Gas Line Run Through Attic

Branch lines run to individual appliances.

Gas line run through attic. The piping inside the house is called the gas supply line or building line. 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.

In this picture the sharp edge of the metal cabinet should have a grommet to protect the gas line. This drop line is called a riser if it carries gas up to an appliance from a branch line below the appliance. Yes gas line can be ran through walls and ceilings. Not as durable as traditional black iron.

Should be protected when within 6 of scuttle hole or where it is subject to damage. This gas line is at the top of an attic scuttle hole. Rigid pipe can be exposed and installed surface mounted. Even an appliance connector like this needs to be protected.

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. Building codes generally prohibit running gas line under a slab on grade. Flexible gas line tips. It s not durable like traditional black iron pipe.

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. 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. Flexible gas lines are safe so long as you have little lightning.

It would have to go through a wall.