On 25 May 2021 at 12:52:42 BST, "Steve Walker"
wrote:

On 25/05/2021 12:04, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
fred pretended :
Serious explosion bellied caused by cut gas pipe. How ? Presumably it
was in error but what would you be doing for that to happen?

Perhaps a bit of plumbing or heating - a copper gas pipe looks identical
to a water pipe.

Other options are an attempted insurance job or destroying the house to
prevent it falling into the hands of an ex. I'm sure there are many more.

Maybe a case for a regulation suggesting gas pipes out to be clearly
identified, as they often are on commercial premises?

Possibly, although it's easy enough to identify in many houses - with
gas coming straight through the wall to the meter and then from there
usually only going to the living-room fire, the cooker in the kitchen
and the boiler (often in the kitchen), with the latter two often a
single run. No gas upstairs and, in a house with suspended floors, the
route of each pipe downstairs can be clearly seen.

It is a shock in a 1920s house to cut a thin walled 1/2" lead pipe under the
upstairs floorboards and find it is still connected to the gas supply. DAMHIKT
Not sure how many of the 3/8" lead pipes embedded in the plaster and folded
over at the end were still connected as the supply from the meter was replaced
at that point. The strange thing was that the pipe out of the meter was
already copper and it was not immediately obvious where it was connected to
the old lead.
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Roger Hayter