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Aaron R · Guest

Drip legs are used to collect "dirt" that is in the gas, but nowadays, I've read our gas/fossil fuel we use is a lot cleaner. If you don't see a
drip leg on the gas/oil supply to a furnace, water heater,etc., would you point it out?

Just want to hear from the rest of ya

J Farsetta · Guest

If the utility company in our area sees a natural gas-fired furnace with no drip leg, they will turn the gas off to the house until the condition is remedied.

It IS a requirement with natural gas. I have yet to see a drip leg on an oil fired furnace or appliance.
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Joe Farsetta
Advanced Professional Services Group, Inc.
Pearl River, NY

ltrowe · Guest

Aaron,

International Residential Code 2003

G2419.2 (408.2) Drips. Where wet gas exists, a drip shall be provided at any point in the line of pipe where condensate could collect. A drip shall also be provided at the outlet of the meter and shall be installed so as to constitute a trap wherein an accumulation of condensate will shut off the flow of gas before the condensate will run back into the meter.

Lee Trower

Aaron R · Guest

Thanks for all the help...

Nowadays it seems like the gas appliances get their gas from a "header" type deal... by header, I mean like headers on a car... on a v8, there are two sets of headers where 4 chambers turn into one to go to the catalytic converter.... its hard to explain, but before this header in the residential home, I see a "drip-leg" where dust, etc would settle...

F0ck.... I'll have to get a pic for you guys....

Gerry B · Guest

Hi Aaron,
you seem to be getting this gas leg issue all round your neck.

1) oil fired appliances do not need a drip leg as the inverted filter that should be between the oil tank and the appliance feed should trap any moisture in the oil as oil is lighter than water.
2) the "header" that you are talking about is called a manifold and is used in conjuntion with flexible or "gastite" gas lines where all of the feeds tend to come off one central manifold.

In the above instance the drip leg is normaly installed at the lowest point of the sytem on the supply side of manifold, which in my limited experience with these type of instalations is most often as the first element of the manifold.

Check out this link, take 2 asprins and call me in the morning:

http://www.gastite.com/productframe.htm

Regards

Gerry

Aaron R · Guest

Nah.. I'm all good...

I know that all gas-fired appliances need drip legs and if one is missing one, I'd note it on the report..... but if there is a nice long drip leg before the manifold that branches off for all gas appliances .... why would you need one AGAIN at each appliance? Its like having two shut offs, which in some cities is illegal, but then again, if you think about it...some cities require a gas shut off on all appliances right next to it, but for what reason??....Because if there is a stove fire, you sure ain't going to pull out the stove and shut the gas off from there, are ya Some codes are conflicting....

Russell · Guest

I have a funny story. We were moving into a new house and I was changing the outlet for the dryer to fit my cord. Well I had turned the breaker off. Well my wife yelled to me that the hot water was not hot.
So I yelled back to her and said I would look at it when I was finished, I then bent back down to tighten the *beep* to the wires. and POW!!! S*it.
My wife and thought that the breaker the hot water heater was turned off (she did not listen to me, or read the label on the panel) and she turned on the breaker to the dryer. I was not hurt just stunned and P*ssed.

The moral of the story, Put tape on your breaker switches (and let you wife know what you are doing) LOL

kluce · Guest

It's always good to get out of the house and shut the gas off to the whole house with the shut off at the meter. I made a tool that sits by my meter just in case it is needed. I made this tool when I was bored one day.

I never thought the type of shut off at the meter was a good one. It's hard to turn off even with a wrench sometimes.

Guest a · Guest

Drip legs are necessary; on my own building my boiler went out because the drip leg filled w/ sediment (rust) and then the nozzle was next.

gary · Guest

i don't recall seeing a dripleg on any clothes dryer or cook range supplied thru 1/2"soft copper pipe/tube. how can this get by the drip leg rule?