Hit a gas line with my hammer drill last Tuesday on a fridge ice maker hookup

I was putting in a water line for a new fridge in a house built in 1972. Drilled right into the wall behind the fridge and hit a gas line for the stove. Lucky nothing sparked. Had to call the gas company and wait 2 hours. Any of you guys run into this when running water lines behind old appliances?

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milaw1421d ago

Wait, is this really that big of a deal? I've done plenty of drilling near gas lines in old houses and never had an issue. Sounds like you just hit a line that was already loose or rusty, not a bomb waiting to go off. Unless you're drilling right into a main line, a small pinprick leak is mostly just annoying, not dangerous.

carr.lee21d ago

Can't believe you're just casually admitting to drilling near gas lines like it's no big deal.

xenaf5121d ago

Did you read that report from a few years back about the guy who lost half his house because a tiny pinhole leak in a gas line made the whole place go up? It's not about hitting a main line, it's about sparking a gas cloud you didn't even know was building. That "annoying" smell a lot of people ignore has killed people in basements and crawlspaces. Just saying, there's a reason codes exist for this stuff.