Smell Of Gas In The Apartment

[PhilipDT]

Check if your stove and hot water heaters are burning well. The flames should be a solid blue and should not flicker.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

A couple of things about this:

1. You have to make sure you turn off the gas by turning the metallic handle thingy (not sure what its called) to the off position when you're not using your stove/oven.
2. If after turning off the gas you still have the smell of gas then the proper thing is to call Metrogas to check all the connections for your apartment. However, a complaint to Metrogas usually ends up with gas disconnected for the whole building until they can make sure all is well. Maybe that's why your landlord doesn't want to deal with it.
3. Either way, make sure you get a licensed gasista and not someone who "knows" how to fix stuff.

PS: Point # 2 above happened with my parents in law who called Metrogas for gas leakage problems and then the whole building didn't have gas for the whole month of July. So its only based on that that I told you about that. Not sure if its a general policy or not.

That happened in our Palermo building, ane we've been unable to rent for several months.

 

[lucha54]

I'm really not into the idea of turning the gas switch off every time I'm not using the stove... is that unreasonable? I just feel like it should work ad not have any leaks/problems because we leave it open when we need to use it everyday. Of course if we're going out of town we'll switch it off... luckily we have the news from my friend with the sensitive nose that after a week away when it was off, the only thing that smells strongly is our new pine table. Just checked out water heater- looks good. (This was left on the week we were away so we have our control at least).