What are these pipes?

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Anyone know what these are? Gas engineer reckons they are old gas & water supply to upstairs flat. Definitely dead - with nothing in em and replaced with new supply - but he’s not sure he can get suitable sized caps to cap them off… reckons the big one is about 2 inch? Any ideas?
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They seem a bit big, just to feed a single flat - might they feed/have fed more than one flat, a rising main?

How does your engineer know they are empty?
 
Anyone know what these are? Gas engineer reckons they are old gas & water supply to upstairs flat. Definitely dead - with nothing in em and replaced with new supply - but he’s not sure he can get suitable sized caps to cap them off… reckons the big one is about 2 inch? Any ideas?
Cheers!



Sounds like you're thinking of having them removed, but if so, and they're dead and empty, why does anything need capping?
 
Sounds like you're thinking of having them removed, but if so, and they're dead and empty, why does anything need capping?
Any previously used gas pipe should be sealed to prevent a false gas leak, eg customer can smell gas. If they are being removed, then OP should have them removed.

@Absx, not the best photo but, one of the pipes looks like a steel pipe, which may require a different fitting.
 
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Hi guys,
So the pipe to left was an old gas pipe to upstairs flat - we went up and verified. Capping it off is just as a matter of safety but it’s 1000000% dead :)
We are not 100% sure on the one on the right ‍♂️ It seems to disappear into the wall - again in upstairs flat it’s not connected to anything and is wobbling around… it’s another steel pipe
 
They seem a bit big, just to feed a single flat - might they feed/have fed more than one flat, a rising main?

How does your engineer know they are empty?

Sounds like you're thinking of having them removed, but if so, and they're dead and empty, why does anything need capping?

Any previously used gas pipe should be sealed to prevent a false gas leak, eg customer can smell gas. If they are being removed, then OP should have them removed.

@Absx, not the best photo but, one of the pipes looks like a steel pipe, which may require a different fitting.

May well be conduit for mains power cable to upper flats

Hi guys,
So the pipe to left was an old gas pipe to upstairs flat - we went up and verified. Capping it off is just as a matter of safety but it’s 1000000% dead :) and sorted now


We are not 100% sure on the one on the right ‍♂️ It seems to disappear into the wall in my flat and doesn’t come out either externally or on the other side?? again in upstairs flat it’s not connected to anything and is wobbling around… it’s another steel pipe, engineer is querying how we can cap it off if there’s no thread? Again just as a safety thing it’s pretty obviously not connected
 

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