Gas Line Run Through Attic

Not as durable as traditional black iron.

Gas line run through attic.

Sediment trap dirt pocket or drip leg. Building codes generally prohibit running gas line under a slab on grade. This drop line is called a riser if it carries gas up to an appliance from a branch line below the appliance. 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.

It s not durable like traditional black iron pipe. This gas line is at the top of an attic scuttle hole. A flexible gas line is made from thin wall stainless steel. It would have to go through a wall.

The piping inside the house is called the gas supply line or building line. 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. It can be rigid pipe black pipe or trac pipe yellow flexible pipe. 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 lines are safe so long as you have little lightning. Lightning has caused many house fires that have flexible gas lines. Rigid pipe can be exposed and installed surface mounted. 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. 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. There are certain rules that have to be maintained during installation including pipe supports. Even an appliance connector like this needs to be protected.

The other end of the csst would run through the attic and down through another hole in the header of the kitchen wall.