New gas connection

wendybrown

This seems to have been posted before, but sadly it seems a lot of the answers were out of date - ie I don't think National Grid do domestic gas connections anymore.

Need a new gas connection to a first floor flat, in Scotland (SGN is area provider). Online quote was £477 I think, but there was talk of digging trenches etc and I said there was already pipe there for other flats and couldn't it come of that. So they sent someone out who said indeed all that was needing doing was to take off the existing large pipe already running up the building. No trench digging required. Except now it's £1600!

Are there other companies who can install a new gas connection, and if so do you know who can in that area? Thanks :-)

Aylesbury_Duck

Given that your proposed supply will come off the existing main supply, I would think that SGN would be the only provider allowed to carry out the work. Anything up to your (new) meter and the meter itself would be SGN's responsibility and from that point you are free to use your own choice of registered installer.

Inner_Zone

OP has two threads running:


https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/74318063#Comment_74318063

wendybrown

" Given that your proposed supply will come off the existing main supply, I would think that SGN would be the only provider allowed to carry out the work. Anything up to your (new) meter and the meter itself would be SGN's responsibility and from that point you are free to use your own choice of registered installer." - This doesn't appear to be the case (I have done some more investigating - and just for anybody else reading this later).

malky39

Unless you live if a fairly new build property it more than likely it will be SGN that need to do the work, or one of there sub contactors. But SGN would have told you this.

Aylesbury_Duck

wendybrown wrote: »

" Given that your proposed supply will come off the existing main supply, I would think that SGN would be the only provider allowed to carry out the work. Anything up to your (new) meter and the meter itself would be SGN's responsibility and from that point you are free to use your own choice of registered installer." - This doesn't appear to be the case (I have done some more investigating - and just for anybody else reading this later).

And? It would be helpful for us all to understand what the situation is.

wendybrown

Lots of people other than SGN can carry out the work, so the suggestion that only SGN is "allowed" is incorrect, as is the statement that only SGN or one of "there" (their) subcontractors can do the work - and no SGN never told me that because that would be a lie.

There is a massive list of other people able to do this work online. I contacted a lot once I found this list. It was a nationwide list so most didn't over our area. The ones that did were able to quote. Then SGN reduced the quote by around £1000, so their quote became a lot more competitive. There was a huge variation in cost for the other quotes and availability (time wise). Hope this will help anybody else in this situation - the replies I got weren't accurate and just based on guess work it seems (I am able to guess at something too!)