A gas hose for a stove is necessary when connecting the stove to a gas pipe is problematic or impossible. At the end of the last century, in accordance with the then existing regulations and rules, gas stoves were connected to the main gas pipeline only using steel pipes. Such a connection made the stove permanently installed. It was impossible to move her. Of course, only gas service specialists had the right to make such a connection.
About twenty years ago, domestic appliances of foreign production began to appear in large numbers on our market, including gas stoves and all kinds of accessories for them.
For many of us, the hose for connecting a gas stove was a curiosity that everyone appreciated right away. This technique has significant advantages over steel gas pipes.
The installation of gas stoves began to be dealt not only with gas workers, but also with the services of trade enterprises. The flip side of the shiny medal immediately appeared. The seeming ingenuousness of the installation provoked numerous accidents and explosions. Currently, the installation of elastic eyeliner is streamlined by the relevant regulatory documents.
The connection of gas stoves to the line is made by the following types of hoses:
1. A sleeve made of fabric and rubber.
This is the softest gas hose that does not allow electricity to pass through, but it is inferior in mechanical rigidity to other types of hoses.
2. Rubber gas hose for the stove in a special braid of metal.
In appearance, such a hose is similar to the sleeves that serve to supply water. However, its inner part is made not of rubber, but of a special polymer. Yellow threads are woven into the metal braid of such hoses. Red and blue threads are woven into the braid of the sleeves for water supply.
3. Bellows metal hose.
Bellows - because such flexible joints have a corrugated shell (bellows), hardening the product. It is the strongest and most reliable of the types discussed above, but also the most expensive. A gas hose for a stove of this type recommends the use of a newly introduced GOST. It is called "Connections for gas burners and apparatus." He was assigned a number - P52209-2004. Only such a sleeve, according to the main regulatory document, is the most resistant to pressure in the gas line, as well as to all kinds of mechanical damage.
But this does not mean that the gas hose for the stove, in which rubber material is present, will disappear from store shelves tomorrow. We are used to the fact that most of our GOSTs are merely advisory, and not binding. Unlike many “specialists,” gas service personnel respond to recommendations.
Sometimes when you touch the stove there is a weak discharge of electricity. This is possible for several reasons:
1. Sometimes, to protect the main pipe from corrosion, a small negative electric potential is supplied to it. To eliminate this phenomenon, it is necessary to call the gas master, who will change the failed gasket at the junction of the city highway with the house pipe.
2. If the gasket is in order, then the matter is in the electrical equipment of the stove, which it is stuffed with today. Or rather, in its isolation.
Have you decided to buy a gas hose for a stove? Its length, and this is very important, should not exceed 1.5 meters. Although the industry produces sleeves up to five meters long.