Don’t blame the fitter mate. Maybe the customer who phoned it in turned off the wrong meter in the first place. You’d be surprised how many people in flats who don’t know which meter is theirs. Once the wrong one’s been turned off, if that person isn’t in, then it can’t simply be switched back on. There could be a multitude of reasons for this. Happens all the time.
Wasn't the customer mate who turned it off. Cadent were called to a smell of gas from another flat. The tenants of the flat I attended were in and explained that the cadent engineer came into their flat, did a sweep test and confirmed there were no traces. Left them with no paperwork but turned off and capped their meter 🤷🏽♂️
why the hell would you turst what the customer says and not verify thats about as smart as working on the electrics after the customer told you they switched off the breaker
If you yourself were a gas engineer then you would know what you're saying is incorrect. We have a duty to trace and cap the correct one. Failing to do so means we have left a live leak
The requirements that Cadent engineers are required to go through are far more stringent than any of us has engineers would typically think! To have a simple mistake like this occurring far too often is the issue and the very fact that cadent will not be prosecuted the same as an independent engineer would IS THE ISSUE!!
Yes typical, gone is the times when it was British Gas 40 years ago, they just replaced the gas mains for smaller pipe down the road now it's poor flow rate 😡 not happy whatsoever
If the engineer had to test the meters to find the leak and the customer was then not in he would be unable to turn them back on safely. That’s probably the situation there and a card would have been left letting them know
Tenants of the flat were in when cadent attended as the engineer apparently did a sweep test in their flat, found no traces, left them with no paperwork but turned off and capped their meter 🤷🏽♂️
@@cputilitysolutions strange, normally the guy that does the sweep test is a first responder, his job is to detect gas and evacuate if required then call in a team to complete the repair if leak is found on a cadent asset (pipe before gas tap). If the leak was found on internal copper pipes (after the meter) the repair is not their responsibility and they would make safe, cap the supply at the tap then leave at which point the home owner needs to get their internal gas pipes repaired for themselves. Not good that the wrong supply was turned off though! That would mean the leak was still live after they left :/
This post is stupid. So if you made a mistake does that mean all independent engineers are useless. You can't single out 1 engineer and blame the whole company.
Meters should be indelibly marked on top when fitted to avoid mistakes.... as you know full well once switched off it carn’t go back on without access to the premises and will have to be capped... 👍
So do your checks, fill in the paperwork, and get it back on. That's what you are there for. Yes ive had the same situation, pensioner's, cold winter nights and all that.
@@cputilitysolutions idk if its universal i just know if i called BG and told them the magic words OFF SUPPLY they have to move heaven and earth before the news reports i died in my cold flat miht be different for gas leaks idk maybe a different set of rules come into force when its a condemed supply even if the Disconnect was a mistake
Some of there guys are propa moody. Had one moan like crazy cus I called them out on a Sunday afternoon and his roast dinner was on the table. I told the customer exactly what would be said and he said everything word for word. The customer started to laugh at him. He tried to blag low pressure cus he assumed I didn't know the new working pressure regs. Think he wanted to get back to his dinner🐓
@@cputilitysolutionsxactly.so he rather tuck into his roast then praise a person who did the right thing which could have led to a potential gas explosion
Went out for a callout co leak alarm was faulty sgn attended propert capped meter of and took test nipple nut with him Lucky i bought some of ebay few years ago
A cadent employee capped a meter because he couldn’t confirm there wasn’t any leak because the sun was shining in his u gauge There was no leak, the lady had no gas for 2 days
Don’t blame the fitter mate. Maybe the customer who phoned it in turned off the wrong meter in the first place. You’d be surprised how many people in flats who don’t know which meter is theirs. Once the wrong one’s been turned off, if that person isn’t in, then it can’t simply be switched back on.
There could be a multitude of reasons for this.
Happens all the time.
Wasn't the customer mate who turned it off. Cadent were called to a smell of gas from another flat. The tenants of the flat I attended were in and explained that the cadent engineer came into their flat, did a sweep test and confirmed there were no traces. Left them with no paperwork but turned off and capped their meter 🤷🏽♂️
why the hell would you turst what the customer says and not verify
thats about as smart as working on the electrics after the customer told you they switched off the breaker
@@Sarge92metre is capped tenants wouldn’t be able to do that ….
If you yourself were a gas engineer then you would know what you're saying is incorrect. We have a duty to trace and cap the correct one. Failing to do so means we have left a live leak
Don't tar all Cadent engineers with the same brush. There's sh*te engineers everywhere including in big organisations and sole traders
I know mate, unfortunately it's the bad eggs which draw the negative attention and give the company a bad name
The requirements that Cadent engineers are required to go through are far more stringent than any of us has engineers would typically think! To have a simple mistake like this occurring far too often is the issue and the very fact that cadent will not be prosecuted the same as an independent engineer would IS THE ISSUE!!
I called them out to a faulty governor once and the fitter put it the wrong way round on a semi con box 😂😂😂😂😂
You couldn't make it up 🤣🤦🏾♂️
Why did the tenant or landlord wait a week? Oh I know…greed
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We have same issues with Leclead gas here in the states. Same with Ameran ELECTRIC
Yes typical, gone is the times when it was British Gas 40 years ago, they just replaced the gas mains for smaller pipe down the road now it's poor flow rate 😡 not happy whatsoever
Always do a burns test to check, don’t go by serial numbers as these can be wrong
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My costumer's meter was capped of by cadent saying they had 7 mbar drop, i went there did tightness test 3 times 0 drop! Sausages 😏
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The joys of working for the gas emergency services bruh
Your right
Iv just had one where the smart meter display hasn’t worked it was installed in 2018,Scottish power have been Estimating since that time
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Madness!
Cadent don’t fit smart meters, never have, so nothing to do with them. Scottish Powers’ issue.
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Yer I know ,Was on about the state of the industry
Had one similar recently the customer contacted cadent put in complaint for compensation
Hope they got their compensation!
@@cputilitysolutions best for them to put in a full complaint mate worth a try I know my client got something out of them
If the engineer had to test the meters to find the leak and the customer was then not in he would be unable to turn them back on safely. That’s probably the situation there and a card would have been left letting them know
Tenants of the flat were in when cadent attended as the engineer apparently did a sweep test in their flat, found no traces, left them with no paperwork but turned off and capped their meter 🤷🏽♂️
@@cputilitysolutions strange, normally the guy that does the sweep test is a first responder, his job is to detect gas and evacuate if required then call in a team to complete the repair if leak is found on a cadent asset (pipe before gas tap). If the leak was found on internal copper pipes (after the meter) the repair is not their responsibility and they would make safe, cap the supply at the tap then leave at which point the home owner needs to get their internal gas pipes repaired for themselves. Not good that the wrong supply was turned off though! That would mean the leak was still live after they left :/
This post is stupid. So if you made a mistake does that mean all independent engineers are useless. You can't single out 1 engineer and blame the whole company.
Thanks for commenting 👍🏽
@@cputilitysolutionsThink he works for Cadent
@@wackypeace1135 🤣
They fitted my meter the wrong way round. .......oddly my gas bill went down.
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No heat ! Crikes...just walk outside 😅
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They will Cap off anything regardless if there’s actually a pressure drop or not.
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Meters should be indelibly marked on top when fitted to avoid mistakes.... as you know full well once switched off it carn’t go back on without access to the premises and will have to be capped... 👍
Correct, but tenants were in, cadent engineer attended their flat, confirmed no traces and still capped them off
Yeh your right if that was we’d be roddor also they’ve left the leak for a week aswell 😂
Exactly!
That's mad, a week 😮
Yup!
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So do your checks, fill in the paperwork, and get it back on. That's what you are there for.
Yes ive had the same situation, pensioner's, cold winter nights and all that.
I had the exact same thing
Madness mate
wtf isnt there laws in place that says if your off supply they have to be there same day?
You'd think so
@@cputilitysolutions idk if its universal i just know if i called BG and told them the magic words OFF SUPPLY they have to move heaven and earth before the news reports i died in my cold flat
miht be different for gas leaks idk maybe a different set of rules come into force when its a condemed supply even if the Disconnect was a mistake
They didnt even do s drop test. And hsve left site with a gas escape
Riddor them 😂
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Some of there guys are propa moody. Had one moan like crazy cus I called them out on a Sunday afternoon and his roast dinner was on the table. I told the customer exactly what would be said and he said everything word for word. The customer started to laugh at him. He tried to blag low pressure cus he assumed I didn't know the new working pressure regs. Think he wanted to get back to his dinner🐓
What a clown!
@@cputilitysolutionsxactly.so he rather tuck into his roast then praise a person who did the right thing which could have led to a potential gas explosion
@@enlighten274 it's laughable!
Thats right add some spice to cadent unless c@#ts
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I've had similar problems absolute joke
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Went out for a callout co leak alarm was faulty sgn attended propert capped meter of and took test nipple nut with him
Lucky i bought some of ebay few years ago
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So the actual people who've been left with a gas leak could have potentially been left in an unsafe situation, wtaf. 🤷🏾♂️
Yup!
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A cadent employee capped a meter because he couldn’t confirm there wasn’t any leak because the sun was shining in his u gauge
There was no leak, the lady had no gas for 2 days
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Just like British Gas
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Why did you
Take one week to turn up 😊
Because that's when I was informed of the job
Proper Tatti workers 🤦🏻♂️
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I hoped you marked Id meter reference. So no more future fuck ups.
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