Gas man arrived! He did the soapy water test (I forgot to last night before falling asleep lol), and apparently the seal on one side and the regulator on the other were both leaking. Lovely bloke though, he even relit the hot water system for me (I didn’t even have to ask)

Easy replacement, and apparently it’s quite common. Glad I didn’t ignore it and did trust my instincts, but I’ll be honest, I did do laps of it sniffing it up close a bunch last night. In hindsight, probably a bad idea, but it also wasn’t a particularly strong smell. I only got a quick whiff off it walking down the stairs and I wasn’t sure where it was even coming from

Also, TIL downer really have their fingers in all the pies. They run yarra trams, the entire Adelaide metro system, the trams on the gold coast, a bunch of buses and other PT, and I learnt today that they also maintain the gas network, at least AusNet’s. Apparently they also run parts of the NBN, those gigantic metal power lines with like 100 cables, spotless (street sweepers), the list goes on. Between them, Jim’s group, and Arnotts, we really seem to like these ‘everything’ companies!