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Default Code for below grade gas pipe
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I have two questions relative to the international building code for buried
gas pipe:

1. Minimum depth?

2. What materials are acceptable? Is it OK to use galvanized pipe? (My
contractor is doing that and I am afraid of future gas leaks due to rust.)
What does the code say.

Many thanks.

Codes vary from location to location, but here in winter free
south, it must be 24" below grade. It must NOT be galvanized.
It is usually plastic, copper or black iron (in a sleeve).

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Robert Allison
Rimshot, Inc.
Georgetown, TX
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