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Posted by Don Young on July 25, 2005, 10:07 pm
To move a solidly connected stove you turn off the cutoff at the floor and
disconnect the flare connection. Move, clean, move back, re-connect, turn on
the gas and relight the pilots if necessary. All with a minimum of flexing
the gas line. I have actually never known anyone to regularly move a kitchen
range just for cleaning . Bottom line is that you need the cutoff before the
connection to be removed, and do not use compression fittings, especially if
they are going to be moved.
Don Young
>I appreciate the reply, but how would a person move a stove with solid
> pipe connected to it? We move the stove once or twice a year. That
> is pretty much the norm except for some "clean freaks" that probably
> move it weekly.
>
> As for codes, this is farm country. Around here they really dont
> inspect things like this. As long as I match the national code I
> should be safe. I was mainly concerned about the compression
> fittings. The stove came with the house and that is what they used.
> Once I moved the stove I now have a leak at that fitting. I had to
> shut the gas off to the whole house. Of course this time of year I
> dont need the furnace so it's no biggie. Got the microwave for
> cooking too.
>
> Randy
>
> -------------------------
>
>
> wrote:
>
>>Flare fittings are generally either required or preferred for copper
>>lines.
>>Compression fittings are much more likely to leak, especially if moved,
>>and
>>I don't think are approved for gas lines anywhere. The shutoff should be
>>as
>>close to the floor or other entry point as practical. There are
>>semiflexible
>>connector lines made for gas but I don't think they are intended for
>>flexing
>>after installation. There are flexible connector lines for portable
>>appliances but I don't know about cookstove use. As an aside, codes and
>>inspections are really only intended to ensure a safe installation so
>>installation to meet codes is very much a good thing. Regularly moving a
>>gas
>>cookstove for cleaning seems to me to be very undesirable. To be
>>reasonably
>>safe I think this would need rigid iron pipe to prevent any movement
>>upstream of the cutoff as a minimum.
>>Don Young
>>>I have a propane gas stove. The propane enters the house with copper
>>> tubing, looks to be about 3/8" dia. The furnace is connected with
>>> this same copper and thats the only other appliance. The problem is
>>> that the kitchen stove gets moved for cleaning and the pipe has to
>>> bend. This is the second time in the past few years it started to
>>> leak where the compression fitting connects to the stove, which is
>>> connecting to 1/2" black pipe. First, should compression fittings be
>>> used or should they be flared? Second, would it be legal to connect
>>> the copper to black pipe at the floor, and run a regular flexible gas
>>> pipe to the stove, or would it be better to connect the flex pipe
>>> right to the copper with a valve in between. (the valve right now is
>>> right on the end of the black pipe on the stove, but the leak always
>>> occurs before it, which means shutting off the whole house. In the
>>> summer that is not a problem, but in winter that means no heat. (which
>>> is why I will not let the wife move the stove in winter).
>>>
>>> I'm not too worried about code, this is a rural farm and no one will
>>> check. I AM worried about safety, not to mention getting tired of
>>> repairing this thing everytime the stove is moved.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Randy
>>
>
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