Rough cost of installing gas supply....

[chrismcg1]

Morning all. My mum has an oil tank, she lives at the bottom of a very steep hill so when it snows she gets cut off. She is fed up with a. cost of the oil and b. being at the mercy of the weather for delivery of said oil.
Does anyone know rough costs of extending gas supply from nearest house (approx 25 metres away) plus changing radiators etc - she has quite a large house - 4 beds 4 reception rooms etc.
Thanks.

[onomatopoeia]

The cost of installing a new gas supply is on the national grid website, at least for some parts of the country.

[dmitsi]

Just contact a supplier and ask for a new supply quotation. If the main supply is within a certain distance it'll be a standard charge, similar across all suppliers. If it's outside of standard distances you'll have a bespoke quote done, it can be expensive if it's a long way to a main.

Regarding central heating, that can be expensive for a large house and totally new install. Most quotes will be free so just get some people round. It'll be cheaper to get the supply connected up to the house from the supplier, then get independent quotes for the house system, and they'll connect it to the supply when it's complete.

[TooLateForAName]

Be aware that they might not extend from another property - do you know where the main is?

All you can do is get quotes - don't expect it to be cheap though.

[dingg]

she shouldn't need to change rads, just a boiler change , once you find out where the main is maybe you could do the donkey work and dig the trench for the connection and just leave the hooking up to transco?

[andy43]

If it's private land, you may be able to dig the trench yourselves, but gas people will still need to lay their own pipes afaik.

[DrDeAtH]

Transco prefer you to dig the ditch as it is easier for them to turn up and do the easy bit.
They will supply you with the spec of the trench, you dig it, they put a pipe in it, you fill it back in.

[DodgeRam Van Man]

We had gas installed around 3 years ago (previously had a coal fired boiler). The pipe run from the new meter to the gas main in the street was about 30 metres, cost around £3K if I remember rightly.

[DodgeRam Van Man]

Seems that I have a bad memory - just came across the original quote from Fulcrum Connections, it was 5 years ago and the total cost was just under £2k for 46m of pipework from the street to the meter box.
There was the option of laying my own trench which would have been cheaper, but we just got them to do everything. They didn't dig a trench but used a 'mole' device to tunnel under the drive, digging access holes every 5 metres or so.

They install the pipe as far as the meter box (which they also install), then you need to contact a gas supplier who will then fit a meter for you in the box. After that you can get your boiler replaced with a gas one - we kept all our existing radiators, no need to change them if they are working ok, but you'll need TRVs fitted to them to comply with new regulations.

[Hereward]

I swapped from Oil to Gas in March, best thing I've ever done. I was sick of the smug fks at the oil supply co telling me "ooh, we don't know if we're delivering to you tomorrow or not" when I ran out.