Mystery Pipe

[rkinsella]

Hi all,

We recently bought a house that is about 40 years old. There a mystery pipe in a room in the garage - that was originally support to be the laundry room.

40 years later - we are actually now looking to use this room as the laundry room. Wonder if this is a cold water pipe and how we turn it on?

The room is next door to the boiler room, so it could also be related to it. The other side of the wall from which the pipe is emerging is the gable wall, not the boiler room.

Ray K

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• rkinsella
• 9 Jul 2014
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[coopersim]

Looks like a disused oil feed / return pipe. Possibly from the fuel tank?

 

[gigz]

You will have to trace it back. Try blowing down it see if its open/blocked/connected at the other end. Whats that sticking out of the end ?

 

[rkinsella]

Looks like a disused oil feed / return pipe. Possibly from the fuel tank?

Very possibly, the oil tank is in another shed now ...
It might have been in the garage originally?

Ray K[/quote]

 

[coopersim]

My parents used to have a tank in a garage, so it's very possible. It looks too small to be a 15mm cold water feed to me.... I doubt you'll have much luck in the boiler room either, as it looks like a system boiler.

Are there no adjacent rooms with water pipes that could be brought through? After all, I presume you will want a basin with hot and cold running water in there?

 

[rkinsella]

There is cold water nearby, there is a pipe outside the door which can easily be brought in to feed the washing machine. There is also a drain to the soak-away outside the door, so we are covered for drainage also.

The only real gap is hot water. The boiler is a system boiler, so it heats the cylinder in the house which is _miles_ away.

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[gigz]

If the hot is going to be a pain, get an oversink water heater ?

 

[rkinsella]

Er - I can actually recall if there is a power socket anywhere in the garage - might be another gap

 

[stardanny]

Washing machine drain and basin drain cannot be drained into a soakaway.

Daniel.