Whilst the boiler was off, I cooked some eggs using the remaining gas in the pipes. Right now I am the only one home so I'm not worried about anyone using the cooker to blow everyone up. I have purged the cooker (just set all the cooker valves to open) for about 3 minutes but have no idea whether it has made a difference. The pipeline is probably about ten metres. Any help?
I think you need to explain what is so peculiar about your personal circumstances that cooking with the boiler off should be in any way a problem!
If you managed to cook an egg it?s most unlikely that your gas supply was interrupted and I?m at a loss to imagine why you think turning the boiler off should affect your cooker.
Tim
I saw where the post originated, so concluded pretty quickly that the poster was a thick, thick twat.
As an aside, in a certain Canary island flat I was in, it was all on bottled gas, but either seemed to be no indication of the level of gas in the tank. I soon found out how to tell when it was almost gone, as it had one of those water heaters we used to know as an Ascot. While using the hot water with the boiler fired up it suddenly went bang, and shot a plastic bung in the side across the kitchen and made a dent in the wall. Asking the service guy for the flats he said, ah, sorry the tank must have been a bit low and the mixture becomes explosive if that happens and that is just the safety mechanism to stop a major explosion. So note to self, watch your levels in bottled gas, particularly in an archaic foreign installation. Brian
Normally you can see the 'frost line' where the gas is, though this might not work in a very dry climate. Is it humid on the Canary Islands ?.
Andrew
"Gas geysers" were well known for their explosive "safety" cut-outs. and people having to call up and down stairs to achieve a hot bath if the geyser was in the kitchen.
I once spent a few weeks in a grotty flat in darkest Salford (so long ago that Salford Van Hire only hired vans in Salford) (1) with a temperamental water heater which gave astonishing explosions whenever you tried to use it, no matter what technique you employed.
In the end I bequeathed it a Dymo label:
"To avoid explosions, turn tap on quickly. Or was it slowly?"
(1) The cinema slide advertising them showed three of their vans on the adjacent cobbled street, where I lived for a few months.
Chris
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