What is this steel pipe cap on my floor!

Franknstein

Just pulled up the carpeting in our hallway, and revealed the steel square pipe cap looking thing. Its been under the carpets all along. I knew there was something there as I could feel it under the carpets. Wanted to whip out the angle grinder and grind it off.

But I suspect it might be water or gas pipe.

Any ideas?

House is 1970s bungalow.

How shall I deal with this problem?

If he lays the laminate flooring it will stick out a couple millimeters. He will need to cut a circular hole in the board and said to fill with brown silicon.
I'd prefer to have it removed! Its like a wart.

Hasbeen

Would suspect it screwed in end cap for old gas pipe.

It looks as if your hall floor goes from wood to concrete?
Was there something there before? Cupboard etc.

You could gently grind down the top and also cut underneath the laminate to accommodate the part that would be left.

But if its an old rusty steel gas pipe in concrete?

Would get a gas save engineer to look at this one.

rustyboy21

If it is an old house, it is more than likely a gas pipe to run either the old gas poker ( in effect a flame thrower to light a real fire) or a gas run for a fire.

Get a Gas safe engineer in to check it out. I would not be touching it myself. It could still be live, unless you want to cause a major incident ! lol

Gloomendoom

My parents have a similar cap in their kitchen floor. It's a supply for a gas fridge. The house was built in 1980.

phil24_7

Agreed, looks like it could be an old gas pipe. I would get an engineer in to make sure it is disconnected at the other end, then cut it right off (once said gas engineer said it was safe to do so).

Pay_me

I have seen similar several times sticking out of walls. In my experience they have always related to a gas pipe.

Don't do anything with it until you have had it inspected and received advice from a gas safe engineer .

Mocha61

We have one in our kitchen wall where the gas cooker use to be.

Grenage

It's almost certainly going to be a gas pipe; but you'll have to treat it as one until you know for sure.

27col

It is a capped gas pipe. It is a threaded connection and can almost certainly be turned through 90degrees so that it becomes below screed level. You would need to chop out a bit of the screed to enable this to happen. Or, the right angle bend could be removed completely and the pipe terminated under the screed. Not a difficult problem for a pipe fitter/gasfitter. In fact, this was done in my lounge many years ago.Not really a DIY job.

southcoastrgi

27col wrote: »

It is a capped gas pipe. It is a threaded connection and can almost certainly be turned through 90degrees so that it becomes below screed level. You would need to chop out a bit of the screed to enable this to happen. Or, the right angle bend could be removed completely and the pipe terminated under the screed. Not a difficult problem for a pipe fitter/gasfitter. In fact, this was done in my lounge many years ago.Not really a DIY job.

Not so easy if it's a tee though

LUHG1878

Do you have easy access underneath the floor?

If so just follow the pipe back and see if it's still connected, if it is then call a gas engineer, if it's been disconnected/cut previously, and just left, then you can remove it yourself and avoid the call-out charge.

We had old pipes in our house that had been disconnected and just left, once I saw they were no longer connected I was able to remove them myself and repair the holes to floorboards and damage to plaster etc