Gas Line Run Through Attic

Should be protected when within 6 of scuttle hole or where it is subject to damage.

Gas line run through attic.

A flexible gas line is made from thin wall stainless steel. Lightning has caused many house fires that have flexible gas lines. It can be rigid pipe black pipe or trac pipe yellow flexible pipe. It would have to go through a wall.

Branch lines run to individual appliances. The piping inside the house is called the gas supply line or building line. If the stove is on an outside wall you can run the line along the foundation and enter the wall directly to the appliance or enter from the meter regulator into a wall and then through the wall to the appliance. Rigid pipe can be exposed and installed surface mounted.

Not as durable as traditional black iron. Building codes generally prohibit running gas line under a slab on grade. In this picture the sharp edge of the metal cabinet should have a grommet to protect the gas line. Connect a 90 joint to corrugated stainless steel tubing csst drop it through the hole drilled in the header and fish it through the hole in the exterior wall.

A short quick video on my work installing gas line the existing line was rusty and was not safe along the floor and i need to move the stove to make room fo. This drop line is called a riser if it carries gas up to an appliance from a branch line below the appliance. The other end of the csst would run through the attic and down through another hole in the header of the kitchen wall. Sediment trap dirt pocket or drip leg.

It s not durable like traditional black iron pipe. Even an appliance connector like this needs to be protected. This gas line is at the top of an attic scuttle hole. The branch line terminates in a drop line which is a vertical pipe dropping down to the appliance from an overhead branch line.

Flexible gas line tips.