On Tue 24 Mar 2009 04:17:26a, Nate Nagel told us...

Roger Shoaf wrote:
"SMcK" wrote in message
..
.

OK, I just pulled the oven away from the wall and there is no valve to
shut off between the floor and the flexible metal pipe. There's just
the metal pipe coming up through the floor, the flexible tube and the
oven. Any ideas on how to handle this? I wonder if maybe there's a
valve below the floor, in the crawlspace. FWIW - the house was built
in 1950, and I suspect this is the original location for the oven.

-Scott

Easy. Shut off gas at the meter. Install service valve between pipe
coming out of the floor and new flex pipe. Relight any pilot lights on
water heaters furnaces ect.

Plumbing code requires shut off valves on any appliance hookup and the
valves are cheap.

Instead of teflon tape, use pipe dope. This is recomended for gas as
any loose shards of tape can bugger thing up if they get in the flow.


or look in the basement. my house is similar to yours (and similar age)
the shutoff for the range is above ceiling in the basement.

nate


The OP has a crawlspace, not a basement.

--
Wayne Boatwright

"One man's meat is another man's poison"
- Oswald Dykes, English writer, 1709.