On 25/11/2014 09:51, Tricky Dicky wrote:
The scariest gas leak we ever had was at the previous house when we could smell gas coming out of an electrical socket in the space below the stairs. Turned out there was a gas pipe left buried in the wall which went to the original kitchen. The previous owner installed the socket with the back box pressed against the pipe, a joint further along failed due to reaction with the plaster the gas worked itself along the pipe and came out the way it could!

Richard

Reminds me of rewiring my first Victorian house, how I discovered that
the small diameter lead gas-lighting pipes were all still "live". A
significant part of the wiring was surface mount, single conductors with
cotton/rubber insulation run in wooden double channels.