My Aunt & Uncle had an old farm house in Rockland, MA. (If you try to
dig the soil you'd know where they came up with the name of the
town...)
They kept getting respiratory illnesses.
Turns out there had once been gas lamps on the walls. When they got
electricity the pipes had been capped off inside the walls. As the
pipes got old corrosion allowed some pin holes to leak gas!
Got the gas properly shut off. Respiratory illnesses solved.
Eric Russell
Mebane, NC
http://home.mebtel.net/~ejrussell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Franklin"
>I have a stone & mortar foundation in MA, built in 1926. I tore down
> the 1970s knotty pine wall and came across a 3/4" iron pipe coming
> through the foundation like a water pipe would. Except it's only a
> foot below the ground. Keyspan has no record of there being gas at
> the house but there is gas at the street. Could it be anything other
> than gas? It's capped off but there's no valve. There's also a
> disconnected iron pipe up in the joist bay with an elbow that lines
> up with this, but no holes in the subfloor.
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