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The back boiler is located in the sitting room. There is some pipework running from the main meter, through a wall into the sitting room and then to the BB - the smell was noticed when I opened the door into the sitting room - the pipes and BB are just inside.

I know... ;-) Hi Tony The premises have an immersion heater as backup, so I get hot water, even though the heating / gas isn't working. RE; the smell being a dead mouse - the floor is concrete so its unlikely to be under it. The smell was also intermittent, not constant. Localised to...

@ MeldrewsMate Some good questions; I'll try to answer as fully as I can. The gas supply has been capped on two previous occasions during my tenancy. Reason - smell of gas. The Pilot light would go out every three or four months and prove very hard to reignite; LL would just tell me I'm...

Told him I'm not paying - he is NOT amused and is threatening to bill me for his time in resolving this, plus for any further involvement... I've registered with RightMove and as soon as I'm out, I'll grass him up for failing to produce a GS cert when I moved in 18 months ago. A dish best...

The back burner was stripped down and reassembled. From what others here have said, that could well be enough to stop the leak.

The fitter is GS registered - I checked early on in the proceedings! The LL is not the nicest person to deal with. Has, for example, entered the premises without asking my permission, then denied it. When I said I was sure he had been in as some of his kit had been removed, he went quiet...

Once it was capped I couldn't smell anything BUT when the kit was inspected and then uncapped, the smell returned => getting capped again => recall fitter... I don't know if he had a sniffer BUT he did have what looked like a small vacuum cleaner - would this be it?

Thanks, Dan. I did have an in-date GS certificate, obtained after some prompting and I still don't have one from the date of commencement of Tenancy. The appliance is a Baxi Bermuda back burner / gas fire; I have no idea what repair work was done to stop the smell, or if the simple act of...

Tenants also have responsibilities imposed upon them by the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998. They must report any defect that they become aware of and must not use an appliance that is not safe.

I informed the landlord; he ( eventually) instructed a fitter ( who has previously fixed the gas fire ). Gas Board had capped supply due to smell; fitter could not get round very quickly and although I'd offered to call out another engineer he declined; the fitter arrived four days later...

Thank you.

1. I have - at least twice. Read my replies. 2. I have no idea; does it matter? I smelt gas, I reported same. 3. I said I could smell gas because, err, I thought I could smell gas. My partner did, too.

After much chasing, I eventually obtained one. It wasn't the smell of drains. I'd usually note the smell when I returned home from work and thoe place had been empty, doors closed etc. and the smell was very much located in one place, adjacent to the gas fire (yes, 1970s vintage gas fire. )...

Dan, I am not in the habit of making things up. I could smell "gas" on more than one occasion and as a dutiful tenant ( who really didn't want to have his daughter killed in a gas explosion) I called the gasboard and reported it to the landlord. The implication from your post is that you...

Tony Thanks - I'm well aware that gas has no natural odour and there is an indicator chemical added. I pay my rent on time, thank you. I was without heating because the supply was capped. Fitter visited on three occasions and it wasn't until the third visit that I was unable to smell...

Yeah, I made it all up so that I'd have no heating for two weeks in winter. Thanks for that. Nice welcome.

I'm fascinated to understand how you can say I wrongly allege I ( and my partner) could smell gas! Am I making it up? Did I have a secret plot to deny myself heating for two weeks in winter?? That'll learn me. The details are not incomplete, either. No leak was detected - which doesn't...

Tony, I'm not saying that my smelling gas is scientific. I'm saying that I could smell gas, as could my partner. Just because no leak was detected doesn't mean there was no leak - it means no leak was detected. Not the same thing. The gas board ( I know thats not what they're called )...

Little while ago I could smell gas in the property I rent. I'd ignored it but the smell kept coming and going, over a period of a couple of months. Not a massive smell, but noticeable to me. I phoned the local gasboard who came round and capped the supply and advised my landlord. Eventually...