have the rental companies built in some kind of waiver in these areas to absolve themselves of liability for that?

Suggestions on others? Anyone use Reliance? The Enbridge guy (who was a contractor to Enbridge) mentioned them.

Suggestions on others? Anyone use Reliance? The Enbridge guy (who was a contractor to Enbridge) mentioned them.

I'll let the resident fireman comment more fully, but for some reason, here in Canada, we seem to have far fewer natural gas/propane house-go-boom incidents per capita than in the US&A.

I'll let the resident fireman comment more fully, but for some reason, here in Canada, we seem to have far fewer natural gas/propane house-go-boom incidents per capita than in the US&A.

Dude is working on it now. The needle/relief valve had a leak so he replaced it and while going over it after that he found a leak around the meter display. He is replacing that now. He also said, before the second leak was found, that they would come back later to adjust the meter. It had shifted a bit over time and was out of spec. I believe he is now putting it in spec since he had to remove the whole meter.

I need no convincing on reasons to leave Toronto.

I do actually have pants on :)

Hang in there and keep your pants on. Wouldn't want the MILF to see shrinkage;)

Now if your were up north here you could go out and chop some firewood for your woodstove and come across as a hero to your family. Another reason to add to the litany of ones to leave Toronto. Plus up here the service guys aren't as busy and you would be fixed by now. Another reason to leave Toronto. I could go on for hours. :p

I called back as suggested. Nothing. I also gave them the full updates on what Enbridge says needs to be done to turn gas on:

1. find leak
2. Hot water tank exhaust (rental from Direct Energy). I did not notice until dude wiggled it that one of the joints was loose. It is pre2008 (2004) so it is ABS. He says it needs to be replaced. Obviously, it needs to be fixed.
3. External exhaust, 11 years old, is wrong. Needs fixing.

it even happened during a training exercise a few years ago:

(youtube clip)

Oil tank ruptures don't go boom. :)

I get the same with a tank. Kitchen takes at least 30 seconds to get hot water.

Your loss. NG is exceptionally safe. And when one considers the liklihood of having an oil tank rupture, even safer than oil.

the only irritant is when i'm cooking in the kitchen & just want a quick splash of hot water to wash my hands .. you've can't just trickle the hot water, you have to have enough stream to "turn on" the heating plus you've got to wait 15-20 seconds for the water to heat

This is why I stay with heating oil....

Do you have a forced air furnace, or a hot water boiler for heating?
If you have a boiler you can use an indirect-fired DHW tank. Your boiler will heat the DHW instead of having another fuel-fired hot water tank. Recovery rates on indirect-fired tanks is much faster than conventional tanks, so you can actually downsize the tank if your water demands aren't too high.

I called back as suggested. Nothing. I also gave them the full updates on what Enbridge says needs to be done to turn gas on:

1. find leak
2. Hot water tank exhaust (rental from Direct Energy). I did not notice until dude wiggled it that one of the joints was loose. It is pre2008 (2004) so it is ABS. He says it needs to be replaced. Obviously, it needs to be fixed.
3. External exhaust, 11 years old, is wrong. Needs fixing.

DE says the exhaust for the hot water is not their problem. However if I had them replace the tank they would have to do so to meet code. Useless person on phone, who actually said they did not even know what a hot water tank looks like, would not budge on it.

So I have to wait until morning to see if the furnace guy can do the hot water exhaust. All of these need correcting to get the gas on.

Very angry right now.