Hi as the subject denotes I have embarked on a fitting a new kitchen, we have been talking about it for a year and have a kitchen plan but thought unless we rip the old one out we are never going to get around to doing it!!
Anyway we spent today packing up the kitchen and the target was to remove all of the wall and base cabinets less the kitchen sink.
We completed our goal and are now trying to work out where all the pipe work is routed in order to plan the plumbing.
Its an old 1930s house with an old kitchen extension that is at a guess 40 or so years old upon which a bathroom was built 20 or 30 years ago.
Currently all the pipework appears to go either under the concrete /plaster floor. What I would like to do is re route it above ground and run it along the skirting board behind the floor cabinets, is this a sound idea?
The water comes into the front of the house under a solid floor and stays under a solid floor until it pops up in the kitchen probably, the water also runs up to a Combi Boiler in the upstairs airing cupboard where an old immersion heater used to be, this is fed from the original mains pipe but I have not yet worked out exactly where it runs.
I have heard that as this is an older house I might be able to get the water board to re route the water supply above ground for free?? As I said its 1930s would the original pipework be lead?
Ta in advance.
Anyway we spent today packing up the kitchen and the target was to remove all of the wall and base cabinets less the kitchen sink.
We completed our goal and are now trying to work out where all the pipe work is routed in order to plan the plumbing.
Its an old 1930s house with an old kitchen extension that is at a guess 40 or so years old upon which a bathroom was built 20 or 30 years ago.
Currently all the pipework appears to go either under the concrete /plaster floor. What I would like to do is re route it above ground and run it along the skirting board behind the floor cabinets, is this a sound idea?
The water comes into the front of the house under a solid floor and stays under a solid floor until it pops up in the kitchen probably, the water also runs up to a Combi Boiler in the upstairs airing cupboard where an old immersion heater used to be, this is fed from the original mains pipe but I have not yet worked out exactly where it runs.
I have heard that as this is an older house I might be able to get the water board to re route the water supply above ground for free?? As I said its 1930s would the original pipework be lead?
Ta in advance.
