Average cost of replacing Gas hob by Gas Safe Engineer?

[cooa99]

Hi,

I about to rent a flat out and have just bought a new Gas Hub from currys to replace the old one.

British Gas said they will charge me £110 to replace it.
I called up another company up and they said they will charge £150! and they were saying some stuff about issuing me with a certificate blah blah blah.....

Anyway I wanted to know what the average price would be to get a Gas Safe Engineer to do the job

cheers

cooa99

 

[Fluffster]

Well you have had 2 quotes from gas safe installers so the average is £130.00. You need to have rigid copper connections not the old flexible hose bayonet these days. The blah blah is possibly a landlords cert which you should be aware of !
Pete

 

[Phill Peck]

I would charge £70 +vat Plus materials say £15-20ish

You will need a landlord certificate if your gonna rent out this place. Prices for that will vary but I charge £50 to service each appliance and £35 for certification + vat

 

[mickyg]

depends where you are in london. Parking and travel issues can escalate the price.

 

[superman123]

£130 sounds about right

 

[Agile]

To quote properly the relative dimensions are needed. Suppose the new hob is smaller than the hole in the worktop?

Does the new hob have an FSD ?

I would charge £65 to connect to the gas if the new hob was screwed into place by others plus £35 for a gas cert.

If cutting the worktop is needed then I would advise a carpenter!

 

[cooa99]

Thanks guys,

I ended paying British Gas for the install and they charged another £36 for the cert

 

[Agile]

So how much did BG charge?

 

[Dan Robinson]

£146

 

[Boilerman2]

Which is about right!!

if you have to ask how much it costs - you can't really afford it!!

 

[SALL2009]

Damm Either London is expensive or I have some good contacts. My guy would charge around £80 max for that. And yes he is gas safe.

 

[namsag]

yep some people like to make the customer pay for their lack of ability and speed.
Nothing hard about doing a hob like for like, even with a new tap mats are less than 20 quid and if there longer than an hour they are fannying about

 

[dormermike]

I had a hob fitted by a gas-safe chap for 40 quid. Didn't get a cert but i am not a landlord. Not particularly neat job either, soldering is messy as anythng. But hey, its gas-safe.

 

[Agile]

Coco has failed to tell us how much he paid BG to install the hob for him!

The only installation price that I know for sure is what I might charge!