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Falkirk Gas Crisis

Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 8:53 pm
by rawsco
Main is back on but gonna be days for an SGN engineer to get to us to turn it back on.

Any gas engineers on here confirm I can just turn it on. I.e. check all appliances are off, turn gas on at the main, light the hob then burn that for a few minutes to purge air until stable flame then fire the boiler up/reset it.

Fecking freezing and could be Friday till someone turns up. 9000+ homes lost gas.

Re: Falkirk Gas Crisis

Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 9:57 pm
by ed
Bad luck. Not aware of any rules relating to the mains gas valve but I could be wrong. I have a couple of oil filled radiator’s if you need to borrow them.

Re: Falkirk Gas Crisis

Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 10:28 pm
by hendeg
Just asked a friend who’s an SGN engineer and he said that’s what they would do.

Re: Falkirk Gas Crisis

Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 10:40 pm
by rawsco
Cheers hendeg! Ed, thanks for the offer, I’ve got a heater so have at least one warm room! Gonna go fire up the boiler. Wish me luck! Lol

Re: Falkirk Gas Crisis

Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 11:25 pm
by rawsco
Didn’t die. Yet.

Re: Falkirk Gas Crisis

Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 11:27 pm
by campbell
We need to tap into Mossmorran flaring for you all. Bit of handy heat transfer

Sadly I think they are offline ATM