Gas · Gas Leak Detection
Gas leak detection in Toronto and the GTA.
A gas smell is an emergency for the utility first and a repair job for us second. Once the service is safe, we find where it is leaking and put the pipe right.
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What usually
turns out to be wrong.
First, the part that matters most: if you can smell gas right now, leave the building, do not touch switches, and call Enbridge’s emergency line from outside. They will make the service safe. What they will not do is repair your pipework, and that is the call that follows. We trace the run, test every joint with solution, and deal with what the test finds: a weeping union, a tired connector, a valve that no longer seats, or a length of pipe that has corroded through at the wall.
A smell that comes and goes
Intermittent is still a leak. A joint that weeps only when an appliance draws, or a valve that seeps when it is turned, gives an odour you notice in the morning and not by lunchtime. It still wants testing.
Smell only behind the stove or dryer
Usually the connector rather than the appliance. Pushing a machine back kinks the flex or strains the fitting, and the joint weeps where nobody can see it. We pull the machine out and test the connection properly.
Corrosion at the meter
Rust at the unions, an old corrugated flex line and a wall entry that has never been sealed are the classic combination on an older service. Corroded pipe leaks at the thread long before it looks dangerous.
Dead pipe nobody removed
Houses that have been added to carry old branches beside live ones: a capped line from a removed appliance, a run left behind when the kitchen moved. A cap is not a seal forever, so dead pipe comes out.
Soot, yellow flame or a headache in the room
Not a leak in the pipe, but a combustion problem in the appliance, and just as serious. A fireplace or water heater burning badly or venting poorly wants a carbon monoxide reading taken at the unit.
Your alarm has sounded
A gas or carbon monoxide alarm going off is not a fault in the alarm until it is proven to be. Get everybody outside, call the utility, then have the appliances and the pipework tested before the alarm is reset.
What the job includes.
Tracing the run
We follow the pipe from the meter to every appliance on it, including branches that feed nothing, so the test covers the whole system rather than one fitting.
Joint by joint testing
Every union, valve, connector and threaded joint tested with leak solution, which shows a weep you cannot smell and cannot hear.
The repair itself
Fittings remade, tired connectors replaced, old corrugated flex taken out and hard pipe threaded in, and dead branches removed rather than capped again.
A combustion check
Where the complaint is a smell rather than a leak, we look at how the appliance is burning and venting, and take a carbon monoxide reading at the unit.
Putting it back into service
Anything we shut down gets relit and checked ourselves: the water heater, the dryer, the fireplace, the range, rather than left as a list for you.
How the visit goes.
- 01The utility firstIf you can smell gas now, leave the building and call Enbridge’s emergency line from outside. Their job is making the service safe. Ours is the repair after.
- 02Where and whenOn the phone we ask where the smell is strongest, when it started, and what has changed lately: a new appliance, a machine moved, work done nearby.
- 03Test the systemMeter to appliance, joint by joint, with solution and with machines pulled out where the connector is hidden. We show you what we find rather than describe it.
- 04Repair and retestThe fitting or the pipe is put right, the section is tested again, and every appliance we isolated is relit and left burning correctly.
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Gas Leak Detection questions.
If yours isn’t here, the phone is the fastest way to have it answered, seven days a week.
Enbridge, from outside the building, not us. Get everybody out, leave the door open, don’t touch light switches, garage door openers or your phone until you are away from the house, and don’t go looking for the source. The utility will make the service safe and shut it off if it needs shutting off. The repair to your own pipework is the call that comes after that.
The specialty, on the phone.
Tell us what’s being connected and where it’s going. The line, the hookup and the lit-flame test all happen in one visit.