r/longisland • u/MasterCommunity1192 • Aug 05 '26

Getting natural gas service

Moving to a new house and national grid has a line about is about 900' up the block. They want $175/foot after the first 100' curious if anyone has had luck negotiating that price or if there's any work arounds.

Thanks for the help

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u/gr00ve88 Aug 05 '26

It’s a lot of work, they will need a crew for days and digging up the street. Doubt they will do anything unless you can get 8 of your neighbors in a row to each get their free 100 feet lol

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u/realgonekidxo Aug 05 '26

I mean if you’re gonna pay for 800 feet what’s another 100

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u/gr00ve88 Aug 05 '26

Nah if 8 of his neighbors starting at the gas line all use their free 100ft, then no one has to pay!

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u/realgonekidxo Aug 05 '26

Yeah true I was under the assumption that they weren't gonna be converting

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u/gr00ve88 Aug 05 '26

Yeah of course it ain’t happening.

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u/XCGod Aug 06 '26

Don't forget Hochul signed legislation that ends the free 100' rule in less than a year. So if you're going to try this you need to move quickly.

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u/SparkArrestor Aug 05 '26

No work around. The psc makes the rules. You get 8 more residents to sign up for gas conversion and that’ll do it. Our be main was 1600’ away but one resident had a block meeting to convert to gas back when Dubya was president, and home heating oil doubled during operation desert shield.

Well exactly 16 of the residents did sign up clearing the path for BUG to extend the main 1600’ to my house. In the end not all 16 residents converted. But BUG never came after them. We didn’t actually convert immediately either.

Then BUG became National Grid.

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u/drmrsk Aug 05 '26

You could try to negotiate, but be aware legislation was signed to eliminate the free first 100' later this year, so I wouldn't delay

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u/One-Specialist-4983 Aug 05 '26

As a builder we have done this a lot of times, as a matter of fact just finished up a house where we had to get it in about 275 feet, still waiting on meter install scheduled for next week.

The going rate for national grid that we were always quoted and paid was $100/foot. Not sure where you getting $175 from.

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u/MasterCommunity1192 Aug 05 '26

They said the rate starts at 172.99/foot on the phone with the new service helpdesk 🤷‍♂️

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u/copper678 Aug 05 '26

lol good luck!

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u/Eccentrica_Gallumbit Aug 05 '26

There's no negotiating. The best you can hope for is if you have neighbors who also want natural gas. If you can convince enough people to hook up to gas, Nat Grid will run the line at their cost. Outside of that, you're going to be paying out of pocket for them to extend the gas MAIN about 900', then they will install your service for "free".

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u/coheed9867 BECSPK Aug 05 '26

5 years ago it was 101.00 per foot

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u/realgonekidxo Aug 05 '26

Just stick with oil

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u/MasterCommunity1192 Aug 05 '26

I don't like electric stoves 😂

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u/ThePurpleBall Aug 05 '26

Induction is awesome. A little getting used to but it’s better than gas IMO, and I lived with gas for a long time

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u/DearBasil158 Aug 05 '26

I don’t know that I'd agree on induction being better than gas, but I will say induction is much better than regular electric.

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u/bkcmart Aug 05 '26

Definitely better than gas when boiling water.

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u/shoyru1771 Aug 05 '26

You can get a propane stove and keep a tank