Gas along the property line - what does this mean? Features of connecting to an existing gas main

Buying a cottage or your own home is always a big event. You can't argue with that.The process cannot but bring joy. After all, you have been saving for your home for years. Therefore, such “little things” as gas at the border of the site do not stop you from buying real estate, especially if you like the building.

But in vain. No one even thinks that installing gas into a home can be very expensive. Sometimes the price for indoor heat can exceed the cost of the purchased home. Let's look together at the intricacies of this arrangement of the gas main and the features of connecting to it.

What does “gas border” mean?

Before buying a house without gas communications, you should carefully evaluate all the nuances associated with the wiring of blue fuel into the building. As mentioned above, price for gas connection to the house may be high. When you find out the whole truth about the real state of affairs, then the euphoria from buying a home goes away.

And not only for this reason, you will not immediately move into your own home, you will still need to go through many offices and solve bureaucratic problems with connecting blue fuel

And the family will again need to save in order to raise money for home improvement. The move will be delayed because of this. A phrase that is often found in real estate advertisements: gas passes along the boundary of the site, means that gas pipes pass nearby, but there is no gas supply to the house.

The homeowner will have to independently prepare documentation for gas supply to his home and hire specialists to do all the work related to the gas supply to a private home. In addition, all material costs for the purchase will fall on the shoulders of the owner of the home. gas pipes, valves, paint, counter, boiler, geyser and so on.

You will also need to negotiate with the neighbors and pay them their share of the investment for the fact that they extended gas pipes to the boundaries of the site, and paid for the construction of a gas distribution station (GDS), if one is provided for by the project.

Gas supply along the boundary - important aspects

When the owner of the gas pipeline is a company, then crashing into the gas pipeline will be problematic. Therefore, experienced specialists advise paying attention to such moments when purchasing property with prescribed conditions when gas passes along the border of the site.

When connecting your house to gas, you will have to calculate how much the materials for connecting to the gas network, the services of gas specialists, and that’s not all, will cost, then you need to do the wiring around the house, there will be additional costs involved

Before buying a house, be sure to inquire about gas communications.

When a gas pipeline passes along the boundary of a site, it is very important at what distance the pipe is located, it is also worth paying attention to the following aspects:

• Find out the cost of materials - pipes of the required diameter, valves, meters, gas appliances, etc., everything that is needed to supply blue fuel. And, as already mentioned, depending on the distance from the house to the gas pipe, make calculations on how much material is needed;
• Consider how much money you will spend on designing an external gas supply network;
• Find out how much money will be required to carry out all the work. Only certified companies are allowed to carry out gas work, so you will only need to contact such structures. Otherwise, the controlling organizations will not accept the work;
• If the house stands alone, there are no neighbors nearby, it may be necessary to build a gas distribution system, and this is a huge expense for one homeowner;
• Be sure to ask who owns the gas pipe near your site. And will there be any problems with cutting in?
• If you need to connect through neighboring pipes, then talk to the people living nearby in advance. Find out if there are any problems with connecting to the main line, and how much you need to pay for the connection.

Unfortunately, when developers sell housing, they do not always objectively assess its value. And they are often silent about how much it costs to connect to gas communications.

Consider the time it will take to complete all bureaucratic costs. And it may take more than one month. And for some certificates you also have to pay unaccounted fees.

There are still many unscrupulous home sellers who want to sell real estate for as much as possible. That is why you should not trust traders, you should check everything yourself

Taking a house without gas heating, with the prospect of building it in the future, is still a risky business. There are many difficulties when connecting natural fuels. Material prices are constantly rising. But if you decide to buy a house without gas, then the documentation for subsequent connection to the gas pipe must be in perfect order.

You should:

1. Draw up papers for the property, a technical passport at the BTI.
2. Request permission to connect to systems at the gas trust. When you receive it, you will need to complete all instructions. A list of tasks is issued at gas institutions. Everything will have to be done at your own expense.

The owner of the site will be given a ready-made project with a gasification scheme. It will also be necessary to organize earthworks. It is mandatory to comply with all fire safety requirements.

What are the benefits of this location?

Having figured out what it means - a gas pipe runs along the boundary, it is worth dwelling on the question of who will benefit from choosing a property with such a location of gas communications. Gas pipes along the border of the plot - who benefits from renting a house without gas installed in it?

You may not take into account the fact that in the future the land plot will go up for sale, or the construction of a house is only planned. And everything will be designed to bring gas supply to the house.

It doesn’t matter how beautiful the building is; in our region it is also important to have heating in order to ensure comfort and coziness in the house in winter

Please note that when purchasing real estate, you must find out from the dealer how much not only your home will cost, but also what price you will have to pay for the gas supply to the house. It’s even better to find out this issue from your neighbors, perhaps they recently had to deal with this problem.

Features of supplying gas to the house

Naturally, it is prohibited to connect to the gas main along the border of the site on your own without permission from the gas industry. Therefore, first you will have to deal with the paperwork.

Necessary documentation for connection

First of all, to gasify your home, you need to submit the following documentation:

• Application for obtaining technical specifications;
• identity document + photocopies of passport;
• documentation of real estate ownership;
• land ownership document;
• plan of a house or its construction from BTI.

Do not think that you will receive a positive answer immediately at your appointment with a gas service specialist. Permission may be given in a few weeks, or even months. And in some cases it is not given at all.

The rules for connecting to gas networks are the same, therefore you cannot cut into a common gas pipe without permission - this is punishable

When choosing the type of gas supply, you need to consider the area of ​​your building. When the heated room has S = 250 m² or less, then it falls under the first group of blue fuel consumers. Since the level of gas consumption will be less than five cubic meters per hour.

There are many nuances to connection to the gas system separate building and it is important to take them all into account. Experts recommend implementing gas supply to the house in this sequence:

1. To draw up a gas project, you will need to contact the gas service at your place of residence, and you will need to provide an employee of the institution with the package of papers listed above. As a rule, it takes a month to review the application.
2. Connection is allowed only to those homeowners whose distance to the gas pipe is no more than 200 meters. Technical work on connecting to gas will require additional investments.
3. By the way, filling out a package of papers for connecting to a gas system is also not free. Much of the technical work depends on the distance of the gas pipe from the property.
4. Designing gasification for a private home is the most expensive part, and some projects take quite a long time to complete. After all, gas supply specialists should take into account all the details, and there is a long queue for drawing up this document.
5. It is possible to reduce the time limit only in private agencies. There, for a certain fee, they will do everything as the client needs.
6. Installation work should only be ordered from experienced specialists with a gas work permit. And the client must always enter into a special agreement with the company.

Connecting gas is also not so easy. All installation work will be checked by specialists from both the gas service and the fire department. To do this, you will have to write an application and pay a receipt for the work of specialists. Usually the wait for inspections is about two weeks.

Also, city gas workers must provide instructions and seal the device for measuring gas consumption.

It’s good if it’s a small settlement where there are many people who want to install blue fuel, then the authorities of the locality can lay the pipes for free

Unfortunately, if the gas pipe is located more than 200 meters from the house, then it will be impossible to connect it. This will be very costly for one owner.

Average prices by region

And since the topic of the cost of gas connection services to a private house was raised, if the gas flows along the border of the site, then let’s dwell on this issue in more detail:

• in order to obtain the necessary documentation, you will have to pay about 8-45 thousand rubles;
• drawing up a project for gasification of real estate will cost from 3,000 to 20,000 rubles;
• to install pipes from the main line to the facility costs from 2,000 to 5,000 rubles per meter of pipe;
• the cost of inserting into a common gas pipe costs from 10,125 to 15,070 rubles;
• inspection checks for connecting gas to various devices will cost about two thousand.

But these are just average indicators; they may differ in different regions. And much still depends on the distance from gas pipes and industrial enterprises.

Table of approximate total cost of services in different regions:

As you can see, the cost of gas installation varies greatly depending on where you live.

There are also many areas in Russia where it is impossible to live without blue fuel, due to too low temperatures. Especially in winter. This is where the authorities provide residents with more or less low prices.

Local managers can only help with a gas pipeline to a populated area; the rest - connecting gas to the house, heating the room and completing documentation for gas work - will have to be done independently

A popular topic is free gasification in populated areas during the period when elections to people's representatives are taking place. But you should ask for help collectively, then only success will be guaranteed.

Conclusions and useful video on the topic

If you take into account all the pros and cons of buying a house with gas running along the border of the site, then you may end up winning. The main thing is to objectively evaluate the scope of work and calculate how much it will cost.

In this video we will talk about the preparation of documentation and the price of some work on gasification of the facility:

And after all this hassle, the work does not end when there is gas in the house, it is important to carry out timely maintenance of pipes, valves, taps. After all, each product has its own service life. Your safety depends on such technical work.

We always welcome your comments, please ask questions below in the block. Perhaps you have encountered the problem described in the article? Tell our readers how you brought gas to your house.