Flexible gas appliance connector thru furnace cabinet

[srechkin (Simon Rechkin)]

@mwilles

Steel piping is becoming a thing of the past. New gas piping systems are constructed at CSST tubing and appliance connectors that is all. The only steel piping I see on new homes is the sediment trap and connection to the gas meter. This is how the professionals are installing fuel distribution systems.

@mwilles

I agree best practice is to have steel gas pipe connecting to the gas valve and exiting the appliance by a few inches. Then a connection can be made with the CSST. Problem is the entire reason plumbers run CSST is to cut corners it’s easy and fast to install with a typical home being completed in under 3 hours. Threading pipe will typically take 4-6 hours.

Change of heart, Mr Martin? PEX, SharkBites, ProPress, Snappy Traps, and now flexible connectors inside furnaces and boilers Well, let’s see some of these new wonder homes and their cute CSST+flexible connector installs. BTW, we still like our black pipe here in any house that’s not a hack executed by licensed “professionals”.