Gas pipe relocated

Last night we decided to try to move the main gas pipe for the house. We wanted to basically take the last 14 feet of it off and replace it with an elbow to run it into our soffet so it no longer blocked the basement window. The contrator we had come out and take a look said it would be $400, but he gave us the info on what we'd need to do it ourselves.

So we bought the 3/4" galvanized pipe and had home depot cut it to 8' and 4' lengths. Well I went to install it last night and once I was on the ladder I saw we had 1/2" not 3/4". So back to home depot. We got back home and went to install the 8' piece, that went fine. The next piece the contractor told us would need to be 2'.... turns out that was too short, we'd need a 5' piece. I also saw that we could cut the 8' piece back to 4' and open the window area up more... back to home depot. We got back with the right pieces and went to install them... I couldn't get the 90 degree elbows on though.. the guy at home depot threaded them wrong. So ok, back to home depot. We finally get back home around 10pm and get everything installed, hung, supported, labeled etc. Turned that gas on (left the bilco/windows open just in case) smelt around for a while to make sure no gas was leaking and went to bed.

Here are two pictures of where the gas pipe ran before we relocated it. As you can see, right in front of the window.

Here is the after:

Here is the first elbow of the 4' piece we added in. On the left you can see the T that goes up to the kitchen.

Here is where the pipe comes out on the other side of the hvac, and then runs down the soffit to the flex line.

Here's the shutoff valve between the hard pipe and flex pipe. The flex pipe runs upstairs to the laundry room (dryer is electric, but there's a gas option in the room).



This is the piping for the fireplace. I added a 90 degree elbow and ran it along the back cement wall. The basement wall will go in front of it. This way the soffet will need to "bump" out a bit to enclose the shutoff valve, but won't need to extend 2' to cover the gas line.

We also made a bit more progress on the soffits:

Here is another obstacle for tonight. The smoke detector is in the way of the soffit. Unfortunately, it's tied into 120v power on the same circuit as the lights, so I'll have to move it in the dark (or at least sunlight from the windows) and it's also tied into low voltage lines that connect all the fire alarms in the house together, so I can only move it in one direction. I'll either put it in the furnace room or the theater, not sure which yet.