Any safety/ technical issues for using lead pipe for gas

[ISAACCHAN]

In regulation 5 (2) of Gas Safety(Inst. and Use) Regulations. it mentions:
"no person shall install in a building any pipe or pipe fitting for use in the supply of gas which is -
(a) made of lead or lead alloy;"

Is it any safety issue / technical problem for using lead/lead alloy for gas supply?

 

[45yearsagasman]

It'll melt in a house fire.

 

[doitall]

It'll melt in a house fire.

So will copper

 

[Charnwood]

I actually had a customer whose installer customer couldn't get his head around why he should convert from yellow MDPE to copper before it entered the house

 

[PlumbGas]

In regulation 5 (2) of Gas Safety(Inst. and Use) Regulations. it mentions:
"no person shall install in a building any pipe or pipe fitting for use in the supply of gas which is -
(a) made of lead or lead alloy;"

Is it any safety issue / technical problem for using lead/lead alloy for gas supply?

Simplez Regs say not to so we don't and as gas installers we don't question the written word in our bible.

 

[45yearsagasman]

It'll melt in a house fire.

So will copper

The solder will go first, but that's being picky

 

[gas112]

Just about everything will burn/melt/distort in a fire, copper just holds its integrity a lot longer than lead

 

[45yearsagasman]

Suffice to say, lead is a no no.

 

[Onetap]

It was used for meter tails years ago, before flexible pipe became available.
I know of one old meter where the lead had allegedly pinholed, causing a slight smell of gas.

 

[FiremanT]

It was used for meter tails years ago, before flexible pipe became available.
I know of one old meter where the lead had allegedly pinholed, causing a slight smell of gas.

I've seen a few anacondas pi55 with gas due to a tiny spot of flux on them!

Simplez Regs say not to so we don't and as gas installers we don't question the written word in our bible

Most of this forum is based on questioning, bedating and interpreting the "written word"!!

 

[PlumbGas]

Simplez Regs say not to so we don't and as gas installers we don't question the written word in our bible

Most of this forum is based on questioning, bedating and interpreting the "written word"!!

That may be so, but regs are regs, no amount of debate will change a Reg.

 

[Onetap]

That may be so, but regs are regs, no amount of debate will change a Reg.

I wasn't suggesting anyone should use lead, but simply stating that it was used 50+ years ago, before something better became available, and that it was prone to start leaking.