[Shop-talk] Is this a shutoff?

[Scott Hall]

Sigh. Resurrecting this thread:

Does it turn "off" counterclockwise and "on" clockwise?

The water heater won't fire, and the shutoff is not turning smoothly. If I
didn't know better, I'd think it wasn't supposed to be turning at all. I'm
not entirely sure the gas is even on

I think I'm going to turn the whole house off and start swapping these for
regular quarter-turn ball valves with lever handles. There's a ball valve
with a lever that terminates into an open length of pipe and opening that
ball valve produces a whooshing noise, so there's gas behind the line to
the heater. Could be the heater's dead--it's awful-looking and I should
swap it anyway really.

Might was well re-do the whole system while I'm there.

So I guess now this is a: "any advice for someone about to re-plumb the gas
lines in his house?" thread.

Think I'll get a tankless water heater. Those seem to be the thing now.

And I'll be running a line to the garage, too. It will need its own furnace
and water heater (shower), or else for me to extend the hot-water heat into
it. I don't think I want to do that.

Scott

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Steve Hammatt, Mount Vernon WA USA <
gsteve at hammatt.com> wrote:

> Thatbs a shut off.
>
> Steve Hammatt
> Mount Vernon WA USA
>
> *From:* Scott Hall <scott.hall.personal at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, July 27, 2015 2:03 PM
> *To:* Shop-talk at autox.team.net
> *Subject:* [Shop-talk] Is this a shutoff?
>
> Guys,
>
> My gas line seems to be devoid of shutoffs. There's a few of these things:
>
> http://imgur.com/StikUPR
>
> Which I hope are shutoffs, and one obvious shutoff...on a pipe with an open
> end. Opening that shutoff value produces a sound like gas moving.
>
> I can't find a whole-house shutoff (or a meter). I'm assuming it's
> underground. The utility says I have gas service.
>
> The thing in the picture is just upstream of the water heater. I'm hoping
> that's a shutoff because if it's not I don't know how to R&R the heater,
> and the heater is on its way out.
>
> Also, there MUST be a whole-house shutoff, yes? I'd like to re-do a lot of
> the piping under there, but you'd better bet I'm not touching it until  I
> know it's off to the whole house...or at least shut off upstream of where
> I'm working.
>
> If that thing IS a shutoff...how do it work? Or rather, how to I know when
> it's open and when it's shut? Clockwise is off, counterclockwise is on?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott, hoping not to blow hisself up
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