I've just stumbled across an old hot water pipe coming out the wall behind the kitchen units which due to its position, must have been an old washing machine outlet from the days when you tended to have both hot and cold.
It's very difficult to be certain without ripping holes in the plaster, but it's looking like it could be a dead leg about 20 inches horizontally from the kitchen hot tap, and a further 3 inches out the wall and down to a cap, where the washing machine valve would have been.
My assumption is even in a hot water pipe, the temperature might not rise enough in a dead leg to kill off any bugs.
It's going to be a pain to cut it out and I wondered about sticking a drain point on it and just drawing the water off from time to time, but I wasn't sure how frequently that would need to be done.
Thanks.
It's very difficult to be certain without ripping holes in the plaster, but it's looking like it could be a dead leg about 20 inches horizontally from the kitchen hot tap, and a further 3 inches out the wall and down to a cap, where the washing machine valve would have been.
My assumption is even in a hot water pipe, the temperature might not rise enough in a dead leg to kill off any bugs.
It's going to be a pain to cut it out and I wondered about sticking a drain point on it and just drawing the water off from time to time, but I wasn't sure how frequently that would need to be done.
Thanks.