FullySprinklered
In the Trades
Could be old news, but I just encountered a requirement on the grounding of gas piping that I haven't dealt with before.
I went to the customer's house and she showed me the list from the inspector. She's selling her house and has run into a little speed bump regarding the stainless, yellow coated gas piping attached to two different black iron manifolds in her house. There was a link to several You-Tube videos explaining the issue on the report.
It seems that houses that have the yellow pipe (Gastite?), are more likely to burn down on account of the fact that the stainless pipe tends to rupture in the event of a direct lightning strike.
The fix is to ground the iron manifold to the nearest panel ground buss, or nearest ground rod.
I went to the customer's house and she showed me the list from the inspector. She's selling her house and has run into a little speed bump regarding the stainless, yellow coated gas piping attached to two different black iron manifolds in her house. There was a link to several You-Tube videos explaining the issue on the report.
It seems that houses that have the yellow pipe (Gastite?), are more likely to burn down on account of the fact that the stainless pipe tends to rupture in the event of a direct lightning strike.
The fix is to ground the iron manifold to the nearest panel ground buss, or nearest ground rod.