September 27, 2008
Plastic Gas Line Tracer Wire IRC G2415.14.3 (404.14.3)
The code says
A yellow insulated copper tracer wire or other approved conductor shall be installed adjacent to underground nonmetallic piping.
I would assume what is shown below is acceptable. What does “other approved” mean ?
Plastic Gas Line Tracer Wire
Filed under Ch24 Fuel Gas, G2415 Piping Sys Install, Gas Lines by .
Comments on Plastic Gas Line Tracer Wire IRC G2415.14.3 (404.14.3)
8:43 pm
Metal wire is required so that utility workers can use induced current detectors to pass a strong magnetic field over the ground and watch for induced current in metal wires. That way they know where the gas / water / cable / etc lines are buried. Simple plastic tape would do no good (other than for visual identification while digging), unless it had a metallic strip.
This one just looks like shiny plastic (but it is hard to tell if there is a metal strip).
4:48 pm
It appears to be a metallic tape.