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Faunsdale, AL | Good that you discovered the leak. Being in a room with a furnace could have easily accumulated enough to blow up.
Natural gas is lighter than air so it tends to dissipate much better than LP. LP settles into depressions and is much easier to reach an explosive concentration from a relatively small leak.
Found much the same thing when my niece moved into a house a couple years ago. Previous owner had warned that the LP tank had a leak around the gauge, so we changed it out and turned on the gas. It wouldn’t stop flowing! You could hear it going through the regulator. Found a copper line touching a brick pier that had just corroded into powder. I’m sure the leak was worse than when the previous owner had last had gas in the tank the winter before, but I’m pretty sure the little leak around the gauge on the tank wasn’t why he had been using large quantities of gas.
Edited by ccjersey 3/24/2026 09:32
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Found the gas leak
