Bit hard to explain but basically no. Well I could run it visibly up the wall or box it in but that would look naff.
Water pipe behind switch
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Bit hard to explain but basically no. Well I could run it visibly up the wall or box it in but that would look naff.
I had some buried hot pipes in a house I had years ago, the wall would always crack, not sure if thats normal or not....
They were probably not insulated and wrapped as they ought to be.
Probably
All of my pipes are either surface, and visible, or hidden by cupboards, boxed in. In the kitchen, I planned the runs, to be hidden behind cupboard, in the hall, I have two heating pipe drops, one either side of the door, with the boxing in carefully disguised.
I think that essentially now the norm, and probably has been for quite a long time. However, if one goes back a few decades, then pipes buried in walls (solid or 'hollow') were seemingly more common - and it's one of those which I once hit with a drill
(fortunately, it was a thick-walled steel pipe, so I didn't penetrate it!)
I presume this is an old house, with the soil pipe on the outside, and no plumbing duct.
Last time I had one, I ran the pipe inside a cupboard.
Might be an idea to ask on the plumbing/heating forum if any of the qualified lads know how or how not any permitted zones for various pipes/tube play out.
As said, we know where the permitted zones are for cables and if everybody sticks to them and everbody else is aware of them then, in theory, issues should not arise.
But with pipework I imagine it is much more difficult to define.
Purely from an electrical point of view there are not many watch out situations for plumbing pipes really.
As said, we know where the permitted zones are for cables and if everybody sticks to them and everbody else is aware of them then, in theory, issues should not arise.
But with pipework I imagine it is much more difficult to define.
Purely from an electrical point of view there are not many watch out situations for plumbing pipes really.
I may, of course, be wrong but, as I've said, I don't think there are any such zones for pipes and, as we've both said, it would be difficult (often probably essentially impossible!) to define them in a way analogous to what we have with cables (since there is usually little nothing analogous to an 'electrical accessory' along the length of a pipe run).
Kind Regards, John
In the past, I have managed to angle grind/drill through the thin conduit around cables that had nothing to indicate that they are there. One time was my own home. It was a lighting cable. It ran down the middle of a wall. There was nothing on either floor to make it obvious. Had I gone up to the attic I might have noticed it.
The last time I drilled through one, in my defence, I didn't know that the cable had (recently) been run diagonally. Thank god for RCDs.
Fair enough, but in that case the cable (whether in conduit or not) was clearly not in a 'permitted zone'.
I'm sure that many/most of us have had similar experiences to yours due to cables being buried somewhere 'where one had no reason to expect them to be'
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