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Originally Posted by jrref View Post
So, if you live south of Rt44 with a gas house, your home will have improved flexible gas tubing but even with this, if you read the manufacturers web site under the warrenty, it states if you live in Florida, Texas and several other states where lightning is a problem, they recommend you consult with a Lightning Protection company. Meaning, while the chances of a gas fire from a Lightning Strike have been reduced with this improved tubing, there is still a chance that it will fail from a lightning event.

The only way to reduce the risk to near zero is to have a lightning protection system installed or replace all your flexible gas piping with solid black pipe. Replacing your flexible pipe with solid black pipe will cost way more than a LPS but without a LPS you still have the risk of lightning striking and causing a fire, just the gas pipe failure will not be a problem.
So why do you recommend only two LPS companies when there are others available to do the job much sooner as stated by that Middleton homeowner who just had their system installed very quickly?

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