UPDATE--I don't know what to do but I am pissed as HELL
Last edited Mon Sep 30, 2013, 03:08 PM - Edit history (1)
(sorry if that word offended anyone one BUT here I am helping my wife get ourselves set up and she's call to get utilities shut off at the old place. She asked the gas company why the furnace had been red tagged and find out the control valve was leaking.
This former butthead of a landlord's Bevis-like handy man just took the red tag off and said there is nothing wrong with it you can use it.
My wife and I where thinking it was an issue that the furnace was too small to heat the whole house but was only meant for the first floor apartment. (That was an issue when the apartment was first converted to gas. The other two apartments above us had electric heat.)
IF that leak is part of the reason why my wife is sick like she is I want to punch the jerk.
(I needed to mostly vent. BUT if anyone has anything to say or anything please feel free.)
NEW INFO:
My wife called Columbia gas to report it. We are concerned with the neighbors left on the other floors. My wife was told that her best bet would be to call the furnace manufacturer and find out about that specific design. But there are other residence in that home AND even though those floors they live on are heated by electric heat wouldn't living under a furnace that has a leak be an issue? We told them that we turned on the furnace a few weeks earlier because of chilly nights and it worked. No lighting the furnace was needed.
= new reply since forum marked as read
...it is illegal to remove the red tag without proper procedures and verification that the danger has been addressed.
As they say: Don't get mad, get even. If the landlord and his handyman get into legal hot water, that is better than punching either one of them, which would just get YOU in legal hot water. 
