Gas detection monitors?

A question about : Gas detection monitors?

I know a strange one.

I was round a friends. There property has an arch way between the living room and kitchen.

Some how they managed to knock one of knobs on the gas cooker. I thought I could smell gas and said so. There reply was I got a cold so can't smell it, they checked and I was correct.

Are there any gas detection meters that are the size of a carbon monoxide testers? I have used google and not seen anything that small.

They are clumsy due to being disabled and there colds often last months at a time. In nearly 3 years of living alone they have not managed to blow them self up yet!!!!

But I am concerned as if I had not been there how long would it have been pumping out gas for????

Thanks in advance.

Yours

Calley

Best answers:

• This should do the trick:
  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mains-Powere.../dp/B000NVRBYE
• Personally I would be gently and tactfully trying to steer them towards replacing the cooker with a new one. New cookers have flame failure devices that shut off the gas in under a minute if it is not lit.
  Having worked as a gas engineer in social housing with lots of lovely old dears I have indeed walked into a kitchen full of gas, turned off the cooker and opened a window very promptly. There are near misses every year, and sadly a tragedy from time to time.
  What happens is they are about to cook their lunch and turn the gas on, then the phone goes or the door bell rings and off they pop forgetting they have not lit the gas. Its so easily done.
  I know nothing of their disability in this case, but it does seem that additional safety is required in view of what you say.
• If you do get a mains powered gas detector, try to put it somewhere round about the cooker but without easy access to the plug.
  I gave a relative one and they would always turn it off to save electricity.
• We sold our previous house to a couple who were buying it for their daughter who was disabled/ learning difficulties (we never met them) and they insisted that the gas cooker was to be removed for exactly this reason- we obliged as we'd already moved away by that point and wanted to ensure the sale completed