People Can Do Dumb Things

[solodon]

Hey Gumpy, that sounds like a win/win......until you run out of propane.

[luvrbus]

Hey Craig 10 gals of propane would be 42 lbs so you would have a little to spare for cooking good idea for old systems not working though 

[oldmansax]

Gumpy, that kind of thinking is what puts the "NUT" in "BUSNUT"!  LOL!   

TOM

[B_K]

Glad to hear yer friend is OK!

A couple months ago my sister & bil were gone in different directions on trips an I was house/dog sitting for them.
One night I went out there an as I walked up the back door I could smell a bad odor of natural gas. An when I opened the house the smell about knocked me down!
So I let the dogs out, went in the laundry room an shut off the gas to the water heater an tried pin pointing the location off the source of the smell.
I had no luck finding it so I called the gas company an the guy came out an used his detector and checked everywhere but could not find the source either.
He asked if I knew what all gas was used for in the house an I told him yes the furnace, water heater, the clothes dryer, an the stove/oven and that the furnace, stove an dryer had instant igniters an only the water heater had a constant flame pilot light.

He checked everything again an said it's got to be under the house, but that he had "clocked the meter" and there was a serious leak! He turned off the gas to the meter and said the call a contractor to come out an pressure test it in the AM.

So in the AM I called a HVAC company an they sent 2 guys out to check it out.
The smaller of the 2 put on coveralls and went under the house. He came back out 2-3 times an went back under.
He finally came out and took the coveralls off and tossed them in the bed of the truck then asked me what all in the house had gas to it.
I told him an he went in the house for a few minutes and came back out. And told me "I've checked all over an found nothing! I turned the gas back on an went back under there and I have been <"flicking my bic"> at every joint & connection and around all of the units that use gas I and I ain't got nary a poof!" Then he went on to say "those stoves right there are known for leaking if a burner knob just gets slightly bumped even if it ain't on!"
But since we can't find nothing I have turned off the gas to the stove, but left everything else on. If you smell gas again call us back. But if ya don't call whoever you bought the stove from an have them send a repair man out the replace the burner valves!

I was floored! He what "FLICKED HIS BIC" that was the way he checked? What a DAMN IDIOT!

I didn't even say ANYTHING to him about pressure testing it like the gas company suggested and I had told them on the phone that's what we wanted done!

I mean what the hell was he think'n if he'd found a damn poof my sister would have a house anymore!
  BK 

[Lin]

Using an open flame has got to be one of the best and cheapest ways to locate a gas leak.  Unfortunately, there can be some undesirable side effects once you find the leak.  Everything is okay up until that point.

[Oonrahnjay]

Using an open flame has got to be one of the best and cheapest ways to locate a gas leak.  Unfortunately, there can be some undesirable side effects once you find the leak.  Everything is okay up until that point.

     Well, Mrs. Lincoln, was the play OK up to that point?

[thekid745]

A refrigerant detector would have been a lot less painful. Or just charge it with Nitrogen and do a bubble check.

But we have all done things we probably shouldn't:-)