Latest Adventures Part 3

A workman preparing gas pipes for our apartment building.

 Progress is being made!  Workers came this week and removed the gas meters in our apartment building.  Then they replaced some gas pipes.  We have hope that new gas meters will be installed soon and that we will have gas service for our heating, hot water and cooking.  Thankfully, it has been warm, so we would not have turned our heat on yet anyway, but we will be glad to have heat available when we need it.

Two men replacing gas connections in our bathroom.

It was interesting to find out more about why the gas was turned off in our building.  We heard that it began when the apartment two floors above us was sold.  The new owners remodeled it before they moved in.  The man who updated their heating noticed that the gas service was not up to code and reported it to the authorities.  The gas company then shut off all the gas until the building could be brought up to code.

We have been without gas service for two weeks, but we much prefer this inconvenience to an explosion!