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Thanks for all that, I reckon I will just try fiddling with the pressure first and see how I go! This is perhaps the safest option…:)

Ok, I may try this. I’m assuming completely depressurising it would be the same as if an arrestor weren’t there at all? However, if I were to remove my guess would be to use a 1/2” male cap like this: https://www.screwfix.com/p/flomasta-male-flanged-plug-1-2-x/98635?ref=SFAppShare The data...

That’s for your advice, but I have tried all that! Not helped really. Just want to try removing it.

I have an Altecnic PV016RS shock arrestor installed just after my stop cock. Paradoxically, i think it's causing banging in my pipes - i think these are meant to be installed close to a tap or appliance? Its far away from anything! Anyway I want to simply remove it and see if it improves...

Thanks, getting a survey maybe best then. If the pipe is unused, not touched and not moved, is it relatively safe as is?

Sounds ominous. What’s the flue got to do with asbestos?

Hi there, Another of my ‘what is this’ thread. I have a 40s bungalow we moved into recently. So the first weird thing is the old living room fireplace, it has a chimney breast on the wall, but no external chimney stack. I see no evidence of there ever being a stack exterior to the house or in...

Been perhaps helpful! There is a symbol for a 'glasshouse' in the garden in one of the OS maps from the 70s. Perhaps my irrigation system to greenhouse theory maybe slighly more plausable! haha. Definely will look for pipework down at the bottom of the garden tomorrow, may even lift some of...

Thanks, i will take a look !

Thanks ianmcd, that's interesting, are you 100% sure? Would love to see picture/example of how this was hooked up to supply the house. I'm not saying you are wrong at all, but I have access under the house, and the old gas pipe (now defunct) comes into the house from the street - the other side...

For anyone still interested, I removed the pipe today. So it doesn’t go under the house, it leads out towards the bottom of the garden! My guess was it was maybe some form of rudimentary irrigation system for plants or a green house. Will have to see if I can trace the pipe to somewhere in the...

Could it maybe be a LPG input point? For example, a propane bottle was connected to the barb for then supplying to a cooker, boiler etc? Perhaps unlikely due to age and location of property though… house definitely seems to have old town gas pipes which appear to be upgraded later on for...

Does look like it! I wonder if I can find any images online of an example of what is going on - seems odd that one would attach a rubber pipe on the exterior of the house. Would think you would just steel pipe it straight in. What is also strange is the gas pipes are under the house, so why...

I did wonder if it’s electrical - perhaps previous owner was an amateur radio hobbyist, and this is some form of antenna earthing? Not dug around it - the ground is covered in slabs!

Maybe has nothing to do with the suspected gas pipe then!