Gunnersbury Lane Gas Leak

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Gunnersbury Lane Gas Leak

I was called to a property where the owner had noticed a strong smell of Gas! The property had just been purchased and was undergoing decorating. The guys had been taking up the old kitchen floor, during the day and had disturbed the Gas Supply pipe! The owner of the property understood where the Gas Emergency Safety Valve was and was able to shut the Gas off and vent the property. On an initial inspection the Gas was coming from a knocked Gas supply pipe to the cooker, so I replaced this. When I did my Gas tightness test, it was holding. So there must be another leak! I couldn’t hear the Gas escaping at first, so I prepared a solution and poor that onto the floor and bubbles came forth!! So this was caused by the previous layer of the floor. No protection had been placed on the Gas pipe prior to the floor tiles being laid. Overtime this ate away at the pipe, so when the current builders took up the floor the pipe gave way. Unfortunately this pipe could not be repaired with out major work. The good thing was, this property was semi-detached and I could run a Gas pipe from the meter to the Cooker and Gas Boiler via the outside wall. So as you will see from the varies photos, it was straight forward. It is very important and regulation to cap every internal unused Gas pipe as Gas residue will still make its way into the rooms. So after the installation was finished I checked that the installation pipework held Gas without leaking, very important! and then tested again with Gas appliances connected. All good!!

Gunnersbury Gas Leak resolved.

Customer happy, I’m happy, Off home to get warm as is freezing!

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