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Robert Neville Robert Neville is offline
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Default permanent connection of propane grill to city gas?


"Bob M." wrote:

It is a bad idea. Propane burns hotter than natural gas, so the orifices in
the burners are different. The connectors are different too. You'll need a
new grill to hook it up to gas. Or, -possibly- they sell conversion kits.


The age of the grill shouldn't matter. The only thing that is different is the
jet orifice size and those are standard pipe thread in the US. Would its imagine
the same in the UK. It's been a year or so since I hooked the last one up, but
IIRC the flex hose just has standard flare connectors on both ends.


My Weber is nat. gas (was that way from the get-go, wheels and all) and
hooked up via the supplied rubber hose to the gas pipe. I'm sure this is
pretty common so there shouldn't be any code concerns there. Now, some
cities ban the use of grills right next to the house.


The only code concerns I recall is that a) you have to have a shutoff where the
flex hose attaches to the house pipe, and b) that the grill not be located
underneath any portion of the house overhang and that there was some minimum
clearance between the grill and the house wall.