Blue flame can bring comfort and coziness to every home. Not a single hostess preparing food can do without it. However, the use of gas is often fraught with risk, and the safety of all its inhabitants depends on how well the gas system is installed in the house. That's why transfer of gas pipes and all other installation work of the gas supply system is best left to professionals.
When to Replace Gas Pipes
Moving gas pipes in a house is a very responsible matter, which is directly related to safety. Therefore, it is important to remember that certain skills and special training cannot be dispensed with here. Of course, the work of hired specialists in a house or apartment can lead to some financial costs, but if we consider the work from the security side, then its payment will not be so big.
As a rule, the transfer of gas pipes is carried out during a major overhaul in an apartment or house. But the need to move the pipes may also arise in cases of technical malfunctions. According to the rules and regulations, the entire gas supply system must be reconstructed every 20 years of operation. And in each individual case, whether this is an installation, whether it is necessary to move, cut a pipe or carry out other work related to the gas supply system, it is necessary to clearly follow all safety rules.
Instructions for transferring the gas pipe
A professional who carries out the transfer of gas pipes always adheres to certain rules and algorithms:
- The apartment always has a special gas access valve, which should be shut off before starting work;
- The gas pipeline must be carefully purged to remove the remaining gases from it;
- At the junction with the gas pipeline, it is necessary to cut the pipe that interferes, and weld the resulting hole by welding;
- A special hole is made in the wall and a gas pipe is mounted.
It is important to remember that the gas distribution must contain specially designed holes for a flexible bellows hose through which household appliances are connected. The length of such a hose should not exceed two meters.
Basic requirements for specialists when transferring pipes of a gas system
In the apartment, the gas pipe is mainly located in the kitchen. Every person daily uses the gas pipeline and household appliances connected to it. But sometimes it happens that the gas supply pipe interferes. In such cases, the transfer of gas pipes is carried out.
Before cutting the pipe in the kitchen, you must:
- Write an application to the gas service and indicate the need to transfer the pipe;
- A technical specialist will have to leave for the place where it is planned to move the pipe carrying the gas;
- After that, the conditions for the upcoming work are assessed;
- The specialist must make his decision about the possibility of transferring or cutting the pipe and, if necessary, make the necessary calculations, as well as draw up an approximate estimate.
Sometimes, when the layout of the gas supply system in the kitchen does not suit the owner of the house or apartment, you need to resort to drawing up a new technical plan for the room, taking into account how the new wiring should look like, whether it will be attached to the wall where the box for the gas pipe will be located, and so Further.
When entrusting the transfer of a gas pipe in the kitchen or any other room to specialists, you should make sure of their qualifications. To do this, it is worth checking the availability of certificates, dates of recertification and confirmation of professionalism.
After the wiring of the gas supply system in the kitchen is changed, the gas service employees are required to provide an act of work performed and make an appropriate note about the system changes in the gas passport of the room.
Sanitary norms and rules for the location of the gas supply system
Regardless of whether the gas pipeline is fixed on the wall, in the floor or openly in the room, in any case, the distance from it to building structures, technological equipment or other pipelines in an apartment or house should be taken into account, taking into account the possibility of inspection, control and installation . At the same time, the gas pipeline system in the kitchen or in any other place should not cross ventilation grilles, as well as openings for doors or windows.
Between the gas pipe passing through the wall and the means of wired broadcasting and communication, the distance must be determined in accordance with all existing safety regulations.
In residential buildings, the height of the gas pipeline and its wiring must be at least 2.2 meters from the floor level to the bottom of the pipe through which the gas flows. If the pipe is equipped with a heater, then in such cases the distance to the bottom of the heater is taken.
You can fix the gas pipeline, which is laid openly, to the wall using:
- brackets;
- hooks;
- clamps;
- pendants and so on.
The same means are used in cases where it is necessary to fix the pipe on ceilings or columns.
All requirements that regulate the distance between the fasteners of the gas pipeline are set out in the Sanitary Norms and Rules of SNiP No. 2.04.12-86.
Safety First
Basically, the layout of the gas pipeline system in an apartment, kitchen, house or other room is provided for in the planning documents of this room. Often, gas pipes are mounted on the wall. But if, nevertheless, you decide to make some changes, move or cut the gas pipe, then in any case it is worth remembering the safety rules. And this is understandable - during work, when the wiring of the gas supply system in the room is affected, there is always a risk of an accident. Therefore, if you decide to move the pipe or change its position on the wall only to improve the attractiveness of the room, it is better to refuse such an idea.
If the decision to make changes in the gas supply system is finally made, then make sure that at this moment there are as few people as possible in the room.
It is important to remember that when organizing the transfer of gas pipes and entrusting the implementation of work to special organizations, the organization must have the appropriate certificate to carry out work of such a plan.
All work related to cutting, transferring or fastening pipes must be accompanied by acts of work performed. And only in such cases you can be sure that nothing threatens your life and the lives of your loved ones.
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