Running gas pipe from street mains pipe - need idea of possible scale of cost

[maggiethecat]

House we are interested in buying has no gas atm and if we bought we would want to install gas - for cooking, CH and hot water. We know that there is gas on that street so it's a matter of having a pipe run to the property I suppose.

Will call up the gas network tomorrow but thought I'd check here if anyone has any idea of possible scale of costs?

We have been told about £600, but also that you can cut that down a bit if you dig the trench (on your own property) yourself and make it good. It cost £400 for my friend to have it done, as hers is a bit of an easier job than ours will be.

I found it quite hard to discover who the infrastructure people were locally, though, took me quite a few people and webpages to dig it out.

Most of it belongs to National Grid. Some parts belong to Scotia Gas Networks (there is a map on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotia_Gas_Networks there may possibly be another operator I don't know of.

ah, there are two others "in the North of England, it is owned by Northern Gas Networks; in the Wales and West by Wales and West Utilities"

We did it last year. It was @ £700, and I persuaded them to run it much further up the drive (to protect the box from DP's crap reversing) and they didn't charge us any more.
Probably one of the most efficient and pleasant companies I have ever had to do business with. Scotia Gas

Thank you - I've looked at SGN which would serve the area we live in and it would be around £600-700 - digging trenches sounds the perfect summer activity for the kids!

I know cost of installing gas will vary from property to property but can you give me an idea of what it cost you to put in boiler, rads etc. Really just trying to figure out what kind of ballpark we might be looking at.

We paid about £500 to have gas connected to our tiny 1 bed terrace in 2005, and a further £3000ish for a top of the range condensing combi boiler and radiators in 2 rooms.

Ouch! I've had rough estimate this morning from heating guy who said new boiler plus 9 rads would cost about £5k. Suspect that this might be very conservative view.

We were told that to get a separate gas pipe from the road to the (rented out) flat in our basement would cost "several thousand". That was 6 years ago. (We didn't do it.)