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Appreciate it - that's very close to what we have here. I'm sure we'll need to extend soon enough but good to know what's there is usable for now. Thank you.
Slightly weird question but we hired a gas safe engineer to cap off a fireplace in our dining room, and yesterday they identified a leak running between our gas supply and at least one of our appliances (fire, oven, boiler).
So they've capped off the supply at source - so we have no heating or cooking - and are planning to charge us £1600 to replumb the gas supply from source (cupboard under the stairs) to the cooker/boiler (about three meters away). The supply will be re-routed externally - fortunately the supply and cooker/boiler are on the same wall of the house, which is externally facing - but they're not planning to reconnect our fire, which is in another room. They're coming back today to do this.
Long story short, I know that gas safe engineers are obliged not to reconnect unsafe equipment. However I am pretty pissed off that we have not been able to get quotes for this work, which feels expensive given that replumbing seems to cost around £200 a meter from what I can tell.
Am I justified in this or am I giving into that little bit of my brain that wants to shoot the messenger?
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Sounds like they are going to charge you the maximum possible to do the shittiest job possible.
I'd be pissed. Do you want to pay £1,600 to have a gas supply pipe on the exterior of your house?
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How did they identify a leak?
We had a gas person say there was a leak, but it turns out there was a problem with the test point, making it look like the ECV was not being closed properly.
Cadent came and just replaced the meter.
Leaks should be reported to your supplier, shouldn't they?
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Insurance claim? It's a shit deal but better to know about the gas leak than not.
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What was the leak over the test, Did you smell anything?
Also £1600 to repipe it, even if its a bastard of a job i wouldnt even be close to that price.
Another thing that isnt gonna help you now is that you could have said dont fuckin bother capping it unless it was the supplier that's disced the meter.
In gas there is a scope to leave a "leak" so depending on how bad or not bad it is the people could be at it to a certain degree and has left you on the shit.
Howard
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Jameo
konastab01
Measured mine - it's about 600mm wide by 560mm long. No problem with getting the ladder in and out but limited to what I can fit through!