Houses in the 60's would have had screwed iron gas pipes. They would be laid in chases in the concrete floor, and after testing would have been protected with a bitumen solution then screeded over . They would have been chased into a wall vertically to the outlet point.
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Did they used to chase gas pipes into solid (party) walls in the '60s?
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Cheers Nige. That's what I expected. You just never know when things might have been altered/DIY'd. I'm presuming if someone was, for instance, putting a gas fire into an existing fireplace in a Victorian or Edwardian gaff, they would run the gas pipe under the fooorboards to joists or whatever, rather than chase the wall.
Cheers for the post mate
Cheers for the post mate
Was that a chirp from #10? Are you the utube bernard who put his head in the neighbour's oven & set his hair on fire while doing a heroic: "Stand back everyone, I'll clean the burners"?
According to the news: "Trailing clouds of smoke & cinders, a local handyman was seen hurdling fences and running through the briars & the brambles to take a header in the park pond"
I'm sure that you wouldn't make such a fool of yourself - would you?
The safe procedure is in the OP's post - why not try reading it? But then you are not a tradesman, nor a plumber not even a GS are you bernard?
Reference to my ex was a self-deprecating remark on my part (it means putting myself down) - as people with an ounce of smarts would recognise. Only an utter ... or a dishonest reader would twist it to be anything else.
"were not as smart as you think you were" - are you illiterate as well, dont you understand that there are tenses in the English language?
According to the news: "Trailing clouds of smoke & cinders, a local handyman was seen hurdling fences and running through the briars & the brambles to take a header in the park pond"
I'm sure that you wouldn't make such a fool of yourself - would you?
The safe procedure is in the OP's post - why not try reading it? But then you are not a tradesman, nor a plumber not even a GS are you bernard?
Reference to my ex was a self-deprecating remark on my part (it means putting myself down) - as people with an ounce of smarts would recognise. Only an utter ... or a dishonest reader would twist it to be anything else.
"were not as smart as you think you were" - are you illiterate as well, dont you understand that there are tenses in the English language?
I answered your post with a perfectly correct technical answer - a number of other posters also led your horse to water but you, you little Darwin prize winner, blanked all the advice that you had asked for.
Tell me - do you yet understand the difference between the surface and below the surface?
Please God that you are never in a drowning situation.
And what taking it back to bare masonry might mean?
Take it easy when answering, I know its hurtful to think but just do a little bit at a time OK?
"nowt in wall" except the obvious damp - do you also do magic tricks - has it been "cured"?
Pop back any time, bring your detector.
Tell me - do you yet understand the difference between the surface and below the surface?
Please God that you are never in a drowning situation.
And what taking it back to bare masonry might mean?
Take it easy when answering, I know its hurtful to think but just do a little bit at a time OK?
"nowt in wall" except the obvious damp - do you also do magic tricks - has it been "cured"?
Pop back any time, bring your detector.
Moron.
As said, the plaster was blown and loose. So easily removing to have a look would have been the obvious course of action. But no, lets hit the keyboard, ask a few pointless questions and ignore any sound advice.
And how on earth would a gas pipe cause that mess on the wall?
Is the dodgy plaster looking the same as when you had a flood and covered it up with a chair? Or is it getting worse? If it is getting worse, then you need to speak to neighbor.
And from where did you get that Vinn was being sarcastic?
As said, the plaster was blown and loose. So easily removing to have a look would have been the obvious course of action. But no, lets hit the keyboard, ask a few pointless questions and ignore any sound advice.
And how on earth would a gas pipe cause that mess on the wall?
Is the dodgy plaster looking the same as when you had a flood and covered it up with a chair? Or is it getting worse? If it is getting worse, then you need to speak to neighbor.
And from where did you get that Vinn was being sarcastic?
The reason I asked, smartarse, was as previously in my front garden, a leaking drain had caused the gas mains pipe leading up to the house to become eroded and over time it started leaking from underground. I thought I used to get a whiff but thought it must be the bins. When I called the NG just to be safe, they detected the leak and dug it all up, replaced it and made good.
So, as this dampness on the wall was causing concern as I didn't know if there was a gas pipe feeding the gas fire which might have been damaged as per above by the dampness.
Rather than just start 'ripping the plaster off' (trying to locate a pipe chased 30mm into the wall), a suggestion of 'have you tried locating it with a pipe and wire detector?' Would have been more helpful than someone bang on about his ex bird and some paintings.
So, as this dampness on the wall was causing concern as I didn't know if there was a gas pipe feeding the gas fire which might have been damaged as per above by the dampness.
Rather than just start 'ripping the plaster off' (trying to locate a pipe chased 30mm into the wall), a suggestion of 'have you tried locating it with a pipe and wire detector?' Would have been more helpful than someone bang on about his ex bird and some paintings.
FiremanT, this guy is a piece of work. His detector first appeared back in a previous post.
FWIW: He was correctly advised by myself & others how to lower a bit of brickwork with hand tools but, no way, your man's determined to cause himself grief by using an angle grinder, get this, because he didn't want any mess.
He also claimed that his c/breast had been built half way up the wall suspended above the floor?
Now, another howler, he takes comfort & advice from the contributor least able to give professional advice, the struggling DIY'er nigel, who wrongly calls threaded steel pipe -"screwed iron pipe"
used in "Houses in the 60's" - wrong again because copper was used from the 1950's on.
Where would jobbing plumbers find liquid bitumen to pour into pipe chases - this I have never seen. Even bitumen coated pipe was mostly only used underground in domestics.
OP, who and where was "ripping the plaster off" suggested?
You were advised to carefully and gently remove plaster & skirting - watch my lips: do any of my words spell ripping?
Really good to know that someone knows what they are talking about. And even better when an OP has the courtesy and good manners to thank and acknowledge all who contributed to his thread - just saying.
FWIW: He was correctly advised by myself & others how to lower a bit of brickwork with hand tools but, no way, your man's determined to cause himself grief by using an angle grinder, get this, because he didn't want any mess.
He also claimed that his c/breast had been built half way up the wall suspended above the floor?
Now, another howler, he takes comfort & advice from the contributor least able to give professional advice, the struggling DIY'er nigel, who wrongly calls threaded steel pipe -"screwed iron pipe"
used in "Houses in the 60's" - wrong again because copper was used from the 1950's on.
Where would jobbing plumbers find liquid bitumen to pour into pipe chases - this I have never seen. Even bitumen coated pipe was mostly only used underground in domestics.
OP, who and where was "ripping the plaster off" suggested?
You were advised to carefully and gently remove plaster & skirting - watch my lips: do any of my words spell ripping?
Really good to know that someone knows what they are talking about. And even better when an OP has the courtesy and good manners to thank and acknowledge all who contributed to his thread - just saying.
Dear Vinn . I must have imagined or dreamed seeing what I described . Can I refer to black iron pipe or is that racist. Are you thinking of screwed copper. You've not seen liquid bitumen. Or a Gas Board employee . Watch your lips ? post us a video. Just clutching at straws to score points ? Just saying.
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