Where gas in my house is concerned I don't mess about. We have permanent leaks on the mainline down the street that national grid have been out to seven times now. Once they have finished today it will smell again and I will call them out again. Cowboys.
Now you know why the floor was squeaking. The guy that fitted the pipe didn't have the balls to put a nail there, neither did the guy who fitted the flooring in the first place! Never nail squeaky floors unless you take it up first. This is why floor always moves about outside airing cupboards Lucky it was gas
I took up the one before it as they has been butchered before when the gas board has to run a new line in after a leak outside years ago. I followed the straight copper pipe but it then took a left then a right then a left again, basically a dog leg for no reason. Cowboy gas board
Out of sight, out of mind. Until you take up a floor board and discover the bodges. I had creaky floor board outside the airing cupboard, decided to lift it, good idea, mass of assorted pipes and wiring underneath. And the floor board was resting on a copper pipe which should have been recessed in a joist but wasn't.
The guy fitting the pipe should have marked his pipe run on the floor in permanent marker......it's the polite thing to do. I've seen plenty of nailed pipes and cables in new build and old houses. When I was just starting out I worked with a plumber doing call outs. This was a very common call, particularly on a weekend. The worst was a guy who had nailed his rising main and then broke his stopcock trying to turn it off. When we got there he was holding the pipe in his hand and soaked to the skin, with bits of floor and soggy ceiling all over the place. We turned it off in the road and sorted him out and he took it in good spirit. On the way home we got another call from the same chap, he'd done exactly the same thing again further up the landing.
We had swapped a system boiler for a combi and put the new boiler in the bathroom , old one was in the kitchen. I was running new gas pipe up from cellar, under the stairs and across the landing, following flue and rtn. I was about to cut a board and wondered why someone had half cut it then stopped. I decided to lift next door one. Fortunately for me as the electrician had handily run some 10mm cable across the 22mm copper pipes which were about 1mm lower than the joists!
Don't work with modern plastic pipes. My last house was a new build on 3 floors, airing cupboard on the top floor. Before I moved in I wanted to lay click flooring so took the skirting board out to re site them. First one I touched started peeing water everywhere. They'd used the staple gun and went through the main cold water feed, and had managed to do it from both sides of the wall which the plumber reckons was some form of record. He reckoned that the speed the nail is fired in
A couple of years ago our gas was turned off in the street while they were doing pipe replacements, and before turning everyone's back on they had to check for leaks. We had lived here for about six years and had never had any issues so were quite surprised when they refused to turn ours back on until a qualified person had fixed it and signed it off due to a leak having been detected. Gas man came round and found that the PO had put a nail through one of the pipes on the landing so we had been slowly being gassed for several years! great, thanks for that!
