You know, it never occurred to me that people wouldn’t know about gas lights in their houses. Here is the story: The first gas lighting for a home was done in the late1700′s in England, and the first gas lighting in a home in the USA was about 100 years later. Gas lighting became widespread with the advent of public utility gas companies, and new houses were built with gas lighting until the first world war.  The incandescent bulb was ..read more

Have you seen, or do you have,  the flexible gas piping (CSST) that some plumbers are installing now? It looks like metal electrical cable, covered by yellow plastic. I can’t say that we’ve never used it, but it has to be a really unusual installation for me to choose it over steel pipe. I don’t like it and wouldn’t choose it for my own house. Sure it’s easy to run, although it’s expensive and the fittings are expensive, and the ..read more