On May 26, 1:55*pm, Clive George wrote:
On 26/05/2011 10:02, John Williamson wrote:

about a grand to run mains gas in from the street last time I checked.

Ah - not much then. I'd pay that if it was that cheap for us :-)

I paid about £550 to Centrica last year to get two new gas connections
to holiday lets we have. Despite their pipes going in the same trench
they would have done it as two separate jobs if I hadn't pointed out
to them how daft it was.

Jonathan