[Closed] Getting mains gas (potential new house)

Is there a gas mains in the street already?

Sorry yeah mains gas in the street. Current owners (been there 65 years) had just upgraded to oil when the gas came to the village!
If I was to do the excavation work from the house/cupboard to the boundary would that be acceptable? Including backfilling etc.

AFAIK there'll be a set price for the work, not that it'll be cheap.

Mains gas is the way to go, doing the excavation work may save you some money but not huge amounts.

Be prepared to tear your hair out dealing with the gas utility companies, they are very poor in my experience.

Cost will be quite high, but with gas getting on for half the cost of oil per kw then pay back quite soon. Also gas boilers are cheaper than the oil equivalent when it comes to changing the boiler.

Pellets / wood (unless you have access to free wood) is only marginally cheaper than mains gas per kw. Plant for whole house heating via solid fuel is more expensive than both oil and gas. generally.

Be prepared to tear your hair out dealing with the gas utility companies, they are very poor in my experience.

That's all utility companies from my experience!!

Normally phone companies that cause me problems at work and cause the delays.
Anyone got a rough cost £££££ from past experiences.

You need to contact Transco/national griod as they own the pipes, then when a connection is made you can pay to who you like for the meter and gas used.

A connection isnt cheap, may require traffic lights and a or a partial road closure, dependant on where the main is situated.and we have them working outside now, a huge hole, lots of pipes,traffic lights and not much happening 2 weeks so far.

We had to get it connected when we bought our current house and it was about £500. Although that was 5 years ago.

Distance from road to house is only a few metres too so obviously that might make a difference.

old school as above contact Transco / southern gas networks or whoever is responsible for the gas network in your area. I'll ask my brother as he has a quote from SGN for his install.

http://www2.nationalgrid.com/uk/services/gas-distribution-connections/new-connections/

and there is a nice little widgit that asks loads of questions before it give an indictive price.

Thanks all. Bear that would be good cheers. Still uming and aring, and considering other things, so guesstimates are ok. £500 isn't going to break the deal but £5000 may have.

I rather like being on oil. Yes its a big chunk to fill the tank but ours dosnt work out to be that much more than paying gas for a year. Biggest benefit is the feeling of being partially ready for the zombie war.

Make sure they make the supply pipe large enough for a modern boiler the first time round.

just done the same for a customer fixed price 726 quid that gets you and outdoor meter less than 40 meteres from mains that doesnt pass beneath any buildings.. simples proces takes about 6 weeks start to finish

Bloke at work was having an extension built and needed his electric meter moved 3ft. Cost him just shy of £1000.

Thanks all. The national grid link reckons (exc meter) £180 if I dig and £480 if they dig. Totalshell £726 is great, now to negotiate a second garage from next door as they access their garage from my (potential) drive. Not that it looks like it's been used for years so hopefully they'll be glad to get rid?

Sod they Mat, lecy meter I'd move myself. Just don't reckon I'd get away with digging up the road and connecting to the gas main, testing with fairy liquid before burying would probably be frowned upon by some.

I asked British Gas or some other firm about this back in 2006. We were on LPG and it was costing us IRO £500/month during winter. BG quoted £7500+. No idea how fair that was at the time as didn't bother speaking to anyone else. In hindsight it was most probably well over the odds BG-stylee.

Think my brothers was about the price of totals. However it was far from a simple process, nor was the last 2 that I was involved with.

Parks - there is no way oil is as cheap as gas these days, gas about 5p per kw, oil around 8p per kw.

If you can cope without gas for cooking how about getting an air source heat pump for heating and hot water? It will cost about 15k but the government are starting a scheme next year like the solar PV FIT so should pay for itself within 7 years.

Not sure it should cost 15k, but depends on size. Only consider one if your house is very well insulated, to better than current building regs, probably running underfloor heating and ideally using a heat recovery system.

They are good but are oversold into too many inappropriate houses who end up with very expensive electricity bills.

9 years ago I paid £500 to get gas from the street to my flat

transco rarely 'dig' they send a mole in and very little digging is involved they even used an old pipe on one job i did and simply ran the new pipe inside an old ceramic pipe.. they dont test for leaks either the work is done live in typical domestic situation they use plastacene as a temp seal then have premix bags of 'gloop that expands around and seals thier joints..