On 03/05/2019 09:17, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Vir Campestris wrote on 02/05/2019 :
I reported a smell of gas from our meter. They were round amazingly
quickly...

Yes, they work to a maximum of one hour to respond to a notification of
a potential leak.


The guy told me that they used goatskin bellows to measure the volume,
and over time they become impregnated with the smell of gas, and that
would be what it was.

I suspect he was pulling your leg or acting the goat :-)

They certainly used to use leather bellows. I would expect that that has
long gone though.

Don't always trust them if they say there is no leak though. My parents
installed their own gas central heating and fires in 1972. The gas board
came and inspected it and tested for leaks (using compressed air IIRC)
and then connected it. In the '80s we could smell gas. We called them
round three times and they could find no leaks, but we could still smell
it. Eventully we found the leak with soap and water - it was from their
connection between the regulator and the meter!

SteveW