Mr Dad’s Property Maintenance conducts gas safety checks in Westhoughton. We are gas safe registered engineers, fully qualified to inspect your gas appliances to insure they are working properly and there are no leaks. Our appliance gas checks include boilers and fireplaces as well as cookers. Sometimes people get used to the smell of natural gas in their home. They might tell you their Mum’s house always smelled like that. They always checked the gas connections and there was never a problem so they stopped worrying about it. Hopefully, Mums house was draughty which would be a reason nobody got sick. Natural gas and propane are odourless but a distinctive smell is added to both for safety.
Familiarise yourself and your family with those smells and emphasise the health hazards they represent. In Westhoughton, gas safety checks by a Mr Dads engineer will include a reminder that natural gas and propane are invisible and highly flammable. If anyone smells gas, be sure they follow safety precautions by opening windows, shutting off the gas to the appliance if possible and calling for emergency assistance. Never light a flame if you smell gas. We will check, not only the gas connections inside the building but also the connectors coming into the building. Appliances are safer today than ever before. Once we had pilot lights that were always going out, allowing unburned gas into the house. That has been replaced with an electronic igniter.
Gas safety checks in Westhoughton should be carried out once a year. Maybe you have a gas dryer that shakes a little while it’s operating. It might be that it’s not quite level or the tumbler is off just a bit. Over the course of the year that bit of shaking can loosen connections. Are you in the habit of pulling your stove out from the wall to clean behind it? Then you shove it back against the wall. The flexible gas line to your stove takes a beating and a leak could develop. Just to be on the safe side, contact us and schedule a gas safety check for your home, office building or rental properties. Our rates are reasonable and your safety is worth it.
