Boxing gas pipe

[stratplus]

Bloke wants to open and use an understairs cupboard and wanted a water pipe moving so it could be boarded/ skimmed over. Issue is there is the gas cooker pipe running tight alongside the cold main and so the boarding would now make this a cavity. Can't really move the gas as it is tight to the wall and disappears into the kitchen wall.
Suggested a boxing penny vented where the gas runs along the base of the wall.
The bloke asked if he can still board to the floor and vent that (understairs cupboard size).
Any thoughts/suggestions?

 

[stratplus]

The gas pipe on second pic is on th top.
Gas pipe on first pic comes through brick wall unsleeved at the bottom. The pipe coming through top of brick wall is the water pipe he wanted moving.

 

[AWheating]

tape the gas pipe and have it dabbed in, like you dont see on your normal days work

 

[stratplus]

tape the gas pipe and have it dabbed in, like you dont see on your normal days work

Lol, thought about that but runs tight against wall with cold main and electrical trunking. Unable to tape because of this.

 

[Reg Man]

Rip it out and re-run it. For starters pipe is not sleeved and its touching the wall without be protected against corrosion, because the wrong clips have been used.

 

[AWheating]

slice abit of overflow down the middle and put it over the top?

 

[stratplus]

Rip it out and re-run it. For starters pipe is not sleeved and its touching the wall without be protected against corrosion, because the wrong clips have been used.

The entire gas carcass is nail clipped in the garage and neither the cooker, fire or boiler pipework is sleeved where they disappear through different walls. Where do you stop? I expect the whole street has been done exactly the same. I only went to move an outside tap pipe lol.

British gas service my sisters boiler every year under contract and the carcass is nail clipped all along the outside wall with no protection and a black bin bag covers the exposed meter. What gets rectified......nothing.

 

[stratplus]

slice abit of overflow down the middle and put it over the top?

Would be a nice idea if the cold main/stop tap weren't all tight to the gas. Wouldn't be happy solid dabbing around that lot.

 

[stratplus]

I think he should board down to a timber above the pipework and have a removeable wood panel with penny vents.
Needs access to the stop tap anyway.

 

[Ermintrude]

Cross sectional area gets too big it's gonna need vents.

 

[stratplus]

Cross sectional area gets too big it's gonna need vents.

Will be about 3m long and 10 inches high (boxing)

 

[Ermintrude]

It's cross sectional area that's important so 10" sounds like it's going to be bigger than 100cm2 cross section

 

[stratplus]

It's cross sectional area that's important so 10" sounds like it's going to be bigger than 100cm2 cross section

So will need vents not penny vents?

 

[Ermintrude]

Rest of its ncs so why worry ? Fix defects before boxing in me thinks?

 

[stratplus]

Rest of its ncs so why worry ? Fix defects before boxing in me thinks?

I would if the one end didn't go into the kitchen behind units sandwiched between water main and cable trunking. No way of getting in to cut the pipe and re-routing that part. Tbh didn't want the job in first place but friends of family and all that.

 

[Ermintrude]

Use saddle clips and sweat off fitting slide on sleeve and sweat back on?

 

[stratplus]

Should have kept my mouth shut to customer, opened a can of worms now and buggered up my weekend

 

[Reg Man]

slice abit of overflow down the middle and put it over the top?

No what your saying, as it will protect the pipe, but because you have split the sleeve it can not contain the gas, so it would not comply.

 

[AWheating]

No what your saying, as it will protect the pipe, but because you have split the sleeve it can not contain the gas, so it would not comply.

i was suggesting the overflow is used instead of some tape and you still encase it in dab.

 

[Reg Man]

i was suggesting the overflow is used instead of some tape and you still encase it in dab.

Along the wall then but not through it.

 

[AWheating]

Along the wall then but not through it.

yep, if its a sleeve then doh cut it of course and doh use overflow use copper