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What if my apartment randomly explodes?

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They're phasing gas out in Australia now. It's not allowed to be installed in any new homes and they'll start systematically converting older homes sometime soon. Gas was never all that common in my state anyway although I have no idea why, most homes here are electric only, it's going to be a big job in the eastern states though.

They're promoting the public health and safety dangers of gas but it's also part of our environmental plans for the future, we're slowly phasing out fossil fuel mining too. I only found out the other day, we're aw bigger fossil fuel supplier than the United Arab Emirates.
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I'm surprised that your government is phasing out gas for the entire nation. Here in the USA, some cities have banned gas stoves and heating in new construction. The infrastructure to plumb and maintain gas lines all over the place is much more expensive than running electric power lines everywhere.
 
If anything, I'd look to how such considerations may trend in accordance with how the insurance industry approaches such issues. I know in the past they seemed very accommodating over gas appliances, despite the horrendous nature of such explosions. But then gas is regulated on a level largely considered to be successful as well.

Of course there are other perils to consider, as those living in Florida can expound upon in exasperation.

And that if gas exposures were so "randomly exploding", they would be assessed in a much more rigid manner in terms of insurance requirements and pricing as well as regulatory concerns. That basic concepts like frequency and severity are in fact perpetually critical to all parties concerned.

On the other hand, I was also acutely aware as an underwriter how statistically dangerous the use of a wood stove was, and how so many insurers had very strict- even prohibitive rules warranting this particular exposure. Particularly in areas with much lower response time for fire departments and higher combustion loads of the area in general.

Where one lives will always have a great deal to do with what you pay and how easily or not you can obtain insurance. And quite relative to just how "randomly" such a catastrophic loss may actually be.
 
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If you live in MN, make sure they didn't run the gas pipe thru the sewer pipe. That's a major huge explosion in the dead of winter. Or a easy covered insurance claim when you need to update your rental property even if your renters go up in flames. I moved out of MN as fast as l could.
 
Misty Avich said:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...d-after-gas-explosion-destroys-edinburgh-home
While my deepest sympathies go out to those people who were affected by the explosion, it's also now triggered off anxiety that it might happen to me or to people I love. I didn't know homes could just randomly explode like that without the help of a bomb (which wasn't the case here). I thought these days homes were equipped with trip switches and other technology like that that can isolate any potential hazards or risks of fire or explosions before they happen.

I wish I knew what caused this man's home to explode like that.
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Yes well that could be just a autistic fear for you.
In the past I thought terrorists would break into my house and behead and murder me and I was terrified after seeing the beheading.
I do not think my house will explode however I have had fears of invaders, used to check each room and also I do sometimes check to make sure it will not burn down.
Autistics can get random fears.
You know your brain can explode too ok I probably should not tell this but I read about it online and I thought maybe it could happen to me because I was that stressed at the time.
 
Misty Avich said:
Sometimes I laugh at my own anxieties. :sweatsmile:

But I've always had this habit where if something bad has happened in the news I immediately start worrying that it's going to happen to me.
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It is ok, I have been like that in the past too.
There is nothing wrong with it, people can laugh at autistic behaviour but it can be real to us.
 
Neonatal RRT said:
Perhaps for some degree of "peace of mind": If you have gas connections within the home or outside the home, take a little spray bottle with a mix of dish soap and water, spray it on the connections. No bubbles = no leak. If there are bubbles, get a wrench and tighten up the connection yourself, or contact your gas provider and have a technician tighten them up for you.
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In the UK there's no problems spraying dish soap to detect leaks. You can get purpose made spray in a can for this at your local DIY store.

I'm not trying to be pedantic, but I feel I should point out that in the UK at least if you take a wrench to your gas pipes/mains you will be breaking the law! Even if you do a great job you can land yourself in prison. It's illegal to try to conduct repairs unless you are fully trained and licensed on the Gas Safe register.

Apart from that, even if it is legal in your part of the world, a worn pipe union can go from a small issue to a full blown emergency if the thing breaks when just nipping the joint up with a wrench. I know this from experience with water pipes, you see a compression joint seeping water, you tighten it and just at the point you think you've got it, POP!!! and water is spraying everywhere. That's bad enough, but a poisonous gas filling the house rapidly is a different kettle of fish.

But spray detecting leaks is fine, and if you find one, call a Gas Safe engineer or equivalent professional in your area.
 
Mary Terry said:
I'm surprised that your government is phasing out gas for the entire nation.
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We don't produce any oil but we do dig up a lot of coal and gas. We're mostly self sufficient on renewable energy already and the original plan was to phase out coal and gas mining by 2040.

That's been knocked back by 10 years now because there's a few other countries that rely on our gas and coal, such as Japan and the Philipines. There's enough security problems in that region already, if we damage their economies by cutting their coal and gas we'll have a lot more trouble in the region.
 
Misty Avich said:
Sometimes I laugh at my own anxieties. :sweatsmile:

But I've always had this habit where if something bad has happened in the news I immediately start worrying that it's going to happen to me.
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I understand. It's not really at all that I'm laughing at your fear but more how it was worded in the title and reading that before I read the explanation.
 
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