10 tips for gas safety
You can improve house safety when dealing with gas without extra cost. There are a number of tips to do so, from using services of a qualified and registered safe gas engineer Surrey, having your appliances checked regularly, reporting in time if anyone is working on gas illegally to knowing the symptoms of gas poisoning.
The tips are explained in more details:
1. Checking and testing: You can even benefit from gas safe checks offered by energy companies when you enter into their Priority Services Register. This is the case for those who have attained pension age or are chronically sick or disabled.
You need to ensure that your appliances are checked regularly by a registered safe gas engineer in Surrey, even when moving into a new home. You should also nominate your gas for inspection if the inspection work was lastly done in the last six months.
2. Is the engineer gas safe registered? Do not allow anyone to work on your gas appliances if they are not registered to do so because it is illegal. You can check from the Gas Safe Register online or calling the authority’s toll line.
Again, registered safe gas engineers in Surrey have with them gas safe ID card and you can ask to see it.
A gas safe engineer can be registered to deal with the boiler or pipework. Some are not qualified to install a gas fire. The type of work they are qualified and registered to do is listed at the back of their card and you should check in order to match your needs with those of the expert training and registration.
2. Report in time: Anyone doing gas safe-registered business as a private work is doing so illegally depending on where you live in. You can do so to the Gas Safe Register office.
3. Understand carbon monoxide poisoning: Headaches, dizziness, nausea and breathlessness are some symptoms associated with carbon monoxide poisoning. Others signs of carbon monoxide poisoning include collapse or unconsciousness, sickness symptoms that go away after leaving your house and return when you get back, and having your colleagues and animals experiencing similar symptoms. Knowing what carbon monoxide is and its symptoms helps you look for help in time. You need to also do some things once you suspect you are experiencing carbon monoxide poisoning. An example is getting fresh air immediately, turning off gas appliances at the meter, extinguishing naked flames, leaving the house once you start experiencing the previously mentioned symptoms, running to hospital immediately and calling the Gas Emergency Helpline.
4. Know when your appliances are not working properly: There are warning signs you can check for to determine that the gas appliances are not working. An example is getting a crisp and blue flame on the cooker, getting a lazy yellow or orange flames, black marks appearing around the gas appliances, pilot lights going off frequently, and increased condensation at the inside of the windows. Contact a gas engineer in Surrey to assist if experiencing these things.
5. Install an audible carbon monoxide alarm: Unfortunately, it is hard to taste, smell or see carbon monoxide. With less than $20, you should get a carbon monoxide alarm that will alert you when things go wrong. If unaware how to install it, a gas engineer around Surrey can help.
