Bhs - sherbet dips - stupid stepdads!!

Maria81

OK!

BHS:

Was out for the day the other month and went into a bhs cafe with my family, ordered some sandwiches and coffee, the coffee was on the cold side and i had a few bites of my sandwich tasted a bit odd and was going stale by the hardness i turned it over and it was mouldy on the bottom! _pale_ i proceeded to go downstairs cursing to the bathroom where i was sick (haven't got the tummy for them kind of things) and it ruined our day out.

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Sherbet dips:

bought one from asda the other day, was sat there as you do watching TV happily eating away when i look down to take another dip and there's a nasty black hair sat in there!! (i have red hair so it wasn't mine!) _pale_

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Step Dad:

Said the other day i have a bright idea! :idea:
Going to get a new fire for the living room! He wanted to measure the hole so took the other fire out pulling the pips out too and he said he's shut the valve off, over a few hours the gas smell still hadn't gone away, he'd trotted off to bed and i checked the pipe - got my ear right down there - and heard a hissing noise! my mum walked in with a cigarette going to light it and i lost ten years off my life i swear! :eek: Screaming for here not to i had to turn the gas off and leave it till the morning. by this time the smell of gas was horrid. We all could have been blown sky high! Step Dad got a telling off next morning put the fire back and went off to order the fire only to be told as me and someone else told him that you have to have a fire guy come out and measure it and check things, so he couldn't order it then anyway! :mad: so he'd filled the house with gas for nothing!

GRrrrrrrrrrrr

seagull09

Lucky escape with the fire there. I'm very nervous and respectful of gas in the house, always get Corgi (as it was) or Gas Safe Register (now) approved fitters to do any work, as if or when the house gets sold it could cause problems if not. That's if the house doesn't blow up first... :eek:

Maria81

thats what i was afraid of - my stepdad and mum owns this house and it will eventually come to me, but he does all the DIY himself god knows what anyone would say if they came to check it all! he says he does it cowboy style - we stop him doing the big things - after the gas thing - but he likes to tinker!

and the pipes and things for the gas fire and all that havent been checked in years god knows what the gas man will say or find wrong with them when he comes out!

plus someone told me that if you do fiddle with your own gas and it does blow up - and you dont die but someone else does you could be charged,

seagull09

Maria81 wrote: »

plus someone told me that if you do fiddle with your own gas and it does blow up - and you dont die but someone else does you could be charged,

Yes you could be right, I've heard of landlords and gas fitters getting charged with manslaughter following fatalities because of faulty work, but not sure if that would extend to a homeowner/neighbour type scenario too.

As long as you don't smoke those Sherbet Dips you should be ok... (Nowhere round here seems to sell them )

marleyboy

It reminds me of my childhood, we had renovators doing up our cellar, with no lights, one workman used a newspaper lighting the end to use as a makeshift torch, on his way down the stone steps passing the gas pipe, he shone the torch towards a hissy noise, where he noticed a large hole in the pipe that was oozing gas out.

How the house remained intact is anyone's guess.