Single-speaker podcast (Derek Cole) giving practical safety advice about natural gas smells and heating appliances. Speaker distinguishes responsibility boundaries between utilities and homeowners, advises shutting off gas and avoiding open flames if a gas smell is present, recommends professional maintenance for gas appliances, and stresses installing carbon monoxide detectors because CO is odorless and dangerous.
Chapters
You should not be having a gas mill in your house or outside of your house. What happens in our business, from the regulator to the house, is usually our responsibility. Anything the other direction is the gas company, it's the OP company or natural gas, and that's their deal. They don't want us touching anything beyond that, and that's fine. So if you go outside and have that smell, you should turn the gas off. You have a gas shut off, right? A gas shut off, you should turn it off, obviously. Don't light cigarettes or don't use a lighter to see what's going on. That's not a good idea with a gas smell that's going to cause a problem. Now inside the house again, you could be, could be a gas pressure problem, could be a gas valve problem. You need to have. It goes back to what I just said. You need to have a maintenance done to make sure you're being operated properly, because gas obviously is nothing to play with. And if you have any gas appliance in your house, whether it be a furnace or a water heater or a dryer or a stove, you should always have a carbon monoxide detector because that you cannot smell. That you cannot smell, you cannot see. But it is a byproduct of gas. So if you have gas in the house that needs to be installed as well.