Gas pipe in screed....

[Riley]

Evening all.

Just a a quick straw poll

whatre people's preferred methods of running gas under screed, plastic coated etc

just curious

cheers

matt

 

[Gray0689]

Plastic coated

 

[newcastle phill]

Cheapest method possible depending on length

 

[Riley]

Plastic coated

Cheers Gray, what do you put round a joint where it can't be avoided

 

[Riley]

Cheers Phil. My thoughts too. Money's not really an issue here as bloke is having £75 k worth of refurb done to his place. I just wanna do the best job as he will be renting it temporarily

 

[newcastle phill]

Welp so long as it complies with the minimum requirememts. Tape is cheap

 

[Gray0689]

Cut a bit of the plastic to cover and tape it up if a joint is needed but try not to put joints under floor

 

[Riley]

Cut a bit of the plastic to cover and tape it up if a joint is needed but try not to put joints under floor

No choice unfortunately as its gonna be a12-15 m run

 

[Gray0689]

No choice unfortunately as its gonna be a12-15 m run

Get a 20 m roll

 

[Mike Jackson]

Tracpipe or plastic coated copper. The extra cost will be outweighed by the saving in labour.

 

[Gray0689]

Tracpipe is great just too expensive on fittings

 

[IDCHAPPY]

Mikes spot on, trac pipe is good gear

 

[Riley]

Trac pipe was what I was thinking of then a few guys were talking plastic coated. What do you cut trac pipe with??

 

[Mike Jackson]

Trac pipe was what I was thinking of then a few guys were talking plastic coated. What do you cut trac pipe with??

A tracpipe cutter. About £17 from BES

 

[woodytheplumber]

Trac pipe fittings are dear but I would personally only use 2 trac to copper converters if poss just use the trac under screed and say 100mm up the wall or where ever it exits the screed convert straight to copper

 

[Riley]

Can trac run directly to outside or does it need some form of additional protection?

 

[kirkgas]

Trac pipe is the same as other pipes, it needs to be protected, sleeved, clipped and installed as per MI

 

[Riley]

I had a look on the trac website Kirk and they seem to say straight in screed. I'm all for doing things properly. Are they just being too simple with their advertising??