I'm assuming the camera shot has the valve on the rear wall behind the stove. When our contractor was putting in the gas line we had the range shutoff valve moved to a place we could get to in a hurry if we had a fire. When the shutoff valve is right behind the stove there's no way to get to it; we'd have to run to the main gas shutoff valve which would also take us out of the room. There were some minor code issues that were easy to fix such that we were compliant. I realize this is a rare possibility but having been in a kitchen fire in a restaurant I was working in things happen very fast.

Brickeye, You stated that "Greaseless is good for your arteries too ! and i got a big laugh out of that. Last October I had a bout with "Bells Palsy" for the third time in my life. When it hit I went to the emergency room and told the doctor what the problem was and what the treatment was. Doc says, how do you know all that? And i replied, because this is my third round with it. The Doctor agreed to my diagnosis and course of treatment but he then asked who my primary care physician was? I told him that I have not had a primary care physician because with the exception of the 3 bouts with Bells Palsy and two minor job accidents which only required a couple stitches I have not been to a doctor since my discharge physical from the Air Force in 1973. Three days later I was contacted by my HMO and they insisted that I see a primary care physician immediately and have a full physical, and they gave me the name of the doctor they wanter me to see. I went to see the doctor and she put me through the entire gamut of tests, the basic one on one with the doctor physical followed by an EKG, EEG, MRI, chest X-rays, stress test, complete ultra-sound test and they drew enough blood to feed a vampire for a month (9 vials). A week later I went back to the doctor for my physical results. While going over the results with the doctor I told her that I had never had my cholesterol tested, to which she responded, you sure did, i have it right here, and she fumbled through the papers, then she asks me "What do you eat?" I told her I was just an old country boy on a see food diet, when i see food I eat and basically anything that don't eat me first. She says "you must not eat much fried food." I said "are you crazy? If you took the frying pan off my stove I would starve to death." Then she says, whatever your doing, keep it up because this is the lowest cholesterol readings I have ever seen in 15 years of practicing medicine. In fact, if your good cholesterol was 5 points lower I would be putting you on medication to increase it and your ultra-sound came back as saying all your arteries are wide open. I said, "Not bad for a 61 year old guy who gets zero exercise and eats everything with one exception, I absolutely do not eat any commercially prepared fast foods from those nationally franchised companies such as mickey D's, Burger King, Taco Bell etc." (in regards to Taco Bell, I never could understand why people would go to the Mexican telephone company to get a meal).

As a data point, here in S. NH, the buried tank feeding my 20 kW generator had to be 500 gal capacity, and only filled to 80%, to ensure adequate propane liquid surface area for evaporation at the rate that the generator could draw gas if fully loaded at minimum likely local ground temperature. As gas is pulled from the tank, more evaporation occurs, and this cools the tank further depending on how good the thermal conductivity is between tank and air (for exposed tanks) or tank and ground (for buried tanks). My generator at full load requires 354 kBTU/hr or 141.5 cubic ft/hr per the installation manual. Maximum load per code is 80%, so the corresponding requirement for 16 kW load is 113 cubic ft/hr. This requires a 500 gal horizontal tank when the ground temperature is down near -10F, a reasonable and probably rare minimum for the ground temperature here. For an auxiliary generator, of course, one can back off extreme electrical power usage if there were a risk of really low temperatures starving the generator of propane. Where propane supplies a range and a furnace and possibly a hot water heater and dryer, something may have to be shut off when it is cold until the tank size is increased. An example of the factors involved in analysis may be found in this paper: http://www.documentation.emersonprocess.com/groups/public/documents/bulletins/d4500147t012.pdf On the other hand, if none of this applies -- you live in San Diego and it is always warm from the propane's point of view -- then given adequate gas pipe size, the next candidate for suspicion would be the flow rate capability of your regulator. kas

Only one bonding location is required. The bonding requirement requires that grounding be connected to a brass (CSST) fitting, a steel manifold, or any rigid pipe components, so you may already be properly bonded at a location other than at the CSST tubing connections, so look around. Also, you are not allowed to ground directly to the CSST corrugated tubing (might arc and cause a pinhole). The CSST tubing itself does not require a separate grounding connection because the tubing is grounded via a brass nut that captures a steel ring around a corrugation which is then screwed tight into the brass fitting, this establishes and electrical path between the rigid and flexible sections of piping. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QiNMnDdXQ8