"Danger Do Not Use Warning Notice" left by smart meter fitter

oldagetraveller1

I wonder if that resulted from when the 22mm meter outlet pipe bends were soldered? If that was installed after the consumer unit?

That's a very amateurish looking soldering job. They couldn't even be bothered wiping the joints to remove excessive flux!

Reed_Richards

doodling said:

Hi,

QrizB said:

doodling said:
But no more a deathtrap than any other gas leak.

The people who write the gas safety rules apparently don't agree with you.

We don't know why that rule is in place so that is not a valid conclusion to draw.

My suspicion is that it is noting to do with a steady state ongoing risk of gas leaks and more to do with making it possible to work on either utility without the risk of a dangerous event occurring (examples of which might be a gas leak through mechanical damage to the gas installation, heat damage to electrical wiring / equipment or inadvertent application of water based leak detection spray to electrical equipment)..

If my suspicion is correct then the risk that the rule way trying to mitigate has already arisen, failed to manifest into a dangerous event (other than a somewhat singed consumer unit) and now lies dormant until next time work is carried out in that area.

I'll buy this explanation as much more credible than "boom".  If you get a gas leak in a (meter) cupboard then you'll quickly get a cupboard full of gas and no amount of distance within the cupboard is going to help if there were to be a spark.

SAC2334

Reed_Richards said:

No help to the OP but I cannot work out what the supposed danger actually is.  What could possibly happen if your gas pipes are too near to an electricity supply?    

Yes..digital gas meters smart and dumb both have batteries in them .I have changed the batteries on some of early prepayment gas meters although the practice now is to change the meter when the internal battery dies rather than replacing in situ .