What special certification is needed in Florida to work on gas lines? The Florida licensing website says that a licensed plumbing contractor can work on natural gas lines:

"without obtaining any additional local regulatory license, certificate, or registration"

That certification applies to specialty contractors that have a limited scope of work.

"A “specialty contractor” means a contractor whose scope of work and responsibility is limited to a particular phase of construction and whose scope is limited to a subset of the activities described in the categories established in s. 489.105, F.S."

According to the Florida license website, you don't need to hire a specialty gas line contractor to hook up a natural gas appliance. Here is a link to the Florida website that describes what type of work a licensed plumber can perform.

Construction Industry – MyFloridaLicense.com

Under plumbing contractors, it says that plumbers can work on natural gas pipes. Also, I don't think that Mike Scott Plumbing has a gas line specialty license. According to the Florida website, Mike Scott is a certified plumbing contractor, but not a gas line specialty contractor.

Thanks!

Would it make a difference ig they had to run a new gas line?

Not sure, but I don't think so, if it is on private property.

This whole thread is strange, wondering what the contractor would say about the verbal quote.

A friend in Lakewood Ranch wanted a gas heater for his pool(an afterthought unfortunately). He groused about the high cost of running a gas line but there was no combined gas line/pool heater installation. Two separate entities.

The first question the
Patriot rep should have asked was do you have an existing gas heater? A no answer should have prompted the information regarding the need to run a gas line.

Any contractor that does not come out and look at the job is a red flag.

all you need to test a gas line is a manometer attached to a fitting and the ability to isolate the lines with two tees

Not uncommon here since they can view the property drawings on line.

But how does he know the condition of the grouting?

Good point for this instance.

Ever since about six months before T&D sold off the service line of their business to Patriot Pools and Spas that business has been a complete train wreck. It went way downhill under T&D and continued to deteriorate after the sale, run away from them for your sanity. The biggest problem is finding another competent pool service company as they are all overwhelmed with the mass exodus from Patriot coupled with a shortage of labor. After a couple tries we finally found a good service company last March, but I’m not going to say who we use for fear of that Company growing beyond their ability to hire good pool technicians. The labor shortage is real, I have watched both our HVAC and Irrigation Companies grow beyond their capabilities to offer quality service after myself and others raving about them on TOTV. The Villagers has grown faster than the supply of qualified and willing workers to support the place.