Mystery pipe

[HERTS P&D]

CUT IT, CUT IT, CUT IT................sorry it should read: get the mother in-law to cut it!



Andy

 

[Boilerman2]

Nothing like Peer-pressure challenge Herts!!

2nd getting the MIL to do it!!

 

[leew2]

I tried running a tap and even with ear next to it, I could not hear anything.

 

[Agile]

you need to use a stick to listen with!

 

[doitall]

How about a pic showing the pipe, meter etc all together.

 

[alan999]

Could be just a discarded length of pipe.

 

[Onetap]

It could carry electrical cables. Are there any redundant conduit ends under floorboards near the consumer unit?

I found a very shallow (250mm deep roughly) steel pipe in my back garden. It turned out that it contained redundant rubber insulated electrical cables and had been used for a light in the air raid shelter that formerly had been in the far end of the garden during WW2.

So far we've got possibly water, gas, oil and electric. Any other possibilities?

 

[Agile]

Maybe its an early fibre optic internet cable?

But at Alexandra Palace there is a 1936 lead covered coaxial cable which runs ( or used to ) to Savoy Hill.

This was used to convey the first TV signals to the 36 Mhz transmitter.

Tony

 

[FiremanT]

So far we've got possibly water, gas, oil and electric. Any other possibilities?[/quote]

British Relay? If you remeber them.

 

[Agile]

Cable TV did not start until after the war, probably about 1954 !

 

[middlesbrough]

Check the temperature then run a tap fow while and check the temp again see if it changes while being run

 

[FiremanT]

Check for electrics with something like this:

http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/390292742221?var=lv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&adtype=pla

 

[doitall]

Check for electrics with something like this:

Inside a steel pipe

 

[Agile]

Check for electrics with something like this:

http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/3902...xedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&adtype=pla[/QUOTE]

All that would do is to find it as a steel pipe/

All electric fields will be contained within the pipe.

Its called shielding. There is a special metal alloy called mumetal which was used during the war to contain magnetic fields.

Tony

 

[Bodgeitandleggit]

Just leave something metal over the whole and when gypsies come along they will take it ans see the metal pipe and cut it for you....you will find out then