gas pipe

lindam

hi years ago gas was led to out village for a fee you could have it led to your house which we did as we had solid fuel central heating we didn't get the gas in the house
we are now an thinking of getting gas in the house rang national grid they say we need to get new pipe going to cost 700
cannot understand whywe need new pipe they fitted it so surely it should be fine we thought we would just need a meter any advice thanks

Mr.Generous

perhaps re phrase as a question with a bit more information

SailorSam

your post is difficult to understand without Capital letters, commas, and full stops.

molerat

Quite clear to me.

How long ago was the pipe installed ? If the main from the road is left unused for too long, especially in steel pipe, they do not like connecting up to it and will want to install a new plastic main. Have the rest of the active users in the street been re-piped recently ?

lindam

the pipe was installed about 15 years ago no one in the street have had new pipes this is what i cannot understand is it because ours has not been active ever

Robin9

I think Molerat may be correct. My 1970’s estate has recently had to have all the mains in the footpath replaced together with the services to the houses.

I am surprised that when a gas service was actually laid to your house but it is possible that it was never actually connected to the main. If so I suspect the £700 is to complete the connection – they will probably feed a smaller pipe inside the original unused service pipe.

£700 is a reasonable charge.

Alternatively the gas main in the road is a High Pressure type and not suitable for a domestic connection and you have to be connected to another main that you are not aware of.

dogshome

Perhaps this is a case of the the local Gas Distributor mis-understanding the question
When gas was laid through our village in 1999, (Yellow plastic pipes), residents were offered the option of the supply being laid up to their house for charge of, from memory, £150.
For this they got a pipe 'moled' under thier front gardens, ending with a capped gas pipe inside an othewise empty meter box attached to the house

If the OP has this I suggest photoing it and sending it to the the distributor

Robin9

My background is Electricity Supply and I think our minimum connection charge in the 1990's was £150 - I presume Gas was similar.

If so £700 might well be the Gas minimum charge now.

lindam

hi all we had the pipe laid and a white box in with a capped pipe with a lever on next door got gas installed last year no problems have someone coming out tomorrow to check if its live
never having gas hope this is good news

lindam

dogshome wrote: »

Perhaps this is a case of the the local Gas Distributor mis-understanding the question
When gas was laid through our village in 1999, (Yellow plastic pipes), residents were offered the option of the supply being laid up to their house for charge of, from memory, £150.
For this they got a pipe 'moled' under thier front gardens, ending with a capped gas pipe inside an othewise empty meter box attached to the house

If the OP has this I suggest photoing it and sending it to the the distributor

thats what we did think it was 50 pound so hope it will be ok
thanks

lindam

hi all update gas pipe live so no problem things are looking up thanks for the reply's now just need a meter