On Oct 14, 2:57*pm, "HeyBub" wrote:
Robert Allison wrote:

Not a big deal at all unless you don't have a valve at the appliance.
Just make sure to turn off the valve before you start and it is a
piece of cake. *I will assume that your dryer has an electronic
ignition, so no pilot lights to relight.

If you DON'T have a valve at the appliance, then you have to shut off
the gas to the house, then relight all of your pilots after you turn
it back on. *It would be a good time to install a valve at the dryer
when you turn off the gas.

Not really if you have a cap at hand for the pipe. Disconnect the dryer and
screw on the cap. The amount of gas that escapes from the line is piddly.
You can hold your thumb over the pipe while you screw around with getting
the cap out of the package with your other hand, the pressure is about
2oz/sq in.

Admittedly, this is not the best way to address the problem, but at least
you won't have to muck about re-lighting pilot lights.

When I replaced my furnace, we found out that the main shutoff inside
the house turned off the gas to everything except the furnace. We had
to repipe the gas at the furnace since the new furnace's gas valve was
on the opposite side compared to the old one.

It was late on a chilly day by the time we discovered that and didn't
want to shut the gas off at the meter and then have to get the utility
company involved to turn it back on and all that that would entail.

We opened all of the windows and the guy who was doing the piping used
2 caps. He removed the old pipe back to where he had to change
directions and then capped the live section. He then measured for the
next section and put a cap on it. He removed the cap on the live pipe
and installed the new capped section. He continued this method of
uncapping the live line and installing capped sections until he
reached the valve at the furnace.

There was less of a gas smell than you'd get if your pilot light was
out.