If you smelled sulfur like what they add to natural gas....

[SpaceGhost]

Would I be over- reacting to wake up a sleeping child and go to the in-laws? The smell is only outside, I called the emergency gas line and they are coming "as soon as they can" that was 30min ago. I don't know whether to stay or go. Oh and 3 neighbors smell it to. So I ain't crazy.

[SamZman]

It happened to my buddies house. We smelled it out front but not inside. They came out and shut it down. Turns out it was out in his front yard and ended up costing him a pretty penny to get fixed. I wouldnt be too concerned if you dont smell it inside.. but I dont think you'd be overreacting if you got out of there either.

[ODoyle]

Saftey first,I would wake up my wife and baby and GTFO

[SpaceGhost]

Gas company is here, figuring it out. I hope it's not our house, I don't like the pretty penny comment. Gas company says we will be fine.

[nurkvinny]

Of course they do.

[Pedro1647545510]

Of course they do.

Would it be wrong to laugh at this?

 

 

I would leave for the time being. Better safe than sorry.

[SpaceGhost]

We have a leak in our "riser" line, very small, Columbia Gas lost a judgement 2 weeks ago and they have to fix those now. A "leak specialist" is getting out of bed now and coming here to figure it out as the guy here cannot find the leak. He said the tiny leak in my riser could not smell that strong. He only found it with a meeter of some kind. They are not asking us to leave and seem pretty confident that there is not a leak big enough to ignite anything. Just enough to smell "rotten Eggs" outside. Who knows. And to be fair if you go outside there is no wind, it could have been leaking for a while but we couldn't smell it because of wind.

[TTQ B4U]

The whole riser issue....we got like a dozen letters and even calls nearly demanding that we have ours fixed. I was like F.U every time. There was no way I was going to flip the bill. Nothing ever was done either. I'm glad the judgment landed as it did.

 

We have a leak in our "riser" line, very small, Columbia Gas lost a judgement 2 weeks ago and they have to fix those now. A "leak specialist" is getting out of bed now and coming here to figure it out as the guy here cannot find the leak. He said the tiny leak in my riser could not smell that strong. He only found it with a meeter of some kind. They are not asking us to leave and seem pretty confident that there is not a leak big enough to ignite anything. Just enough to smell "rotten Eggs" outside. Who knows. And to be fair if you go outside there is no wind, it could have been leaking for a while but we couldn't smell it because of wind.

[Pedro1647545510]

The whole riser issue....we got like a dozen letters and even calls nearly demanding that we have ours fixed. I was like F.U every time. There was no way I was going to flip the bill. Nothing ever was done either. I'm glad the judgment landed as it did.

So the whole riser issue... Who has to the foot the bill? Is it Columbia Gas? I hope so, if their sub contractor did faulty work it should be on them since they hired them to do the job in the first place.

[TTQ B4U]

hell no, that would make sense to hold people accountable......it all rolls down hill and we all live in the valley.

 

So the whole riser issue... Who has to the foot the bill? Is it Columbia Gas? I hope so, if their sub contractor did faulty work it should be on them since they hired them to do the job in the first place.

[SpaceGhost]

Columbia Gas now has to fix the issue and pay for it. They just lost a judgement. They are comming out this week to fix ours.

[BloodRed]

hmm, makes me wonder if that is the problem at my apartment complex. Every row of gas meters have the smell of rotten eggs when you are right by them. OH well moving this weekend.

[Tindall2006]

For future refrence when you call, tell them I smell gas and I think someting might blow up.

 

They will get there really quick.

 

Or just call the fire department (the non emergency number) they will come and check it out also.

 

Though, if you ever open the door of your house, and get hit in the face by a wall of gas, fuck the gas company, fire department first.

[simonzayne]

For future refrence when you call, tell them I smell gas and I think someting might blow up.

 

All emergency calls are put into the same database. Saying you think something is going to blow up isn't going to get them to your house any quicker.

 

Though, if you ever open the door of your house, and get hit in the face by a wall of gas, fuck the gas company, fire department first.

 

If you open your door and get hit by a wall of gas get the fuck out and shut the door. Call the fire department first if you want but call the gas company as well. If there isn't a fire they are just gonna wait on the gas guy to shut off the line, they don't want to play in a gas rich environment any more then you do.

[Tindall2006]

Fire department can start spraying the surrounding area with a power cone, removing O2 and increasing water content on the area reducing the chance of your house blowing up.

 

If your hit with a wall of gas, chances are it is already too rich of a mixture inside of the house to start from the inside... but if gas is seeping outside, it can still combust, then burn to the inside of the house.

 

Also, say if you have a propane tank, and it is leaking, the fire department can come out and keep a stream of water on it till the gas company gets there, once again, reducing the chance of it combusting.