Hi All
Bit of an odd one... but here goes.
We can smell what we can only describe as gas in our living room. We have had transco out who found a small leak (upto 50ppm) on our gas fire which was repaired. The transco guy did say he was surprised we would be able to smell something that little at the time.
Anyway, we can continue to smell what we believe to be gas, the fire is 100% safe and not an issue and been verified by 3 different gas safe engineers.
The odd part now is that we only seem to smell the “gas” when the windows and patio doors are open. The gas guy we had out on Saturday was very helpful and did a digital pressure check on the meter and over a 2 min window, the pressure dropped by 0.07mb... I understand for a house of our ages, the legal limit is 4mb.
The engineer on Saturday did mention that the fact we smell it more when the doors/windows are open could be as it would appear that the flooring of the ground floor is not solid concrete but something like a suspended concrete floor as they are air vents under the damp course and the smell is coming from under the concrete. He did mention that if the gas pipe flows under here, it could be that the airflow is drawing the smell up.
I know everyone will say its a dead animal but other than start smashing up walls or digging up floors, what other options do we have to either identify if its a gas leak or in fact something rotting under the floor?
Any help appreciated
Karl
Bit of an odd one... but here goes.
We can smell what we can only describe as gas in our living room. We have had transco out who found a small leak (upto 50ppm) on our gas fire which was repaired. The transco guy did say he was surprised we would be able to smell something that little at the time.
Anyway, we can continue to smell what we believe to be gas, the fire is 100% safe and not an issue and been verified by 3 different gas safe engineers.
The odd part now is that we only seem to smell the “gas” when the windows and patio doors are open. The gas guy we had out on Saturday was very helpful and did a digital pressure check on the meter and over a 2 min window, the pressure dropped by 0.07mb... I understand for a house of our ages, the legal limit is 4mb.
The engineer on Saturday did mention that the fact we smell it more when the doors/windows are open could be as it would appear that the flooring of the ground floor is not solid concrete but something like a suspended concrete floor as they are air vents under the damp course and the smell is coming from under the concrete. He did mention that if the gas pipe flows under here, it could be that the airflow is drawing the smell up.
I know everyone will say its a dead animal but other than start smashing up walls or digging up floors, what other options do we have to either identify if its a gas leak or in fact something rotting under the floor?
Any help appreciated
Karl