Gas pipe in wall cavity

newnhak

I am in the process of updating kitchen (you may have noticed from opther threads!!) and during work I discovered one of the walls has been battened out and plasterboarded so there is about a 8cm cavity. It seemed that it had been done to bring the plug sockets to be flush with the wall (as they hadn't been chased in). But yesterday I also discovered the gas pipe is also running downwards in the cavity and there is a hole about 30-40cm from the floor where the end of the pipe can be accessed.

I wanted to take this wall out, chase the sockets in and replaster - to gain more space. But is the position of the pipe going to hinder this. i can't imagine it is a good idea to be screwing cupboards to a wall with a gas pipe behind?? The DIY keen guy who lived there previously seems to have tried to temporaily solve this problem by screwing a large metal plate to the wall where the pipe is !!

27col

It seems a hard way to do things. Building what amounts to a new wall just to avoid sinking a couple of sockets in a wall. I am not quite sure what the question is.
If you know where the pipe is, it would not be difficult to avoid it when fixing cupboards. In any event units do not require more than a couple of fixings, so it ought to be possible to avoid any problem with the pipe.
As usual, a photo would be a great help.

newnhak

Thanks for reply - will try and post a photo later when I am at home.

Basically I started off thinking I would ge tthe wall patched as the sockets will need moving that will cause holes plus thewall has tiles on it that I want to remove. When you take off the tiles the wall comes with it.

Therefore I thought it would be easier to remove the whole wall and reboard. But the gas pipe is now concerning me.