On Dec 24, 9:37 pm, "Tim" wrote:
Matty F wrote:

Yet another reason why I won't have gas anywhere near the house.

That's a bit extreme. Properly handled, it's acceptably safe and offers
considerable savings for heating.

That may well be true in the UK. But here in NZ I don't need heating
(or cooling). I probably turned the heater on less than 10 times in
the last year. The supply charge for gas (even if I don't use any at
all) would cost more than my entire heating bill.
If I have gas water heating, the electric power company has nothing
they can turn off at peak times, so they will charge a higher rate for
all of my power.

There have been three emergencies with my neighbours' gas supplies.
I have an amusing video of workmen trying to seal a broken pipe.

Are we talking about LPG/Propane here? Going to share your video? ;-)

The video is somewhere on a backup CD somewhere.
The pipe was plastic. To seal it they just bent it in half and put
some duct tape around it.