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Yeah, he doesn't understand that. My friend is smart. He's smart with roofs and stuff. He just doesn't understand that stuff. We're going to be building two cottage houses, and he's already volunteered to do the gas line because he did plumbing work. He was a plumber in Montreal. I think I told you about him. He thinks he can do the gas line. He's going to do it with plastic or something instead of copper. You know, that copper, it's just like a 3-8 or a half inch. It's like a tube, you know, a copper tube that you're running to do the gas. He wants to do it with this other stuff. I just wonder. He said he's going to pressurize it when it's done, and we aren't going to have to check for leaks because he's going to know if it's leaking or not because he has a gauge on it. If the gauge goes down, that means there's a leak somewhere. I don't play around with that stuff. I use it at work, you know, on a cutting torch or something, but when it comes to having gas inside your house or something like that, it makes people worry. Well, if you're running a new gas line, you, one, have to pressure test your line with air, but there's no plastic I know of that's rated for gas. It's got to either be copper tubing, K, or black steel. Those are your choices. Well, no, you can do copper. That's, again, a pain in the ass, and it's stupid expensive if you're doing copper piping fittings. Remind your friend he needs to check the gas code because when I did my exam, there's no plastic pipe, and you're going to have to have somebody with a license come and test the line, even if he does the work, he's still going to get tested by someone with a tag, and a lot of the guys won't test a line if they didn't run it. They won't put their tag on it. So you may want to have him, unless you know somebody in Montreal who's going to put a tag on it for him, because it's a whole ball game and a whole cover your own butt thing in the gas industry. Lots of money to be made, though.