Hope this is OK in here as the Combustion Chamber is only for the elite.
Would appreciate any comments.
Unpleasant (gas, drain or rotting carcase) smell in son's dining room.
No evidence of mouse in room or under chipboard floor. Air under floor fresh, dry concrete oversite and no drains or water/waste pipes, but a gas pipe crosses below the joists. No gas appliances in room.
Meter outside, Gas c/h boiler in garage, hob in kitchen and gas fire in lounge. All separate rooms.
Gas Networks attended to check and reported no gas leak (except insignificant trace drop on pressure drop tests. (Advised owner to recall them if necessary)
3 days later with no improvement, Networks were recalled. A pressure test was undertaken, and a gas leak was declared but no drop measurements were left and no attempt was made to trace source or repair. An ID notice was served and the meter turned off with a warning and notice, leaving householder with no heating source, no cooking facilities and two small children.
A Gas Safe repairer was called who arrived 2 hours later and on starting with a pressure test could not identify any leak or pressure drop at all.
He remained whilst Networks were contacted and a (different) Network engineer arrive, who agreed that no leak or pressure drop could be found.
Networks suggest that "there may have been a bit of dirt on a valve somewhere which showed up as a leak on the second visit but fell off before the Gas Safe repairer arrived or was blown off, so that the leak could not be measured at the later visit"
Not unreasonably, the repair engineer requires payment for the call out and time spent on site waiting for Networks together with relighting the appliances.
Is the Networks explanation likely? Personally I suspect that the ID was wrongly served and wrongly measured; it seems too much of a coincidence as the mal-odour still remains and is definitely not a gas smell. Under those circumstances, what chance is there of getting Networks to foot the repair engineer's charges?
(Working on a mouse carcase, how long do they take to decompose?)
Would appreciate any comments.
Unpleasant (gas, drain or rotting carcase) smell in son's dining room.
No evidence of mouse in room or under chipboard floor. Air under floor fresh, dry concrete oversite and no drains or water/waste pipes, but a gas pipe crosses below the joists. No gas appliances in room.
Meter outside, Gas c/h boiler in garage, hob in kitchen and gas fire in lounge. All separate rooms.
Gas Networks attended to check and reported no gas leak (except insignificant trace drop on pressure drop tests. (Advised owner to recall them if necessary)
3 days later with no improvement, Networks were recalled. A pressure test was undertaken, and a gas leak was declared but no drop measurements were left and no attempt was made to trace source or repair. An ID notice was served and the meter turned off with a warning and notice, leaving householder with no heating source, no cooking facilities and two small children.
A Gas Safe repairer was called who arrived 2 hours later and on starting with a pressure test could not identify any leak or pressure drop at all.
He remained whilst Networks were contacted and a (different) Network engineer arrive, who agreed that no leak or pressure drop could be found.
Networks suggest that "there may have been a bit of dirt on a valve somewhere which showed up as a leak on the second visit but fell off before the Gas Safe repairer arrived or was blown off, so that the leak could not be measured at the later visit"
Not unreasonably, the repair engineer requires payment for the call out and time spent on site waiting for Networks together with relighting the appliances.
Is the Networks explanation likely? Personally I suspect that the ID was wrongly served and wrongly measured; it seems too much of a coincidence as the mal-odour still remains and is definitely not a gas smell. Under those circumstances, what chance is there of getting Networks to foot the repair engineer's charges?
(Working on a mouse carcase, how long do they take to decompose?)
