Natural Gas Line and Slab Construction

[Drunkonunleaded]

This is only tangentially related to my garage, so please feel free to move/delete if desired. Anyhow, I live in a tri-level home in which the Kitchen/Family Room and Garage are on the "main" level, which is located on a slab. The Living Room and Upstairs both sit roughly a half story above/below the main level.

Sadly, the kitchen has an electric range, no doubt due to this portion being situated on the slab. My utility room is located in the basement, and features a gas furnace, water heater, and dryer.

My question is whether there's a workable solution to getting gas to the range as well? Barring code compliance, my thought is that a gas line could be ran through the garage and through the wall to where the stove sits (red box). I currently have electrical running in a same manner to the sub-panel which is also located on the same garage wall that is shared with the kitchen.

I have included a rudimentary illustration. Am interested to hear input from the hivemind here.

 

[HoosierBuddy]

I see no problems with your plan, although I'm not clear on where you are going to start your line from.

If it was me, I'd use 3/4" or 1/2" threaded black pipe. Rectorseal #5 on the threads. Get the range ahead of time so you can see where the clearance is on the back for stubbing through the wall. I'd be very tempted to put my shutoff valve in the garage. It would be WAY more accessible that way. Maybe put it right before you go through the wall into the kitchen. Once in the kitchen you'll need an appliance connector of sufficient length. Probably 1/2" diameter.

 

[Drunkonunleaded]

I see no problems with your plan, although I'm not clear on where you are going to start your line from.

If it was me, I'd use 3/4" or 1/2" threaded black pipe. Rectorseal #5 on the threads. Get the range ahead of time so you can see where the clearance is on the back for stubbing through the wall. I'd be very tempted to put my shutoff valve in the garage. It would be WAY more accessible that way. Maybe put it right before you go through the wall into the kitchen. Once in the kitchen you'll need an appliance connector of sufficient length. Probably 1/2" diameter.

That's a good point. I did not include the location of the gas meter because I cannot recall if it is on the SW or SE corner of the lower level (if using the "garage" portion as the NW corner). Theoretically, I'd either run it along the West side of the back half of the house, and through the Southern wall of the garage (brick), or do a similar run but bury the pipe. I need to check local regs regarding running buried vs. exposed.

Agreed on the shutoff in the garage. From that perspective, this setup is almost ideal. It is getting gas from an existing line to the garage that will prove a challenge.

 

[HoosierBuddy]

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Bury the part outside. Get as close as you can, come above ground and start running your pipe from there. I'd also put a shut off where you tee off the existing pipe downstream of the meter.

 

[Drunkonunleaded]

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Bury the part outside. Get as close as you can, come above ground and start running your pipe from there. I'd also put a shut off where you tee off the existing pipe downstream of the meter.

This is the exact kit that I was looking at. Meter is located at about the midpoint of the East wall of the house. Measuring out my run (albeit with Google Maps), I am getting just shy of 85'. It should be pretty cut and dry.

 

[mike93lx]

Have you considered induction instead? They heat faster than gas and would be a lot simpler

 

[CraigStu]

Wow I didn't know a kit like that was available. Our previous house had natural gas and black iron pipe ran it maybe 50ft from the meter to the kitchen stove w/ drops along the way for heat and hot water. The previous owner ran an additional line outside but roughly parallel to the original line to provide a hookup on the deck for the grill. Our current house has propane and again black iron pipe all thought the basement. But they did use a black super heavy hose much like the kit for the last couple feet to each consumer. I like the idea of including some flex especially if anything needs to be replaced. If you would ever want to ad a drop, say in the garage for heat, consider your main hose size and maybe bump it up one. I can see ours is done that way. BTW one of these works great in my garage.
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[RegeSullivan]

I believe in many jurisdictions code will require a shutoff valve behind the range. For what it's worth... I have been a gas stove only for all my life. Hated electric until I got an induction range. I would never go back to gas. Induction does have a few drawbacks over gas but far more advantages in my experience. The worst thing for me was giving away a couple of commercial aluminum non-stick pans and one 22 qt non-magnetic 28qt stockpot.

 

[Zeke]

At that length you need 3/4". You can have a 1/2" shut off.