We don’t have a gas leak! Hooray!

The empty unit below us? THEY have a gas leak! Booooo!

The man with the snazzy beard and beeping tool came in and inspected our pipes – nothing. He showed me how the gas sniffer worked, and it didn’t detect an iota of gas out of place – even after pulling out the stove and checking with soap AND the sniffer, there was simply no gas leak at all.

So what was with the really strong gas smell we encountered almost every day?

The Gas Man left when Ed called me again and asked me to mention the empty unit downstairs. As soon as I said it, the building man practically jumped  up and down – there totally was a gas leak downstairs! He remembered dealing with it earlier! Building Man sprinted out our unit to catch the Gas Man and they went downstairs: sure enough, GAS LEAK! We weren’t smelling gas leaking from OUR unit, it was leaking so badly from the unit below us that it seemed as though it was coming from here.

Gas Man is fixing it right now, and Building Man will return on the 20th to fix the last three things wrong with our unit (a missing closet door, a broken exterior window and a messed up blind in the office). Sure, we left the repair list to be fixed until the week before our warranty expired – but what’s life without gas leaks and closets without doors? Nothing, that’s what.

I get my oven back. This excites me in ways you can’t imagine – I think I’ll make some banana bread.

HOORAY!