Advice on Gas Line For Garage

[24ModelTFord]

I just ordered my garage heater (50K BTU Big Maxx). I will need to run a gas line to the garage from the house. I will be getting a gas fitter to do it. The line will run from my furnace area (where the main line enters the house from the meter), across 19 feet to the opposite side of my basement, then 30 feet to the garage.(the garage is attached). It will then have to go up the approx. 8 feet to the heater.

I have made a couple calls and am getting quotes from 2k for a black pipe installation, to as low as 450 dollars to have a 3/4 Gastite line installed. I have never even seen Gastite in person - is it ok to use, or is it something to avoid?

 

[Beaumont67]

Gastite is kick-***, and fairly new...simply love it, I'm sold. http://www.gastite.com/

I had it recently installed in my whole reno basement, after the black gas pipe was routed into the new furnace room & we made a rigid manifold pipe with central gas ball shut off valves.
- so the ceiling could be 80% drywalled...and nothing was buried or covered up illegally
- cuts down labour considerably / the brass ends and compression clips aren't cheap though ($20/end)
(but offers much cost savings, with no disavantages...that I could see & flexible enough to easily route)

 

[Higgins]

Check and see if local building codes allow it's use!

We used it in our second garage to get gas to the 2nd floor loft area! Installing black gas pipe would have been a night mare! Great product!

 

[sharkytm]

Check and see if local building codes allow it's use!

We used it in our second garage to get gas to the 2nd floor loft area! Installing black gas pipe would have been a night mare! Great product!

Gastite is not allowed in any home in MA. I had to rip out 100+ feet of it from my garage and basement when I changed some other things in the system that involved disconnecting it at one end. It seemed like a very nice system, very much like PEX.