Living in the country has a lot of benefits, but sometimes you find out the drawbacks. I know enough about gas to know I don't know enough to mess with it. Mine is all metal piping, and it was easier for me to pay the plumber to dig up the old stuff and put in new as I had recently had a triple bypass and it was the middle of summer, no way I was digging 50ft of pipe out of the ground in 100+ temps. Well, not if I wanted to survive it, lol.