Cost to have Gas removed

IRMartini · 2025-01-09T11:26:13Z

We have had a ASHP for a little over 3 months and are happy. so I thought i would change to an induction Hob and have the gas removed saving the standing charge. I contacted OVO my gas supplier and they said it would cost about £100 to remove the gas meter but I would need to inform my DNO (Cadent) After searching Cadent's website I found you can apply to have gas removed online and got an initial quote which came out at £1,850 !! That can't be right, just to turn the gas off? Anyone had any experience of this Thanks Ian

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16/07/2025 3:26 pm

@quakerquaker As I have mentioned before, I have a first class degree in Scroogenomics and, as such very much resented the standing charge for a gas meter I didn’t use. To clarify a little, the removal of the meter and the capping of the supply pipe was carried out by Octopus Energy. My initial correspondence (by email) went to one department who informed me that removal was no problem and that they could carry out this work and cap the pipe free of charge; all I needed to do was let them know once I no longer required a gas supply and they would do the rest. Some months later, when the ASHP was installed, I wrote again to OE but I think it was a different department that replied and I was told they didn’t provide such a service and to contact SGN. I wrote again and referenced the previous correspondence and contact details; I then received an apology and offers to arrange the removal… Once the meter had been removed and the pipe capped plus an earth bond to link the supply and consumer pipework, I was left with the job of informing the billing dept. who then checked with the removal team and then the SC for the gas meter was cancelled.

I imagine further correspondence took place between OE and SGN for some months later, SGN called and checked that the meter had been removed. The housing had been falling apart for a few years by then and they offered to fit a new cover - but the box in his van did not fit and we heard no more.

In the last six months, we have had SGN’s agent working on gas pipe renewal in all the roads and I requested that when they came down our road, would they be kind enough to disconnect us please. All done free of charge and they even tidied up the vestiges of pipework for me. Perhaps we were lucky but this Scrooge can still hold his head up!

Regards, Toodles.

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16/07/2025 7:34 pm

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[...] am looking at £770+ VAT or more. This is for actually removing the pipe to the street.

A bit more digging and found this...

Don't do much digging around.
That's best left to the professionals 😉

The rules on dormant gas pipes are varied, and depend on many factors.

In the majority of cases the pipe itself isn't removed, but a section is snipped out close to the main 'in the road'.
So that's a relatively small hole rather than a trench.

Things get complicated when:

the ground through which the pipe passes isn't wholly within the curtilage of the property
the pipe is at shallow depth and might be excavated in error at some future date (so how does the contractor know if it's dead?)
it's one of several gas pipes running in parallel. Most likely they were laid when multiple houses were being built
the ground is liable to subsidence (I have personal experience of that scenario)

Ofgem will find it very difficult to arrange a Code of Practice which satisfies the long-term safety issues, whilst simultaneously reflecting public opinion on costs.

I also question why this is an Ofgem Public Consultation.
The National Energy Systems Operator (NESO) now has the remit for all electricity, gas and heat networks in BG, and that's been the case since October'24.

Unlike Ofgem, NESO is mainly staffed by engineers and technical experts.

Save energy... recycle electrons!

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