Anne is very worried about this. She has started two threads in the last few days.

Here is the issue that was national.

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If the homes were built to code, perhaps the code has been changed.

anne: This topic is of great concern so please cite your authority. do you have documentation that those homes built in TV with gas appliances are not built to code . (NPFA) has very complicated rules and there are times when an alternative is permissible. How do you know TV knows about this problem? Also do you know for certain that TV issued vouchers, and if so, why TV stopped? Do you know if the POA is pursuing this safety issue and in what manner? I intend to make inquiries on my own. I am thankful that you cared enough to post but your posts left me thinking "but we don't know that?" Please in the future include more information as suggested above. If you cannot produce such documentation then simply state that ----is looking into safety concerns related to---- and leave it at that

Perhaps it was the company that made CSST pipe that gave the vouchers?

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Grounding and bonding the Corrugated was always required by code
 

Teco gas has said that it was always a code requirement and it always has been. It does not matter about any of this discussion if these practices are known to be Unsafe and can cause fires and explosions and kill and injure people YOU JUST DO DO THINGS THAT WAY IF IT IS UNSAFE AND VERY DANGEROUS I NOT SURE WHAT PART OF THAT YOU DO NOT GET.

It does not matter if is unsafe it is unsafe.
 

It does not matter if it is unsafe it is unsafe. Call TECO GAS get there 16 page Booklet on GAS on page 8 it in the middle of the page IT STATES that ( IF YOU FIND CORRUGATED STAINLESS STEEL TUBING IN YOUR HOME YOU SHOULD IMEDIATELY CONTACT A LICENSED ELECTRICAN TO INSPECT AND INSURE THAT THE CORRUGATED STAINLESS STEEL TUBING IS PROPERLY GROUNDED AND BONDED TO PREVENT LEAKS AND FIRES.) YOU DO NOT HAVE TO TAKE MY WORD FOR THIS CALL TECO. GOOGLE STAINLESS STEEL TUBING AND READ WHAT IT SAYS.

The county building inspector should not have approved Teco to put gas in the system, if it was not complying with the code requirements.
If they did, the county and the installer and Teco should be liable.
Regardless, If your installation is not up to current codes, have the work done :shrug:

Csst
 

When I return to The Villages in the fall the first thing I will do is contact an electrician and have my home inspected and corrected.It is my understanding when my house was built (2000) that the code did not require bonding and grounding of CSST gas lines,I could be wrong.

Okay, you've gotten the word out, ann. No need for the all-caps shouting. People will do what they see fit with the information. If they insist on arguing with you, just ignore it. The thread will die off.

CSST is legal in all 50 states. It was the subject of a 2007 class action lawsuit. There was a six month window to apply for a voucher that would offset the cost of a lightning protection system (lightning rods). The CSST manufacturers insist that their product is safety if it is properly bonded and grounded with a No. 6 bare copper conductor on the gas manifold in the attic that is connected to the main electric panel ground.

When you checked, what did you find out?

I understand they quit putting in gas lines because Teco felt the way they were installed was not safe.

My understanding was that when the developer negotiated with Sumter County to build down here, he had to make certain concessions so as to not use up too many of their natural resources. Going all electric was one of them.

That was what our realtor told us, anyway. But then another realtor told us they quit building models and furnishing them, and people on here say that's not true. So who knows.

The vouchers were a long time ago but if I remember they did not get you free lightning rods. You still had to pay something.

I do remember that I passed because it was not as good as a deal as I thought.

Z

Faliure to ground and bond Corrugatted Stainless Steel Tubing causes fires
 

If you do not get what the problem is GOOGlE Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing and read the articles. The way the Corrugated Steel Tubing is installed in attics Villages cause fires and explosion. There is nothing to get. You can choose to ignore the facts but the facts are there. If you understand what the problem is you would not want your grandchildren to sleep in these homes. You can think what you want. This a known very dangerous siaution. If you read the Google articles aboutCorrugated Stainless Steel Tubing you will find that just about anbody who has anything to do with this siaution agrees the way this gas pipe is installed in the Villages it can burn your house down.

Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing when insalled in violation of fire code
 

Corrugatted Stainless Steel Tubing as it is installed in the manner that is in the Villages is Dangerous. If you think that is something that is funny or amusing or unimportant than you are nor looking at the facts. It is not funny, it is not amusing and it is not unimportant. It is burning homes in the Villages down to the slab. It will keep doing this till it is fixed.