So angry ...am I in the wrong?

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My dad is late 70s
Lived in housing association house all his life
He has money but is a skin flint
Had his cooker 50 years (no joke )
Today they did a gas safety check and they said it could be emitting carbon monoxide.
He said to me they said to him it was up to him if they capped it.
He refused and then told me it was fine.
Gas safety engineer just rang saying it must be capped or he is fined £800

I'm fuming with him honestly
He is in his right mind-he is just that tight with money.
I've ordered him a new electric cooker
He is angry at me
Currently waiting for gas man to cap cooker

Once that's done is he safe ?

Anyone before I combust ?

How annoying! Will he pay you for the cooker you've ordered?

Why not get him a new gas cooker? (Misses point of thread)

I didn't like to say will it be a problem swapping in electric for gas cooker 😬

It will need hard wiring in I'm assuming
He's more bothered about the mince he has to throw away

@Auntieobem they've told him it's safer to switch to electric
Apparently they like tenants to be electric now

Cooking on electric, after a lifetime cooking with gas, will be awful for him. You should consider cancelling and getting a new gas one.

I'd stick with electric. He clearly doesn't give a shit about safety, he could end up being the cause of a gas leak in the building...or worse.

So he was lying when he said it could be emitting CO & it was his choice to cap or not?

Yep basically they said to him it has to be capped and he said
I need it to cook on tonight
So they said sign this form
He did
Then gas man rang and said if you don't get it capped you will be fine

Now it's been capped is he safe ?

The gas engineer must cap it off its against the law not too.
Keep with the electric cooker he can either get used to it or get takeaways

This is so dramatic. It won’t be “awful”, it’ll be different and take some getting used to, but he will adapt. Safety is more important surely!

Yes he's safe. Potentially it wasn't only him who could have been at risk. He is very selfish.

Yes he's safe. Does he have gas central heating or gas fires? Maybe get him a carbon monoxide alarm if HA doesn't provide.

how dramatic. He’ll get used to it, it won’t be ‘awful’!

Cooker been capped thank god
Dad not happy at all
I said would you prefer to be dead?
I stay here twice a week too so could potentially harm me too
He said alarm hasn't beeped so must be okay ...

Your dad is an absolute idiot but I would not be happy with you for ordering me an electric cooker when I like/am used to a gas one.

You know what got me
When he said he would disconnect it himself !

Like really !

YANBU to want to keep him safe and you know his cooking abilities.
Having lived with both, I'd not be happy switching back to electric from my gas hob.

I recently switched from gas to an electric hob/oven and they are easy to use and keep clean. Rubbish to state 'it will be awful for him.' I'm 74 btw...

Hope you dad pays you for his new cooker.

Oh dear.

Well obviously he is ridiculous.

What sort of electric cooker? Will
he need new pans, if it is induction?

I feel your pain! You just want to shake them don’t you! 🤣
we had a similar issue with MIL several years ago.
i always said I could smell gas when I walked in (I have a very sensitive e nose!) - she’s always posh-poohed the idea and said it’s just as it’s in the under stairs cupboard that you get a whiff when it’s opened. About 6 months later DH and DS went to stay and the gas smell was much worse - DH said call the gas man out or we’re not staying - she threw a fit and they had a major row and he put his cases back in the car so she called the gas man.
He turned up (gasman) and said she was lucky she she hadn’t blown the house and half the street up as the leak was so bad!
This occurred as she was too tight to pay the £50 for the gasman - I then threw a fit as the DC had stayed the previous weekend (& mentioned it!) but she’d failed to do anything about it due to her own selfishness. Her next door neighbours had also just had a baby and she hadn’t considered them at all.
TBF, our relationship has never been the same as this was the final straw of her un- thoughtfulness /selfishness about how her actions effect others 😞

Don't do that while you're at your DFs with his leaky cooker.

Sorry, I know it's a serious matter, but I couldn't resist.

Perhaps show him some of the recent news stories about gas explosions if he is still complaining about the cooker being condemned, such as the awful tragedy in Ireland a few weeks ago.

Not all electric cookers need to be hardwired, ours just use normal 13 A sockets, and you can probably filter by type on the Currys/AO/JL etc website.

Also, we recently refurbished her kitchen and suggested she got electric/induction hob… she refused and said she wanted another gas hob… do you know she’s done nothing but complain that she can’t see if the gas is on and she keeps knocking the gas on without lighting it - apparently it’s now our fault we didn’t buy her an electric/induction hob! 🤷‍♀️
I’ve warned the neighbours….