Almost every corrugated stainless steel tubing failure that reaches a warranty desk started in the field, not at the mill. The product itself is simple: a thin-wall 304 or 316L stainless steel tube, ...

A 199,000 BTU tankless water heater fed through a 3/8 in. corrugated stainless steel tubing (CSST) run will never deliver its rated output — and in most of the cases we see, the tubing is not the par...

Last month a fitter sent us a photo of a two-year-old rubber connector. The hose body was untouched; the split had opened just behind the crimped ferrule. That is where flexible gas lines usually giv...

An installer finishes a CSST run to a range, pressure-tests every joint, and signs off. Months later, a lightning strike near the house starts a fire at a wall penetration. That pattern, repeated in ...

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,...