Gas pipe underground

[MOSSEP]

Hi all,


Got a question regarding running a gas pipe under ground. My client has had a new meter installed at the end of their garden which is about 15m from the house. Is it right that you have to run it in steel barrel pipe? This is what the gas guy who I use has said needs to go in, he’s a good bloke but close top retirement so doesn’t care much for looking into new ways of doing things. The customer want to install a duct so I was hoping he could put in the yellow plastic pipe that the gas board use or something like tracpipe (that PVC coated flexible steel stuff) after the trench has been back filled.


Anyone have any experience in this?

 

[stani]

Use Tracpipe great stuff

 

[Chalked]

Yellow mdpe at the correct depth with transition fittings at either end.
Will need sizing.

 

[Dotty]

Tracpipe or gastite, both excellent choices.

 

[mfgs]

Yellow mdpe will be fine as long as you keep it underground and outside the house, it will be the cheapest option I would have thought.

 

[Toxic Ted]

Trackpipe or the same by another name.

 

[tamz]

15m is a pretty big run before you hit the house. 32mm min and valve it and test point when it hits the house.

 

[Rckape]

That's going to be quite a large volume. I've not calculated the volume but surely that's getting close to the domestic limit?

 

[tamz]

That's going to be quite a large volume. I've not calculated the volume but surely that's getting close to the domestic limit?

A U6 shouldn't be a problem but a 16 probably will hence the valve and test point at the house. It will need an aecv anyway.