Hi everybody,
I recently started a project to convert a very large utility area into a playroom and a smaller utility room. I've had the boiler that was in the new playroom replaced with a combi in a different location. However, behind where the boiler used to be is the stop cock from the main water supply. It rises from the concrete floor through a plastic pipe around 3inch in diameter. There is a flexible pipe rising from the floor, then the stop cock, then the rest is coppper pipe.
If I could move this by about 1 foot, it could be hidden in a corner by boxing over it (with a small access door). I could then plasterboard over the wall where it currently sits and it would be completely flush. At the moment I would have to cut a hole in the plasterboard large enough for the tap to fit through which would ruin the look room (and inneviteably provide temptation for the kids to turn it)
Should I attempt to move the pipe myself? This would mean turning the water supply off from outside the house and digging through some concrete although I don't think I would damage the pipe as it is flexible. The flexible pipe also sits inside a wider plastic pipe for added protection although I don't know if the 2nd pipe goes horizontally aswell as I can only see the vertical section of it.
Has anybody done this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
I recently started a project to convert a very large utility area into a playroom and a smaller utility room. I've had the boiler that was in the new playroom replaced with a combi in a different location. However, behind where the boiler used to be is the stop cock from the main water supply. It rises from the concrete floor through a plastic pipe around 3inch in diameter. There is a flexible pipe rising from the floor, then the stop cock, then the rest is coppper pipe.
If I could move this by about 1 foot, it could be hidden in a corner by boxing over it (with a small access door). I could then plasterboard over the wall where it currently sits and it would be completely flush. At the moment I would have to cut a hole in the plasterboard large enough for the tap to fit through which would ruin the look room (and inneviteably provide temptation for the kids to turn it)
Should I attempt to move the pipe myself? This would mean turning the water supply off from outside the house and digging through some concrete although I don't think I would damage the pipe as it is flexible. The flexible pipe also sits inside a wider plastic pipe for added protection although I don't know if the 2nd pipe goes horizontally aswell as I can only see the vertical section of it.
Has anybody done this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance