http://www.bettsace.com/blog/2009/05/overlooking-the-obvious/ Ace is your Helpful Hardware Place Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:29:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.bettsace.com/blog/2009/05/overlooking-the-obvious/comment-page-1/#comment-454 paul Mon, 11 May 2009 03:02:27 +0000 http://www.bettsace.com/blog/?p=107#comment-454 That is scary. There must have been good ventalation under that house. It amazes me that there arent more accidents than there are. That is scary. There must have been good ventalation under that house. It amazes me that there arent more accidents than there are.

]]> http://www.bettsace.com/blog/2009/05/overlooking-the-obvious/comment-page-1/#comment-452 Jeff Mon, 11 May 2009 02:53:01 +0000 http://www.bettsace.com/blog/?p=107#comment-452 Yes the simple is often overlooked. My uncle had complained that the gas bill at my grandmothers house was horribly high and attributed it to her keeping the house so hot because that was comfortable to her. After we had to put my grandmother in a nursing home, I was over at her house working on some things and had to go under the house and that is when I determined the real problem and potentially explosive problem. When her house was built in the early 1950's they had run the gas line in the ground under part of the house and the gas line had rusted completely through in some places. Literally you could see through the gas line. Fixing the gas line was relatively easy. Had it not been fixed and the foundation vents not been open allowing the excess gas to escape, the furnace most likely would have ignited the gas and blown the house up. So check the simple stuff first. Yes the simple is often overlooked. My uncle had complained that the gas bill at my grandmothers house was horribly high and attributed it to her keeping the house so hot because that was comfortable to her. After we had to put my grandmother in a nursing home, I was over at her house working on some things and had to go under the house and that is when I determined the real problem and potentially explosive problem. When her house was built in the early 1950’s they had run the gas line in the ground under part of the house and the gas line had rusted completely through in some places. Literally you could see through the gas line. Fixing the gas line was relatively easy. Had it not been fixed and the foundation vents not been open allowing the excess gas to escape, the furnace most likely would have ignited the gas and blown the house up. So check the simple stuff first.

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