Maisonette Gas Connection

RezUK

Hi all,

I live in the upstairs of a Maisonette (One building, I own the top floor, my neighbour owns the bottom floor).

I currently only have electric to my place - I have a conventional boiler with two tanks in the airing cupboard, and I use storage heaters for heating.

I just used findmysupplier.energy and found that downstairs has a gas connection supplied by SSE.

I’ve always thought it would cost a lot to have gas supplied to my place, but since they have it downstairs - How would I go about getting a gas supply and having a combi boiler installed? I am guessing the best way is to contact SSE, I just wanted to see if there were any other ideas.

Thanks,

Rez

harrys66

hi


it will cost several thousand pounds to get new meter/supply fitted and new boiler/radiators



i dont know how much your yearly bill is, but I would spend that on more insulation and put the remaining monies into a seperate account, change your sse dd to that account and enjoy "free" energy for several years to come

dogshome

SSE is supplying the gas, but the supply pipework is owned by the gas network for your area - Try Cadent first and if it's not them they will tell you who.


Having found the network, ask them for the cost of piping the gas to your home.
They will send a surveyor and quote you a price


Next step is to get quotes for fitting Gas Boiler, Rads & Hotwater system


SSE come into play when a Gas Meter has to be fitted to the new pipework, which they will do for free

Gerry1

Yes, it'll be a few £thousand to install GCH but you should certainly consider it seriously.

You'll have much lower bills, and when it's time to move the property will get a higher price and sell more quickly. Get a gas tumble dryer as well !

tk47

RezUK wrote: »

Hi all,

I live in the upstairs of a Maisonette (One building, I own the top floor, my neighbour owns the bottom floor).

I currently only have electric to my place - I have a conventional boiler with two tanks in the airing cupboard, and I use storage heaters for heating.

I just used findmysupplier.energy and found that downstairs has a gas connection supplied by SSE.

I’ve always thought it would cost a lot to have gas supplied to my place, but since they have it downstairs - How would I go about getting a gas supply and having a combi boiler installed? I am guessing the best way is to contact SSE, I just wanted to see if there were any other ideas.

Thanks,

Rez

First of all, you will need to check with the landlord if you can have gas connected. There may be a good reason you don't already have it as the gas would obviously need to travel through, or at least attached to the exterior of, the downstairs property.

If you can, then you need to get some quotes.

I think you need to contact a gas supplier of your choice to get the connection arranged. Yes Cadent, or an independent gas transporter, will do the pipework connection, but I think that needs to be instructed by the gas supplier, who will also arrange the meter to be installed.

From the meter, it's up to you who you use. Large suppliers like SSE or British gas can do it for you, and supply the boiler, radiators, etc. Or you can instruct a suitably qualified independant gas engineer.

Actually the radiators can ge done by almost any plumber, but I suggest you don't complicate things too much.
Either instruct one large supplier to do the whole lot, or split it two ways as I indicated. (i.e. up to and including the meter, and then from the meter)

If you want the electrical heating removed, you'll need to get a suitably qualified electrician. Note that not all gas engineers are electrically qualified, but some are.
But that work could be the basis of a separate quote.

Mister_G

tk47 wrote: »

First of all, you will need to check with the landlord if you can have gas connected.

OP says that he owns the top floor, so no landlord.

tk47

Mister_G wrote: »

OP says that he owns the top floor, so no landlord.

How's it kept up there?
OP says that their neighbour owns the bottom floor

Owain_Moneysaver

RezUK wrote: »

I’ve always thought it would cost a lot to have gas supplied to my place, but since they have it downstairs - How would I go about getting a gas supply and having a combi boiler installed? I am guessing the best way is to contact SSE, I just wanted to see if there were any other ideas.

Had this done recently. Gas connection was about £600 and another £500 for scaffolding as above the first floor (Scottish Gas Networks). You may be lucky and not need the scaffolding. This assumes the ground floor pipe is suitably sized and they can just tee off it and come up.

They gave a quote valid for 2 months which will increase if you wait until after the 2 months and they requote.

Meters are usually free from the supplier you sign up with.

tk47

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

Had this done recently. Gas connection was about £600 and another £500 for scaffolding as above the first floor (Scottish Gas Networks). You may be lucky and not need the scaffolding. This assumes the ground floor pipe is suitably sized and they can just tee off it and come up.

They gave a quote valid for 2 months which will increase if you wait until after the 2 months and they requote.

Meters are usually free from the supplier you sign up with.

What d'you need scaffolding for? :huh:
Won't you need the scaffolding, or a least a long ladder, every time you need to read the meter if scaffolding is required to install it???

My mate who lives in a house has just had his boiler put in the loft, it was originally in the kitchen. The fitter just used a ladder to fix the pipe from the meter (that remains at ground level) to the loft.

Never seen anyone around here have scoffolding put up whenever they have their windows cleaned, or whenever they have a new tv aerial/sat. dish fitted.

matelodave

Our previous council put up about 50ft of scaffold about 2'6" off the ground, complete with toe boards, just so they could paint a 6'6" high fence.

I should have taken a photo but I forgot as I was so flabbergasted at the sheer waste of money.

Gerry1

tk47 wrote: »

My mate who lives in a house has just had his boiler put in the loft

'Ello, 'ello, 'ello... we're just taking you down to the nick because our thermal imaging shows you're running a cannabis farm in your loft...