Gas Line Run Through Attic

There are certain rules that have to be maintained during installation including pipe supports.

Gas line run through attic.

Flexible gas line tips. It would have to go through a wall. This drop line is called a riser if it carries gas up to an appliance from a branch line below the appliance. Rigid pipe can be exposed and installed surface mounted.

Flexible gas lines are safe so long as you have little lightning. 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. In this picture the sharp edge of the metal cabinet should have a grommet to protect the gas line. Yes gas line can be ran through walls and ceilings.

Lightning has caused many house fires that have flexible gas lines. Should be protected when within 6 of scuttle hole or where it is subject to damage. 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. 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.

The other end of the csst would run through the attic and down through another hole in the header of the kitchen wall. Even an appliance connector like this needs to be protected. It s not durable like traditional black iron pipe. It can be rigid pipe black pipe or trac pipe yellow flexible pipe.

Sediment trap dirt pocket or drip leg. A flexible gas line is made from thin wall stainless steel. Branch lines run to individual appliances. 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.