Shouldn't you turn off the gas?

[Ryster]

You called a gas man out to source leak in pipework , i presume you obviously smelt the leak to know you had a leak ? So it didnt occur to you at all to turn it off yourself as most people would???
In fact if you phoned a gas engineer saying you have a leak the first thing they would say is turn it off and ventilate e.g open windows, smell a rat on this post sounds like someone stirring things up.

If there was a roll eyes smiley then I would be using it right here on your post.

 

[SafeGasInstall]

just of the record

did broke a still pipe in kitchen ( mains GAS DEAD LEG ) left live from the street been just caped off !!!

the hall estate had no GAS for like 10h two winters back !

Glad it snapped of as it was left live like 40 years ago and no one new about it !!

 

[richardd]

Could have been interesting if the ecv was faulty and passing and the enginner had no cap ends.