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Steve Walker[_5_] Steve Walker[_5_] is offline
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Default Gas meter connection -safe?

On 02/06/2019 07:34, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
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.


I once worked for a company that had a vessel containing 15 tons of
liquified natural gas, used for fueling gas turbine or gas engined
industrial compressors on test.

When it was needed, liquid was fed to a small boiler that heated it and
the chemical smell was added.

They once suffered a leak in the chemical dosing system, releasing the
undiluted chemical into the atmosphere. People from offices and housing
all around the area were phoning reports of a massive gas leak in

SteveW