A friend tells me he smelled gas in his apartment and told his
landlady, and she tells him that 3 gas company cars and a fire engine
showed up. They told him there was nothing wrong with smelling a
little gas at startup of the water heater.

A couple weeks later, the landlady had a plumber in because of clogged
drains. He looked at the same water heater and said that it was
against code (in Maryland, Baltimore City) to use flexible gas pipe
for a water heater..

Is this true?

My friend wonder if there were three gas company cars and a fire
engine, how come none of them complained about the flexible gas pipe??


The plumber wanted 250 to replace the flex pipe with the right pipe.
She thought it was too much. What sounds right to you guys?

Thanks.