"Roger Hayter" wrote in message
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Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:

"Harry Bloomfield" wrote in message
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After serious thinking wrote :
Reporting smelling gas gets you instantly cut off & your install
condemned, regardless of the cause.

Only if a leakage is confirmed. I have a good nose, regularly spot
leaks
outside and report them. Most recently I smelled a leak from our local
pressure regulator station.

while on holiday in a rented flat in Rothesay in the 50's my mother went
looking for a town gas leak with a match and found it with a nice wee
flame
spouting from a pipe........

Contrary to popular belief, searching for a gas leak with a lighted
match is probably fairly sensible; as long as the whole house didn't
blow up when you first lit the match, anyway.


but nobody was happy when she did that