Gas leak help

[newcastle phill]

Good luck

 

[buckley plumb]

had similar a few wks ago did a gas cert and found major drop - removed boards and found nailed pipe -repaired that and and the 1st piece of pipe and meter union off the meter . I did a tightness test an all ok . got a call 3 wks later off landlord saying customer smels gas and called Transco who capped meter and replaced regulator and flexi due to leak . that engineer slagged me off to the customer . it was tight when I left it -apparently engineer said there was a small pin hole in the flexi stainless pipe . I assume the pipe was knocked when the tenant put stuff back in cupboard and disturbed the flexi - like an mot on a car its only falied at the time it was done

 

[Ermintrude]

Flux will rot out flex over time. 1 day if lots and hot.

 

[deandive]

had similar a few wks ago did a gas cert and found major drop - removed boards and found nailed pipe -repaired that and and the 1st piece of pipe and meter union off the meter . I did a tightness test an all ok . got a call 3 wks later off landlord saying customer smels gas and called Transco who capped meter and replaced regulator and flexi due to leak . that engineer slagged me off to the customer . it was tight when I left it -apparently engineer said there was a small pin hole in the flexi stainless pipe . I assume the pipe was knocked when the tenant put stuff back in cupboard and disturbed the flexi - like an mot on a car its only falied at the time it was done

I had a very similar situation fitted a combi boiler to a HA property to replace an unvented system, when I connected onto the plastic hot feed for the bathroom an exixting joint failed, the resultant leak did not endear me to the tennant. when it came time to tt at the end of the job, the tennnt had piled all her junk in the cupboard and was most unimpressed when I told her I needed access. I finished up and left. two days later I get told by my manager the tennant had called out Wales and west as she could smell gas, she had informed them that the engineer had confirmed a gas leak and she wanted compensation for all her anguish! Cue me having a proper panic, turns out when my manager visited the property there was a brand new annaconda and paperwork confirming the old one had been damaged mechanically, no doubt by her ramming her junk in there.