Campervan Dealer jailed over gas fault...

[B+W vanman]

Not at all.

I only have one.
But what concerns me is many have none at all!

If one of your three is in the gas locker, and you have a Hymer, it's not going to warn you of any leak there, as there is a grill on the floor of the locker.
Front and back on the living area should be enough.

Carbon monoxide is a product of (incomplete) combustion, and is lighter than air
So a detector should be positioned high up in the space it is there to monitor
Also, if you have combustion in your gas locker…………..

 

[Mr porky]

You have to make sure that the gas engineer is qualified to issue a correct safety cert for the type of equipment.
I know this because in the early days we got caught out as the guy was OK for caravans but not commercial equipment in a catering trailer, similar but not the same.

 

[Tonks]

Are vans ever checked for carbon monoxide ingress from heaters , fridges , boilers, cookers .
Odorless , colourless and extremely lethal.
I have 3 detectors spaced around my van , maybe over doing it ?

I have one in my little van. It has gone off twice, scaring the wits out of me both times. Better than never waking up, like the poor lad on the boat a couple of years ago.

 

[CazPaul]

The last big one up north was caused by an internal cannabis farm.

My experience is most serious domestic gas explosions are not 'accidents', it usually caused by people mucking about with things they should leave well alone, or not replacing very old appliances.

That said, the in-laws had an explosion at 2am one morning that blew off the cupboard doors and blew out the kitchen window and even lifted the loft hatch two floors up.
The firemen found the cause, an aerosol of fly spray had corroded in the cupboard and the gas had been lit by the pilot light of the boiler in the boiler cupboard above. The damage was impressive in the kitchen, everything scorched. New kitchen needed.

The entire road (200+ houses) had the gas cut off.
It took the gas engineers several days to reconnect all the properties as every appliance had to be bled first.
They also condemned several heaters, cookers and boilers and would not reconnect those houses!

The in-laws were not popular!

Most gas explosions in domestic properties are not caused by residents mucking about.

 

[B+W vanman]

Most gas explosions in domestic properties are not caused by residents mucking about.

Go on?

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[CazPaul]

Go on?

I read most are not the residents but faulty infrastructure

 

[Jwats]

Most motorhomes won’t have a gas safe engineer signing off their gas check sheets. To sign off a gas test/check you don’t need to be full gas safe registered. They only needed to be trained to Acops (may have changed now) the only need for a gas safe registered person is when the vehicle is been hired out. To answer the previous post about having gas lows fitted and expecting a full gas check sheet you probably won’t get one as they are doing the work before the regulator which is where your gas test paperwork comes in. They are purely swapping the bottles and fitting a fill point and you test the connecting lines and fill point differently to a gas test. Only thing that would change on the gas test sheet is expiry of the gas pigtails