Hellooo...
On further investigation today of the capped-off pipe popping out my property's kitchen floor, I discovered that what I have is a roughly 2" od iron pipe running straight under my house. It starts out in the street somewhere, I guess, goes all the way under the house without teeing to anything else, then pops up out of the floor. Depending on the timing of things it was possibly originally outside the back of the house, but could feasibly have been installed after a rear extension.
I'm just wondering how best to identify it and get rid of at least the end that is now threatening to become a feature in my new kitchen floor. It's got a service valve siezed in the off position and a cap. My guess is an original gas main - could that be right? It's certainly not the current gas main as this comes in via the meter outside the front of the house in 22mm copper. So if this is gas it predates the old back boiler that the current gas main was fitted to. I also found some smaller iron piping that must have been associated with whatever appliance this was remaining in the kitchen floor void and not connected to anything. It's definately not anything to do with the current incoming water main which is lead (mmmmm).
So what ya reckon - is it fairly safe to assume it's long decomissioned and empty and take a hacksaw to it? Was thinking about turning on the service valve and seeing if anything comes out but it seems pretty well siezed (i haven't tried my really big adjustable yet though). Surely it can't be live gas or water as it would avoid the meters (hmmm free utilites
). If i need to get the authority out to tell me what it is who do I phone?
Cheers for any advice,
Liam
On further investigation today of the capped-off pipe popping out my property's kitchen floor, I discovered that what I have is a roughly 2" od iron pipe running straight under my house. It starts out in the street somewhere, I guess, goes all the way under the house without teeing to anything else, then pops up out of the floor. Depending on the timing of things it was possibly originally outside the back of the house, but could feasibly have been installed after a rear extension.
I'm just wondering how best to identify it and get rid of at least the end that is now threatening to become a feature in my new kitchen floor. It's got a service valve siezed in the off position and a cap. My guess is an original gas main - could that be right? It's certainly not the current gas main as this comes in via the meter outside the front of the house in 22mm copper. So if this is gas it predates the old back boiler that the current gas main was fitted to. I also found some smaller iron piping that must have been associated with whatever appliance this was remaining in the kitchen floor void and not connected to anything. It's definately not anything to do with the current incoming water main which is lead (mmmmm).
So what ya reckon - is it fairly safe to assume it's long decomissioned and empty and take a hacksaw to it? Was thinking about turning on the service valve and seeing if anything comes out but it seems pretty well siezed (i haven't tried my really big adjustable yet though). Surely it can't be live gas or water as it would avoid the meters (hmmm free utilites
). If i need to get the authority out to tell me what it is who do I phone?Cheers for any advice,
Liam
