Last time I shared the fascinating details of how to wiggle for gas leaks. BTW---I'm starting to get some muscles in my forearms from all the wiggling.
Our current assignment is to survey the inactive services. If you decide you don't want gas service at your house any more, the gas company will remove the meter but the gas line is still there. It's just capped off. I know, I never gave it a thought before either.
Or, if a house is empty, abandoned, or ought to be condemned, it usually has inactive service. When we turn onto a street and are trying to figure out where we're supposed to go, we look first to the dumpiest location. We're usually right.
Armed with a stack of maps where each inactive service is represented by a little green square, we head off into the wilds of South Carolina. Sometimes we drive for 10 minutes just to survey one house in the country. Other times we might have several together on one street in a town.
There's a fair amount of detective work that goes into this. Some houses don't have numbers on them. Sometimes I have the map upside down.
Earlier this week I was wiggling a house and I could not find the riser (that's the tech name for the piece of pipe sticking out of the ground that would attach to a meter if one was there. Usually about 6-12" high.) I looked all around, but nothing. They'd built a deck on the back and I feared it was underneath, so I peeked below and didn't see it. Chris came and helped me, but didn't see it either. Then I noticed a tall decorative plastic thing. Yep, it was covering the riser.
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