, read from 12 until 4am, tried to get a lie in but DGS aged 2 found his daddy's phone at silly o'clock this morning and decided to ring Nana.
No rest for the wicked Pollyanna, I have DGS 12 here at the moment and the rest of his siblings will be over later so mummy and daddy can go to their Christmas do.
We will make paper chains and Christmas biscuits and I will make a jelly in a sec for their pudding.

mardatha

Hester it's a great feeling when you take charge of life and kick it's a$$ ... you'll take time to fully relax though.
Polly it's funny how, when you've been really poorly and get gradually & slowly better, you don't seem to realise just how better yuv got. I do now, cos I'm back to being knackered again But it's just the ME and a week on the couch knitting will fix that. I had a lovely time, walked around for an hour before I started to flag. Can't expain the feeling lol - was like being let out of jail or hospital after a year inside
The weather has been really lovely up here, sunnyish warmish days. I'd rather have 6ft of snow though but that's just me being evil
I have one hat, one shawl, one pair of socks to finish before xmas and am starting to panic. As well as a scarf for the RV which I shudda known better than even start it. He is so bloody fussy and picky and will go over it with a magnifying glass when I'm not looking. AND he opened the parcel of wool for it with scisssors and ruined one ball doing it. This scarf will end up costing more than a cashmere one out of Harvey Nics!

Softstuff

greenbee wrote: »

How's the job going Softstuff?

Good thanks, I like the work and think I'll be good at it long term. Big stressed with too much to do at themo though.

Glad you're getting to the light at the end of the tunnel Hester, everything is crossed for you xx