Another 'Plaster or Plasterboard' query!
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None of the above is reason to be too concerned. Its common to find abandoned pipework and almost none is a cause for alarm.
Can you expose & pic the position where the steel pipe goes into the c/breast cheek?
Gas pipe would not have been run inside a flue, and rarely would it have been chased into a c/breast.
The other pipe is most probably an abandoned water pipe: going to or coming from an old long gone back boiler.
Thing is about random runs, of possible (pre-abandonment) gas or water pipes or electric cable, one could hole them when fixing shelves or devices in the c/breast recess. Good safety practice is always to strip these abandoned runs out from source.
I would suspect that the pipes are, as i said, abandoned.
A cheap Voltage tester will indicate any live electric.
Can you expose & pic the position where the steel pipe goes into the c/breast cheek?
Gas pipe would not have been run inside a flue, and rarely would it have been chased into a c/breast.
The other pipe is most probably an abandoned water pipe: going to or coming from an old long gone back boiler.
Thing is about random runs, of possible (pre-abandonment) gas or water pipes or electric cable, one could hole them when fixing shelves or devices in the c/breast recess. Good safety practice is always to strip these abandoned runs out from source.
I would suspect that the pipes are, as i said, abandoned.
A cheap Voltage tester will indicate any live electric.
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