I'm a renter and have been living in the same house for 3.5 years. Recently I have had multiple gas leaks. I'm trying to figure out if there is any reason to be concerned about this and if these leaks could be related. It seems strange that I would go years without a single problem and then have so many gas leaks back to back all over the inside and outside of my home. More details below. Sorry for the lengthy explanation in advance. I'm trying to give all of the information just in case. Prior to any of the gas leaks I started having problems with my hot water heater. The pilot would not stay lit. I suddenly started having to relight the pilot daily. I called my landlord, and he sent someone over who claimed the hot water heater was fine. The next day it went out again. Maintenance came and replaced a part on the hot water heater. The following day, I came home and smelled gas in the house. I called the gas company and they found a gas leak behind my stove which they repaired for me. They checked the furnace and hot water heater, but did not find any other leaks. (The gas co. did tag the furnace due to a pipe that needed to be replaced b/c the type I had is prone to cracking. They also tagged the door to the hot water heater, but not b/c of a safety hazzard.) Two days later I was in the yard and smelled gas outside. I again called the gas company. They found a gas leak on the hot water heater outside. What was really strange is that they said that it was coming from a bolt that had never been tightened on the part that maintenance replaced. I asked it could have come loose, and they said no, it was [I]completely[/I] loose. This made no sense to me because I had not smelled any gas coming from the hot water heater since the repair, and the gas company had inspected it since the repair and hadn't found the leak. Bizarre. Several days ago I thought I smelled gas in the laundry room. I convinced myself that this was paranoia from the last gas leak. Today, I opened the door for a friend who immediately smelled gas. I called the gas company again. They didn't find a gas leak in the laundry room. They did, however, find another gas leak inside the stove. They cut off gas to the stove, red tagged it, and said to contact my landlord for a repair. Just now, I walked in the laundry room, and there is definitely a gas leak in there. It's coming from the wall. Why, I don't know. So this is my question. After having multiple gas leaks I asked the gas company if there is a possibility that they're related and whether I needed to have some sort of inspection done. They said they didn't think they were related. I should probably trust their opinion, but it still seems so strange to me that I would have so many gas leaks all over the place in such a short period of time. (Stove, hot water heater, laundry room, stove again.) I'm walking around paranoid all of the time. Fortunately, I only got sick from the first gas leak, and that was nothing major. I slept it off. But I'm nervous about the constant gas leaks in the house and supremely annoyed with my landlord who gripes at me for calling the gas company. (That is exactly what you are supposed to do when you smell gas in your house! I don't particularly enjoy waiting in the yard for the gas company for hours on end!) If anyone has any idea what might be causing all of this please let me know. Sorry again for the long post!

About two weeks ago our furnace (1998) was lighting and then going out after ~5 secs. We had a technician look at it, clean it, clean the flame sensor, and was told that we need a new circuit board, due to the blower motor not kicking on, thus the furnace would shutdown. I am not sure I like this explanation. Knowing a little about how the furnace works, I notice that the flame light on the circuit board never lights up. I know it used to because I would sit and watch the board and the sequence of events quite a bit whenever the furnace had issues in the past. It is logical to me that if the circuit board does not detect the flame the gas valve would shut off and I would see the results I am getting. I noticed in the past few days that the metal from the thermocouple is very shiny and clean (he did clean it!!), so is it possible that the thermocouple sensor itself is bad? Is there a way to test this? They want to charge about $400 to replace the board.