Gas leak in the house
 

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.

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.

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

OK. I'm sad. I done it! :lol: :lol: 'musin.

Yeah, I had to check it out too, :lol:

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.

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: