13-05-2017, 05:59 PM
Gas regs are all very well but from personal experience I can say that even the professionals can get it wrong.
Witness me moving out of the smoke and buying my first house, a two bed bungalow in the sticks. Every so often when I walked into the lounge I'd get an odd whiff of gas in the nose, and then it was gone. This went on for a couple of months with no obvious sign of where. Finally, I moved on and started decorating the room. The fireplace was open as the gas fire that was there had been at some point in the past disconnected and removed. I wanted to chisel out the hearth a bit to install a new fireplace and flush burner, which required the removal of the old fireplace carefully around the sealed off 8mm gas pipe. At this point the smell of gas got really strong, and old carpet being pulled out around the corner where the pipe eminated was saturated in gas. Tracing the pipe back I found that the so called gas engineer who had taken the burner out had left the pipe union finger tight if that and the whole union was breathing like a paper bag.
Gas off, pipe off, cleaned up, correctly dressed and tightened. Gas on and tested with soapy water and a brush. No issues.
Like I said, even the professionals get it wrong.
Witness me moving out of the smoke and buying my first house, a two bed bungalow in the sticks. Every so often when I walked into the lounge I'd get an odd whiff of gas in the nose, and then it was gone. This went on for a couple of months with no obvious sign of where. Finally, I moved on and started decorating the room. The fireplace was open as the gas fire that was there had been at some point in the past disconnected and removed. I wanted to chisel out the hearth a bit to install a new fireplace and flush burner, which required the removal of the old fireplace carefully around the sealed off 8mm gas pipe. At this point the smell of gas got really strong, and old carpet being pulled out around the corner where the pipe eminated was saturated in gas. Tracing the pipe back I found that the so called gas engineer who had taken the burner out had left the pipe union finger tight if that and the whole union was breathing like a paper bag.
Gas off, pipe off, cleaned up, correctly dressed and tightened. Gas on and tested with soapy water and a brush. No issues.
Like I said, even the professionals get it wrong.
