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<blockquote data-quote="Rruuff Day" data-source="post: 331369" data-attributes="member: 2217"><p>We've had a few houses that left their lots here in Alberta. I was the construction site inspector on an underground replacement project in the 80's when the contractor hit a steel gas line digging with the backhoe. Didn't rupture it. Basically only scuffed off the plastic coating. He said we'll just wrap it with tape and carry on. Yeah right... I called the gas company and they came out and had a look. They said it looked ok but they would couple a new section in anyway. Two months later the post office blew up at midnight and the brick chimney was the only thing left half standing. It embedded a window frame into the side of a house 50 feet away. The gas company investigated and the main they fixed had a coupler connection just outside of my excavation they weren't aware of and when we hooked the line two month earlier, it had pulled the pipe some at the coupler and was leaking slowly. The community ground is all sand and the gas chased the service line to the post office. The furnace cut in at midnight and that was all she wrote. Supposedly the postman had been smelling gas for a couple days but didn't report it.I was glad I was on site and did the right thing as we'd likely still be in court if I'd just let him rewrap it. Due diligence does have it's rewards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rruuff Day, post: 331369, member: 2217"] We've had a few houses that left their lots here in Alberta. I was the construction site inspector on an underground replacement project in the 80's when the contractor hit a steel gas line digging with the backhoe. Didn't rupture it. Basically only scuffed off the plastic coating. He said we'll just wrap it with tape and carry on. Yeah right... I called the gas company and they came out and had a look. They said it looked ok but they would couple a new section in anyway. Two months later the post office blew up at midnight and the brick chimney was the only thing left half standing. It embedded a window frame into the side of a house 50 feet away. The gas company investigated and the main they fixed had a coupler connection just outside of my excavation they weren't aware of and when we hooked the line two month earlier, it had pulled the pipe some at the coupler and was leaking slowly. The community ground is all sand and the gas chased the service line to the post office. The furnace cut in at midnight and that was all she wrote. Supposedly the postman had been smelling gas for a couple days but didn't report it.I was glad I was on site and did the right thing as we'd likely still be in court if I'd just let him rewrap it. Due diligence does have it's rewards. [/QUOTE]
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