Gas meter connection -safe?

[Andy Burns]

AUIU, the latter.

[Nick Odell]

So, if it is reasonable to assume they don't have the overall outlook on gas safety and the causes of gas safety as a Gas Safe engineer then it might be reasonable to wonder what horrors lurk in other people's homes.

These amazing gas explosions which blow the fronts off houses: I wonder if they had a smart gas meter fitted recently?

Nick

[Roger Hayter]

Contrary to popular belief, searching for a gas leak with a lighted match is probably fairly sensible; as long as the whole house didn't blow up when you first lit the match, anyway.

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

but nobody was happy when she did that

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

That was the year I got a dirty big skelf in my bare foot from the wooden Woolworths floors ....remember those? .....

[Daniallo]

If the leak is on your side.

If it's on the supply side Transco will sort it, they won't leave the premises until it's sorted or made safe pending a repair.

Had it at my dad's house, meter under the stairs, whiff of gas. Very old installation, no flexi & thumbscrew valve that wouldn't budge. Transco came within the hour, confirmed leak with his sniffer. His laptop showed the gas main was cast iron under the pavement & thought it would have to be dug up.

Another van arrived, had a look & they decided to saw it off & replace live as the property was empty.

He told me the main was only about 5 psi. Just needed open windows for a couple of hours.

[Max Demian]

We Sassenachs have things called "shoes".

[Roger Hayter]

Or "clogs" in the case of the North. Plenty of barefoot kids in the streets in 1960s Leeds.

[Andy Burns]

They will still have an outlook on safety, just that they are not on the Gas Safe register, e.g. from a job spec for smart meter personnel

"Engineers should be Gas qualified with minimum CCN1/CMA1 AND MET1 and at least 1 year experience in gas installation."

[Steve Walker]

I once worked for a company that had a vessel containing 15 tons of liquified natural gas, used for fueling gas turbine or gas engined industrial compressors on test.

When it was needed, liquid was fed to a small boiler that heated it and the chemical smell was added.

They once suffered a leak in the chemical dosing system, releasing the undiluted chemical into the atmosphere. People from offices and housing all around the area were phoning reports of a massive gas leak in :)

SteveW

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

or too many onions ....

[Steve Walker]

Not quite the same though - I have also commissioned the controls on an odour control system at a curry factory and the smell when opening the inspection covers on the semi-closed cycle, spraymist absorption vessel is pretty well 100% onion.

SteveW

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Update: I got Network out and they pronounced it 'safe' but were not impressed with the quality of the install.