I'm in the process of running a new 1" water main in a trench abutting the slab. It would help a lot if I could remove an old vertical gas stub that's in the way. I dug out the stub down to the tee in the gas line. However, it's so old and rusted that if I torque it from aboveground it may rupture down at the tee instead of unscrewing.
A wiser man than I might just leave it alone and work around it somehow. But I wonder if, in the event that it would rupture, could I successfully cap it off at the ruptured stub with an oversize pipe cap attached with some Simpson EP-22 epoxy?
A wiser man than I might just leave it alone and work around it somehow. But I wonder if, in the event that it would rupture, could I successfully cap it off at the ruptured stub with an oversize pipe cap attached with some Simpson EP-22 epoxy?