Gas Safety Week. 9 Top Tips To Keep Your Home And Family Safe

ST ALBANS, U.K. - Sept. 18, 2018 - PRLog -- This week is Gas Safety Week, Stopcocks Women Plumbers have compiled a great short video with nine easy to follow tips to help you keep your home and family safe, scroll to the end for a link to it or read the tips here.
Also at the end is the phone number of your local Stopcocks Woman Plumber and Gas Engineer, Christina.

Gas leaks can cause explosions and less dramatically but just as dangerous, poorly functioning gas appliances can lead to carbon monoxide poisoning. This can cause nasty headaches, sickness and even death.
Please take note of these simple to follow tips.

1. Know where your Gas Meter is:
It could be near your front door, in a cellar or outside in a white box - if it is outside you'll need a special key to get into it. They're yellow plastic.

2. Make sure you know how to turn your meter off - if there's leak you won't be able to use electric light to do this, so practise before you do need to do it! Put a torch somewhere handy and make sure it works.

3. The off/on lever may be stiff; loosen it by spraying with WD40 and check it every few months.

4. Don't switch lights on or off! This can cause sparks which might ignite any gas that's leaked. Use your torch instead.

5. Don't smoke or use naked flames of any kind if you suspect a leak.

6. Do not use E-Cigarettes or Vape, these spark and could cause an explosion if there is a gas leak.

7. If you think there may be a leak, open doors and windows, turn off your gas at the meter and call a registered Gas Safe engineer.

8. Have your gas appliances serviced regularly by a registered Gas Safe engineer, if they don't burn cleanly they can create carbon monoxide which is POISONOUS. You and your family could experience headaches and sickness at best and die at worst. Carbon monoxide has no smell and is invisible.
Get a carbon monoxide alarm.

9. Have the phone number of a local, trustworthy Gas Safe engineer handy, store it in your phone.

Your local Stopcocks Woman Plumber is Christina Birch, Christina is fully Gas Safe. You can call her on 0800 8620010
You can watch a video of these tips here https://youtu.be/F7O9zirsKvU