We went out yesterday to buy a new tree for our front yard before my family came over for Father's Day. We were gone 1.5 hours. We came home to a house FULL of gas! We had a gas leak while we were gone. The main floor smelled a little weird but I thought it was just some food I had cooked earlier. DH and my noses were all plugged up (allergies). Then DH went into our basement and about passed out! We came upstairs, turned off our gas and then opened everything up. We called a gas technician who has done work for us before and he came over. He said we were lucky. If we had been gone a couple more hours, our house most likely would have exploded and took a couple more on the block out
It turns out that a brass fitting cracked. He's never seen it happen but has heard it can. He is contacting the manufacturer. We are just lucky this happened yesterday and not in a couple weeks when we are gone for a week out of state. We wouldn't have had a house to come back to. Now we know to turn off our gas and water when we leave for more than a day (we usually turn off the water). It's just so freaky. What if's are clouding my head.
Just glad to be safe and have my home
