gadolphus32
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My water heater has a drip leg on the gas line that looks basically like this (not my actual installation, just an image I grabbed quickly online):
I'd like to tap into the gas line to install another appliance by removing the cap at the bottom of the drip leg, installing a tee and branching out from it. The bottom of the tee would be capped, and the middle of the tee would feed the new line.
Is there any reason I can't do this? I understand that the purpose of the drip leg is to catch debris and moisture at the lowest point in the system. It seems to me that the bottom of the tee would still serve this purpose in the configuration I propose, but maybe I'm missing something.
![hwh_pilot_valve.jpg](/forums/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-r-EtR5HiVDo%2FU06bUbpXy_I%2FAAAAAAAAAXw%2Fy6e1RZYV1gk%2Fs1600%2Fhwh_pilot_valve.jpg&hash=f7844908fc3774ca14af34ec3f2172bb)
I'd like to tap into the gas line to install another appliance by removing the cap at the bottom of the drip leg, installing a tee and branching out from it. The bottom of the tee would be capped, and the middle of the tee would feed the new line.
Is there any reason I can't do this? I understand that the purpose of the drip leg is to catch debris and moisture at the lowest point in the system. It seems to me that the bottom of the tee would still serve this purpose in the configuration I propose, but maybe I'm missing something.