"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
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"The Post Quartermaster"
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All of the black pipe coming is reg 3/4 as per the propane company.
The shutoff valves are 3/4 with 5/8 female. I bought all 5/8 flex
pipe to go from the shutoffs to the individual appliances.


Each appliance manufacturer will give a recommended minimum size,
based on consumption. I use propane for cooking. Our old range
specified 3/8" line and that is what we have. When we bought a new
range with higher output burners, the company recommends 1/2". The
service guy from the propane company did the hookup and checked each
burner and with everything full on, it is easily supplied with the
existing 3/8" line.

You may need larger than the 5/8 for a large furnace, but most other
appliances will be just fine with it. Worst case scenario is you
don't get the out put and have to replace a line, but I'd bet
against it.


Thanks. We're going native and not having a furnace nor central air
conditioning. This a a two story house and I'm not going to heat a
cool a bunch of rooms that nobody is going to be in but maybe once a
week. Just a 220 window unit built in upstairs and one down and a
large space heater upstairs and one down all rated at over 1500 square
feet so we'll see how that works out for awhile.