It's not irrelevant at all. Common sense says there may be all manner of pipes under the floor and buy a metal detector.
1) Is that possible? You dod not say IIRC that this was a ground floor - might have been a floor with a ceiling nailed to the underside. 2) You'd have to lift a lot of the floor to get pipe sections in then swivel 90 degrees. 3) You'd have a lot more joints in the now shorter pipe sections which is not desireable.Are you a troll?
Visit uk.misc, then decide.
We have a single (well, two, thinking about it) seamless pipes running the length (depth) of our house (about 28ft), clamped under the joists. No idea how they got it in there....but possibly through a hold made in the rear wall, low down.
(it was necessary because, unlike all the other houses in the road, our gas comes in from the rear, and that's where the meter used to be. When they wanted the meter in a cupboard on the front of the house, they ran the two large pipes to and from it)
Go back to uk.misc you snob.
Couldn't they have just used an air vent?
You mean the meter reader couldn't be arsed walking for a few seconds round the house?
It was assumed, more than 50% of floors are ground.
No. HTH.
Aren't there a few gas suppliers? Round here I can think of Calor, Macgas, and Flogas.
It's a big terraced house. Long walk.
What happened to the good old days when they asked to read your meter?
Not behind a gate?!? But a lot of people have a gate in their driveway. So unless you put the meter on the garden wall....
I've been to a house where I couldn't tell which side of the house to look for the doorbell! Roads on both sides.
We looked at a rental house earlier this year where the tank belonged to the house and the agent said you could buy your gas wherever you liked. The tank was underground, though. Or the agent could have been lying.
If you're putting in screws for carpet edger why would you need to go down through the floorboards and into the joists? Apart from gas there's likely to be leccy and water services notched into the joists. None of which are idiot-proof, but then idiots are capable of almost anything stupid :-)
You have to go INTO the floorboards to hold the screws. Someone could slip a bit far with the pilot drill and hit the pipe which is NEXT TO the joist just under the floorboards.
A wise man (as opposed to a complete eejit) would have run a metal detect over the area first.
Better get your gas disconnected - it's obviously too dangerous for your house...
If you're the chap who put in the supply to my boiler (done before I moved in, so no idea who did it) you drill holes through the centre of the joists, thread a lead pipe through and solder it to the copper pipes at each end. The first section, in the cellar and done ages ago, also included lead tails to the meter and screwed iron pipe - the lead tails were replaced around the time the gas meter was renewed. Mike
If you ever find a metal detector that actually works, and can distinguish between pipes and nails, let me know.
And the eejit is the one putting the pipe there. It is fair to assume you can drill into your floor. And into the wall not directly up or down from a switch or socket, but I've seen wires going diagonally!!!
You do with a concrete floor. But then mine isn't. I just don't like the idea of explosive gas directly under my floor ok?
I mean the things to go between carpets/laminate/etc in the doorway.
Lead is poisonous. Your boiler may need medical attention.
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