Gas Line Run Through Attic

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

Gas line run through attic.

This gas line is at the top of an attic scuttle hole. 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. A flexible gas line is made from thin wall stainless steel. Lightning has caused many house fires that have flexible gas lines.

Not as durable as traditional black iron. Flexible gas lines are safe so long as you have little lightning. The other end of the csst would run through the attic and down through another hole in the header of the kitchen wall. Building codes generally prohibit running gas line under a slab on grade.

Yes gas line can be ran through walls and ceilings. 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 can be rigid pipe black pipe or trac pipe yellow flexible pipe. Should be protected when within 6 of scuttle hole or where it is subject to damage.

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 s not durable like traditional black iron pipe. Sediment trap dirt pocket or drip leg. It would have to go through a wall.

Branch lines run to individual appliances. The branch line terminates in a drop line which is a vertical pipe dropping down to the appliance from an overhead branch line. Even an appliance connector like this needs to be protected. Rigid pipe can be exposed and installed surface mounted.

The piping inside the house is called the gas supply line or building line.