Gas Pipe?

[ICE]

Me: So whats the pipe for?

Contr.: I don't know but it's a dead line?

Me: If you don't know what it's for, how do you know it's dead? Did you shoot it yourself?

Contr. It looks dead to me.

Me: Might not be a bad idea to find out before you smother it in concrete.

Contr.: There is a union so I'll take it apart and see if it is live.

Me: Oh Hell no, it looks like it could be a gas pipe. Get Dig Alert to come out.

Contr: Dig Alert was here before we started and they didn't find it.

Me: Well I guess it's not here then.

Contr.: Can we pour the footing?

Me: What footing, all I see is a pipe.

 

[SCBO1]

Dig alert did'nt see the footing either?

pc1

 

[High Desert]

That's the drain pipe the guy went down in the start of "Jeepers Creepers."

 

[fireguy]

Isn't that union in an inacsessable place? Is that legal?

 

[ICE]

As it turns out, I sent the contractor on a goose chase. Six separate entities denied ownership in writing. I couldn't think of anybody else that needed to be asked so I approved the footing.

To those that wonder, why six entities? The gas co. two water co. Three petrochemical companies that have a bunch of pipes running helter-skelter under the roads and criss crossing properties. I was told that one 10" pipe runs all the way to Arizona. The contractor understood why he went on the goose chase. He also agreed to wrap the pipe with 3" of foam just in case.

I had a 12" pipe show up in the side of a pool excavation. Nobody would claim it so the contractor cut 15' out and called it good. He was upset about having to cap the pipe.

 

[Frank]

Back in the early 80s highway work was being done near Charleston WVA and a 6 inch gas line that had not been marked by Miss Utility was found--hold everything.

Columbia Gas was called the guy looked in his book and said abandoned line no problem just rip it out.

About an hour later Columbia Gas get a call about a smell of gas in a 10,000 sq ft Food Town grocery store a few hundred yards down the hill.

Gas guy parks his truck next to the store and talks to the manager who asks if he should evacuate the store. Gas guy sniffs the air but does not pull detector off truck and says no need to evacuate, no problem it is not enough to worry about must be related to the road construction. Gas guy starts up the hill to look into it and gets about 100 yards when a woman in the break room lights a cigarette, ignition, the roof raises and settle back down on top of the display shelves, and the 4 walls lay down. About 3 dozen people come scrambling out the burning store dragging the wounded behind them. It took about a week to determine that by the grace of God there were no fatalities.

Picture in the paper shows the Columbia Gas truck under a pile of cinderblocks with the burning store in the background with a A E Neumanesque caption of "What Me Worry".

Turns out the line had been abandoned by closing the valve. Guess which side of the valve the line broke on when ripped out by the Catterpiller.

 

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fireguy,

Pretty much inaccessable when it's encased in concrete under a future wall I would think! Unions are for removing, a coupler would have been better after 21' of pipe if needed on a long run, seems to me a coupler may need to have a spot weld to prevent it from being removed, but that may have been a dream of mine and not required by code??

Make them dance a jig! Polka would be nice!

pc1

 

[chrishanson]

Me: So whats the pipe for? Contr.: I don't know but it's a dead line?

Me: If you don't know what it's for, how do you know it's dead? Did you shoot it yourself?

Contr. It looks dead to me.

Me: Might not be a bad idea to find out before you smother it in concrete.

Contr.: There is a union so I'll take it apart and see if it is live.

Me: Oh Hell no, it looks like it could be a gas pipe. Get Dig Alert to come out.

Contr: Dig Alert was here before we started and they didn't find it.

Me: Well I guess it's not here then.

Contr.: Can we pour the footing?

Me: What footing, all I see is a pipe.

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[chrishanson]

Hi! I don't have any knowledge in plumbing that's why every time I'm having a problem with regards to plumbing I always called this site http://www.mariosplumbing.com.au/. It's the one I've always been trusting when it comes in plumbing service.

 

[MtnArch]

Along the same lines (but not quite), we had a septic issue with the house we're currently renting. The septic contractor (yes ... licensed!) called the propane company to come out and mark the line from the tank to the house as the new leach tight line would have to cross the main propane line. The propane company came out early in the morning, spray painted the location and left. The contractor shows up, sets up the backhoe and starts digging. Gets near the spray-painted line and starts to hand dig. After 4 feet of digging (horizontal AND vertical) and not finding anything, he starts digging with the backhoe again and (unfortunately) rips the line 7 feet (yes ... FEET) away from the spray-painted line.

Calls the propane company, they show up an hour later to repair the line. Contractor calls to complain that they did NOT locate the line correctly - propane company says "The locator didn't have his batteries charged and marked what he **THOUGHT** was correct, and what did you expect since they do this for free?!?!"

I had taken a guess on where the line was located, based on the landlord telling me that they had filled in a ravine way back when and moved the propane tank out. Guess where the line ran? Yep ... right where I had told the contractor where I thought it would be.

Guess I ain't no durned stupid Architect after all!

Ohh ... and guess who paid for all of the repairs ... the landlord (who is a very nice guy and is WAY more than fair) - NOT the propane company. Go figure ....

 

[RJJ]

I hope you didn't let them put the concrete in that footing.

 

[ICE]

They sleeved the pipe and poured.

 

[peach]

even in a sleeve, that coupling is going to be tough to get to...