How To Install A Gas Line Floor Flange
I also had to add onto the existing natural gas supply line in my home to make this work.
How to install a gas line floor flange. Then use the adapter included with your hookup kit to connect the flexible gas line. Flare joints rely on a tight fit to seal and don t require additional sealant. On the stove end use another flare to pipe thread fitting. Threaded flange find applications in areas in which hot work welding burning and grinding is undesirable.
It can come loose inside the pipe and can clog the line. The gas valve is installed to the treads of the compression nut after it the nut is installed into the flange. In fact a floor flange is only used to make a supporting pier from pipe materials it is never used for pipes with any flowing fluid inside the pipes. This is essential to establishing an airtight fit.
Its not like a coupler for instance where a pipe can screw into both sides. Again you are correct that a gas valve is needed near the dryer. The the other day i was at a friend s house with an outdoor grill and saw a floor flange. In my limited experience i ve only seen these flanges used for non plumbing purposes by guys who build shelves furniture with black pipe.
I did it myself and i have some great practical advice for installing a natural gas stove in your home. You do not need a floor flange and a floor flange is not made to couple two pipes. Coat the threads of the pipe ends using pipe dope. Never use tape including teflon tape.
If using a pipe thread sealant tape wrap it around the threads and insert into the fitting. Threaded pipe flange is supplied with a tapered internal thread that the pipe screws into. The yellow pipe you attached to the flange can then be attached to a black pipe fifing with the proper fittings. It s been quite an ambitious learning experience for me but it s also been a rewarding one as well.