Underground Gas Pipes

[lhamilton1807]

Never heard of or seen above-ground ng lines, and I’ve never been offered insurance. We disconnected our gas line last summer and replaced the gas furnace with a heat pump. Called the utility company and they just capped it off before the meter and cancelled service, but they asked if we wanted it cut back and capped closer to the main line. No discussion about who owned what but I assumed they owned everything to the meter.

[Tarsun2]

our electric meter is the same way.
power company wants us to buy insurance for the meter.

we passed on it.

[flyweightnate]

Dallas recently had some major issues with the supply; all the gas lines from before 1950 had to get pulled up after an explosion killed a small girl and destroyed her family's house.

We have highly mobile soil and the lines were brittle and started cracking.

If you're on stable soil and have steel lines instead of cast iron, I wouldn't worry. But it can be a risk in very specific situations. And it's very, very low pressure (less than 1psi often) so I'm sure if you can fix old brass, you can fix a line in a pinch.

[Magmoormaster]

Wait, so you lived somewhere that had above-ground gas pipes to the house?!? That's wild!! I've never heard of that.

[Agglet]

I have my gas ticket and have never heard of a problem with an underground gas line. I've never heard of being responsible for anything before the meter either. I can't see how it would be your responsibility I bet if you tried to dig it up on your own the local utility would be there in minutes to stop you.

[Grendel]

Weird, have owned multiple homes with NG and this has never come up. In my experience you do own and are responsible for everything after the meter which is normally mounted at you home's foundation. In every case my NG has been piped to the house underground and either is routed through the crawl space or basement this is where you "need" a plumber to ensure properly installed. I've done all my own work then had a plumber sign off on it for inspections. To me this sounds like a scam.

[Cdn_Cuda]

Rarely hear of any issue with the gas pipes. Usually the issue you'll have is the sewer pipes.

[punkncat]

I have lived in two homes that had the gas run this way and never had issue out of either one. I wouldn't pay $6 a month for "piece of mind" over something like that unless your home is very old or there is a high risk of earthquake/etc. that could damage it.
It is typically a run of steel pipe, so not much that can happen to it outside of corrosion.

[Nish]

The town we moved to has inground Natural Gas pipes to the house. This is new to me, and apparently the pipe from the main pipe to our responsibility. A company is trying to sell additional insurance for that pipe to the tune of about $6 a month. Anyone else have this and insure the pipe or is it a racket?