Getting gas central heating with no gas supply to the property yet - anyone?

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It seems to be so complicated! Need to get National Grid in to supply to the property but no, they don't do it so need Southern. Then need to get someone else in to get a meter fitted. Then actually get the central heating put in which means digging into the concrete floor to get to the rads or have pipework all around the ceiling. Might just stay cold. Anyone else done this? Please tell me it's worth it!

I am thinki g of doing it as my electric heaters are in bad condition.
Have you enquired about the cost of supplying gas to your property and fitting the meater?

Yep, it could be around £1,000 before I've even started! Have you Anti?

I think it may be 3K to get the gas to my property.
I haven't checked price for the meter
I have small semi so I guess central heating shouldn't cost more than 5K. So in total I hope it would all be under 10K (London prices!)

Friends of ours did this - they were originally suggested £3k but in the end it cost £800 for National Grid to bore a small tunnel to put a supply from the pavement up to the house (about 40 feet).

They have a bungalow so the boiler went in the loft and pipes dropped down in corners of walls and then boxed in so not too obtrusive.

hen actually get the central heating put in which means digging into the concrete floor to get to the rads or have pipework all around the ceiling

Like PP mentioned it might be easier to have much of the pipework upstairs under the floorboards and just drop down in the corners of rooms downstairs and box in?

The cost to supply ours was going to be about £4k. It wasn't worth it.

We've done that and have concrete floors downstairs.

The pipes aren't all around the ceiling. They come straight down from a hole in the ceiling to the radiator, at the edge of the room.

All the across bits of piping are under the floor upstairs.

Like PP mentioned it might be easier to have much of the pipework upstairs under the floorboards and just drop down in the corners of rooms downstairs and box in?

I live in a flat!

I had gas connected to a flat then central heating put in, it was long winded but doable. There was already gas to the property so first job was getting a meter which wasn't expensive. If there is no supply to your property I'd talk to the Freeholder/other flats first as they might be happy to share that cost. Once the meter was in we then had to get pipes put in which went up through the lower ground floor flat which was hard to organise. Total cost Inc new boilers, roads etc was around £3,000 it's added £10,000 value to the property easily and is a much better heating system than the old electric storage heaters. But stressful and long winded but well worth it.