Just recently had a client call the manuf. (Tracpipe) and ask about this.

I had been recommending the pipes be bonded to the GEC but Tracpipe says they only recommend it in high lightning zones, my area is a low to medium zone.

Only one builder grounds theirs around here, all others never heard of it.

No AHJ's around here are requiring it either, until permits pulled after 9/2007 then they (Meck. County)require the additional bonding to the GEC instead of just the bonding achieved through the furnace valve/cabinet.


The new CSST called counterstrike has a black sheathing and does not need the additional bonding according to the manuf.