Help!
I've had a plumber in who installed a new boiler. As part of this he had to get the gas and radiator pipes to a different part of the house (15mm and 22mm copper pipes). His chap said they should go in the floor of the kitchen as that's where the water pipe was (15mm copper). So he basically (from what I can tell) he bashed out a 3/4 inch section of screed to expose the water pipe (which seems to be covered in something hairy?!) and put all the new pipes together in the trench (about 4 inches deep).
The plumber has since gone, and I'm busy trying to figure out how to fix the hole in the floor! I've read different things, copper may or may not be attacked by screed, it would probably be better to cover the pipe with conduit/denso tape/plastic/insulation.
The problem with covering the hole with ply is that it is right up against the wall (nowhere to attach the ply to). So you know this is about 1m of copper in all, and it does have a few joints in it.
Really any advice on how to sort this out (hopefully without getting someone in to cut out the pipes) would be appreciated.!
I've had a plumber in who installed a new boiler. As part of this he had to get the gas and radiator pipes to a different part of the house (15mm and 22mm copper pipes). His chap said they should go in the floor of the kitchen as that's where the water pipe was (15mm copper). So he basically (from what I can tell) he bashed out a 3/4 inch section of screed to expose the water pipe (which seems to be covered in something hairy?!) and put all the new pipes together in the trench (about 4 inches deep).
The plumber has since gone, and I'm busy trying to figure out how to fix the hole in the floor! I've read different things, copper may or may not be attacked by screed, it would probably be better to cover the pipe with conduit/denso tape/plastic/insulation.
The problem with covering the hole with ply is that it is right up against the wall (nowhere to attach the ply to). So you know this is about 1m of copper in all, and it does have a few joints in it.
Really any advice on how to sort this out (hopefully without getting someone in to cut out the pipes) would be appreciated.!