Underground Propane Gas Line Install: ONE STEP CLOSER to radiant floors🔥
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- This video is all about GAS. (no not that gas). Let's get our underground line installed & propane tank dropped off!
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The black pipe paints up nicely with Rustoleum smoke grey.
Yep I found a can of silver rustoleum in the basement 😁
I never would have thought of trenching with a fork. Neat trick!
Originally saw it on IG for someone who did it for planting potatoes 😂
@@MasonDixonAcres You never know where useful info will come from!
I like the fork digging method. Make due with what you have is the best way to go.
Yep! Sure beats a digging bar or a pick axe for the whole thing.
Hi from the UK! Love the building content. not sure if I seen it correctly but when you was tightening the first gas line connection with the pipe grips they looked to be the wrong way around which means they don’t grip and they slip if you flip them the other way they should grip the coupler with the teeth. Hope this makes sense and helps, hopefully I seen it right and I’m not wrong.
Haha I can never remember the right way for a pipe wrench, I usually just try until it works 😁
Unreal how many times you see that,happens more than one would expect. 😊
you're supposed use pipe dope on the male , bulbous part of the union and female side too .
As long as the pipe dope is rated for propane . I use the yellow teflon tape rated for gas pipe on my black steel threads after I put permatex on them first . It's like belt and suspenders . Then I test the line to be enclosed inside with a mercury guage or hometec guage .
I hope you flip them blocks the other way or they absolutely will crack/break. They are extremely weak when turned on their side
Yeah it's certainly not their design intent but it'll be fine. I actually put 2 more so there's 8 supporting the tank which is 800lbs when full. No issues so far. Didn't really want to see the open ends facing upwards
@@MasonDixonAcres yeah I’ve seen a lot of people flip the blocks that way for visual reasons as you did and/or to get a wider flatter surface on top. Thing is they crack in thirds because there’s nothing supporting the top/bottom when they are in that orientation. The sides are very thin like an inch, turned the other way it’s 7.5” thick not an inch. Turn a block on its side as you did and then and barely tap on it with a hammer. You will see how easily it will crack. Been doing construction for 30 years, trying to give you advice before your propane tank falls over in the middle of winter when the blocks crack. I do all my own work from the ground to roof and everything between. It’s tough trying to know it all and takes a long time and I’m still learning. That’s why I like your channel. I enjoy someone doing things their self.
@@RJ-cc1fzyou got hit with a nuh-uh
Warm floor? Fancy boy
Not sure the code in your area but you might need a support on that vertical one inch black iron. Like all thread clamped to the pipe and then bolted to whatever the exterior is going to end up being. Also- dont forget you might need to bond the iron to the ground rod.
Yep good call we probably will need a support. It's grounded to our main panel on the inside, covering that next week!
My propane company won’t fill the tank the first time without a leak test. Also won’t fill a previously filled tank under 10% without a leak test.
They filled it but won't hook it into the system! When they came for the final hookup (soon to come on here) they did they tested it. I tested the system myself before they came as well
Tell me more about "Pipe Dope" could you have used that stuff this whole time on various pipes? or just certain kinds?
it's rated for pretty much everything! Dope + tape = no leaks