How much to get a gas meter installed?

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Have no gas to my property and due to have gch installed in the autumn. The guy doing it has just messaged me to say British Gas no longer install them and I need to contact whoever I want to be my supplier.
Bit of a pain but not the end of the world.
He finished the message by saying it will be expensive and I need to work out whether it's still viable for me.
Has anyone had this done recently? How much am I looking at? Hundreds? Thousands??
I don't want to be cold again this winter

The meter won't cost much if anything what is going to cost money is the gas line from the main to your property and that will be your local gas transporter (network provider) it's different depending where you live who charge you for that.

The guy doing it has just messaged me to say British Gas no longer install them

That's not what this advertisement says.

I mean don't install them for free anymore.
I can't find the link now but the reason I contacted him in the first place was because it was on Transco's website that you needed to get someone to install it because they didn't and he was a recommended supplier. He had no idea what I was talking about when I asked him (6 months ago!) but now he's presenting this to me as news

I remember it being something like a thousand quid per metre...
Actually its probably not but prepare to sit down when you are told. Its not cheap

Ouch Dona
It's about 5 metres from the road to my property.

Look on line at the national grid website, it has an online tool which will give you a quote. We had gas hooked up in our last house, about 5m from main and it was around £500. Looked into it for our current house which has a 12m long front garden and it was going to be about £700, but we then found we had the pipework already it had just never been connected up.

Chose our gas supplier (we went with Co-op energy) and they fitted a meter, was about £80 to have that done. All very straightforward and not that expensive at all.

Ours was about 10m from main gas main and cost about £1k - it was a bit of a shambles - we live down a single track private road which (much to the annoyance of my neighbours) they closed for 4 days as separate teams do separate things...

Sorry, should have said - we used Southern Gas Networks

Thanks for the comments. It's all sounding like a real pain and very expensive for a one bed flat! Tell me it'll be worth it...

Are you ground floor? If not you need to factor in the length from the ground into your flat. They might not even do it in flats due to the where they have to put the gas pipes. Does anyone else in your block have gas?

Yes I am ground floor Ineed - and this is something no one has been able to answer yet as the flat upstairs have gas and their meter box is on my outside wall - I wonder if they can run the supply from the same pipe?

Yes definitely it will be so much cheaper. They will just take a pipe from the main gas pipe into your property and attach a meter for you. No need to lay pipe all the way to the street. A much easier therefore cheaper job.

Thank you Ineed - this is probably the difference between me ditching the whole idea and going ahead so I feel more positive.