pipe damage

[fire]

i am a sparky and wanted to know what is the best thing to do as a first aid in the event of me cutting a gas or water pipe when cutting floor boards

 

[unguided1]

blame somone else!!!

 

[SafeGasInstall]

turn water of ,turn gas OFF ! valve is next to gas meter if in flats will have one on point of entry to flat !
call gas engineer and hope he /she will not charge u double cos u r electrician

 

[villa_tom]

If you cut into gas main, isolate at meter open all doors and windows and call transco (or whatever they are called now). If you cut into water just turn off the main stopcock to the house and call a plumber/heating engineer.

If its a nice house though and you may have caused some damage..................................RUN LIKE THE WIND

 

[Reg Man]

Turn the water and gas off? Best way is prevention, use one of those metal detecting devices before cutting into the boards.

 

[unguided1]

I always warn everyone on the job that if they see me runnin try and keep up!!!!

 

[Guest123]

i am a sparky and wanted to know what is the best thing to do as a first aid in the event of me cutting a gas or water pipe when cutting floor boards

Mmm, call a plumber?

Next run like hell for the exit.

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

run like ,blame the apprentice,its not your fault they are in mong mode again(mong mode original version by tamz used under licence now widely used by me and my colleague to describe the apprentice on a off day it replaces is he on or sumthing?????????,must be his period,which was superseded by a simple word apprentice add name here............... your a t...........but in thease politically correct times..........go with the flow

 

[Guest123]

@Gasman, LOL

 

[fire]

ok i get it for gas and for water supply to the taps but what if i cut a central heating pipe, what will stop that water from running?

 

[villa_tom]

ok i get it for gas and for water supply to the taps but what if i cut a central heating pipe, what will stop that water from running?

If its a pressurised system them it will stop running on its own eventually, if its an open vented system then turned the main stopcock off will stop the system refilling and it will stop

 

[tweakyboy]

If you catch the pipe with a saw and its only just slightly nicked it, grab your insulation tape and wrap it up like a man man possessed!

 

[REDSAW]

national grid use denso tape. handy to have to wrap around pipe. messy though!

 

[blayedrunner]

Hahahahahahaha advice as above!!!!

 

[SafeGasInstall]

pray plumber not to charge you double

 

[AWheating]

make your apprentice lift the floor boards so you can blame somebody else.

 

[dontknowitall]

You could buy yourself a 15mm pipe cutter and have a couple of 15mm push fit stop ends to push on to both parts of the pipe and keep these in the toolbox.

You will get wet but sometimes if it's too late by the time you've run down looking for the stop tap, flung out all the cleaning liquids and saucepans from under the kitchen sink and found it's not there but in another cupboard at the other end of the house you could much more easily cut the pipe properly and stuff the push ends on quickly.

Prevention better than cure though ... You can buy small twisty type mirrors and look under the floorboards with a torch to see where the pipes and wires are running so you know where to be careful.

 

[SafeGasInstall]

DO NOT UNDER WHATEVER REASON DO ANY WORK TO GAS PIPE WORK !!!

it aint worth it ,just admit that something has gone wrong as it does to happen to all of us

i have been through cables few times

 

[unguided1]

i am a sparky and wanted to know what is the best thing to do as a first aid in the event of me cutting a gas or water pipe when cutting floor boards

Actually been seriously thinking about this and I think that what you ought to do is the same as what us plumbers are always doing to you elecktrickery people when we burn yer cables and just shove em back leaving you to find the problem !!!!!!!!!!!

 

[allstarsystems]

just call a plumber you sparkys earn enough money!!

 

[dontknowitall]

Or call another sparky and blame it on him?

 

[stevetheplumber]

after making safe prepare your self for a big bill