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Looked into a pipe bursting rig a few times.
What’s a 40 gas installed cost in Atlanta now ?

I remember being in a hotel room in Atlanta looking through the phone book back in 1987. I took my girlfriend to six flags.

The advertised price was $900.00 back then. Total job.

Back home we could barely get 1/2 that.
 

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I broke down while I was there in 1987. Transmission fluid all over the ground.

I hitchhiked to an auto parts store and bought some rubber hose and clamps. One of the transmission cooler lines had burst. Got it repaired and took my ass back to Bama.

I was a just a kid, got in the car with a guy that took me to the store. One of the dumbest things I ever did. Guy could’ve robbed, killed me and no one would’ve ever known.

When you get older you look back on your life and see how things could’ve easily ended and by nothing but the will of God it didn’t.
 

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Dude, I would be the only plumber in town doing that, and it would scare me. Not because of the install, but because of what some other jackasss or HO may try to do later. I use CCST from time to time, and recently this month started using the yellow poly for underground.

But people are dangerous. Like gas grill stub outs on new homes. Everyone else leaves them capped outside on a new un-sold home. Not us. We install a valve, and regulator (IF needed) and cap the end of the line. I've had 5 calls the past few years of guys wanting someone to come check the gas on their grill, that its shooting flames 4 feet high, from them hooking it up themselves not knowing what they're doing. I could see that copper line getting tapped into for anything else but gas by someone else.
Don’t worry about that. It’s perfectly legal. Mark the pipe with 2psi gas stickers every few feet.

I get calls all the time with grills without regulators. Main complaint is “ all I do is crack the valve but I still Burn thefood “
 

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...FML, true story. Entire subdivision here has NG ran in Galv. above ground but thin wall MF pvc underground....ffs🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
Nothing but the best from my Florida boys

I don’t live in Florida but I live close enough to drive across the state line and install a water heater or do a repipe. 🤓🤭😉
 

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I practiced writing my name on a few pieces of 1/4" steel. it didnt look good.. I dont know who's welding Ridgid gang boxes together these days but the last 2 ive bought, all i can say I DAYUM. Look like ray charles did it.
You need to learn how to solder before you weld. I can help you if you’re interested in learning to use a torch.

Or I can help you learn how to flare. One important step is putting the nut on before you flare the tube.
 
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