gas disconnection and scam?

[nimbusjunk]

You are right to be cautious

I had a buy to let. The tenant complained about gas smell and called Transco who promptly capped the supply on the meter. I had had teh landlords CP12 a few weeks before and called the gas chap back. I watched his manometer which dropped not a mm.

I can only conclude the dozy tenent left the 20 year old hob without flame safety device on low and the idiot Transco employee either did not turn this off OR he was unaware there was a central heating boiler with a pilot and thermocouple. I can think of no other explaination unless his rubber hose had a pinhole

neadless to say I complained to Transco but to no avail but may be effective if he makes a habit of this

There was never another smell of gas thereafter

HTH Phil;

[YAPH]

Gas Emergency Service, it's called

A gas guy came, found a leak in

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There's a gas leak. The bloke from the gas emergency service couldn't find it so he did what he was required to do by law and common sense and cut off the gas at the meter. How is that a scam? If he hadn't and your mum had subsequently been blown up by a gas explosion would that have been OK with you? If she gets blown up after you reconnect it will that be OK with you? How much do a couple of convector heaters cost and is that more than her life (and possibly those of her neighbours) is worth?

Just because there's been a leak for 20 years doesn't mean it's OK, or that it's not getting worse and more dangerous.

And what's your objection to getting someone in to fix the problem so she can safely use gas again?

For what it's worth I had a job like this a couple of years ago and after a *lot* of head-scratching I found the leak at a gas fire: it was leaking slightly and the emergency service bloke who'd investigated (and ended up cutting off the service) had turned it off at the restrictor elbow but that was letting by slightly so the leak persisted (and because the escaping gas was being drawn up the chimney by its natural draught it wasn't obvious where it was coming from).

[Andy Wade]

[Andy Wade]

I'm pretty sure that operatives of National Grid Gas (formerly Transco) don't have to be GasSafe registered. GasSafe (and previously Corgi) registrations are a requirement of the Gas Safety (Installation and use) regulations for anyone doing 'gas work' as defined in the scope in the scope of those regs (and then only if for financial gain).

National Grid Gas will be operating under the terms of a gas transporter's and/or emergency service provider's licence, and hence under a quite separate training, regulatory and approval regime.

... grateful if anyone can confirm that this is (or isn't) correct.