Rigid Yellow Gas Pipe

[Matt Fellman]

Definitely not CSST.... As best I could tell this is just yellow PEX or very similar. Has anyone ever seen this used for gas piping? The install was about 15 years old. I've never seen anything like it for gas piping. I know it needs to be labeled to prevent confusion with water pipe.

[Nick Ostrowski]

New to me. I've never seen that in my neck of the woods.

[Gunnar Alquist]

Alien technology here as well.

[Billy Stephens]

.....
Amazon.com: Tru-Flex Metal Hose Corp. PFCT-3425D Gas Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing Pipe: Home Improvement (http://www.amazon.com/Tru-Flex-PFCT-3425D-Corrugated-Stainless-Tubing/dp/B004BTT3FY)
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[Rick Cantrell]

Is this it?
Natural Gas Pipe Products (http://www.charterplastics.com/natural_gas.html)

[Jerry Peck]

This: Gas-Tec Coated Copper Tubing (http://www.kamcoproducts.com/index.asp?content_id=25)

Yep, I've seen it installed in several places.

[Billy Stephens]

And This Info...... Fire Risks Involving Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing (CSST) Gas Lines and Lightning Strikes (http://factoidz.com/fire-risks-involving-corrugated-stainless-steel-tubing-csst-gas-lines-and-lightning-strikes/)

[Jerry Peck]

Personally, I like the NM cable they have tied to it ... that is really cool (a code violation, but still cool, running a lightning-strike fire-starter along a gas line, I would never have thought to do that). ;)

[Jim Robinson]

They use it here to bring the gas into the meter from the street on new construction. I assume it was yellow and was painted the gray color. I don't know that I've ever seen it used on the customer's side of the meter.

[BARRY ADAIR]

try this MDPE (http://www.jmeagle.com/pdfs/2008%20Installation%20Guides/YellowGasDistTechIG_June%202008.pdf)
doubtful lightning issue...install as often is another

[Matt Fellman]

Thanks everyone.... it looks like one of the products Rick and JP posted links to. It was an older house with a retrofit gas furnace so it was probably just an installer/contractor with a spool of it to use.

Pretty much 100% of the installs older than 10 years around here are black iron pipe and now its moved into the CSST. Every once in awhile I'll see some copper or silver steel pipe but that's rare.

[H.G. Watson, Sr.]

I didn't follow the links of others just looked at your picture, of apparently yellow pipe or tube which has been painted gray.

It looks like PE gas service "pipe" - non metallic, comes yellow, is usually used by the utility where it is required to be burried, from a main to a meter outdoors, not supposed to be used indoors or anywhere past the meter when the utility places it.

That doesn't look to be NM but telephone, communications cable, or control cable above and along it.

If it felt like plastic tubing (you mentioned "PEX") then I suspect it IS gas service PE, High-density, (PE=polyethylene) "plastic pipe".

[Billy Stephens]

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I didn't follow the links .
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:eek: What The %&*#@?

Ya Didn't even Look ?

After All The Pee & Yadda About Other Posters Not Rereading Your 12 Paragraph Mona logs with subset links to Obscure County Code Enforcement PDF's.

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[Markus Keller]

Also looks like utility pipe to me. Our local gas utility uses a yellow plastic pipe from the street to the meter these days. They've been doing it for some years but I couldn't say how many.

[Jim Brewer]

Is it plastic? Both the National Fuel Gas Code (NFPA 54) and the ICC International Fuel Gas Code prohibit the use of plastic gas piping inside buildings. In the 2009 editions, see 405.15 in the IFGC or 7.1.7 in NFPA 54.

[Robert Ernst]

I have seen the local propane companies use PEX gas pipe but only from the tank to the meter. They run it only in the bottom of the trench. Inside they use the stainless flex.

[Don Hester]

It looks like some of the type of pipe at a cabin I have (not Csst). It was run from a propane tank to the regulator. But I think it is for burial use.

Never seen it in an indoor application and like stated here probably not compliant for that use.

[Bob Harper]

polyethylene for direct burial. Not approved for indoor use.

[Dennis Krouse]

Looks like PE to me. If it felt like plastic then it is for outside underground use only.