Gas shut off in house
Usually installers won't install it if there isn't a shut off valve there.
snowmom said:
I assume that I need to have the plumber come and do this?
Did they go ahead and install it anyway?
It's a good idea to have an individual gas shutoff valve for each gas appliance. That way if you had a gas leak in your range you could shut it off quickly and without shutting off your entire house. So your hot water would still work for instance. The trick is making it accessible!
I would recommend having a plumber install one if you have them coming out for a different job. It shouldn't take long if you have threaded black gas line pipe.
To have a shut-off directly behind the stove could be useful but most homes around here instead still have a separate shut-off accessible directly (or near) under the stove in the ceiling of the basement. -Also separate shutoffs for the boiler, hot water heater and dryer should be easily accessible.
It's pretty rare that the main gas valve for the whole house needs to be shut-off.
More cheers for Masucci Plumbing! Fixed an ugly situation left by the former owner/renovator.
I guess it is better to completely shut off...but a range should be able to be changed by closing off the connection. I looked it up when I was having my kitchen redone...the range was delivered a few days before the contractors were actually installing it and I was tempted to connect it myself after 2 months without a kitchen...but I figured it was best to wait a few more days at it is on the technical side.
jmitw said:
I guess it is better to completely shut off...but a range should be able to be changed by closing off the connection. I looked it up when I was having my kitchen redone...the range was delivered a few days before the contractors were actually installing it and I was tempted to connect it myself after 2 months without a kitchen...but I figured it was best to wait a few more days at it is on the technical side.
And how would you shut off the connection if it didn't have a shut off valve? That is the issue that the OP ran into. I am familiar with it since my old house had the same issue, which we had fixed with the installation of a shut off valve at the connection.
I've got a similar situation with my house. I'm on a slab and don't have a main water valve except for the curb box on the street.[which I have the appropriate tool for accessing and turning off] I resolved it by backing up every fixture in my house with a second ball valve.Also have access panel behind all fixtures for easy access. Maybe not ideal but it beats a blank. Looked into excavating and installing a main but no one could offer a way to do it. Funny that a house built in 1956 could be allowed to be constructed that way.
georgieboy said:
I've got a similar situation with my house. I'm on a slab and don't have a main water valve except for the curb box on the street.[which I have the appropriate tool for accessing and turning off] I resolved it by backing up every fixture in my house with a second ball valve.Also have access panel behind all fixtures for easy access. Maybe not ideal but it beats a blank. Looked into excavating and installing a main but no one could offer a way to do it. Funny that a house built in 1956 could be allowed to be constructed that way.
Where is your meter?
georgieboy said:
I've got a similar situation with my house. I'm on a slab and don't have a main water valve except for the curb box on the street.[which I have the appropriate tool for accessing and turning off] I resolved it by backing up every fixture in my house with a second ball valve.Also have access panel behind all fixtures for easy access. Maybe not ideal but it beats a blank. Looked into excavating and installing a main but no one could offer a way to do it. Funny that a house built in 1956 could be allowed to be constructed that way.
Where is your water meter?
georgieboy said:
On the street. Remote reader on top of curb box
Interesting. So are there multiple entry points through the slab for the water lines?
Yeah. It comes into the house and branches off to bathrooms and kitchen before going to HW heater and then the HW lines run back to the bathrooms and kitchen. Thought about excavating slab in sun porch to access line, before it branches off and installing main cut off there in a flush box. Every other floor is hardwood on ply on sleepers and prefer not to disturb those areas.
Either way its an expensive proposition and I'm loathe to start disturbing existing line not to mention sunporch is finished space w a tile floor and only 7 ft wide. Not a lot of room to operate. Plus would have to scan to get exact location of where line enters house exactly.
Purchased a new gas range which doesn't work, so having it removed and replaced with a working model - !
When it was installed, the hubby had to turn off the gas in the house, in the basement. Should there be a turn off valve at the site of range installation ie in the kitchen?
TIA