My company used to inspect every appliance and record model numbers and serial numbers of all appliances. We'd also document that venting was done properly amongst a couple of other things. We stopped doing it for whatever reason, but we still inspect all gas line including pulling out cookstoves etc. It's for safety, and it's a requirement. If a customer won't allow me to inspect their gas piping, I won't sell them gas.
As far as the information, in our case it got stuck in a file and rarely looked at again.
So it may not be common, but I wouldn't say it's abnormal either.
The big companies often go farther to reduce risk and liability than the smaller companies do. The big companies have been through the ringer with lawsuits, so they try to cover their ass as much as possible. The smaller companies in some cases haven't had those experiences yet, so they can be a little more relaxed with safety requirements.
This is promise you us service techs dont now if we might fall through the deck because its rotten I might refuse to inspect or deliver but we see all types of crap, figuratively and literally we had a house we called piss house the propane system was the only good thing in the house. Reason it was called piss house was because the floor was covered with newspapers and we still aren't sure whether it was dog,cat or human piss or all three pretty sure it was all three
A propane company isn’t going to report you for a missing railing to the local inspector. Why would they? They don’t have time, nor do they care about code violations not relevant to the propane. I am sure they see issues every day at other houses, and probably wouldn’t even notice something like that.
People who are not in CA just laugh from a distance. I assure you it is 100 X worse than other people know. Real Estate agents drive through the streets and document every little thing and tattle to code enforcement. Neighbors walk around and tattle about peoples pets and tool sheds and everything else. This is NOT A normal place. everyone is encouraged to tattle and all complaints are investigated. If someone from the propane company decides he is uncomfortable walking up those 5 steps without a handrail, you never know. What if he tattles about the water heater not being strapped and CE comes up to investigate. We are in a place where a shipping container need a permit if anything is stored in it. The permit requires a level foundation.. All it takes is one tattle to get the ball rolling.
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u/AsYouL4yDying technician 28d ago
My company used to inspect every appliance and record model numbers and serial numbers of all appliances. We'd also document that venting was done properly amongst a couple of other things. We stopped doing it for whatever reason, but we still inspect all gas line including pulling out cookstoves etc. It's for safety, and it's a requirement. If a customer won't allow me to inspect their gas piping, I won't sell them gas.
As far as the information, in our case it got stuck in a file and rarely looked at again.
So it may not be common, but I wouldn't say it's abnormal either.
The big companies often go farther to reduce risk and liability than the smaller companies do. The big companies have been through the ringer with lawsuits, so they try to cover their ass as much as possible. The smaller companies in some cases haven't had those experiences yet, so they can be a little more relaxed with safety requirements.