Getting extra Gas & Electric mains supplies (and meters) installed

Might be cheaper to just add and agreed amount to their monthly rent, and put a lock on the boiler cupboard and set the heating to suit yourself.

Thanks for the suggestion but no; I want to have extra mains supplies installed.

PG

Christ am I glad you were never my landlord.

"PG" wrote | I am the freeholder of a house comprised of two flats. It's been | that way for many years. The two flats share the same mains | supplies (gas, electric and water), and each tenant pays for | power via coin meters. | I now want the tenants to pay their own utility bills - since I | don't want to have to empty coin meters any more. To enable this, | I'll need to have an additional gas mains supply (and meter) and | an additional electric mains supply (and meter) installed by the | supply companies | Do I have to ask the council before I do this?

I can't see why. I presume the flats are recognised as separate dwellings in the deeds and for council tax valuations i.e. this is not an unofficial conversion.

The elec co (I don't know about the gas) may want to see an electrical Certificate for the installation before connecting meter tails to anything.

Owain

Well visited a clients property at beginning of November, (when it was still quite warm), tenants had put the heating on 24/7, and then open all the windows due to the access heat.

Logic seems to go out of the window when your not paying the bill!

Can't see any reason why. I recently subdivided a house into two, and natch, the various council depts were very interested in different aspects of this - council tax, building regs, planning permission; but I can't recall any specifics about separating off and installing separate utilties.

NB it will cost you plenty to do it, mind - eg I was forced to pay United Utilities GBP 1100 to provide 1m of blue water pipe under the pavement (I dug the internal hole, and made the hole through the house wall 18" down, myself, thereby saving £££ more).

David

Rick

Correct. It's been that way for years and each flat gets a separate council tax bill.

I'm hoping they'll put the consumer fuse box + meter in, and let me have my electrician connect it up the the flat's wiring cirquit later, after I've had various bits of rewiring done on the flat..

Thanks for the info. Same to the other helpers...

PG