Post by crowsfoot on Jun 11, 2019 6:24:11 GMT
I bumped into a plumber that I used to work with (a bit younger than me) and we had a chat about the pre gas safe days.
He was one of the last plumbers before the gasfitting/plumbing split.
Anyway we had a good chat about the pre gas safe days and I remembered this type of job from the 70s :-
Everyone had a gas fire in the 70s and a most popular job was to take this gas fire out so the brickies could remove the old tiled surround and build a stone fireplace (everyone wanted one in the 70s).
A week later we would go back and re-fix it.
However, this brought a problem with it the stone on the new stone fireplace was much thicker than it was on the old tiled surround and the spigot on the gas fire was now not long enough to extend into the closure plate?
This is what we would do back then....
Out of a spare piece of closure plate we would cut an extension piece fold it around the spigot and then tape it with gas tape to the gas fire to secure it thus making an extension piece!!
I wonder what the gas safe examiner of today would have said about that?
He was one of the last plumbers before the gasfitting/plumbing split.
Anyway we had a good chat about the pre gas safe days and I remembered this type of job from the 70s :-
Everyone had a gas fire in the 70s and a most popular job was to take this gas fire out so the brickies could remove the old tiled surround and build a stone fireplace (everyone wanted one in the 70s).
A week later we would go back and re-fix it.
However, this brought a problem with it the stone on the new stone fireplace was much thicker than it was on the old tiled surround and the spigot on the gas fire was now not long enough to extend into the closure plate?
This is what we would do back then....
Out of a spare piece of closure plate we would cut an extension piece fold it around the spigot and then tape it with gas tape to the gas fire to secure it thus making an extension piece!!
I wonder what the gas safe examiner of today would have said about that?
