Is this a water tap, and how old?

Found in the corner of a pre-war kitchen, which has a separate and much more recent water connection, and an exterior gas connection.

Looks like a capped off gas pipe to me.

Jonathan

And approach with caution, there may be gas in it. TW

Originally gas, most likely. Odd decision to cap it off after a potentially leaky tap. But fairly unlikely to be still connected. It would be a mistake to turn the tap as, if there is still a mains gas connection, it will probably not seal properly once moved.

I'd agree with the others it is or was a gas tap.

Owain

yep

it is turned on ...

Convention is thumb-turn at right-angle WRT the pipe is off.

Well given the alternatives, not hard to see how it ended up that way.

If needs be, turn off at the main tap, and then replace the whole fitting with a cap (compression or solder).

In message snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net>, at 12:46:13 on Sat, 14 Mar 2020, Andy Burns snipped-for-privacy@andyburns.uk remarked:

I'll look into it, but I wouldn't have thought the village had mains gas until the 90's.

If not, this connection will bypass the gas meter, which is in one of those white boxes unsympathetically[1] nailed to the outside wall and whose only outlet goes around the side of the house in relatively new piping.

In message <1 snipped-for-privacy@brightview.co.uk>, at

There is no "main tap", in the sense that the only place the gas comes into the premises today is via a white box on the exact opposite corner of the house, whose only exit pipe goes along the side of the house to completely different destination.

The pictured pipe/tap has only come to light underneath some kitchen storage units removed this week, having been there since 2008 (if the supplier labels on the underside of the work surfaces are to be believed).

In message snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, at 14:20:24 on Sat, 14 Mar 2020, Graham. snipped-for-privacy@email.com remarked:

I agree that whatever it is, in that position should indicate "turned off".

It looks like a gas tap.

Having said that, someone could have used 'any old' tap they had to hand to close of a pipe until they capped it off.

You could try running a (water) tap, placing a screwdriver on the stub, your ear on the other end, and seeing if you can here the flow. I saw someone do this to trace pipe runs, it worked even with a pipe set in a concrete floor.

silly me off ...sorry

very good idea

"Calor" gas goes back to the 1930s

Owain

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But it wouldn't be piped from a central depot into people's homes (unless you lived on a caravan park, maybe).

Well it?s capped, so nothing. ;-)

I?d just take the cap off and open the valve. You?ll soon work out what, if anything, is coming out.

Tim

No, but it might have been piped from an outside cylinder.

Owain