cut gas pipe

[ARW]

Damaged or stolen?

[Andrew]

Transco gas pipes enter under the garage slab and are mild steel

3/4 inch pipe, painted with black bitumen paint and held inside 4 inch salt glazed pipes to physically isolate them from the subsoil. From the meter 'my' pipes are the same 3/4 iron also inside a 4 inch glazed pipe passing under the concrete path and coming up inside the lounge adjacent to the false chimney breast where the baxi back boiler used to be. The 3/4 pipe continues, buried in the 80mm screed around to the kitchen where a T fitting provided a 1/2 inch outlet for a gas fridge and another 1/2 inch run of iron, all burioed in the screed to the cooker point. Cutting or drilling any of that is pretty difficult.

Surface corrosion of the 3/4 inch iron pipe under the garage slab or under the concrete path is going to happen at some point. I did a trial excavation to see what condition it was 10 years ago and there are many places where rust is bubbling under the bitumen paint.

[JohnP]

Chris J Dixon [e-mail]> wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Similar here!

[Chris J Dixon]

Thinking about all the bits of knowledge that I have about the house and its basic operation, it struck me that my partner, who is significantly younger, and therefore more likely to have to cope with it all sometime, would know little about it.

I have begun a "Home Manual" in which I give details, some with photos, showing stop taps and isolators, fused spurs (a surprising number, and not all in obvious positions), heating system, changing downlights, computer setups and backup processes, and so forth.

I have also gathered together in a binder as many relevant instruction manuals as I can find about the house.

Chris

[JohnP]

Good idea - but was it met with dis-interest?

[Chris J Dixon]

Far from it. Disinterest is logically impossible. Uninterest was not noticed, in fact the whole exercise was prompted by a request.

Chris