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Gas Service Sizing

11 years ago

I'm adding gas service to my home.

Uses:

Next year, building a large multi-burner gas grill. 100k BTU

Furnace: 80k BTU

Kitchen Cooktop: 150k BTU (realistically never going to have all 6 burners and the grill/griddle surface on, but that is the rating)

Dryer: Can't find a BTU rating for it, standard gas dryer

Future, Water Heater (currently electric) 50k btu

Service line is at 2PSI. What size do I need to safely pull 500k BTU of gas? I'm thinking since the cost is no different, I would be better off going larger if it's even remotely close to a borderline.

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Comments (3)

brickeyee
11 years ago
Whomever is installing the line should be sizing it.
mike_home
11 years ago
You should discuss this with the gas company. They have to ensure they are supplying enough gas to your house up to the meter. I would think you need at least a one inch gas line coming into the house.
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CJ Mechanical of North jersey llc.
11 years ago
You need to layout exact location and how many ft. go to engineering tool box and start desiging from meter on each appliance. In jersey i have to provide a layout to the township with total btu as well as the gas co.
If you go the gas co. with no experiance. they wont help do to liability.

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