Gas Leak Detector & Detecting Gas Leaks In Home

Be smart with your natural gas appliances. Place a natural gas alarm in every room where gas appliances exist.
Install a battery-powered natural gas alarm up to 12 inches from the ceiling.
Your natural gas alarms feature a test button. Remember to test alarms weekly.
Replace alarms when they have reached their end of service life.
If an alarm sounds, evacuate immediately and then call 9-1-1.

You see yellow or orange flames on gas appliances (such as stoves) instead of a bright blue one.
You notice increased condensation inside of windows.
You struggle with the pilot light repeatedly going out with your boiler or if it just fails to light in general.
You spot sooty marks on or around your natural gas appliances.
You or anyone in your home is feeling unwell. Symptoms of natural gas exposure can include headaches, dizziness, nausea, breathlessness, collapse and loss of consciousness.
You smell the scent of sulfur in your home (typically described as a rotten egg smell).
You realize damage has been caused to the gas line connection and hear hissing or whistling sounds.
The plants in your home suddenly die.

On average, local fire departments will respond to 340 natural gas or LP-gas leaks daily.
It has been estimated that it will take 230 years to replace every pipe in the US.
An estimated 4,200 home fires will be linked to natural gas ignition annually.
A natural gas explosion will happen on average every 11 days.
Natural gas is in fact odorless. This makes gas leaks particularly dangerous. Utility companies will add mercaptan to the resource in order to create the smell of rotten eggs, making a leak easier to detect.
Approximately 66 million households use natural gas to keep homes running.