Purchasing: Closing off door with a wall and gas lines.

um85

Hi all, I've recently moved to the country and managed to start the ball rolling on purchasing a house. I'm not really familiar with the cost of trade work being done.

I have a 2nd door in the kitchen and as the house is small I think it's taking up valuable counter space. I'm just wondering apx what the cost would be to just turn this into a wall. The house looks like it was built in the late 80's or 90's.

My second question is the property has an electric stove and gas central heating. We really want a gas stove and am wondering if it's as simple here of getting a contractor in to just run a gas line to the stove area? Also wondering what the apx cost of something like this is. Where I come from its quite cheap as we have basements so the line can easily be run anywhere. I'm assuming here you would sort of run it under the kitchen counters if doing a reno?

sheramber

Ask a local builder for an estimate. You may need building control to block up a door.

You may find that there is already a gas supply for a cooker. Our house had both options fitted but the gas pipe was closed off as we had an electric cooker.

um85

sheramber wrote: »

Ask a local builder for an estimate. You may need building control to block up a door.

You may find that there is already a gas supply for a cooker. Our house had both options fitted but the gas pipe was closed off as we had an electric cooker.

There are a few houses that have the same layout as this one and I have noticed they've closed off the door so I figure its allowed. Just more was wondering what I could expect it would cost to do something like this?

m0t

Bricking up a door shouldn't be too expensive but it will depend on what standard you want it finishing to and whether the outside of the wall is rendered and needs patching in. I would have thought between £500-£700 assuming it's getting plastered.

The price for a gas cooker will depend on how far away the nearest gas line is (and whether it is suitably sized to tee off) and any obstacles in the way of running pipework (such as concrete floors). Last time I had a plumber out in SE London he charged £85 an hour.

um85

m0t wrote: »

Bricking up a door shouldn't be too expensive but it will depend on what standard you want it finishing to and whether the outside of the wall is rendered and needs patching in. I would have thought between £500-£700 assuming it's getting plastered.

The price for a gas cooker will depend on how far away the nearest gas line is (and whether it is suitably sized to tee off) and any obstacles in the way of running pipework (such as concrete floors). Last time I had a plumber out in SE London he charged £85 an hour.

Thank you, exactly what I was looking for. Didn't need exact numbers, just what I should be expecting to be able to do a rough budget. :beer:

I think the internal walls are stud/drywall so not sure brick would be required, but I'm assuming that would just lower the cost of the job if true.

eddddy

um85 wrote: »

I think the internal walls are stud/drywall so not sure brick would be required, but I'm assuming that would just lower the cost of the job if true.

I think people were assuming it's an external door. Blocking up an internal door in a stud partition wall will be cheaper (and definitely no need to involve building control).

I guess you'll then want to redecorate both rooms, as the results may not be good if you just 'patch paint' the affected areas.