My house is being renovated. Got rid of the oil and switching to gas. Half the house has a crawl space, the other half is on grade (with 10" floor joists). A new gas line will be run from the street. The question is where to put the gas meter. My contractor wants to put it near the side of the house adjacent to the crawl space. Makes sense, but it would be unsightly. I want to put it out of sight, which means near the side of the house without a crawl space. This would entail running the gas pipe under the floor of the house for about 29' until it reaches the crawl space. The contractor doesn't want to do this because he doesn't want to end up with any unaccessible gas pipe joints (i.e., burried under the finished floor).
Question: is there some sort of code compliant gas pipe that's very long (and flexible and comes on a spool), that could span the distance I need without having to join multiple sections? How can I solve this problem?
Thanks, AABob