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21QUEST
09-12-06, 12:20 PM
My mum has had the Gas in the house turned off as she appears/has a gas leak.
Mum could smell gas(very strong), called the emergency number. Bloke turns up and basically turned the gas off and adviced her to get a Corgi registered engineer in. Didn't check for the leak was :? . That right?
Saying that as the smell was in the house I guess it's got nothing to do with utilities right. Any suggestions of how best to proceed now please? Do we get someone to look for the leak or is it better replace the gas pipes.
It's a semi-detarched house with a couple of bedrooms upstairs, boiler is down stairs. Used to have a gas powered fire in the living room but taken out and pipe capped.
How difficult would it be to find the source of the leak as might. How much would one expect to pay for changing the pipes?
Any one know of companies/invidual down in the general South London/Surrey (apart from yellow pages :lol: )
they could recommend.
..and oh before I forget who exacly should we be looking for. I'm thinking gas and pipes so is one individual able to do both legally. I guess I'm asking am I looking for a plumber or a gas engineer :? . Yes, this is where you say obvious innit :wink:
Cheers
Ben
ps: Goes without say all help would be most appreciated.
Red ones
09-12-06, 01:05 PM
If it is in the house and your side of the meter then it is your responsibility. National Grid have done the responsible thing in isolating the supply, and I guess they have slapped a notice on the supply.
You need a domestic Corgi registered workman to attend (usually heating engineers) you will need to inform them that they need to identify thew source of the leak (this will probably require a Gascoseeker (which, by the way is great fun when you write it on the forum and the spell checker kicks in!)
If she has pipe insurance then it should cover it, but in my opinion pipe insurance is a waste of money. Otherwise House insurance might payout.
Alpinestarhero
09-12-06, 01:15 PM
t someone to have a look ASAP, perhaps ask the neighbours if they can smell anything too. Keep the windows open aswell.
Hope it gets sorted soon, not the best time of year to have a gas leak...
Matt
.............(this will probably require a Gascoseeker (which, by the way is great fun when you write it on the forum and the spell checker kicks in!)
OK. I'm sad. I done it! :lol: :lol: 'musin.
Sid Squid
09-12-06, 05:18 PM
Yeah, I had to check it out too, :lol:
dirtydog
09-12-06, 05:36 PM
As red ones said you need a Corgi registered plumber/heating engineer only corgi registered people can do anything in regards to gas pipework/appliances. It has been known for non corgi registered people to carry out gas work but they're really not meant to be doing it.
As an aside expect to be paying about £50- £60 an hour for a plumber
Happened to me two weeks ago. The new girl in the house thought she could smell gas. The Landlord gets EDF to have a look on the Thursday & they turn the gas off straight away.
Couldn't get a corgi engineer on a Friday for love nor money....
The one scheduled for Saturday was a no show.
They don't do Sunday's
They came on Monday muttered about parts
Came back on Tuesday & got the job done.
So my house was without heat, the cooker & hot water from Thursday till most of Tuesday.
I was a bit livid with the entire planet. To cap it all off my bike is chained to my garden wall & someone, probably my landlord dragged the front of my bike towards the house to get his car in - when I wasn't there. My flat mates were actually scared at the rant I was having when I got home at 11pm.
Red ones
09-12-06, 07:38 PM
It has been known for non corgi registered people to carry out gas work but they're really not meant to be doing it.
That will be "not meant to be doing it" in an illegal sense of the phrase!
If you find a good Corgi guy, keep him sweet, their worth their weight!
dirtydog
09-12-06, 09:38 PM
It has been known for non corgi registered people to carry out gas work but they're really not meant to be doing it.
That will be "not meant to be doing it" in an illegal sense of the phrase!
If you find a good Corgi guy, keep him sweet, their worth their weight!
some gas work can be signed off by a corgi registerd engineer as long as they were there whilst it was done (i think) although most wont do that
Gascoseeker :smt046
quick get a doctor my sides!!!
PMSL
The spell checker RULES :lol:
Alpinestarhero
10-12-06, 12:16 PM
Gascoseeker :lol: :lol:
What about the U-Rating mods!!!!!
Matt
mpaton2006
10-12-06, 03:08 PM
Light a match, if it goes up - you know you had a leak!
Gascoseeker :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
21QUEST
10-12-06, 07:43 PM
.............(this will probably require a Gascoseeker (which, by the way is great fun when you write it on the forum and the spell checker kicks in!)
Now how could I resist :shock: :smt044
Thanks for the helpful posts :wink: .
A bit difficult getting a Corgi registered engineer at the weekend. She has had a quote for £400 to get the pipes replaced(might be cheaper they say than trying to find the leak). There isn't a lot of pipes to replace as far as I can see and(all in ground floor should be relatively a straight forward job making a few more calls tomorrow.
Plan after a PM I received is to do as much as the initial work ie getting access to the pipes to keep the cost down.
Cheers
Ben
Filipe M.
11-12-06, 12:33 PM
.............(this will probably require a Gascoseeker (which, by the way is great fun when you write it on the forum and the spell checker kicks in!)
OK. I'm sad. I done it! :lol: :lol: 'musin.
:smt044 :smt044 :smt044 :help:
Gascoseeker :lol: :lol:
What about the U-Rating mods!!!!!
Matt
:shock: oops... :lol:
timwilky
11-12-06, 01:05 PM
.............(this will probably require a Gascoseeker (which, by the way is great fun when you write it on the forum and the spell checker kicks in!)
OK. I'm sad. I done it! :lol: :lol: 'musin.
:smt044 :smt044 :smt044 :help: Whoops Had to see what was so amusing. Now children, grow up and stop sniggering at the naughty words.
Filipe M.
11-12-06, 01:53 PM
.............(this will probably require a Gascoseeker (which, by the way is great fun when you write it on the forum and the spell checker kicks in!)
OK. I'm sad. I done it! :lol: :lol: 'musin.
:smt044 :smt044 :smt044 :help: Whoops Had to see what was so amusing. Now children, grow up and stop sniggering at the naughty words.
Do we really have to? 8-[ :lol:
.............(this will probably require a Gascoseeker (which, by the way is great fun when you write it on the forum and the spell checker kicks in!)
OK. I'm sad. I done it! :lol: :lol: 'musin.
:smt044 :smt044 :smt044 :help: Whoops Had to see what was so amusing. Now children, grow up and stop sniggering at the naughty words.
Do we really have to? 8-[ :lol:
Alas, the k-NN cross validation again becomes comical again. Damn pain in the whatsit to find those bugs, let alone fix them!
EDIT: Harder to find in fact, than a gas leak with a gascoseeker! :lol:
Hey ben, im an engineer for a gas company down south west (not much help to you i know) but thought i'd just say its abit drastic ripping out the pipes and refitting,,what happends if the leaks still there and its from the boiler or cooker maybes..We use a thing called a sniffer to smell out the leak, its an electronic handheld device and gives a high pitch noise when the leak is found,,any decent heating engineer should have one,, could work out cheaper..mind u prices for plumbers an heating engineers in south east are probly tripple to south west..hope u get it sorted
Rich!!!!
Red ones
11-12-06, 07:58 PM
sniffer is no way as good as gascoseeker but that is a personal choice, based on the wonders of the www!
21QUEST
12-12-06, 10:53 AM
A bit of an update. Managed to get a Corgi registered guy in recommended by a friend of mum.
He came round with his Co......er sorry *sniggers* :) Gascoseeker. Pipe in the front room was taken out as that's what the main leak.
Apparently there is still a little amount of leak(but withing limits :? ) according to the Sniffer but it's okay to use.
We decided we'll get all the pipe work changed and he could make some alterations to the position of the pipes to the newly(about a year) installed boiler at the same time. That was always on the cards anyways so makes sense to just do the lot at once.
He can't do it at the mo so all would be done in the New year. Gracais to all that tried to help out .
Cheers
Ben
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