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I’d also call about local companies and see if they can give you a price too.
Thank you. Unfortunately while I tried to get some other quotes, none of them were available to come next day, so we were obliged to use the recommended fitters and give them £1600 of our hard earned quids.
I did use your information to challenge the gas safe engineer a little, and she confirmed that she discovered the leak by doing a four min test, which she ran twice - once with a manual tester and once with an auto test - and both showed a leak very much beyond 4mb allowed level, coming from somewhere in the pipework. She said the reading coming into the meter was perfect, but the reading coming out of the meter was so poor that the test was bottoming out, and she couldn't get a solid reading, it just kept dipping down and down. She then capped off each of the fireplaces and cookers and boilers in order, and found the leak was still present, so decided the leak was in the pipework and capped the meter. To be fair to her the paperwork does say 'gas leak on pipework, capped meter', which I guess to a more educated person might provide that same insight, but it didn't to me at the time. She also said that she didn't charge us for her day's work yesterday and the fitters she got in today were not related to her, and she did not earn a comission from them, and that they cancelled other work to do this as a favour to her, so if that's true I feel like a bit of a dick pushing her.
These lads have done a good job fwiw but I'm still unhappy. However she did say all the things you suggested @konastab01 and she's done free work for elderly neighbours in the past, so she's probably more trustworthy than most. It just feels a bit like a cunts game and I'm tired of every small thing I keep asking workpeople to do coming out at 5 times the original quoted price.
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Honestly id have sat without gas till I could get another quote, it just seems ludicrously high to renew a gas pipe interally or externally but they sound like they kinda had you over a barrel and no one is stilling doing nothing at this time of the year but yeah its defo a rip off price.
How many meters was it out of interest?
konastab01
I’m kinda being a stickler for detail here, but she should have gave you paper work that said there is a X gas leak in your property.
No there’s a gas leak, I have to cut you off(which technically isn’t true depending the situation) and it’s £1600 to repipe.
If for example the leak was well past the limits and you said, you’re not cutting my fucking gas off. You as the installer have to do something so you call it in and transco or what ever they are called down there come out and do it without any choice to you but since we don’t know the actual facts it’s hard to guess.
I don’t have any skin in this game, but £1600 is wild for a repipe, folk really are walking about with masks.
I’d also call about local companies and see if they can give you a price too.