Should copper gas pipe be sleeved through wall

[Albumen]

These five pipes are for a 2 year old boiler installation.

I assume the 2 large plastics are CH, the small plastic hot and cold, and the copper gas.





The photos aren't that good, but I can't see any sleeving anywhere.

Corgi registered installer.

Is this safe and legal?

Cheers,

 

[superdupergasman]

Only a gas pipe needs to be sleeved through a wall, good practise might be to protect the pipes with tape or such from the concrete but its not the end of the world if they have not

 

[Onetap]

Should copper gas pipe be sleeved through wall?

All pipes should be sleeved through all walls. Hell will freeze over before plumbers grasp the concept, or read the specification.

Legally, I think only gas pipes need to be sleeved through external walls. A Corgi/Capita bloke will be along promptly to correct me if I'm wrong about the latter.

 

[gas4you]

Gas pipes need to be sleeved through any wall, internal or external, solid or cavity.

 

[Albumen]

The pictures I've posted are of the two sides of the same wall, which is an old external wall. By old I mean it used to be external, but has now become internal because of an extension. The wall itself is also part of an extension, and I assumed it was cavity, but looking at some brickwork not I see headers. But I also see two thirds bats, so maybe what look like headers are actually half bats to keep some bond somewhere.

The pipes also go through another single brick internal wall, finished off with mortar.

I think I'll ask Corgi to look at this. The company who did it are no longer trading, I discovered a few weeks back. But I'm sick of people who work on potentially lethal services to my house who treat regulations with a cavalier attitude. And presumably Corgi were informed of this installation (that's the way it works isn't it?).

Thanks for you help folks.

 

[gigz]

This would be classed as n.c.s. I would scrape the cement off the copper (it could rot it in time)

 

[mattylad]

Sleeved with what?

Insulting tape?

 

[Albumen]

This would be classed as n.c.s. I would scrape the cement off the copper (it could rot it in time)

"n.c.s." ?

Sorry, don't understand that.

 

[Onetap]

Sleeved with what?

Insulting tape?

A pipe of the same material and a larger diameter.

ncs not to current standards

 

[AlanE]

A pipe of the same material and a larger diameter.

Who says??

 

[Onetap]

A pipe of the same material and a larger diameter.

Who says??

I did.

 

[superdupergasman]

Sleeved with what?

Insulting tape?

A pipe of the same material and a larger diameter.

ncs not to current standards

it does not have to be the same material

 

[Onetap]

Sleeved with what?

Insulting tape?

A pipe of the same material and a larger diameter.

ncs not to current standards

it does not have to be the same material

Not if you don't mind *****-looking work

 

[namsag]

Nothing wrong with using a plastic sleeve and if you think what a sleeve is for it would be better than using a copper sleeve.

Saying that in 30 years i have never heard of an incident caused by a gas pipe not being sleeved

 

[WDIK]

IGE/UP/2

5.4 PIPE SLEEVING

Sleeving shall be of a suitable material, for example copper or steel and should not, for example when PE is used, impair the fire restistance of any structure.