Tulloch PriestCo-founder, Gas Engineer Software · Co-founder of Gas Engineer Software

What Gas Inspectors Hate The Most

18 Nov 2025 · 0 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker, speaking from the perspective of a gas inspector or someone familiar with gas inspections, highlights a common frustration: arriving at a job site only to discover that the gas analyser present has not been calibrated, rendering it unusable. The speaker describes how this oversight forces contractors to delay work, often promising to calibrate the equipment the next day. The rant underscores that while the issue seems minor, it creates unnecessary downtime and excuses. The speaker also notes that many service providers now offer rapid, one‑hour calibration turnarounds, which has largely eliminated this particular excuse and streamlined inspection workflows.

There's nothing worse than turning up to an inspection and saying, you've got an analyser? And they go, yep. And you say, is it calibrated? They say nope. And then they can't use it because it's not been calibrated. So you say, well, how have you been doing gas work then? Oh, I'm really sorry. I'll get it done tomorrow. That, although it's a minor thing, if you turn up and the inspector go, yeah, I knew this was coming up, so I popped down and got it calibrated. Yeah, a lot of places now do like the 1-hour turnaround, you know, so there's no real excuse.