2" iron pipe under 1930's property??

[Sylvan Tieger]

Very good point

 

[LiamPope]

so when you get this plug out and you find its a live gas main, what then?

so as you struggle to get it shut the wife walks in thinking your up to something unsavoury.

and switches on the light for better look at what your up to

Dont worry - power's off . It's just an inline service valve, turned off, with a cap screwed onto the unconnected end. The cap comes off easily enough revealing the interior of a service valve. I was considering opening the service valve to investigate and turning it back off if it's live.

I take the sentiment though! And as I've said i dont think i'll bother trying to open the valve much harder as I'll end up splitting it. In fact I can imagine the 'professional' I might have to get round doing just that - but rather him than me.

Liam

P.S. Tonybhoy - hmmm...

regulator - check
anaconda - wossat? no snakes in my house please
low pressure meter - thought i was talking bout free gas here?
stupidity - check
Job's a goodun then!

Nah, just kidding

 

[LiamPope]

Just to update - national grid came round and investigated. It was dead so they chopped it off. Had it been live they would have decommissioned and removed it as necessary.

All free - basically part of what we pay our bills/taxes for.

Liam

 

[WDIK]

glad to hear that you have no ideas the horrors from the past