New gas connection Scotland

geetman

Looking at buying a property in a culdesac the house has not got gas but the properties either side have got gas.l contacted the Scottish gas network for a quote to get gas installed and have been quoted £3127 to get the connection, the mains gas is 1 metre  from the boundary and 7 meters from the house.when l contacted the sgn l was told that they had put the mains gas pipe in and charged every resident an equal share of the cost of installing the gas pipe.The previous owner obviously hadn't take gas in to the property  at the time but l would now be faced with a £3127 bill if l wanted gas.Has anyone  else experienced this and is the a way to get pasted it

Hasbeen

geetman said:

Looking at buying a property in a culdesac the house has not got gas but the properties either side have got gas.l contacted the Scottish gas network for a quote to get gas installed and have been quoted £3127 to get the connection, the mains gas is 1 metre  from the boundary and 7 meters from the house.when l contacted the sgn l was told that they had put the mains gas pipe in and charged every resident an equal share of the cost of installing the gas pipe.The previous owner obviously hadn't take gas in to the property  at the time but l would now be faced with a £3127 bill if l wanted gas.Has anyone  else experienced this and is the a way to get pasted it

I would assume that everyone that wanted gas to their property paid a share to run a new gas pipe to the road and then to each property that paid for new supply?
Yours did not?

So company is asking payment to run pipe from pavement to property and to connect new meter?

It is usually expensive.

Mister_G

You may find that doing the groundwork yourself (or getting a tame contractor to) may reduce the cost.  You'd need to check with SGN that they would permit this.  I wouldn't have thought that laying the pipe and connecting would cost £3k.