Gas leak

[nysk2008]

Was a gas leak virgin until until today and chuffed I found it as was doing my head in. Finally found it on a compression fitting nr male iron into the back of a hob that had been siliconed round olive and nut but border line finger tight!!!! Capped off and will sort tommoz but what the hell are some people up to or is this the sign of things to come for a relatively new engineer.

 

[Barry98]

get used to it fella , you will be amazed at what you dind

 

[nysk2008]

Now I understand why all you gas lot was wanting to hang the likes of a large diy store for handing out gas appliances/materials to mr public - only my first dodgy leak but how the hell to these cowboys sleep - obviously not permanetly like their customers could!

 

[smtplumbing]

you will see some sights buddie. I went to a gas leak Well smell of gas pressure dropped started searching removed the cooker to find 15mm tap flexy HAND TIGHT. had been capped and they had made it fit on the cooker worse thing was it was a polish tenant in a council house, they dont care.

Also seen polish buying caravan cookers which have lpg hose and injectors and they connect them up to the gas,

 

[nysk2008]

While I was training I saw a house that had a combi and cooker plumbed from a gas canister that they buried in the garden via a hose pipe, obviously the gas ran out and the customer not happy, needless to say the other issues - Eastern Europeans had bodged it (this is not a dig at the Eastern Europeans by the way)

 

[cdodds2004]

check out polish plumbers on u tube some quality footage

 

[smtplumbing]

take it other countries have like a GSR

 

[midge]

Best one I ever had was someone who disconnected the gas cooker when he moved house and plugged the point with a carrot.

It was only discovered when the new owner had his cooker fitted.

 

[gasmarc]

i had a tenant who had a gas fire in his bedroom with a leak on the elbow and he put some insulation tape around the pipe to stop the leak

 

[gaspastemania]

The lack of pipe clips amazes me , Saw one other week in a cellar on commercial property about 6 meters of 35 mm from the meter staright down middle of cellar floating in midd air . Only went in their to check a soil pipe !!!

 

[AWheating]

you will be supprised by what you find and even more supprised by the atitude of some of the customers/tennants when you try to make safe.

i had one the first week on my own, counsil house gas fire connected via garden hose by tennant, they were not happy when i disconnected it as it had been like that for 15years and no service engineer had ever noticed it.

 

[marleyco]

Best one I ever had was someone who disconnected the gas cooker when he moved house and plugged the point with a carrot.It was only discovered when the new owner had his cooker fitted.

A carrot, that's genius. I once opened a drain to find it blocked, I unscrewed it too far and poking in the end, water everywhere, as I panicked I was passed a potatoe to plug the drain. Who need's bhaco when you have veg!

 

[R1CKY]

Had GSR (apparently) Installer work with us who capped off a live gas pipe with a push fit cap end! Luckily someone else spotted it before they left and he was sacked!

 

[smtplumbing]

give ya a wee laugh when your talking about veg in pipes, bugger at work called me saying there was a leak in the pipe and i better hurry up to fix. so i ran up to the house to check and this is what i found ha ha

 

[Gray0689]

give ya a wee laugh when your talking about veg in pipes, bugger at work called me saying there was a leak in the pipe and i better hurry up to fix. so i ran up to the house to check and this is what i found ha ha View attachment 3676

Funny but
Who pipes a mains like that??

 

[smtplumbing]

dont worry i never did the pipe work i was covering for the council and this house was all ready ripped out

 

[Gray0689]

dont worry i never did the pipe work i was covering for the council and this house was all ready ripped out

That's new copper!!!!!!

 

[smtplumbing]

i no that but i never did the pipe work, pre done before i was i started cover in there kitchen and bathrooms

 

[Gray0689]

That's bad
Glad you don't do that crap

 

[smtplumbing]

sadly not contract works to the council are allways checked unlike the council workers themself grrrr

 

[CMairiD]

A carrot, that's genius. I once opened a drain to find it blocked, I unscrewed it too far and poking in the end, water everywhere, as I panicked I was passed a potatoe to plug the drain. Who need's bhaco when you have veg!

Appears British gas agree ...

British Gas engineer stuns customer by using potato to stop a water leak | Mail Online