You are permitted to you the plastic gas lines. The plastic must be over head with black pipe running from the meter, to the eves of the house and black pipe down to the connection entering the house. Or black pipe from the meter to the plastic gas pipe, which must be buried and the plastic pipe connected to the black pipe entering the house. There is no way a person could hook up the black pipe to the plastic gas lines without a special coupling to fit the O D of the plastic and black pipe nipple. And yes! where the meter was placed fifty years ago is about 75 feet to where it entered the house. Now in my house, which is 650 feet from the road, they used plastic orange pipe and have the meter next to where the line enter the house and that was about 5 years ago. We in the states, can use fittings under ground. The pipe itself sprung the leak, as near as I could tell. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dale Leavens To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 6:13 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Latest project
Are you saying your meter is a hundred feet from where the gas enters the house? Does your gas company allow fittings under ground? Here it is forbidden. exactly because they can develop leaks. Is that where yours was leaking or was there a hole in the conducting pipe? ----- Original Message ----- From: RJ To: handyman Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 4:53 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Latest project Sunday I was digging along side of the neighbors house, laying drain pipes to get the water to run away from the house. As I was moving the dirt, I started to smell natural gas. Called the gas company for a check and they couldn't detect any leaks. AS I continue to dig with a small hand shovel and found the gas line about 4 inches to the left of where I was digging, the smell got stronger. Called the gas company back. After a little discussion, they agreed to send a man back out to the site. This time his pressure gauge was showing a leak. Needless to say, the meter was shut off and a lock was installed. He said call when the line was repaired. On Monday it was off to purchase the parts to replace 75 feet of gas line, from the meter to the house. Years ago, the flexible pipe was orange in color and about 10 cents a foot. Now it is a bright lime/lemon color and 53 cents a foot. I had to remove a couple boards from the patio decking and as the neighbors were digging the holes, I began to tear the old piping apart, after hack sawing under the decking, and where it entered the house. I had the neighbors buy all new fittings from the meter and a piece of 38 inch black pipe, 100 feet of plastic 1 inch gas pipe and a couple of nipples, plus a couple of couplings. plus a bottle of the pipe dope. Instead of hearing the gas company complaining about a blind fellow doing the installation, I just told the girls to tell the gas man they installed the pipe their selves. The gas meter was turned back on and all is well. RJ ---------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.5.4/1566 - Release Date: 7/22/2008 6:00 AM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
