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Hobbit

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... the bloody doors off!

Well, a new cupboard door required. Turned the hot water tap on in the kitchen, and BANG! That was followed by a high pitched squeal and the wife exiting the kitchen at a rate of knots...:LOL:

Apparently my laughter wasn't appreciated.:unsure: Gas man is on his way out to us.

That certainly explains the slight whiff of gas recently. Lucky, but it was so funny.
 
Sounds funny now but perhaps a lucky escape to life and limb especially when you look at the news coverage of destroyed houses from gas leaks you get from time to time. Think you need to take the better half out for a nice meal to apologise for laughing
 
Hobbit said:
... the bloody doors off!

Well, a new cupboard door required. Turned the hot water tap on in the kitchen, and BANG! That was followed by a high pitched squeal and the wife exiting the kitchen at a rate of knots...:LOL:

Apparently my laughter wasn't appreciated.:unsure: Gas man is on his way out to us.

That certainly explains the slight whiff of gas recently. Lucky, but it was so funny.
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HomerJSimpson said:
Sounds funny now but perhaps a lucky escape to life and limb especially when you look at the news coverage of destroyed houses from gas leaks you get from time to time. Think you need to take the better half out for a nice meal to apologise for laughing
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Sppt on Homer, Any smell of gas should always be reported and checked out.

Thankfully you had a lucky escspe.
 
Couple of years back we got the boiler replaced, the old one had been in the house since it was built and spare parts for it had stopped in the mid 80's. The heating engineer who did the swap told me that the old boiler had a leak and had it not been for the pilot light being on constantly we may have had a major issue. Any whiff of gas no matte how small is worth getting the appropriate people out to have it checked out.
 
Khamelion said:
Couple of years back we got the boiler replaced, the old one had been in the house since it was built and spare parts for it had stopped in the mid 80's. The heating engineer who did the swap told me that the old boiler had a leak and had it not been for the pilot light being on constantly we may have had a major issue. Any whiff of gas no matte how small is worth getting the appropriate people out to have it checked out.
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Slightly reminds me of changing my 30 year old boiler a few years back. I took all the old system out myself and realised that there was a water leak from the heat exchanger which must have been going on for years and it had been dripping on to heat deflector plate so it just evaporated and could never be noticed without taking the boiler out.

The biggest scare I had was pulling out all the old flue pipes which went through two floors and realising that that they were asbestos lined, after taking them out.
 
jim8flog said:
Slightly reminds me of changing my 30 year old boiler a few years back. I took all the old system out myself and realised that there was a water leak from the heat exchanger which must have been going on for years and it had been dripping on to heat deflector plate so it just evaporated and could never be noticed without taking the boiler out.

The biggest scare I had was pulling out all the old flue pipes which went through two floors and realising that that they were asbestos lined, after taking them out.
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I helped the engineer carry the old cast iron part of the boiler out, it separated and landed on the big toe of my right foot, crushed the bone, didn't hurt at the time and just walked it off, wasn't till later on that it started to swell and was a little bit painful.
 
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