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What causes smell of gas in Manchester

• 01
  Ageing fittings

  Compression joints and flexible hoses behind cookers work loose over decades.

• 02
  DIY and damage

  A nail through a buried run, a cooker moved for cleaning, the classics.

• 03
  Appliance faults

  Poor combustion produces carbon monoxide without any gas smell, which is what the alarm is for.

• 04
  Corroded pipework

  Buried steel gas barrel rusts from the outside in, especially under solid floors.

Local conditions we work around

Greater Manchester is a soft water area, roughly 40 to 80 mg/l, supplied by United Utilities from Lake District reservoirs across granite and slate that give up very little mineral. It changes what goes wrong. There is almost no limescale here, so boilers and cylinders are spared the failure that dominates London, but soft water is slightly more plumbosolvent and mildly aggressive to older copper. The emergencies we attend cluster instead around corrosion, exposed external runs on hillside streets that freeze hard, and Victorian drainage under the terraces.

Covered across Greater Manchester

Same published rate card and the same twelve-month workmanship guarantee everywhere below, there is no postcode loading. Each area has its own page with an arrival time taken from our job records rather than chosen for a website.

Smell of gas in Manchester, your questions