simple pipe boxing in in a kitchen

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Hi all

I am currently having my kitchen fitted and will have some pipes left on view that run vertically down the walls and behind the worktop.
I would like to get some views on the easiest way to box these in (materials, thickness, fixing type etc). This must be a common problem!

Two sets of pipes -
1) 2x 15mm copper pipes for the water supply. These are in a corner that are partly obscured by wall cupboard and counter top/base units.
2) 2 x 22mm copper pipes (CH and gas), that run down the middle of a wall.

Tiling will be done to the height of the wall units and painted above this line.

Thanks
 
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Ideally you plan to avoid these problems , do the 22mmm run up to a boiler or full lheight?[if full height think about relocating.
Here I used worktop to hide pipes and infill panels at upper cupboards, you could use a simple mdf box [tiled] to hide and infill panels higher up in the corner.
 
Cheers for the reply foxhole.

A couple of pics to help -



The 22mm pipes are probably the most unsightly, but as one of them was gas, I chose to leave that pair.

For where I am now, looking for advice on best materials, thickness etc to box them with.
 
Would go with 18mdf,[no framework needed] the 22mm pipe, I would bring forward the boxing and run it full depth back to wall so cup'd sits next to a 'false wall'.
You would need to relocate socket to the right or move it into the Boxing.
 
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For the corner one just fix a piece of 9mm ply across the corner at 45% with building adhesive, plan it so it will be a tile wide then just tile over the lower and paint the piece above the units. Hopefully here is a picture one I made earlier as Blue Peter would say!

The pipe in the pictures is gas so I allowed ventilation under the units and a couple of vent holes just above the cupboard out of the sight line to give required ventilation.

Ok I know it was overkill but I also screwed a metal plate (a bit of the old boiler side case trim) to the back of the ply to give some protection against somebody screwing a cup hook or similar straight through and into the gas pipe. They have got to be pretty thick to keep on drilling once they hit metal!
 

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