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Putting a handrail up with my dad and hit a gas supply to the house. I've rang the gas company and they are sending someone out to fix it. We only went down about a foot and half and could smell gas and then hear it coming out.
The question is..... are we going to have to sell a kidney?
Just sit and chill, have a cigarette whilst you're waiting.
I wonder if this a q even STW can't answer...
You will have to sell two kidneys & the children....
No idea if they recharge as it was negligent. However, if they isolate the mains pripe and have to go door to door as all the boiler pilot lights are out i think it may get a bit expensive.
Check your home insurance. You are probably insured for [s]stupidity[/s] 3rd party liability.
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Did you not see the warning plastic that they lay above the pipes to prevent this sort of thing?
It will depend mostly on where you've hit it in relation to the mains. If they have to close off the mains pipe and then dig out a section of road/pavement/garden to replace the pipe then you may as well go and buy a big tub of lube now.
If it's just on your property and they can isolate your property and replace a small amount of pipe then it may be less of an issue.
look on the bright side. someone else can dig your trench now...
Do keep us informed - it'll bring me some comfort to know someone else is having a more expensive December than me.
So far our combi boiler broke down, the whole household needed new glasses, the bath waste sprung a leak and flooded the room below..
Could be worse....
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Just cover it back over quickly, and then just ring the 'can you smell gas number'?
I assume now the heating wont be working? To keep yourselves warm while you wait, just light a small fire.
There was no warning plastic above the pipe. It's on the front garden near to the house so should just be my mom and dads house
Did you not see the warning plastic that they lay above the pipes to prevent this sort of thing?
That's a very recent requirement, most domestic pipes have nothing to warn you about them.
Tbh this year couldn't get much worse
Cast iron pipe or plastic? Im still on screw fitting iron, due for an upgrade 'at some point'. If its old stuff they will probably struggle to isolate it, but you will get nice new safer supply in the end and they might not charge you because they have a requirement to replace old stuff.
Can you not just put some epoxy over into it?
Part of standard cover on buildings insurance - check your policy. (Ie you don't usually need accidental damage section to be able to claim).
I've hit an electric cable at work with a 14t excavator once. The repair charge for that was £680 + VAT.
You will get billed.
It's in the hundreds rather than thousands. Marker tape was not a requirement. I've actually found a service directly under the tarmac on a footpath before. They are a little better regulated these days but it's usually the service pipes that can be anywhere rather than the main.
Could be worse. Friend of a friend works in transmissions. His job is to find breaks in fibre cables, they get a coarse location from the fibre itself then jump in a helicopter looking for something large, yellow and industrial. The bills from those are "substantial" I'm told.
Munro....Complete lack of surprise there with you. Did it cause the whole of Sheffield to black out?
It cost about £300 when our builder put his digger through our gas supply. It would have been more if the builder hadn't made a convenient trench to do the repair. I think it took less than an hour for SGN to get someone out to fix it; I was quite impressed.
It's a simple repair. Squeeze off live side, cut, piece in and two fusion weld joints. If the trench is opened up for them then easily under an hour. You anywhere near derbyshire. I know some people....
All sorted now. For the grand total of ..........
Zero.
A polite dad and a few coffees and biscuits did the trick!
As wrightyson said they clamped the pipes and put a new small section in the gap
I'm more impressed that your Dad wants a handrail. Does he skate or ride BMX?
how do they un-clamp the feed end once theyve inserted the shunt?
They clamp it off higher up so that they can cut out the crimp and replace it with a short shunt...
(I was wondering that also.)
[i]cut out the crimp[/i]
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They clamp it off higher up so that they can cut out the crimp and replace it with a short shunt...(I was wondering that also.)
that doesnt help, you still need to stop the supply with a crimp for the short shunt replacement. I iz feeling stupid. What am I missing?
I'm sat in the corner with stoner. Would someone shine a little light please?
could someone shine a little light please?
*strikes match*
Alas, poor Stoner. We hardly knew thee....
Well, apart from Edukator, as he had a dossier.
Undo the clamp and the pipe pops open
Undo the clamp and the pipe pops open
am not buying that!
Well you might have to squeeze it a bit to get it round again...
If that doesnt work you blow hard down the open hob outlet and pop it back out using pressure.
Or get big steve to take his foit off
lol
could someone shine a little light please?
*strikes match*
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