Both the city and state building codes say CSST gas lines are approved building materials. However, the city says a lot of the problems it sees are lines that are bonded and grounded because those ...

For years companies that make CSST, which is used to pipe gas to appliances mostly in newer homes, have said most lightning fires can be prevented if CSST is connected or “bonded” to an ...

A six-month-long NBC 5 investigation into flexible gas line tubes known as CSST, corrugated stainless steel tubing, has prompted action that could help protect people who are buying homes across ...

Lightning struck a tree and followed the underground gas line into the basement where the CSST failed, investigators determined. Lightning struck a tree and followed the underground propane gas ...

CSST lines and lightning strikes can be problematic, the fire company stated, because lightning can travel along the tubing and burn a pinhole in the line, resulting in a gas-fed fire burning in ...

All gas piping ... water lines. As long as the connection to the grounding electrode system is outside the service enclosure, these mechanical contractors may install the bonding clamp and conductor ...

Howard County Lt. Nathan Flynn died in 2018 and Frederick County Battalion Chief Josh Laird in 2021. Extremely large single-family houses, lightning strikes causing the corrugated stainless-steel ...