Hi all (I'm hoping Tim will see this)
I have a customer who had a gas smell near the gas meter room. He called me and I found a decent size leak which was in the room and fixed it. It was late at night. The half cubic foot dial has 10 notches on it. I noticed even after I fixed the first leak, when I performed a dial test on the half cubic foot dial it moves forward one of the notches in 90 seconds.
He has 3 floors in his house and I wasn't going to start breaking walls as I sprayed leak detector on all the easily accessible places (behind appliances etc..) and didn't find any leak. I told him lets wait till am. By the morning, he no longer had a gas smell. I'm assuming the leak I fixed caused the smell...but, he clearly has a leak that needs to be found.
My question is if I do the math. his leak is 1/10 of 1/2 cubic foot 0r 1/20th a cubic foot every 90 seconds.
If that leak is behind a wall... or so small that he doesn't smell anything anywhere in the house. Is it safe to be in the house?. Is there a rate of dissipation into the air that at that point its not hazardous?
Thanks
Joe
I have a customer who had a gas smell near the gas meter room. He called me and I found a decent size leak which was in the room and fixed it. It was late at night. The half cubic foot dial has 10 notches on it. I noticed even after I fixed the first leak, when I performed a dial test on the half cubic foot dial it moves forward one of the notches in 90 seconds.
He has 3 floors in his house and I wasn't going to start breaking walls as I sprayed leak detector on all the easily accessible places (behind appliances etc..) and didn't find any leak. I told him lets wait till am. By the morning, he no longer had a gas smell. I'm assuming the leak I fixed caused the smell...but, he clearly has a leak that needs to be found.
My question is if I do the math. his leak is 1/10 of 1/2 cubic foot 0r 1/20th a cubic foot every 90 seconds.
If that leak is behind a wall... or so small that he doesn't smell anything anywhere in the house. Is it safe to be in the house?. Is there a rate of dissipation into the air that at that point its not hazardous?
Thanks
Joe