Put a tray under it and open and shut it real fast. If water comes out, it’s a water line. If you hear hissing and smell rotten eggs, it’s a gas line. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(Chances are you’re not gonna blow yourself up with a fraction of a second’s worth of gas leaking out, but for legal reasons this comment is a joke.)
If it opens but not closing anymore you have a problem. This can happen with old valves.
Is it copper? Then it is water.
Is it cast iron? Then it is gas.
If it is plastic, what color is it? Blue, cold water. Red, hot water. Yellow, gas. Orange, not for you to play with. Clear, white, grey? Fuck that guy who did that.
Wait, you are buying equipment before you even know if it’s even able to work.
Then you post a photo of some faucet on the internet instead of asking your landlord or whoever put this thing on the wall.
And you are about to put that rusty piece of 100 year old with paint on it into operation? When was it last checked? Is it tight? Are the pipes all right? Where’s the counter when it’s gas/water/whatever? Who is the provider?
If it’s in your laundry area and you already know which ones are the water lines, there’s a good chance it’s the gas line. I’d try following it back to the source to see if it connects to the gas line, if you can.
Also, you should know that there’s a difference between natural gas and liquefied propane or LP. They burn differently, and there will be major issues if you hook an appliance configured for LP up to natural gas and vice versa.
You’ll know you have LP if you have a tank nearby, and if so you will probably need to modify the dryer for it. The installers should be able to do this for you for an extra fee. Natural gas is usually delivered by pipes in the ground, and most dryers are set up for that from the factory.
most dryers
All dryers.
For near enough to every single model not to matter the LP conversion kit is sold separately, also. For Whirlpool and their subsidiaries (Maytag) in particular, their LP kit lineup recently changed just to make matters more confusing, and probably not all retailers are up to date on which model requires which kit. So have fun with that.
TL;DR: Your life will be much easier if your house is served by natural gas rather than propane.
It’s undocumented but if you run the gas line into the drier drum, every electric model will accept it.
I wasn’t sure so I didn’t want to make a definitive statement, so thanks for the confirmation.
Though I will say that I recently bought an LG gas dryer and converting it to propane just involved a new gas nozzle and turning a screw.
No prob. You were on the right track.
One of my duties in life is maintaining a major appliance e-commerce web site with ~14,500 SKU’s. So I might know a thing… or two… about appliances.
TIL gas dryers exist
Very common in the U.S. we have been marketed to for almost 100 years about gas appliances being better than electric. The common phrase “now you’re cooking with gas!” Started as an ad on radio shows like Maxwell Coffee Hour, Jack Benny, Chase and Sanborn, Johnson Wax, and Bob Hope around 1940. Now it just means you’re working hard/well, especially suddenly.
Now it just means you’re working hard/well, especially suddenly.
eh, the more we learn about gas appliances the more I think it’s gonna mean ‘you’re fine risking your children’s respiratory ability so you can have a fancy stove’.
I mean, how much benzene comes out of an electric stove? none.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-health-risks-of-gas-stoves-explained/
Agreed, and I wish I knew that when my kids were still little, but i section wasn’t available (in the US) then
Anyhow, huge difference here:
- a stove is open flame in the living areas. While there may be a vent and you may even turn it on, there’s a huge gap between the flame and vent. So yeah, you’re polluting your living space
- a dryer is directly connected to a vent to outside. It may not be the best for the environment but it doesn’t affect the air in your house
Huh, always heard the phrase as “cooking with fire”
The firewood industry is slippery, haha.
They are so much better at drying than electric dryers. The gas heater dries out the air better so dries the clothes quicker. Electric just seems to make the clothes hot, but more humid. Depending on time of year and other factors they swing from a lot cheaper to operate, to eat more expensive. Not sure about the environmental impact of them though.