Plugging a gas supply

Feb 28, 2010 9 Replies

Just removed a gas cooker and fitted an electric one in its place (and a lot of decrudding as well!). The gas cooker was plugged into a bayonet socket and whoever had piped it had the socket upwards! Temporarily, to keep out muck, I've put tape over it but I'd like to plug it as an added precaution against the valve leaking. It appears to be about



3/4" dia. (not accurately measured) and I wondered if there's a standard plug made for this purpose.

Yes there is, you can get one from any plumbers merchant, or maybe even b&q

Thanks. I'll have a look for one.

Thanks. I'll have a look for one.

Ah, in B&Q today, chap working in the Plumbing aisle was emphatic that such a thing was unnecessary and had never existed - certainly nothing there. I shall have to try elsewhere.

I'm inclined to agree with him.

If you're worried about it, have it removed and the pipe capped.

If it (still) exists,

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will probably have it. If not then the usual approach is to cap the fitting properly.

Well, looks as if there's no such thing. I don't want to cap the pipe because I'm sure she'll want to change back to gas within a year or three.

Thanks, but just get an error message for BES (Opera and FF).

Someone forgot to change the password their webserver uses to access its database!

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