Help with rerouting heating pipes

[garymcl]

Hi

I have to install a beam within my ceiling but unfortunately there's 4 heating pipes a few inches from the wall. These prevent me from doing the padstone for the new beam but also prevents me from placing the beam as I don't have enough room to conceal the beam below the pipes within the ceiling space.

Is there any way I can freeze the pipes, cut them, and reconnect using them flexi pipes so that the flex sags low enough for me to get the beam in, then, I can get a more permanent pipe connection put in after when my beam is in?

I've got to do it tomorrow so was thinking on using a few of them freezing kits you get at b and q?

Would they be up to it do you think and would them flex pipes do the job albeit temporarily?

I ain't a plumber......which is pretty obvious and I'd rather not get a plumber out on a Sunday!

Cheers

 

[joe-90]

A safer way is to drain the heating down. Can you get at the pipes to make a clean cut?

 

[sooey]

A safer way is to get a plumber out.

 

[garymcl]

A safer way is to drain the heating down. Can you get at the pipes to make a clean cut?

Hi Joe, yeah, no probs with getting at the pipes. If I drain the system down I may as well get a plumber in, I'd probably mess it up!

 

[sooey]

With joe around to give you the benefit of his advice...there's no "probably" about it.

 

[datarebal]

It's perfectly diy able..

 

[sooey]

It's perfectly f*ck up able too.

 

[datarebal]

anything can be messed up..even by a plumber...
it's not rocket science.