My gas meter is inside the house on a high shelf. Just after mains pipe leaves meter there is a newer spur which heads down the wall. At floor level that newer pipe divides again, one pipe leading along skirting to gas boiler and the other going under floorboards. As far as I can tell the pipe under the floorboards heads along in the direction of the gas cooker in next room. It might then continue under another room and on to the gas fire in my lounge (the boiler, cooker and gas fire are all in a line against an external wall).
Would there be any easy way of me finding if they are all connected in series to the one pipe without lifting floorboards (problems of eg new vinyl on top of new 3-ply on top of old vinyl tiles on top of floorboards)? Would any of these handheld pipe/cable detecting/tracing devices work through this lot?
Scenario is that gas mains in street are being replaced and they=92re putting in a new external meter and pipe to house. Where our internal pipe divides after the old meter the old pipe is embedded down the wall and goes I know not where but there will be several terminated connections under the floorboards where there was evidence of gas connections when I got the house thirty years ago. Since we only now need the boiler, cooker, and fire it would be good if this old pipework could now be completely excluded.
Will the gas engineer have any easy means of tracing the two pipe systems, or is it just a question waiting for them to do the new connection and finding out then?
Any info appreciated Thanks Toom