Charlie:
Bill in Copperfield says, “My kitchen is on a slab of hardwood oak flooring surrounded it. It’s in a sea of hardwood floor.” He has the center island has an electric cooktop, but he wants gas and he wants to know what’s it take to get gas. He thinks he will just pull up some wood floor and chisel a slot into the concrete and run a gas line from a bib that’s nearby.
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Tom:
You could answer this one, Charlie.
Charlie:
No, no.
Tom:
You did this at your house.
Charlie:
We did.
Tom:
Yeah, they had to cut a big groove in the concrete.
Charlie:
No, they jack hammered a pretty deep one
Tom:
Well, it depends how deep you have to go.
Charlie:
Yeah, they did. They did, but we were lucky to have extra tile.
Tom:
Yeah, so you could lay the tile back over it and if it’s wood, maybe get some matching wood. It’s easier than getting matching tile, actually.
Charlie:
Amen.
Tom:
He’s right, but a chisel … There’s not probably
Charlie:
You’re not Steve McQueen. This is not the Great Escape.
Tom:
Shawshank Redemption is more like it. The big stuff, but you don’t have to go all the way through the slab. You just have to go deep enough to bury the gas line. Gas line can’t have any connections or it’s buried, so it has to be a solid piece of pipe. Whatever they choose to use. Then they’ll cover it. Then they’ll put, in this case, wood. In your case it was tile back over the top.
Charlie:
He’s talking about doing this himself. I think you probably want a plumber on that gas line, don’t you?
Tom:
Well, he might want to chisel out … I don’t know.
Charlie:
You don’t want to pay the plumber to chisel the channel
Tom:
Yes, to me, I would … If you want to do some work, fix the floor, do the cabinets, put in the appliances, but let somebody else run that line from point A to point B and I think a plumber should be the person to do it.