Uncovered central heating pipes in house.

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ex-council proeprties are often like this too. It's not a problem unless you don't like look. If you don't box them in and decorate to match

googler

1970s build, concrete ground floor and brick/blockwork walls, CH installed at time of build - pipework runs between ground and upper floor, in void between floorboards and ceiling, and down walls to meet rads at ground level.

As previously said, the pipes don't get hotter than the radiators.....

Alias_Omega

B&Q and some Ty-Wraps / Zipties would be your friend..





Easily fitted, can be fitted up to XYZ height to prevent little hands, and easily removed..

Bryony84

Thanks all, maybe I did overreact a little to it, but neither myself or my partner have ever seen anything like this particular setup before. Maybe you are right and it is just because the pipes are shiny copper and there seem to be a lot of them, 2 sets in the living room running straight down the wall rather than in a corner. I did some investigation and the central heating was only installed this year, which would explain why it is like that.

If the landlord isn't happy to cover them, I will ask if we can paint them. The landlord probably has no idea what they look like currently as he lives abroad. He has been renting the property to a friend but now that the friend is moving on, he is going with an agency to continue renting the property.

vikingaero

Think of the exposed pipework as another radiator!

Blitz01

Its just a very cheap installation - landlord job.

Bit of a stupid comment.
My house is over 450 years old, and i purposely didn't hide the copper piping.
The floors are made of very expensive wood, and the ceilings beamed.

Are they hidden in your bedsit

Soot2006

2 sets in the living room running straight down the wall rather than in a corner. I did some investigation and the central heating was only installed this year, which would explain why it is like that.

This might have been intentional -- are they running up next to a window?
I opted to NOT have my pipes running up in the corner, but instead straight up from the rad, alongside the windows. Firstly, I might want to put a corner cabinet in the corner while I'm unlikely to ever put anything right beside the window. Secondly, I intend to install ceiling to floor length curtains in the living rooms - get non-melt-able fabric and the pipes are hey presto hidden!

Toiletduck

Blitz01 wrote: »

Bit of a stupid comment.
My house is over 450 years old, and i purposely didn't hide the copper piping.
The floors are made of very expensive wood, and the ceilings beamed.

Are they hidden in your bedsit

I don’t think it’s a stupid comment at all. I dont live in a bedsit, I own my house and the pipes are very neatly concealed. In my previous experience of renting many different houses/flats over a period of ten years I regularly came across cheap surface mounted plumbing and wiring installations.

However and I don’t know why no-one else seems to notice this, it is simply a cosmetic issue as it’s is impossible for the pipes supplying hot water to the radiators to be anything other than exactly the same temperature as the radiators themselves. Therefore there is no more risk of being burned on the exposed pipes than there is on the radiators themselves!!!

DVardysShadow

tbs624 wrote: »

If the visible pipework is running up the walls and through the ceiling to the floor above (as described by the OP)
it's surely irrelevant whether the downstairs flooring is solid. The pipework could still have been cut into the walls.

It is, as others have said, an installation done on the cheap.

If you are thinking about taking the property ask the LL to confirm in writing that all loose pipework will be properly affixed to the wall before you move in.

The last thing I would do with pipework is cut it into a wall.Firstly, there is a risk of puncturing it [which is a risk you might not want if you rented a house out]. And every joint which is buried is a potential point of failure.

There are discrete ways of running pipework which minimize the visual effect. For example behind curtains if you have the rads under windows rather than on inside walls

As tenant, I think I would rather the landlord did not do too much to fix the pipework down - better to note it as loose on the inventory, possibly.