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Re: OT: Natural gas vs LPG
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Posted by farmerjohninpa on January 16, 2007 at 21:06:34 from (64.136.27.227):
In Reply to: OT: Natural gas vs LPG posted by Tx Jim on January 16, 2007 at 10:43:17:
a house on propane has an average operating pressure of 11 to 13 inches of water column ( less then 1/2 p.s.i. ) a house on natural gas has an average working pressure of 3 to 5 p.s.i. orifices are used to convert an appliance from NG to LP !!! orifices for lp are on the average of two thirds smaller then that of a NG orifice.
natural gas uses gas meters to measure the amount of nat. gas used in a home, they are notorius to everyone in the gas industry to be out of calibration and not in the publics favor. a month ago in lancaster county,pa. a house was leveled by a NAT.gas leak. being a new developement of 108 homes, the township had the nat. gas company check all the houses for leaks,, they found 37 leaks and the public was told that they were outside at the meters and were of no threat and should not be concerned.
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