Just a recent experience I've had (March 2021) when buying a new dual fuel range cooker that I thought might be insightful....
We recently had a new kitchen fitted (DIY kitchens) and bought a range cooker (Rangemaster Classic Delux) to go with it. AO were offering a deal on getting them to fit it, I think it was £50 reduced from £100.
So whilst the kitchen fitter is removing the old kitchen I came downstairs to check progress and he'd uncovered all the gas pipes that ran behind the units. At this point I'm sure I could smell gas and I asked the fitter if he could as well, he said no so I thought I must be paranoid. I shut the mains off anyway and the smell went away. I turned it back on and it came back so I said to him I'm sure I can smell gas, have you moved any of the pipes, to which he said as far as he knows he completely avoided them. As the cooker was being delivered the next day I decided to just shut it all off anyway and wait until they turned up to fit it and get their advice.
AO turn up the next day, 2 people, the delivery guy and the gas safe engineer. I tell them straight away where it's going and that I think there might be a leak, so they unload the cooker and the engineer does a leak down test, which to no surprise shows there's a huge leak coming from somewhere. So to cut an already long story short, he traces the leak to a pipe that has had a big hole in for some time and gradually oxidised up, but he thinks got dislodged by the fitter moving the cabinets. So he has to cut an entire run of pipe out, solder in the new pipe and fittings (and cut out the old fittings from the last cooker). I asked him if I'll be charged extra and he said that he has to make sure that the unit has been fitted safely otherwise he can't complete the delivery and that includes repairing any leaks or damages to piping.
As you can see from the picture below some genius has tried to move or grip the pipe with pliers or mole grips and turn it, realise they've made a hole and try to seal it with flux
God knows how long it's been like this but it's the first time we've fitted a kitchen and been in the house since 2016. Thankfully we've always had a carbon monoxide detector and it's never beeped.
TL;DR I paid £50 for someone to find a gas leak, replace the copper pipe, make sure everything was safe and fit an oven. Perfect timing and coincidence.
We recently had a new kitchen fitted (DIY kitchens) and bought a range cooker (Rangemaster Classic Delux) to go with it. AO were offering a deal on getting them to fit it, I think it was £50 reduced from £100.
So whilst the kitchen fitter is removing the old kitchen I came downstairs to check progress and he'd uncovered all the gas pipes that ran behind the units. At this point I'm sure I could smell gas and I asked the fitter if he could as well, he said no so I thought I must be paranoid. I shut the mains off anyway and the smell went away. I turned it back on and it came back so I said to him I'm sure I can smell gas, have you moved any of the pipes, to which he said as far as he knows he completely avoided them. As the cooker was being delivered the next day I decided to just shut it all off anyway and wait until they turned up to fit it and get their advice.
AO turn up the next day, 2 people, the delivery guy and the gas safe engineer. I tell them straight away where it's going and that I think there might be a leak, so they unload the cooker and the engineer does a leak down test, which to no surprise shows there's a huge leak coming from somewhere. So to cut an already long story short, he traces the leak to a pipe that has had a big hole in for some time and gradually oxidised up, but he thinks got dislodged by the fitter moving the cabinets. So he has to cut an entire run of pipe out, solder in the new pipe and fittings (and cut out the old fittings from the last cooker). I asked him if I'll be charged extra and he said that he has to make sure that the unit has been fitted safely otherwise he can't complete the delivery and that includes repairing any leaks or damages to piping.
As you can see from the picture below some genius has tried to move or grip the pipe with pliers or mole grips and turn it, realise they've made a hole and try to seal it with flux
God knows how long it's been like this but it's the first time we've fitted a kitchen and been in the house since 2016. Thankfully we've always had a carbon monoxide detector and it's never beeped.TL;DR I paid £50 for someone to find a gas leak, replace the copper pipe, make sure everything was safe and fit an oven. Perfect timing and coincidence.
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