Valve Next to Fireplace

[siwhitt]

Can anyone tell me what this valve is for on our hearth next to the fireplace as Google isn't coming up with any answers?

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• siwhitt
• 1 Jun 2015
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• siwhitt
• 1 Jun 2015
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[Belboz]

I will wager that is a gas valve from when a gas fire was fitted (or perhaps in case a gas fire was to be fitted)

Suggest you don't do anything to it and re-post this in the PLUMBING and HEATING section so a proper Gas expert can give you better advice.

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[foxhole]

Gas valve, located under the chrome screw top.

 

[siwhitt]

Thanks. Suspected it was gas, but really didn't want to mess around with it to confirm. Should have posted a picture of the fireplace in its entirety. It's an original cast iron insert, with absolutely no evidence of anything but solid fuel having been used.

 

[alan333]

Looks like a gas valve to me too. The side without the screw would have been the feed to the fire, and AFAIK it should have a cap (it's unclear from the pic whether it has one or not).

 

[Bosswhite]

Gas Fire feed valve, if you are not going to reuse it get a Gas engineer in to cap it off, it may still be live.

 

[AlanE]

It definitely is a gas valve and the open threaded section should be capped and gas tight.

Those valves do not always remain gas tight after time, nor always when new!

 

[adlplumbing]

Get it capped for safty

 

[Madrab]

It's what's called a Restrictor elbow, a valve for isolating a gas appliance.

As everyone mentions, there would have been a pipe running from that to a gas appliance within the hearth.

Again, as everyone mentions, it needs to be checked to see if it's been disconnected or capped off by your local smiley registered gas chap.

 

[Gasop]

May well have been a gas poker attached to it in the distant past if there
is no evidence of a gas fire been fitted.

As others have said get it checked out by a registered gas bod and have
the outlet plugged or removed and capped under the floor.