New gas main from street to meter.

Brad White_9

and local practice. Here in Massachusetts, galvanized piping is not allowed for gas for the reasons you mentioned. The amount of ethyl mercaptan (the gas scent added) affects how much this occurs.

If locally there is no prohibition, I suppose it is OK technically. Otherwise they would be having a slew of problems regularly, keeping the gas company personnel gainfully employed and -hey, wait a minute! :)

Seriously, it is the gas company's responsibility up to your meter. You should have drip/dirt legs to catch any crud. (Only recently I noticed that even those may not be required in some areas; still having them is a good idea.)

And the plastic stuff is pretty tough. They do "gas pipe catheterizations" here all the time through over-sized old low pressure feeds.

Albert Bisaccia_2

I fired up my gas steam boiler last week and an hour later I still had no heat. I went down the basement to find the pilot was out. After lighting the pilot and turning on the gas valve I noticed the flame was very small. I called PSE&G and they sent a tech out to take a pressure reading and said that there was a problem between the line in the street and my house. They came back three days later and ran plastic pipe inside the old black pipe. They had to do some re-piping from the new main to a pressure regulator ( it was originally a low pressure system ) which they vented to the outside of the house and to the meter. The only place they used black pipe was to vent the regulator to the outside, every other piece of pipe, all the fittings and elbows are galvanized. Every thing that I have read states the natural gas will cause particles to fleck off the inside of a galvanized pipe and clog the regulator, boiler gas valve, hot water heater etc. I called PSE&G about my concerns and the person I spoke to said it wouldn't be a problem. Is it ok or does it have to be re-plumbed with all black pipe. Thanks in advance.