Covering Gas Pipes Internally

[charlieangel30]

HI Everyone,

Over the weekend I discovered a Gas leak in my lounge, which British Gas have sorted.

They turned off the Gas until it could be fixed.

And 1 day later have re-laid all my gas pipes in my lounge, however the gas pipes WERE beautifully under the floor and British Gas have refused to do this. So i now have HIDEOUS copper piping around my living room, not ideal at all.
I have been looking at the options ie Boxing it in etc..however all of this is not aesthetically pleasing, and as the living room is rather small I don't really want to have anything to obtrusive.
I was hoping that i can get some nice coving however after reading a few things this may not be possible cos of ventilation.
If anyone has any suggestions I would be so grateful - i have pics if anyone wants to see
I am very lucky I didnt blow myself up the gas men told me

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[Reltub]

I agree that does look hideous, i would of got someone else to run it the way you wanted. If i was you i would put a small boxing round it and paint it. You can get little round vents to put on the boxing that wouldn't look too bad.

Apart from getting someone else to re run it i cant see a better way of hiding it.

 

[charlieangel30]

the problem is with re-running it is money and also under my wooden floor is concrete so the damage would be excessive and my insurance company have already told me they wouldn't pay out! A
Can you buy the boxing with vents or would i need someone to do it?
Ideally this is something i would like to do myself
thank you

 

[Reltub]

Its easy enough to do yourself, you just need some 2x1 and some ply, with the vents you drill a hole in the ply and the vents clip in,

 

[charlieangel30]

thank you will go to the builders merchant to investigate!
i dont suppose coving is really an option as i thought then this could go round the whole room and make it look more "even"

 

[Reltub]

Im not sure about the coving tbh normal plaster coving won't do the trick as there isn't enough of a gap behind for the pipe and you don't to be getting adhesive on the pipe either.

 

[charlieangel30]

Im not sure about the coving tbh normal plaster coving won't do the trick as there isn't enough of a gap behind for the pipe and you don't to be getting adhesive on the pipe either.

thank you - the builder merchant says to paint it for the time-being! WAH
x

 

[Barry98]

crosslings do pipe ducting , ill try find you a link

 

[charlieangel30]

that would be amazing! thank you so much!

 

[Barry98]

[DLMURL="http://www.talon.co.uk/products/box-cover.html"]Box Cover - Talon Manufacturing[/DLMURL]

it looks like that but id personally say it would be a bit of a eye sore unless you got tight up to the ceiling and ran all way round.

 

[charlieangel30]

cool thanks the issue is cos my house is very old the walls and ceiling arent very straight.
might givem them a go tho! x

 

[Ermintrude]

They left a some lovely flux runs ! Whatever u do its going to look special! Is there no alternative route? In ceiling? Or is it a flat?

 

[charlieangel30]

Flux runs?
its a house but British Gas literally only did what they wanted to make it easy :S

 

[buckley plumb]

I wouldn't accept that you couldn't see the pipe before so why settle for seeing it now they should have run underfloor upstairs.as normal min work most profit

 

[charlieangel30]

i know but they have doen the work now and i only just had my ceiling done! very annoying! x

 

[SimonG]

Why did BG run the pipes?, did you have to pay?

 

[charlieangel30]

they had to run the pipes again as my pipes we under the floor wrapped in cement so they coudnt work out where the leak was so they just cut them and re-ran them! i have homecare 400 so i didnt have to pay anything

 

[Ermintrude]

Well that's not correct! Home care costs u lots and what u get done is horrific. Te ceilings wouldn't need to be touched. Simply lift a few floor boards upstairs .

 

[AWheating]

check out uk pipe boxings. may have something you like. you can get penny vents from aquarium shops and ebay.

UK Pipe Boxings

 

[Howsie]

I love the gas stickers on the pipe!

 

[Ermintrude]

I love the gas stickers on the pipe!

Ay? Where?

 

[charlieangel30]

Ceiling Coving

was looking at the coving classic cornice 7 (link above) but do i need to have lil holes in these to ventilate?

 

[Gas]

That is terrible workmanship, I would not be accepting that in a million years. Make a formal written complaint to British Gas, if they reply with a deadlock letter or they take longer than 8 weeks to sort out this shambles, then escalate your complaint to the energy ombudsmen (see link below) they will 100% rule in your favour over this.

Energy

 

[charlieangel30]

thank you, i am going to take this up formally as it does look shocking i just needed the work done if you get what i mean

 

[Gas]

Totally understand, this isn't your fault, stopping works could have been a breech of the contract anyway, which could have put you on the back foot.

Don't let them get away with this though, also keep us updated.

Can i have your permission to post these to another forum? i won't link them to you. Cheers