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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?