Re: OT: Any plumbers in the rec?

If you use vegtable oil instead of water (it only takes about a cup), you wont have to keep repeating the process as it wont evaporate. That's what I finally had to my unused traps in my basement.

Lance

When I was growing up, there was a company that decided to build a plant to process chicken manure into animal feed. They built about 5 miles from where we lived. When that plant was in operation, if the breeze was from the right direction, the odor from that plant made driving by a run of the mill chicken factory seem like a walk through a field of daisies. It was so bad that they were finally shut down. One of Colorado's most conservative state representatives flew over the plant to check it out and claimed he got sick in his plane from the odor.

"Vic Baron" wrote

Know the feeling. I called the gas company out last year for a similar incident. They brought "the sniffer" and could find nothing, even though the next door neighbor's wife and I could both stand in that one particular spot and get a big whiff of "gas". During the week I'm staying at a friends house in Austin, TX while I build in the vicinity. This older, remodeled house has a small, but detectable gas leak, I guarantee it ... but I seem to be the only one who can smell it.

As Mom was wont to say, maybe it's coming up our collars? :)

About four years ago, I added a gas water heater. The plumber then did the (code required) leak test. 10 psi for 15 minutes. He and his partner spent the next two days chasing leaks in the 60 year old cast iron pipes. They did not have to replace anything, just refit some of the connections. The net cost was $1600. Neither my wife nor I smelled anything.

So I'd say it is quite likely you have the leaks, you ought to get them fixed, and you ought to find someone else to do it.

-- Doug

Douglas Johnson wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

I believe that the ability to smell some kinds of odorants is genetically determined. Some people can smell it/them, some can't.

Don't mess with gas leaks - or women going through menopause. Both are explosive and easily set off - often with no prior warning. Wish they'd come up with some kind of gauge that would warn folks - before the explosion(S)!

snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Han, Where do yo live where there were cast iron gas pipes? Just curious.

Jimmy Mac wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@y33g2000prg.googlegroups.com:

I was NOT the one posting about cast iron pipes, that was Douglas Johnson, so asking me about cast iron gas pipes can't get you an answer. I live now in North Jersey. Before lived just outside Queens on Long Island. In both houses I think we have (had) black iron gas pipes. Sorry to disppoint.

innews: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

That was me and it was a brain fart. I meant black iron.

-- Doug

snipped-for-privacy@y33g2000prg.googlegroups.com:

Sorry for the misdirected question. Funny though - I lived in Tennessee and Texas almost all my life before moving out here to Las Vegas The first 6 years of my life: Born in Parsons Hospital . . . moved to Mineola. Went back during 9-1-1 on work assignment with Sheriff's Dept. for the first time in over 40 years. Had to go back a couple months later for Christmas ~ still have family up there. My dad was a volunteer fireman in Mineola and took a tour of the old Station house on Jericho Turnpike. A LOT of changes after that much time. However, the original house was still there.

Douglas Johnson wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

That does seem more logical, Doug. No problem for me, and I believe not for Jimmy Mac either.

Jimmy Mac wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com:

I ived in Floral Park, near Belmont Racetrack, almost right under the flight path to Kennedy. Oh could those little Concorde planes rattle the windows!