Cutting some holes ceiling in a basement looking for a hidden electrical box I found a natural gasline that ran to the stove. It was copper tubing and had a tee in the run for some thing else (since capped off).
The gas stove have been removed and is being replaced with an electric one.
Was going to leave the gasline in place is someone ever wanted a gas stove back in there.
But I seem to have heard that it is not legal to have any hidden connection a copper gas line. I check at www.codecheck.com and found the discussion about copper being legal a local issue, but could not find anything about hidden connections.
If this is illegal than I will disconnection and remove what is accessible.
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If here in New England, it would be illegal. I wouldn't hurt to leave it but No installer would hook up new appliance to it. I just got some items changed and they carefully checked the lines all the way from A to Z befor placing tanks.
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Thanks, but one of the reasons that I ask was that once the ceiling is repair there is no way to tell that there is a connection in the run.
Also this is natural gas. So there normally isn't the doing that close a check.
The house was bought AS IS because of some drainage/foundation problems. The foundation has been fixed and the drainage grading is underway. The idea is to fix the problems and sell it after two years.
But each time I look there are more problems. The electrical is a real mess.
I think that best thing to do is to get it out of the way.
Supposing that you covered it and walked away, slling it later.
Then a new owner, me for instance, saw the line and likeing gas more than electric, I hooked up. It would more than likely not leak.
But if it did, and you read about it in the newspaper, how would you feel at my funeral?
I forsee you folding the ends over to prevent use..
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NO CRIMP, PERIOD!
I don't trust that. But you might have thought that there was a shut off.
Nope. Let me explain the gas "system" in this house. It comes in black iron. Relatively big pipe, maybe 1 1/2 or 2". Then there is a sadle tap. Off the saddle tap there was a tee. One side ran to gas light in the yard. As far as I could tell there was no shut off anywhere in that gas light run. The other side of the T connected to a shut off. Then it teed and ran to a jury rigged bunsen burner in the basement and a feed to outside grill (long gone). At least they labeled those on the joist or otherwise I would have no idea of what was going on.
That cr*p has been removed and capped.
Then the black pipe droppes drown and has a shut off and then up over and around in a loop-d-loop and conntinues to the addition for another furnace and WH.
In the loop-d-loop is a T where it transistions to copper. Then there is a t off to feed the stove ( & etc) and then T's again to feed the furnace and HW.
The stove & etc was because there it appears that it might have feed a clothes drier in the basement and later one in the addition, but that has been disconnected.
AFAIK it is OK to have the one shut off valve for both the furnace and WH, but not good thing. At least there where also shutoffs at the stove and again a single one for the furnace and WH in the addition.
So I am going to cap it the source and cut out what it accessable and them crimp it where it hits the wall so that it can be re-used.
how would you feel at my funeral? Probably a whole lot better than you :)
You're probably not the only one! Think I should start a list?
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ROAR!.
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