Hi Slightly off topic unless I'm asked to get the paint brush out. We (at work) have a long run of gas pipe from the meter, around the outside wall of a car park, then into our office where the boiler is. When this pipe was installed it was painted a hideous yellowish colour. The builders have been around and painted the wall white together with the gas pipe. Of course it looks much better now, but is there a regulation colour the pipe MUST be? Ta.
As a general rule, in a workplace, pipes, particularly ones that might be hazardous if damaged, should be identified for safety. However, you don't have to paint it yellow along its whole length. Bands of yellow each 150mm wide will do. They should be placed within 1 metre of the start and end points and any corner. On straight runs, they can be up to
50m apart. Technically, there should be two different colours of yellow in three equal bands yellow ochre / primrose yellow / yellow ochre, but most people don't bother.Colin Bignell
In order to stop any metal thieves, because it was just copper pipe, when the house was painted, white with Black at the bottom from ground to floor level. The copper pipe ran over the black so I painted it yellow and painted the gas box black with a yellow door. Not had any bother, though did have a few funny comments
Jim
Could you not use the "GAS" yellow warning tape that most plumbers etc seem to stick on the pipe at intervals?
Undoubtedly the best option but my recollection is that exterior grade pipe marking tape is quite expensive. I would have thought the cost was probably not justified in this application.
Colin Bignell
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