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[–] zout@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago

It depends on where you live, here in the Netherlands these days some plastic flexible tubing is used, but about 15-20 years ago this wasn't allowed and it was copper tubing everywhere. A little longer ago it was also soldered tubing only, they changed that because a lot of gas lines run below floors in older houses and soldering with a burner is dangerous there. Anyway, if you have a house which was built before 2000, you probably have copper gas lines over here.