The Incorrectly Fitted Internal Pipe Work.
The Gas Meter Box Incorrectly Fitted Outside.
My complaint that the meter was fitted in the wrong position was
not vindictive or malicious. I wanted the meter fitted between the
window and the soil pipe because at a later date this window may
be removed and a door fitted. The door way will extend to the
ground. This meter as fitted incorrectly will have to be moved to
the left about 12 inches,(300 MM ), to now allow this door to be
fitted.
Karl Shipp called at my house before the old gas main was exposed
stating to me and my neighbour Pat that the pipe to be exposed was
an old water pipe, his engineers where going to run a plastic
gas pipe through the old water pipe. It can clearly be seen that
in the picture below the new fitted yellow gas pipe to my house
goes in the side of this large metal pipe.
This poses the question, is this just a large high pressure gas
mains pipe? Obviously very old, situated 13 feet from the front of
my house, how old? The houses were built in 1927, was this gas
main fitted then? or before?
The Old Gas Main Running Through My Front Garden.
This web page was created by hand coding in open source programs,
(free programs), in HTML 4.0. The word processor used as a text
editor is Kate. The frames below where created in NVG HTML editor
and pasted in to Kate, image manipulation was in windows
photoshop, I could have used the Gimp, this is free.
The picture on the left below is of the Author relaxed in reasonable
dress code. The picture on the right is of me in my workshop, in my
house in my winter dress. The temperature in my workshop in the winter
is always 13C, ( 57F, the rest of the house is colder. If I have
company, I turn the heating up.
My girlfriend Sarah that I love very much that could have been
gassed or blown to bits. As of Monday 25Th of August my girlfriend
has asked me to remove the picture of her that was originally in
the centre of my two pictures below: and she has asked me to
change her name, her name as above has been changed to Sarah.
The old work jacket is thermal, there are 3 layers of clothes
below this including thermal underwear, the silly hat stops the
heat escaping from my head saving body fuel waste. The fingerless
gloves, so I can type and still have warm hands. The computer
behind me is one of 4 computers that I use. I have very few colds,
and no flu for years. This activity saves about 250 pounds GBP
per year in winter heating bills.
I run 4 computers in this workshop: with 3 operating systems, the
one behind me is running linux ubuntu 6-06. Two of the computers
run windows operating systems. The other computer runs DOS 6.22
and my old dos electronics CAD programs. I still occasionally use
the 1984 Smart ascii text word processor on the DOS machine:
that could have been used to create this site.
People that see me in my garden, or meet me at my gate probably
think that I am mad or eccentric: the jury is still out on this
one.
Anthony Johns Scientist.
05-05-08
The Battle Is Not Over.
Are Corgi And The HSE, Too Cosy With National Grid?
One Of The Biggest Corporates In The U.K.
I had e-mailed Corgi about this matter on the 4Th March 2008.
The e-mail and the reply e-mail is pasted below.
From: Anthony Johns
To: enquiries@trustcorgi.com
Subject: Gas Safety
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:55:07 +0000
Dear Sirs, I have published an article here,
http://www.exact-psychology.com/hse-2008.htm
that is a gas safety issue that I hope to get
in to legislation.
Thanks, I am Anthony Johns.
From: Customer Service Enquiries
To: Anthony Johns
Subject: Your recent email to CORGI
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:59:31 -0000
Thank you for contacting CORGI.
Please accept this e-mail as an acknowledgement confirming receipt of
your e-mail.
We will deal with your request as soon as possible and respond
accordingly.
Regards
CORGI Customer Services
As of the 3Rd day of May 2008, I have not received a reply. Not even a,'
thank you' , from Corgi for bringing this serious gas safety issue to
their attention.
Pasted below is the response from Wendy Beeston, regards the original
letter that I sent to Mr. Geoffrey Podger, HSE CEO, this is the first
letter that I sent to the HSE found at the top of this page.
Pasted below is the quick HSE response from Mr. Geoffrey Baker HSE
operations manager. I was annoyed at the last paragraph, that
intimated to me: that I could endanger life.
Note. As stated earlier, to the 3Rd day of May 2008,
there has been no response from Corgi. I was not happy with the
HSE response so I wrote to Geoffrey Baker, the letter is pasted
below.
Copyright (C) ALL
RIGHTS RESERVED.
A.W.JOHNS,
34 BISHOPS HILL, RECORDED DELIVERY.
IPSWICH,
SUFFOLK, DW 1407 0294 5GB
IP38EN.
DATED 19 03 2008
REF \08\0831.TXT
Your Ref CE-71-2008
To,
Mr. Geoffrey Baker,
Operations Manager,
HSE,
Priestly House,
Priestly Road,
Basingstoke,
RG24 9NW
Dear Mr. Baker,
thank you for your letter received yesterday,
I feel that HSE CEO office Re: my letter to Mr. Geoffrey Podger,
have not made you aware of the internet page were all the details
of my complaint are published.
http://www.exact-psychology.com/hse-2008.htm
When you read the page you will see that flux from copper pipe
work that falls on the zinc plated pipe, this corrodes the pipe.
As also stated, The workmen from national grid stated this was
a very common problem: they had attended many such incidents.
I e-mailed details to Corgi before writing to you, I am waiting
for a response. Please make your HQ section aware of my
internet publication: and I hope that their subsequent
investigation will create suitable legislation.
You will read on the internet page that I installed my central
heating system before legislation required all gas work to be
carried out by Corgi registered plumbers. However, before the
system was fired up I called in a Corgi registered plumber to
check gas pressure readings: and certify the system.
I always fully comply with the laws of this country, and you
can be rest assured that I will never do any gas work: and I
always act in such a way to never endanger life.
I thank you again: for your, as always, prompt response in this
matter.
I am,
Yours Sincerely,
Tony Johns.
I had another issue with a corporate that was endangering life, I
was also still not happy with the HSE response. I believe that my
methods to save life are better than the HSE's method which is to
get on site to appraise a situation where a person has died by
neglect: and then create legislation. Not only does my method save
valuable life, it is probably far cheaper than an HSE death
investigation. So, I wrote to Geoffrey Baker Again. I was also
still writing to National Grid, my dealings with National Grid are
published further down this page covering a lie from a Network
Operations Manager and a poor response from the National Grid
CEO.
Also too,
geoff.baker@hse.gsi.gov.uk
Copyright (C) ALL
RIGHTS RESERVED.
A.W.JOHNS,
34 BISHOPS HILL,
IPSWICH,
SUFFOLK,
IP38EN.
DATED 19 04 2008.
REF \08\0842.TXT
Your Ref CE-71-2008
To,
Mr. Geoffrey Baker,
Operations Manager,
HSE,
Priestly House,
Priestly Road,
Basingstoke,
RG24 9NW.
Dear Mr. Baker.
Just to briefly outline my HSE history: and that which currently
I am trying to achieve.
Can you please respond to this letter by letter post for my
HSE file. This letter is also being sent to you by letter post,
However, there are internet links that are live in the e-mail
copy.
Between 1993 and 2000 I instigated about 30 HSE visits to IBC
controlled Ipswich Swimming pools. On most occasions faults
were found, remedies applied, including HSE supervised safety
committee meetings with IBC officials to avoid a further death
of a person in Ipswichswimmingpools. In conversation with a
solicitor that was aware of the situation, he stated: that I
had probably avoided a further death at the pools.
I attack viciously corporates that endanger life, re: my recent
internet attack on National Grid, because they were enacting
processes that endangered life. The main problem as you are
aware was a gas meter steel flexible pipe erosion problem on
gas meters that is common, and I felt there was feedback from
N.G. field engineers to hierarchical management about this
problem: and this as usual fell on deaf ears.
I and you have contacted Corgi about this matter, and you
have passed on information to HSE HQ section for further
assessment to possibly enact legislation. The issues are that
N.G. probably replace a two or three million meters a year
and need to replace rubber seals every time, at this volume
of meter replacement the seals probably cost one pence each.
The steel flexible pipe needs checking and tick boxes on
paperwork need to be marked. I feel that your people need to
get out in the field with these gas meter replacement and gas
leak repair people to do a proper assessment, and gain
feedback of this situation.
If new legislation is introduced because of my findings, I
would like the knowledge of this, and I would appreciate a
contact at your HQ who deals with gas legislation. N.G. were
the second corporate I have attacked on the internet to avoid
death, there is always retaliation, lies, and poor response.
http://www.exact-psychology.com/hse-2008.htm
THE WAY FORWARD.
I currently have a safety issue with Cephas Care Ipswich.
http://www.cephas-community-care.co.uk/contact_us.htm
My current publication including this letter is here -
3. http://www.ipswichswimmingpools.com/cephas.htm
It is to stressful fighting corporates with their retaliatory
methods, an inaccuracy in a letter, or e-mail, or incorrect
analyses of corporate response, can invite litigation to get
sites shut down or bankruptcy.
So with this publication, I am introducing the general public
to the methods, and the pitfalls, as to how to mount an attack
on such a corporate to address safety problems: to avoid
death by unsafe practise.
The issues here were that disabled people, and people with
learning difficulties that had support workers call to see them
were not fully appraised by Cephas with suitable advance paper
rota times. The clients did not know when support workers were
calling: this made the mobile people housebound, waiting for
support workers to arrive. But the alarming aspect was that
not knowing who would call and when, this alarmed these disabled
people because they did not know who was calling to confirm
identity before letting a person in to their homes.
Cephas and such care organisations must have a risk assessment
plan for care, however whether this extends to infinite detail
domiciliary care, this I have no knowledge for, however, I
doubt this. The needs of clients are very varied, but from what
I have seen, the support workers vary from very conscientious,
to not a clue, the not a clue brigade generally just take
clients out for joy rides, shopping, or to the coast nearby.
The conscientious handle money, payment of bills, do housework,
cooking, hygiene, personal and otherwise, and take great strides
to enhance and prolong the lives of the people in their care.
Of course this is mixed with trips out. I feel that such
organisations as Cephas need to train their support workers
before they go in to the field, or perhaps local colleges can
arrange four to twelve weekly courses of four hour sessions to
achieve the knowledge and project a standard with an
examination pass before these people are allowed to work in
this occupation.
Please take any steps that you can to bring this about: if you
think that this is the way forward.
If there is an HSE Risk assessment booklet covering this aspect
of care, I would appreciate a copy: free of charge, if possible?
I am,
Yours sincerely,
Anthony Johns.
Back To National Grid.
I sent a recorded delivery letter to Ian Gearing, Corporate
Responsibility Manager, at National Grid P.L.C. On March 19Th 2008.
The letter is appended below. I pasted the previous communication
to this letter that I had sent to Karl Ship on the 28Th February. You
would have already read this. Also, On the 28Th February I had pasted
a copy of the e-mail in to a box on National Grids national web site.
They had obviously received this on the 28Th: and had not replied.
Copyright (C) ALL
RIGHTS RESERVED.
A.W.JOHNS,
34 BISHOPS HILL, RECORDED DELIVERY
IPSWICH,
SUFFOLK, DW 1407 0287 0GB
IP38EN.
DATED 19 03 2008
REF \08\0830.TXT
To,
Ian Gearing,
Corporate Responsibility Manager,
National Grid PLC,
1-3 Strand,
London,
WC2N 5EH.
Dear Sir, I used your complaint form on your site, I believe, on
the day that I e-mailed directly one of your officers about a
serious gas safety matter. I also wrote to Karl Ship by letter
post. I have received no reply communications about this matter.
The letter post letter is pasted below, and this letter is
published as a serious public safety issue on one of my
internet sites, the URL for the site is pasted below first.
http://www.exact-psychology.com/hse-2008.htm
Will you please respond by letter post making me aware as to what
is being done, or going to be done regards: this serious gas
safety issue, and the moving of the gas meter box on the side
of the house: and the moving of internal pipe work.
I thank you,
I am,
Yours Sincerely,
Tony Johns.
I was very busy, so I cobbled together the letter below to Karl
Ship and sent it recorded delivery to the local National Grid
Ipswich office at 9 Wharfdale Road Ipswich. Suffolk IP1 4JP.
Sent Recorded delivery,
28 02 08 DW 1407 0281 8GB.
From: Anthony Johns
To: karl.shipp@uk.ngrid.com
Subject: 34 Bishops Hill Gas Work
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:08:40 +0000
Sent last night, Copy To Karl Shipp
28 02 08
From: Anthony Johns
To: customersupport@uk.ngrid.com
Subject: Professionalism.
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:09:27 +0000
A.W.Johns,
34 Bishops Hill,
Ipswich,
Suffolk,
IP3 8EN.
Dear, Sirs, a detailed inspection and ample time to decide where exactly
to place a gas meter, and ample time to decide how to arrange the
internal gas pipe work, a detailed survey, with say a week or two to to
re:assess the agreed works: and say an outline in marker as to exactly
where the meter box and internal pipe work would go, would have been an
extreme advantage in my case, and presumably many other people.
I am tenant in this property, my landlady, that I get on with very well
with, her daughter has colon cancer, spread to liver, and my landlady is
at the hospital most days with her daughter this week.
When I refurbished the kitchen a few years ago, I discussed having the
meter placed outside with my landlady, she wanted this to happen, but
the cost was prohibitive. Your people are replacing the underground gas
pipe to this house.
The first I knew that by agreement the the meter could go outside was
late Monday afternoon this week. Your people wanted to fit the meter on
the front of the house. I do not think my landlady would have liked
this. The meter would have also been accessible for tampering by any
person at the front of the house. Also, I like to know, and my
neighbours need to know who comes to the front of the houses, a meter
reader would walk up to the front of the house, and people would assume
whoever walks past is just a meter reader. We want to know who comes up
to our houses.
We decided to place the meter in-between a window and a soil pipe, the
meter is secure in my garden: as there is a locked side gate. After the
meter was fitted on Tuesday, part of the meter is under the window, and
there may be a door fitted in place of this window going down to the
ground, the gas meter is in the way of this, it needs to be moved to the
left as can be seen in the attached image file-Feb27571.JPG
We agreed the internal pipework, but when looking at it, this pipework
now prohibits the fitting of cupboards in the area where the pipe work
is. Please refer to attached image file Feb27583.JPG
I would appreciate the gas pipe being taken up in to the loft space
directly above the boiler at no cost to me or my landlady. I am a
writer, work from home, very busy this week: and I just could not get my
head round this job between late Tuesday and yesterday: when the work
was done.
I thank you,
I am,
Yours Sincerely,
Tony Johns.
At last there was a response from National Grid, a hand delivered
letter, a scummy response from Mr. I.P.Fitt. Network Operations
Manager East Anglia. In this scummy response Fitt claimed that
there had been prior correspondence before any gas work commenced.
There was no prior correspondence. Also delivered this day, a
booklet from The Institute Of Cancer Research: Make or update your
will for free with local listed solicitors. Very Interesting. The
letter from Fitt is pasted below.
Even More Interesting.
Fitt claimed in his letter, that in a
prior letter, ( never received ), that the work to be done was to
disband the old gas main. This poses the question, why was the new
yellow gas pipe connected to my property connected to this old gas
main, presumably a permanent fixture, before I highlighted the fact
that this was an old gas main, when I first wrote to National Grid and
published on the first part of this page?
I telephoned the number in the letter above and the gas engineers
called and did their work. You will see from the picture below
that the original yellow plastic gas pipe to my house that was
connected in to the side of the large old steel gas main is now joined
to another new yellow pipe that has been laid and this new laid pipe
goes off somewhere? where? who knows? Perhaps to the same old
steel gas main further down the row of houses? Also, there is now a
bung in the side of the old steel gas pipe.
Note.
So, as can be seen in the picture below, there is now a
bung in the side of an old gas main that may be live, and a join in
the yellow pipe that was unnecessary: because this could have been
just one length of new yellow plastic gas pipe. Any join or bung in
any pipe can leak, this I see as an unnecessary hazard. The hole was
back filled within a few days of the plastic join and bung fitting.
I grass seeded the top soil, it is now a mowed grass area again.
I spoke again to my neighbour Pat about this whole saga, she
reiterated that the first she knew any gas work was being carried out
was when Karl Shipp arrived the day before the gas work started with
his lies about an old water pipe and a gas pipe through it. I asked,
would she sign a statement to this effect: if I prepared it? Pat
agreed, she also stated: I am glad someone is on the ball, this is
ridiculous.
I prepared a statement with an introductory letter of fact, and called
on the neighbours to see if they had received a letter prior to the
gas work being started, and would they sign a statement? Of the
ten houses affected myself and three others signed statements. One
neighbour stated the first he knew of gas work: was when he came home
from work there was hole dug in his front lawn. One neighbour did not
want to get involved. The rest never answered their doors, or were not
at home.
The statements that I prepared for signing, a sample copy is pasted
below.
TO,
A.W.JOHNS,
34 BISHOPS HILL,
IPSWICH,
SUFFOLK,
IP38EN.
Dear, Mr. Johns.
I received your letter 0835.txt. I share your concerns, and I
have filled in the form below, and I am returning this signed
form to you.
DATED ___________________________________________________________
NAME ____________________________________________________________
ADDRESS__________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
I never received a letter from National Grid in advance of the
current work being undertaken by this company. I was not made
aware that the old gas main was being disbanded. I would like you
Mr. Johns to pursue this matter on my behalf and make me aware
of any return correspondence: that the old gas main near my house
is now discontinued and safe.
SIGNED___________________________________________________________
Please place any other comments below.
_________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
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On or around the 10Th of April 2008. I received by land letter post a
response from Ian Gearing, Corporate Responsibility Manager, for
National Grid via presumably his secretary Emma Clark. As expected, this
was negative, I agree that at very short notice the internal pipe work
was carried out according to my instructions, but I disagree that the
outside meter box was fitted where I wanted it. The letter is pasted
below.
There was no thank you for bringing a public danger hazard regards the
steel flexible gas pipe to the meter that had leaked, or, the fitting of
new gas seals that had stopped a minor gas leak. There was no gesture of
good will to carry out my wishes as a reward for bringing to the
attention of National Grid their unprofessionalism in this whole matter.
So my conclusion is that National Grid will carry on regardless and as
most large corporates do: just bulldoze their way in to peoples lives,
ignoring their wishes and concerns, but most important, their
safety!
Gross Incompetence.
Shortly after I Received the letter above I received another letter
from National Grid, this letter is pasted below. All the neighbours
received the same letter. The letter was from a Mr. Martin Smith
presumably the new Area Network Operations Manager who it turned out
seems just as incompetent as his predecessor I.P.Fitt. A neighbour
telephoned National Grid to see the situation, and was told the letter
was erroneous, the work had been done, this was the letter that was
supposed to have been sent out before the gas work started.
What a bunch of muddlers.
I have written to Mr. Ian Gearing about this matter again, the letter
is pasted below.
COPYRIGHT (C) 2008
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
A.W.JOHNS, RECORDED DELIVERY
34 BISHOPS HILL,
IPSWICH, DV 0777 7617 5GB.
SUFFOLK,
IP38EN.
DATED 06 05 2008.
REF 1. \08\0844.TXT
Your Reference,
08/00341-001-EE
Mr. Ian Gearing,
Corporate Responsibility Manager,
National Grid PLC,
1-3 Strand,
London,
WC2N 5EH.
Dear Sir,
I write again, about what now appears to be your company's
serious corporate skulduggery: as published here -
http://www.exact-psychology.com/hse-2008.htm
Your company has absolutely no credibility, as you will see in
my updated publication above. I would appreciate as a gesture of
goodwill, that you,
1. Carry out the adaptation of my internal gas pipework in my
kitchen.
2. Move the outside meter box to the left 150 MM Which will
conform to my instruction that was given to your site foreman
before this meter box was fitted.
3. Please confirm that the old gas main, the large steel pipe in
my front garden is now abandoned and safe.
I thank you,
I am,
Yours Sincerely,
Anthony W. Johns.
Copyright A.W.Johns (C) 5TH March 2008 exact-psychology.com
