A storm rolls through a few hundred metres away, and lightning hits a transformer. The surge travels along the utility lines into a building, then looks for the easiest path to earth. In an unbonded ...

A kitchen remodel is nearly complete. The range is rolled into place, the old rigid pipe is gone, and the new flexible gas line is ready to connect. Ten minutes later there is a smell of gas near the...

Picture this: a new stainless steel corrugated gas pipe runs along the back wall of a garage, just above a workbench. The fittings are tight and the bubble test is clean. Then the homeowner leans a l...

A single over-tightened nut on a gas connector can turn a two-hour fit-out into a full day of rework, and it can put a utility crew on a homeowner's doorstep at midnight. That is why CSST pipe fittin...

A homeowner calls a licensed gas fitter to run a natural gas line from the basement meter to a patio heater on the deck. The fitter proposes corrugated stainless steel tubing (CSST): fast to install,...

Every gas appliance installation has a single point of failure that is often overlooked: the connector between the appliance and the supply line. In a commercial kitchen, a hose failure can close a c...

It started, as many gas code discussions do, with a bad install: on a plumbing forum, a licensed plumber described inspecting a friend's new standby generator and finding about 100 feet of 1/2-inch C...

Picture a gas line running through a wood-frame house. It has to turn around corners, fit into tight stud bays, and avoid wasting time on threading and cutting. That is exactly the problem corrugated...

You are rerouting a gas supply for a new range, and the existing black-iron pipe ends two feet short of the appliance. Rather than cutting threads and assembling another rigid nipple, you reach for a...