Please help 'How much will cost to install gas central heating?'

southcoastrgi

heating-eng wrote: »

Interesting , I have never seen any requirement to use F6 ?
Or Honeywell products, and a bypass is only needed if required ,not with every boiler.

OMG an auto bypass is required what ever boiler check your building regs !!

ashcroft121 wrote: »

I can't comment on the installation that cost £2,600 but I would be very worried about the quality of an install that cost that much. A decent boiler and all pipe/material etc plus 10 radiators will be close to £2,000 alone just for the materials. To do the job properly I would be looking at 5 days of labour at £170 per day plus VAT. I'm doing a 2 bed bungalow at the moment for £3,000 and that's a 6 radiator system. For this price all pipe runs will be in copper (15mm to each radiator) and wrapped in insulation tape (heat type, not electrical type) before being plastered over in the walls. Radiator tails will emerge from the wall in chrome pipework, a cheap extra but it looks really nice.

Ummm burying pipes in a solid wall is not allowed as they are not classed as accessible, unless you are talking about a dry lined wall & then they need to be able to be found with a metal detector which i'm not sure you will be able to do with the way you have wrapped them, ie any plastic pipes run in dry lined or stud walls need to be wrapped in metal tape for the above reason. plus if as you say you have chrome pipes coming through the walls then i assume you are using compression fittings to join them to the copper pipes, really not a good idea if they are not accessible & totally illegal on gas pipework.

I would normally install a new system for £3,500 including VAT for a 3 bedroom property. If the customer is getting it for cheaper then quality is suffering, be it a cheaper boiler or cheaper materials or in the worst cases, quick, shoddy workmanship to cut the labour costs.

Make sure you buy a decent brand of combi-boiler - these can easily cost over £500 more than the cheapest ones but they generally come with a 5 year parts and labour warranty. I can 100% recommend Broag boilers, 100% agree on this i consider them the best on the market, they are all we fit and we have never had a single callback on them. Do not buy a cheap combi-boiler - they tend to break down at the worst time (Winter) and you are then over a barrel to get them fixed - no hot water or heating till you do.

I have no idea where you live to be honest so I'm not touting for work, just wanted to offer you some advice from someone in the trade.

unclebulgaria

Canucklehead wrote: »

A boiler manufacturer sometimes sells products that aren't fit for purpose....Ideal springs to mind. Some RGIs install boilers which aren't fit for purpose.

You referred to flow not pressure in your previous post....which is it then?

Ex-BG you say... 'nough said.

Canucklehead

OMG this isnt the same person who said "knowledge is power" by any chance?

Hope Ideal aren't reading your post as I can see a court case pending!

heating-eng

keithgillyon wrote: »

OMG an auto bypass is required what ever boiler check your building regs !!

some boilers have a built in auto bypass so check yours ..:eek:
guess you are quite new to plumbing ? been doing it a few weeks and are trying to quote regs to people. get out in the real world and start fitting boilers.

keystone

unclebulgaria wrote: »

Hope Ideal aren't reading your post as I can see a court case pending!

They must be used by now to getting slagged off on here and numerous other forums as well. A slightly bizarre form of marketing.

Cheers

Happyus

farhadonly wrote: »

Hi All,
I am going to buy a new house but there is no gas central heating installed. I want to install gas central heating before I move there. I don't know how much it gonna cost me to install gas central heating. There is no gas connection as well. Can anyone please give me a rough idea about the cost of installing central heating ? Also gas connection, are there any fee to pay? Which company would be the best, cheapest where I can pay by monthly installment as I don't have enough cash
Please tell me in detail of how to do this and long it would take roughly. I take it that gas is still the cheapest form of heating.
Thanks.

southcoastrgi

heating-eng wrote: »

some boilers have a built in auto bypass so check yours ..:eek:
guess you are quite new to plumbing ? been doing it a few weeks and are trying to quote regs to people. get out in the real world and start fitting boilers.

i've only just seen this, no i am not new to plumbing i have been running my plumbing & heating business for 30 years & have fitted more boilers than i care to remember, do you really think i am going to take any notice what so ever of a ex british gas "engineer" & i coin that phrase very lightly, i do the job right or not at all i don't even try to compete with cowboys, a 22mm auto bypass is req on all installations how many boilers have that built in ? zero that i know of maybe 15mm at best, in my experience most BG engineers have trouble working out which end of a boiler box to open let alone know anything about regs.

johnnyredgate

Can anyone advise roughly what the cost of a gas connection to a house that is currently not connected to mains gas, but there is gas in the street, would be nowadays please? many thanks
nb not needing to know the cost of installing gas c/h system

alirob12

It cost me 650£ to connect a house to the mains lie. Hope this helps

johnnyredgate

alir!!!2 wrote: »

It cost me 650£ to connect a house to the mains lie. Hope this helps

Thanks for the quick reply How recently did you get it done?

alirob12

Applied 0ct 2011, connected Jan 2012