Pex Gas Lines

Around here pex is used for underground gas piping of both natural gas and propane.

Pex gas lines. Industrial mining underground fire extinguishing lines and oil and gas applications. It also shouldn t be used in direct sunlight or for gas lines. Originally posted by al roden it was a reroute that was made necessary when the ceilings were raised during a permitless remodel the solid gas line that had been laid flat across the joists had to be cut on both ends of the house to make room for the raised ceilings. A quick google search reveals that a best practice is to use pex al pex tubing.

Gas pex fittings are compatible with our multi layered pex piping. Doing this doesn t allow for mistakes and could make the pex tubing installation take longer than it should or cost you money because you ll need to buy new tubing. Gas pex multi layered pipe is a macro composite pipe of five layers. Cross linked polyethylene commonly abbreviated pex xpe or xlpe is a form of polyethylene with cross links it is used predominantly in building services pipework systems hydronic radiant heating and cooling systems domestic water piping and insulation for high tension high voltage electrical cables.

The propane coming into my house is in a plastic tubing of some sort never gave it a second thought to use plastic inside the home. I ll be interested to see the responses. Don t cut tubing to exact size. Pex pipe has an excellent global reputation based on accredited international standards in more than 40 countries along with decades of proven track record with established end users around the world.

These fittings are durable and designed to last. Yes natural gas smells like rotten eggs or garlic which is the added scent. Where it come up out of the ground a metal elbow is used to make the turn and be the stronger. I hadn t heard of this application until you mention it.