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I'm pretty sure my life has been saved (literally) thanks to gas safety regulations. And I need some advice please.
I've just had a gas safety inspection. The engineer was undoubtedly the most professional engineer I've ever come across. He did far more than any of the previous engineers.
It was a shock when he told me there was a substantial leak in the gas. After inspecting the gentleman asked me to come look at the gas fire. As I squatted down he said "watch this." He reached into the wall cavity and pulled out the entire pipe which extended from the wall to the fire. He asked 'what do you see?' All I saw was lots of tape. That's what I told him. 'Exactly,' he said with a searching look of incredulity. 'Who did this installation?' he asked. I told him it was the same company who had come for the past four years.
The engineer said he had never seen anything like this before. The pipe running from the mains connecting to the fire had been connected with Sellotape! There was not even threading on the pipes as one would imagine there might be to screw or bolt the pipes together. The tape had become brittle and loose around the pipe, thus causing the gas to escape.
For the past three years I have been becoming increasingly ill. I have been to my GP so many times I can't even begin to count. I have been subjected to a litany of exams, tests, and medications. The nausea was constant with vomiting sometimes lasting for days. But when I went away it got better. We couldn't figure out what or why this was happening.
You have no idea how grateful I am to the engineer who came to my home. He was a mature gentleman, unlike the extremely young people who came before, who were always in a hurry and never once to my recollection did gas leak tests, or inspections of my cooker, etc. I suppose the simple moral to this is how valuable your profession is and how essential it is to take pride in following the regulations in checking each installation thoroughly.
Over the past four weeks my medication types have reduced from nine to three - (just a blood pressure, a cholesterol, and an antibiotic tablet for a throat infection, which the GP says may also be connected to the gas!)
Has anyone here ever heard of anything like this? I'm quite angry and I've spent the past couple of years finding myself in a stupor in the mornings, fighting the most outrageous headaches and nausea, and having lost the enjoyment out of life for the past two years. I'm not feeling sorry for myself - I'm just jolly glad it's over with!
It's amazing that the past three years worth of inspections were done without the engineers ever testing the gas and actually overlooking the Sellotape which was blatantly obvious once you're down on your knees in front of the fire. The level of apathy and complacency beggars belief!
apologies for my using the forum to get this off my chest but I thought you might find it of interest.
I've just had a gas safety inspection. The engineer was undoubtedly the most professional engineer I've ever come across. He did far more than any of the previous engineers.
It was a shock when he told me there was a substantial leak in the gas. After inspecting the gentleman asked me to come look at the gas fire. As I squatted down he said "watch this." He reached into the wall cavity and pulled out the entire pipe which extended from the wall to the fire. He asked 'what do you see?' All I saw was lots of tape. That's what I told him. 'Exactly,' he said with a searching look of incredulity. 'Who did this installation?' he asked. I told him it was the same company who had come for the past four years.
The engineer said he had never seen anything like this before. The pipe running from the mains connecting to the fire had been connected with Sellotape! There was not even threading on the pipes as one would imagine there might be to screw or bolt the pipes together. The tape had become brittle and loose around the pipe, thus causing the gas to escape.
For the past three years I have been becoming increasingly ill. I have been to my GP so many times I can't even begin to count. I have been subjected to a litany of exams, tests, and medications. The nausea was constant with vomiting sometimes lasting for days. But when I went away it got better. We couldn't figure out what or why this was happening.
You have no idea how grateful I am to the engineer who came to my home. He was a mature gentleman, unlike the extremely young people who came before, who were always in a hurry and never once to my recollection did gas leak tests, or inspections of my cooker, etc. I suppose the simple moral to this is how valuable your profession is and how essential it is to take pride in following the regulations in checking each installation thoroughly.
Over the past four weeks my medication types have reduced from nine to three - (just a blood pressure, a cholesterol, and an antibiotic tablet for a throat infection, which the GP says may also be connected to the gas!)
Has anyone here ever heard of anything like this? I'm quite angry and I've spent the past couple of years finding myself in a stupor in the mornings, fighting the most outrageous headaches and nausea, and having lost the enjoyment out of life for the past two years. I'm not feeling sorry for myself - I'm just jolly glad it's over with!
It's amazing that the past three years worth of inspections were done without the engineers ever testing the gas and actually overlooking the Sellotape which was blatantly obvious once you're down on your knees in front of the fire. The level of apathy and complacency beggars belief!
apologies for my using the forum to get this off my chest but I thought you might find it of interest.
