Any Gas experts lurking about?

[UNG]

Had one a few years ago where there was a steel gas supply pipe capped off under the floor, while I was pulling some new cables in it got snagged and a little while later there was a smell of gas so got onto the emergency number and they came out and found that it was quite an old pipe that was perforated they dug a hole in the garden just outside the house to expose the pipe and did a temporary cap on the pipe they came back some weeks later and capped it in the road

 

[telectrix]

All depends on whether its still connected to mains gas at other end. It might have been cut off and just left for some reason...

Go on..... drill a hole in it!

kitchen fitters will do that anyway.

 

[Intoelectrics]

I'd be having a go see if the valve is free to start with, then if so I'd pop off the cap and see if the pipe is live or not. Worse case is it starts to leak and you have to call in the gas board as an emergency at which point I'd just claim it was already leaking and then it got knocked during works (ignorance is bliss).
But this is me and what I'd do, being a bit of a maverick and all, to anyone else my advice would be to contact the local gas authority and seek their advice.

Tin Hat On

 

[davesparks]

If the hole is opened then a gas fitter would charge around 90 quid for a job which is only 10 mins long to cap it off.

Just make sure whoever does it performs this test

A gas fitter won't touch it as that is an old supply pipe and not a part of the customers installation.