The gas meter is 'capped off' so there is no residual gas in the piping system. The landlord's gas fitter did it when he came to do the annual appliance check. I had bought a methane detector as a precaution before that was done. I gave away my gas cooker and got an electric one.
When deciding this drastic action, I was influenced by this info -
Natural Gas: Avoidable Health Hazard
the health hazards of natural gas, by agnes malouf and david winberly
A warmer climate for the winter? - I wish.
There are so many reasons why I can't.
1 - recycled air in jet planes.
2 - epidemics on cruise ships ( I can't swim and I had C-diff once*, next time it would kill me off)
3 - I don't like being exposed to people
( they are so very polluting physically and mentally)
4 - Travelling alone I would be vulnerable. I was once taken ill in central France*. The experience of a foreign hospital wasn't pleasant.
5 - I have control over my home environment - a rented apartment would be hazardous for me. (Ocado couldn't deliver groceries
)
Yesterday I spent time browsing the web for better/more economical electric heaters and have ordered a halogen one.
There may be a chance of having the gas heating back on for next winter if the anti-histamine drug I started using 2 days ago works. I hate pharmacutical products, and this one even has aspartamine in it
.
It would be nice to have a 'normal life' again.