What’s the difference of yellow Teflon gas tape with white plumbers tape?

What’s the difference of yellow Teflon gas tape with white plumbers tape?

When installing the gas stove, I believe that you will find the Teflon seal tape which worker using is yellow color; it is different with the usually seen white plumbers tape for water pipe.  The yellow PTFE seal tape is the gas dedicated seal tape. So what is the difference between yellow Teflon seal tape and white plumbers tape for water pipe?

In fact, gas seal tape and plumbers seal tape are basically the same, main raw materials both are polytetrafluoroethylene. But there is still a little bit different between them.

Gas Teflon seal tape with higher temperature and anti-aging characteristics, it can be stable working at 250 ° C for long time. At the same time its pressure performance is particularly good, it can be long-term use under the pressure of 20-30MPA, and the general pressure of the gas furnace is not so high pressure.

Whenever you install a gas pipe, it is best to use soap water to double check for confirming there is no leaking, or you can smell with the nose. If you really are not familiar with this working, please ask the professional worker for help you to install gas pipeline, to prevent gas leak.

The above information is from teflon tape manufacture, we hope these information can help you understand the difference between yellow teflon gas and white plumbers tape.