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Originally Posted by Topspinmo
I think these are in most older homes in villages?
“”. The gas piping is known as corrugated stainless steel tubing, or “yellow CSST.” “Homes with yellow CSST are at risk of perforation to the gas line caused by lightning strikes which could cause gas leaks or fires,” says Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart.Jun 18, 2015 “””
IMO needs to be class action law suit.
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There was, so they added a black plastic coating to CSST imtended to seal a pinhole leak to "reduce" the risk from that can happen with a nearby lightning strike. I would have happily paid the extra cost of iron pipe.
Having metallic gas lines in the attic is one of the main reasons I had a LPS installed.
Lightening hit the iron gas line where it comes into the garage at the meter on three homes near us the past 5 years. One home completely destroyed, still not habitable two years later.
It almost as if the homes have a single lightening rod consisting of the grounded iron pipe from the gas meter into the attic where it connects to the metallic gas line?