July 1, 2005 - Friday - This week we plumb the lines for the propane gas.
Out on the Olympic Peninsula where Sequim is located, there is no natural gas
available. That means if you want any gas appliances they must run off
propane. Flexible gas line, known as "CSST" (Corrugated Stainless Steel
Tubing) is great for running gas lines in the attic for basically the same
reason we like the PEX tubing for plumbing, its flexible! This means
installing it is real fast as we can bend around the truss members as needed.
CSST can be used for natural gas or propane. It is however much more
expensive than traditional "black steel" pipe so we typically only use it up in
the attic where its flexible nature is an advantage. Also we use the black
steel pipe anywhere the gas pipe will be exposed since it is much less prone to
damage than the CSST. This time out we are using CSST made by Ward
Manufacturing which they call
WardFlex. As
always we try to use products made in the USA and WardFlex fits the bill
perfectly. This picture shows a 50 foot coil of WardFlex CSST. It is
colored yellow since that is the
Uniform Color Code color
assigned to gas line or gas line tracing.
July 1, 2005 - Friday - This shot shows the gas line coming into the home in the
wall between the shower/tub in the guest bathroom and the built in computer
desk. We have made a distribution "manifold" out of black steel pipe with
four "ports" on it. There is one port each for the laundry room, Bar-B-Que
on the grilling deck, the fireplace, and the stove/range. We have chose to
bring the WardFlex down
to the manifold on two of the runs and you can see one of the pieces of
WardFlex dangling down
from above prior to getting connected to the manifold. The brass fittings
seen on the manifold are used to connect the CSST to the black steel pipe.
Since the manifold is so close to the location of the range, we just used a
piece of black steel for this run which you can see going out of the picture on
the right side.
June 30, 2005 - Thursday - Many times in a large project, certain things have to
be completed before others can be started. That is the case here. In
the laundry room we will only install a gas outlet for the clothes dryer.
However, we want to make it real easy for a future owner to convert the water
heater to gas if they decide to do so. With that in mind, the gas line in
the laundry room must be exposed to facilitate this possible future expansion.
Since we don't want to go to the trouble of putting sheet rock under this exposed
gas line, we must install the sheet rock prior to plumbing the gas line.
Furthermore, we have to install the box to dress out the clothes washer water
supplies and drain before installing the sheet rock! This picture
shows the PEX tubing connecting to the washing machine water valves on top of
the box, and the drain connected on the bottom.
July 1, 2005 - Friday - This picture shows the piece of sheet rock installed.
We can install this piece of sheet rock since everything it covers has
passed inspection, that being the plumbing and electrical. The Seisco
water heater can be seen mounted to the wall, and on the other side of the water
heater the black steel gas line can be seen coming down from the ceiling.
July 1, 2005 - Friday - This is a view from the other side of the laundry room.
The black steel gas pipe can be seen better in this shot. In keeping with
building the best homes we know how, notice we provide both a gas and electrical
outlet for the clothes dryer. This allows the owner to easily use which
ever type of dryer they chose.
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