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Originally Posted by Karmanng
I dont understand WHY the builder put a gas line in the roof when there are tons of STRIKES here that can cause fires !!!! Do you kno why it is built that way? IF I knew this 2 years ago before I bought I would NOT have bought here at all...........
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There were homes built with CSST flexible gas piping years ago mainly North of 466A and in other areas of the country. They thought this was a good cost effective way vs using black pipe to provide gas throughout the home. It was used in Japan and other areas in the world that have earth quakes and need flexible piping. It was discovered that a significant number of homes here and in other areas in the country using this piping had gas related fires. Investigators found the electromagnetic charge in the air from direct or even a close lightning strike would cause holes in this piping and thus a fire. There was a class action suit brought where the residents won. The result was vouchers were provided to install a lightning protection system or ground and bond the CSST piping to prevent the problem from occuring. This is now long expired since this occurred many years ago. If you drive around Sunset Pointe and other areas north of 466A that have this CSST installed you will see many homes with a lightning protection system to prevent this from happening. The homes between 466A and Rt.44 are mostly all electric and the homes south of Rt.44 that do have gas have an improved version of this flexible gas pipe where as of this date there have not been any issues related to lightning but the manufactures of this new and more reliable flexible piping mention to consider a lightning protection system if you are in a lightning prone area.