gas line main condition

[Starcraft27]

Hi all,

I"m building a retaining wall and have dug carefully around the natural gas line as to not disturb it and avoid it in the project. When digging to locate it I noticed it has a coating on it and in the small area which I carefully dug and exposed some of the coating is missing which exposes the raw pipe. Is this an issue? I have done nat. gas plumbing before but never underground install.

The house is early 1960's and I"m sure this is the original line which and assuming it is galvanized with some sort of coating.

Anybody have more information on this?

 

[Chris]

You could coat it with some wet patch roof cement or some Bitumastic but if it is missing some coating there it is likely missing some on other sections to, none the less I would patch that spot before I buried it. Other then that it is still an old line that will one day fail but if you protect it the best you can you will get the most life out of it.