"JTMcC" wrote in message
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I just find it strange with your vast experiance you have never seen a poly
riser with a steel jacket as stated in one of your previous posts. Here is a
cut and paste from your earlier post.

The connection to the meter is probably painted, but the line from the hot
tap to the riser is most likely poly coated steel pipe. All underground gas
piping is either coated or taped these days. Even if you have a plastic
service from the main, the riser will probably be coated steel
Where in the world are gas companies putting a steel jacket on plastic
pipe??

JTMcC.

I have never seen a steel riser to a meter in this area, They may exist, but
poly with a steel jacket is many times more common.
You made a statement that "All underground gas piping is either coated or
taped these days." Kind of a broad statement, isn't it? You Then you go on
later to admit to using poly for gas, which is it?

You ask what I do, I am a HVAC tech, and I do a ton of gas piping. Many
times I have seen the utility dig in gas supply for a home or bussiness.
EVERY time the tie in is to poly pipe. Some of the older parts of the city
may have steel under ground, but the preferance is poly in this area. I have
watched them bore and pull in poly gas main in new areas of the city many
times, not a bit of steel getting dug in for the city's distrubution.
I did watch them trench in a large transmission pipe this summer it was
steel. It was not a main to my understanding as it just got gas from point
"A" to "B", no branches going off. It was in the neighborhood of 12", but I
did not actually measure it.
Greg