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Q: how many days/hours would you put up with a gas issue in your home?
couple weeks ago, I had a guy over to fix my stove.....he never did, and I knew it then..mickey moused it a it to work for a day or two.
today...couple beer later...I got angry...called them and said.. fix the damned thing or I am moving out, type thing.
don't really want to move....but I do have options...mother-in-law's house ......3 days I told the wife ..and I will be outta here.
this short notice is not really that short..few weeks really.... this time I am serious
and I am confident that I have shut off all the gas....why me? ... assholes come here and say all is good,.
if I was at home...I could fix this..just me... but so far, I have had 4 Chinamen here telling me not to worry and they have dealt with it......pihua ..bullshit ......when a gas unit, stove, fridge, hot water is not working.....ther is a problem with gas ... spark or feed or whatever...it is dangerous and I refuse to live in a dangerous place.
10 years 1 week ago in Health & Safety - China
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Sorry to hear about your problem...I don't mess around when it comes to a gas problem...I would've been out the day I smelled gas and would not have returned until I checked to make sure it was fixed.
Is there a gas leak? If so, call the police and see if you can get them to understand that it is dangerous (for a nation that supposedly excels at science, many do not know the basics). Other than that, document the problem, move, and sue for compensation.
Let this be a lesson to everyone. THIS IS CHINA, do not trust them with gas or propane. Use a hot stove.
"Have you tried changing your D cells ." Yeah, this is probably the cause. You need to put a bunch of humongous batteries underneath the stove to operate the spark plug. And they run out fast, too. You can ask a repair main, but he'll simply say the stove is working. Naturally, he won't call your attention to the empty batteries under the stove, because this is China. Perhaps he fears you'll expect him to provide the replacement batteries? He did his job well: there was nothing he could do, so that's what he did. And then he left. And you can summon him again and again, and he'll continue to do an adequate job; nothing more, nothing less. Nothing.
Shining_brow:
No... if it was just the batteries, the gas would still run, but wouldn't spark to lite.
I had that, and since I wasn't used to a gas cooker, I didn't know about the batteries til the landlord came around :p (I was using a lighter, and bits of paper)
coineineagh:
I also had that, and as a result of the batteries being dead, the idiot-proof cooker automatically blocked the gasflow until there were new batteries.
