This gas line goes into my detached garage from the inside of my house.
I am redoing the concrete and siding on this building and I would like to bury this line if I can.
Would I be able to dig up the concrete, cut the steel pipe and connect one of those flexible yellow gas lines to it going into the building from underground?
What is the valve thing attached to it before it enters the building? Is it some sort of safety device or a regulator or something? Is it necessary? If it's necessary then I won't be able to bury this line underground.
Also, gas supply to this line currently is shut off from a valve within the house. Could there still be gas inside the line? How do I make sure there is no gas inside?
Can I cut the line using an angle grinder?
Also ignore the white duct tape on top of it, it's nothing.
I'd be careful about building codes. It might be that the valve must be accessible from outside for emergency fire safety so the gas can be shut off as easily as possible
>It might be that the valve must be accessible from outside for emergency fire safety so the gas can be shut off as easily as possible
idgaf about the codes
If they make me rip it up and fix it, I would do that.
I just want to know if there is any safety risk involved in this?
1. You don't know how to work on threaded gas pipes
2. Your shed might have a gas leak or firr and you'll have to turn off gas to your entire house at the meter to stop it from blowing up.
>1. You don't know how to work on threaded gas pipes
Youtube makes it seem simple.
>2. Your shed might have a gas leak or firr and you'll have to turn off gas to your entire house at the meter to stop it from blowing up.
Turning off the entire house gas line isn't a problem and its actually more accessible than this spot.
If I could bury this whole thing it would help a lot.
Nobody cares, go back to /b/ moron
Different person than those two other morons and I can confidently say you are not smarter than them. Enjoy your explosion.
Enjoy getting blown up you moronic Black person lmao
>if there is any safety risk involved in this?
Yes. There is a reason that gas lines have shutoff valves accessible from outside the building. If the building is on fire you can't go inside to shut off the gas.
Seconding this.
>There is a reason that gas lines have shutoff valves accessible from outside the building.
There's already the main shutoff easily accessible outside the building, why would I need another one?
>There's already the main shutoff
Main shutoff outside main building. The fire dept. doesn't know this. There needs to be one shutoff to each building. And it needs to be obvious as the gas shutoff. So no burying it in a handhole unless that's acceptable to the code authorities.
Detached garage go boom lol
Don't listen to all the do nothing morons in here. You can bury it without issue. I would prefer to have no joints under ground, but if you don't care about shit just go for it. Tape AND dope the joint. Bubble test before burying. Have a shut off before. This is not difficult stuff. Let er rip and come back to post progress.
How can he post progress from beyond the grave?
You unhelpful low IQ morons do not belong here.
I wonder if you could still have a shutoff underground beneath one of those sprinkler valve covers... Keep it safe, cheap and no pipes above ground...
hard rule for working with gas lines: if you have to ask how on a polynesian butterfly catching forum, you are not qualified to do it
>being qualified to put some fricking ptfe on a fricking pipe thread and fricking tighten it so the vicinity doesn't smell like shit
Where does one acquire such illustrious qualifications? A Tibetan monastery of plumbing?
>Where does one acquire such illustrious qualifications?
Trade school
Depending on OP's jurisdiction it might be illegal for him to any work involving a gas line. OP asked no fewer than 7 questions on how to do something where the consequences of fricking up include but are not limited to: blowing up a building, killing or injury himself or others, insurance denying his claim for work not performed by a licensed plumber.
Yeah, that's a valve and it's in the open position.
Just so you know.
You cannot direct bury black iron gas piping. It's a code violation everywhere. The moisture in tne ground will eat right through it. Your line shouldn't be running under the concrete like it is either. That shutoff looks sixty years old.
If you decide to replace it with a different pipe you'll need to use special PVC or CSST tubing that's rated for direct burial.
>If you decide to replace it with a different pipe you'll need to use special PVC or CSST tubing that's rated for direct burial.
can you send me a link to this material so I can get an idea, thanks
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Charlotte-Pipe-3-4-in-dia-x-10-ft-L-480-PSI-PVC-Pipe/3133085
now i understand all the news stories out of america about houses exploding